#Militarized

Seaver Wang

wang_seaver

Whew. *takes deep breath*I am going to respectfully disagree with @amywestervelt that armed revolution would be productive for reforming American society on climate change or anything else.It'd be a reckless

Helen Armstrong

HelenArmstrong5

Professor Maureen Healy is the chair of the History Dept at Lewis and Clark College. She teaches Modern European History, specializing in the history of Germany & Eastern Europe (and

Winston “Victorian Stasi” Smith

6079_WSmith

Professor Maureen Healy is the chair of the history department at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. She teaches Modern European History, with a specialization in the history of Germany

Borwin

Borwin10

Thread: Ever wondered what kind of militarized vehicles your city is running around with?A little (likely incomplete) roundup of police armored vehicles in the Sacramento region. First up: CHP's Lenco

Bloomberg CityLab

CityLab

A group of several hundred urban planners is calling for the largest U.S. planning organization to support defunding the police.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-06/the-city-planners-case-to-defund-the-police?sref=aGTrSb9U&

Evan Greer

evan_greer

Now that Trump has declared entire US cities "Anarchist Jurisdictions," maybe it's a good time to do a quick THREAD on anarchists and anarchism. Fascists throughout history have invoked these

Metro DC DSA

mdc_dsa

We stand with @DMVBlackLives in condemning these heinous and misleading attacks on @Janeese4DC. We do not need and should not have a militarized police force in DC.https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1261817306742689797 Here’s what @

Robert E Kelly

Robert_E_Kelly

THREAD: US policing does not have to be this way.At the risk of me overdoing the Korea-philia, besides doing a great job on covid this spring (my thoughts here: https://nationalinterest.org/profile/robert-e-kelly),

Radley Balko

radleybalko

Textbook cause and effect confusion.https://twitter.com/bretweinstein/status/1302783545165799424 I mean, I guess we should blame protesters for this sort of thing happening the last 35 years, right?https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/108

Farhan Ashraf

itxFarhan

Article 370 & 35a were included into the Constitution of India in an attempt to legitimise India's illegal occupation of Jammu & Kashmir. Historic & important laws of J&K were

Thomas de Waal

Tom_deWaal

Horrible news. This AM a military offensive by Azerbaijan on #Karabakh frontline. Already a small war. Heavy weapons used, Internet down in Az, Arm. side announced mobilization. Follows rise in

laur

laur_uhh

I’m gonna make a thread for anyone who is knew to protesting because civil disobedience can turn violent and my partners about to have his first protest experience! It’s very

No More Deaths

NoMoreDeaths

UPDATE — At sunset last night, in a military-style assault, Border Patrol raided our humanitarian aid camp, chasing and arresting 30+ people who were receiving care and detaining all aid

Steven Kwasny

stevekwasny

I’m mad. And I’m heartbroken. And I don’t know what to do. But I felt compelled to say something. It makes me furious at some of the people I see

Jennifer Scheurle

Gaohmee

I absolutely can not keep up with my mentions at all - I apologize. I'm getting a lot of folks who clearly want to talk about what horrible things will

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The Rise and Fall Of Oyo Empire.Oyo Empire was Established by Oranmiyan of the Yoruba people of West Africa from Nigeria to Benin Republic founded in 1300s, Oyo quickly grew