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Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

founder, @CivRightsCorps civil rights lawyer author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (2025) views here are my own, not civil rights corps

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Watch this video featuring our work @CivRightsCorps to learn about how our case will free almost 20,000 people from jail every year in Houston, Texas.

A judge doubled this woman’s bail because she said ‘yeah’ instead of ‘yes’



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When McFaul goes over to his friend’s house and opens the fridge and his friend says “have whatever you like”, McFaul walks out with the ice cube treys because he has no concept of context. Language, for him, is entirely free-floating and self contained.


There are almost no instances in corporate media where there is a debate about the role of police, prosecutors, and prisons that includes a person critical of those institutions. One result? Many liberals and Democrats are wildly uninformed and misinformed. The "debate" below…

equalityAlec's tweet card. DEBATE: Do People Take "DEFUND" Seriously? (w/ Matt Stoller & Alec...

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DEBATE: Do People Take "DEFUND" Seriously? (w/ Matt Stoller & Alec...


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Would not make sense to have this many people on drug boat. Hegseth ordered their murder, and then ordered the witnesses to be killed. Extremely clear cut crime. Barely a war crime as there is no war. Just the U.S. killing people.

A reminder that this first strike killed 11 people, an unusually high number for a purported drug-smuggling boat, suggesting that those executed were likely victims of human trafficking.



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It should be noted that in 9 months @nytimes was the only major US outlet that didn’t publish a single article about this.

mamoun_linda's tweet image. It should be noted that in 9 months @nytimes was the only major US outlet that didn’t publish a single article about this.

This horror is the predictable result of the choices made throughout the political, media, and “law enforcement” institutions not to apply basic principles and laws of murder to those who perpetrated Obama’s flagrantly illegal drone assassinations.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.…



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Zero Unit 03 was headed by Ahmed Wali Karzai, a highly paid CIA thug who ran the drug trade in Kandahar. The DC shooter was basically a sicario for the biggest drug cartel in history, which the CIA created, armed, and funded. What's happening is blowback from a vast heroin racket

CIA confirms that the DC Nat'l Guard shooter worked for a secret US-backed death squad called Zero Unit 03 in Kandahar, conducting nocturnal operations. His childhood friend in Khost confirms he was addicted to drugs and distrubed by the pointless killing he inflicted.

VitalistInt's tweet image. CIA confirms that the DC Nat'l Guard shooter worked for a secret US-backed death squad called Zero Unit 03 in Kandahar, conducting nocturnal operations. His childhood friend in Khost confirms he was addicted to drugs and distrubed by the pointless killing he inflicted.


This debate exposes how baseless mainstream punditry is on cops, prosecutors, and prisons. Pundits don't know how the punishment bureaucracy works or the empirical evidence, and they're wrong about what's "popular." No wonder media rarely discusses it. youtube.com/watch?v=uZClcB…

equalityAlec's tweet card. DEBATE: Do People Take "DEFUND" Seriously? (w/ Matt Stoller & Alec...

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DEBATE: Do People Take "DEFUND" Seriously? (w/ Matt Stoller & Alec...


It is very rare in our society that we have a deep debate in any media setting where prominent pro-police advocates are forced to defend their views. I tried my best in this fascinating and contentious conversation to hold those views up to scrutiny. open.spotify.com/episode/5zV5z9…


As she hits the news again, remember that I have a little section on Fani Willis in the Copaganda book. It's a must read to understand **why** Democrats and reporters at the New York Times portrayed this mass incarceration bureaucrat as some kind of progressive hero.


This is absolutely incredible reporting. We cannot look away from this, and it is pervasive across thousands of human caging facilities across the U.S.

Our team @mstodaynews, @nytimes & @reveal spent 10+ months interviewing >70 former inmates, former guards & deputies of a Mississippi jail. We discovered a pervasive culture of brutality, including inmates being ordered to beat other inmates. And it went straight to the top. 1/9



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