Lunch break today. Finally digging into @Vinncent's "The Jakarta Method," which I conspicuously placed in this food porn picture to demonstrate that I am more than just any old Instagram influencer... 😆
Finished Dana Frank's "The Long Honduran Night" yesterday. Learned a lot. Highly recommend.
I was waiting and harassing @Vinncent for the soft cover for a year, so I feel obligated to prove I did buy and am reading it. 😆😆
On deck is "Carceral Con" by @KayJWhitlock & @naheitzeg. Will, of course, post a gratuitous food porn photo of it, too, when I get to it. ❤️🖤
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From 2020: "Looking at the location of where dogs have been shot across the city and county of Los Angeles, what emerges is a map of deadly police use of force that is highly concentrated in the region’s most impoverished communities of color." slate.com/news-and-polit…
Portland, OR | "At the end, one man was left, drenched in rain, slowly removing his belongings. 'I’m just going to move around the corner, and come back later,' the houseless man said, without evident emotion. 'It’s just the game we have to play.'” wweek.com/news/2021/11/1…
All their trendy "reforms" were already in place *before* police murdered George Floyd. People had already seen bias training, chokehold bans, bodycameras, "warrior cop" training bans and even prosecutions of cops.
Nothing changed.
Derek Chauvin was a product of their most creative and progressive "police reform." That's kinda the point.
Pittsburgh, PA | "Demonstrators took over the steps of the City County Building Friday and called on District Attorney Stephen Zappala to prosecute and name the officers and first responders involved in the [torture & killing] of Jim Rogers." wpxi.com/news/local/all…
More details on the brutal torture and killing of Jim Rogers by Pittsburgh police in October:
He really did it. He reenacted the "Nazi card" video as an argument. Lmao
Possibly the only thing more insulting than the proposition that Greenwald was ever a leftist is the insistence that he is also intelligent or talented.
Cris Chamorro cheered on the US-backed rightwing coup in Bolivia in 2019, saying it was an "example" for Nicaragua to follow. Maradiaga is a violent, US-paid Aspen Institute asset and fmr. Contra Cruz was getting off a plane from Washington when he was arrested. But "spurious."