A lot of the accounts you follow and interact with on here are not Mastodon accounts!

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There are dozens of different server types on here, not just Mastodon servers. When you talk about this place, it's not enough to call it "Mastodon", because it's more than just that.

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What troubles me even more than the #impropriety of the #influence peddling #Justice #Thomas accepts, is that the rest of the justices have never, ever, to my knowledge made a stink about it. Zip. Zero. Nada.

This impresses me as a #systemic problem. A #cabal of #elite enthusiastically turning their heads to the improprieties of their fellows, to preserve the #privilege they are all benefitting from.

If the one is implicated, all must be implicated, if we are to see any chance at #reform. Because, as concerns the #SupremeCourt, change can only come from the top.

So, please. Don’t look down your nose at Clarence Thomas, while ignoring the fact that the other justices are not only enabling his behavior, but most likely partaking in it to varying degrees as well.

Be loud. Hold them all to account.
#FightBack
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

This cannot stand. #ClarenceThomas must resign.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/04/clarence-thomas-accepts-yacht-rides-plural

I keep seeing strange takes from lawyers suggesting caution before condemning Clarence Thomas and, well, look, if my girl Sonia is also secretly living up the high life in the offseason on a billionaire's dime then impeach her too.

But she isn't. He is and he isn't even sorry.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

The Problem With Police Reform Is That Police Already Know It's Bad To Beat People To Death

Like most flavors of police reform, these measures presume that the police officers who kill do so only because they simply don't know what else to do, because they haven't been trained to do anything else. It presumes that they won't use a chokehold if they are told to not use chokeholds. It presumes that if we just tell police officers "Hey, stop murdering people who are no kind of actual threat to you," they will stop doing that. It assumes a certain amount of good faith that is not necessarily applicable to the kinds of police officers who kill people. https://www.wonkette.com/tyre-nichols-police-reform