I know Nathan Robinson is wrong about some stuff, especially zoning, but this is a clear eyed statement on Iran and is as correct as anything I’ve heard.
This is correct flag thought.
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“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”
Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.
We will prove another world is possible by starting first with the lowest scum of them all, MAGA.
I look forward to these pricks being put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. And even though it would be satisfying to watch them hang, we will take the high road and demean them through our humane treatment of them.
We are the bad guys.
Arrest the goddamn president
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
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I’m sorry, but that’s a hideous building.
Keir Starmer is gaslighting the country.
The UK has followed the US into an illegal war against Iran.
I’m kind of okay as a last resort with cops dragging people out for smoking, but I’d like that to be an extreme rarity, so the smoking car option feels like maybe it would nip most of that in the bud.
I admittedly was kind of nasty to someone for smoking and told them that it was “an asshole move” and I’m lucky I didn’t get jumped. The person and his friend, two big white guys, responded that they’d gotten in fistfights for less. I am kind of tall, but there were two of them.
Anyway, those are my thoughts.
I just feel that in general, we know that a lot of energy and time is spent on priorities many of us would not consider societally helpful, like harassing poor people.
So I think under this precedent you could argue, for instance, that the police have no obligtion to find your stuff. The police might have different priorities.
There is a precedent that says police don’t have a constitutional obligation to protect you. On balance, this is good. More Perfect at Radiolab did an episode on this, and the precedent has to do with preventing harm to our “negatively defined” liberties.
It makes me feel that for all the money we spend on policing, that we have a poor set of priorities about what those police should be doing.
And I think it also needs to be said that this speaks to some of how we misidentify the problems for our safety, In a way, it’s an amazing testament to the honesty and decency of SEPTA riders that this thing rode back and forth through the night, through morning rush hour, into the afternoon.
Additionally, it irritates me from a safety perspective. I think Philly transit is probably relatively low on the terrorist hit list, but if a person had intentionally abandoned an explosive in the El, that would have been left to ride around for almost a while day.
And to a certain extent, I feel angry at this teenager, but I also feel like his actions are downwind of this policing failure. The police, or even just the driver, should have taken the time and courtesy to sweep through the cars, if not immediately then at least at Frankford.
And I think this gets to what I feel about policing. I’ve never been fully on board with any of the abolitionist language of not having police. I think policing is important. But during that same time, I feel confident a lot of dumb policing happened, while my relative was ignored.
Now listen. I get that when we lose things the police can’t be sent on a wild goose chase to find them, but it offends me deeply on behalf of my relative that SEPTA didn’t do the very easy thing of picking the bag up and tucking it away during any of the dozens of opportunities they had.
My relative actually went to Kensington, following the GPS signal, interacted with the teenager who took their stuff, asked him politely to give it back, and watched as the signal got on the 3 bus with him and left.
On the second day, the bag made its way to someone’s house in Kensington. I again somewhat optimistically hoped the person possibly could be taking it to mail it. And to be clear, my experience of losing things on SEPTA has overwhelmingly been that. SEPTA riders are honest.
For the next almost 24 hours, the relative and I watched the bag go back and forth on the El, through GPS. We optimistically hoped this meant a worker had locked it in the driver’s compartment. In fact, no one at SEPTA had addressed it at all.
A relative the other day forgot their bag on the El. It had medical equipment, a computer, their wallet, an epi pen. We’re talking a lot of important stuff. The relative called SEPTA Police immediately, told them what happened, told them they could share GPS info on the computer.
Thread about the priorities of policing in Philadelphia, especially SEPTA.
I kind of just think it would give an opportunity for deescalation. Even passenger to passenger, it would be easier for me to say, “Hey man, we have a smoking car for you. Can you please use it?” than just telling the person not to smoke.
