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D_J_Nathanson

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Criminal defense lawyer at Wood & Nathanson, LLP. Posts reflect my personal views only. Boosts are not endorsements. He/him.
https://www.woodnathanson.com

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BigAngBlack, to BlackMastodon
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Anybody listen to the most recent ?

@BlackMastodon
@blackmastodon

D_J_Nathanson,
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@BlackMastodon @blackmastodon @BigAngBlack No, but I will now seeing the topic. Tough but important conversation. Punk and metal have this same issue.

mekkaokereke, to random
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The unspoken context behind the "Battle of Montgomery" video:

  • When media mentions "blue collar" jobs, they usually picture rural white folk. But... most employed Black and Latinx people work blue collar jobs, and most people live in cities. In the US, blue collar employees are Black and brown.🤷🏿‍♂️

  • Blue collar employees are often asked to enforce rules, (like mask mandates).

  • When racist white people get drunk, they often use slurs against, spit at, or physically strike these Black workers.

D_J_Nathanson,
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@mekkaokereke Two things:

  1. As you say, I hate violence, too. But demanding perfect, restrained proportionality from Black people responding to racist violence is unreasonable.
  2. I wouldn’t assume the folks arrested can’t vote, not yet at least. The states with felony disenfranchisement that I know about require that you actually be convicted first. But I don’t know Alabama. Happy to be corrected.
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@mekkaokereke Voter education campaigns in jails are on the rise. In MA, we’ve actually had a number of Sheriffs cooperate with them in recent years. And in Boston, there were a number of candidate forums actually inside the jail, including the races for local prosecutor. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/26/unusual-forum-candidates-for-seek-support-inmates/jnp6JHbkRqRBokZGutY6GP/story.html

BigAngBlack, to random
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Yall ever see those dudes in the gym with the giant duffle? Never use a locker, just carries it from place to place the whole time. But never opens it.

the fuck is in that bag?

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@BigAngBlack Dude walks around at my gym with one of those, BUT NO SHOES! If your shoes are in the bag, take them out and put them on! What is wrong with you.

D_J_Nathanson,
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@BigAngBlack Yeah but he’s probably got creatine power socks in there for post-workout. Going for ripped toe mass.

D_J_Nathanson,
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@BigAngBlack His playlist is just this on repeat. https://youtu.be/-Iw-SZwGYu4

D_J_Nathanson, to random
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure (I'm a member) just proposed changes to the rules to permit filers to list their pronouns.

Here's my pitch to - even if you're a cis person with an unambiguous name, listing your pronouns on filings normalizes the practice and supports your trans and nonbinary colleagues. I need to be more consistent about this myself. https://www.mass.gov/info-details/notice-inviting-comments-on-proposed-amendments-to-rules-13-16-and-20-of-the-rules-of-appellate-procedure

D_J_Nathanson, to random
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It's all connected.🧵

93 years ago tomorrow, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were arrested on suspicion of murder of a white man and rape of a white woman. They were lynched less than 24 hours later by a mob in Marion, Indiana. A third arrestee, 16 year old James Cameron, narrowly escaped death. He went on to found and lead multiple NAACP chapters, he led Indiana's state civil liberties agency, wrote voluminously, and founded America's Black Holocaust Museum.

You know this incident because...

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After the lynching, Abel Meeropol, a Jewish communist schoolteacher from the Bronx, wrote the song "Strange Fruit," which became Billie Holliday's signature. And not just a signature, she insisted on it, opening each show with it. The beautiful sound of the song contrasts so powerfully with the lyrics depicting lynchings that she became a political target for the racist power structure. /2

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When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for atomic espionage — Ethel was almost certainly innocent — Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne adopted the Rosenberg’s children Robert and Michael and raised them as their own. They went on to have significant careers in activism and academia and founded the Rosenberg Fund for Children which supports children who have been targeted because of their or their parent’s progressive activism. /3

D_J_Nathanson, to random
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It’s !

Remember, when cops ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and then STFU:

  • I am not interested in discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.

  • Am I free to leave?

  • I am not answering any questions.

  • If they ask to search your bag (or anything else): "I do not consent to a search."

  • I want to speak to a lawyer. Then actually call a lawyer!

Pee Wee Herman covering a pay phone receiver and yelling, “I’m trying to use the phone!”
The Rock, towering over Pee Wee Herman, saying, “The Rock sees potential in you.”

D_J_Nathanson, to random
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Prisoners with mental disabilities claim discrimination by Massachusetts Parole Board

“The case is particularly important because … 41% of male prisoners and 79% of female prisoners had an open mental health case at the end of 2022; and 34% of men and 74% of women had a ‘serious mental illness.’”

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/08/03/prisoners-with-mental-disabilities-claim-discrimination-by-massachusetts-parole-board

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More excellent, relevant local reporting from @gbhnews

Popehat, to random

Mike Pence referring to a “gaggle of crackpot lawyers” is rude, unprofessional, dehumanizing, and unbecoming a presidential candidate.

The preferred terminology is “The Federalist Society.”

D_J_Nathanson,
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@Popehat That would be the Federalist Society which has chapters at most major law schools.

D_J_Nathanson, to vegan
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Updated introduction. I'm a criminal defense lawyer from Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. I’ve argued cases from small local courts to SCOTUS. I post about criminal law, prisons, policing, climate change, and my dog.

Vegan since 1989. Drive an EV (a Bolt). Grew up a punk and metal kid, but listen widely esp funk and hip hop.

I try to boost Indigenous voices, not talk over them.

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D_J_Nathanson, to random
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It’s days like this when actual criminal defense lawyers have an idea how actual virologists and actual epidemiologists have been feeling for the last three years.

Toastie, to random
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Apropos of non-Native Masto users making fun of an user (not me) for being light-skinned, let's talk about the colonial thought structure called BLOOD QUANTUM.

You might have wondered things like: Why do some Natives look so white? Are they reeeeally Native? Aren’t they just white people with one distant Native ancestor? Etc. Etc.

Here are some things to keep in mind.

🧵 1/7

D_J_Nathanson,
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@Toastie “Tribal status is a matter of CITIZENSHIP, not race.” I’m just repeating this point for emphasis.

onepict, (edited ) to random
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I saw a recent poll about HEMA, being a lapsed fencer myself I wondered.

How many fencers are there on the Fediverse? Did you lapse or do you feel fencing is too dilettante and you'd prefer a mace?

:BoostOK:

D_J_Nathanson,
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@onepict My law partner fenced at Stanford and still teaches.

D_J_Nathanson,
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@onepict She coaches kids in her own program.

D_J_Nathanson, to random
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It’s !

Remember ask for a lawyer and then STFU:

  • I am not interested in discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.

  • Am I free to leave?

  • I am not answering any questions.

  • I want to speak to a lawyer.

Denzel is your lawyer if you speak to the police. The Rock is your lawyer if you remain silent.

Denzel Washington as a lawyer slamming the desk out of frustration.
Dwayne Johnson as a wrestler scowling, then breaking into a big smile.

annaleen, to random
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From the world's most trivial news dept: So I've had the same broken laundry hamper for like ... twenty years. I inherited it from a roommate after college, and it gradually fell apart but I kept telling myself it was absurd to replace a thing that's just for laundry. Finally, I couldn't even put stuff into it anymore because it kept collapsing. So I bought a brand-new one! And I keep marveling at it. A hamper that looks nice and isn't cracked and stained and torn! It's a whole new era.

D_J_Nathanson,
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@annaleen Pics or it didn’t happen.

D_J_Nathanson,
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@annaleen And thus dies an early death.

D_J_Nathanson, to random
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PSA: vegans posting scientific articles about how being vegan emits less carbon is not proselytizing.

If facts annoy you, that’s on you.
https://earth.stanford.edu/news/could-going-vegan-help-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions

HailsandAles, to random
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Sunrise on Slaughter Beach by Clutch. I love this band

D_J_Nathanson,
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@HailsandAles I saw them in a church in Northampton, Massachusetts in I want to say 1991 or 1992 and we were like, “Who are these losers trying to be all spooky?”

BigAngBlack, to random
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Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/25/dwayne-johnson-donates-historic-amount-of-money-to-us-actors-strike-foundation

> The star of the Fast and Furious franchise has made a seven-figure donation to a Sag-Aftra Foundation Relief Fund, for actors who will face ‘financial ruin’ due to the strike in Hollywood

D_J_Nathanson,
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@BigAngBlack This is what solidarity looks like.

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