#Minneapolis

Wednesday marked the beginning of the end of years of intense controversy over a Confederate symbol at the heart of Portsmouth, a majority Black Southern city.A thread:https://www.pilotonline.com/government/local/vp-nw-portsmouth-removes-co
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If people keep letting law enforcement dictate who they are then we will continue to lose. The entire system including rhetoric has been develop and maintained by police, that's why
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This is historically inaccurate.A thread about all the times when rioting and violence worked https://twitter.com/DrShayPhD/status/1266208688735424512 Now, unlike most of the other threads, I’m gonna do this in real time and
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Massachusetts is the most beguiling of America’s 50 states because it has really good liberal politics but everyone you meet there is an absolute nightmare person. This in contrast to
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1/16Never Underestimate the Power of the “Law and Order” RhetoricTrump seems to be on the ropes. June has shown his poll numbers evaporate as growing numbers of Americans question his
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1/ Footage of Minneapolis police killing #GeorgeFloyd has again focused international attention on violence by law enforcement and the failures of police reform. It’s a deep-seated and widespread problem, including
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Okay. Just watched the video of George Floyd.Years ago, I wrote my nursing dissertation on preventing restraint-related injury and death, disgusted upon learning about the death of Rocky Bennett in
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This @jimwaterson attempt to explain the controversy about the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Israel trains American cops to be racist and violent shows exactly why the @Guardian can’t seem to
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A few thoughts on #GeorgeFloyd.1) This case is an excellent example of why "qualified immunity," which keeps many civil rights violations by public officials from being prosecuted, should end:https://theweek.com/articles/859853/ho
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It’s time for the #SST21 plenary panel on @AnthonyGReddie’s Theologizing Brexit, with @SelinaRStone & @harvmins with Dulcie McKenzie in the chair. Been looking forward to this for a while! AR
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Once again, it’s time for another entry from yours truly in the #PrinceTwitterThread series. Previously I covered “Computer Blue” and “Pheromone”. Today, we’re looking at “Love” from the 3121 album.
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below this tweet is a thread to sign the petitions & donate ! #BlackLivesMatters - gofundme page for george floyd’s memorial fund! this is how u can donate to help
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Most folks radicalized online in these recent years have virtually no knowledge of what serious state repression looks like, and that lack of preparation scares me to my bones. So
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As a human being, I do not support the violent tactics used by police to harm protesters with tear gas and assault. And as an OB/GYN, the use of tear
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The @jdforward convened a group of Jewish thinkers and asked how COVID is changing and will change the American Jewish world. Here are their replies.https://forward.com/tag/after-corona/ Dr. @jeffreyherbst, President of American
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This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation gave workers a fair shake from the
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