Obelisk of Wokeness is my favorite Krallice album
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
and the most powerful track on Owen Pallett's Islands imo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
I used to have an apartment at the top of a hill in DC that had a perfect view of the national monument. it has these two red lights that look like creepy eyes that are constantly blinking. one night me and friend were having beers and he said it was like we put a big halloween klansman in america's front that says white power every time the eyes blink. haven't seen it as anything other than that since
― Heez, Friday, 12 June 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
Here's an alternate suggestion that probably won't be powerful enough to override the klansman imagery, but it's worth a try. Obelisks originated in Africa as a symbol of a powerful African empire and in copying it white Americans have acknowledged their inability to improve on it and placed themselves in creative subservience to the African original.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
christo-style kente cloth yarnbomb that fucker
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
"If we tear down confederate statues, what's next, I'm not allowed to have hands anymore?"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 12 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
My housemate went to pick up food from a restaurant in the zone last night and had a chat with the guy ringing him up, who had nothing but good things to say about the CHAZ. He (the guy behind the counter) said, "It's been a lot quieter around here since the cops left."
― Lily Dale, Friday, 12 June 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
This article on the situation in Vallejo is stunningly horrific:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/13/vallejo-california-police-violence-sean-monterrosa
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Public opinion didn’t even shift this fast in support of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. https://t.co/Glt7xckjjI— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 11, 2020
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
no thanks to you, fucking frank luntz
― our god is a wee lil god (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
please pass that on to frank
good thread
Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and— 𝙿𝚊𝚞𝚕 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 (@mobinfiltrator) June 12, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
the cops are a gang. if you fuck with the gang, either from inside or outside the gang, they fuck you up. i have had minimal personal exposure to cops in my life and, even so, that couldn't be more clear on the face of it. it's consistently surprising to me those facts come as a surprise to anyone in america.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
Jay Pharoah opens up about being held at gunpoint by the LAPD: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBVo2bJn-wZ/
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
In police departments all over the USA the code of silence among cops is at least as strong as among the mafia. No matter how criminal a cop is, if you're another cop the pressure on you to turn a blind eye is overwhelming. Being a snitch and informing on another cop's criminal behavior is a one-way ticket to ostracism, hostility, and retaliation until you quit or are fired.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
and we've known the whole time
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
"In order for a Homicide conviction, of any kind, to happen, the defendant must have CAUSED the death of another. The defendant’s action must be the proximal cause of death. I dealt with that issue many times. I was a traffic homicide investigator. I had to prove that the injury sustained by the victim is what killed him. I had one case where a hospital-borne infection went to toxic shock, and the accident victim died. The prosecutor said I had no case. The injuries were survivable, he was recovering, but an intervening condition killed him. Not a vehicular homicide.
Actions of a defendant, particularly if they are well-intentioned, such as holding down a suspect suffering from a drug overdose, that”Contribute to” a death are not usually successfully prosecutable as homicides. The legal term is “Sine qui non,” or, without which, nothing."
Got this from some racist pro cop dickhole. Am i missing how this is even relevant to the Floyd case?
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
Well they're trying to advance the argument that having a cop kneel on his neck for 8 minutes 46 was just something which incidentally happened to him on his way to dying from ... the coronavirus he'd already recovered from? Blackness? Cardiovascular problems?I am sure there are many assholes out there who would try to make this assertion with a straight face.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
The judge is a former Klobs assistant apparently
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
NEW: LAPD officers racked up $40 million in overtime during the recent protests, but won’t be paid for it, and will instead be given comp time, according to a memo sent out by Chief Moore I obtained. Budget is out of cash. LAPD sources tell me morale is at “rock bottom”. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/Hs4iZSofaE— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 16, 2020
According to multiple LAPD sources, LAPD Transit Division/MTA services, which is paid via OT, had 43 officers cancel their shifts today, and they are now averaging 12-18 cancellations per shift. I’ll be live at 6 on @FOXLA— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 16, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
"demoralize the police" is p good
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
the fatigue games
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
let 2020 be the year of quitting bad habits, or jobs
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
oh no not the cannabis taskforces!
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
Seattle City Council unanimously banned SPD from buying, having, or using less-lethal crowd control weapons today.
https://southseattleemerald.com/2020/06/15/seattle-council-bans-use-of-chokeholds-and-less-lethal-weapons-by-police/
if you take away the military weapons from cops, only the military will have military weapons
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
only lethal crowd control weapons from now on!
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
I mean like. Tear gas and blast balls and flashbangs are only used so the cops can avoid the more obvious brutality of beating people up.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link
🚨URGENT SAFETY MESSAGE🚨Tonight, three of our fellow officers were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan. Fortunately, they were not seriously harmed. Please see the safety alert⤵️ https://t.co/D8Lywivhdu— Detectives' Endowment Association (@NYCPDDEA) June 16, 2020
After a thorough investigation by the NYPD’s Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality by shake shack’s employees.— Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) June 16, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
serious q, why are cops so afraid of milkshakes?
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
snowflakes are no match for milkshakes
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
they control the ducks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
The cops've gone from milkshakes to snowflakes in 24 hours.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
problem solved
Chokeholds will be banned unless an officer’s life is at risk, Trump says of his executive order— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 16, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
"stop resisting" "stop putting my life at risk"
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
this is another executive "order" that doesn't mean shit, right?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
So does an executive order remove qualified immunity (serious question)?
― DJI, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
This is a huge, huge move that would have been unthinkable in May. All it took was LA paying attention to city government for three weeks.@BLMLA and #PeoplesBudgetLA harnessed that attention and made this happen. One of the most effective organizing efforts ever. https://t.co/P0MKHFg9UY— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) June 16, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
any locals have an idea how likely that is to pass?
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
herb wesson is the outgoing chair of the council, and his cosponsor is nury martinez who is the current chair of the council, so what they say goes. the devil is in the detail. but it seems big, and the BLM LA folks are cautiously congratulatory.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
worth managing expectations though. the LA council are *extremely* bad at literally everything. they are a bunch of frauds and in many cases actual criminals who rely on low turnout to stay in what are probably the most powerful elected positions in local politics in the united states. and the ones that do work cater exclusively to suburban reactionaries.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
this was in response to this special session yesterday
We presented #PeoplesBudgetLA at a special City Council meeting. The data is compelling...with policing as Angelenos' lowest spending priority. It's far-reaching...engaging 50,000+. Most of all, it's a call to courage...a referendum to #DefundThePolice & #ReimaginePublicSafety. pic.twitter.com/ELveQFMYDT— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) June 16, 2020
click through the wesson tweet for the thread where he notes the importance of that session
and here's BLM LA's response
THIS is the kind of courageous stance we are looking for. No police dispatched for non-violent calls also makes a lot of common sense as it clears the way for those better equipped to handle such situations to do so. Let's do it!#CareNotCops #ReImaginePublicSafety https://t.co/jQNGUJeNKh— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) June 16, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
thanks for the details! and yes great news
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
My awesome local org did a teach-in last night about what defunding the NYPD could look like & could do for communities. Enjoy!
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=283289663037475
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
The elected official in that video is actually the city council member for my district. I think right now she's being the most outspoken as I've ever seen her be. There's a significant political status quo of ppl who kind of "earned" their positions by waiting their turn and they're usually not particularly progressive. Iirc she was another official's staffer and my recollection is that she kind of inherited the position so it's heartening to see her picking a strong side on this.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
A friend and I are going to Tulsa this weekend to participate in the BLM protest there. If I end up dead or disappeared remember me fondly.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
<3
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
Don't end up either of those way, Liz.
I just saw a Twitter video of a cop breaking down and crying because her order at the McDonald's drive-thru took too long. It apparently wasn't a parody. I'm not linking it because I don't want to boost its profile but it's super hilarious until you remember that this woman is allowed to carry a gun as part of her job.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
she had paid in advance, you see
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link