Raising Abolitionists

black lives matter, defund and abolish police and prisons, be kind to your kids, life without school

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

Punitive parenting included

[Dr. Joshua Bennett @SirJoshBennett]

Abolition requires radical imagination. In no small part because we are, from childhood, constrained by carceral language, practices, protocols, at every turn.

[andreaFreeHerjames @andreacjames]

As we welcome President @JoeBiden
+ VP @KamalaHarris,
we’re committed to justice.
231,000 women are incarcerated in the U.S.
We’re calling on this administration to
grant clemency to
100 women
in these 1st
100 days.
#ClemencyWorks

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

@coastanimals 😢 so sorry

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

"Escapism in and of itself is not inherently bad and it only ever seems to be framed that way when it comes to video games."

https://t.co/s5apH69yKp

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

You want to thank Black women?

Cancel student debt -- all of it.

Black women carry more student debt than any other group in America.

Save your words of appreciation. Policy is our love language.

[Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda]

The asset-owning wealthy during normal times, as they shovel money into their pockets: Umm it's called a reward for risk sweetie 🧐🎩💰

The asset-owning wealthy when the recession hits: Give us money or the economy dies 🔫🔫🔫

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Police departments are tweeting out MLK quotes like they didn’t spend all summer attacking the people and the movement trying to carry on his legacy

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

These pieces rarely give credit to what video game "screen time" really means for kids: a chance to make friends, talk about problems, relieve stress, solve puzzles, brighten their mood, use their imagination - and, yes, escape, which we all need right now https://t.co/9xm86oNdWv

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

@FarrenSquare Same. I wish it on every kid and family. It’s stressful enough for everyone without the fear and shame.

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

Extremely happy that I got over the fear of my kids having too much screen time a loooong time ago. It must be very stressful for people who are worried about it right now. Good games and shows and movies are life savers for being stuck at home.

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

Watching fun things and playing games together with your kids are great ways to connect with them too.

[Nathan Grayson @Vahn16]

if I was a child in the era of covid, I would simply throw out my video games, go outside, watch neighbors I cannot interact with pass by, reflect on the childhood I'm being deprived of by a society that does not care about me, and weep for several hours https://t.co/quXAPxD3Wx

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

Why doesn’t the minimum wage go up every year automatically? Seems like that would be a good thing.

[Jessi Murray @jessimurray]

I swear if Twitter had been around in the Industrial Revolution there’d be a tweet with 50k Likes like “if we can’t employ tiny orphans anymore, who will we send into the smallest mine shafts and between the sharp parts of the big machines???”

[Maria Chong @mariachong]

Georgia’s minimum wage is 
$5.15 (subject to the $7.25 Federal minimum).

Nineteen states likewise have minimum wages of $7.25 or less.

40 hours a week. 52 weeks. $15,080 a year.

(That has to be a heinous affront to God, if God were real.)

[Mike Balsamo @MikeBalsamo1]

#DustinHiggs has been executed by the Bureau of Prisons. He was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m. It was the 13th federal execution carried out since July & the most in any presidency in more than 120 years.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

The death penalty is fundamentally a poor person’s issue. Over nearly 40 years of visiting death row facilities across the United States, I have never met a single person with money or resources. Capital punishment means “those without the capital get the punishment.”

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

@FarrenSquare A taste

[Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall]

@FarrenSquare Just making sure you saw this https://t.co/MmaVamilNG