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David Kaib@davidkaib.bsky.social |
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Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
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JW Mason
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My own theory is that despite everything people are still deeply committed to the idea of the Court as ultimate protector of their rights. So it's easier to criticize it for removing a constant on government than for imposing new constraints, even tho the latter are far more significant.
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JW Mason
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I am really deeply baffled by all these suggestions that the only constraint on presidential power is the threat of criminal prosecution, and removing that makes the president a king. This really seems to be a case where enough people saying something makes others believe it, with no basis at all.
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David Kaib
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All of which pales in comparison to insulting people on line, of course.
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David Kaib
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The evidence on canvassing (done well) is really solid. Phone calls are next, postcards after that.
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David Kaib
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A lot of discussions of the homelessness decision could benefit for engagement with Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
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David Kaib
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David Kaib
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Prisonculture
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"The true believers in institutionalism had a theory of power that turned out to not be true." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...
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David Kaib
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I really need to get off my ass and finish prep for my Supreme Court Night School.
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David Kaib
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Nothing tops her game theory RT.
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David Kaib
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Clara Jeffrey beclowning herself today is very on brand.
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David Kaib
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Wait what????
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David Kaib
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Seriously
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David Kaib
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I feel like the ‘we’re going to prosecute him’ was *the* plan and I never thought it was going to happen and now, well.
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Jamison Foser
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seems like a trend
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David Kaib
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Nixon said if the president does it, it’s not illegal. Cheney insisted Iran-Contra was legal. John Yoo argued the president could crush testicles of a child as an interrogation technique.
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David Kaib
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I can clear up one thing—it’s not about logic, it’s about power.
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Adam Kotsko
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Recalling on the Wire where McNulty says the policeman on his beat is a dictatorship within the US
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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Oh boy, $150,000!
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David Kaib
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Thinking a lot about how the bipartisan project of police immunity to law helped set the stage for this.
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Chicken Puppet
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The last time people went to go protest a Supreme Court decision there was an immediate, bipartsan effort to use tax player dollars to put snipers on Samuel Alito's roof while our favorite pundits went "Brett Kavanaugh has a family :( :(. His daughter must be so scared :( :("
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David Kaib
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It’s a lot easier to challenge judicial power when you are actually fighting for something big.
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Jerry Boyle
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As a lawyer, I endorse this. Courts are inherently political, and non-lawyer activists bring us an essential analysis, and political means of implementing that analysis.
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Prisonculture
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Part of how we got here has been to leave too much of the discussion about all of this to lawyers. People feel like they can't understand the courts without law degrees and that's just not true. But we're left without a robust group of non-lawyer activists and organizers who could offer leadership.
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Kevin Gannon
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Paulo Freire understood.
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Lindsay King-Miller
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"pride month is over"? You fool. You child. Halloween is less than 4 months away. It only gets gayer from here.
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Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈
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they tried i guess ?
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David Kaib
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My sense for number 2 is that on its own, it doesn’t do anything unless people can be brought on to some political project. So its more about possibilities than a cause itself.
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David Kaib
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It’s easy to make the case to people that other people being able to take sick days means you are less likely to be sick.
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David Kaib
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“Private prisons and jails hold just 8% of all incarcerated people, making them a relatively small part of a mostly publicly-run correctional system.”
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
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David Kaib
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Respectfully, it is not time for some game theory.
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Shay O’Reilly
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Unless an (unexpected) last-minute agreement is reached, union workers at the Sierra Club -- organizers, campaigners, press secretaries, fundraisers, and more -- will go on strike on Tuesday.
Donate to their strike fund: secure.everyaction.com/Fhk3ZcZrkk-O...?
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Prisonculture
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The contempt that's been shown for young people over the past few months is going to be hard to overcome.
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David Kaib
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The question is about policy not individual behavior.
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Dan Greene
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Segregation wall about a mile from my house, erected in 1957 after Brown, was replaced with a monument to integration. Still have plenty of neighbors who remember having to walk on the other side of the street to avoid a sundown down three miles from the Capitol.
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David Kaib
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“Private prisons and jails hold just 8% of all incarcerated people, making them a relatively small part of a mostly publicly-run correctional system.”
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
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David Kaib
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I think that stuff is often within an abstract ‘hate’ frame which blocks understanding.
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Annelise
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My high school self will never not be shocked that after ALL the holocaust / genocide education we had with discussions about preventing future ones, we are clearly witnessing another genocide and our govt not only refuses to intervene it is actively abetting it.
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David Kaib
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LOL
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David Kaib
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Yeah also all the various air cleaning options that are essential for both. Would be nice go be able to test for multiple things at once, which seems to be an option elsewhere.
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David Kaib
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What are the flu interventions beyond a robust flu shot campaign?
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Phil Christman
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(ever so casually) so do I have any followers who would be interested in blurbing a “Christian liberals should instead be leftists“ book
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David Kaib
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Star Trek: the Bell Riots
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Stephen Pimpare
@stephenpimpare.bsky.social
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“To demean and punish those who do not work is to exalt by contrast the meanest labor at the meanest wages”
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David Kaib
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Piven and Cloward make this point in relation to welfare recipients in Regulating the Poor.
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David Kaib
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You and me both. This one I already have / read.
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David Kaib
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🔥🔥🔥
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David Kaib
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People pushing criminalization of homeless people want them to die. There are internal differences over how openly to do this or how fast. This isn’t ignorant or irrational—it is ghoulish. The stakes have to be made clear.
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David Kaib
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It’s important to note which rulings mean simply focusing on non-court arenas vs. which ones require actively challenging judicial power.
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David Kaib
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My server asked me about Policing the Crisis when bringing me the check and I flubbed it. Unacceptable!
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