Jon Scheib
@scheibiowa
public defender, litigator, rule of law, iowa hawkeye, tottenham, girl dad
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"America’s decision to worship guns as a false god is bearing catastrophic consequences." “You shall have no other gods before me....You shall not bow down to them or worship them"
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how idealogues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
“The right to have rights, or the right of every individual to belong to humanity, should be guaranteed by humanity itself.”
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
“Art has to do with our limitations, our frailties, and our faults as human beings,” the musician Nick Cave says. “That’s what is so awesome about art: that we deeply flawed creatures can sometimes do extraordinary things.” nyer.cm/8FUYVo0
Oyer: Perhaps the most personally upsetting part of the story is the lengths to which the leadership of the department has gone to prevent me from testifying here today. On Friday night, I learned that the Deputy Attorney General’s office had directed the department’s Security…
Say you were a foster kid from age 7 because your dad was murdered & your mom couldn't beat her substance use disorder. Growing up in a high-crime neighborhood, and lacking parenting or support, as an adolescent you found kinship in the streets, with other kids like yourself. 1/
🧵Dems are about to give $80b to IRS. Mostly for enforcement, as you've prob heard—but some of the $$ will also go toward upgrading the agency's IT. Which is desperately needed. How can you tell? Let me take you on a tour, starting with the IRS cafeteria washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…
I’ve always respected @Trevornoah so much but this closing speech from the White House correspondents’ dinner is particularly spectacular.
Someone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. 1/15
Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5
I would like to send him 200K prize. If he ever needs support, my husband was a chess champion from Mushin and represented Nigeria in international competitions. He attended OAU & Yaba Tech on scholarships. We can support him with what we can. Let’s get him off the streets!
Adeoye Fawaz, an 18 year old boy who works as a bus conductor and has lived years of his life Under oshodi bridge emerged as our overall champion in both chess and mental maths. A star is born.
Just seeing this Giannis answer. This is so intensely valuable. For anyone.
Please take the time to read this statement by @nhannahjones. Every word. naacpldf.org/press-release/…
Doesn't anyone fact check opinion columnists @nytimes? Because police budgets have largely increased around the country, not decreased, and homicides are up in cities with increased police budgets as well as those that have stayed the same. /1
In Opinion "They got what they wanted," former NYPD and LAPD commissioner Bill Bratton tells @MaureenDowd. "They defunded the police. What do they get? Rising crime, cops leaving in droves, difficulty recruiting." nyti.ms/3fUTGH5
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Opinion | Ex-Commish With the Dish (Published 2021)
America's top cop on better policing, race relations, Chauvin, Biden, Rudy and Andrew.
Just a reminder that 147 Republican members of Congress — one-hundred and forty-seven — voted to throw out duly certified electors for President Biden in Arizona and Pennsylvania on January 6, even *after* armed rioters attempted to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.
Trump left us with the worst wave of death in a century, the worst crime increase in years, the first net job loss in generations, and an insurrection attempt based on an avalanche of lies told across all forms of media. Twitter was one of his least important problems.
We have a border crisis, inflation, and gas shortages in Florida, but what's really important is that the president is nice on Twitter.
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