Through repeated threats to ignore election results, fabricated claims of fraud, and attacks on mail-in voting, Trump has telegraphed his plan to steal the election.
It is real, but we can stop it if we’re ready. A thread:
https://t.co/7jqwhXEE5H
New DOJ inspector general report says Bureau of Prisons employees in Oakdale were forced to work as long as 40 hours straight during the COVID-19 outbreak. https://t.co/XiTeukaPAS
Hey @NYCPBA, behold the re-election of @KevinThomasNY and the 100% Democratic Nassau Senate delegation!
You should really do a better job minding your members’ money
In a key test of police reform after the May 25 police killing of #GeorgeFloyd and the summer protests that spread across the country, anti-carceral candidates and policies won across the board — victories that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. https://t.co/J4asiN1lxg
“Nowhere is there the mention that improved facilities, improved teaching methods, concerned teachers, and subject matter that relates to the students’ experience and lifestyle would solve the problem." https://t.co/2qRu52Qn5p
Today @RepPressley, @SenatorLeahy, @SenBooker, & I are calling on AG Barr to suspend all federal executions so the incoming Biden-Harris Admin. can evaluate—and hopefully end—the use of the federal death penalty. It is discriminatory, immoral & ineffective.
Read our letter here:
As someone working on compassionate release motions @GeorgetownLaw clinics, I can tell you that there are lots of COVID-19 cases in federal prisons and lots of medically vulnerable men and women inside those prisons. It’s a humanitarian crisis.
Voters in LA approved new limits to police power, elected a more progressive prosecutor, and mandated that 10% of the local budget be spent on prevention, not incarceration.
And progressive candidates beat contenders backed by police and sheriff’s unions. https://t.co/jkbQFCf3sK
“I am on a permanent quest to make housing a human right at the local and state level. It’s unconscionable that we have children in encampments that aren’t even fit for animals. We lose a little bit of our humanity each day we let these conditions exist.”
https://t.co/iaZWZI748z
Gov. DeSantis has drafted “anti-mob” legislation in response to police-brutality protests expanding Florida’s Stand Your Ground law — a move that critics say will allow armed citizens to shoot suspected looters or anyone engaged in “criminal mischief."
https://t.co/Dc7tzZzlKG
Immigrants' rights organizers scored major wins in South Carolina & Georgia last week, flipping sheriff's offices toward candidates who ran on ending contracts with ICE.
new from me: https://t.co/naY0ueFHjn
Hawaii legislation — which was passed in the wake of national protests over George Floyd's death — aimed to eliminate the secrecy around police officers' misconduct records. Now the police union is trying to reverse it in court.
https://t.co/VXj0awOqtH
Local administrators are releasing little, if any, information about infections.
“Twenty-one of the 23 state prisons have active cases. There has not been a single time during this pandemic that there have been that many active cases."
https://t.co/jtD8PQJ4BD
Oregon City residents voted to remove Mayor Dan Holladay from office. This comes after he suggested businesses defy the governor's COVID-19 order and remain open. And downplayed police brutality against Black people during ongoing social justice protests. https://t.co/v3qm6CKZfz
It's infuriating how the election volunteers & workers in PA are blamed for pace & hounded with insults, when they've begged PA for months to allow them to process mail early, & the GOP refused precisely to get to a point where it could blame their pace & hound them with insults.
"A lot of Black folk from #Philly are refugees from the south. Their parents or great-grandparents came from Virginia or South Carolina where voter suppression, particularly among Democrats, was the norm," @RepRabb of NW Philly representing #PA's 200th legislative district.
🚨 Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey just conceded to progressive challenger George Gascón.
Gascón, who was SF DA, ran on reducing incarceration & bringing the national reform movement to this county of 10 million.
And major activist energy around the office. https://t.co/Yzw1ffjTY6