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Ok, this has been dead for almost 8 hours. I need help. Especially with Walmart+ Assist not paid yet I might not be able to get SNAP groceries delivered and I don't have anything for essentials (cleaning supplies, over the counter meds), etc

In today's "Mercy is absolutely incredible" post: As you know, my little Scion iQ has been having some problems. That comes with putting 70,000 miles on a car in under two years. So today, Mercy spent the afternoon taking the engine apart and putting it back together again outside our apartment.

Thinking about how a couple of weeks ago, I was alone in a courthouse bathroom during a trial break, and someone (probably opposing counsel, but Idk for sure) reported "a man in the women's bathroom" and a cop barged in and demanded I leave the stall in the middle of doing my business.

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I want cops abolished out of everywhere

Repeat after me: *the purpose of a system is what it does* If you wanted a justice system whose purpose was to ensure public safety you would need to make a different system that *does that* The current carceral system's purpose is racialized oppression. That's what it does.

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For the people asking me what I mean by "people over institutions" and "abolish the carceral state": The American prison industrial complex is a for profit institution built on the systematic oppression and criminalization of racialized people. It should be eliminated.

The culture of disposability around criminalized people set us up for this moment, and to fight fascism, we are going to have to rage against that culture of disposal. Submitting to it (or hiding behind it) is an egregious form of surrender.

There are no appropriate targets.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

unsympathetic women don’t deserve sexual harassment either

I know it *shouldn't* bother me when another attorney or a judge makes a snarky comment asking when I plan to become a "real lawyer" or "get a job doing real work" or "don't you want to handle real cases someday" but ngl, it very much does.

dystopian ass weather report

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.

Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.

“My heart groans with pain for my kids, who are freezing in the cold out on the street as we search for shelter after the rain and winds destroyed our tent. They haven’t eaten anything since yesterday. We need 400$ to buy a tent and food.” Verified @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/1574...

my wokest opinion is that land acknowledgements are fine. people knowing a little bit about the land you're on, even if one isn't invested in a land back project, is not particularly worse than the status quo, even if one comes by this info in a way that is somewhat cringe and forced

collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide

Ok guys, I just realized my Walmart+ Assist was due today and I don't have it. I probably should get it paid before ordering groceries tomorrow. Help? 💕💸

Remember when Stephen Miller said that Trump had "plenary power" a few weeks ago? The idea that the government has effectively unlimited power over you is supposed to be anathema to the US. But what if I told you SCOTUS already ruled that the government has that power - at least, over some people?

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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Once you're of the opinion that you are a good person, you stop trying. It's the process of striving towards the unattainable that actually leads to good in the world.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment. - Clarence Darrow

Laura Fine says that her campaign is not seeking an AIPAC endorsement and does not take AIPAC money— even as AIPAC sends out fundraising emails on her behalf and a planned fundraiser event is still likely to occur.

The legal code was developed by and for the benefit of the powerful and only gives rights to the lower classes as begrudgingly as possible. That is the history of the English legal system and of the Roman legal system as well. That's not a morally adequate baseline and should not be viewed as "good"

Smartly shut up Saturday

I'm very flattered by people saying that I should run for something, but I will be honest: it will not happen, now or in the future. Putting aside that I have absolutely no desire to be misgendered and deadnamed in the press,

"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT." If you're in the United States, that is ALL you should EVER say to law enforcement besides asking if you're being detained, and identifying yourself in a stop and ID state.

everyone saying “she was a consenting adult“ either can’t read or doesn’t want to deal with the fact that even a woman who is consenting to a relationship is at an inherent power differential with *the president of the fucking United States*

The recovery period from my surgery is going to be like 12 weeks. On the negative side, there's no way judges will let me have that much time off, so I will have to figure out how to squeeze 12 weeks of healing into two. On the positive side, I will have lots of reading time?

Please tell me we're not rehabilitating Space Laser Lady just because she and Trump had a quarrel. She's still a racist, transphobic, antisemitic piece of shit.

Everyone knows it's possible to criticize other US presidents without loving Trump, right? I despise Trump. I LOATHE him with the passion of a thousand burning suns. The fact that I can criticize other leaders doesn't change that,

Multiple times in the past week I have heard and seen people talking about Epstein and say that he's why trans people need to be restricted and FFS WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO WITH ANY OF THIS?!?!?

Selfishly, I would also like the carceral state abolished because Saturday arraignments freaking suck

“but then a US President would never get to have sex!” Oh no you mean there might be some downsides to being the most powerful person in the world? Gosh, heaven for-fucking-fend

Bill Clinton was the most powerful man in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was an intern and his subordinate, and in any other workplace that would be called sexual harassment, and if you don't take power dynamics into account when you talk about things like this, you don't actually understand consent

RIP Alice Wong 🖤

Forced sterilization never died!

Alan should get a shirt that says “technically not a pedophile” and see how it works out for him

hot take i think we should ban sports gambling before someone gets shot

If we're going to fix this shit, we have to focus on the disease, not the latest symptom. And to do that, we have to acknowledge the disease in the first place, which is where we're kind of flailing.

the horror of trump isn't that he's unique, it's that he's anything but unique. He is America, the mask of civility set aside to show the rot. He is who America has always been, gleeful in cruelty and arrogant in stupidity.

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We have Trump because we fought Bush instead of the white supremacist systems that created Bush, just like with Reagan before him and Nixon before *him.* Want to prevent another Trump? Dismantle the systems that created him. They go back to the founding of this country.

The only reason you think pointing out how utterly vile our previous presidents have been excuses or downplays Trump is if you think Trump is an exception to the rule. He's the culmination, not the exception. It doesn't absolve him. It implicates everyone else.