Crazy that Sacramento is in the Top 5. @Mayor_Steinberg must really love the war on drugs and locking up black & brown ppl
Drug possession arrests per 10,000 residents per city in 2019. In some places, drugs are becoming almost decriminalized, while police in other cities continue to aggressively target and arrest people for drugs.
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DAIMS retweeted
Honestly, the fact that anyone would respond to this election by asking, “how can we make more appeals to people who voted for Trump?” and not “How do we invest more in BIPOC organizing & appealing to the poor & people who didn’t vote at all?” is about being invested in whiteness
DAIMS retweeted
Asking
“how can we have public safety if we abolish police & prisons?”
is like asking
“how can we harvest cotton if we abolish chattel slavery?”
It’s a question reflecting a lack of imagination & interrogation, an inability to see beyond how society is currently organized.
Unpopular opinion: the least concerning thing to me about Biden is his “cognitive decline”. I’m no fan of the man, but he has been open for years about having a speech disorder when he was younger. 1/
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Speech disorders don’t only manifest themselves in obvious ways like a stutter or pronouncing sounds incorrectly. The disconnect between the person’s brain and speech can also cause them to appear confused, frustrated, or disoriented. 3/
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Going on 30 and life is pretty much how my 18 year old self imagined it: the American empire is collapsing and we’re living in a police state. 😅
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Remember at the start of the pandemic when everyone was like “we’re all in this together” and shit lol
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