Be on the lookout for a gray sedan 8EDX427. The driver and a passenger were intentionally hurting cyclists in the East Bay last night. #BikeSF #BikeTooter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl0EdZtnY1M

https://www.reddit.com/r/oakland/comments/10zu36z/my_roommate_was_intentionally_hit_by_a_car_last/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Coh4eBBpVjY/

Clear video of a car passenger intentionally dooring cyclists as they try to ride around a car parked in an unprotected bike lane. Pretty much sums up what it's like to ride a bike in American cities.

This was before the #EastBayBikeParty ride in #Oakland last night, during which some other cyclists were harassed or clipped by drivers. #BikeOAK #BikeTooter (Edited to correct timing of incident.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl0EdZtnY1M

the smartest things the prison industrial complex ever did were

1) convincing American society that prisoners are all “rapists and murderers” despite the fact that: a) most prisoners are drug offenders, b) even most violent offenders are just victims of class society and could very easily be turned into non-violent people, and c) our country seems to be run by people who are either rapists or murderers and no one seems to care.

2) using that bad reputation to not only make people apathetic to any kind of brutality or atrocity committed against prisoners who don’t deserve any of it (see a and b) but using it as an excuse to increase the power the carceral state has over EVERYONE, all while smearing those who disagree as supporting rapists and murderers.

when talking about prison abolition, it’s important to note that most people, including most leftists, have internalized these ideas to a huge extent.