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🚨 Mamdani’s Community Safety Team Now Includes NYU Scholar Who Calls Courts a Source of “Perpetual Punishments” and Casts Child Protective Services as Police Justine Olderman now holds a joint appointment as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU Law’s Center on Race, Equity and the Law. Before that,...

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🚨 Mamdani "Community Safety" Pick Says Some Revolutionaries “Need To Be High” To “Take Over The State” Meet Kassandra Frederique, head of the Drug Policy Alliance and now a member of Zohran Mamdani’s Committee on Community Safety. In this interview about overdose deaths like Michael K. Williams, she describes herself as an abolitionist, a revolutionary, and argues there is a place for being high inside the movement: “As someone who is an abolitionist and also works to be a drug policy reformer, every day I have to fight the prohibitionists inside of me.” When celebrities die from overdoses, she has a wobble, then reaffirms the ideology: “When I heard that Whitney Houston passed, when I heard that Prince passed, you know, yesterday when I heard Michael K. Williams passed, it was a blow. And I go through my own existential crisis about like what am I doing? Is this, am I on the right side? I always come back to the point that the work that I do, the things that I believe in are right.” She frames it explicitly as Black revolutionary politics: “As Black people, and as Black people, what I assume as revolutionaries, the three of us talking, we’re like, you cannot be high when we’re trying to, you know, take over the state.” Then she flips it and justifies needing high people in the movement: “I think there are some people in our movement that need to be high so that they can imagine the world that we can’t see currently.” And she still ties all of this back to “the revolution”: “I think that for the revolution to actually happen, we need all those people to be working together.” Deaths like Michael K. Williams become a brief “existential crisis” before she decides she is still on “the right side” and doubles down on safe supply, testing, and a movement where some people “need to be high.” This is who Mamdani chose for his Committee on Community Safety.

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🚨 UPenn Law Professor Says Child Protective Services Is Part of a White Supremacist Kidnapping Regime, "Abolition is the Only Answer" Dorothy E. Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, is not just critiquing child protective services. She says the “family policing system” literally kidnaps children, exists to uphold a “capitalist, racist, white supremacist, patriarchal, ableist system,” and must be abolished outright. This is an Ivy League civil-rights and law professor telling an audience that abolishing CPS is the only way to keep children safe. “We see that abolition is the only answer to the harms that the system is inflicting on children and also the only answer to truly supporting families and keeping children safe.” “I think that at abolishing the family policing system is a necessary step. Even to imagine more creatively about families, but it’s also a necessary step to stop the punishment of families that don’t meet the, you know, heterosexist, racist family norm.” Roberts argues that child protective services is a false front that survives only because any real change would threaten the racial capitalist system she believes it protects. “What it’s really protecting is the idea that this nation cares about the safety of children and the the reason why children aren’t safe is because of their pathological parents, they’re deficient parents. Therefore, you know, why, why have that, why believe that? Because then you don’t need radical social change.” Roberts says her experience has taught her that the time for reform is over. “I, so I know very well from personal experience that reform does not work, and that’s what led me to write my book Torn Apart, that takes a very strong and clear stand for abolition as the only way, again, not only to end the harms that this system inflicts, but also to imagine and create the approach that we need to truly keep children safe and support families.” You would hope UPenn would be embarrassed by this. Based on their track record the past few years, they will probably just keep their heads in the sand.

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Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

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🚨 Weather Underground-Era Militant Laura Whitehorn: “Those Pretty Little Reforms” Make the System “More Impervious to Attack,” “Support Every Single Person on the Left,” and Demands “No Exclusions…Based on the Crime” — Even in “Cases That Involve Killing Cops” The Weather Underground generation didn’t fade away with age. They’re treated as elders of today’s radical left and, in many ways, still shape a discourse that continues to gain steam and influence. At 80, Laura Whitehorn—a Weather Underground–era militant who did over 14 years in federal prison for the 1983 U.S. Capitol bombing and related “Resistance Conspiracy” attacks—is still on Zoom panels about “punishment and solidarity,” telling organizers that “those pretty little reforms end up making the, the system more impervious to attack,” and insisting that you “support every single person on the left, no matter what we think, even if they're not in our group or they're in another group, we are, we must unite against the state.” From there, she pushes a maximalist abolition line: “We insist on no exclusions in any kind of effort to get people out… no exclusions based on the crime, the nature of the crime, because that is the way the movement has been built for years.” “Why else, why else live if we're not going to fight for one another?” As she tells it, “the whole point of mass incarceration, which is about destroying black and brown communities, is to destroy resistance,” and “mass incarceration was a response to the revolutionary movements…in the 60s and 70s.” The “lesson of this moment,” she says, is that it’s not about “little reforms,” but about “the building of a powerful movement to overturn the system and to undo the racist punishment system.” She applies that logic to murder cases: “We are trying to get these guys out of prison, and they have cases that involve killing cops, and so they are targeted by the cops, and we can't get any support.” Her answer is simple: “Get the person out of prison and then argue with them about their tactics if you don't like them, but if we allow the state to define what's acceptable, that's really going to kill us.” She even praises the Center for Constitutional Rights for stepping in on these cases, saying “hard cases make big changes in in power struggles”—and that’s the same CCR whose legal director, Baher Azmy, now sits on Zohran Mamdani’s “Legal Affairs” transition operation. What I’m watching on a radical Zoom call with a former terrorist isn’t some fringe example. It’s directly connected to people plugged into Mamdani’s transition team.

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The system is broken, but people don’t realise it until it’s too late and they themselves are in it. Most of the public still believes the legal system operates with fairness, integrity, and justice. But those who enter the family courts—especially victim-survivors of abuse—discover something very different. They learn that the system is not designed to protect them or their children. They learn that speaking up is punished. They learn that “contact at all costs” is the default, even when it means placing children with abusers. In the recently released documentary, Kate Kniveton bravely shares how draining the process has been: financially, emotionally, and psychologically. But she’d do it all again to protect her child. Every survivor-parent I have represented has looked into the jaws of family court, steeled themselves, and continued fighting on, doing whatever it takes to protect their children. And I've seen the family court harm them in ways the abuse they escaped never could. These women's courage is extraordinary. They deserve safety and belief. For now, Kate and her child are safe. But the future is uncertain because the law still presumes contact is in a child’s best interests, even when there’s clear evidence of abuse. As I argue in He Said She Said, this presumption is not just outdated—it is dangerous. It protects perpetrators and punishes protective parents, especially mothers. Kate’s story is one of rare legal recognition. But the system she faced is routine. And while her bravery has helped expose the reality of the family courts, we should not expect survivors to carry this burden alone. We must change the law. End the presumption of contact. Protect children. Believe survivors.

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🚨 The Decarceral DA Candidate Who Wanted to Strip Power from the Police Commissioner and Push a $30–$50 Minimum Wage Is Now on Mamdani’s Legal Affairs Team Tahanie Aboushi is a former Democratic candidate for Manhattan DA. In 2021, she ran on a platform of declining to prosecute charges tied to poverty, mental illness, drug use, or prostitution, and shifting away from what she called “knee-jerk, prosecute-at-all-costs, revenge-type prosecution.” Aboushi now sits on Zohran Mamdani’s Legal Affairs transition team—bringing that same decarceral, “systemic oppression” worldview into the upcoming mayoral administration. In her telling, prisons are sites of violence and police power has to be stripped back: “Our prisons and jails are not safe and they’re not sanitary and they’re violent.” “We need to take the final determination of discipline for police officers away from the police commissioner.” She also talks like a wage-policy maximalist, saying—a few years ago—that she’s effectively on board with a $30–$50 pay floor: “I’m a fan of, you know, $30 to $50 an hour type thing… people can’t afford even some of the most basic things, choosing between trying to ride the subway and getting a meal.” You can see the CRT-inflected worldview really crystallize in how she talks about crime and victimhood: “We still criminalize communities of color to scapegoat for the powerful and privileged who get away with things… we’ve made people of color to be the face of crime in this city, and that’s why for me part of my platform is to be tough on white-collar crime.” “If I say the word criminal, what gender and race comes to mind? If I say the word victim, what gender and race comes to mind? And why do we have those notions?” Believe it or not, this is yet another failed DA candidate now embedded on Mamdani’s transition team.

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68,412 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад