Man is robbed at gunpoint an ATM. He retrieves his own gun, chases the robber, fires. He misses and kills a 9-year-old girl instead. A Texas grand jury refuses to indict: the gunman was defending his property. https://t.co/2s0ayCBkjt
If we do not vote in November, if we do not HOLD THE LINE NOW, then the spiral of chaos will continue. The Republicans are under the spell of misinformation. They believe an entirely different reality, just as the Russian people do over Ukraine. They can be led to do anything. /5
‘When the penalty for rape is less than the penalty for abortion after the rape, you know this isn’t about caring for women … [but] about controlling them.’
In 2019, poet @TheAmandaGorman took a stand against abortion bans in the U.S. & her words are just as relevant today.
hi! in light of recent bullshit:
i am a transgender boy living in alabama. i am making this thread in a desperate attempt to make y'all see that i'm just a normal goddamn kid.
In a nearby country that was also subjugated by the Kremlin, thousands of Latvians sang Ukraine's national anthem in front of the Russian embassy in Riga Friday night
“I cannot imagine how much of an asshat you must be to have a colleague ask you to wear a mask when you’re sitting together and to refuse her.”
— @JVLast on Justice Gorsuch
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In his Senate office, Sen. Reid had a photo of an African-American boy in the Oval Office with @BarackObama. The boy is reaching up to touch the President's hair. Pres. Obama is bent down to let him do so. Obama signed it: "To Harry, who made this possible." Quite a team.
Breaking: Georgia legislature passes gerrymandered Congressional map giving GOP 64% of seats in state Biden won with 49.5%. GA gained 1 million people over last decade, all from people of color, but new map increases # of white GOP districts & reduces minority representation