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โ€œThe Monster is Actually the Policeโ€: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann

Hard Crackers Editors

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We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing ...

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How a Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police

John Garvey

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During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smokeย canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street ...

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A Few Bad Apples

JF

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Since the George Floyd Rebellion last summer it has become common practice to paint all police officers in the United States with a single brush. The average American used to believe that most cops were just ...

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Friday the 1312: A Review of “Body Cam”

Jarrod Shanahan

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Itโ€™s a dark and stormy night in Swinton, Louisiana. Officer Kevin Ganning shakes off the rain as he enters a dingy diner ensconced in the ambience of gritty cop noir. He is not welcomed. The black ...

Returning to Lovecraft

Chad Manburg

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โ€œThat is not deadย which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.โ€ โ€” H.P.L. NOTE: Contains minor spoilers. Donโ€™t get me wrong โ€” I used to devour books and enjoyed other genres besides ...

Direction

Mike Morgan

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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth, The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south โ€œSubstituteโ€ by The Who (1966) Most thinking people on the side of ...

“Weโ€™ve been thinking about a world without policing, a world where we can actually surviveโ€: A conversation with Stickii and Shae Shae

Hard Crackers Editors

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In Part I of this conversation, we heard from Stickii and Shae Shae about their experiences with police growing up in Springfield, MA and what got them into the streets protesting from a young age. Now, ...

The Forward Pass โ€“ An International Recollection on Professional Sport Protest from the Bottom Up

The Left Hook

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The national insurgency against police brutality and murders has finally infiltrated the elevated ether of professional sports in America, quite spectacularly too.ย  It is both surprising and not so at the same time. ย I want to ...

COVID, protest, and now fire: Portland at a tipping point

Peter Little

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The past four months in Portland have felt like nature doling out warning slaps, demonstrating the fragility of all of our systems. In the midst of years of far right groups mobilizing and marching in the ...

In the Eye of the Storm: A Report from Kenosha

Fran, JF and Lane

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What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. ย -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha. Police roadblocks along I-94 ...