#Policing

Stop the Steal - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – On Gaslighting1. Gaslighting is defined as “manipulating (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.” The Left and their media sycophants have been gaslighting America for the

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Perfect example of cancel culture — by which I mean 1) forming a mob, to 2) seek to get someone fired (or disproportionately punished), for 3) statements within Overton window.

Digital Rights Watch

DRWaus

Last week, the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill was introduced to parliament seeking to give law enforcement increased powers for investigations on the interwebz. A THREAD- This was

King County Equity Now (Official)

KCEquityNow

1/BREAKING: Seattle’s current mayor (@mayorjenny) spits on Black community by shelling out $200K to a WHITE consultant to lead her hand-picked tokenized “BlPOC” task forceSpeaking right to you Brittani @brittmanzo

Kilderkin

RileyGryc

You know what? Since someone asked & I've got the time, let's talk about cultural homogenization.Both what it is & how it happens, & ultimately what it does & how

Detention Solidarity Network

detsolnet

From 1890, children from so-called “criminal tribes” were forcibly removed from their parents & institutionalised. The history of forced child removal in settler colonies (like Australia) is well known, but

Alicia A. Wallace

_AliciaAudrey

I'm coming back to expand on this, but the emergency order is being continued (9pm curfew on weekdays, complete lockdown on weekends) until June 29, 2020. In short, this would

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

You know that line about judging people by their actions rather than their words? What about people whose only non-trivial output is words? (assume their actions are boringly uncontroversial, like

Rod Serling 161

TwilightZoneAFA

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is know to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. The middle ground between light

Heather Cherone

HeatherCherone

Things are very tense at the virtual meeting of the City Council's Transportation Committee, as a Deputy @ChicagoDOT commissioner introduces a new measure to rename Lake Shore Drive for Jean

The Nerdskull

aNerdskull

I'd like to more explicitly talk about something I've only hinted at beforeI'm likely somewhere on the trans scale, depending on your definitionI have identified as a cis gay man

Zeeshan Aleem

ZeeshanAleem

Thread: a few thoughts on the infamous Harper's letter that broke Twitter.TLDR: The letter was poorly written & vague enough to undermine its own cause. At the same time, if

Mike Dunford

questauthority

Happy Frivolous Filing Thursday, y'all!As we hit this holiday weekend homestretch, I thought it might be fun to talk about @LafayetteTravel - a city which bills itself as "The Happiest

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

I've thought a lot about what the proper role of sociologists is amidst this crisis. This thread identifies a few possibilities but it misses the mark by seeming to downplay

Benjamin Lessing

BigBigBLessing

Lots of speculation that yesterday's massacre in Rio was a deliberate effort help police-linked milícias take over Jacarezinho by softening the Comando Vermelho's long-standing hold on the community. Plausible, chilling,

The WORST day in Three Years

Umbrony

Okay, after taking some time to mentally recover, I'm here to take accountability for my actions and my words publicly. I made some rather misinformed and tone-deaf tweets about ACAB