#Impunity

Bernice, MD, MPP: EM Resident & Policy School Grad

Being_Bernice

I still remember walking into my med school classroom the week that Philando Castile & Alton Brown were killed mercilessly on film. While a gray cloud settled over the section

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

My theory of US political equilibrium: both parties would like to please their donors, partly because it gives them the finance to win elections, and partly because individual party apparats

Samantha Power

SamanthaJPower

Beginning in 1915, the Ottoman Empire perpetrated a genocide, killing 1.5 million Armenians. For decades, American leaders did not acknowledge this fact, due to pressure from Turkey. Until today.Thank you

Joy-Ann 😷Reid

JoyAnnReid

This is a textbook case why individual police officers should not have protection from personal lawsuits (Lt Nazario is suing these cops). There is way too much impunity in the

small robots

smolrobots

Counterpoint: we absolutely can.https://twitter.com/cumiskey/status/1254090853817085953 We go on about this all the time, but we're so exhausted by the endless arguments about political violence or free speech or whatever that *insist*

Smashboard

Smashboard_

U.P. Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath is living up to the statement he wrote 6 years ago in an essay on his website 'Matrushakti Bharatiya Sanskriti Ke Sandharbh Mein'. He said

Marvin Brown

MarvinCBrownIV

To many, calls to defund the police may have seem radical before yesterday. But when you realize how much we spend on the police for the service we get, the

Mark Curtis

markcurtis30

In case the penny hasn't dropped yet about the true nature of British power and political system, some thoughts based on recent case studies. My contention is that UK democracy

Disposable Human Trash (On Paper)

Down2Earth24701

Most of what we call "authority" operates, by design, with structural impunity and their "authority," is reflected by a "title," rather than there being a meritocracy nor does it infer

Mazen Gharibah | مازن غريبة

MazenGharibah

Despite the lockdown procedures in Germany, the trial of the #Syria-n Col. Anwar Raslan, the head of the investigation team in the #Damascus-based State Security branch – 251, “the internal

Wesley

WesleyLowery

Seeing some commentary saying that this type of hostility toward the press is due to Trump. Police in Ferguson did this on many nights. Full camera crews and reporters targeted

Red Kahina

RedKahina

Watch @naomirwolf video about green new deal then watch ocasio cortez youtube sitcomgress againhttps://twitter.com/RedKahina/status/1093921945224208384 She was doing this act to suggest her own programs aren't a power grab, that Congres

Jake Dockter.

JakeDockter

PPB just sent me an email re: their exclusion of the protest data in their use of force report. First, this exclusion is a violation of the DOJ agreement. Second,

Wblscott1

Wblscott1

1. You probably worked hard to get to where you are. Regardless of your skin color. You got an education, a job, avoided substance abuse and criminal activity. Your success

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

Forever getting caught up in the "innocence" or "guilt" of people who are killed by police, on whether or not they "deserved" to be gunned down, or otherwise murdered, by

C H U K W U K A X A V I E R

chukaobi

No, not “Come 2023”—NOW.I’ve heard so many people say how they wish this was an election year. No: THANK GOD IT IS NOT AN ELECTION YEAR. It’s the stupid idea