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Liz Botkin

@lizbotkin.bsky.social

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National Strike advocate, activist, trainer, book nerd, polymath, angry civilized American. Qui tacet consentire videtur. "Don't obey in advance." #fightthepower Ko-Fi.com/fivebees

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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 14h

This is horrific and unforgivable. They did nothing as this man had a medical crisis. There is a real "black guy, so it must be a drug problem" vibe coming from these officers' actions. www.kare11.com/article/news...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

Hand counting with surveillance by camera and bipartisan volunteers is the only 99% sure way to preserve integrity. The data transmission will never be secure with this oligarchy owning everything

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

QVC would be pretty funny, imo

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

Glad to see he's still taking his nose candy every 20 minutes.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

Unless they're playing fifth column, looks more like MAGAts to me. They're a violent coup and resigned their rights when they decided to facilitate mass murder and extrajudicial incarceration.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

If he wants to mail me something from the basement of the Vatican, I won't say no.

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Pank 🦑 @pankraru.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone wants to know a bit more about the history of "Excited Delirium" and how it came to be used, Behind the Bastards did a great 2 parter on it.

Heres Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRc...

Part One: Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented A Disease | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards

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ALD9119 @ald9119.bsky.social · 1d

#LinwoodLambert

He called an ambulance but cops showed up and “transported” him to the hospital instead of the ambulance. Multiple cops tased him at one time until his heart stopped then claimed it was drugs that killed him. The cops were never held accountable.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

Feds Close Inquiry Into Death of Linwood Lambert After Virginia Police Tasing

There will be no federal charges against three police officers who repeatedly tased a man outside a Virginia hospital in May 2013, the DOJ announced.

www.nbcnews.com

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

This was a wrong reply, sorry about that. American police do though, they're dumb as rocks and scared of everything.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

All of these violent people here are part of the same low education background. Functional illiteracy affects a lot of brain processes.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

They don't recognize mental health conditions and aren't expected to. So much like regular old school bullies, they identify them as a threat and ask questions later. Disabled citizens with a mobility disorder are also in danger of being a threat to cops by moving "differently"

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 6h

If we made a show in the style of Forensic Files, it would get purchase. We're fighting adult illiteracy and the intentional bombardment of exhausted workers with stuff. You commute two hours for 8 hours of work, come home, cook for kids, clean up, relax for an hour -- and that's the only pocket

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

I did. But I also recognize that both the modern concept of police and trespassing laws popped up mysteriously in 1865, so I assume it's related.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

Trump Is On The Epstein List

YouTube video by Maxx Starburst - Topic

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, but most Democrats are also on on the oligarchs' payroll. We have a handful who don't take PAC donations. Campaign and general donation rules need to be tightened up and enforced

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

By the by, is pacifism really pacifism if people die in concentration camps and in raids? I'm inclined to say no as a child of Agent Orange who studied WW2 for decades.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

History says nah, but that one zinger was funny so sure.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

I was going to make a joke, but there's at least one other dude here who agrees a baby can be in a placenta. Jfc.

You. Have. The. Internet. In. Your. Pocket.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

Please use your internet. Competently.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

You're on the internet being confidently stupid. Please stop.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

I need the laugh react here. Seriously. Wow.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks, gerontocracy.