#Violence

Several counter protestors now here at a Juneteenth celebration in Dorchester. Some with Trump flags and signs that say Back The Blue. Many people at the rally seem to be
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Our full report on Washington prosecutors' decision not to charge the far-right shooter:http://cwc.im/OlympiaShootingsIn refusing to press charges against a gunman who carried out a widely documented shooting, they are inviting
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This is not censorship. Being banned on a social media platform is embarrassing and it hurts feelings but it’s not censorship.Censorship has to do with the government abridging a person’s
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(1/9) History repeats itself (today).RE: IRREGULAR WARFARERE: TACTICS DEPLOYED v AMERICACompare & ContrastThen v Nowhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/SA-Nazi-organization (2/9) Then: methods of violent intimidation deployed by SANow: met
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Autism and empathy - a thread... /1 The commonly held view about autistic people (by neurotypical people anyhow) is that they have no sense of empathy, that they are incapable
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When anti-violence advocates insist that sexual violence is more harmful for victims than perpetrators, stories like these are the ones that flood our mentions. But how do we make sense
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Simple si baat hai. When you can mock tabhliqi jamaat, you can talk about profit, why shouldn’t a comic do the same? Jab bhi laws bante hai woh sabh ke
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THREAD: I got my first death threat when I was 24. I'd graduated from law school & become executive director of @NARAL #ProChoice #Wisconsin. I came into the office to
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Remarkable how this crisis has brought out people whose confidence in commenting isn’t obviously matched by any expertiseThis guy for e.g has got 100s of likes & RTs for a
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I see the @KellyannePolls rehabilitation tour continues, with the aid of @RealTimers and @billmaher tonight. Some of the audience cheered her entrance.A 12-minute interview in which Maher mentioned the close
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It’s another day in the UK so there’s some nonsense around trans people, so it might be a good opportunity to mention something I heard the other day that I
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Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, so let's talk about how we can do this. It starts with recognizing and respecting some basic concepts:1.) Sex work
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For the next four years Trump is going to behave like an antipresident in exile, holding a shadow presidency that not only critiques the Biden Administration but undermines it and
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Federal agents shot me in the face last night. Federal agents shot me in the face last night while I was covering the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland. It
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This quick (nyc-based) mock up shows the kinds of things that are possible as we work to #DefundPolice & shrink police power. At the same time, it shows how much
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2 kinds of intellectual culture:Idea Lab: a safe space for people, a dangerous space for ideas.Echo Chamber: a safe space for a sacred set of ideas and people who express
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