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Mock lynchings, electroshock, suffocation, beatings and burning. These were the tactics employed by white Chicago police detectives on black suspects for years. And for years, the system protected it, and
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.@TribecaTrust “New Planning Law is Not the Law We Need” - Intro 2186THREAD: “...a proposed new law on planning that Council Speaker Corey Johnson is promoting, ostensibly to deal with
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A thread on the NYC school situation: I’m also in the “when, not if” camp as far as hitting 3% test-positivity in NYC goes. We’re looking at data up to
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Ehhhhhhhhh *sort of*. He gets plenty of liberal support too because he’s sort of the only game in town other than Putin, thanks to Putinhttps://twitter.com/real_hotguts/status/1353019706953920514 It’s also complicated because part
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Chicago Teachers Union just filed a request for an injunction to stop in-person instruction that is supposed to start January 11th. The same union tweeted this yesterday in advance of
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What is the institutional design of law enforcement in the US (particularly Washington D.C.)? Here are some answers: In general law enforcement is decentralized, with police agencies institutionalized at the
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Thread: I’m so proud of the great local journalism @readfrontier has produced in 2020. Here’s a look back at some of my favorite stories from the past year from me,
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BREAKING: Trump supporters clash with police, attempting to gain access to the U.S. Capitol building, as the Congress debate an objection to Arizona's Electoral College votes. Rep. Haley Stevens: "I’m
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One cannot overstate the excitement levels of matching Goss China with real life landmarks This is the London Stone at Staines-upon-Thames. Marvellous, isn’t it?Anyway, they have an interesting history
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A lot of back and forth has happened today regarding opening schools, but I’m not sure people realize what a full reopening would actually look like at the High School
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Today, a fascist mob — called to action by Donald Trump and acting in obvious collusion with elements of the Capitol Police, the Department of Defense, and possibly other armed
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There were clearly provocateurs agitating police lines in DC, those 'protesters' wearing black helmets, gas masks, black-bloc gear were inserted to create many of the viral scenes from yesterday. They
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@MayorMemphis @mayorlee @mikefromemphis I've included the Mayor Nutbush in the hopes that maybe he can something about @RideMATA. So far, no one else has. Y'all are presiding over an unprecedented
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I'm a progressive; let's pls stop denying realityNow in WAPO is a devastating indictment of the role Teachers Unions have played in the fiasco that is the DC public
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THREAD: Today, City of Miami commissioner @kenrussellmiami is making an effort to SAVE the downtown PROTECTED BIKE LANE NETWORK. Read on. /1@doug_hanks @downtownMIA @AndresViglucci https://twitter.com/kenrussellmiami/status/1304050959123968
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Edmonton has been a city for 126 years. Today, over 40% of Edmontonians are a BIPOC or minority. In the last 126, only 4 BIPOC have served #YEGCC. Speaking of
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