[Plura-list] How cops spy on Black journalists; Teen Vogue on surviving rubber bullets; How Do We Change America?; Time to retheme Splash Mountain

[Cory Doctorow]

Today's links

* How cops spy on Black journalists: Wendi C Thomas is on Memphis PD's
enemies list.

* Teen Vogue on surviving rubber bullets: Less lethals are still lethal.

* How Do We Change America?: GW Bush is not our friend.

* Time to retheme Splash Mountain: "Problematic" doesn't begin to cover it.

* Appeals court rejects judge who wanted $65m for lost pants: Roy
Pearson, Jr has been at this for fifteen years.

* Compton's Black cowboys ride out: 100+ Black cowboys mass to support
Black Lives Matter.

* Wargame based on the 1968 Chicago police riots: Strategy and Tactics
Magazine #21 (1970).

* LRAD shields: Audio engineers develop sound cannon defense.

* MMT in the NYT: Happy book-birthday, Stephanie Kelton!

* This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019

* Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing
projects, current reading

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🙇🏿‍♂️ How cops spy on Black journalists

Writing in Propublica, reporter Wendi C Thomas describes how she
discovered that the cops in Memphis, her town, were spying on her.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-police-have-been-spying-on-black-reporters-and-activists-for-years-i-know-because-im-one-of-them

She discovered that she had been targeted for surveillance as part of an
ACLU lawsuit that revealed that Memphis PD had violated its consent
decree and undertaken surveillance of the public to track Black Lives
Matter activists.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/10/26/memphis-police-violated-decree-spying-protesters/1780238002/

She was one of three journalists targeted by the cops; she says, "My
sin, as best I can figure, was having good sources who were local
organizers and activists."

Why was MPD banned from conducting domestic surveillance? Because in the
sixties, it had spied on teachers, student unions, labor organizers and
other justice workers, including Martin Luther King, Jr.

The actions were so egregious that the cops were subjected to a consent
decree, but by 2016, they had renewed surveillance of anti-racist
activists, maintaining a ban-list of people not allowed in City Hall,
including relatives of victims of police murder.

The officer in charge of this, Sgt Timothy Reynolds, a white man, posed
as a Black man on Facebook to infiltrate the movement. He gave briefings
to large local corporations, including FedEx and Autozone, that
requested them.

Reynolds' "intelligence" was "littered with unfounded rumors,
misidentified photos of activists and surveillance reports of events
that posed no clear threat, such as a black food truck festival."

One of the consequences of this surveillance and the enemies lists that
Reynolds compiled was that Thomas was barred from interviewing the
mayor, despite Thomas's standing as a pillar of Memphis journalism.

Thomas never got an answer from Reynolds about why he'd added her to his
list of suspicious people. But she used public records requests to get a
look at the file he'd illegally compiled on her. She found the most
petty, idiotic shit.

Reynolds had saved a social media post she'd been tagged in that
reproced a screenshot of ANOTHER social media post a local cop had made,
one with "an offensive image."

He'd saved Facebook posts in which Thomas had shared an announcement of
a grassroots activist meeting - a meeting she hadn't attended or
organized, because she was at Harvard at the time, doing a fellowship.

Thomas has lived through retaliation from the city ever since she
objected to being put on a secret enemies list. In one case, the mayor's
office schemed with the Crime Commission to ensure that other
journalists got key details on her stores before she did.

She's had to sue to be included in the distribution list for the city's
media advisories.

It's the most petty, inane, paranoid bullshit imaginable, an indictment
of a thin-skinned city government cowering in its basement, jumping at
shadows, terrified of truth-tellers.

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🙇🏿‍♂️ Teen Vogue on surviving rubber bullets

The transformation of Teen Vogue into a radical leftist publication is
one of the brightest spots in this ridiculous timeline. I am so here for
their big think pieces explaining socialist feminism:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the-hard-stuff/#wages-for-housework

And for their timely dunks on the likes of Andrew Cuomo, whose shuck
they were onto long before he publicly sided with the violent criminals
in uniform that have turned NYC into a battleground.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/grifters-gonna-grift/#comparative-virtue

And now, true to the spirit of lifestyle mags, they've got some
practical advice for readers: "What to Do If the Police Shoot You With a
Rubber Bullet," by Laura Pitcher.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-do-if-you-get-hit-with-a-rubber-bullet

tldr: Rubber bullets aren't (just, or always) rubber, and they can kill
or maim you. Wear protective clothing. Watch out for collateral injuries
as you race to flee the cops who are shooting you for protesting police
violence.

Seek medical care, because fractures aren't always obvious (co-signed -
I once stood up and walked for like 15 mins after getting creamed by a
drunk on my bike; I didn't walk without crutches for 6 months afterwards).

If a fragment is lodged in your body (or eye socket, etc), get a doctor
to remove it. Don't try to remove it for yourself.

Look, it's fucking terrible that Teen Vogue has to explain this stuff to
its readers.

But it's fucking *amazing* that they're there to explain it.

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🙇🏿‍♂️ How Do We Change America?

One of the most important, wide-ranging and concrete essays I've read on
the current uprising comes from Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in the New
Yorker: "How Do We Change America?"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-do-we-change-america

Taylor quotes MLK Jr, shortly before his assassination: "In a sense, I
guess you could say, we are engaged in the class struggle." That is, the
struggle for Black liberation isn't just about bigotry, it's
discriminatory policies in education, housing, health, retirement, etc.

Taylor demands that we look at these structural issues, widening the
frame. When Obama decries the burning down of the only grocery store in
a Black neighborhood, Taylor asks, "Why is there only a single grocery
store in this woman’s neighborhood?"

When Obama tells us to look to the recommendations from his 2015, "Task
Force on 21st Century Policing," Taylor asks "Why do police reforms
continue to fail?" In other words, don't just ask why the police *are*
racist, ask why they *remain* racist.

When Biden calls for "accountability, oversight, and community
policing," Taylor points out that this is basically a quote from the
Kerner Commission report...

...From 1967.

Taylor doesn't lay out a course from the current state of affairs to a
better one, rather she traces the repeated failures brought on by trying
the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

She calls on us to try something different. To expand the frame "beyond
the racism and brutality of the police"- beyond "the barbarism of the
act that stole George Floyd’s life." The problem with focusing on these
acts of barbarism is they make the tent *too* broad.

Many people can credibly take a stance against murdering someone by slow
asphyxiation under color of law, while still being monsters. Focusing on
spectacular police violence GW Bush, the butcher of New Orleans, the
hanging governor of Texas, to claim solidarity.

GW Bush and I are not part of the same struggle. If your struggle's
demands are so modest that GW Bush can get behind them, you might want
to take stock of that struggle.

The movement needs to articulate a program that GW Bush would never,
could never, co-sign.

Taylor: "We must also discuss the conditions of economic inequality
that, when they intersect with racial and gender discrimination,
disadvantage African-Americans while also making them vulnerable to
police violence."

The problem with America isn't the "depraved individuals" that murdered
George Floyd: it's the system that gave those murderers badges and guns
and qualified immunity.

Taylor: "The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to
challenging its brutal police alone. It must conquer the logic that
finances police and jails at the expense of public schools and hospitals."

My theory of social change is that movement growth is a "scalloped
curve" in which you have a "normal" state that is disrupted by a
spectacular event, like a ghastly police murder. This mobilizes
supporters who had other priorities, and brings in new supporters.

The spectacle fades, and many of those people drift away to more
immediate causes, like feeding their families and paying their
mortgages. But the new "normal" is higher than the old one, because for
some of those people, the cause is the *most* important thing in their
lives.

Each event raises the "normal" level to a higher place, until events
reach a tipping-point of broad-based support from both disfavored and
favored classes, whose solidarity mean that repressive police tactics
are no longer politically feasible.

Ironically, it's these "mixed" protests, filled with members of
protected affluent classes, that get called "peaceful" - not because
their participants are less militant, but because the police can't
afford to start beating the shit out of them.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/03/white-nationalist-pogrom/#evidence

And here's where Taylor sees a glimmer of hope, because while the Rodney
King uprisings were overwhelmingly Black, the current waves of protests
are "stunning in their racial solidarity."

Taylor: "The whitest states in the country, including Maine and Idaho,
have had protests involving thousands of people. And it’s not just
students or activists; the demands for an end to this racist violence
have mobilized a broad range of ordinary people who are fed up."

Today's protests are bigger and broader than the uprisings that came
before: "they have built upon the vivid memories of previous failures,
and refuse to submit to empty or rhetoric-driven calls for change."

"This is evidence again of how struggles build upon one another and are
not just recycled events from the past."

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🙇🏿‍♂️ Time to retheme Splash Mountain

Disney made a *lot* of...uh, problematic...movies, but none quite so
indefensible as Song of the South, a Reconstruction movie in which a
formerly enslaved man tells a young, wealthy white boy about how nice
things were during the slavery era.

When was this movie made, you ask? During the 20s? Perhaps the 30s? No,
1946. Walt knew it would be trouble - so much so that he actually hired
a blacklisted Communist to do a pass on the screenplay in hopes that
this would deflect criticism.

"See, a Red worked on it! It can't be reactionary!"

You know what's weirder and more terrible than Song of the South, though?

Splash.

Mountain.

Splash Mountain, which opened in 1989, was supposed to just be a great,
fun flume ride. But then Michael Eisner was anointed CEO of Disney in
85, having fended off corporate raiders who wanted to break the company
up for parts.

And he looked at this flume ride on the drawing board and said, "Shit,
we should theme this thing for that super-racist movie that we're now so
officially embarrassed about that we no longer allow theaters to screen
it and that we will never release on VHS.

"If there's one thing the kids *love*, it's minstrelsy. This thing will
*slay*."

The compromise that Splash Mountain struck was to only include Br'er
Fox, Bear and Rabbit, and to expunge Uncle Remus entirely.

( Uncle Remus still haunts the ride, in a series of grossly offensive
quotations on signs in the queue that rhapsodize over the living
conditions of enslaved people)

Which brings us to 2020 and ::gestures vaguely:: all of this.

This is the moment, as @tiahsoka says, for a "Disney retheme splash
mountain challenge!"

https://twitter.com/tiahsoka/status/1270181896454934529

Tia's challenge has attracted many excellent contenders, but none so
good as @FreddyFromBatuu, a castmember who proposes "Princess and the
Frog was made to replace Splash Mountain. The Laughing plece is replaced
with the Other Side."

https://twitter.com/FreddyFromBatuu/status/1270193107934441472

To which I say:

FUCK.

YES.

If you want to learn (lots) more about Song of the South, the canonical
source is Karina Longworth's superb You Must Remember This podcast
series on the movie:

http://youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2019/10/21/six-degrees-of-song-of-the-south-episode-1-disneys-most-controversial-film

Longworth makes some very discomfiting comments on the whole area of
Disneyland that includes Splash Mountain, starting with New Orleans
Square, themed for the time in which NOLA was the continent's most
notorious slave market.

And including my beloved Haunted Mansion, which, as Longworth points
out, is an antebellum mansion, between a slavery-era New Orleans Square
and Splash Mountain, a celebration of slavery, and which is full of the
ghosts of white people.

Which offers you this chilling challenge: to retheme the Haunted Mansion!

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🙇🏿‍♂️ Appeals court rejects judge who wanted $65m for lost pants

After 15 years, former administrative law judge and committed vexatious
litigant Roy Pearson, Jr has met with another setback in his quest to
sue his dry cleaner for $65,000,000 for losing a pair of his pants in 2005.

https://loweringthebar.net/2020/06/lost-pants-case-year-16.html

Pearson's case turns on his dry cleaner's sign that advertised
"satisfaction guaranteed." In his view, this means that his dry cleaner
is legally obligated to do anything and everything until Pearson is
satisfied.

The dry cleaners offered several perfectly reasonable settlements, each
of which was rejected by Judge Pearson, who eventually demanded $65m,
and also $10k, on demand, whenever feelings of dissatisfaction seemed on
his mental horizon.

He lost his job over this, and sued for wrongful termination, and lost,
and appealed, and lost. The DC Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed
ethics charges, which he contested, lost.

He appealed that loss, naturally, and now, he has lost. Again. The court
found that Pearson's dry cleaner litigation was "preposterous" and that
Pearson had interfered with the justice system by bypassing small claims
court, suing in superior court instead.

Writing in Lowering the Bar, Kevin Underhill points out that Pearson
could still take his case to the Supreme Court, so we may be in for
still more Pants Follies. Here's Underhill's comprehensive history of
the caper:

https://loweringthebar.net/2016/06/pants-chapter-28.html

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🙇🏿‍♂️ Compton's Black cowboys ride out

Earlier this week, 1,000+ people marched on the courthouse in Compton,
LA; they were joined by the Compton Cowboys, a Black riding club, along
with friends who formed a procession of 100+ riders.

https://www.lataco.com/compton-horse-protest

The LATACO gallery of photos from the ride might just be the most
wholesome, heartening images you see on the net this week.

Black cowboys are part of the American story, albeit one that has been
thoroughly erased from our popular narratives. One in four cowboys on
the American frontier was Black.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lesser-known-history-african-american-cowboys-180962144/

But Black riders remember their history, and they're giving everyone
else long-overdue history lessons. It's not just in LA, either -
Houston's Non-Stop Riderz are an incredible addition to the city's protests.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/black-trail-riding-club-houston-protest/

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🙇🏿‍♂️ Wargame based on the 1968 Chicago police riots

One of the 20th century's most celebrated street battles was the Chicago
Police Riots of 1968, when CPD descended on protesters who'd convened on
the Democratic National Convention.

Notably, it was the first time cops clubbed reporters alongside
protesters, and thus it was the first time the press shared images of
the brutality that US cops had visited upon antiwar and civil rights
demonstrators.

It led to one of the most bizarre political criminal cases in US
history, the Trial of the Chicago 7 (reduced from the Chicago 8 after
Bobby Seale was severed from the case, after being repeatedly chained
and gagged in the courtroom).

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/30/archives/books-of-the-times-chicago-the-trial-in-history.html

In 1970, Strategy & Tactics Magazine - the oldest of the wargaming
magazines - ran an issue with a cut-and-play game called Chicago!
Chicago!, in which players pitted  the cops and the demonstrators
against each other.

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2660981/chicago-chicago

It's a frankly bizarre artifact, and I spent quite a bit of time blowing
up images from Board Game Geek and trying to figure out what it must
have been like to play it in 1970.

If I could get a scan at sufficiently hi-rez, I'd be tempted to frame
and hang that game-board.

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🙇🏿‍♂️ LRAD shields

The long range acoustic device (LRAD) is a "less-lethal" focused-sound
antipersonnel weapon that has made several appearances in the current
round of anti-police-violence protests, wielded by cops to rout and
demoralize crowds.

https://www.soundlazer.com/how-does-a-long-range-acoustic-device-lrad-work-teardown/

In addition to the threat they pose to protesters' fundamental rights to
seek redress, LRAPs are credibly associated with permanent hearing
damage in their victims.

Dave and Gabe run a sound studio. Alarmed by the use of LRAPs, the sound
engineers built a sonic-cannon shield that doubles as a protest sign.

https://www.daveandgabe.care/

As Dave Rife told Motherboard's Janus Rose, "The idea is there could be
a few of these in a car, driven to the location where someone has seen
an LRAD, and then carried by hand from there."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzpna/audio-engineers-built-a-shield-to-deflect-police-sound-cannons

The shields are made "from a pine batten structure filled with recycled
denim insulation, and covered by a half inch of clear acrylic on both
sides, enabling the user to see ahead through a small window."

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🙇🏿‍♂️ MMT in the NYT

Happy book birthday to Stephanie Kelton on the publication of her
long-awaited "The Deficit Myth," a book that could NOT be more timely in
this moment of massive structural unemployment and trillions of free
money for the wealthiest among us.

https://stephaniekelton.com/book/

Kelton is one of the leading proponents of Modern Monetary Theory, which
describes how money actually works, as a series of accounting flows, and
makes some profound observations about the implications of understanding
how government spending actually works.

I've written about Kelton's work before:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/14/everybody-poops/#deficit-myth

But here's the shortest possible summary I can give:

Money *issuers* (sovereign states) have a different relationship to
money and debt than money *users* (everyone else: people, companies,
local governments).

Governments don't spend our taxes. Governments spend new money into
existence and tax some of it back out of existence. Governments get new
money from the same place Starbucks gets new gift-card codes: by typing
entries into spreadsheets.

Governments aren't "monetarily constrained." If something is for sale in
a currency the government prints, it can buy it. Governments are
constrained by resources - that is, which things are for sale in its
currency: labor, resources, manufacturing capacity.

Government "debts" aren't like household debts. If governments owe debts
in their own currency, they can pay by creating more currency (it's
different when the debts are in another currency: Venezuela can't pay US
dollar debts by printing Venezuelan bolivars).

Government debts are where our money comes from. Governments spend money
into existence: if they "balance their budgets" then they tax all that
money back out again. That's why austerity *always* leads to economic
contraction - governments are taxing away too much money.

There's one other source of money, of course: bank loans. Banks have
governments charters to loan money that they don't actually have on hand
(contrary to what you've been taught, banks don't loan out their deposits).

When there's not enough government money in circulation, people seek
bank loans to fill the gap. Unlike federal debts, bank loans turn a
profit for bank investors. The more austerity, the more bank loans, the
more profits for the finance sector (at everyone else's expense).

So talk of "fiscal responsibility" from business groups is just a
pretence for creating the conditions in which they earn interest every
time someone needs money that the government has withdrawn from the
economy and has to pay financiers for it instead.

You can tell that business leaders don't really care about deficits:
that's why they cheered the 2008 bailout, the 2018 tax bill, and the
trillions that Congress has gifted to America's largest corporations
since the crisis.

As Kelton pointed out in her recent interview with Marketplace, these
firms know that deficits aren't necessarily inflationary - inflation is
when there's more money than there are things for sale in that currency.

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and-molly/maybe-modern-monetary-theory-is-an-answer-to-the-covid-19-economic-crisis/

The pro-oligarch squad opposes government spending that makes everyday
people better off because it makes it harder to coerce them into
predatory loans and unfair working conditions - not because of inflation.

After all, today, 25-35% of our workers have no market for their labor -
the private sector doesn't want that work. The feds could spend the
money into existence to give each one of those workers meaningful
employment doing care work and environmental remediation.

Forget the (laudable) goals of #FightFor15: the true US "minimum wage"
is $0/hour, which is what the people who can't find work earn for their
labor. A federal jobs guarantee would put a true floor under the price
of labor in America.

Kelton writes superbly about this, with a flair that is rare among
economists. To celebrate her book's publication, she's published an
op-ed in the New York Times: "Why I’m Not Worried About America’s
Trillion-Dollar Deficits."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/opinion/us-deficit-coronavirus.html

Like many of us, Kelton initially agreed with Margaret Thatcher's 1983
speech: "the state has no source of money other than the money people
earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more, it can only do so by
borrowing your savings or by taxing you more."

But after Kelton read Warren Mosler's "Soft Currency Economics," and
discussed it with him in person, she had a profound realization about
the true nature of money - and the needless cruelty and waste of austerity.

Her first published paper, 2016's "Do Taxes and Bonds Finance Government
Spending?," was a landmark attempt to bring Mosler's ideas to academic
economics.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00213624.2000.11506296

Four years later, we're living in an MMT world, with Congress engaged in
multitrillion dollar spending without any Pelosian "payfors" in sight.

Kelton: "Every economy faces a speed limit, regulated by the
availability of its real productive resources — the state of technology
and the quantity and quality of its land, workers, factories, machines
and other materials. If any government tries to spend too much into an
economy that’s running at full speed, inflation will accelerate. So
there are limits. However, the limits are not in our government’s
ability to spend money or to sustain large deficits. What MMT does is
distinguish the real limits from wrongheaded, self-imposed constraints."

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🙇🏿‍♂️ This day in history

#10yrsago Clay Shirky's COGNITIVE SURPLUS: how the net lets us share and
do more than ever
https://boingboing.net/2010/06/10/clay-shirkys-cogniti.html

#5yrsago Anarchy in the UK Mastercards
https://twitter.com/VirginMoney/status/608182215395131392

#5yrsago Being a cop just keeps on getting safer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/02/once-again-police-work-is-not-getting-more-dangerous/

#5yrsago UK schools using spyware to monitor students' ideology
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/10/schools-trial-anti-radicalisation-software-pupils-internet

#1yrago The NRA begs gun nuts for donations, spends lavishly on its
board of directors and execs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nra-money-flowed-to-board-members-amid-allegedly-lavish-spending-by-top-officials-and-vendors/2019/06/09/3eafe160-8186-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html

#1yrago On Grenfell's second anniversary, 60,000 Britons are still
living in firetraps clad in the same deadly, decorative materials
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grenfell-tower-fire-material-high-rise-buildings-flat-block-a8946276.html

#1yrago A grandmother is suing the TSA for strip searching her to get a
look at her panty liner, on Mother's Day
https://professional-troublemaker.com/2019/06/06/tsa-strip-searches-grandmother-on-mothers-day-for-over-feminine-hygiene-product-gets-sued/

#1yrago A trove of leaks show that Brazil's "anti-corruption" task force
was secretly trying to oust Lula and install a far-right strongman
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-archive-operation-car-wash/

#1yrago Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're working
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead

#1yrago Weekend SIM-swapping blitz targets US cryptocurrency holders
https://www.zdnet.com/article/wave-of-sim-swapping-attacks-hit-us-cryptocurrency-users/

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🙇🏿‍♂️ Colophon

Today's top sources: Kottke (https://kottke.org), Super Punch
(https://superpunch.net/), Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/), Fipi Lele,
Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/).

Currently writing: My next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel
about truth and reconciliation. Yesterday's progress: 589 words (25345
total).

Currently reading: Adventures of a Dwergish Girl, Daniel Pinkwater

Latest podcast: How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse
https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/06/01/how-big-tech-monopolies-distort-our-public-discourse/

Upcoming appearances:

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