if you’re in Burlington, Vermont — ICE is in South Burlington trying to take one of your neighbors right now; show up and observe and record:
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if you’re in Burlington, Vermont — ICE is in South Burlington trying to take one of your neighbors right now; show up and observe and record:
atlantans! if you care about local media coverage of the many many issues surrounding housing in Atlanta we'd love to see you at this convening at CCI on Friday. good relationships between press & community makes for better reporting (also free lunch!!) sign up here: form.jotform.com/260415222173...
no greater shame than living in the country that kills children around the world with impunity— in hospitals, in schools, sleeping in their homes, in refugee camps, at play, at rest. no greater shame
wow so cool sirs
Introducing Selling Safety! A report that lays bare the ethnically dubious world of marketing and selling police surveillance technology, how effectiveness numbers are manufactured, the role police play in a massive for-profit industry, and new critical questions for reporters and law makers.
HUGELY relevant. Remember that Flock superbowl ad? If that freaked you out, this is info you want.
thanks to @eff.org especially @mguariglia.bsky.social and beryl lipton for their work on this!
press releases trumpeting a crime “solved” with a product are often prewritten by marketing teams. Flock gives this to cops: “The __Police Department has solved [CRIME] with the help of their Flock Safety camera system. __ Police installed Flock cameras on [DATE] to solve and reduce crime in [CITY]”
police tech is a multibillion dollar industry with marketing teams, PR templates, and a well trod employment pipeline between tech sales and police jobs. journalism sometimes just… repeats the claims.
we made a guide to help reporters see through the spin: justjournalism.org/page/selling...
not enough talk about this, I fear! thanks to the reconciliation bill last summer ICE can now distribute BETWEEN $1.4 AND $2 BILLION to local police with immigration powers this year. that’s…an unreal amount of money going to policing www.fwd.us/wp-content/u...
Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin.
www.theverge.com/news/878447/...
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Cop Cities are everywhere, from Georgia to Israel
The Post killing its Books section (one of the best around) is so fucking bleak
it goes without saying that authoritarianism loooves a world without journalism: fewer records, fewer questions, less pushback
today’s mass media layoffs really go beyond “industry news.” we’re watching the removal of the people who explain what’s actually happening to us, beyond canned press releases and official narratives, at a time when we need that the most. healthy democracies need journalism!!
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter
Last week I wrote that ICE (& immigration judges) are increasingly openly defying courts. lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
Now, a judge compiled 100 cases from ICE’s MN siege where ICE ignored court orders.
Yet what are dems offering? Basically—laws that ask ICE to please follow the law.
so when we abolish ICE we're gonna have to abolish some other stuff too
i just think we have to remember that ICE in this current iteration would not exist without our first normalizing an enormous amount of state violence elsewhere for decades. we've built a criminal legal system that treats extreme state power as necessary (even virtuous) and it's become very normal
it’s not a coincidence that government agents are executing people in the streets at the same time as a significant spike in “legal” executions. 47 people executed last year! 5 in gas chambers! 3 by firing squad! as public support for the death penalty sits near historic lows!
the whole American public is now just treated like a poor person in court always has been
when i see blatant lying like this it reminds me that at our core we are a police state, and police lie about everything shamelessly, even when there’s clear evidence to the contrary. it happens so much even in court there’s a term for it — testilying. of course the culture of policing spreads
i am chilled to the fucking bone. executed for simply bearing witness.
all our systems of state violence are connected! from foreign wars to policing!
the man who murdered Renee Good had plenty of training — in fact it was his training to kill people that made him kill a person
Witnesses are being taken to Whipple.
From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
it’s all part of a big system meant, ultimately, to kill people — sometimes slowly in a cage and sometimes execution style on the street. but that is the ultimate goal.