@immibis @gnutelephony @Radical_EgoCom @ColesStreetPothole okay, I don't have any excuse for how long it took for me to come around, except maybe an anarchist essay that hit home for me recently, but yeah I think I'm in the #defund camp now.

Georgia Republican Senator #ColtonMoore wants to #defund the DA's #office and open an #investigation against #FaniWillis because #Republicans can't handle the #truth. 😡

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-senator-asks-gov-kemp-to-call-session-to-investigate-fulton-county-da
#Georgia #senator wants #Governor #Kemp to call session to #investigate #FultonCounty #DistrictAttorney

#News #USPol #trump #Jan6

#IAmDB

@igd_news
Source report link: https://catalyst-ca.cdn.prismic.io/catalyst-ca/126c30a8-852c-416a-b8a7-55a90c77a04e_APCA+ACLU+REIMAGINING+COMMUNITY+SAFETY+2022_5.pdf

Police Are Not Primarily Crime-Fighters, and "...police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives."

instead data "show(s) that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops and searches of minority drivers, often without reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”

According to a report by Catalyst California and ACLU SoCal and summarized in the Reuters article.

#ACAB #Defund #Police #Policing #Crime

Police Are Not Primarily Crime-Fighters, and "...police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives."

instead data "show(s) that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops and searches of minority drivers, often without reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”

According to a report by Catalyst California and ACLU SoCal and summarized in the Reuters article below.

https://catalyst-ca.cdn.prismic.io/catalyst-ca/126c30a8-852c-416a-b8a7-55a90c77a04e_APCA+ACLU+REIMAGINING+COMMUNITY+SAFETY+2022_5.pdf

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

#ACAB #Defund #Police #Policing #Crime

#Cleveland City Council is upset by the idea, and their (unsigned) statement tries to scare us.

But check out the top of this "menu" of items that 2% of the budget could take away: salaries for 140 more police officers! We could repurpose money for 140 cops who aren't even hired yet?? Hell yeah. We still have 1242 cops, AND the City already reduced its staffing goal from 1500 to 1400 this year. Let's #defund police to RE-fund community projects.

@mekkaokereke When I was a teenager this one time I overheard a bunch of pigs in public. There was a big protest coming up. They were bragging about how they were excited to get hazard pay to "beat up hippies."

I will [never] trust any cops after that. The fact that these guys knew they were safe saying stuff like that in public tells me everything I need to know. #defund #disarm #disband

Republicans are criminals.
#FBI #DOJ #GOP #Republicans #Defund #Criminals #VoteBlueToLive

@daveystew how about decriminalizing ALL DRUGS?

Cuz legitimate & clean #Fentanyl is so cheap that it'll #defund #OrganozedCrime extremely fast!

Yeah, #SwiftCities and #Ottobahn are just #VC-fleecing #Scams that will only #defund #PublicTransport and sabotage working #PublicTransport...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvvA_GToc0M

The Philippine LGBTQI+ community are up at arms at the arrest of a famous trans pinay Awra Briguela. She defended her friends from harassment which escalated into a brawl. She acted in self-defense and the police arrested her for it.

A look at the hashtags:

#StandWithAwra
#JusticeForAllTransLives
#DefundPNP
#SafeSpacesNow
#SOGIEEqualityNow
#JusticeforAwraBriguela
#PulisAngTerorista

Interesting that the PH Queer community is adding “#defund” slogans. Sooner rather than later, I hope they can also realize some #NoCopsAtPride as well.

It bears repeating that the #Minneapolis city council president is a #Black #trans woman who in her first campaign for council specifically ran on a housing justice platform. In the meantime, she navigated the political turmoil after the #MPD murdered #GeorgeFloyd by joining the reactionary backlash against the #Defund movement (such as it was) because it had hurt her feelings by challenging her commitment to racial justice. She ran for re-election in 2021 on a cop- and capital-friendly law-and-order platform (and is doing so again this year).

Fuck #AndreaJenkins. This is the liberal weaponization of identity at its finest, and she made a choice to participate. Absolutely cynical and an utter embarrassment.

She could have stopped this vote but she didn't.

Just published the fifth part of 'Defund Culture' on my Open Humanities Notebook/blog. It's titled 'Invest in the De-liberalisation of Society'.

http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/?SSScrollPosition=0

Versions of the first three parts of 'Defund Culture' appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of the journal Radical Philosophy.

https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/defund-culture

The rest I'm making available for the first time on my blog.

#defundculture #defund #culture #liberalism #liberal #pluriversal #decolonisation #theory

#Communities need more #resources, not more #abuse. #Defund the #police and #help #prevent the #sources of #crime. #abolishthepolice

Rhetoric game changer
Once he proposed "defund" too
Then the accusation

#timscott #policereform #defund #politics #haiku #poetry

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/kfile-tim-scott-defund-the-police-reform-bill/index.html

@anornymorse
#defund

“Fascism in Florida? - DeSantis defunds equality in education and attacks inclusion… Again.

Florida's Burgermeister, Despicable Desantis signs legislation to #defund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at state colleges and universities.  A link to Florida “Senate bill-266” is below with others regarding “Raging Ron’s” recent campaigns against personal choice.  DeSantis has been very busy undermining individual freedom in many ways.

The signing of SB-266, which prohibits public universities from using state funds for (DEI) diversity, equity and inclusion programs, seems likely to effect all marginalized groups in the Sunshine State, including the #DisabilityCommunity.  Will the Americans with Disabilities Act be under attack next?   Will this lead to a rash of violations of the ADA?

The LGBTQIA+ community was not excluded from Florida’s acts of exclusion.  Aside from SB-266, Desantis’ signing of Senate Bill 1580, allows “healthcare providers and insurers to deny a patient care on the basis of religious, moral, or ethical beliefs”. Considering the absence of morals or ethics with many, this is outright dangerous.
The bill also “bars Medical Boards from disciplining doctors for spreading misinformation”.   SB-1580 also opens the door for discrimination in hiring.

Will the “religious, ethical or moral beliefs” of some providers be used to exclude individuals practicing Judaism or Islam from receiving medical treatment, as well.   “Sorry, the doctor will not see you now because you are not Christian, CIS/HET, white, abled, neurotypical or a fascist“.   Is this a preview of what to expect if he is elected in 2024?

Just like an annoying infomercial,  “wait there’s more".  A 5th grade Hernando county teacher is under state investigation for showing the Disney movie Strange World to her class, because it has a gay character.  The storyline of a boy who had a crush on another boy was called “inappropriate”.  Will Florida ask Disney to stop making such movies or ask them to leave the state, citing “indoctrnation" to the “woke agenda"?

Florida's economy relys heavily on tourism.  There is no state income tax because of tourist spending and sales tax.  Perhaps defunding Florida by vacationing elsewhere is one good way to respond.   FYI, #California oranges are equally equal delicious and do not have that aftertaste of blatant bigotry.  Perhaps, the state may want to consider replacing the “orange” on their license plate with another food item… a loaf of white bread. 

Don't forget the ALT text.

Desantis defunds DEI: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1176210007/florida-ron-desantis-dei-ban-diversity

What is SB266: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/whats-sb-266-desantis-signs-college-culture-war-bill-into-law/3034800/

SB 266, the bill: https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/266

SB 1580, “A License to Discriminate in Healthcare": https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/breaking-gov-desantis-signs-extreme-license-to-discriminate-healthcare-bill

Truthout .org on SB 1580: https://truthout.org/articles/floridas-latest-anti-lgbtq-law-legalizes-medical-discrimination/

Advocate .com on SB 1580: https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-discriminate-law-lgbtq

SB 1580, the bill: https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580

“Florida teacher investigated by DeSantis admin for showing Disney Film" (USA Today):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/05/14/florida-teacher-investigated-by-desantis-admin-for-showing-disney-film/70216872007/

Disney vs DeSantis history: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-26/everything-to-know-about-the-disney-desantis-fight

Disney – DeSantis feud timeline: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2023/05/16/graphics-timeline-illustrates-bitter-details-of-disney-desantis-dispute/11750086002/

Disney vs DeSantis goes to class: https://www.benzinga.com/general/entertainment/23/05/32425717/disney-vs-desantis-now-goes-directly-to-classroom-with-teacher-under-investigation

#CivilRights #InvisibleDisabilityRights #EndAbleism #EndRacism #LGBTQIARights #BLM #WomensRights  #EndBigotry #StopAsianHate #disability #DisabilitySolidarity #MarginalizedCommunitiesUnite #UnityConquers #equality #inclusion #diversity #TearDownTheWall  #desantis #florida #fascism #StopHate #Love4All #LoveOneAnother #Hypochristians

With all said in my previous post--#republicans in #Missouri #house moved to #defund public libraries because they say we're using state funds to back a lawsuit trying to overturn a previous #bookban statute that jails school librarians for providing "censored" material.

Which, of course we are not, like who tf would use state funding for our own lawsuit? #lyingcat #sideeye

Another case of Republicans knowing better but throwing people under the bus anyway.

https://molib.wildapricot.org/

Update. #Republicans in the #Missouri House voted to #defund all the state's public #libraries. The bill now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate.
https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/

The bill is retaliation against a lawsuit by Missouri library associations to overturn a #BookBanning statute.

#Defund Elon Musk!

Everything Elon Touches Dies.

#Elno #ElonMusk #TwitterIsGoingGreat

Seriously? Who votes to #defund #librairies ? Libraries are great.