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5 Sep, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Police wink-winking the Proud Boys, in part due to a paranoia in these departments against the Black Lives Matter movement is unfortunately not a new thing. And that likely had implications for the lax preparation for January 6. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
There are examples of this all over the country. thedailybeast.com/philadelphia-p…
Even in blue cities... chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/6/10…
And it's a known problem... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
And has been for a long, long time... brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
Doesn't matter how blue the city is. theguardian.com/world/2019/feb…
Police have many reasons to cozy up. But one of them is an antipathy to BLM and "antifa," which they see as threats to their funding and power to act with unchecked against nonwhite people with no consequences. dailykos.com/stories/2021/3…
And when you think about how January 6 played out, you start having to ask questions about just why these officers were left unprepared by their leadership... dailykos.com/stories/2021/3…
We still need to have that conversation, especially about how this stuff gets stoked by police unions... thedailybeast.com/the-disturbing…

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
9 Sep
Thanks for the follow. Was tempted to not respond but since I know others believe this stuff, a few things:
1. "The government" didn't make these vaccines. Private companies (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson etc.) did. Though government certainly HELPED. healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…
2. No one is forcing anyone to take the vaccines. It's just really risky and dumb not to, especially since they're free. And increasingly there are social consequences for choosing not to. That's perfectly normal. It happens all the time in organized societies, including ours.
If for example the Biden administration says federal employees or Pentagon employees have to be vaccinated for COVID, or private companies mandate the same, it presents those employees with a choice: get vaccinated, or don't work there. Choices have consequences.
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9 Sep
The idea that taking your mask down or refusing to wear one and yelling/breathing in people's faces; and even COUGHING in people's faces, is a go-to protest for COVID deniers is both telling and disgusting. I can't imagine believing I have a right to force bodily fluid on people.
You have to wonder if these people also believe their rights are violated if they work in a restaurant and are instructed to wash their hands after using the toilet. Do they feel violated by having to wear shoes in stores? Shirts? There is no "right" to spread germs and viruses.
You can't walk around naked on the street or sit in a park starkers. You'd get arrested. Take that to a nude beach or accept the legal consequences. Your kids may have to wear a particular uniform in school. Seatbelts! There are all sorts of rules about what you put on your body.
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9 Sep
Imagine teaching your teenage children to flout public health rules. Imagine these parents doing the same with measles, with your kids in that school. These families should be disenrolled. Those kids should have been sent home immediately or just turned away. Do better, people.
And that police officer should be relieved of duty. Why is he even there? Let one of those kids violate the dress code — shorts too short, wrong slogan on the Tee — they’d be out the door. If you’re gonna have a policy, enforce it.
UPDATE: So it turns out that after these MI parents used their kids to “own the libs” by risking their health and the health of everyone at that school, their kids wound up missing a day of learning in class anyway … to own the libs. freep.com/story/news/hea…
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2 Sep
What will Texas Republicans empower private citizen bullies to do next, now that they've enacted laws letting (potentially armed) thugs "watch" (Black and Latino) voters, prompted Texans to spy on women and file lawsuits for a $ bounty against anyone helping them end a pregnancy?
Will Texans be prompted to spy on teachers to ensure they are not teaching the true history of slavery and are only upholding the prim dignity of the white founding fathers? How about urging citizens to inform on and sue parents who send their children to school masked?
Texas is basically a small Soviet Republic at this point, with neighbors spying on neighbors, hoping to collect a cash bounty, in addition to being an apartheid state for nonwhite voters. What woman or POC could possibly feel safe there? To say nothing of the gun proliferation.
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1 Sep
To understand what the GOP is doing to our democracy, you need only recall that up until just a few decades ago, every institution in America, including local-to-national government, Hollywood, the music industry and college campuses, were unambiguously controlled by white men.
Even white women waited 50 years after Black men (technically though not functionally) obtained it, to get the right to vote. And women couldn't open a bank account without a man's consent til the 1970s or legally refuse sex with their husbands until 1993. usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
And there's still no explicit all-encompassing guarantee of equal rights for women in the U.S. constitution. It is 2021. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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1 Sep
Just a reminder that pre-Civil War southerners, with the backing of the U.S. Constitution, placed all women’s individual decisions under the legal purview of men and conferred Black people to the status of property; meaning white men owned their bodies and their reproduction.
Also white pre-Civil War self-declared Christian men, including those who lacked the resources to purchase humans at a slave auction or inherit their bodies, labor and reproduction like a herd of cattle were willing to die in a treasonous war in order to maintain that system.
And when the North whupped them good for their treachery, they spent 100 odd years committing terrorism against those they believed were their property including firebombing churches, seeking to deny them the right to vote, to live free of humiliation and to survive economically.
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