#Reforms

Taniel

Taniel

In my assessment, FIVE counties are *doubly* high-stakes criminal justice hotspots next week: they have both a DA race *and* a sheriff race that features real stakes for mass incarceration

Uzair Younus عُزیر یُونس

UzairYounus

THREAD: We often talk about circular debt, military spending, and debt servicing as major budgetary items that contribute to Pakistan's fiscal crisis.But in recent years, a new monster has emerged,

Brian Wallach

bsw5020

If you talk only of defeat, expect to lose. If you promise great victories without any basis in fact, expect to be proven wrong. If, however, you put in the

Tucker Jones

tuckcomatus

In my hometown of Chapel Hill, NC, the police department is openly defying orders from the Town Council #chtcTown Council ordered a ban on chokeholds and the police just... didn't.

TheRandomNarwhal

Random_Narwhal

Hey, I've been talking a lot about the whole George Floyd protests a lot lately, and one thing I think I haven't stressed enough is that there is a middle

People's Archive of Rural India

PARInetwork

On #AmbedkarJayanti , a THREAD with links to some of his most seminal writings and speeches!1/ This volume includes his famous speech- The Annihilation of caste, another on Justice

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

In the 1930s it was understood that if a Black man was accused of a violent crime against a white person on the Eastern Shore of MD, local officials would

Ian Dickson

IDickson258

I recognise that for years I have been wasting my time trying to get Whitehall & the care industry to see the care experience as a single continuous experience that

Let’s talk Vietnam

darrion_nguyen

THREAD: why are there many Vietnamese (not from the diaspora) pro-US - often anti-China as well? First of all, the excerpts from following quora answer is an excellent introduction to

Dexter Roberts

dtiffroberts

1) "An antiquated land-ownership system, also from the era of Mao Zedong ... suppresses social mobility for China’s rural poor. In contrast to urban real estate, which can be rented

🤔Jake Laperruque💉💉

JakeLaperruque

Some big surveillance news from a just released FISA Court opinion: FBI has been repeatedly using Section 702—a warrantless surveillance power meant for foreign intelligence—for domestic law enforcement in violation

Brad Haywood

BradleyRHaywood

THREAD: What if I told you that almost everything Off'r Gutierrez did in his interaction with Lt. Nazario finds at least some justification in the law? This is what we

JFK | Raising New Leaders for Political Change

JudeFeranmi

Dear Young NigerianIf you are within the age of 25 to 35, PLEASE LEAVE THE COUNTRY. It’s for your own goodThere is no scenario where things continue in this way

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Where's Russia? While - are competing for "global leadership" during the #COVID19 crisis, Russia is sitting this one out.Why is that? International Relations scholarship can offer some insights[THREAD] To be

Second Look Project

SecondLookDC

In case you're interested in learning more about the progress of juvenile resentencings in the District so far, here is a quick rundown of the (mostly pretty good!) media coverage

Peter Apps

PeteApps

Government to axe 'Section 106' in favour of new infrastructure levy in planning shake up. The law - which councils use to impose affordable housing requirements on developers - is