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Sep 5 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Happy #LaborDayWeekend! Slave labor is still legal in the United States.
The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution—ratified after the Civil War to outlaw slavery—has an exception. For people incarcerated.
In NY, people are forced to mass produce hand sanitizer. Not allowed to use it. In California, risk their lives to stop wildfires. Not allowed to become firefighters. In Louisiana, filled sandbags to save homes. Left in cages when storm hit. motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
“Slavery never ended. It evolved. It tricked us into thinking it doesn't exist. And right under our nose it’s been right there. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. #ExceptForMe.” – @MrJohnnyPerez endtheexception.com/exceptforme
Bianca Tylek (@BiancaTylek) & her org @WorthRises interviewed 13 formerly incarcerated people about how it felt to be enslaved — legally — in the United States. Forced to work. Follow her & follow this important work and project.

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Sep 6
On this Labor Day, a thread of why police unions should be abolished. They’re brazen & lawless. Block any & all accountability. Defend murder, violence, lying, withholding of evidence. Spread racist propaganda. Actively dangerous. Just some examples. Please read on & share.
A cop slapped a handcuffed man dying of a drug overdose. Called him a “bitch.” Shoved a baton in his mouth. That cop got suspended 6 days. But the cop who revealed the cruelty was expelled from the cop union. Now faces 20 years prison for whistleblowing. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…
Cop Unions everywhere are brazen & lawless. In Ohio, cops slammed paraplegic man to ground. Knee to back. Union: “Sometimes the arrest of noncompliant individuals is not pretty, but is a necessary part of law enforcement to maintain public safety." nbcnews.to/3Dso7ia
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Sep 4
Woke up this morning in Joshua Tree, CA. It’s a strange, beautiful place. Fourth or fifth time here. 104 degrees during day, but nice in the morning. 3 bouldering hikes yesterday by 10am. A long nap midday. Giant feast made w/ my son last night. Sunrise view from window today.
Joshua Tree things. Opened the door to turn on grill yesterday & a snake (turned out to be a Red Racer) got into the house. Wife & son sprinted away. Closed all doors. No idea what to do except watch it, keep door open, & pray it just left eventually. Patience paid off. It did.
Joshua Tree things. Staying in a house w a really strange record collection. Listening to this one as I cook hard boiled eggs for the fam before we get on the road to Arch Rock nature trail. Them angels are singing!
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Sep 1
Outstanding journalism from Bloomberg again. Report: Five years after changes to Harris County (Houston) Texas''s bail laws, the numbers are in & are definitive: Far less people in jail & more freedom mean *less crime.* I repeat: Bail reform reduced crime.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Report: Bail reform in Houston has meant MORE FREEDOM (13% increase in releases, 15% drop in guilty pleas, 17% drop in jail sentences, 15% drop in convictions), LESS CRIME (6% drop in recidivism over 3 years), & immense TAXPAYER SAVINGS ($100,000,000s). bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Texas: Freedom from pretrial detention on unaffordable bail means taking care of the people you love, maintaining & securing jobs & housing, paying your bills. But it also means public health, public safety, & hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars saved.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Aug 31
Yesterday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams smiled widely and chuckled when asked why there are 2000 more people on Rikers under his watch than permitted. Tonight: News that 3 murderous guards let a person w/ mental health issues bleed to death in front of them for at least 10 minutes.
Watch carceral, cruel, & spiteful NYC Mayor Eric Adams smile & laugh when asked why 2000 more people are caged pretrial on Rikers than required for the city’s plan to close Rikers. Then rhetorically asks: “Tell us. What do we do w/ those inmates?”
6 months in office. Eric Adams has expanded solitary on Rikers, deliberately ignored the federal monitor overseeing Rikers, laughed about how many innocent people he’s jailing on Rikers, & is waging a disinformation war to kill bail reform so even more people die on Rikers.
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Aug 31
This is extraordinary journalism. Again from Bloomberg. Data analysis: Massive increases in arrests for low-level crimes—of poverty, health, housing—have done opposite of reducing violent crime. Violence only increased. A stunning indictment of policing.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Look at this chart. Violent crime steady &/or decreasing while arrests for low-level crimes of poverty plummeted. Then as low-level arrests started increasing again—as propaganda & fearmongering over bail reform increased—& then exploded under Eric Adams, violence did too. Image
“Misdemeanor arrests in New York City jumped 25% in the first six months of Mayor Eric Adams’s administration — the first increase in nearly a decade — offering an early glimpse into the impact of the mayor’s focus on so-called quality of life crimes.” Image
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Aug 30
When responding to most national & local issues, we craft policies based on a wide range of credible data & evidence, not the most extreme outlier cases. So why is criminal justice policy an exception? I do my best to explain this phenomenon in the context of bail reform. Thread:
Despite sensationalist rhetoric suggesting otherwise, bail reform law has succeeded in protecting and upholding public safety. Claims to the contrary are not based on facts. Blaming the wrong cause gets in the way of finding the right solution, especially when we know what works.
The New York Office of Court Administration recently released the latest batch of bail data from 2021, giving a clear picture of a decline from 2020 in the percentage of rearrests of people released on bail or on their own recognizance: criminaljustice.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/upl…. Image
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