Unsolicited Bridge Pics is a Vermont political podcast. Kinda part of @therakevermont media coop. I'm a little mean but in Vermont I'm considered a monster.
Chittenden County, Vermont
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NEW: Activists in Georgia posted flyers naming one of the cops in Tortuguita’s killing. They were arrested, placed in solitary confinement and now face a felony and 20 years in prison. W/ @natashalennard theintercept.com/2023/05/02/…
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Over the weekend three activists were arrested in Bartow County after flyering anti-Cop City messaging. They were charged with misdemeanor stalking and felony intimidation of a police officer.
This morning, a Bartow County Magistrate Judge denied their bond.
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We're starting a monthly left events calendar! Lots coming up in May, starting with the May Day Rally & Picnic this Monday at 6pm in Burlington: #vt #vtpoli rakevt.org/2023/04/28/vermon…
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The situation is bleak! We need reforms immediately! We need [real estate developer begins jingling their keys] uhhhhhhh buhhhhhh bluhhhhhhhh buh buhhhh
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this series is going to drive me absolutely insane.
"What class are you?" It's a question that Vermont Public reporter Erica Heilman has been asking people for a series about class and cultural divides that we are airing all week. In this fourth installment, Erica speaks with former state legislator.
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americans have such wild and wacky ideas about class and basically none of them are useful
In this installment of Vermont Public's "What class are you" series, reporter Erica Heilman speaks with Kate, a 43-year-old who lives deep in the woods in Central Vermont, and, for some legal reasons, was granted anonymity.
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One of the most pernicious, but common forms of propagada is the curation by media elites of which scientific studies are reported as "news" and which "experts" are selected to discuss their significance.
Pretty amazing framing in the NYT this morning: What having young workers been missing?
Less surveillance and "less supervision."
Really clearly laying out how the NYT is a paper for the managerial & owning class and NOT the working class. nytimes.com/2023/04/24/busin…
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"Rome wasn't built in a day" yeah well that's probably bc their development review laws were unfriendly to adequate zoning reforms accounting for mixed-use multi unit development
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Vermont’s prison system is more dysfunctional, violent, and abusive than many Vermonters realize. And we have the opportunity and an obligation to subject far fewer people to that system than we currently do. vtdigger.org/2023/04/17/man-…
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This was one of the hardest stories I've ever had the misfortune of writing.
The entire time Amy and I were writing it, we struggled to fathom the jail medical staff's response. The only logical conclusion after years of working on carceral reforms is that reforms don't work.🧵
A horrifying story of birth in Houston jail. "After almost 5 days in a quarantine cell, I couldn’t take the pain anymore. I went to medical w/ contractions 2 days in a row only to be turned away both times. Saying I was faking it or dehydrated." Thread:teenvogue.com/story/giving-b…
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As Southern State Correctional Facility head Mike Lyon is investigated for misconduct, it's worth remembering that exploitation and profiteering against incarcerated workers constitute *normal* conduct by Vermont's Dept. of Corrections. #vt #vtpoli rakevt.org/the-cost-of-being…
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“Crime” stats never include the violence committed by prisons and cops, who regularly commit extraordinary violence without being criminalized and are often shielded from any accountability.
The violence of these institutions cannot be reformed, abolition is the only way forward
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Murad: I needed to threaten that doctor in order to keep the community safe from guns
Also Murad: It's not *my* responsibility to notify the public of a swat training using live rounds right in the heart of downtown by the high school and bus station
Staff from Outdoor Gear Exchange were close by when a police officer from Pennsylvania accidentally fired a live round from his weapon during a SWAT training at the former L.L. Bean building on Cherry Street. #btv vtdigger.org/2023/04/12/cop-…
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If I was a police department embroiled in yet another idiotic scandal I might wanna put a hold on the live fire training exercises in the middle of the towns main tourist center but that's me
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As more evidence shows how @voxcustodes threatened to arrest a trauma surgeon, while other officers discussed what laws they could misuse to arrest that surgeon, look back on 26 different @OneNorthAvenue incidents of malfeasance since 2019. #vtpoli #btv
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City Councilor @BTVJoan, who rarely if ever criticizes police abuse and mismanagement, has said she would still vote for Murad as permanent police chief. Tight-knit relationships among political elites protect each other from consequences. #btv #vtpoli
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With all of the recent lying from @voxcustodes, @OneNorthAvenue, and @MiroBTV, we are going to need to update our list of times when Vermont cops were caught lying. #vtpoli #btv #btvcc
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Jacob Hinsdale's threat to evict Little Morocco Cafe is part of a larger pattern where he regularly evicts, without conversation, commercial tenants who have more radical politics are are willing to call out his poor behavior. #vtpoli #Vermont #btv
rakevt.org/2023/04/10/little…
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A PhD candidate at U.C. Berkeley spent months studying the phenomenon of NYPD officers parking on sidewalks and found that outside almost every precinct in the city, the sidewalk is covered with illegally parked cars.
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