I was listening to NPR today & a 27 year old was diagnosed with Mesothelioma thinking she had cysts. She joined the lawsuit against J&J for their baby powder but they’ve stalled it out by creating a fake co, passing the suit to it & declaring it bankrupt.
She died last month.
I wrote about how older generations came to equate "young people things", like Netflix and the gym, with "luxury", and why this thinking makes it impossible for them to understand why millennials can't afford to buy a house https://t.co/sVfwtfuxta
Lockheed Martin received more federal funding last year than the amount climate programs will get in Biden’s reconciliation bill: https://t.co/0aYOIHdph8
Brian Bukle, 62 y/o black man, jailed by ICE for over a month despite repeated explanations he's a US citizen.
-Arresting contractors taunted him.
-ICE officers ignored his pleas, falsified I-213, put him in deport proceedings.
-GEO therapist urged him to just sign deport papers.
kyle rittenhouse shot three and killed two people and was just acquitted. daniel baker posted online about the need for self-defense against far right protesters and "eat the rich" memes and got nearly 4 years in prison, after being held in solitary confinement for 7 months
Your country might be in a crisis if you have two political parties and one is celebrating murdering people in the street and all the other says is “vote!”
Think about what it means to have not seen your child or spouse in two years just because your family doesn’t have enough cash to pay for you to return home. It’s unspeakable, and utterly normal.
This is why there are no good cops. It’s not that only bad people want to be cops. It’s that the institution won’t allow them to be good. It will punish and expel them for doing what’s right.
You have to get four paragraphs into this story to learn that the girl was shot by a cop who panicked and fired into a random car a block away from where the teenagers were https://t.co/QyBbyxRIeQ