- @jvharris_1965 The joke here is that the constantly transmitting wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems were *ac… https://t.co/uCYTSI3beQ in reply to jvharris_1965 23:48:54, 2020-06-06
- The joke here is that the constantly transmitting wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems were *actually* made ma… https://t.co/Y0sH6IfOba 23:43:17, 2020-06-06
- This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. https://t.co/irhLTkhcZa 23:05:55, 2020-06-06
- By September the Interstate Commerce Commission had ordered desegregation of bus and train stations nationwide, in… https://t.co/V6SxGsgraZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:49:30, 2020-06-06
- And in the end one of the most notorious prisons in Mississippi ended up full of civil rights organizers from all o… https://t.co/dXx9aOZIxD in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:46:24, 2020-06-06
- Meanwhile the Freedom Riders decide that they'll just have to fill up Mississippi's prison system, and folks start… https://t.co/VPDidZiE6c in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:29:52, 2020-06-06
- And all the while it seems like the Kennedys are annoyed by the "distraction" of domestic politics, and would prefe… https://t.co/gLJl8NqXNw in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:27:23, 2020-06-06
- And when they get to Mississippi, there are no mobs. Only cops. And everyone is arrested and sent to prison to do h… https://t.co/Dy59zIZLts in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:25:47, 2020-06-06
- RT @morganmpage: Sad about Harry P.otter being written by a transphobe? Have I got a book for you! Check out Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch s… 18:22:44, 2020-06-06
- And she was like "You should know that last night we all signed our last wills and testaments." in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:00:15, 2020-06-06
- A group of students from Tennessee decided to pick up where the original group had left off immediately. Kennedy's… https://t.co/0qhfpYwuKl in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:58:55, 2020-06-06
- The first wave of Freedom Riders stopped after Birmingham, despite originally planning to ride all the way to New O… https://t.co/L3rDIDLWmz in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:52:34, 2020-06-06
- He then betrayed that promise and left the buses to be attacked by white mobs. Kennedy's representative, who was fo… https://t.co/c0HVSdp4NW in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:49:47, 2020-06-06
- Under intense pressure from President Kennedy, he promised to protect the folks breaking state laws requiring inter… https://t.co/D8G8QhXhUo in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:48:12, 2020-06-06
- Incredibly/Strangely, there's a bunch of modern day interview footage with John Patterson, who was the Governor of Alabama at the time. in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:46:02, 2020-06-06
- The protest begins with an even mix of black activists and white allies. But by the time they've made it through Bi… https://t.co/XWQrKWApgd in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:44:17, 2020-06-06
- This documentary about the Freedom Riders (2010) is a great case study in how non-violent protest has been dealt wi… https://t.co/NLedsNPP4G 17:42:01, 2020-06-06
- RT @Hubei_Peasant: You want China to be more democratic?
Make us envy your democracy
Show us how it brings out the best in leaders and pe… 17:36:12, 2020-06-06
- It really just writes itself. https://t.co/tAKEciMbvg 17:33:54, 2020-06-06
- RT @MairavZ: Israelis – Arabs and Jews – kneel at Tel Aviv protest for George Floyd and Iyad al Halak. Moving https://t.co/zNbnUp1BNI 16:19:04, 2020-06-06
- RT @hyunsuinseoul: A lot of people seem to think that flooding the Dallas Police Department's 'snitch' app targeting Black Lives Matter pro… 16:15:46, 2020-06-06
- RT @IsabelDeLara: la elección ahora para muchas personas en todas partes parece estar entre arriesgarse al virus o seguir permitiendo la vi… 16:15:14, 2020-06-06
- RT @compabrigada: La movilización -por tercer día consecutivo- para exigir #JusticiaParaGiovanni, arriba a Palacio de Gobierno. Elementos d… 16:13:23, 2020-06-06
- RT @matthabusby: Chaos outside Downing St as police on horseback advance and protesters are kettled. Officer impaled by traffic light durin… 16:12:57, 2020-06-06
- I wonder whether the worldwide nature of these protests is partly a result of everyone having been stuck at home fo… https://t.co/XyPSZjStL3 16:12:21, 2020-06-06
- RT @drvox: I'm no grammar expert, but it seems like there's a shorter way to say "anti-anti-fascism." https://t.co/NGhWPB2fMO 15:53:48, 2020-06-06
- @joshdr83 Mmm, "law" enforcement. in reply to joshdr83 11:56:19, 2020-06-06
- RT @hels: You folks always seem to forget that the full proverb is “one bad apple SPOILS THE WHOLE BARREL” this is because rotten apples pr… 11:47:06, 2020-06-06
- These folks are also known as right-wing paramilitaries.
Similarly, in Mexico folks have noted that "police" in un… https://t.co/H8eU5AKfXU 11:38:58, 2020-06-06
- RT @_danalvarenga: People in Guadalajara, Mexico's 2nd largest city, protested police brutality by setting A COP ON FIRE. #JusticiaParaGiov… 23:32:16, 2020-06-05
- RT @acratafeminista: Hace unos momentos durante la manifestación por #JusticiaParaGiovanni
una chica cae al suelo y es pateada por la poli… 23:31:56, 2020-06-05 - RT @AlesitaNaty: Ella es Melanie tiene 15 años y la patearon en todo el cuerpo, con mayor saña en la cabeza esta policontundidad y espera e… 23:31:42, 2020-06-05
- RT @ajplusespanol: Sin protocolos de actuación, antimotines de la Policía de Jalisco reprimieron la manifestación en la que pedían #Justici… 23:30:43, 2020-06-05
- https://t.co/uq9RlgDsOL in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:12:20, 2020-06-05
- I wonder if flagrantly inflicting violence on protesters while being recorded night after night is another version… https://t.co/Ii6dzROiY0 22:03:48, 2020-06-05
- How to data: https://t.co/QgjhZQ5Vsr 15:59:21, 2020-06-05
- RT @MobyDickatSea: …there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. 08:53:42, 2020-06-05
- RT @Jan_Ransom: NEW: “‘We can keep you for however long we want,’” one protester recalled an officer tell one detainee while sitting in a h… 01:45:54, 2020-06-05
- RT @juliacdupuis: I was arrested on June 2nd, 2020 with around 100 other protesters in Los Angeles. While I was ziptied and facing the wall… 01:43:55, 2020-06-05
- RT @Nurse_Curry: Friendly reminder that nurses have to restrain violent, confused, intoxicated, and belligerent people all the time.
And… 23:26:03, 2020-06-04
- RT @nkjemisin: Defund the police. Starve departments of money til they *have* to fire their most violent, who cost them the most money. Mak… 23:25:55, 2020-06-04
- RT @jerry_jtaylor: For those of you who don’t know, Will is the son of a policeman. https://t.co/PrXuvYeGc3 23:25:18, 2020-06-04
- RT @interfluidity: “abolish police” has gone from unworkable lefty pipe dream to sober conventional wisdom in record time. https://t.co/1ec… 23:25:03, 2020-06-04
- Great look at "firehose" propaganda as practiced by both Putin and ?, from @gaywonk two years ago. If only this cou… https://t.co/xzOSJtxGUI 23:20:07, 2020-06-04
- @CHThiem Ah, concern trolling. in reply to CHThiem 21:03:52, 2020-06-04
- Reminds me of @Caltech. https://t.co/cKYQC8r5d8 20:08:48, 2020-06-04
- This is an especially perverse justification, given that prolonged detention in close quarters seems likely to resu… https://t.co/3uXmXCAnbx 20:07:10, 2020-06-04
- RT @rgunns: unless there are black people in them… https://t.co/h8bxoSKBzj 19:57:55, 2020-06-04
- Is there anyone who can still claim to be shocked at this point? Except like maybe the guy from Memento? https://t.co/v9oYMw52T5 19:55:53, 2020-06-04
- Resistance Is Futile. https://t.co/q23bomx25R 19:53:50, 2020-06-04
- Somehow I've gotten to where I find it hard to trust anyone who isn't cursing constantly. https://t.co/SmwYRpxKIV 19:50:18, 2020-06-04
- RT @signalapp: Blur Tools for Signal: A new way we hope to make Signal more helpful for everyone on the street right now.
- Meanwhile meanwhile. https://t.co/MmLPBudRBg 08:29:18, 2020-06-04
- Freedom is an endless meeting. https://t.co/r8mPgwM1X0 00:10:25, 2020-06-04
- Not a description of city boards and commissions I've heard before. https://t.co/hSTbaTVbDc 23:40:26, 2020-06-03
- RT @niceDonaIdTrump: Today we mark 31 years since the Chinese regime used the military against their own people and destroyed any legitimac… 23:21:44, 2020-06-03
- RT @Vanessa_ABee: the nyt must now commission an oped from the ceo of antifa. what’s fair is fair 23:16:07, 2020-06-03
- RT @PikaChulita: Get rid of ALL Confederate Memorials.
ALL OF THEM.
Also, did y'all know states like MS & AL observe Robert E. Lee Day?… 22:59:34, 2020-06-03
- RT @lilyjjanet: George Floyd died accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill. Remember when Brock Turner ACTUALLY raped an unconscious girl be… 22:59:29, 2020-06-03
- Violent conflict in the streets doesn't have to be limited to two factions at a time. https://t.co/re8YilM8KK 22:58:37, 2020-06-03
- RT @jayrosen_nyu: "Three Times journalists, who declined to be identified by name, said they had informed their editors that sources told t… 22:53:58, 2020-06-03
- @ericmbudd Just wait until wildfire and hurricane season gets going. in reply to ericmbudd 22:51:53, 2020-06-03
- RT @thegrugq: Agitators are paid to turn peaceful protests violent. Paid time and a half, actually. https://t.co/A6g0s6eb5A 22:51:11, 2020-06-03
- RT @RepPressley: Qualified immunity shields police from accountability, impedes true justice, and undermines the constitutional rights of e… 22:47:17, 2020-06-03
- Meanwhile. https://t.co/eY463xfCxp 22:40:15, 2020-06-03
- RT @JoeNeguse: We need more Black leaders in the Senate and the House.
Pass it on. https://t.co/if2kzobQDC 22:39:17, 2020-06-03
- RT @KurtNiceHHL: Could someone in the NYPD explain this? https://t.co/BLsbHnf8Ya 22:35:22, 2020-06-03
- RT @ericuman: An amazing but true fact:
"If Floyd had been killed in New York City, we would not have learned about the 18 previous miscon… 22:33:54, 2020-06-03
- RT @AlpertReyes: L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez introduced a motion today asking city staff to identify $100 million -$150 milli… 22:28:30, 2020-06-03
- That's once every two weeks on average. https://t.co/j6wr7z8YT9 21:07:41, 2020-06-03
- Gatekeeping educational and thus economic opportunity by requiring debt or servitude is a system of control. Linkin… https://t.co/bF6fzHYQI9 20:56:56, 2020-06-03
- RT @pixelatedboat: Gotta hear all sides in the NYT https://t.co/UviR8RBY1G 20:54:10, 2020-06-03
- RT @KendraWrites: I probably shouldn't tweet this. But the first tweet I got in trouble for at the Times was a thread on the role of the me… 20:52:32, 2020-06-03
- RT @TinkerSec: Folks saying "Watch what you post, think of your career."
And I agree.
I'm seeing a lot of people posting police apologeti… 20:07:43, 2020-06-03
- RT @sewellchan: THREAD: As a former @nytimes Op-Ed editor I am reluctant to weigh in on my alma mater. But the decision to publish @SenTomC… 19:13:10, 2020-06-03
- RT @nycsouthpaw: So… unless the NYT brass change their minds about it, Cotton’s “Send in the troops” op-ed is going to run in print on th… 19:01:24, 2020-06-03
- RT @existentialcoms: The sneaky thing about communists is they will lure you in with agreeably statements like "the police shouldn't murder… 18:55:00, 2020-06-03
- The now deleted tweet: https://t.co/GTkvOc98ut in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:54:02, 2020-06-03
- RT @Limericking: Tom Cotton proposed an op-ed
Suggesting armed forces be led
To end free expression
Through violent repression.
“We love i… 18:51:50, 2020-06-03 - RT @manwhohasitall: TODAY'S DEBATE: Should we listen to men in politics when they can't even agree amongst themselves? 18:51:31, 2020-06-03
- Well then. https://t.co/xfCnpe0R7s 18:48:15, 2020-06-03
- The Paradox of Tolerance, as posed by Karl Popper in the immediate aftermath of WWII: "In order to maintain a toler… https://t.co/wo3sJ36oZy 18:26:22, 2020-06-03
- RT @nhannahjones: I’ll probably get in trouble for this, but to not say something would be immoral. As a black woman, as a journalist, as a… 18:21:05, 2020-06-03
- RT @Baldilocks__: Chris Rock is a genius.
This joke will forever be relevant.
https://t.co/Atu4FnTbSo 18:11:49, 2020-06-03 - @AllOutBubblegum @KendraWrites @KarenAttiah They're former colleagues. Kendra's no longer at the NYT. in reply to AllOutBubblegum 18:05:32, 2020-06-03
- @MyleneJac ? https://t.co/jmTPnrefHn 17:02:18, 2020-06-03
- @ericmbudd Guess it's time to disavow Lincoln? Honestly I can't even tell if this is criticism or praise. https://t.co/PYD8dVG7pN in reply to ericmbudd 16:45:37, 2020-06-03
- RT @rgunns: i know people think defunding the police is too radical, but it's what the folks who are most policed are saying that they want… 13:06:47, 2020-06-03
- @AnimaAnandkumar This physics price selection committee has to be some kind of record. A year ago they were shamed… https://t.co/s4F8lsF0uR in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:14:06, 2020-06-03
- @AnimaAnandkumar There's this Tumblr: https://t.co/lzJO3n47dp in reply to AnimaAnandkumar 08:44:54, 2020-06-03
- The police are counter-protesters with military weapons and de facto legal immunity. https://t.co/yk2MNBe1IY 08:33:49, 2020-06-03
- Pretty wild thread from a MPL council member on the tactics used by police to manipulate political processes around… https://t.co/H6xiBexdOP 19:47:05, 2020-06-02
- @sewo_sewo ? in reply to sewo_sewo 16:53:41, 2020-06-02
- RT @AzmatZahra: “One of the biases of retrospection is to believe that the moral crises of the past were clearer than our own—that, had we… 07:56:00, 2020-06-02
- One strategy that seems consistent with their behavior is allowing, encouraging, or instigating widespread acts of… https://t.co/G9qe5eOPin 20:13:15, 2020-06-01
- Confronting racial injustice is divisive. Not confronting racial injustice is *also* divisive.
If you have the pri… https://t.co/TAM9vGUFK7 18:53:18, 2020-06-01
- It feels like it would be a good idea to have a process running in parallel with the US presidential campaign, that… https://t.co/yr4Yl20fvL 17:29:02, 2020-06-01
- RT @thegrugq: What does “resisting tyranny” even mean if it doesn’t cover protesting against unaccountable security forces who carry out ex… 09:54:08, 2020-06-01
- Is now a good or a bad time to read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail? 15:55:18, 2020-05-31
- RT @MayorHancock: Hey, Denver. We are still in the middle of a pandemic and we want to protect our resident’s health. We’d like to invite… 15:41:07, 2020-05-31
- RT @erinisaway: wow so Los Angeles just decided to punish protesters by closing COVID-19 testing centers. pay attention to how testing acce… 15:41:02, 2020-05-31
- Conversely, if it's your *goal* to get the suburban normies to choose fascist law-and-order, wouldn't creating diso… https://t.co/MlIZ8rbIKE 10:50:13, 2020-05-31
- If it's a gift to him, why wouldn't we expect his own supporters to be the ones to give it? https://t.co/4D6kZvUKqv 10:45:39, 2020-05-31
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