🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice reform, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
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Bex is WEAK on crime
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Michelle Obama: The lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism, the outrage when you stated the biological fact that if you'd had a son that he too would be black, yet you were unflappable at every turn, always focused.
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Single payer health care would be the greatest boon to old school capitalism and enterpreneurship in America and you cannot get these fuckers to see it.
We teach young people about a US criminal legal system that functions in some sort of adversarial way but the truth is that it's largely a sausage machine that takes the most marginalized, disadvantaged & unwell amongst us and grinds them into paste.
❗SCOTUS ruled today a defendant can't just waive away their rights to an appeal if that'd be a miscarriage of justice.
Gorsuch wrote a concurrence saying: If we don't limit this, prosecutors will keep pushing their luck.
And he cited Bolts' article on waivers in Virginia to show how far they go:
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1/4 Full press release: “UAW DELEGATES APPROVE HISTORIC DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAEL BONDS”
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