Sophie Hurwitz
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As colleges and universities across the world shut down or go online for covid-19, there’s one urgent question I feel isn’t being addressed: how are these schools going to support people who need their work-study jobs or school-provided housing or health insurance to survive?
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St. Louis said we see your big letters on the road thing, and we’re gonna level it up a bit:
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A week or so ago, I decided to try and figure out how many colleges and universities changed their protest policies over the summer.
The answer: 50+ campuses across the country.
Dozens of campuses quietly implemented new “expressive activity” policies over the summer—effectively banning many forms of protest.
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NOW: Mumia Abu-Jamal is calling in to the CUNY-CCNY encampment from prison. Students blast his phone call over the encampment audio system.
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Cori Bush came to congress as a Ferguson protester. The 10-year anniversary of Mike Brown’s death is Friday, and tonight, she lost her seat in Congress—because she brought those same values beyond St. Louis and called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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I transcribed the first ~3 minutes of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s call from prison with the students of the CUNY Gaza solidarity encampment. The imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther has been jailed for over 42 of his 70 years.
NOW: Mumia Abu-Jamal is calling in to the CUNY-CCNY encampment from prison. Students blast his phone call over the encampment audio system.
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I was one of the Jews! Donate to our legal fund if you have the means.
@CosechaMovement
BREAKING: 36
#JewsAgainstICE
arrested blocking the detention center in Elizabeth, NJ. This is just the first of many actions across the country!
Join us:
Help with legal fees:
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BREAKING: Fordham University students launch a Gaza solidarity encampment, just hours after encampments were swept at CCNY and Columbia.
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Harvard just announced it’s closing its doors for the semester, without announcing a plan to support students who need its services for their day-to-day lives and health. A lot of my friends there are in a very sudden very tough place now, and I’m really scared.
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Starting to think the NYT is like…kind of obsessed with trans people or something…how does a nonbinding student referendum at a 2500-student undergrad college warrant the Breaking News Alert Push Notification omg
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BREAKING: antizionist Israeli activists disrupt Friends of the IDF gala in NYC
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St. Louis has come up with a list of demands for this wave of protests. They were handed out on little yellow cards throughout the crowd downtown now.
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Hour 3 of the Manhattan bridge blockade. The sun’s going down. People are dancing to keep warm. Still no mass arrests.
Happening now:
@jvplive
blocking the Manhattan Bridge for a permanent ceasefire. Three activists arrested trying to hang a banner. Folks are getting out of their cars, protesters engaging them to explain what’s going on
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An addition from a friend with a private account on what this means from a disabled student’s perspective.
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A jumbo version of one of Refaat Alareer’s last tweets—and massive police presence—outside Bari Weiss speech at 92NY now
At 6:30pm, an autonomous emergency action has been called against
@92ndStreetY
for hosting an event with alt-right contrarian pundit Bari Weiss, who famously intently misinterpreted a joke from poet Refaat Alareer, leading to his assassination by the IDF.
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The least these institutions—especially those with endowments of millions of dollars—can do is support their students with housing, healthcare, etc during this time.
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Pay attention to what's happening at Swarthmore. Today students took over a frat house and are demanding that the university re-allocate the space because fraternities promote sexual violence.
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Today, 4 friends & I disrupted Amazon’s recruitment at a Harvard career fair. We stood by their table & distributed fliers asking students to refuse Amazon jobs until they end their ICE contract.
If students everywhere refused to work with ICE collaborators, what would happen?
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A friend who was there describes being essentially forced to climb over a line of cars or be arrested—they asked a police officer to let them leave via the street, and instead of allowing them to exit he moved toward them and said “come out here so we can lock you up”
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A rich text in the field of Jewish Masculinity Studies
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Hundreds of students walked out of Parkway Central HS in chesterfield this morning after racist graffiti was found in a bathroom. They’re demanding a Black students union
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“What would you say to Netanyahu?” “I think he should’ve stayed in Philadelphia.” “What would you say to Palestinian political prisoners?” “That I am with you.”
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“This is a moment for independent journalists,” Abu-Jamal says. Immediately after the prison phone call system cuts him off, a student journalist grabs the mic and suggests putting together an encampment publication of their own, to be called the People’s University Press.
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Updated this list a bit this AM. It’s now at nearly 100 different campuses.
A week or so ago, I decided to try and figure out how many colleges and universities changed their protest policies over the summer.
The answer: 50+ campuses across the country.
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@annevclark
I was no joke talking to a classroom full of 7th graders about how fun and cool journalism is when I got the email in question
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Passing out these fliers, along with water and cookies and oranges, to folks on the bridge
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Seeing a lot of people online acting like
@uncommittedmvmt
‘s request for a speaker at the DNC is some sort of last-minute thing, which is wild because I’ve been reporting on *this specific demand*
@motherjones
for a full month—it’s not new!
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This march has happened every year for the past few years in Bay Ridge without incident.
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Michigan Uncommitted delegate Abbas Alawieh won’t pledge his vote to
@KamalaHarris
without knowing her Gaza policy.
For that, he was told “shut up, asshole” on a Democratic Party zoom call.
I spoke with
@AZAlawieh
about it for
@MotherJones
.
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Students have only been in there for about an hour. Police/security are locking down the building. Also doing this: dropping a tarp to obscure signs on the windows.
BREAKING: Fordham University students launch a Gaza solidarity encampment, just hours after encampments were swept at CCNY and Columbia.
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St. Louis Missouri the most important city in the world and I mean that too
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Leaked documents from Phi Psi at Swarthmore, which date back to 2016, casually reference sexual assault. They refer to part of the house as the “rape attic”. These students are occupying the frat house, under risk of arrest, to make sure they don’t get away w this anymore.
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I’m seeing liberal Zionists posting in dismay that John Hagee is speaking at the DC rally for Israel today. CUFI’s been the largest Israel lobby group in the US for 10+ yrs — was it unclear that when you march under the banner of American Zionism this is who you’re marching with?
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Update: as of now, the number of Harris delegates signed on to the ceasefire/arms embargo letter has nearly reached 200.
For
@MotherJones
, with
@nlanard
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Happening now:
@jvplive
blocking the Manhattan Bridge for a permanent ceasefire. Three activists arrested trying to hang a banner. Folks are getting out of their cars, protesters engaging them to explain what’s going on
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.
@CoriBush
“when I was 17, I was raped…when I was 18 I decided to have my first abortion. So….we are here because…we have justices that don’t believe in Justice.”
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Going to school as the world collapses feels like such an absurd way to move through life, and we should acknowledge that more
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Protesters
@jvplive
Blocking several lanes on the Manhattan Bridge: “president Biden pick a side/ceasefire not genocide” 450,000 people cross this bridge per day.
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As the temporary ceasefire ended and Israel resumed bombing Gaza, the Friends of the IDF fundraiser in NYC looked like this:
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This is so disgusting. They’re coming for the dead for being not Jewish enough?
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“Pulling me away from my position as congresswoman…all you did was take some of the strings off.” That’s how Bush opened her concession speech. The applause shook the floor. “I just grew up a whole lot more over the last few weeks. So what they are about to get…”
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Students press a phone against the glass to update those outside: admin says that students inside will face suspension if they don’t leave within the hour, and alums will be banned from campus.
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BREAKING:
@SEIULocal1
janitors and allies are now occupying a street in downtown St. Louis to demand a $15 minimum wage
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BREAKING: ~400 American Jews and allies with
@jvplive
have occupied the Statue of Liberty to demand that Biden call for a ceasefire. 10,000 tourists pass through here every day. Right now, all lines entering the statue base are on hold.
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How normal is it to just cold-email writers I admire like, “hey I think your work is good, wanna get coffee?”
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Forced displacement rebranded as mercy
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Israel agrees to 4-hour daily 'humanitarian pauses' in fighting in Northern Gaza to allow civilians to flee.
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Over a thousand students at 17 different universities have pledged to refuse to take any job with Palantir until they drop their contract with ICE. Proud to have helped coordinate this effort with
@ConMijente
and
@NeverAgainActn
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It’s 2020 how have people not figured out that striving for an ideal of perfect objective journalism is not only impossible but more often than not leads you to obfuscate important truths in your work that could be revealed if you’d recognize you’re a human with a perspective
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Not a new take but one of the many awful things about twitter as a medium is that its formatting discourages nuance, and then we all get mad at each other for failing to be adequately nuanced like we’re surprised or something, when that’s literally how this website is designed
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ICE employees are screaming at protesters, demanding to be let into the building. “ICE is closed,” a protester responded.
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Interviewed a really badass grandma who occupied the Statue of Liberty yesterday.
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BREAKING:
@Harvard
’s BLGTQ Undergraduate Business Society (HUBBS) has decided to cancel an “ethics panel” with Palantir, the company whose technology made ICE’s mass raids last August possible. HUBBS‘ email to students is here:
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Started drafting this in mid-October, rewrote it 3 or 4 times, and now it’s finally out. 3,500 words on the American Jewish Palestine-solidarity movement — and what it can mean to be an anti-Zionist Jew — now, for
@TeenVogue
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Going to court in Elizabeth, NJ, to face criminal charges from when I was part of the first group of
#JewsAgainstICE
to shut down an ICE detention center this summer. I am proud to be spending the week of my 21st birthday this way.
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According to ICE’s website, they have ~20,000 employees. If even a small # quit, it would slow down their operations—a new ICE employee takes ~6mos to train. Today,
@NeverAgainActn
ATL is offering them free&confidential support if they quit their jobs:
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Are you a US college/university student? Did your university institute new protest/demonstration policies after last spring’s encampments? Do you want to talk about how that’s impacting you as you begin the new school year? DM me! (For a
@MotherJones
article)
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About a month ago, I began communicating with two medical students in Gaza over WhatsApp. Between bombings, evacuation, and internet blackouts, they told me about their harrowing experience volunteering as “frontline doctors” at Gaza European Hospital.
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Boeing is one of the largest employers in St. Louis—lots of people I grew up with felt they had to choose between their principles and a Boeing weapons-manufacturing paycheck. Heartening to see young people in STL rejecting that choice
HAPPENING NOW: 75 anti-militarist youth organizers are blocking all entrances to Boeing manufacturing plant 598 near St. Louis, MO.
We demand Congress and Biden call for
#CeasefireNow
and
#StopArmingIsrael
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Shoutout to the people (presumably
@EmersonCollege
students) who did this outside the fascist Boston Straight pride parade route
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On the national mall now. “Jews will not stay silent while our historical trauma is weaponized to cover up the trauma of others,” said an organizer. The crowd cheered.
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Uncommitted delegate
@AZAlawieh
: “I am very curious to hear how Vice President Harris would differentiate her own Gaza policy from President Biden… [I] hope that she articulates a more humane approach that allows for us to, hopefully, save lives.”
Biden or Harris? “Uncommitted” delegates just want someone to stop the bombs.
As top Democrats try to push out Biden before the DNC, frustrated voters say they’ll back anyone who calls for a permanent ceasefire and stops military aid to Israel.
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St. Louis kids said if Biden isn’t gonna demand a ceasefire they’ll just cancel the arms shipments themselves
A coalition of organizers with
@wearedissenters
blocked three entrances at a
@Boeing
facility near St. Charles.
Two hours into the action, workers are being sent home and shipments have been cancelled for the day.
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After
@Wellesley
offered their two non-Native senior class presidents the chance to give the first land acknowledgement at a Wellesley commencement in 143 years, those students tried to pass that platform to an enrolled Aquinnah Wampanoag graduating senior. The school said no.
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For
@MotherJones
, with
@nlanard
: about 120 Harris delegates have joined the ~30 Uncommitted delegates in calling for an arms embargo. The Dem. Party platform, expected to be approved in the coming days, includes no restriction of arms shipments to Israel.
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While eating ice cream, while folks asking for a ceasefire were getting handcuffed in the public lobby of the same building, a lot going on
This is surreal that he announced this while eating ice cream.
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The protest has grown to three groups, now: in the street, on the roof, in the encampment itself
BREAKING: Fordham University students launch a Gaza solidarity encampment, just hours after encampments were swept at CCNY and Columbia.
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The students intend to take their safety into their own hands and sit in at the frat houses until the space is repurposed and the power the fraternities have reallocated.
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After the Ferguson uprising, we were told meaningful police reform—a safer policing system, a less wantonly violent one—was a possible future in St. Louis. In the decade since, well:
Hundreds showed up to protest
@WashU
's ties to
@Boeing
amid the war in Gaza today.
Now, as
@erjlee
documents, mass arrests have begun by campus and local police. Stay tuned to
@stlpublicradio
for more soon.
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BREAKING, AGAIN: as of 10:25 P.M., Phi Psi has also disbanded. The work of
@O4Sswarthmore
has paid off.
BREAKING: BECAUSE OF THIS ACTION, ONE OF THE TWO
@swarthmore
FRATERNITIES, DELTA UPSILON, HAS DISBANDED. Phi Psi, you’re next!
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Small thing, but: as of March (tomorrow!) I’ll have spent one whole year full-time freelancing — and paying my bills doing so. I’m proud of myself.
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Vigil for Nex Benedict at Stonewall: “Nex Benedict could’ve been any of us, could’ve been any of our kids, could’ve been any of our future”
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Downtown stl currently is like: I’m at the cards game I’m at the abortion rally I’m at the combination cards game abortion rally
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BREAKING: BECAUSE OF THIS ACTION, ONE OF THE TWO
@swarthmore
FRATERNITIES, DELTA UPSILON, HAS DISBANDED. Phi Psi, you’re next!
Leaked documents from Phi Psi at Swarthmore, which date back to 2016, casually reference sexual assault. They refer to part of the house as the “rape attic”. These students are occupying the frat house, under risk of arrest, to make sure they don’t get away w this anymore.
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If I missed your school, do let me know! And thank you to all the students and professors who spoke with me.
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Just received the most outrageously needy campaign text
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every protest I’ve attended in the past few weeks: at like 90-95% mask wearing
The White People Block Party I drove past just now: guess
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Participants in an official DNC panel are calling it a genocide. Meanwhile, the 2024 Dem policy platform includes no language about an arms embargo—or even a permanent ceasefire.
First ever official Democratic National Convention panel on Palestinian Human Rights featuring Uncommitted leaders #
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I have never before seen someone turn a concession speech into a rallying cry. “And let me tell those corporations…I’m coming for you too. And I ain’t coming by myself. I’m coming with everyone in here. Whether I’m the congresswoman or not, I’m still taking care of my people.”
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Babe wake up new article misrepresenting nonprofit fiscal sponsorship in order to allege nefarious ends just dropped
Pro-Palestianian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden's biggest donors
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@nycDSA
@IfNotNowOrg
@NYCCouncilUnion
New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance just turned up for
#NotAnotherBomb
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New Yorkers with
@jvplive
are blocking Biden’s route outside the Metropolitan museum of art. No sign of the President, but arrears are starting.
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One of my closest friends’ uncle died this week of COVID19. He was 55. My friend tells me her professors are still assigning her insurmountable levels of work in her online classes—how is she supposed to focus through this?
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They can’t build systems of terror and surveillance if we all refuse to give them our time and our talent to do so.
#NoTechForICE
#NeverAgainIsNow
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The DC curfew is at 7. They have voting today, and the polls close at 8.
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In my latest for
@thenation
I analyzed nearly 4 decades of Joe Biden’s quips about the Jews so you don’t have to:
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🚨Atlas Air, a cargo airline headquartered in White Plains, NY, has sent at least five chartered cargo planes to Nevatim Air Force Base in Israel since October on a U.S. Department of Defense delivery contract. This is the first direct action targeting Atlas in the US.🚨
WOW - 70+ Jews & allies organized by
@JFREJNYC
have taken over the white plains office of
@AtlasAirWW
to shine a light on this air cargo war profiteer’s role fueling genocide. Activists dressed up as pilots have taken over the lobby to say
#AtlasFliesForGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
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Some personal news:
After a great/challenging year on staff
@StLouisAmerican
, I’m leaving at the end of Dec. to spend 6mos
@thenation
building research and fact-checking skills.
I still plan to freelance report about/in STL though, so local news won’t be completely rid of me☺️
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As protests move towards Mayor Krewson’s house, these two have come out of their house to threaten us with guns
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Yesterday, 1000s of people marched from Copley Square to the Israeli Embassy in Boston for
#FreePalestine
, ultimately occupying the entrance of the embassy building.
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Photos from the inmate uprising at the St. Louis City Justice Center jail have been circulating on here today. So I’d like to draw attention to one specific photo: this sign here which reads “what about Anthony Smith” (thread)
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