"You have to beat him at the ballot box" makes sense in general, but it only works if he is forced to follow the Constitution and the laws. The coach can't say, "we have to beat that team on the field. Also, that team can use knives and flame-throwers and no one wants to enforce the rules on them"
This is vile: a police state in Lexington, MS as rife with physical, sexual, and financial abuse, and civil-rights violations, as any sundown town. The coalition fighting for justice includes the National Police Accountability Project, ACLU Mississippi and Rukia Lumumba, & the Mississippi Bail Fund.
âTheyâre getting arrested for things like taking too long to get out of their car at the grocery storeâŚthe police had a complete and total campaign of fear and control over the Black citizens.â www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
The Lexington Police Department has made arrests equal to a fourth of the townâs population and burdened them with fines of over $1.7 million.
If you have funds to spare, please consider donating to this GoFundMe for Melvin Chavez Paz, a Baltimore-area CASA member who was shot and killed by police last Saturday. Proceeds are to send him to his family in Honduras and pay for his burial. Thank you. gofund.me/7ec3eb9c
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This analysis by @emptywheel.bsky.socialwww.emptywheel.net/2024/09/26/r...
Reid Epstein is so upset that Kamala Harris didn't address a question about how to change her polling on the economy that he missed that she is changing her polling on the economy.
I have always opposed the death penalty for this basic reason: the risk of executing an innocent person is too high a price. And executing a person the state *knows* to be innocent just takes into a realm of sheer horror.
This execution went forward despite the release of new exculpatory evidence this week. wach.com/news/local/f... Killing prisoners should not be a legitimate power of government. Governments arenât good at wielding the power of life and death in criminal cases, and theyâre not going to get better.
Amber Thurman was 28 years old. She loved being a mom to her six-year-old boy. Her last words to her own mother: "âPromise me youâll take care of my son.â Her son will grow up without his mom because of Donald Trump's Dobbs' decision and Georgia's MAGA abortion ban.
