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Kwamena Blankson retweeted
If $80 million is getting “saved” in the Connecticut state budget due to unfilled positions in human services agencies — that represents a reduction in quantity/quality of those state employee-delivered services.
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
This year we are hoping to reach 1,5 million followers of @AuschwitzMuseum.
Less than 120k is needed to reach the goal.
It is possible, but we do need your help.
Please RT & amplify our voice.
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
“Senator Lee, Senator Cruz have talked about, ’Oh, this Dobbs decision just returns it to the elected representatives of states' ... These are the same states that are stopping people from voting!"
— Law professor Khiara Bridges at hearing on legal challenges after Roe reversal
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
Today was "narrowly focused," but the committee will go broad in the future. Leaves us with a clip... #HATH
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
We spoke directly to Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention and thanked him for all his thoughts and prayers.
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
The wedding photo of Hungarian Jews Miklos and Hellena Stein. The couple came from Oradea / Nagyvárad. He was a shoemaker & she was a seamstress.
They were both deported to #Auschwitz where they were murdered on 30 May 1944. He was 45 & she was 44 years old.
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
Sadly, this is one of the most accurate back-to-school ads I’ve ever seen.
Watch to the end.
Imagine one of these children is YOUR child.
Pick one, then imagine that is YOUR child in that situation.
#Uvalde
#UvaldeMassacre
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Kwamena Blankson retweeted
For the second straight day, the Michigan Senate GOP ended session early in a cowardly attempt to silence Democrats from speaking on the Senate floor about the slaughter of children in Texas. But we won't be silenced. Here's the speech Republicans were too afraid to hear.
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT): “Spare me the bullshit about mental illness. We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we don't – we're not an outlier on mental illness.”
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
With a record # of new eviction filings, the Right to Counsel Program is over capacity in some areas. Intake will pause in certain zip codes to allow time to process current cases. Visit evictionhelpct.org for a current list of zip codes where new clients are being accepted.
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
Americans with disabilities deserve as much representation in our justice system as anyone else. Today, @SenMarkey and I introduced a bill, the Disabled Jurors Nondiscrimination Act, to prevent an individual from being unfairly barred from juries because they have a disability.
Kwamena Blankson retweeted
Black women make about 64 cents for every $1 a white man makes.
That gap has only closed by 3 cents in the last 30 years, reports @nwlc. With current trends:
▪️ Black women won't have pay equity until 2130
▪️ The average Black woman working for 40 years loses $964,400
#IWD2022
