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Here we go with with #Redistricting public hearing for District 1! You can follow our live tweeting š§µ and you can watch the live stream, here:
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Sen. @LouAnnLinehan opens by asking folks to understand this is a hard process, reaffirming that minority communities are protected & talking about what districts have been tweaked & shifted. She is now addressing an op-ed published this morning saying it had "substantial error"
She has not clarified where or by who this op-ed but is now speaking vaguely about the accusations without listing any names except Sen. Dorn and Sen. Brandt. She says she will "save her other frustrations for later."
The question is: What does justice demand? A man's life was taken and someone needs to be held accountable. It's that simple. Ht @_michaelbrooks
2/ This gets down to a basic tenet of our supposed justice system: Accountability, i.e., the obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions.
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3/ But when police brutalize or kill black people, there's very little accountability, if any. The state, in effect, is saying no one's responsible.
A person is dead--not of natural causes--and no one's responsible.
A person is dead--not of natural causes--and no one's responsible.
Returning to this book, which explains so much right now. I mean, haven't we created "forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of living dead?" (40) 
For Mbembe, necropolitics is when the ruling classes have āthe capacity to define who matters and who does not, who isĀ disposableĀ and who is not."
Explains those "we're gonna open back up for business" governors' orders.
Explains those "we're gonna open back up for business" governors' orders.
(that's from p.27 btw) #CiteYourSources
