Nora Borealis

she/her

[Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter]

719 of every 100,000 Louisiana residents are incarcerated, making the state the "incarceration capital of the world."

That's a title no state wants to hold. We're fighting to end mass incarceration in Louisiana & throughout the South. https://t.co/g5h87o80aD

[Dan Andrews @DanielAndrewsMP]

This video will make you uncomfortable. It should – because this is what women experience every single day. Together, we can change that. How? When blokes stop harassing women, and start respecting women. When blokes stop ignoring this kind of behaviour, and start calling it out.

[Jola @Jollz]

Why are women under pressure to be doing beauty and brains when men can sail through life with neither.

[Melanie Zanona @MZanona]

Rep. @DonYoungAK just physically shoved me and told me to get out of his way “damnit” as I was trying to interview another lawmaker outside the door of the House chamber.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

South Bend’s first black police chief secretly recorded the other officers saying racist things and confronted them about it and the officers complain to the FBI who investigates and tells Buttigieg. Chief gets demoted and the racist officers get $500k. WTF.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

Rahm Emanuel approved a contract with Chicago police that gives them:
-names of anyone who reports them for misconduct
-48hrs to “cool off” before being interrogated
-prohibits accused officers’ names from being made public
-erases all records of their misconduct

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached, or voted out in 2020.

But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified+reanimated.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Huge update: JP Morgan & Wells Fargo have announced that they will no longer fund private prisons.

How did this happen? Through organizing people & public pressure!

Everyday folks began paying attention to who was funding for-profit prisons & family separation,+ acted on it. ⬇️

[aineef @axfxq]

a few weeks ago, one of my students started singing "every kiss begins with..." then a boy yelled "consent!" and i haven't stopped thinking about it since.

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

Things white people think Black people get because of race:

College admission
Scholarships
Athletic ability

Things white people think have nothing to do with race:

Police brutality
Incarceration
Income inequality
Health care disparities
Employment

Selective colorblindess

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

12:45pm: The death chamber at San Quentin. Closed.

[Cynthia Dewi Oka (Oh Hwi Siang) @freedewi]

A reminder that some parents learn a new language, give up their professions for minimum wage jobs - often a few at a time, don’t see their families for decades, never take a vacation, & save their grief for the midnight commutes on the bus so their kids can go to college.

[GoodKidsMadCity @GKMC18]

#DareyonaSmith was shot yesterday after she got off the bus by 79th & Peoria. Sadly she passed this morning. Our love, thoughts, prayers go out to her family, friends, school & community. We fight for you Sis! End gun violence & gender violence now!
#SayHerName
#GoodKidsMadCity

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Remember when this woman *went to jail* because she used her dad’s address to get her kids into a better school district? https://t.co/n2GjDN9Fg4

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Trump gave away state secrets to the Russians in the Oval Office. You think he won't give them to Jared over dinner? And that Jared won't sell or trade them with Netanyahu, MBS, oligarch backers, etc?

National security is compromised, lives are at stake. Time to indict them.

[kivan @KivanBay]

The word "obese" comes from the Latin "obesus" which means "having eaten until fat." I'm sure you can see why fat activists aren't like wild about it.

[ABC News @ABC]

"If I wasn't doing this, I'd be lost."

This 95-year-old woman walks every day to her local elementary school to work with preschoolers—part of a foster grandparent program. @KarenTravers has more: https://t.co/xxXtY5i2gk