This month in the US, people were shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car, using a leaf blower, delivering food to the wrong address, driving into the wrong driveway, and for asking a neighbor to stop shooting so a baby could sleep.
It’s the fucking guns.
Public safety does not begin with policing. Public safety begins with investments in community.
Until we're investing in a living wage, health care, after school programs & violence interrupters, we're not having a serious conversation about reducing crime. We’re dog whistling.
NEW: Just signed our budget. California will now be the first state in the nation to achieve universal access to healthcare coverage.
This is what being “pro-life” ACTUALLY looks like.
40% of Uvalde’s city budget goes to police. The school district had its own police force. This is what happened ⬇️
After decades of mass shootings, there is still 0 evidence that police have the ability to stop them from happening. Gun safety and other policies can.
Sorry, but this tragedy isn’t “unimaginable.” We saw ten people killed at a grocery store last week! We saw an elementary school shot up with 20 kids dead less than ten years ago. It’s very much imaginable now.
More white women have spoken out about being traumatized by Will Smith slapping someone than yesterday’s mass murder of innocent Black grocery shoppers.
@JoshuaPotash That Tops was one of the only grocery stores in the area. With what has happened, the store will be closed for some time. The Buffalo Community Fridge isn't too far from the site. So if you wish to provide some aid, you may.
“People of Color” is not the progressive, PC, term you think it is. Let’s discuss why and provide useful context as to why you should discard it from your vocabulary entirely and it should be removed from academia and literature moving forward.
More than half of trans kids seriously contemplate suicide. Consider that when you hear the Texas Governor wants to label treatments for trans kids as “child abuse.” Shame on you @GovAbbott.
I don't know who needs to hear this but you don’t have to give up your skinny jeans if you don’t want to. What’s in and what’s out is all a ploy to keep us all buying things until the planet is dead.
Every school should be a safe, nurturing place of learning. Students and educators at Oxford High School in Michigan were robbed of that today. I'm thinking of each one of them this afternoon—and how we will keep working for a day when no one has to fear for their life at school.