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This week’s premium episode is a discussion about police propaganda with Alec Karakatsanis, from “officer involved” shootings to the explosion in police PR budgets.

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“I was seeing every single day in jail cell, after jail cell with people sleeping on top of each other… being deprived of medical care, other people making huge amounts of money off of all of that.” Civil rights lawyer @equalityalec.bsky.social speaks w/ @premthakker.bsky.social on life in prison.

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for those in the area -- this should be great!

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I'm so excited to be in Boston this week. I'll be at Connexion on Wednesday evening at 6:30pm to talk about copaganda and the role of liberal institutions like the news media, universities, and the Democratic Party in this authoritarian moment. Come join us, and bring a friend!

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“The levels of... police recorded crime are much more influenced by deep structural features of our society.” @premthakker.bsky.social speaks with civil rights lawyer @equalityalec.bsky.social on how public safety reporting focuses on legal policies rather than societal issues such as poverty.

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Few stories better capture modern policing than this one about a conspiracy of private corporate interests paying off-duty state troopers as part of a "shadow force" to cleanse downtown Nashville of homeless people using metal chains, cages, and violence.

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“This massive system is the result of millions of little incentives and choices and it's not that any one person fully intends everything that it's doing or is responsible for it.” — @equalityalec.bsky.social speaks with @premthakker.bsky.social.

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Highly recommend! Great book, great person, great organization. Free in certain instances! See below.

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THREAD. This is so cool. I just got the first copy of the FREE paperback edition of the Copaganda book. It's beautiful! We have free copies for any people in prison (easiest for prison book programs to get in bulk) and for ANY teacher who wants to have the book for their students.

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“There is a complex, and often hidden, web of relationships—funded by public money—that manufactures and places police propaganda in the news…either as objective news or opinion pieces by seemingly neutral observers.” - @equalityalec.bsky.social in new book Copaganda

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This comes from one of my favorite sections in the Copaganda book. It's such an important point for understanding how the New York Times (and, indeed, all mainstream news) covers police violence and subsequent meaningless gestures at "reform."

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Are you in the UK? I'll be coming to London and Liverpool in late June for some events about my Copaganda book! Please reply here with some suggestions about topics to cover, examples of British media/police propaganda, or other suggestions. Hope to see you there!

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I somehow missed this in the busy travel of the last few weeks, but my interview with the wonderful Lara Bazelon was published by City Arts & Lectures. It was a fantastic conversation and great for sharing with people who consume mainstream news! www.cityarts.net/event/vauhin...

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THREAD. Five years ago tomorrow a police precinct in Minneapolis burned down. Polls said over half the country supported it burning, amidst the largest mass protest movements in U.S. history. About 10% of the U.S. population was in the streets calling for transformative change.

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An important point embedded in here is this: we should ask ourselves why no mainstream news outlet thought it important enough to report on these details about ICE.

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There are 100,000s of human beings today confined to a jail cell in cities/states run by Democrats solely because families can't pay cash. There will have been no showing that any interest is served by this jailing. We must see how stuff like that normalizes stuff like this:

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THREAD. A lot of attention is rightly going to Medicaid cuts and other very bad things in Trump's bill passed by the House, but there's something else that isn't getting enough attention, that is very difficult to find in any news coverage, but that will fundamentally alter life for all of us.

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Tomorrow is 5-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Police killed more people each year since and police budgets increased each year. One legacy is the reactionary propaganda by liberal elites in news and academia to normalize mass militarized surveillance and punishment:

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Please take the time to read and share this thread, esp w the folks you know who still put credence in nyt and other elite media institutions who have been manufacturing consent for this whole police state project for years

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For ref this is more than a third of what has been spent on border security since 9/11 (approx 409 bil) which already gave us the deadliest border infrastructure the world has known (often co-produced with Israel) and which diffused to brutalize people globally through exploding private industry.

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Critical thread about the implications of Trump’s bill to make US fascism permanent and the abject failure of the U.S. media to cover it. There’s still time to stop it. Share information with your friends, urge them to call their senators, and hope those elected have a spine.

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Really excellent thread, please read

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On the horrors of GOP border policing plans.

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Very important article, laying out many of the aspects of the budget not being covered. Great use of data showing how absurd and dangerous these expenditures are.

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