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Exactly #AOC

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All they are doing is protecting their own assets…..asswipes….

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Republicans love their morons and disrespect opposing smart people as inferior. Melania cheated to get an Einstein Visa. She earned nothing. But to a Republican, Jill Biden is worse. Because that's how having no beliefs works.

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Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse from the Tsuut’ina First Nation cuts off his braided hair in response to Calgary’s Ring Road being built which has required his home be destroyed (the home has been in the family for 5 generations).

More information here:

https://allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com/post/630813216638910464/tsuutina-man-cuts-off-braids-in-protest-as

Video source:

https://twitter.com/Tommy_Slick/status/1311762466414632960

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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More than 1/8th of the White Mountain Apache Tribe has tested positive for Covid-19.

They have been hit EXTREMELY hard and I have seen no posts going around talking about it. It is one of the hardest hit places in ARIZONA, a state that already has horribly high case numbers.

They have a Covid relief gofundme. Please donate if you can and spread this if you can't.

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Not to get dark or anything, but 9/11 is coming up in the USA

Or, let me rephrase that: an annual day where Muslims in the USA are scared to leave their homes. If you have Muslim friends or neighbors - watch their backs. Check up on them. Without fail, every year, there's always an attack. Every year someone I know or someone I know by extension becomes a victim.

One year I had to go pick up my roommate from the library because she was too scared to leave. Some grown ass men had followed her there throwing rocks and yelling threats.

Another year I got a knife threat slipped into my mailbox.

Another year someone shot up the side of our mosque while we prayed for peace inside.

Check up on your neighbors and call out racist and islamophobic behavior where you see it. This year, with all the unrest and elections coming up, it's bound to be bad and everyone I know is already on edge and taking precautions.

Stay vigilant and stay woke ✌️

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Entire Georgia county claims no mail-in ballots.

How does Brian Kemp explain his incompetence? How does he explain suppressing votes from certain counties?

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I cannot believe… they let chris rock get away with this

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On “Cancel Culture”

People who are actively “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.

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Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200.

There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live.

Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation passed by House Dems to:

-restore Voting Rights Act.

-implement nationwide automatic voter registration, early voting & end to voter purging.

-expand vote by mail & give $3.6 billion in much needed election aid to states.

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More people need to understand what we mean when we say that "Brooklyn 99 is pro-cop propaganda"

Are there worse tv shows, that depict more police brutality? Yes, obviously. But there’s a big difference between shows meant to rile up existing pro-cop sentiments, and shows meant to subtly convince people who are against police abuses that some police abuses are actually ok, and that cops can be just and good. NCIS and Blue Bloods might be worse, but Brooklyn 99 is more dangerous, precisely because Brooklyn 99 is so much more palatable to people who feel gross watching cops beat unarmed black men.

Despite its claims of demonstrating good policing and idealized behavior, Brooklyn 99 regularly shows cops violating people’s constitutional rights. But whereas other more right-leaning shows highlight violations and are explicitly in favor of them, Brooklyn 99 glosses over them. And it does so to such a degree that a lot of people don’t even realize that what they are watching, despite being about “good” cops, still contains a ton of systemic police abuses of power in it.

Take the seventh episode of the very first season as an example.

In this episode, the main character arrests a man with no evidence whatsoever and detains him for 48 hours while his colleagues go on a mad hunt to find evidence of a crime.

Here’s the thing with that depiction:

The episode treats the main character’s behavior as though the problem is that he made work for his coworkers, not that he violated a suspect’s constitutional rights. It’s made very clear that his coworker’s date night is more important than a wrongfully arrested man being confined in a jail cell for two full days.

It is in fact illegal to go on a fishing expedition like the one depicted after detaining a suspect. The “you have 48 hours” rule is meant to give the courts time to hold the required probable cause hearing even when there is a court backlog, not to give the cops a chance to gather evidence. In fact, the SCOTUS case which created the 48 hour hold rule even explicitly says: “This is not to say that the probable cause determination in a particular case passes constitutional muster simply because it is provided within 48 hours. Such a hearing may nonetheless violate Gerstein if the arrested individual can prove that his or her probable cause determination was delayed unreasonably. Examples of unreasonable delay are delays for the purpose of gathering additional evidence to justify the arrest, a delay motivated by ill will against the arrested individual, or delay for delay’s sake.” The main characters are breaking the law, and it’s clear that the policy within their precinct is to break the law.

When the suspect gets a lawyer who starts arguing for a civil suit on the basis of his unlawful detainment, this is treated as a horrible thing and the suspect is portrayed as smug and immoral for doing it. This is despite the fact that he is completely legally justified because the police have clearly violated his constitutional rights.

The suspect is eventually revealed to have committed the crime in question, by route of a plan which the main character admits to having not even considered when he arrested him. Police hunches are glorified; the assumption that former criminals are guilty is reinforced.

Ultimately, the suspect is unable to sue for the violation of his rights and his unlawful detention because there is evidence that he committed the underlying crime. In fact, this would have no bearing whatsoever on his standing to sue. Guilty people still have constitutional rights, and by the text of the episode, the precinct violated his rights regardless of his guilt or innocence. The show glosses over this, and strongly implies that guilty people (and he is treated as guilty despite not yet having been tried) are unable to legally take actions against police abuses.

Putting it all together, from it’s outset, Brooklyn 99 has justified non-violent but extremely illegal police abuses, eroded people’s belief that our constitutional rights are inalienable and apply even to the guilty, camouflaged the fact that people are legally allowed to sue over police abuses, and demonized the lawyers and suspects who try to go after those sorts of civil rights cases. I’m sorry, but that’s propaganda no matter how you slice it.

Police violence is not always physical brutality. Brooklyn 99 might not show cops beating Rodney King in the street, but it gleefully showcases violations which selectively target the disenfranchised in other ways, and then couches those violations as “what a good police station would be like, in an ideal world”.

The cops in Brooklyn 99? They’re bad cops, end of story. They all routinely commit this-should-be-an-instant-firing level of offenses against helpless individuals, and it’s portrayed as normal. And the fact that people will endlessly parrot the idea that Brooklyn 99 shows the way that police stations could be if they were manned by good police officers shows that not only is it propaganda, but it’s working. And that should terrify us all.

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