Free Rev Pinkney

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[Tim Fullerton @TimFullerton]

Betty White improvising on the spot while Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan crack up laughing is the only thing you need to watch today. https://t.co/UEXDfxTQtr

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

Kroger made $2.6 billion in 2020, up 5.6 percent over 2019

Meanwhile, grocery bills for consumers have increased by over 6% over the past year.

#FightFor15 https://t.co/nkc9C3AvN5

[August @SaftyInNumbers]

@VABVOX Congress, please don’t go on vacation until the #FreedomToVoteAct passes.
https://t.co/RjzwMuvi60

[Nutter @IndoNutter]

@VABVOX Well. They wasted 11 months. Now, legal challenges will prevent the new #VRA from applying to 2022. This should have been the very first thing they did. Oh and Sinema won't agree so there's that.

[Ron Utter @ron_utter]

@VABVOX @GingerMahnn Voting rights has to be the biggest issue. Without fair elections diverse representatives who represent the majority will not happen. Limiting who votes ensures that elected officials will only represent a minority of the electorate which opposes equal rights for all.

[Black in the Empire @blackintheempir]

If the United States didn't destroy their countries, there wouldn't be so many people at the border.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Time for Amazon Unions.

Time for Amazon workers to make a minimum of $25 an hour.

Time to take that $70 billion Jeff Bezos made during the pandemic and redistribute it among all his workers.

[Kenneth Mejia, CPA @kennethmejiaLA]

Probably close to 400 LAPD officers spread out all throughout Echo Park Lake, over 100 police cars (packed w/ 4 cops each), 3 busses, 2 helicopters, & other city departments getting ready to throw people's belongings, etc. Tax dollars spent to criminalize poverty.
#EchoParkRiseUp

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

So I see a Republican senator is arguing there shouldn’t be voting on Sunday because of... the sabbath and God? I remember that commandment. On Sundays, thou shalt watch football in packed stadiums drinking beer, but thou shalt not exercise your constitutional enfranchisement.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Sadly, what’s unfolding in Boulder may happen more frequently when public places/schools reopen; about 50M guns were sold in the past year (on top of nearly 400M already in circulation) - many to new gun owners in states that don’t require permits, background checks, or training.

[Pat Toomey (US Sen. ret.) @SenToomey]

A fundamental, defining feature of a democratic republic is the right of the people to elect their own leaders. The effort by Sens. Hawley, Cruz, and others to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in swing states like Pennsylvania directly undermines this right.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Since Mike Pompeo is telling us that Russia attacked the US, here's a short video of him remind us that he considers it his job to "lie, cheat and steal" from the American public.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The word "missile" appears 19 times in the COVID Relief Bill.

"Aircraft" appears 208 times.

"Munition" 46 times.

"weapon" 46 times.

"Healthcare" = 24.

"doctor"/"nurse" = 5.

"masks" = 0.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Here's a list of all the new ships the Navy has managed to buy with the COVID Relief Bill money.

This is why you aren't getting more than $600

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The word "missile" appears 19 times in the COVID Relief Bill.

"Aircraft" appears 208 times.

"Munition" 46 times.

"weapon" 46 times.

"Healthcare" = 24.

"doctor"/"nurse" = 5.

"masks" = 0.

Who and what exactly is this bill really for?

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

.@theintercept broke the story Friday that @CIA has been arming, training and directing Afghan death squads that have been massacring children and attacking hospitals.

This news has received 0 mention in @Nytimes, @Wapo, @CBSNews, @CNN, @MSNBC or @FoxNews
https://t.co/QmDBVNNf5d

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

As a few people have pointed out, the COVID bill itself is actually only a small part of the huge spending package this comes from. It's a small but semanticly important point. Most media outlets aren't distinguishing between them, e.g. CNN:

https://t.co/5Lt43T3rx8