The Atlanta City Council is poised to vote on selling 381 acres of city-owned forest to the (private) Atlanta Police Foundation for $10 a year, to build a new police training facility at a cost of $90 million. The move is strenuously opposed by environmental groups & activists
Following the Vietnam War, our country welcomed 120,000 refugees in a single year.
Yet the United States has only taken in ~2,000 Afghan refugees thus far.
We have a duty to save lives — and to do so, we must welcome many, many more refugees as quickly as possible.
“There’s so much we don’t know about it yet. Like does it cause brain damage? Could it cause you to be more prone to violence later in your life? It might even cause suicidal thoughts. I would never put my body through something like that.” -Cole Beasely https://t.co/RI2bKtVEXL
A district attorney declined to file criminal charges against a Utah police officer who said, "you're about to die, my friend" seconds before fatally shooting a man. https://t.co/sFJFdCWQeV
A teacher's dying wish was for people to wear masks during the pandemic. 3 Cobb County, GA educators have died during COVID. At a school board meeting Thursday, 2 board members & the superintendent refused to wear masks even during a moment of silence. A staff member responds:
NEW: A 61-year-old man died in ICE custody from COVID-19 more than 2 months after a judge ordered his release from prison, saying his ability to defend himself from death from the virus would be “substantially diminished” while locked up, records show.
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