Eleven years ago, I witness the harassment, threatening, and murder of innocent Afghan locals by my former platoon leader. Now, he's applying for the state bar in Oklahoma to attempt to practice law. I'm going to object on moral fitness and character. This is a thread.
BREAKING: MAGA suffers a crushing defeat as the Iowa Supreme Court rules against a law that would have largely banned abortion in the state.
The 3-3 split decision upheld a lower court's 2019 ruling that blocked GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds from instituting a so-called "fetal heartbeat" that would have banned the procedure as soon as cardiac activity was detected — usually around six weeks into the pregnancy.
The ruling is a major win for advocates of reproductive rights but there is still so much work left to do. We need to enshrine abortion rights at a federal level. If we fail to do so, these religious radicals will just keep fighting until we end up living in a Christian Nationalist nightmare.
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The trans athlete “debate” would have dramatically affected me growing up.
I was 5’2” at 8 years old. 6’0” at 12. Parents complained so often i was the wrong age, i carried a copy of my birth certificate. I would have 100% been the target of the trans-vestigators. I remember a
Lively, incendiary, and inspiring, No Harmless Power follows the life, times, and heroism of Nestor Makhno.
By Charlie Allison with Illustrations by @NOBonzo and Kevin Matthews.
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In IJ’s unconstitutional traffic stop case in Texas, the officer said he wanted to search our client’s truck as he was acting suspicious.
But our client was calm and forthright throughout the entire interaction! So, what will an officer label “suspicious”?
A shocking amount:
Happy Monday everyone! It is so weird and awesome and humbling to see your name and concept written about in the New York Times! Thank you @SimoneStolzoff and everyone go buy his book The Good Enough Job!
FACT: there are more health risks associated with being UNDER your target bmi than when over it.
The models on the right have HIGHER RISK OF HEALTH ISSUES related to their weight.
I guess @adalluch didn't get that memo when she was pretending her fatphobia was about health.
In the summer of 2020, the United States drastically increased the social safety net—capitalizing the populace so that millions more could afford to eat, cutting childhood poverty in half and stopping evictions entirely.
"CDC says only vulnerable people have to wear a mask now."
"If you've had Covid, the CDC is talking about you. You're vulnerable people now."
This is excellent messaging
https://t.co/v4qE1mkVP4
If I have to explain to my kid why this is necessary in school, then I don’t care that you have to explain to your kid why Target has a Pride section. Seriously, not one bit.
My dad died at 62, begging his insurance to cover some of his chemo, while Henry Kissinger had access to three heart surgeries and will to live to see 100. Just something I think about when I feel like being angry.
A 10-year-girl in Delaware picked up “It’s Perfectly Normal” while at the library with her mother. When they came home, she showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, “This is me.” She was being abused by her father, and it was the first time she’d spoken about it.
THREAD. One of the most important pieces of propaganda in modern news media reporting is the pervasive assumption that tweaks in the policies of police, prosecutors, prisons have any significant effect on overall safety.