Today is 50 years since President Nixon declared the War on Drugs. Millions were incarcerated. It disproportionately targeted Black & Brown people. Black folks are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people. It’s time to end the War on Drugs.
One year ago today, Ahmaud Arbery went on a run. He was hunted down and murdered.
We cannot forget his life. We cannot forget his story. We cannot forget that the system almost let his killers get away.
Ahmaud, we continue to fight for justice for Black lives in your name.
My father in Cairo weeks before he’d be assassinated at age 39. Despite following his every move an FBI informant called him, “a man of high moral character who neither smokes nor drinks.” He spoke truth to power, and we know that truth is timeless. Rest In Peace, Dad 2/21/1965🌟
The Republican Party has a fundamental choice to make. It can be a conservative party that believes in democracy and the rule of law or it can be an authoritarian party that’s built on conspiracy theories, violence and the Big Lie. But it cannot be both.
If Redditors rallying GameStop is unacceptable market manipulation, what would you call it when greedy Wall Street bankers gambled away our entire economy in 2008 and faced no consequences?
Wyoming has 578,000 people, is 92% white and has 2 senators
DC has 705,000 people, is 46% Black and has 0 senators
Dems introduced bill today to make DC 51st state
Imagine she was your child. Imagine she was your sibling. Imagine she was your friend.
We need to replace police officers in our schools with nurses, counselors, and social workers. And we need justice for the abuse that our children have faced at the hands of police.
Americans are told to invest in the market. But when they start to threaten the profits of billionaires, strange things happen.
If anyone on Wall Street with short positions in particular stocks used their power to cut off the public from buying those stocks, send them to prison.
u can’t sell houses u don’t own
u can’t sell cars u don’t own
but
u *can* sell stock u don’t own!?
this is bs – shorting is a scam
legal only for vestigial reasons
Hey Sen @HawleyMO, I hate to break it to you, but this is, in fact, you.
You raised your fist in solidarity with white supremacists who attacked our Capitol.
While you may politically regret what you’ve revealed about yourself, you still have no place in public office.
Resign.
Dear lord baby Mohammed-Jesus...
Please rid this country of these dangerous white supremacists that have been terrorizing everyone else in this land/country literally for the last 400 years. 🙏🏾