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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1m

Blue flu coming on 🙄

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3m

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6m

What I’m getting at when I say that whiteness does not protect people.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 7m

“You have to be white to be prosecuted under white law, but you do not have to be Black to be prosecuted under Black law”
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Golden Gulag)

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4h

Chicago friends! I'm thrilled to be joining Eve L. Ewing this Tuesday night (Oct 14) at the National Public Housing Museum to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

Hosted by Build Coffee & Books + NPHM.

Tickets here:

There Is No Place for Us with Brian Goldstone and Eve L. Ewing - National Public Housing Museum

A conversation with author Brian Goldstone, whose deeply reported new book plunges readers into the lives of families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

nphm.org

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 18m

As I write about, also white vigilantes.

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

Much more generally, on a variety of fronts, we are seeing the attempted wholesale conversion of the coercive power of the state into a tool for extremely small, organized groups of people to command obedience (bullies, universities, schools, businesses, etc.).

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 18m

I still think the historical analogue is the great redemption — it’s not just erasing civil rights gains, it’s rewriting a whole history, the losers are the winners etc.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19m

Agree. After all the constitutional sheriffs only see 1-10 as legit. It’s been part of the patriot political movement for a while. (Everyone always asks me why and I’m like, originalism /what would Thomas Jefferson do)

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

Fajitas at Chili’s is sharia law?

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being mad about fajitas.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is pretty much true and why it’s important not just to defund police but also diminish their political power. Everything cops do is politics.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 1d

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 1d

New Mexico paying out $400,000 because agents for the attorney general and BCSO's deputies raided David McGhee’s home, destroying cameras, damaging the premises, assaulting his dog with a fire extinguisher & “unreasonably” seizing property and cash in a fruitless search for evidence of a crime

State pays Albuquerque's 'Mr. Discount' $400,000 to settle claim over home raid

Law enforcement assaulted his dog with a fire extinguisher and seized property and cash, according to David McGhee's tort claim notice.

www.santafenewmexican.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 1d

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

i think that the best way to use the police as Pritzker would be to figure out how to associate them with protests such that the protesters don't mess with them but they get gassed or shot if the feds fire

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

They are!

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

Threatening a kid and a dog with a gun is the best way to get a dog to stop barking.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

The situation for reproductive justice in SC is pretty dire right now -- I donate to comrades in SC through Palmetto State Abortion Fund and recommend it heartily! I also subscribe to @autonomynews.co
palmettostateabortionfund.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

There was a man who was exonerated but kept getting harassed by the police; he called me in tears because the cops killed his two dogs. I was kinda skeptical at the time it was actually just to be mean...but turns out it was.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

Sheriff is "trying to be very compassionate toward [victims and families]." TRYING

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"At least 13 people are unaccounted for, Hickman County Mayor Jim Bates told ABC News."

Multiple people dead in 'devastating blast' at explosives manufacturer in Tennessee: Sheriff

Accurate Energetic Systems manufactures explosives and energetic devices for aerospace, defense, demolition and mining industries, according to its website.

abcnews.go.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely looking forward to a world where machine guns are legal but Black men are sentenced to prison for at least a decade because they own a handgun and were once convicted of a felony.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

Chihuahuas do not take shit.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

Argo's tail is like another floofy dog attached to an already large floofy dog

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

seriously. (i used to have a chihuahua mix and he was definitely more dangerous on the whole than my rott)

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

Cops probably kill over two dozen dogs A DAY
trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

The “Puppycide” of Policing: How the Law Rationalizes the Police Killing of “Dangerous Dogs”

Police officers kill approximately 10,000 dogs every year in the United States, according to an estimate by a Department of Justice official. This amounts to police officers killing approximately 25 t...

trace.tennessee.edu

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

I am so sorry. I am often concerned about this as well, just because I know how they are about big dogs.

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