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Vida B. Johnson

@vidabjohnson

Associate Professor of Law and advocate for poor people charged with crimes. Co-Director of E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship. she/her

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josie duffy rice(@jduffyrice) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The first president in us history to face a criminal trial and it genuinely seems to me like there are more stories about columbia students right now????

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Dave Biscobing(@DaveBiscobing15) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just obtained video showing police remove a woman’s hijab at ASU.

Legal sources tell @ABC15 that four women had this happen. It’s another constitutional issue from this weekend's protests.

*This is a screenshot. Video posted in next tweet*

Just obtained video showing police remove a woman’s hijab at ASU. Legal sources tell @ABC15 that four women had this happen. It’s another constitutional issue from this weekend's protests. *This is a screenshot. Video posted in next tweet*
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Vida B. Johnson(@vidabjohnson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My first thought was that it was a shame that MPD was more reasonable than GW officials but my husband reminded me that the MPD officials knew what their officers were capable of

D.C. police rejected GWU’s plea to sweep out university protesters washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

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Ida Bae Wells(@nhannahjones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Keep in mind: These are the folks claiming to be colorblind, claiming that DEI focuses too much on race, explicitly saying the real problem is white men in a university system that is at least 75% white in a state that is 90% white need a space that’s racially for them. It’s

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philip lewis(@Phil_Lewis_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iowa’s 3 public universities are closing their DEI offices

Iowa State’s president said they’ve established learning communities so that ‘a young man, young white man, from rural Iowa, could find the place where they could belong’

kcrg.com/2024/04/25/iow…

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Michael Harriot(@michaelharriot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While this seems like a good thing, it is not

If an armed squad can round up citizens and lock them in cages without enforcing an actual law, then they are NOT “law enforcement officers”

They’re a military regime.

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derecka(@dereckapurnell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

this is exactly why every struggle for love, freedom, and justice has to also be an abolitionist struggle: the cops will be called in against you. This is what it means to fund the police

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Scott Hechinger(@ScottHech) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The *base budget* for the NYPD is $11 billion- not even including overtime & massive civil rights settlement payments.

But he can't afford $58.3 million to keep public libraries open.

Thats just .05% of the police budget. A budget is a statement of values. Eric Adams has

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Wajahat Ali(@WajahatAli) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reminder Nazis with tiki torches chanting 'Jews will not replace us' on campus in Charlottesville weren't touched and law enforcement presence was sparse.

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Lisa Fernandez(@ljfernandez) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now someone called me to tell me that the 200 women left at FCI Dublin are not being fed. No one from BOP has returned my messages today

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Jane Mayer(@JaneMayerNYer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is barbaric: Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom apnews.com/article/pregna…

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United States Sentencing Commission(@TheUSSCgov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

USSC also joined together to revise its policy statement on age, permitting downward departures based on age if appropriate. The Commission will deliver amendments to Congress by May 1, 2024 and barring action from Congress, will go into effect November 1, 2024.

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Imani Gandy (Orca’s Version) ⚓️(@AngryBlackLady) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Pregnant patients have become radioactive to emergency departments in states with extreme abortion restrictions.

They are so scared of a pregnant patient, that the emergency medicine staff won’t even look. They just want these people gone.”


fortune.com/well/2024/04/1…

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Shanna Rifkin(@ShannaRifkin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There has been so much chaos this week re: FCI Dublin that I forgot to post about this truly ‼️exciting and monumental win ‼️at the United States Sentencing Commission - prohibition of acquitted conduct in guidelines! FAMM Foundation has been working to eliminate AC for decades. This is huge!

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derek guy(@dieworkwear) 's Twitter Profile Photo

i can't believe that sesame street told me that adulthood would be hanging out with my neighbors in diverse, walkable communities, but it turned out to be 14-hour email jobs to pay for an apartment in increasingly gentrified, car-centric cities

i can't believe that sesame street told me that adulthood would be hanging out with my neighbors in diverse, walkable communities, but it turned out to be 14-hour email jobs to pay for an apartment in increasingly gentrified, car-centric cities
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