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A great place to get Atmospheres of Violence is from @BookshopMassive

Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Un

Author/Contributor(s): Stanley, Eric A Publisher: Duke University Press Date: 10/22/2021 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW

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2 years

The police waited three hours before entering the bathroom at Pulse where the shooter was executing people. This is always the story.

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Not wanting to die at work is not “selfish.”

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We reject the White House.

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White House rejects use of phrase "from the river to the sea"

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Landlords routinely burn down rent controlled buildings as it’s the cheapest and easiest way to get tenants out. This is a very common practice in San Francisco and has murdered so many while making the rich even richer.

Who Is Causing All the Fires in San Francisco?

Jon Ronson investigates a series of strange and unsettling fires in the Mission District that have people wondering what the hell is going on.

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It was queers that stopped the killer, not the cops.

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The only thing that “addresses homelessness” is free housing.

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(This info is from survivors that were trapped inside)

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Why read this When there is this

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San Francisco shut down all of its large testing and vaccine spaces. Now all that federal money is flowing through CVS and Walgreens with 3-4 week wait times. 👀

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I know I sound like a total bummer most of the time, but I still believe that we can stop the deathworld we are now inhabiting and maybe even survive to see what is beyond it. Collective struggle is also collective joy.

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Think “cancel culture” is bad? Wait until you learn about the neoliberal sorcery that transforms those without structural power into the oppressors of those with all the power, in every example.

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When I hear about “looting” in San Francisco I’ll assume you are referring to the deadly practice of DPW stealing peoples tent homes, medications, money, and entire worlds then throwing them away (or pocketing the cash). This happens every day on every block.

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The AIDS encampment in San Francisco lasted….. 10 years.

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People are homeless because they don’t have homes, it has nothing to do with drug use. Most people that use drugs, which is almost all of the ruling class, are massively over housed.

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4 years

When we say “defund the police “, please hear also “abolish policing.”

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If you are curious who the “let’s bring back public hangings” SF lady is, she is, of course, the heiress to a real estate empire.

Proposed downtown tower would put San Francisco based Tandler family in real estate business

A local family-owned real estate company will construct its first building in The City if plans are approved today by…

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We need to write more on the specific forms of multicultural fascism (I don’t use that term often) growing in SF. Both because it’s import to those of us organizing here and because it will come for everyone else soon.

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I first learned how to organize against prisons in the struggle to free Marilyn Buck. I think about her often and can’t wait for the world that she fought so hard to grow to finally bloom.

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Trans/queer suicide is always murder by another name.

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All elections are stolen when the land is too.

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There are more than enough resources for us to all have everything we need (housing, education, healthcare, art, food, joy, etc.) I try to always remember this when the institutions turn the gaslights on extra high. Demand everything.

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This is not a “culture war” it’s an actual war.

Far-Right Extremists Are Threatening to ‘Execute’ Doctors at a Children’s Hospital

The viral Twitter account LibsofTikTok promoted a lie about gender-affirming care at the hospital—and now doctors are getting death threats.

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“Capitalism is dying” is as ridiculous as saying “prisons are abolishing themselves”. They are not apoptotic systems, but through collective struggle they can be ended.

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Living in a city where our radical bookstore was gentrified into nonexistence (after 40 years) and now there are no free meeting spaces, if you are against radical bookstores you are actually against accessible organizing.

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Apple tech engineer Thorsten Gernoth and his wife “artist” Blanca Estela Rodriguez bought this two unit building and are now trying to evict this renter and sell her unit as a TIC. This is a murder in slow motion.

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Dozens of people are gathered outside of a Bernal Heights home to protest the eviction of San Francisco’s “flower lady”- an indigenous elder and activist known for gifting flowers to those who cross paths with her. #housing #sf

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If you want to support trans people, including trans young people, work to stop street sweeps, abolish prisons (including CPS and ICE), demand 100% deeply affordable housing, fight gentrification and for public space where people can just hangout. (Just a few)

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There used to be free water fountains all around but then they were closed to ensure poor/houseless people (and anyone else) do not have access to drinking water that is not bought.

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Why do our children live in constant fear of dehydration? I spent my entire childhood without carrying an ounce of water on my person but my kids are treated like beached orcas.

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Here is your free tuition

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#Breaking New much clearer video, courtesy Kitt Wilder, of STOL variant F35 B model landing JRB Fort Worth, and pilot ejects. Condition of pilot still unknown. @CBSDFW

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It’s not only that police don’t keep us safe, it’s that they are antithetical to our safety.

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-A “WOC” slate against CRT - A Black DA arguing locking up Black kids is anti-racist - A white gay drug user ramping up the war on drugs - A Black trans women that ran on an increase police funding ticket - ant-car “activists” that want public space fenced off We got it all!!!

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FELIX Gonzalez-Torres “Forbidden Colors” 1988

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If people’s identities dictated their politics we would all be free by now.

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Proud Boys storming a drag queen story time is not unlike the San Francisco Police Department storming a queer houseless person’s tent. We must make these connections or we will always lose.

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2 years

If your have one of these take it down

The Hill

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2 years

Amazon admits to giving Ring videos to police without permission

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As an abolitionist I don’t want this violent person in prison (not that he would end up there). What might be a response? Take all his money and property and give it to the survivor and other houseless people. That would be a start.

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🚨 BREAKING: San Francisco art gallery owner arrested @BrookeJenkinsSF issued warrant. Collier Gwin will be charged with misdemeanor battery for the alleged intentional and unlawful spraying of water on and around a woman experiencing homelessness.

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People should pay attention to San Francisco because it is a laboratory for a deadly form of multicultural fascism that is coming for us. Politicians in “community leader” drag are placed into power by billionaires then protected by an army of nonprofit hacks.

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Police out of uniform should not be at Pride, either.

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People love Major and love to IGNORE her politics.

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Miss Major, Stonewall veteran, on Pride parades today: “Who in their right mind invites the cops? The ppl who handcuff you + take you away? No. Now there’s gay + trans cops, but that don’t matter to me. Blue comes first. And there are banks + fastfood chains? Where are the gays?”

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That people are individually scrambling to get Covid tests so that they can go to work and get Covid is truly American.

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Abolitionists said this would make things worse and we were right. The illusion of accountability is worse than the knowledge that “police accountability” is impossible.

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Police wearing body cameras were supposed to help bring transparency and accountability. Instead, most policymakers across the country have left the police in control of what is recorded and who can see footage and when.

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Our movements don’t fail because our demands are too radical. On the contrary, they fall to pieces when we ask for too little.

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Defending Palestinian liberation encampments on campuses must be tied to defending houseless encampments off of campus. Free the people, free the land.

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It’s not that people don’t understand “defund the police” it’s that they want the antiblack, ablest, homo/transphobic, classist, violence of policing to continue uninterrupted. We have to confront the collective joy people get from the collective subjection of others.

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Everywhere I go the ruling class is outraged when they are forced to witness the misery they have produced in the world. Techies on this train are talking about houseless people on transit and also about the joys of passive income through landlording. 👀

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While the most recent attacks on trans youth are horrible (!) they are the intensification of a long history of terrorizing young trans/queer people (mostly of color) through the juvenile courts/ CPS via truancy laws & charges of being “ungovernable.” We must abolish it all. 🏴

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I say this all the time, but Fanon helps us understand how the structure of phobia is that of the oppressors claiming to be victimized by that which they oppress. It is the psychic topography of the colonial mind. It is the upside down world of colonial modernity.

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“Lived experience” does not, necessarily, produce a predictable politic. If it did, we would all be free by now.

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The “incarceration as Black liberation” turn in SF is something to watch.

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Mayor London Breed fiercely defended her controversial policy to arrest drug users to get them into treatment against criticism from Supervisor Dean Preston, calling him a “white man who’s talking about Black and brown people as if you’re the savior.”

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All these “liberal zionists” don’t find it… alarming… that every alt-right, racist, transphobic antisemite 100% agrees with them?

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A person on the BART platform I was on just had a medical emergency and a bunch of us pulled their body out of the way of the train then stayed with them until the medics came. I say this because it was riders and not the “community ambassadors” or police that helped.

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An identity is not a politic. In fact, it’s an abstraction that often returns as it’s double. We have to reckon with that fact that an org can be “led” by a person who identifies with those it says it serves, but in practice is the most hostile to them.

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Collier Gwin attacked a seated houseless woman by spraying her directly in the face numerous times and the story is now that he is the real victim because there are not enough murderous SFPD to lock her up. The only people worse than him are those saying he had “no choice”.

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We know we already paid for these COVID tests, right?

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If the frame for understanding “anti-lgbt violence” does not expand to include prisons, ICE, houselessness, policing, war, imperialism, land dispossession/ extraction, and every contour of racial capitalism then we have done nothing other than ensure these harms continue.

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Some techie tried to “citizen’s arrest” a kid for jumping the Bart gate and the whole station clowned the techie so bad he left. Maybe SF still has it… 🌉

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Anti-trans violence, like all violence, is not a result of a “lack of education.”

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UC Berkeley May 1

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A “progressive DA” is not a thing.

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Another option? The energy that you have been putting into elections can be redirected toward local and deeply transformative projects. There are so many everywhere! We need people organizing mutual aid and direct action projects block by block.

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Mayor London Breed argues that defunding the police is anti-black because Black police officers will be impacted. She recently made the same argument suggesting it was homophobic because of LGBT cops (which is why she was boycotting Pride) We need to get ahead of this mess.

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Just so y’all 🏳️‍🌈’s know

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Israeli security forces have admitted to deliberately threatening and outing queer Palestinians as a tactic to intimidate them into working as informants.

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A commitment to a vote is a victory? 👀

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VICTORY!! BROWN COMMITS TO DIVESTMENT VOTE! Brown administration has conceded to students’ demand that the Corporation vote on divestment after years of tireless pressure from the student body, 61 student arrests, an eight day hunger strike and seven days of encampment

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Atmospheres of Violence is here ( @DukePress ) It’s a study, which is to say love letter to trans/queer generativity and a manifesto against the terror of the settler state. I’m left undone by the world we are building together in the ashes of the one we cannot survive. ❤️🏴

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Please stop saying that a way to address homelessness is to “connect people to services.” There are no available services, anywhere, which is why people are homeless.

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By the late 80s we knew we need 24 hr free HIV testing clinics that were fun and accessible. We knew we needed free condoms. syringes and meds any and everywhere. We got none of that. not because people did not fight till the death, but because capitalism is a death cult.

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Beware of soft-TERFism, it’s hiding in Women’s Studies classes everywhere 👀

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People should not be allowed to own houses they do not live in.

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Fanon taught us how the structure of colonial modernity enables the fantasy of interminable victimhood for those causing the actual terror.

I Could’ve Just Sat On In With Massa

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A homeless Black man is murdered and the conversation has turned into how affluent people feel “unsafe” on public transport lol

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There is no sustained push to hire trans faculty because most administrators, faculty, and DEI specialist are antagonist toward trans people. This comes in the form of outward hostility, but more often than not is served in the cold tones of soft power.

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No, they are being rejected.

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In Opinion @rgay writes police officers “aren’t actually being rejected; they are being asked to respect boundaries. LGBTQ officers are more than welcome to join Pride celebrations — unarmed and in civilian clothing."

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Organizing against prisons was much easier before everyone became a “prison reformer”. It’s a good lesson in the violence of inclusion and the ways movements get emptied of radical content. This is why demanding ABOLITION is always necessary.

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Capitalism is working out well.

L E F T, PhD ⚫️

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School turns students' lunch debt over to collection agency - WCMH

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“Broken capitalism”, “broken prisons”, “broken democracy” are all non-critiques that ensure the terror of these systems expands under their assumed recalibration. 😵

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No marches, no speeches, no international outrage, no direct actions, no news coverage, just the raw violence of the anti-trans state and those that co-sign in joyous celebration or booming silence. 💜 to the young people trying to find ways to survive it all.

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If your approach to health care is not anti-capitalist then its genocidal. I hope we have learned at least that much from ACT UP.

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We really need to let go for the myth that people are passively instrumentalized and just acknowledge that some (perhaps many) people know exactly what is going on and are just on the side of domination.

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A critique of “identity politics” does not mean identity doesn’t matter nor does it suggest “class” is paramount. It means that an identity does not actually map on to any specific politics. Marginalized people know this as a fact of history, we just are made to forget

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Student debt cancelation has to include free tuition or we are back in the same place, but even worse. In fact, school should be free and students should get free housing!

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I don’t think abolitionists should be on panels with police as it creates a “both sides” situation, which only serves normative power AKA the police.

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It’s kinda funny when people accuse organizers of being “academics” because if you knew how few academics organize .....

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There is nothing to be gained in these woven catastrophes but I do hope watching the rise of multicultural fascism makes it clear that an identity is not a politic.

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Watching people use abolitionist language to push for *more* jails reminds us that prisons are always recreating themselves (and us) so we have to stay on top of it or we will get swallowed up. 👀

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More admin than STUDENTS?!?!

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wild --> "the administrative bureaucracy at Yale—which now outnumbers its undergraduate students—has been crucial in shutting down conversations about anti Palestinian and anti-Muslim hate incidents that have occurred on campus"

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Students, staff, and teachers should all just have a paid year off.

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The first thing I learned in grad school was that people hid their family wealth with such intensity. Then they became professors and continued the practice until it was time to “buy a house” and have kids and I was like 👀

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If you are pro-police you are anti-abortion.

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My landlord who owns BILLIONS in assets and has never contacted me just called my phone to talk to me about my “social media posts”. I’ll assume I can just reply here as you are reading this and not repairing the asbestos in my ceiling. Talk about tenant harassment.

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The federal government forgave Mosser Living’s (my landlord) 6 million dollar PPP “loan” but said nope to forgiving student loans?

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@prisonculture Mayor London Breed just blocked a free bus pilot program in San Francisco because she said that it would ….increase ridership?!?!? I don’t even know what world we are all in.

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This weekend you can watch CRIMINAL QUEERS the campy prison abolitionist film Chris Vargas and I took 10 years and 0 dollars to make. The film is an act of collective labor and love with lots of cameos. Password : loverevolution

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“We always felt that the police were the real enemy.” - Sylvia Rivera

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You know what does not stop anti-trans violence? The police. You know what is anti-trans violence? The police.

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Get her

BreakThrough News

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LGBTQ activists interrupted Jill Biden at the Human Rights Campaign Gala in Los Angeles demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire. The Gala is a major fundraiser for HRC, which touts itself as one of the leading LGBTQ advocacy organizations.

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Policing is the administration of modern, which is to say antiblack, ablest, trans/homophobic, capitalist settler violence. Abolitionist have always reminded us of this, mostly from their prison cells.

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“This” has been escalating since 1492.

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There is so much organizing that needs to be done in San Francisco and none of it depends on who is in office. People are doing stuff, join up with them. Abolition Now.

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You can’t doxx cops.

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Yale student, the most fortunate type of person on Earth, doxxes rank-in-file middle-class police officers in a dangerous city who put their safety on the line daily to keep people safe. Sometimes the people most loudly claiming to fight injustice are the ones who most deeply

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I’m working on a paper about Miss Shirley, the Black trans women who supported Assata when she was young and on the run. Is anyone aware of writing about her?

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The decriminalization of what are seen as ruling class and/or white drugs is tied to the hyper criminalization of those understood to be used by everyone else. Look at SF’s new DA wanting murder charges for fent dealers. 👀

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