paranoid @paranoid@darkest-timeline.com

24 year old Summer Taylor passed away today after being struck by a car during protests in #Seattle which took the I-5 freeway. Taylor joins a growing list of people killed during the recent rebellion following the police murder of #GeorgeFloyd.

A friend just got fired for suggesting that they have a black lives matter special and donation jar at work. Anyone in north #seattle looking for a really reliable lead barista?

The #BLM #Seattle Freedom Fund

The funds collected through this fund will go to the immediate release of people protesting the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Manuel Ellis (May 2020). Any remaining funds will continue to be used for future bailout efforts as an ongoing community bail fund project.

https://blacklivesseattle.org/bail-fund/

If you want to understand the mainstream political climate of seattle, you just need to know that the paper of record for the city published an editorial describing an attempt to get a small payroll tax on big business to pay for services as the city's "war on employers"

https://www.beyond-prisons.com/prisoner-support-guide-for-the-coronavirus-crisis

"People in prisons, jails, and detention centers are at high risk of infection and have seriously abridged access to health care and hygiene within facilities. The overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of confinement, coupled with inadequate, neglectful, and often punitive responses to medical needs, mean that COVID-19 poses serious risks to this population."

Check out this guide to supporting prisoners during the COVID19 pandemic.

The shock doctrine in action: suspending civil liberties and giving the Trump administration the ability to imprison people without trial
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RT @timkmak@twitter.activitypub.actor
ALERT: "The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States." https://…
https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1241413073761689602

Please call ‭*67 (209) 547-3723‬ and demand that everyone be released from Yuba County Jail

Refugees and victims of domestic abuse have lower immune responses because of their trauma. There are cancer survivors and immunocompromised people in Yuba right now who need your support.

This Google doc has all the necessary information AND phone scripts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qXdeTFoLA38WT6oOOrCke6VWsoDkUrqf7YwTw5VAAHc/

At the same time that Trump was downplaying covid-19, Richard Burr gave a speech to a private meeting saying that the opposite would be true https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818192535/burr-recording-sparks-questions-about-private-comments-on-covid-19