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1088 - Air Adam: "Domestic violence, police viol…" - mastodon.me.uk
Her name was Niani Finlayson. Three seconds. Three seconds after a police officer entered this woman's home after she called for help during a domestic violence incident, that officer had shot her dead. The *victim*. In front of her nine-year-old daughter. And it wasn't the first time this officer had killed someone. He wasn't prosecuted that first time, of course. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/29/la-police-fatally-shot-niani-finlayson-body-camera #PoliceMurder #BlackMast...
2418 - Dr. Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel
But I do still wonder where many of us, particularly low-income folks and immigrants without any support networks or wealth, would have been by now, and what we would have achieved, if we didn't have to start from scratch. • The research by Forbes magazine found there were 15 billionaires aged 30 or under but that none had created their own wealth, instead benefitting from huge inheritances.
3130 - Kit: "Oh. Housing instability preven…" - disabled.social
Oh. Housing instability prevents people from forming long term communities, which has a lot of negative consequences in general, but also it is restricting of organizing. Housing instability is useful to people who want to determine WHO has power.
3682 - Libianca on 'horrific threats' over Cameroon's Anglophone war
But not everyone from the Central African nation feels this way. Last month, the 23-year-old musician announced she was postponing her North American tour because she had received death threats for performing with a Cameroonian flag. The threats, more than 50 of them, had been sent by rebels who want English-speaking parts of Cameroon, like Bamenda, to become an independent state. "They were sent all over social media... there was a lot in my management email," the singer, full name Libianca ...
3745 - notes: "How many homeless people are d…" - disabled.social
How many homeless people are disabled? https://youtu.be/uPKZyfKBV-A
6950 - Disregarded as human beings': survivors of Palm Springs demolition demand justice 60 years on
Palm Springs had razed Section 14, a Black and Latino community, to make way for commercial development
8017 - One of my favorite scientists, also a Black woman, wrote me today that she is leaving academia. üò°üò°üò° Why, do you ask? Let's discuss.
9195 - You shouldn't have to go to therapy for the rest of your work life because your organization harms you.
10950 - Memphis police use 'excessive force', DOJ report says
The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and follows policies that discriminate against black people, the US justice department has said.
This includes unnecessarily escalating encounters with some of the city's "most vulnerable" residents, Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general, said on Thursday.
The justice department began investigating the police force for the Tennessee city in 2023, after the death of Tyre Nichols, who was brutally beaten by police during a traffic stop.
