strategic comms director @PoliceForReform. @theappeal forever. Interested in the people/policies/things that get us in trouble.
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“Prisons are filled with our neighbors. They’re within our own communities and we should be treating them like community members."
Please watch & share: LEAP’s Laura Boesen worked in prisons, creating space for connection, dignity, growth -centering humanity where it can be lost
The government’s handling of the Epstein files has reinforced critiques of a system that shields the powerful and harms victims. As @dianemgoldstein writes, law enforcement now risks losing the legitimacy it requires to pursue justice in sex crimes cases. ms.now/opinion/epstein-files…
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“This decision reflects a narrow, outdated vision of public safety—one that centers enforcement while neglecting prevention, healing, and community well-being.”
LEAP Executive Director @dianemgoldstein on crime prevention and what it really entails.
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BREAKING: Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the national Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, according to a letter obtained by The Appeal. theappeal.org/trump-doj-defu…
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BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have filed charges against at least two people for allegedly damaging Tesla property.
Attorney General Pam Bondi called the alleged property destruction "domestic terrorism" and said the DOJ has charged several people w 5-year minimum sentences.
This (unsurprisingly) tracks with what @docjorich & @che_bullock laid out over 3 years ago in this article for @theappeal, based on direct conversations with the at-risk young men most directly impacted by this rising violence. theappeal.org/gun-violence-r…
Really important, deeply researched new @BrookingsInst paper showing that the huge 2020-2022 homicide surge began in April 2020, before the Floyd murder and unrest weeks later, suggesting that pandemic stress and closures played a major role, even before onset of "Floyd effect."
How do people think this would have gone, exactly? Kamala goes on Rogan, eats an eighth of shrooms, trips balls live on air, flips millions of votes and wins the election?
new: a Kamala campaign adviser explains why she didn't go on Joe Rogan: ft.com/content/9292db59-8291…
from @FTJFranklin & me
Another great @jerryiannelli column rightly thrashing Dems for their dead-end approach on public safety. Rather than trying to beat Republicans by offering a competing vision of a better way forward, they tacked rightward and still got their asses kicked. theappeal.org/fund-the-polic…
From a practical standpoint, this election will result in one of two outcomes. It's fine to argue that neither will reduce harm *enough* (even that both would increase harm). But I've yet to see a compelling argument that both outcomes would produce an equal chance of equal harm.
I know that's not a compelling endorsement—and I'm not trying to make one! People should vote their conscience, and obviously, the moral equation is far less straightforward than the practical one.
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Today is the first day of NewsMatch, an @INN program that helps nonprofit newsrooms like The Appeal increase capacity. From now until the end of the year, all donations are doubled. There’s no better time to support our journalism! theappeal.org/donate/
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Aren't these inflated Polymarket numbers just an obvious ploy by Elon/Thiel to hedge their Trump bets by finessing MAGA true believers into buying super high on Trump, ensuring a massive payday if Kamala wins? I can't be the only one saying this, right?
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New from @elizabethweill (with assists from @megoconnor13 and I): More than 20,000 people are incarcerated in Florida prisons and jails located in mandatory evacuation zones. Many jails plan to ignore the evacuation orders. theappeal.org/hurricane-milt…
