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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

White prison guards at Marcy Prison in upstate NY killed Robert Brooks (incarcerated in a nearby prison) while other guards & a nurse looked on on December 10. Video released today shows them kicking, punching & choking him while he is cuffed & shackled, blooded & unresponsive.

Robert Brooks with his son in an undated photo.

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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Didn't see any New York Post articles about the judge in the Chanel Lewis murder trial who repeatedly wore purple in apparent solidarity with the family of Karina Vetrano's family who also wore it every day of his trial (it being her favorite color). nypost.com/2024/12/23/u...

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Luigi Mangione oddly wears matching outfit with his lawyer in NYC court hearing — to his sick fans’ delight

It’s a killer outfit. Accused CEO assassin Luigi Mangione strode into a Manhattan courtroom Monday clad in attire that oddly matched the ensemble of his lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo. The gr…

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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The purpose of an arraignment is to decide whether a person will be held in jail pending trial, released, or if bail will be set (in jurisdictions that have it). The only time a person pleads guilty at arraignment is on a misdemeanor/infraction (if it will get them out before the next court date).

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

“Lost control.” Homicide down 8% Shootings down 4% Total major crime down 2.5% Arguing by horrible anecdote. The subway burning was horrific. But homicides are still down, no matter what the fearmongerers say.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Lots of clarity today

Alex press tweet w/pic of cops locking arms adjacent to striking workers:
"NYPD literally locking arms to protect Amazon’s operations lol"

https://x.com/alexnpress/status/1869764581360619628

Luis Feliz Leon tweet w/pic of cops escorting handcuffed Amazon driver:
"Breaking: Amazon driver attempted to stop his delivery van in support of ULP strike NYC in the warehouse entrance. The cops swarmed him, and he was arrested. Workers surrounded the van, and cops flung them off."

https://x.com/Lfelizleon/status/1869748494250152071

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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This shouldn't be a controversial take but Biden should have commuted the sentences of everyone on death row, even those there for the most despicable crimes. The state executing anyone, even Dylann Roof, diminishes the humanity of all of us. wapo.st/4iSbLW6

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Biden commutes most federal death sentences before Trump takes office

President Joe Biden changed the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on death row to life without parole, saying he was convinced “that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control. On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours. Yesterday at 2pm while at home, I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This Fox segment on the search for the shooter is incredible. Look at how the NYPD searches Central Park lol

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 09/12/2024

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...

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Two Very Different Manhattan Murder Investigations

The NYPD spent countless hours and resources searching for a CEO’s killer, but has made little evident progress on the fatal stabbing of a migrant teen.

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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

So I am sure the same people upset about the reaction to CEO Brian Thompson's death are equally outraged by Daniel Perry and his lawyers toasting to his acquittal for killing Jordan Neely by choking him to death on the subway? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/n...

Daniel Perry and his lawyers at a bar holding drinks toasting to his acquittal. Perry is giving a thumbs up.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas. It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter. fox59.com/news/indycri...

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Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council. John D. Jessup – a cur…

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful It’s a different kind of troll.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

Happy 5 years to “As Black as Resistance”!!! 🥹❤️‍🔥

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

Today we released Ep 2 of Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas. It's about affirmative action & how Clarence Thomas cynically used it to build his career while decrying the program as discriminatory and demeaning. We even make another swing through Miss Leola's home. Hope you'll listen & enjoy!

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Did Clarence Thomas Benefit From Affirmative Action or Did It Hold Him Back?

How race-based admissions shaped the future Supreme Court justice.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

Don't think I've been as disgusted by twitter as a platform in awhile as seeing the replies of people justifying the murder of a Black performer in NY because he was having a breakdown. "That's a standard choke hold bro" Nah that's murder

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Jack Lawrence @jackmlawrence.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

Black Twitter is the reason this app blew up and Aveta deserves so much credit for all the community building she’s done on here! The big posters are fun but if you’re writing about this app your story can’t just be about them

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 29/04/2023

Before many came in: Just so its known this was how the hype wave started. Black people

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Olayemi Olurin-Boleware @olurinatti.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Skeets is funny but we really should go with drops (shoutout @ninaturner.bsky.social) if we want this app to replace twitter as a place where thoughts are taken seriously

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