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Cases involving cops are steered to cop-friendly judges in NYC
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.»
Economic populist arguments vs. racism
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
The kamikaze battleplan
«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?
Fox News Condemns 2020 Election As Partisan Witch Hunt Orchestrated By Democrats To Unseat President
Silent Sam $2.5 mil settlement response
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
“WTF?”
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”.
It’s Boris Johnson’s Britain, Now
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.»
Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back
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.»
Wealthy Democrats Are in Denial About Inequality – The Atlantic
Deval Patrick doesn’t seem to understand (or he’s being insincere to somebody).
«America’s political parties are now as polarized as they were at the end of Reconstruction. And just as at the end of Reconstruction, a multiracial party whose ranks include both frustrated workers and wealthy capitalists finds itself at a crossroads, with no certain options for healing the nation’s divides or its own. As ever, America’s gilded class regards the possibility of higher taxes and redistribution as a greater threat than a resurgent racist authoritarianism that imperils America’s still-young experiment in multiracial democracy. The latter, after all, does not jeopardize its profits.»
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