Ben Johnson

UMN ‘21

[Ariel Dumas @ArielDumas]

You must listen while a man mocks the woman he sexually assaulted in front of a laughing, cheering crowd OR ELSE YOU LIVE IN AN IDEOLOGICAL SILO!

[Eize Basa @PonchoRebound]

"An old professor of mine had this great thing..."

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

BTW: the Restrict Act, AKA the “Tiktok Ban” also means access to your home networks and devices…

[ProPublica @propublica]

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.

“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”

The inside story 🧵

[Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202]

Just a reminder that there are better options than bailouts.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

When we say "crime is a social construct", what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

The Onion continues to not miss

[Peter Bonilla @pebonilla]

Lawsuit: A Denver SWAT team marched a 77-year-old woman out of her home, sat her in a squad car, smashed into her garage with a battering ram, and made a mess of her house. The reason? A stolen iPhone pinged near her house. Spoiler: they found no phone.
https://t.co/EeHv3F7x8x

[FOOS GONE WILD @foosgonewild]

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

[Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunter]

I was just asked to be on The National to discuss Roe and abortion...and then I found out it would be a panel with a "pro-life/anti-abortion" voice. I am livid and sent this reply. I couldn't care less if this means I will not be asked back to the CBC. It needed to be said.

[Debbie Mia @ Likely a Nap @TheDebbieMia]

They found the cause of SIDS
THEY FOUND THE CAUSE OF SIDS

Excuse me while I cry for all the parents, including lead researcher Dr Carmel Harrington, who lived with guilt. And cry happy tears for parents in the future who will have access to screening and prevention. 😭

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Unadulterated white supremacy every night of the week

[nape mango @NapeMango]

this is just a fucking South Park bit

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

"Why aren't millennials buying houses?"

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

EXCLUSIVE: Two Amazon workers died within hours of each other at the company’s Bessemer warehouse last month.

One was denied sick leave before suffering a fatal stroke.

Workers tell @GrimKim that 6 people have died at the facility this year and Amazon is trying to cover it up.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

You have to ask yourself: if our economic system actively destroys the biosphere *and* fails to meet most people's basic needs, then what is actually the point?

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

remember like two weeks ago when conservatives tried to convince us that infrastructure had nothing to do with the climate crisis

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Thread. Have you ever heard of "civil asset forfeiture"? You're never going to think about the police the same way again. (1)

[DRAK @Drakoniques]

The myth that the public just needs to be more green to save Planet Earth allows these fossil fuel companies to deflect blame.

I can use as many reusable shopping bags as I like and it won’t change the fact that there’s a raging oil fire in the middle of the fucking ocean.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

They say the Green New Deal is expensive. Compared to what?