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
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.
A judge doubled this woman’s bail because she said ‘yeah’ instead of ‘yes’
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We at @CivRightsCorps have pioneered landmark constitutional challenges to the unsafe and unjust cash bail system for a decade. Our work saves lives, protects liberty, and is more important than ever.
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Trump issued two outrageous Executive Orders yesterday targeting "cashless bail." As the multi-billion dollar bail insurance industry spreads lies about the bail system, this classic video tells you a lot about what you need to know about how that system works.
A judge doubled this woman’s bail because she said ‘yeah’ instead of ‘yes’
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It's vitally important for well-meaning people to understand the story of police body cameras. Once you do, you'll never read the news or understand liberal politics or the punishment bureaucracy the same way again.
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As I explain in my book Copaganda, and in this separate study of body cameras, body cameras are one of the great achievements of propaganda in modern history. A whole generation of liberals was convinced that the thing cops/prosecutors/tech companies wanted most was actually.
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Oh my god. There is a fascist takeover, and the main reaction from one of D.C.'s leading Democrats is to require multi-million dollar contracts with the multi-billion dollar police industry to give the soldiers and vigilantes more surveillance technology.
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The quote appears in an "analysis" in the New York Times by a reporter who seems to be a genuinely lost soul. Thoroughly and completely out of his depth. Like a pet parrot raised inside the paper's DC bureau. The only noises he's ever heard are other DC-based Times employees.
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When the history of this fascist period is written, special attention will be paid to some of our epoch’s most grotesque figures: leaders of liberal nonprofits and think tanks. It’s incredible to see someone, at this moment, put their name on this quote:
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
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The new online vigilante portal to sign up to be a Brownshirt to brutalize poor people, immigrants, people of color, and anyone else who might dare to, say, go to a protest should be nonstop emergency news alert. Instead, mainstream news/Democrats barely mentioning it.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
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RT @HindRFoundation: The IDF claims the Nasser Hospital massacre was caused by a “Tank shell.” This is false. Our researchers have analysed….
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RT @_ZachFoster: Dr. Mimi Syed reports that Israel asked foreign doctors to evacuate the Nasser Hospital in Gaza before bombing it today. I….
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Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
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RT @ScottHech: Trump announced today he's ending “cashless bail” in DC & threatening cities across the country. It’s all based on fear—not….
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RT @KarishmaPatel99: Last year, I messaged Mohammad to say that his engagement photos with Hala in Gaza were beautiful. Now Israel has kill….
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RT @lefty_md: i'm begging people to read this book. especially people whose first thought when they hear "defund the police" is, BUT POOR C….
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RT @equalityAlec: THREAD. Today's article by New York Times reporter Devlin Barrett is a good example of how bad journalism can normalize….
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RT @blu_noz_pitbull: I'm BEGGING people to please, please, PLEASE pay attention to what's really going on. 🙏 This is weapons-grade propagan….
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