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Dan Berger@dnbrgr.bsky.social |
1626 followers 662 following 96 posts
Writer of words, hater of prisons
Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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As my comrade Cheryl Rivera has correctly written: “There is no resistance to capitalism that has not been met with batons.” If you don't deal with policing, policing will deal with you.
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Prisonculture
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Some truly have no ability to figure out who to be mad at and it's a problem for them.
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Prisonculture
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Do the Democratic elite believe that 45 is an existential threat? If they actually do, what would you expect to see right now? Are you seeing that?
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Rebecca Ruth Gould
@rrgould.bsky.social
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Must read article by @ajab.bsky.social on the retracted job offer to Professor Raz Segal due to his criticism of Israel. "The university is not a community center. Its independence must not be subverted by subjecting it to “community” control." www.chronicle.com/article/comm...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Unbelievably frustrating that we don't have clear guidance on when it's safe to socialize again after having COVID. Millions of people are still getting this and have no choice but to navigate these decisions themselves.
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Dan Berger
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Rob Lowe spent most of 80s-90s doing copious amounts of drugs and having an obscene amount of sex. He seems (based on Celebrity Memoir Book Club episode about him, lol) like not a good person. But he was a voice of grace, nuance, and reason in this documentary
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Dan Berger
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The way I *screamed* when he said he was going to visit Gladwell
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Dan Berger
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
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And in this documentary, he does ‘em both!
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Rebecca Colesworthy
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
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creating a whole documentary about how it sucked to be called a brat is basically the brattiest thing one could possibly do
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Today, an eight-member jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization...that was responsible for major human rights atrocities during the 1990s and 2000s."
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/colombi...
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Dan Berger
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I’m at Haymarket House/ @haymarketbooks.bsky.social on Thursday with Jasson Perez, cosponsored by @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social
www.haymarketbooks.org/events/623-s...
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Dan Berger
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I’m at Pilsen Community Books tomorrow with Elizabeth Todd-Breland:
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/36985
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Dan Berger
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I haven’t been on here much lately, but I wanted to tell anyone in Chicago that I’ll be in your fine city this week!
I’ll be talking ‘bout Stayed on Freedom at Pilsen Community Books on 5/14 & @haymarketbooks.bsky.social on 5/16, & talking about a new project on 5/15 at American Bar Foundation.
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Andrew Krinks
@andrewkrinks.bsky.social
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My book _White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism & the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization_ is out in August. Two beautiful + affirming endorsements from Christophe Ringer & Vincent Lloyd are in! Preorder in July w/ 30% discount directly from NYU Press. nyupress.org/978147982385...
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Tim Onion
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Twitter's AI is incredible.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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www.thestranger.com/news/2024/04...
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Dan Berger
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
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It is astounding how his name ended up in this story! No mention of him at all for like 3,000 words and then bam! And, some people’s wishful thinking notwithstanding, the man has never been to prison
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Dan Berger
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LAT with quite the typo in its obituary for OJ Simpson
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Dave Levitan
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I've been thinking a ton lately about enforcement, and the limits of letting essentially "the market + gov-supported innovation" (ie, huge drop in solar price over two decades) be our only climate plan. The oil industry is too big and strong. They'll keep doing this until they are made to stop.
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Micah
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packing the court: it works power matters more than norms Republicans understand this, and Democrats need to learn
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Bolts
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A new study found that when people lose health insurance, crime rates go up. In our latest, Bolts staff writer Alex Burness spoke to one of the authors about the implications, at a time of a nationwide drop-off in Medicaid:
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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"Democrats must take the obvious stand, and do what is right both in terms of politics and in terms of policy: they must call, en masse, for the repeal of the Comstock Act. Anything less would be political malpractice." - thee
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Osita Nwanevu
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Is anyone going to do anything? Ever? What's it going to take? You can't put out a song with an uncleared sample without putting yourself in legal jeopardy; meanwhile these people are openly stealing all of human creation and bragging about it! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/t...
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Bolts
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A law adopted in West Virginia last fall limits health care in prison to only that which correctional officers deem “medically necessary.”
“I think this has the potential to be extremely abused. I really do.” boltsmag.org/west-virgini...
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Citizen.Coping
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He'll never learn that he cannot win with them, and he'll never please them—no matter what he does.
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Phil Lewis
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After the Civil War, white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the Black vote and cemented it in Mississippi's 1890 constitution This week, a bill that would reinstate voting rights for thousands convicted of nonviolent offenses died in the State senate
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Victoria Law
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Gillian Branstetter
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"If the post-Dobbs era has shown us anything, it is that abortion is controversial only in theory. When faced with the material consequences of banning it, Americans find themselves unequivocally on freedom’s side."
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David Kaib
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This is objectively pro-overdose.