Today the Bay Area @Dreamdefenders are launching the Save Our Streets Campaign in St. Pete! Check this story to hear more
Safety isn’t more police, prisons, and surveillance. It’s food, education, healthcare - an investment in our communities and the people in them
@BayAreaDDOD
The Bay Area Dream Defenders is a civil rights and social justice organization founded in 2012. Their Save Our Streets campaign is aimed at reducing violence and gun violence in St. Petersburg and the Tampa Bay area. https://t.co/sSuewQCslh
I will be perfectly clear in my words. Based on the vile, hateful & incendiary things that have been said in the FL House, as well as publicly & on this app. I believe that Speaker @Paul_Renner should call for the censure and resignation of @FLHouseRep & @VoteRandyFine.
Every child killed in Gaza today would be alive if we had a cease-fire yesterday. These are the stakes. This is our failing. You can retweet this everyday until a cease-fire happens because it remains true. How high does the pile of bodies have to get?
This country has endless resources for cops and war, while our elders are struggling to survive. What would our society look like if we abolished policing and put that money into abundance and taking care of each other? What could we build instead?
@JimmyPatronis None of the things actually harming people in this state were solved, you just spent millions of dollars on a bullshit culture war as a de facto political campaign and are making the state more unlivable for people that have been here for generations. Fuck off
Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork. https://t.co/CKc8KwbEoh
“people deserve to feel safe in their own city” yes! obviously! and “people” includes those made to live perilous lives due to an ever diminishing safety net and increasingly open social derision and viciousness
From a homeless man who was hungry and needed care, to a guy who thought it was his right to kill subway riders he deemed too scary, to a media account that justifies murder with passive voice copspeak, this story is just a cascading series of social failures
Trans woman comes 6,000th in a race, is bullied into handing back her participation medal for being trans, because "it's not not fair" to anyone who ran slower than her.
She's being bullied into giving back her medal, because of people who were behind 6,000th place.
Florida Prosecutor Jack Campbell has a “racism policy” in his Jefferson County office, instructing prosecutors to make more punitive plea bargains against Hispanic people.
The right in the US thinks children are mature enough to work in mines and factories and to give birth
But they're not mature enough to learn about LGTBQ+ people or history, to learn about Black history, or to be able to know what they need for their own schools to be safe
Okay