Yesterday, I was laid off by @TexasTribune after nearly 9 years.
New leadership got rid of its longest-tenured reporters and said they’ll no longer cover the criminal justice beat.
No one on police, prisons, courts, the death penalty. In Texas.
Here’s some of what we’ll lose:
America in Black and white
2022: $26 Billion settlement for opioid crisis that affected mostly white families
2023: $0 for Tulsa Massacre where 300 Black people were murdered and thrown in mass graves, $27 million in property, homes, grocery stores, hotels, nightclubs, billiard halls, theaters, doctor’s offices and churches, were destroyed, 10,000 were left homeless, and incalculable generational wealth that would have shaped and secured the fortunes of Black children and grandchildren was forever lost
Well folks, it appears to be official that Cop City contractor, Atlas Technical Consultants, has dropped the project due to overwhelming public pressure and direct action…
Organizing gets the goods!
Direct action gets the goods!
Onward!
#StopCopCity
As a student I reported out the allegations of racism made against the Northwestern cheerleading team and now similar allegations are coming out against their football team. Black players/staff were asked to cut their locks, Black cheerleaders were forced to remove their braids
Conflicting reports of radioactive contamination inside Jana Elementary School have confused residents of Florissant, a city that continues to be devastated by the legacy of the Manhattan Project.
https://t.co/h8pV3JIy1J
Found 7 people killed by cops yesterday. Fatal car chase in Hennepin County, people shot dead by cops in Columbus, OH; Council Bluffs, IA; Augusta, GA; Jonathan Charles J’Anthony III chased into pond+drowned in NC; mental health call execution in Roy, UT and Manassas, VA
Let us not be deceived: NATO is an expanding instrument of U.S. global power that provoked Russia into a criminal invasion and occupation of Ukraine. This proxy war between the American Empire and the Russian Federation could lead to World War III. We must stop the war and war crimes (including cluster bombs used by all parties) and embark on diplomatic talks that should lead to a just peace. As the great W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1945 "I seem to see outlined a third World War based on the suppression of Asia and the strangling of Russia." The Democratic Party is a party of war and Wall Street targeting Russia and China. Let us save our democracy and world by dismantling U.S. militarism at home (as in Cop Cities) and abroad - as Martin Luther King Jr. painfully reminded us!
#NATO #ClusterBombs