#Policing

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

There's this pervasive idea that adults who like things that are seen as 'for kids' are inherently creepy and dangerous, and I can't get away from how this is essentially

fmbr

Yellowdogthing

This is why BLM doesn't get the actual recognition it needs, for a long time now BLM has been calling out "Injustice" on situations were police were given no choice

k'eguro

keguro_

Now that I'm awake on regular Kenyan time.I skimmed Wilderson's forthcoming book. With the same skill and energy I used to skim books in grad school and after. Also, with

Mekka 💉💉🎉 *My Mask Protects You* Okereke

mekkaokereke

I'm struggling to understand how people: 1) Just witnessed how public opinion around the term "Black Lives Matter" changed drastically as folk became more educated about what it means.2) Slide

JG

JuliaRGeiger

Petition for universities to create a one-credit course for international students called "Fuck ICE 101" that meets in person once per semester with excused absences. "Fuck ICE 102" to be

Chelsea Perry

perry_chel

HISTORY TIME! So, you concede that the modern day US police force is systemically racist as it was preceded by slave patrols/night-watchmen. However, you may argue that the RCMP doesn't

Captain ACAB

rcpendleton

If you think anything factually exists outside of what we’ve socially constructed it to be then you are the dumb one. It’s all fake and made up. What you learned

A.R. Buckle

JuliusGoat

What this thread reveals to me is how, for many people, police corruption can't ever get so bad that they'll stop supporting it.Which suggests that they always knew what policing

Shaun Scott 🌹🤝

eyesonthestorm

I wrote in @Crosscut about why defunding the police is about Seattle ending its centuries-long battle with its own form of Jim Crow. When the fight for "reform" takes place

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

This is a serious error.If there is one clear lesson from psychology, it is that you secure adherence by engaging with people and supporting them, not by blaming and threatening

Still Here (she/her)

kristenmchugh22

Here we go again. Dear fellow WHITE PEOPLE: if you're upset that a corporate behemoth that puts money into the surveillance state for the policing (and harm) of Black bodies,

The Gormogons

Gormogons

ŒV: This whole business about white-supremacist rioters (and who knows, maybe there are four or five who want to go mingle with violent throngs of people they hate and fear)

Charlie Jane "VICTORIES GREATER THAN DEATH" Anders

charliejane

I'm terrified that we're about to let a literal army of people become homeless, when it could so easily be prevented.But this is also a moment to acknowledge that the

ms. miranda 🌙

vintage_miranda

Fuck THANK YOUIm so glad more people are realizing thishttps://twitter.com/korviday/status/1381190900253085696 These are the common arguments I get when I criticize her:1) you’re not for people changing??2) but she’s nice so

Tim Ellis

6Howff

An excellent thread on the political history of bins.https://twitter.com/jack_saundrs/status/1301476933239296000 At some point, I think I might research and write a monograph entitled 'Bins: A political, social and cultural history.'

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

People on this here website confused that Eric Adams and Andrew Yang are defending policing/calling for more of it and winning the New York City mayoral race: something like 95%