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Thinking Thursday #2

Policing Desperation: Who Gets to Be Believed?

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Jewels
Aug 21, 2025
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Last night, historian Heather Cox Richardson laid out the macro view of how “fraud” has been weaponized for more than a century — from Reconstruction to MAGA — to silence women, Black people, and anyone pushing for equity.

Today, I want to share the micro view: the ordinary street corner where the same ideology played out. A man with a cardboard sign d…

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