Elyse

Black Lives Matter

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

The cover for this week’s issue of the New Yorker is “Bodega Cat,” by R. Kikuo Johnson.

[Steve Gelbs @SteveGelbs]

Now that it’s official, the highs and lows of the last 16 hours for the Jets and their fans are almost incomprehensible. Still truly difficult to even begin to process.

[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

No one is at risk of forgetting 9/11. We need no caution as if we might.

Remembering though… Truly sitting in remembrance of the people lost… sitting in community with the people left with those losses… That we could use a reminder about.

Tom Kelly was 43.

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[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

…which was then used to abet further violence.

I don’t say “Never forget.”

I say “Remember.”

Remember the people lost… their families… the extremity of their grief… the weight of it felt acutely again today and every 9/11.

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[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

The phrase was co-opted to foment outrage which was then weaponized and misdirected. It was used to whip up support for a wrongful war which wounded and killed 250 times more innocent people than were lost on 9/11.

It was an expression of grief after an act of violence…

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[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

“Never forget” was never a call to remember with love. It was never a summoning solely to honor the people lost.

From nearly immediately after 9/11, it was also the tending to a grudge so as to keep hot a fury and stoke an appetite for vengeance.

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[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

On 9/11 each year, my timeline fills up with posts of the World Trade Center and the lasers set in its place lighting the night sky overlaid with the words “Never forget.”

To me, that is not the right phrase. That isn’t the invocation. The call should be to “Remember the lost.”

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

GOP: We are pro-life!

So—free pre-natal care?

GOP: No

Extend child tax credit?

GOP: No

Paid family leave?

GOP: No

Universal pre-K?

GOP: No
Universal healthcare?

GOP: No

Gun reform?

GOP: No

How are you pro-life?🤔

GOP: Ban repro health access & increase women’s death

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

UPS has made record profits in the pandemic. Literally over $11 billion last year. And then they took part timers down from $22 to $16. Workers should absolutely strike for better.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: 60% of the 340,000 workers at UPS are part-time.

And they don't get the pay that makes being a Teamster at UPS a good job for full-timer.

In fact, while many got $22/hr in early Covid, some make just $16 now and can't pay rent.

So they're ready to strike August 1st.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Actors could join writers on strike July 1 and shut down Hollywood.

Streaming has broken the industry. Successful actors are working second jobs. Some received $0 in residuals from Netflix shows with millions of viewers.

So 98% of @SAGAFTRA voted to authorize a strike.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Between NYC in wildfire smoke and this in PR, it bears repeating how unprepared we are for the climate crisis.

We must adapt our food systems, energy grids, infrastructure, healthcare, etc ASAP to prepare for what’s to come and catch up to what is already here. #GreenNewDeal 🌱

[Elyse @_elyserae]

To whom it may concern: Just had @kfc for the first time in a long time, and there are NO POTATO WEDGES?! I am devastated.

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

And then she voted against the right to contraception so she could double this problem and give it to the next person

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

The whole "queer people are groomers," thing is a lie. It's made up. It's called "scapegoating." It's what Nazi Germany did with Jews. If you believe that shit you are being brainwashed by fascists. End.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

GOP: Balance the budget!

So repeal Trump’s $2.1T billionaire tax cuts?
•GOP: NO!

End Corp welfare?
•GOP: NO!

Audit military budget?
•GOP: NO!

So balance the budget how?

GOP: Cancel Vets healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP, Meals on Wheels, & school lunch