Anna Vasquez, of @IPTX and head of the @InnocenceNtwrk board, spent 15 years wrongfully imprisoned after homophobia fueled a wrongful conviction against her and three friends. They are known as the San Antonio Four. Now an exoneree advocate, she has a message for #Pride Month: "We need to push forward together because equality is what we want."
Read her story: https://t.co/NijIM0lHl7
🚨NEW: Incarceration is shaving years off people's lives.
Research shows that older adults who have ever been behind bars have alarming health issues and are expected to live nearly 6 fewer years.
The effects of incarceration follow people long after their sentences end. 🧵
We must not normalize what is happening. This level of open racism and jingoism has profound effects on American and global society. And remember: the various affronts to human dignity we are seeing could not stand if prominent players and teams acted in solidarity.
Republicans pored over voter rolls in New Jersey, looking for noncitizens who cast ballots.
What did they find? A grand total of two, the last of whom voted nearly two decades ago.
Fox News wrote this up as an "exclusive:"
"One noncitizen, who the county said was removed from the rolls in 2015, voted several times in 2000 and 2001, and in the 2008 general election. Another voted in a primary election in 2005 and a municipal election in 2000."
I cannot get this New York Times headline from yesterday out of my head. One important form of propaganda is subtly lying about who is the attacking aggressor and who is framed as merely “responding.”