One of the more frustrating progressive over-compensations online has been the whole âspeed cameras are ACAB too!â dialog. Itâs true the PLACEMENT of cameras can be bad (like how Chicago clustered them sorta-only in Black nbhds), but cameras themselves? Clearly good!
ââŚwhen speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.â
âDriving while Blackâ: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
Bluesky is growing exponentially after the Brazil fiasco and the removal of the block button over at the bad place. I think theyâve taken notice and want to ruin the fun. That or they also hate the old platform these days. Canât blame em
If they seem to prioritize a fight, and shift the goal posts, and argue without any goal other disruption, an immediate block is the only effective deterrent here. These are just my opinions but Iâve been dealing with this myself recently and believe it to be far and away the best approach.
Some of these are undoubtedly real people driven by understandable grief. But mixed in are agitators and bad faith actors looking to steer your emotions toward anger at people that arenât conservative new right wack jobs. We need to respond with unity, coalition building, and empathy. 2/
Iâve mentioned it before, but there is a not-insubstantial amount of new accounts made by right wing trolls with the explicit purpose of sowing discontent on the left active in the last 3 days. They usually adopt socialist/queer/palestinian signifiers and then immediately go looking for fights. /1
The devastating flooding in western North Carolina could become a disaster for voting access. This is partly due to Republican efforts to restrict mail voting deadlines & delay mailing ballotsârequiring they be reprintedâjust so RFK Jr. could get off the ballot to help Trump x.com/gercohen/sta...
Every fucking time. Every time somebody crosses the Trump/Vance ticketâby, say, existing as an immigrant or being insufficiently deferential on a campaign stopâthe threats start pouring in. Why would anyone want to live like this? Why do pretend this is a political party and not a terrorist gang?
didn't know that "helping people vote is illegal" was explicitly on the table again but good that this is the ruling I guess
A federal judge has ruled that parts of the Texas voter security law SB1 is unconstitutional, and Texas can no longer investigate voter assistance efforts as a criminal act.
The judge ruled on Saturday that Texas can no longer investigate alleged cases of illegal vote harvesting. He said the state law is too vague and restrictive.