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This is a thread about how journalists decide what is “news” and what isn’t. Anyone shaping the news and anyone consuming the news should understand who decides what counts as

Thread: This mothers day, I'm thinking about Cindy Rodriguez. She was a 51-year-old mother of two living with a physical disability. She was arrested for shoplifting from a grocery store.

THREAD: Today's story is about a man who was jailed in Houston because he couldn't pay $100 cash. What happened next is horrifying: the system lost him. What he endured

THREAD: It's sad to see what has happened to the @sfchronicle, whose "crime" reporting is now a Willie Horton-style tabloid peddling hit pieces placed by the police union and wealthy

THREAD: Local news reports that Biden is nominating a former judge, Keva Landrum-Johnson, to be U.S. Attorney in New Orleans. A few years ago, we uncovered that Judge Landrum-Johnson was

THREAD: a fact more people should know is that police have **wanted** body cameras for years. they had a problem though: cops couldn't get hundreds of millions of $$$ in

Thread: Police ignore way more crimes than they address. They only "enforce the law" against some people, some of the time, in some places, and every aspect of it is

This is a thread about the "War on Drugs." I answer the following question: are government bureaucrats historically incompetent at achieving their goals, or are they pursuing goals that are

THREAD: I think it's important to ask why the media is so virulently opposed to "looting." This book review was far from "delightful"--it's hard for the media to even have

THREAD: Sheriffs in Orlando shot Salaythis Melvin in the back and murdered him three weeks ago. Now Orange County wants to INCREASE the Sheriff's budget by $15 million. https://secure.everyaction.com/K9knWgQCGEefXcEuyVfn4w2 The

Yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled that states can deny Hepatitis C treatment to people in prison. Tens of thousands of human beings will needlessly suffer. It is a dark

1. Police are what protects the property of people who own things. In the US, this means something specific: white elites stole the labor and land of Black and indigenous