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Rebecca Kavanagh

@drrjkavanagh.bsky.social
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Public Defender (NYC & Baltimore) & Writer. Sydney ✈️ NYC + DC. she/her. Views my own. “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin

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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What about people born intersex? Where do they fit in?
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Not only do words mean little but when your actions (trying to bury the story) contradict them your intent is likely the opposite. I'll defer judgment till we see if and how the state presents the case to the grand jury (remember Daniel Prude). www.nytimes.com/article/what...
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What We Know About Daniel Prude’s Case and Death (Gift Article)
For months, officials in Rochester, N.Y., tried to keep body camera footage of the police encounter that led to his death from becoming public. A grand jury declined to bring an indictment against the...
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Note, also, that despite the AG's harsh words (and even strong statement by the correction officers' union) this footage was released late on a Friday afternoon.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The officers were wearing body-worn cameras but did not have them activated. BWC automatically records footage anyway (without audio). Normally only the first minute prior to activation is saved but in this instance authorities were able to recover footage of the entire incident.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
They are: Sgts. Michael Mashaw & Glenn Trombly; Offcrs Matthew Galliher, Nicholas Anzalone, Nicholas Kieffer; David Kingsley, Robert Kessler, Michael Fisher, Christopher Walrath, Michael Along, Shea Schoff, David Walters; & nurse, Kyle Dashnaw. Offcr. Anthony Farina resigned.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
One officer implicated in the attack has resigned, the nurse and other 12 officers are on leave without pay and the state has started the process of terminating them. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/n...
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Hochul Orders Firing of 14 Prison Workers After Fatal Attack on Inmate (Gift Article)
Video of the deadly assault on Robert L. Brooks was “horrific,” “disturbing” and “devastating,” a lawyer for his family said after they watched it.
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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 · 28/12/2024
An element of the H1B and E3 is that the employer has to show they are paying at or higher than the prevailing wage. I don't understand this argument.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Australia is a country of 25 million people. The visa quota is never filled (maybe 3,000 are issued every year) but it has a 90% + approval rate.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The E3 was a thank you to Australia for participating in the Iraq war (signed into law 2005). It's almost identical to the H1B but better. The H1B is valid for 3 years and renewable once. The E3 is valid for 2 but renewable indefinitely. The H1B also costs employers thousands $$$. The E3 is free.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Oh and the prosecutor in the Chanel Lewis case also wore purple. Nothing "odd" about that.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
And never any critical of police practice of packing courtrooms (in uniform) any time a person is on trial for killing a cop or a cop is on trial for killing someone. www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/n...
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Brooklyn Teenager Gets 19 Years to Life for Fire That Killed Officer (Gift Article)
Marcell Dockery set fire to a mattress in the hallway of a Coney Island apartment building in 2014, killing Dennis Guerra and injuring his partner.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
See: www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/n...
Karina Vetrano family wearing purple during Chanel Lewis murder trial.Justice Michael B. Aloise wearing purple as he presides over the trial of Chanel Lewis for the murder of Karina Vetrano in Queens, NYC.
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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
(And of course a person shouldn't have to plead guilty at arraignment on a low level offense but if it is a jurisdiction where bail will be set and they will be held in jail, I mean this is how the system criminalizes poverty.)
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
But it always is.
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Otherwise a person always pleads not guilty (as Luigi Mangione did today). That should never be the headline. The idea you would plead guilty on a murder charge at an arraignment is crazy. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/n...
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Luigi Mangione Pleads Not Guilty to N.Y. Charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing (Gift Article)
The Manhattan district attorney’s office charged Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, with first-degree murder. His lawyer argued his case had been politicized...
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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/1869764581360619628Luis 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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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hospitals gave mothers medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, and then reported them for positive drug tests
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Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
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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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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Who is it? Apparently I am blocked too?
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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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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 27/05/2023
I was going to say it's also rather stunning that someone wouldn't know this, given that it's gotten a fair amount of publicity recently, but eh in this case, probably not.
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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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