Abolish the Police
April 20, 2021 8:42 PM PDT
Greg, Brian, Munya, Justin, and Colin talk about Historical Mechanicalism’s latest series on President Lyndon Johnson, Jumbo Rising, before discussing the possibilities of the Chauvin Trial, the backdrop of continued police shootings, Lori Lightfoot’s evasive maneuvering in the face of scandal and how it relates to our own Jenny Durkan, and Jeff Bezos’ parting plan to make Amazon warehouses more humane with an algorithm.
Sign up to our Patreon to listen to the first part of Historical Mechanicalism’s series on Lyndon B. Johnson, Jumbo Rising
Read the tweets about police using photos of children as targets at the gun range (here, here, and here), and the thread on the murder of a 17 year old in a high school bathroom in Knoxville by a police officer
Read about Jeff Bezos’s latest algorithmic scheme in Vice