#Violence

I’m seeing a lot of confusion among the anitwt community regarding the usage of AAVE terms. Let me just remind you all English language keeps evolving every year and integrates
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This is a bit of a circular argument and somewhat misdefines the term "benefit dependency". As I've observed before I totally get the heart-on-sleeve "something should be done" position but,
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The Republican party has done some irreparable damage to our electoral institutions in the United States of America. These are the sort of responses I hear everyday at my job
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Let me get this straight... -CNN reporter of color arrested during LIVE report in Minneapolis despite credentialed and willing to comply. -POTUS alludes to violence against β€œlooters” -Several shot during
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I was a labbie and then a teacher at the college I went to. I always tried to be the kind of teacher I wanted. Admittedly this was not the
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So since my dsmp persona already has a bit of lore due to him being part of a story written by @lunambulist (thank you!) I think I'll go ahead and
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I've been watching this case closely, as it will have serious implications for radicals. Between Jan. 6 and the inauguration, the FBI raided the apartment of a Leftist anarchist in
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I also grew up in rural Canada and didn't understand what racism looked like because I was white, and was surrounded by white people. but I was being taught racist
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Quick story/thread: Earlier this week, after George Floyd’s death, I was doing virtual speaking about sexual violence for a high school. The classes at this high school are at least
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a thread of different petitions that still need your help - yemen crisis, lgbt+ rights in poland, black lives matter, trans rights + more. links below, it takes 5 minutes;
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Last night, I was walking to my car on High Street in Downtown Columbus. A SWAT officer chased me on his bike for about a block while I was sprinting
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This resilience thing is really interesting - pre CV19 it was supposedly the solution to all kinds of everyday and ongoing colonial violence Blackfullas experiencehttps://twitter.com/ben_hr/status/1245624915379683328 But turns out a whole
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β€œA Roadmap for Re-imagining Public Safety in the United States” @hrw paper on policing, recommendations for structural reform: Divest from policing, invest in communities, strengthen accountabilityhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/12/roa
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There's a church in Brooklyn Center that was harboring people hurt by police violence during the #DaunteWright protests, and this was how the cops responded.(Photograph by Scott Streble) They are
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@UtopiaFallsTV is one of the best things that came out this 2020 and y'all should check it out let's start with the basics: The worldbuilding and visual effects of Utopia
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Man, people in my mentions are so concerned about people stealing TVs.A community in chaos because the most basic government institution is a corrosive force in the community and y'all
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