Timber framer @Bensonwood. Extracurricular investigative journalist. He/they. Know something a reporter should know? Reach out via Signal @ 740-505-0038
Mar 8 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
I like how some Hartford folks are lurking here now. I’ll try not to self-censor. I hope my posts—outside the norm for some—inspire good conversation.
Spoiler alert: I believe something the ICJ says is “probable” genocide is genocide. (I heard legally they couldn’t say it *is*.)
&& I believe that if anyone should have a red line, across which you can’t support a candidate no matter what else they do, it might as well be “funds and arms a genocide.”
It is for me.
(P.S., I couldn’t speak for the board or town even if I wanted to, so this is *not* that.)
Oct 29, 2022 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
If 660 U.S. billionaires were forced to forfeit their gains, then every family in poverty could be handed—paygo/tax neutral—$105K. They could increase their skills, lower their expenses, or both.
U.S. billionaires hold an estimated $4.2 trillion. 40 million live in poverty here.
I should clarify: every *person* in poverty could be handed $105K. Some families would get two or three such checks.
“Poverty” is roughly $17K/year for a family unit of two, or $22K/year for a family of three.
Apr 3, 2019 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Before Lori Lightfoot released the results of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force—which Lightfoot chaired—she called me and my attorney, to ask us our thoughts on how long the city could/should wait to release videos of police shootings. (1/x)
We told Lightfoot that we were fairly certain the Illinois FOIA law applies to those “documents” just like everything else. I.e., we believed CPD has just two weeks after a shooting—of a member of the public by a cop—to release all the video they have of it. (2/x)
