The Denver program to send social workers instead of police (STAR) has responded to over 2,200 calls low-level/intox/MH calls.
They have never called for police back-up due to a safety issue.
Never.
Think about that.
my roomie is a kindergarten teacher and saw her kids playing red light green light at recess. she went up and asked what they’re playing and they go “Squid Game!” 💀😭
Friendly reminder that suicide prevention isn’t just saying “here if you need to talk!” and posting a hotline number. it’s healthcare. it’s housing. it’s adequate social welfare. it’s food security. it’s actually being able to access mental health services quickly.
Amanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, called for Americans to "leave behind a country better than the one we were left" and unify together as she spoke at President Joe Biden's inauguration. https://t.co/cqB4pZpaAv
“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 and reanimated”
-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Today, I called my 94-year-old grandmother who survived Nazi Concentration Camps.
She voted for Biden in FL & said to me:
"What you see at the border —kids being taken from their families— is what happened to us. I never saw my parents again after that."
#VOTE#DemVoice1#GOTV
Sending love to Hunter Biden tonight. No addict deserves to have their substance abuse problems politicized on national television for a talking point.
Trump really said California needs to better maintain the forests to avoid the wildfires, like he didn’t enforce huge budget cuts to the US Forest Service 🤡