Maybe this is just my timeline, but why aren't American progressives dancing in the streets? The child tax credit in the Rescue Plan is a basic income for children. It'll cut child poverty in half. IN HALF!!! The word 'historic' is overused but this seems very very historic to me
It’s a coup in their minds but not in real life. The United States government cannot be sacked by a mob of angry white dudes. If the police or the military wanted to flex and end this right now, they could. They’ve decided to let them blow off steam
This will probably pay off in the short term, but more than anything it should extinguish any residual doubt about who the Dems are/want to be and who they are emphatically not. Some thoughts...
THREAD: Over the last 3 days, I have cried myself to a fitful sleep. I’m a reporter which means I can’t say everything I want but I will say this: Imagine being in elementary school & your teachers telling your mom how scared they were of you when you walked in class. As a child.
My mom is a 70-year old former Panther who home schooled her children because she “didn’t believe they could be fully realized humans in the presence of whiteness.”
She lives in Moncks Corner, SC