@UCLA_Law student, editor @libromobile, book nerd trying to learn how to show up better & work for change. Read, run, laugh, repeat--with coffee. Tweets my own.
One of the cardinal rules of propaganda in almost every context is to avoid provable lies. Lies aren’t necessary, even when supporting a genocide, if you successfully control what topics the public discusses.
I will never forget learning that a mom heard about the shooting, left work, drove over, argued with cops to go inside, got handcuffed, talked her way out of cuffs, hopped a fence, and rescued her 2 sons inside while cops stood doing aggressive crowd control on distraught parents
@UnionDrip I worked for Panera for five years as a teenager and can affirmatively say it never entered my head for one second to care about shareholder profits 😂😂😂
BREAKING: Israel's Netanyahu government appears to be carrying out targeted assassinations of intellectuals in Gaza to wipe out a new generation of moderate Palestinian leadership. Artists, poets, doctors, lawyers, and academics are among the victims.
From @declassifiedUK.⤵️
I introduced a resolution advocating for the release of my constituent, Eyvin Hernandez, who was wrongfully detained in Venezuela last March. The Administration must use all possible tools to secure his freedom. I will always fight to #BringEyvinHome. https://t.co/G7Y2BggDAu
"I was interviewed by NPR, & I was subsequently placed in long-term solitary confinement for several years as a result of the interview & my inside organizing." https://t.co/2LIEcuh8fi
In today's SCOTUS ruling against the Navajo Nation, we see the rightwing majority (save Gorsuch) butcher federal Indian treaties. The court thinks states rights to water trump Indian water rights. Except, the latter came before the former...
https://t.co/KrZbAY4Lgn
My biggest takeaway from the Titan story is that we absolutely could have coordinated, multinational efforts to ensure no migrant dies crossing the sea and we choose not to.
A multibillion-dollar pipeline will deliver desperately needed water to the Navajo Nation.
Arizona blocked it from connecting to the tribe’s capital. @propublica and @highcountrynews investigated why.
https://t.co/BsNdOhg0tf
More Drug War bullshit in San Francisco. And more reporting that fails to do the basic work of challenging their assertions that this time, it will be different.
it’s been said before, by much smarter people than me, but what an absolutely mortifying era for nina totenberg and all the other members of the prestigious supreme court reporting club. just fully asleep at the wheel for like DECADES
This may sound harsh, but ongoing intensifying crazy-bad climate impacts and willful blocking of climate action by rich corporatists is a way, way, WAY more important story than the 5 people in the sightseeing submarine
@nytimes The migrant ship that sank in the Med killing 700 while the Greek coast guard watched and did nothing is the actual news. The billionaire submersible that has been crushed to the size of a softball is not relevant
Cop City Referendum — After 14 days, the Office of the Municipal Clerk officially approved the Cop City referendum petition that seeks to put the cancellation of the land lease by the city to The Atlanta Police Foundation on the Nov. 7 ballot.