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Jessica Pishko
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Jessica Pishko
@JessPish
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Author of The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
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- 8 yo was asked to sign a contract to agree to class rules at school. She said to the teacher, "It's not a valid contract if I don't have a choice."
- Still laughing about the fact that Louisiana Sheriffs cited “dog unemployment” as a reason not to legalize marijuana.
- People are posting about the Shasta County sheriff's office that helped kill a girls goat, but let's not forget that northern California sheriffs aligned with the far-right also let people be killed because they were too lazy to respond to calls.
- Here's the thing about the horrific images from the border. That's the Border Patrol doing their job. So if those images horrify you, then "reforming" Border Patrol won't cut it because they have no other job to do.
- “Only a fascist makes a political speech backed by men in military uniform.”
- Strong showing from the man who told me he "didn't like being surrounded by Jews."Comparing former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson to Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says: "The last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis. This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them."
00:00 - What if kids get used to food?
- Ron DeSantis is speaking to Florida sheriffs. He just said that people should be executed when "8 out of 12" agree because requiring "everyone is just too much."
- I understand there are rules about linking and quoting. But I talked to @nytimes for over an hour and asked them please link to my work.
- Short of abolishing the department I’m not sure how this will workLA County Sheriff's Department announces policy formally banning deputy gangs abc7.com/post/la-county…
