https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1207165659358081029?s=20
This stems partly from the mentality that prison is for punishment.
Keri Blakinger (@keribla) Tweeted:
«Two months ago I wrote abt Frank Digges, who was beaten to death by guards in a Texas prison. His mom, of course, took it hard. She stopped watching TV & would just stare at the walls, her family said.
Her health deteriorated. This week, she died.»
PAPER BALLOTS. (At a minimum.)
https://twitter.com/DrRJKavanagh/status/1206142105158062083?s=20
Thread. The courts are supposed to be impartial arbiters of justice, right?
Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) Tweeted:
«We need to reform the system in NYC whereby cases involving police officers as defendants or victims are steered to certain judges who have evidenced very clear pro-police bias.
We know it is almost impossible to get to the point where a police officer is arrested or charged.»
https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1205898873765613568?s=20
Twitter is so depressing.
Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) Tweeted:
In my opinion the biggest takeaway from the UK election is that unabashed economic leftism didn’t win back the white working class from conservatives. That’s what translates most to US politics. It cuts to the heart of the Bernie/socialist argument here. It was race not class https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1205877973146128384?s=20
Tom Watson (@tomwatson) Tweeted:
The so-called WWC is not coming back. Shouldn’t even be defined this way any more. https://t.co/U20wNf6cu3
«And so Labour girds itself for yet another leadership election. This one will presumably boil down eventually to a pro-Brexit northerner against a pro-Remain southerner.»
“Remain” is dead, though, isn’t it? Wouldn’t it have to be “Re-join” now?
https://twitter.com/KristenClarkeJD/status/1205611104614977537?s=20
Let’s hope it works.
Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) Tweeted:
BREAKING: We are taking legal action to reverse UNC’s Board of Governors reckless decision to transfer 2.5M to Sons of Confederate Veterans in connection with the ‘Silent Sam’ controversy. This payout has the result of fueling white supremacy.
We’re fighting back! #SilentSham https://t.co/O3KHt62hpB
https://twitter.com/MeredithAncret/status/1205267525694451712?s=20
So, history doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it rhymes (supposedly).
Jaye Wells @jayewellsI wonder if everyone in the ’30s just kept repeating “what the fuck” all the time too@MeredithAncretYes. They did.Speaking from an academic perspective I’ve read multiple books published in the late ’20s and early ’30s that mostly boil down to “what the fuck”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/12/boris-johnson-britain-uk-election/603466/
Sound familiar?
«Over time, Labour’s vote has become more metropolitan, wealthier, more diverse, younger, and more educated—more in line with Remain. The Conservative vote has become poorer, whiter, older, less educated, and more provincial—like Leave.»
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/millennials-are-leaving-religion-and-not-coming-back/
Wheee!
«Why does it matter if millennials’ rupture with religion turns out to be permanent? For one thing, religious involvement is associated with a wide variety of positive social outcomes like increased interpersonal trust and civic engagement that are hard to reproduce in other ways. And this trend has obvious political implications. As we wrote a few months ago, whether people are religious is increasingly tied to — and even driven by — their political identities. For years, the Christian conservative movement has warned about a tide of rising secularism, but research has suggested that the strong association between religion and the Republican Party may actually be fueling this divide. And if even more Democrats lose their faith, that will only exacerbate the acrimonious rift between secular liberals and religious conservatives.»
