christian davenport

@engagedscholar

Professor, Writer & Activist concerned with Conflict/Violence, Peace (outer/inner), Racism, Popular Culture (film, comics, music), Travel & the (In)finite

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    Oct 16

    ANY instances of solitary confinement during one's prison sentence are correlated with higher rates of premature death after release.

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    Oct 16

    Open carry of firearms banned at Michigan polling places on Election Day

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    Oct 16

    Coronavirus is surging in Michigan. Whitmer’s authority has been gutted. Now what?

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    Oct 16

    📢📢HELP📢 I'm compiling a list of scholars who study race/racism + politics + health--together. I am most interested in poli sci (other disciplines welcome though). I already checked & . I suspect I'm missing folks & want to fill my blind spots.

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    ask a political scientist with vince hutchings. AAPS Election Season: Race and politics via

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    Oct 10

    Terrorists? Militias? Gangs? The expert explains on 👇👇

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    Some call the Wolverine Watchmen a militia, Governor Whitmer calls them "a terrorist organization." I ask what's in a name.
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    Oct 10

    My women friends in academia are total badasses. They are also my life raft and my best cheering section. Special shout out to for our recent NSF sprint.

    Women’s friendships "(help) them navigate & counter the masculine culture of " & "can mitigate the effects of workplace marginalization & enhance well-being that results in career success. " I know I am eternally grateful for my friends!
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    Oct 8

    Working against voter suppression and finding ways to resist election- related violence are THE ways to hold onto our battered democracy. Thanks !

    Important piece by on resisting political violence in America. Key point: one way to interrupt an escalation in violence is to refuse to participate in it--and to use & elevate nonviolent methods instead. Today
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    Oct 7

    Just to be clear: there is nothing “pro-life” about denying people comprehensive sexual education, making birth control harder to access, forcing others to give birth against their will, and stripping them of healthcare and food assistance afterwards.

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    Sep 26

    The policing tactics that killed -- such as no-knock warrants -- are due to a decades-long intertwining of US police departments with the US military. [THREAD]

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    Sep 26

    It's not that all humans need to be exemplary. It's that the ad-revenue-driven business model and its click-seeking attention-seeking algorithms that enrich and others are the most harmful things humans have ever created; we should all pivot.

    Replying to @shantanusocial @joybhattacharj
    I have always said that Twitter should be used for the good and I even argued with because they don't like my disclosing of certain inconvenient truths. But unfortunately I also understand that people need to be people everyone is not an Einstein nor do they wish to be.
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    Sep 26

    Syria accuses U.S. using sanctions to suffocate Syrians 'like George Floyd'

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    Sep 26

    Ahem

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    Sep 26

    Univision and Telemundo have joined a broad coalition of fact-checking organizations to produce a bilingual WhatsApp bot called FactChat.

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    Sep 26

    Ohio woman tased after she refused to leave a middle school football game for not wearing a mask

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    Paul Rusesabagina admits backing rebels, denies violence via

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    Sep 23

    A country can't remain a democracy very long if it has two major parties and one or more of them, if given the choice, would rather hold power than preserve the democracy. You can talk around and around this, and apply it to different circumstances, but no way to get past it.

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    Sep 22

    Trump has shifted from 80% of ads on crime & unrest over the summer to almost no emphasis on them now. Most Trump ads are now on jobs, business, taxes, & immigration. Most Biden ads (& Senate ads in both parties) are on COVID

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    Sep 22

    Requiring felons to have to pay any types of debts, fines or other restitution prior to regaining suffrage is nothing but a 21st century poll tax! Especially when their employment prospects are already going to be weak.

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    Jun 25

    : Today I joined doctors () sending a letter to Toronto City Hall to address the public health crisis of policing. We want to stop anti-Black & anti-Indigenous racism, and re-allocate funds to resource communities.

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