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Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

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founder, @CivRightsCorps civil rights lawyer author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (2025) views here are my own, not civil rights corps

Washington, DC
Joined February 2014
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@equalityAlec
Alec Karakatsanis
6 years
Watch this video featuring our work @CivRightsCorps to learn about how our case will free almost 20,000 people from jail every year in Houston, Texas.
@nowthisimpact
NowThis Impact
6 years
A judge doubled this woman’s bail because she said ‘yeah’ instead of ‘yes’
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@equalityAlec
Alec Karakatsanis
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One of the darkest aspects is that the Editorial Board can be presumed to understand its audience. The level of manufactured ignorance it takes for a non-predator to respond positively to these ideas is breathtaking.
@equalityAlec
Alec Karakatsanis
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A full, official editorial today in the New York Times. Not an op-ed. The statements and images are made on behalf of the paper itself.
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A full, official editorial today in the New York Times. Not an op-ed. The statements and images are made on behalf of the paper itself.
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@adamjohnsonCHI
Adam Johnson
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It’s never enough for militarism mouthpieces like the NYT editorial board. The US spends more money on its military than the next 9 countries COMBINED yet we are somehow always “behind” alleged existential enemies whose intrinsically sinister nature is simply taken for granted.
@nytimes
The New York Times
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In @nytopinion A classified government report showcases shocking U.S. military weaknesses. It's time for America to “create a relevant and effective force that can deter wars whenever possible and win them wherever necessary,” the editorial board writes.
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@equalityAlec
Alec Karakatsanis
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If you don’t know about our Right2Hug campaign, you should check out the links below. What these kids around the country are enduring and also how they are fighting back is something a lot more people should know about.
@equalityAlec
Alec Karakatsanis
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THREAD. Today our lawyers will be in a small courtroom in Colorado fighting for a constitutional right for children to hug their parents. Did you know that millions of children every year are barred from hugging their parents because of new policies? Do you know who benefits?
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THREAD. There are alarming developments in Canada recently. Some politicians are apparently doing their best impression of Trump's Executive Orders on cash bail--they want to determine who is in a cage and who is free with their family based on who pays up-front cash.
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Alec Karakatsanis
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A few years ago, I explained in this short video how the cash bail system works. It makes everyone in our society less safe--it's sort of the equivalent of a modern "flat-earther" policy.
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Alec Karakatsanis
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These alarming developments are described below by a leading Canadian civil rights lawyer who I know from my time working on the cash bail system in St. Louis after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson:
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The American experience is a warning. Cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety. Ontario does not need to repeat those mistakes. But unless we resist this...
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Alec Karakatsanis
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THREAD. There are alarming developments in Canada recently. Some politicians are apparently doing their best impression of Trump's Executive Orders on cash bail--they want to determine who is in a cage and who is free with their family based on who pays up-front cash.
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@DropSiteNews
Drop Site
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🎥 Watch | “This so-called peace plan is nothing but a pleasant title hiding a catastrophic reality,” Eyad Amawi, humanitarian aid coordinator in central Gaza tells Drop Site. “There has been no real change in living conditions, except for a small economically privileged
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@DropSiteNews
Drop Site
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Drop Site News @NikaSoonShiong spoke at the @DohaForum about the gap in journalism that Drop Site aims to fill: “Sometimes it’s made to feel overly complicated or ideological… things that are very simple are made to feel complicated. Children should live, hospitals should
@DohaForum
Doha Forum
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Nika Soon-Shiong, Publisher of Drop Site News, joined the panel “What Happens Now? Media Power and the Search for Truth in the Age of Distrust” at #DohaForum25.
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@LailaAlarian
Laila Al-Arian
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Our show @AJFaultLines has made 6 documentaries about Gaza. The talented cinematographer @DOPHussien worked on them. Two years ago today, an Israeli soldier killed his 4-year-old daughter, Salma. If you read anything today, please read his devastating words about losing her.
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Torture is a feature of life in thousands of US jails and prisons. It’s often blamed on “guards,” but someone had to design this contraption, build it, plan its use, and run it up the chain. Judges and lawyers had to create a legal regime where this stuff pervades for decades.
@EricLeeAtty
Eric Lee
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Torture on US soil: Per Amnesty International, guards have tortured non-citizen detainees in "Alligator Alcatraz," shackling them & confining them in small boxes in the sun. The brutal methods pioneered at Gitmo & Bagram have come home. Another perilous rubicon crossed...
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@DropSiteNews
Drop Site
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⭕️ NEW: “They Broke His Teeth and Ribs”: 66-Year-Old Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Savagely Beaten in Israeli Custody Qassam Barghouti, the son of prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, wrote in a social media post on Friday that his father was severely
@DropSiteNews
Drop Site
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⚡️Drop Site Daily | December 5, 2025 RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific https://t.co/XuOTuXJU8j
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Drop Site
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⭕️ Nathaniel Raymond, Yale Humanitarian Lab: “The people who are dying right now in Sudan are dying because the United States, Europe, and other allies have made a choice that our diplomatic, economic, and security relations with the United Arab Emirates matters more than their
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Drop Site
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⭕️ Yale Lab Warned for 2½ Years About the Coming Massacre in El Fasher — and No One Acted Nathaniel Raymond, head of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale, explains that from the very first weeks of the war, his team was tracking a pattern the negotiators were missing: the RSF
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@_waleedshahid
Waleed Shahid 🪬
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CNN found that IDF shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour. The IDF bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves. Left to decompose, scavenged by dogs, and never documented. Families may never learn what happened to their loved ones. https://t.co/UlzWIWZJIm
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Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.
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Alec Karakatsanis
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Torture is a feature of life in thousands of US jails and prisons. It’s often blamed on “guards,” but someone had to design this contraption, build it, plan its use, and run it up the chain. Judges and lawyers had to create a legal regime where this stuff pervades for decades.
@EricLeeAtty
Eric Lee
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Torture on US soil: Per Amnesty International, guards have tortured non-citizen detainees in "Alligator Alcatraz," shackling them & confining them in small boxes in the sun. The brutal methods pioneered at Gitmo & Bagram have come home. Another perilous rubicon crossed...
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@elivalley
Eli Valley
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Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL +the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate American higher education
@williamalden
Will Alden
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For @JewishCurrents I went long on pro-Israel activism at UCLA https://t.co/WHjlma7t9s (unpaywalled)
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@AssalRad
Assal Rad
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.@StopAntisemites is a shameful org. So-called papers of record like @nytimes platforming their smear campaigns is called propaganda, not journalism.
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@equalityAlec
Alec Karakatsanis
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This event is tonight in DC. It’s the last book event I have scheduled for the Copaganda tour. Hope to see folks! Talk starts at 6:30pm.
@equalityAlec
Alec Karakatsanis
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DC people: I'm excited to announce a last minute Copaganda book event at Busboys and Poets this Thursday. As a special treat, one of the best journalists in the U.S. will be joining us to discuss authoritarianism. I'll let you know who it is later in the week. Link below.
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Alec Karakatsanis
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DC people: I'm excited to announce a last minute Copaganda book event at Busboys and Poets this Thursday. As a special treat, one of the best journalists in the U.S. will be joining us to discuss authoritarianism. I'll let you know who it is later in the week. Link below.
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