Questions for all "progressive prosecutors": what will justice look like in 10 years after the changes you want to set in motion? 20? What legislation do you support or are you proposing to fundamentally reimagine--and ideally end--your job as you know it?
This has been a long road for me and I still have more reading and thinking to do, but I will say that moral clarity in electoral politics becomes much easier when you realize just how little some of these choices ultimately matter toward getting to the world you want to live in
Anyway there is no legal, moral, or civic obligation to make a selection in every category on your ballot
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ME (last month): the new generation of post-Walsh #bospoli leaders and activists have finally broken machine politics as we knew them and made an uncompromising commitment to moral clarity, honesty, and character
ME (today):
Honestly this one's on me for ever even beginning to believe that could be true, but here we are
I am challenging one other man who has any kind of platform within #bospoli to show that they believe and support women who come out against powerful men who refuse accountability.
I've worked w/100+ sexual assault survivors in the past 17 years, mostly in asylum cases. I've seen what both not being able to tell anyone & not being believed when they do does to ppl--& the work it takes to heal--& I've just about lost my mind in the past 48 hrs. Wtf #bospoli?
Am I the asshole here for actually believing every word of this? Honestly it's days like these that I'm just as happy that I don't depend on state or local courts/electeds/politics for my livelihood. What a sorry fiasco this all is
So now we'll either have a #SuffolkDA who many believe on the word of a survivor is an unrepentant rapist or a DA who others now believe on the word of the accused leaked *records of that assault involving a minor* for political advantage. Great work everyone
@kennycooks This isn't about teams or sides or supporting any candidate over another. I fundamentally don't even support the role of DA as it currently stands in our system, so I honestly hardly care which of the two candidates with nearly identical policies wins. But I do care about this.
I honestly thought it was bizarre enough that I was being asked to get behind a candidate who had never entered an appearance as counsel in the court all of his most serious charging decisions as DA would be heard in, but it seems we're way past that now
WHERE WERE YOU when you heard that the former president who'd already taken a dry run at a coup spent an hour publicly explaining exactly what kind of dictator he would be + how he would do it which the media covered as a "policy" speech?
I was on my annual summer vacation on Block Island, RI. This was both the best and worst possible time to start to process what I'd just heard this man say
🛑🛑🛑!!!!
I know there are more pleasant things on your feed rn and I am truly sorry to do this but please take a minute to consider that everything in this quote is literally true. Not even a pinch of hyperbole. Really put everything down and sit with it right now.
The fact that it would take me upwards of 10 minutes on a whiteboard to prove the basic context you'd need to fully understand my subsequent 10 minute rant goes a long way in itself to explain how "unspeakably inhumane" has become the default setting for US immigration policy
In short: this provision already permanently separates families over nothing. This interpretation will separate many more families in the largest federal circuit over nothing.
The Trump family separation crisis was a multimedia flashpoint of injustice anyone could see + understand. But the 25-yr family separation crisis this decision exacerbates was enthusiastically passed into law by Dems, including the one now running the country, in #IIRIRA. #Fix96