Dreams of a Collegiate Lion

25. Maryland grad. New York roots; DMV branches. Semi-adult? I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing so here we go I guess

[corvuscorax77]

I need to get back to Central Oregon.

My heart needs it.

My mind *requires* it.

[davediscoballs]

[politijohn]

[oneheadtoanother]

[collegiatelion]

TFW you ain’t use your tumblr in a minute and it gets hacked so you’re like 🙃🙃🙃

[nuckgirl16]

[angiethewitch]

it’s easy to say what happened to George Floyd and the consequences of it as just “oh another disaster for 2020”. it’s easy to brush it off as 2020 rearing its head again.

but this isn’t just 2020. this is last year. and the year before. it’s the last century. and next year. next month. don’t become complacent and brush it off. don’t let this become just another horrible thing that happened in 2020. it shouldn’t be forgotten. because this is every day for black people. every year.

let this radicalize you. let this be the final year this kind of thing happens. don’t let it become another 2020 disaster. don’t let things go back to how it was. we must stop treating this as another thing that happened in 2020. do not let this become the forgotten year and don’t allow George Floyd and his voice and countless black voices behind this to be forgotten - just another terrible thing. this isn’t just 2020. this is something that happens all the time. don’t let this go away.

[hammling]

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

City council member talking about just throwing the whole damn MPD out!

[cadencekismet]

Minneapolis City Council members look to disband the police department as schools and other city agencies cut ties with police

"We can declare policing as we know it a thing of the past, and create a compassionate, non-violent future," one councilmember said.

Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police | City Pages

If you’ve been tuned into the Minneapolis public safety scene, you know that for years, Reclaim the Block and other grassroots community gro

Minneapolis City Council Members Want To Abolish The Police

Several members of the Minneapolis City Council want to disband their city's police force and are investigating how this goal might be reali

[chaos-and-cookies]

Sure would be a shame if this got spread around and he lost his job 💅🏽

[azuuldon]

He actually said those things. I thought that maybe it wasn’t true. But he did. And worse.

[fratboykate]

ive said it before and ill keep saying it but THIS is how you use your platform. ashley's response has been a breath of fresh air during a week where ive seen so many celebrities that could be elevating the cause stay blatantly silent. if your "fave" isnt working this hard against racism and white supremacy theyre fucking complicit. period. end of story.

[state-issued-boyfriend]

Mannn why does the gay experience revolve around sex. I mean I know I'm attractive "for a fat guy" but we as a culture ( especially stereotypical white gay men) focus so much on sex and sexual intimacy, that it hurts us in the long run. Many men don't know HOW to have gay friends without wanting to fuck them, because of lack of exposure at a young age, and being sexually driven is a way to gain 'prestige' in our community. I'm a whore, dont get me wrong but with the extent of sexual promiscuity in our community has led to a feeling of loneliness for our brothers and sisters deemed "unattractive" until a person who fetishizes them comes along and gives them a grain of attention. Been there, done that it's all VERY annoying and harmful.

[state-issued-boyfriend]

[5norlax]

[paxamericana]

[butchflirt]

I feel like this is pretty important to realize: the cops are becoming exhausted, and there’s a limited supply of them. NYPD has every cop on duty working full days every day. We have an unlimited capacity to rotate in fresh fighters that they simply do not have. We can take shifts. They can’t.

[cappucino-commie]

  This is also why we’re starting to see bare minimum concessions now. The powers that be have realized they’ve made a grave miscalculation. A week into it, and ideas that seemed utterly impossible even a month ago are on the table- LA is talking about a hundred and fifty million dollar budget cut for the LAPD, every cop directly involved in George Floyd’s murder has been arrested and Chauvin’s charge has been raised to second degree murder, parts of the Minneapolis city council is pushing to permanently disband the Minneapolis police department.

   What could we win with two weeks? Three? An organized general strike that brings the entire economy to a crashing halt? It is difficult to feel hopeful in such brutal times, but there is profound hope to be had in the realization that a week of getting our asses kicked has advanced the mainstream narrative around police so much further than electoralism would’ve dared to dream in 100 years.

[elfwreck]

Police departments expect protests to happen on a single day, or at most, over a weekend - they call in extra officers from nearby cities or counties, they put people on extra-long shifts, and they let the paperwork slide for a couple of days.

They don’t have officers to keep that up for a week, much less for a month. Judges will let it slide if they wait an extra day or two for arraignment hearings, but civil rights lawyers will have a good case to throw out everything if they delay much longer than that. 

If arrested: DO NOT waive your right to a speedy trial. If you can at all afford the wait, DO NOT agree to plea bargain. More than 90% of cases are plea bargained out. Fewer than 5% of cases go to trial. (The difference: If they can’t get a plea, sometimes they drop the case. They may know they don’t have evidence that will hold up in court.)

Courts do not have the capacity to put hundreds of protesters on trial in the space of a few weeks. (Especially now. Courts are operating at limited capacity.)

Keep pushing. The cities that want peace are starting to make offers. The mayors and city councils who want to be re-elected, are starting to realize that this isn’t going to vanish with next week’s news cycle. 

And in about another week, we’ll see the waves of COVID hit the police departments. (It’ll hit the protesters, too, and harder. But you don’t need two years of training and a hiring interview to join the protesters; police numbers are limited to what’s on hand today.) 

They have limited resources. And they’re stretched thin already.

[anarchopuppy]

Rumor in Seattle, based on activists listening in on police scanners, is that the 30-day tear gas moratorium they just declared is only because they ran out. Of course they then decided they could spin that in a way that looks good for them

I’ve also seen someone on twitter claim that inside sources are saying NYPD is having officers resign at a rate of 6 per day. Again, these are both just rumors, but added to what others have said in this thread I think there are a lot of good signs

Keep it up, y’all. Outlast them

[nativenews]

[pondnaravit]

[tiktoks-we-like]

[bitch-a-la-mode]

She’s trying so hard not to laugh 😭

[younotme4]

1. Yellow hijab as blonde hair

2. No voice but you hear it

3. The handle struggle

4. Hijab & Shoulders

[berniesrevolution]

They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

by Andy Warner and Jess Parker

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[antique-scarecrow]

this needs to be in EVERY u.s. history book