👋🏽 My critique of our foreign policy, Israeli’s policy towards Palestinians or that of any foreign nation will not change.
As a person who suffered the horrors of war and persecution, my advocacy will always be for those that suffer because of the actions of governments.
I’m outraged that the @StateDept is moving forward with plans to build the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on land stolen from Palestinians. By doing so, the U.S. is complicit in the illegal confiscation of Palestinian property. @POTUS should reverse this Trump era policy immediately.
When I was a kid, everyone told me that when I grew up and started seeing taxes being taken out of my check, I would get more conservative but the opposite has happened because I look at my paycheck and I’m like “I pay this much in taxes just for people to be unhoused and unfed?“
The House just passed an $858,000,000,000 defense bill and not a single person, nor the media, asked “how are we going to pay for it?”
When it’s time fund programs that help poor people, we hear that question from Dems, the GOP, & pundits in the corporate media.
You probably saw this viral Instagram post claiming that the Iranian government sentenced 15,000 protesters to death.
The post got almost 900,000 likes before being taken down for false info but the incident proved how disinformation can be used to manufacture consent for war 1/
Kyrie Irving thoughts:
I do NOT take the position that I speak for ALL black people. I speak for myself & my experiences.I come to the table with my sword down. I come to the table to engage in dialogue with empathy. We have to continue to EXCHANGE….
There's legislation in California to shorten the workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours without a reduction in pay, which would be the most transformative labor legislation in our generation, and it should be bigger news... but it barely made a headline.