A 10-year-old girl is raped. The State forces her to remain pregnant and tells her to consider it an “opportunity.”
This isn’t Iran. This isn’t Gilead. This isn’t hypothetical.
This happened today in Ohio.
This is the only political story: The things virtually everybody wants can't happen. It strikes at the heart of any claim that we have a functional democracy. Everything else in politics is meant to distract from this. And everyone in the media who participates is complicit.
The cost of riot gear for one officer is $9,000.
NYC Teachers get a $250 stipend for teaching supplies.
Budgets reveal moral priorities, and ours are invested in death.
So you’re telling me a bunch of Jimbos and Karens broke through 4 levels of security in what’s supposed to be one of the most secure buildings in the US... and nobody got shot???? Don’t tell me bout white privilege.
watching these senators jerk each other off in the same halls where a trump supporter was shot the death a couple hours earlier really puts how sociopathic they are into perspective. also republican politicians are still responsible for that death, and many more.
El gobierno de Trump pone en práctica un autogolpe para quedarse en el poder. Así como lo hizo en Bolivia, promueve la violencia racista y fascista y no le interesa la democracia. Nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo estadounidense.
Today's attempted coup in Congress began with Trump saying "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," and then telling the crowd to head to the Capitol to give Republican lawmakers the message.
Being a politician in 2021 is pretty easy you just gotta log onto twitter once a week and tweet some shit like "This isn't acceptable" and do absolutely nothing after