Motivated Reasoning
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“We send people to prison, and they don’t come back better.”
@stephanthomaskc is running for King County prosecutor. Let’s apply pressure to change harmful systems from the inside!
Link to full video: youtu.be/4nnY9NpNpXU
#seattle #kingcountyprosecutor #change
Greedy millionaire pens letter about manipulating Black people into complacency while manipulating Black people into complacency.
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Another painful example of how completely out of touch @MayorJenny is w/the housing precarity of so many neighbors. We invite @MayorJenny to come hear 👂from ACTUAL vehicle residents about what the reinstatement of the parking ban means for them.
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Facts are facts. Would add centrist, progressive & liberal rackets too & acknowledge that some ppl in this space were part of that. Autonomous action was in fact the driver and the right answer. Most Seattle collectives have diluted rather than concentrated or strengthened power.
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Sgt. Michael Tietjen, the SPD officer who drove his unmarked SUV onto a sidewalk filled with protesters, is back on duty even though he still has multiple active OPA investigations pending.
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“There are MASSIVE demonstrations in Haiti, but because they are a stand against U.S. imperialism, they don’t want us to know”
Recap of #USOutofHaiti Rallies in DC, March 2021. #FreeHaiti #DCProtests
The mothers of Tamir Rice & Richard Risher, who were killed by police at 12 & 18, have condemned celebrity activism, lack of fiscal transparency at BLM global, and co-opting of their fight for justice by capitalist opportunists.
They have released this statement. Share widely.
To read the statement in its entirety, click here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Some context on this conversation, which started when Samaria Rice criticized a Grammy performance that reenacted a Black man being shot by police, and featured so-called "modern civil rights leaders" as part of the spectacle.
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On-brand for SPD.
This story is truly disturbing. What was supposed to be a simple welfare check on a house with an open door turned into armed police handcuffing a 74-year-old man in his own home, where he had been taking a nap.
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Standing Rock Water Defender Jailed After Refusing to Provide Testimony on Fellow Protesters democracynow.org/2021/3/24/h…
Surely we are all watching the national conversation on fundraising, accountability, and aesthetic activism in #BLM (as a nonprofit ind complex, not the decentralized movement). It's nonnegotiable that mothers of the movement are centered, listened to, & heard in this dialogue.
White cultures villainize & mock white people who are willing to put their bodies & lives on the line for brown people. It's the conclusion that John Brown was crazy & antifascists are terrorists. It's middle school names like n***er lover and woke mob. They hate to see it.
Cannot emphasize enough how many times over the summer and fall our tiny media & socials team was asked leading questions by the press to paint antifascists and white protesters of all types in a negative light. They never printed our response bc we never took the bait.
This is one of the few examples where a journalist respected the answer to the question (see 14:15) rather than pressing more to get a different answer. We still get "antifa bad" media requests to this day, more often than any other topic.
youtu.be/OXcyjK5VY0k
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Audio: The night after the Pierce Co. sheriff's emergency call about a man threatening to kill him, a 911 dispatcher explains to a cop “the gravity of” the massive response, suggesting if sheriff gave more details, his call would've received lower-priority
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Updated: Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer faces calls for resignation over confrontation with Black newspaper carrier w/ @Jim_Brunner seattletimes.com/seattle-new…