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2022 Just Impact Advisors giving season recommendations

Nov 15, 2022

Giving season is upon us! I made a list of 10 orgs doing outstanding work who can put your money to good use helping people survive prison, get out of prison, stay out of prison, build safe and healthy communities, and end mass incarceration. Please share!

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10 great ways to help end mass incarceration this giving season Just Impact Advisors About Us: Just Impact Advisors is a grantmaking and advisory group focused on ending mass incarceration. With 7...

Opinion | Tyre Nichols’ Death Proves Yet Again That “Elite” Police Units Are a Disaster

Radley Balko

@radleybalko

New: I wrote about the long and ugly history of elite "crime suppression" police units for the NY Times.

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They shatter the trust of the community, and the results can be deadly.

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Fascinating thread about police training and interesting discussion in the comments — recommended.

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Katie Sponsler

@KatieSponsler

I have been taught to yell “stop resisting” and “drop your weapon” after firing a gun, because bystanders will remember you said it and their memory will automatically reverse the order of the events to make it make sense. Their testimony will support yours, because of this.

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Brandon Johnson

@Brandon4Chicago

My older brother Leon was my hero. But he suffered from untreated trauma, and died addicted and unhoused. The fight for #TreatmentNotTrauma is personal for me. That is why we are going to get the ordinance passed in the first 100 days of my administration. #BetterChicagoAgenda

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Sean Casten

@SeanCasten

Three true things: 1) Red states have a lot of guns. 2) More guns = more gun death. So people in red states are more likely to die of gun violence (homicide + suicide) 3) 34 states have higher rates of gun death than IL, no matter what RW media tells you to the contrary.

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Love Does Not Abuse: The Parenting Philosophy of bell hooks

Loved reading this article today.

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It is my hope that more progressive activists and thinkers will reflect on parenting and child care just as hooks has.

Terry McDermott

@terrymcdermott

This times a thousand. Cops don't just happen to turn out the way they do! Here's a piece from 20 years ago. I'll bet I could find something similar every year since: tmcdermott.com/cops/

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Calls for “more training” ignore the reality of actual police training. How do you think the culture of violence is passed down? themarshallproject.org/2020/07/22/one

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Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

Calling poor, deliberately segregated neighborhoods “high crime areas” is one of the most disgusting and persistent examples of modern copaganda. The New York Times should be ashamed, four times over.

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Bree Newsome Bass

@BreeNewsome

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Memphis Police Chief Davis was the one who formed the Scorpion unit in 2021 after overseeing a similar unit in Atlanta that was also disbanded over similar conduct. She defended the Scorpion unit even after the killing of Tyre Nichols.

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James Baldwin on black cops

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BREAKING:

now reports the number of climate activists in Georgia facing bogus "terrorism" charges has risen to 19. A vivid example of state repression to silence legitimate protest. Upsetting that

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remain silent.⤵️ interc.pt/3HfTkIP

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Joel Wertheimer

@Wertwhile

Voters Support Removing Traffic Enforcement From Police Purview in New York

We should remove police from traffic enforcement. The routine traffic stop is not the only problem but it is a real and big one justifying a large amount of unnecessary citizen police contact which obviously has deadly consequences all too often.

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Racial bias pervades traffic enforcement.

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Calls for “more training” ignore the reality of actual police training. How do you think the culture of violence is passed down? themarshallproject.org/2020/07/22/one

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

I have not seen the video. Those who love me most have urged me not to. One of the truths playing Kunta Kinte taught me is that the dehumanization of Black people was necessary to the success of our enslavement.

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Dr. Carson, Esq. (they/them)

@OctaviaViento

My friend got shot at by cops the other day in ATL and police said it was because her headlights weren’t and bc she didn’t stop immediately. She is a lawyer with a BMW, the headlights are on auto, and she pulled over as soon as it was safe 😤 I’m livid!! I’m f-ing pissed.

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Calls for “more training” ignore the reality of actual police training. How do you think the culture of violence is passed down? themarshallproject.org/2020/07/22/one

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Michael Luo

@michaelluo

The Invention of the Police

Helpful read by Jill Lepore.

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Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

MN Police claimed George Floyd died of a “medical incident” & made 0 mention of kneeling on his neck for 9 min Memphis Police claimed Tyre Nichols had “trouble breathing” & made 0 mention of beating him for 10 min Media needs to hold police accountable—not parrot their claims.

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ChuckModi

@ChuckModi1

“I was shot in my back by the police the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. My brother was shot in his back by the police, paralyzed for 50 years. This is the reason why I’m here. Very little has changed.” 76 year old protester in DC demands justice for #TyreNichols

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Clint Smith

@ClintSmithIII

Woke up thinking about Tyre Nichols’ family. Thinking about a man who was a father, a son, a friend. Thinking about how unsettling it was to have a countdown to the release of the tape. Thinking about what it means, for all of us, to have to go through this again & again & again.

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Cop Crisis

@copcrisis

2 Hialeah Police Officers Accused of Kidnapping and Beating Homeless Man

Florida cops handcuff homeless man who committed no crime and put him in squad car; instead of taking him to jail they take him to the woods where they beat him unconscious and leave him handcuffed and bleeding to die.

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Two Hialeah Police Department officers are facing charges after authorities said they kidnapped a homeless man, drove him to an isolated location and beat him while he was handcuffed.

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Hunter Hoagland

@HunterHoagland

Protestors have shut down the I-55 bridge heading into Memphis… nobody is getting into TN from AR. “They’re taking our lives, we’re taking their money.” #TyreNichols

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A chilling set of skills is buried in a leaked Oath Keepers membership list

John FitzGerald

@TheTweetOfJohn

Jan 22

A membership roster for the Oath Keepers in Kansas included more than 300 individuals who were law enforcement officers, more than 100 who were active military, and 81 who held or were running for elective office.

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Few things surprise me anymore. Journalists look into all kinds of assorted (and sorted and sordid) data, and it’s our job to tease meaningful stories out of the information, whether it’s a stack of...

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shafina

@shafinakhabani

Jan 27

Tyre Nichols, 29, was a dad to a 4-year-old son. He loved to photograph sunsets and skateboard, a passion he’s had since he was a little boy. If you want to share a video, share this one. It’s how his family wants him to be remembered. 🌅

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Coalition to End Money Bond

@endmoneybond

The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender and 9 others

More than 400 organizations, faith leaders, professors, and elected officials have signed onto an amicus filed in the Illinois Supreme Court in support of the Pretrial Fairness Act. Read more: endmoneybond.org/2023/01/26/ami

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Wesley

@WesleyLowery

The Banshees of Inisherin’s Writer-Director Has Made a Career of “Irishness.” It’s All a Load of...

since this will come up a lot in media coverage of Tyre Nichols in Memphis: while I get that it seems narratively significant that the officers are black. Statistically, it is unsurprising. In tracking police violence, we never found that race of the officer made much difference

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Every Irish person I know hates this movie with a passion.

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Does Martin McDonagh understand Ireland at all?

Segregation_by_Design

@SegByDesign

Hamilton Ave in Red Hook, Brooklyn, before-and-after the construction of the BQE. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut Red Hook in half along its central thoroughfares, Hamilton & Hicks, requiring the demolition of dozens of blocks and the forcible displacement of thousands.

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Surprisingly, these military armored trucks didn’t prevent the shooting.

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Shannon Watts

@shannonrwatts

Jan 25

As patrons at a Circle K in Yakima ate their food, a 21-year-old man opened the door of the store and began shooting people, killing three. Police say it was “random.” This is the logical outcome of guns for anyone, anywhere, any time. nytimes.com/2023/01/24/us/

I so appreciate this thread patiently explaining why over policing of low level crimes is a stupid strategy and causes a lot of harm.

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David Menschel

@davidminpdx

1. This is pretty much the police position, word for word, about why they spend virtually all of their massive budgets going after people for committing the tiniest of crimes. This was also the justification for stop and frisk. twitter.com/mattyglesias/s…

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Senator Tina Smith

@SenTinaSmith

Jan 25

As a refugee of the Somali Civil War,

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has lived through the devastating impacts of war. Her experience is important, her voice is powerful, and she's a valued member of Congress. The disrespect of McCarthy and his extremist supporters for Rep. Omar is obvious and shameful.

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Fifty Shades of Whey

@davenewworld_2

Jan 25

2 police officers in upstate New York allegedly stole $6,000 during the search of a parolee's house and they were caught on camera saying "we can share the money"

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Steven Donziger

@SDonziger

BREAKING: Police affidavit in Atlanta claims a climate activist is a "terrorist" for "occupying a tree house" in the forest while posting on social media. Absurd. At most this is trespassing. Police in Georgia must stop criminalizing legitimate protest.⤵️ s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2346

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roc nation informant

@Its_BreeNicole

If you like in Atlanta and are looking to adopt a dog, please go to the Dekalb Animal Shelter! They are at max capacity and only have SEVEN days to find homes for 150 dogs!! please share with your networks so they don’t have to put down any animals 🥺🥺

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Jake M. Grumbach

@JakeMGrumbach

Given the conventional wisdom of pundits and consultants, it's pretty wild that the best estimates we have are that BLM protests really helped Democrats in 2020. ungated: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

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Jake M. Grumbach

@JakeMGrumbach

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Prem

@prem_thakker

Who Is Brandon Johnson? More on the Chicago Mayoral Challenger With a History in Organizing

A public school teacher,

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organizer, and son of a ten-kid household is trying to pull off an upset in a crowded Chicago mayoral election field that includes an incumbent mayor and sitting Congressman. Meet

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Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson says Chicago deserves a progressive mayor “willing to invest in people.”

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Will Stancil

@whstancil

No. There’s no way to indirectly defeat the far right by mechanically arranging the government to be more local, centralized, or whatever. The far right isn’t a product of badly optimized government, but core human prejudices given political agency. It must be directly confronted

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Noah Smith

@Noahpinion

Replying to @HeerJeet and @mattywheelz

Americans love the idea of local control of education, meaning that those sorts of efforts must be fought at the local level. In this case, DeSantis' new rules go *against* the principle of local control, which *could* be used against the rules, if Democrats wished...

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Alejandra Caraballo

@Esqueer_

Photo of a classroom library at Bayshore High School in Manatee County, Florida after they banned all classroom libraries. Florida considers books to be more dangerous to students than assault rifles. This is truly a dystopian state.

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Olayemi Olurin

@msolurin