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“We have to turn thinkers into fighters and fighters into thinkers“ | @nightschool_dc Socialist Night School | #DCJacobin | Union Rep @austaffunion
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For what it's worth, if you are a socialist or interested in socialism, it is *my job* to educate you, so ask away.
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If you are more bothered by how people react to injustice than you are by the injustice, you are invested in oppression.
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Crime panic is often a convenient and cheap form of excuse for gutting public services that benefit everyone.
New York City's subways are often a convenient and cheap form of getaway for criminals.
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‘You are not helping your cause’ - a person who opposes your cause.
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Kansas City becomes first major American city with universal fare-free public transit
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‘We usually let lots of people die from the flu” isn’t the powerful argument some people think it is.
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What if everyone who needs treatment could get it, without involving the cops?
A new police program helps people on drugs get substance use treatment instead of jail time. It'll soon be citywide.
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If your calls for peace aren’t directed at the police, what you are actually calling for is a surrender.
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This is good, as Chicago has exactly 2000 people and their rent is all 1000 or less.
BREAKING: 2,000 Chicagoans will get $1,000 in rent relief under new city COVID-19 plan, mayor says
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When you think public safety means cops, you have problems like this.
New York City emergency officials have issued a travel advisory as heavy rain and flooding hits
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Really frustrating that all the protests to meet human needs have been downplayed while those to increase mass death have been wall to wall covered.
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Vaccine appointment emails should say the word *free* multiple times, and should make clear that an insurance card is not required (it shouldn’t even be asked for.)
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This is an obvious lie in service of doing something indefensible. That prison and jail officials lie so blatantly and that journalists treat those lies as true is disgusting.
Citing fentanyl-soaked children’s drawings, love letters, prayer schedules, and T-shirts , NYC to ban incarcerated people from getting letters in the mail
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Those who want a world that largely pretends like COVID doesn’t exist have gotten exactly that, and yet still they keep complaining that not everyone is happy with it.
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USC knows that this guarantees graduation will be disrupted right?
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A lot of people think a fight should be avoided unless you know it will be won. The right understands fighting is how you change what is possible.
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No, it does not make sense how little Texas pays its teachers.
So Biden’s $15 minimum wage comes out to $31,200 a year for a 40 hour work week. The starting salary for a beginning teacher in Texas is $33,660. So a person working a minimum wage job will be making almost the same as a teacher with a college degree. Does this make any sense? 🤷♂️
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Mayor of NY telling people not go outside before going back to dismantling the right to shelter.
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Cops think subjecting them to any rules is outrageous, which is worth considering as you think about reform.
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The costs of fare evasion are a cover for justifying criminalization.
The NYPD spends more money criminalizing fare evasion than the MTA loses in revenue to fare evasion. Make it make sense.
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Keep thinking about how aid is framed as ‘stimulus’ rather than ‘relief.’
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This makes sense if you think the point of a campaign is to enrich consultants.
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If you aren’t for defunding the police you are for defunding everything else—whether you realize this or not.
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The biggest scam around is the idea that meekness will stop the right from pushing back.
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Hilarious that ‘what if we changed the conditions that produce violence’ is treated as wild utopianism but ‘pouring more money into violence workers will finally stop violence this time’ is hard nosed realism.
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I think a lot of people *vastly* overestimate most people’s knowledge of the past atrocities of the US government.
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This is literally an argument for abolition.
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Marxism doesn’t mean working class people are inherently good or that movements they inhabit are necessarily good.
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There is literally no person on earth more indifferent to Joe Biden's reelection than Joe Biden.
President Biden invites former President Trump to work together on a border bill while challenging congressional Republicans to “show a little spine.”
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If “law enforcement” was real, this sort of scam wouldn’t be so widespread.
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Imagine talking about ‘opening America’ before we have health care coverage for those who have it, free widely available testing, paid sick leave for all, free masks for all, properly staffed and equipped hospitals everywhere, etc.
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I am convinced being constantly bombarded by scams is part of why so many are losing it.
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The answer to ‘why aren’t cops keeping us safe is this instance’ is ‘policing isn’t about producing public safety.’
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‘Too far left’ is implicitly for the donors, not voters, which is why the GOP isn’t asked a similar question.
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The idea that hearing the VP give a commencement speech will expose someone to new ideas is hilarious.
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We are at depression levels of unemployment and we have spent two months sheltering in place with little increase in testing or hospital capacity, but my main concern is American global hegemony.
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Such a weird coincidence that the defenses of monarchy keep being racist.
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You think this can be reformed?
The Cincinnati police pulled down the American flag at the justice center and replaced it with the thin blue line. Infuriating. Picture from a friend.
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Not defunding the police while defunding everything else—including public health during a pandemic—is unconscionable.
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Imagine thinking you can choose whether to participate in a pandemic.
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It’s essential to think about this—if this is how mainstream news will cover fascism (it is) how do we engage people so they understand what this is really about.
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So many people have this deep abiding faith that change only comes from half assed demands made meekly via respectability politics. This is fairy tale stuff.
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Not sure anyone has ever been more outmatched than Yglesias coming for
@prisonculture
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Alternative title: If I Did It
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Cops continue to murder people on camera. It’s not a mistake. This is policing.
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Violence is real, crime is a social construct. It’s not that hard.
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Take positions that are right, as opposed to worrying about this nonsense.
The right is buffoonish and bullying.
The center is earnest and nagging.
The left is self-righteous and hectoring.
What's a guy to do?
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The cops, the landlords, and the bosses are all out of control. I wonder if it’s all related.
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Schools shutting down because teachers or students are sick is preferred to either exercising collective power so that it doesn’t give anyone any ideas.
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Everything is being stripped for parts to make very rich people richer.
Greyhound bus terminals are rapidly closing around the U.S as the company sells its valuable terminals to investors like hedge fund Alden Global Capital.
60 million people depend on intercity buses, primarily minorities and people with disabilities
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Fun thing about capitalism is when you describe it accurately people who like it get mad.
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Look at Ari Fleischer now and think about where the Trump people will be in 15 years, There is this sense they will all slink away in shame. They won't. And a lot of elites in both parties will embrace them.
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When someone on SNAP makes a single paperwork mistake, we call it fraud.
Update: Kushner omitted MORE financial holdings he was supposed to disclose.
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Imagine running for office to tell people better things aren’t possible.
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Letting everyone get sick before you inevitably close the schools rather than temporarily move to virtual to ride out this wave.
Holy moly. OKCPS has announced it will close district-wide for the rest of the week.
"This is a manpower issue, and we are simply out of options," the district says.
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One of the worst things about mainstream media coverage of defund has been failing to note that everything else was being defunded to avoid cops even having to go without increases in budgets.
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I am old enough to remember what happens when they have 60 votes.
@baddestmamajama
We didn’t win. Senate is 50-50. You need 60 votes to pass anything. We are in overtime.
#MarchToBallotBox
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No one cares less about the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party than the people who run it.
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This isn’t a rephrase it’s an entirely different understanding of the source the problem and how to deal with it.
.
@jaketapper
just asked
@BernieSanders
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Sanders said “Let’s rephrase” because “nobody I know who’s running for office talks about ‘defunding the police’; what we talk about is making police officers accountable” and other reforms.
#CNNSOTU
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You don’t read and discuss books to learn that you are exploited and oppressed, you do it to learn why and help figure out what to do about it.
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Not to be a broken record but: the minimum wage, voting rights, and union rights were won as a result of mass disruption. That seems worth attending to.
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I beg of you to stop begging Trump to lead. He cannot and he will not. Attack him for his actions and inactions and find a way around him.
Numerous experts have said that our country’s testing capacity is inadequate and far from what is needed to contain the coronavirus outbreak. It’s time for real leadership from President Trump. The health of our nation depends on a comprehensive national testing strategy.
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I’m sick of Biden prioritizing genocide over winning the election. We all have our crosses to bear.
Really sick of people acting like Biden losing will be some sort of punishment for him and the democratic elite when the vast majority of pain inflicted will be on marginalized communities
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I am begging people to broaden your political horizons even a little.
The best way to discourage mass shootings -- swift trials and the death penalty.
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These news stories and op eds insisting the problem is ‘progressives’ or ‘the left’ are not bad analysis, they are politics. There are political institutions taking sides.They won’t be defeated with facts.
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Suddenly there is money for schools, as long as it's not for educating.
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Sometimes it feels like no one remembers we just had a massive strike wave from public schools teachers in red states.
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The idea that people who are left by their government to die must respect the property rights of box store conglomerates is indefensible.
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They have been very open about this for a long time.
Republican Senators on Twitter today admitting that their strategy was to pack the courts with political conservatives in order to enact an agenda that was too unpopular to pass through an elected, popularly accountable Congress.
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Would people be interested in a Poor People’s Movements reading group?
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Anti-union folks call them "union bosses" because people don't like bosses, which is why people need unions.
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Abolition teaches us that in place of a very narrow set of solutions (police, surveillance, prison) we need not a single alternative but a whole range of solutions and I think that applies here.
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Actually this is bad
A positive sign for labor force participation: retirees are returning to work.
More people continue to 'unretire' as the labor market situation improves. The pickup is happening for all workers and those 65 years or older.
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This is part of what winning looks like
A new study finds that some police forces are losing officers at a faster pace since 2020. In New Orleans, there's a grudging acceptance that it's time to offload some duties to civilians.
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The right’s campaign here is designed to make it feel like their deeply unpopular positions are popular and pundits and a good deal of journalism are working hard to help.
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Law is how the powerful justify their atrocities, not how those atrocities are prevented.
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Yes, get rid of no knock warrants but if the job entails routine home invasion that is the real problem and the warrants aren’t going to change that.
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When I see someone stealing food, I worry that they are hungry, not for my safety.
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Yes, because the whole idea is that the rich deserve it and no one else does. The hypocrisy frame here completely misses what is going on here.
The rich can literally claim tax deductions for owning a yacht, but conservatives have the nerve to call $10,000 student debt forgiveness a handout?
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Keep thinking about how NYC is defunding EMTs but we are still doing the whole ‘who are you going to call in an emergency if we cut the police budget?’
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@senorrinhatch
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orrin hatch is a murderer
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Nickpicking the exact death toll as cities are being leveled, water and electricity is being turned off, etc., is grotesque.
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Active shooter drills, like so much security theatre, functions to produce the fear that justifies those actions. It doesn't make anyone safer, and doesn't address the underlying harms.
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They starve public services and then use them the resulting disfunction to justify more cuts.
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You are either for defunding the police or defunding everything else.
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Almost like the issue is donors not voters.
From the CBS poll of Pennsylvania, support for fracking is slightly underwater, 48% pro and 52% against. This is not usually how the issue is covered - as opposition being a political suicide mission.
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Better to do both then pit two good things against each other for no reason, my dude.
As a former school superintendent, I’m much more interested in free preschool than I am in free college.
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Abolition requires us to think about the relationship between racist state violence and economic deprivation. It requires us to theorize racial capitalism.
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We underestimate people’s capacity to intervene to protect each other.
INCREDIBLE MOMENT: Boynton Beach police sent this video out in the hopes to honor the people who got out of the car to help the woman who had a medical episode while driving.
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