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23 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Maybe we could just stop mythologizing people all together?
If RBG taught us anything it is that we have blind faith in liberal icons at our own peril.
For the record, I think RBG was racist and that Justice Sotomayor is a million times better jurist.

I also know she joined in this decision upholding child slavery (in which notorious conservative Justice Alito dissented). news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/su…
The same court just a few days before that *unanimously* decided to deny relief to a Black man sentenced to 15 years in prison under the 100 to 1 crack/powder cocaine disparity.

reuters.com/legal/governme…
If you haven't read Derrick Bell on Brown v Board of Education and interest convergence, I highly recommend it.
SCOTUS, the law generally, it's not about justice, it's about pretending there's nothing that can be done about injustice.

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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
23 Oct
So the DA has to reassure passengers who witnessed a woman being raped on a train that they won't be prosecuted for something that's not even a crime because the police whipped everyone into a frenzy where they're probably terrified of vigilante attacks. cnn.com/2021/10/21/us/…
How the police *do not* help solve sexual assault cases. By discouraging witnesses from coming forward.
Also, I really hate the way media are still not accurately reporting this story - the headline makes it sound like the DA has decided not to prosecute bystanders that they could and maybe should prosecute, when that's not the case at all.
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19 Oct
So much ignorance in this tweet. Cruz is talking about the "Australian government" but quote-tweeting the chief minister for the Northern Territory who is enacting a mandate specific to the territory.

It's a part of Australia where almost half of the population is Indigenous.
The Northern Territory is under the control of the Labor party; the federal government is under the control of the Liberal Party, which is completely misnamed because it is a conservative party.
Despite having one of the most vulnerable populations in the world, the Northern Territory has had zero COVID deaths.
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11 Oct
Dayton PD coming up with every reason to justify horrifically brutalizing a human being.

Facts. First, you cannot search a vehicle based on someone's criminal history. That would give police a license to stop and search anyone with a record.

daytondailynews.com/crime/dayton-f…
Second, it means absolutely nothing if a police dog sniffs cash and supposedly detects it has been in the presence of drugs. 90% of US bills have cocaine residue on them. nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
Third, they claim they saw Mr. Owensby leaving a "known drug house" I guess to bolster their justification for the search.

Really? OK. So they must have seen Mr. Owensby had no use of his legs. This just makes it all so much worse.
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11 Oct
When I read that part of this dude's "suspicious" behavior was reaching for his luggage, I felt this sounded off.

nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
Thinking a camera was a bomb would have been a terrible mistake to make on a flight across the Pacific Ocean.
Initial reporting made it sound like multiple passengers near this guy were troubled by him. Now it sounds like just this one woman.

Super problematic.
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8 Oct
Police in Fairfax, Virginia, placed a 5-year-old child in a chokehold after his teacher reported that he was singing too loudly in Spanish class.

nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/mo…
His mother, Pamela Ononiwu, who had come to pick up her son for a dentist appointment, actually witnessed the cop assault her son.
In a previous incident cops assigned to the school had dragged her daughter into a room, her shoes falling off so they remained in the hallway.
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19 Sep
Dude, There were three Black women who showed proof of vaccination and who were seated.

The two men who arrived later and attempted to join their party are not even mentioned in the initial reporting.

They certainly weren't arrested.
The additional information actually comes from @nytimes looking at surveillance video from Carmine's.

And lawyers for Carmine's agree with lawyers for the women about the sequence of events, altho obviously they dispute the characterization.
I'm also puzzled by your last statement. You know there are Black people working at Carmine's?

I mean let's assume there are, you think for a second this doesn't mean the hostess wouldn't be openly racist?
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