Nothing to see here. Just your $11 billion NYPD refusing to share information about how bad they are at solving crime.

Every single one of these cops are still employed.

The city can't hire lifeguards but it can produce PR for drones...

Nothing to see here. Just your $11 billion NYPD refusing to share information about how bad they are at solving crime.

Ending slavery in jails & prisons is not “complex.”

Today, Congress held a hearing about prison labor’s legacy in chattel slavery. Witnesses gave well-researched testimony about the history and realities of prison slavery.

But Sen. Kennedy wants us to stop the “emotion” when talking about the “complex” issue of ending slavery.

THREAD. This is one of the most depraved copaganda campaigns in modern history. Biden's behavior here is shameful, and many Democrats who know better are going along, hoping people won't actually read what is being proposed.

Counter argument: mandate paid parental leave for at least 12 months, coverage for postpartum doula services, universal 2 and 3k, and job protections for family leave to care for children, elderly family, or disabled family. Also ample and flexible sick leave.

Clarence Thomas declares:

•The 14th and 15th Amendments impose NO limit on states' ability to draw openly racist electoral districts that disfavor Black Americans because of their skin color.
•Federal courts have no power to redraw such racist maps. slate.com/news-and-polit…

You'd think something as basic as NYPD clearance rates—how often the cops actually make an arrest for a reported crime— would be easy to come by, especially since it's legally required to post quarterly reports. And yet... hellgatenyc.com/nypd-clearance…
(Thx Joy Bergmann for the tip.)

Has the NYPD gotten better at solving crimes under Eric Adams?? We have no idea, because they stopped posting legally-mandated clearance rates online over a year ago.

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Less than five months into 2024, deaths at the Clayton County Jail in the Atlanta suburbs have already surpassed last year’s total. The local sheriff’s lack of transparency has only compounded the pain for grieving families. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 reports: theappeal.org/clayton-county…

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I figured the Supreme Court's Alexander would be bad. But it's so much worse than I expected. Alito loaded his majority opinion with traps to make it nearly impossible for any plaintiff to prove racial gerrymandering in court. A full-on gutting of the equal protection clause.

Less than two years out from Dobbs, Louisiana criminalizes the abortion pill—teeing up the surveillance, arrest, and prosecution of individuals who share or possess a medication that's approved by the FDA.

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City Hall has scrubbed photos of Eric Adams awarding Diddy a key to the city last year from its official flickr account, as the mayor still hasn't rescinded the ceremonial key.

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Wow. Fiona Apple is a real one. Watch this video. Calling for donations to bail out Black mothers for Mother’s Day. Her fans already came through w donations & spreading the word. Over $30k! Let’s “fetch the bolt cutters” & support even more. I just gave. givebutter.com/nHSrnp

In 2023 Cori Bush introduced new federal legislation, the End Solitary Confinement Act, to stop torture, save lives & improve safety for everyone. Help us to ensure no one else has to endure the torture of solitary confinement. Learn more about this bill: zurl.co/ubdL

1. On Monday, a federal judge dropped an extraordinarily important decision.

It has received ZERO media attention.

In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which allowed people to sue law enforcement officers who violated their Constitutional rights. It was intended to

NYC taxpayers are being forced to pay millions & millions to fund a massive NYPD PR machine staffed by officers w/ histories of misconduct *to lie to us.* And when the need for copaganda is highest, those same officers collect overtime to spread their disinformation. Absurd.