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President Biden's announcement today about student loan debt relief has upset some people who believe it's unfair. I acknowledge that resentment, and also, while we're on the subject of unfairness, I have some thoughts for your consideration. (thread)
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It's possible getting neurodivergently beat down about how you never think the right way your entire life enables you to understand others more easily because you're deeply accustomed to the idea, "Maybe how I'm thinking about it's wrong" & people who've "never" been wrong don't.
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In the past week, conservatives have signaled they're coming for:
✅Obergefell v. Hodges (same sex marriage)
✅Griswold v. Connecticut/Eisenstadt v. Baird (birth control)
✅Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage)
✅Lawrence v. Texas (gay sex)
They're telling you their plan!
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a far-right legal group that writes many of the anti-trans bills around the country, tells the Washington Post states should have the right to criminalize sodomy.
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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There really is no excuse for police to hide from the public the names and prior records of officers who’ve harmed people. It’s just another part of a system that is designed to avoid accountability at every level.
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trans people aren’t being unrealistic for begging an administration that campaigned on its support of their rights to do literally anything to help them
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This is not the first time Portland Police shared inaccuracies as facts. Should they be held accountable - yes. Will they be held accountable by the Commissioner in charge of the Bureau - the Mayor? No bc when has the Mayor ever held Portland Police accountable?
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For the Japanese American community, today is a solemn day. It's the Day of Remembrance, the anniversary of FDR's Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were citizens of the United States.
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Kim Potter, a white police officer, was just sentenced to less than two years for killing Daunte Wright.
This is the same system that sentenced Crystal Mason, a Black mother of three, to five years for voting when she didn't realize a past felony conviction made her ineligible.
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Minnesota police have killed 3 people in the past 66 days, all of which were Black men.
You cannot reform this system @DocumentingMN @MnUrising
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"You just come out and say this and expect us just to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true," said @APDiploWriter. cdreams.news/3GrMFJ7
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Veterans and people on Medicaid are still not eligible to get free at-home COVID-19 tests through their insurer.
bit.ly/3opGoaD
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[3/3] Mark my words: No kid ever committed suicide because they read a cuss word in a book. LGBTQ kids commit suicide because they feel there is no place in the world for them. The right book, at the right time, can save a life. Our kids deserve that chance.
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Caller: my religious relatives made me uncomfortable at Christmas
#sarahsilvermanpodcast
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Latest CDC data by vaccine status:
Unvaccinated: 451 cases per 100k
Vaccinated: 134 cases per 100k
Boosted: 48 cases per 100k
Unvaccinated: 6.1 deaths per 100k
Vaccinated: 0.5 deaths per 100k
Boosted: 0.1 deaths per 100k
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The struggle for civil and human rights continues.
Understanding this truth from my father matters:
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.“
#HumanRightsDay #MLK
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Holy shit - if you consider yourself anti racist please watch this whole thing - it’s (((nuts)))
This is a very good short film on the deeply coded nature of much antisemitism, particularly on the internet but going back further than that. It starts with a bit about some comments underneath a video of me, which includes stuff even I wasn't aware of. vimeo.com/517984855
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Wow. A lot of shitty, racist, violent, sexually inappropriate, stuff from both the Gresham SROs and staff at Gresham High School over the past couple of years.
WE BELIEVE YOU.
Please watch the stream from Students Against Oppression: instagram.com/p/CV4F6fqJVQg/
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Got word about Gresham students holding a press conference starting at 6pm before the school board meeting tonight at 7pm.
ALT Flier with white text and am ombré pink (top left) to periwinkle (bottom right) background Students Against Oppression PRESS CONFERENCE Location: GRESHAM BARLOW SCHOOL DISTRICT Time: 6pm We have submitted our public testimony to the school board and since they are not allowing people to read their testimony we will be taking this time to read it publicly.
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Imagine killing an aid worker. Imagine killing his family too. Imagine seven of them were actually children, smiling little tots.
Then just rising from your chair to grab a coffee and saying, "mistakes were made."
This is absolutely unforgivable.
BREAKING: A Pentagon review concludes that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and doesn't recommend disciplinary action, @AP learns. apne.ws/b30bj00
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This thread is about two facts: 1) Human caging kills. Each year in custody reduces a person's life duration by two years; 2) It is a scientific fact that human caging does not reduce crime. These two facts are not widely known, and that is a failure of judges and media.
