Caroline Archer

Divinity and Engineering and Motherhood. All opinions are my own. she/her/hers

[Brian Fallon @brianefallon]

The Court has delivered setbacks on climate, abortion rights, guns and more this term. We will not be able to out-lawyer our way out of this. Nor can we wait decades for the Court’s composition to maybe shift on its own.

We need a movement to reform the Court & reduce its power.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Your reminder that the stock market is not an indicator of how people are faring in our economy.

The richest 10% of Americans own 89% of all U.S. stocks.

[Lindsay Zoladz @lindsayzoladz]

embarrassed for the human race that Joni Mitchell had to find out who Joe Rogan is

[Ryan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts]

I have some notes on the writing for this season of America

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Corporations are not people, and billionaires shouldn't get to use their enormous wealth to pick and choose who they want in office.

It's well beyond time for Citizens United to go, and to put real action towards getting big money out of politics.

Our democracy depends on it.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. This will be a thread of Republicans shamelessly exploiting King's legacy by pretending to honor King with a tweet while using their power to oppose everything that King stood for

Follow along if interested.

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

The White House is monitoring a pipeline failure off the coast of Orange County, CA, that has sent more than 126,000 gallons of oil spilling into the water since Saturday

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Capital Punishment in America:
Missouri is less than 24 hours away from executing an intellectually disabled Black man who is missing 20% of his brain and has the mental capacity of a child.

[ProPublica @propublica]

On left: a map of America’s amputations from vascular disease. On the right: a map of the enslaved population before the Civil War

Dr. Foluso Fakorede talks about these maps to anybody who will listen. https://t.co/wn5EOugNOU

[cas says free palestine @CrappyFumes]

I just learned that if the price of houses had risen at the same rate as median income in this country then a house in 2021 would cost an average of 61,000

And now I’m dead

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

There are reformists who truly mean well. But folks must be willing to examine what it means that decades of reform efforts have had no impact b/c racism is such an intrinsic part of how policing is organized that reforming it is like trying to turn a plane into a pear tree.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

Thinking of Daunte Wright's family. Thinking of the greater Minneapolis community. Thinking of all the Black folks who wake up to this news again and again and again and again and again. Thinking of the toll is takes on your body, the air it pulls from your lungs. Every time.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Tonight Georgia’s legislature passed a bill brazenly intended to make it harder for Georgians to vote.

Among its outrageous provisions: it criminalizes *giving water to voters who are waiting in line.*

It’s no wonder Gov. Kemp hid behind closed doors while he signed it.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Things that won't pass unless Dems end the filibuster:

—Gun control
—The For the People Act
—The John Lewis Voting Rights Act
—Medicare for All
—A Green New Deal
—A $15 minimum wage
—Immigration reform

The list goes on.

It's progress or the filibuster. We can't have both.

[Brandon Wolf @bjoewolf]

Now is the time to validate the fear so many in the AAPI community are experiencing today. To speak out.

The answer to hate is not minimizing or qualifying what people are going through right now. It's standing together and rejecting hate loudly and clearly. #StopAsianHate (8/8)

[LikeTheStatue @k8bushofficial]

from 3/7-3/13, don't use Amazon, stream on Amazon Prime, shop at Whole Foods, etc., in solidarity with Bessemer Amazon workers trying to unionize.
https://t.co/9ArLVEU9xo

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

When members of Congress fight to set the minimum wage below a living wage, they are playing a role in creating and preserving poverty in the United States.

The $15/hr proposal with multi-year phase in is already a deep compromise.

$10 an hour is legislated poverty.

[NPR @NPR]

Octavia Butler is sometimes called “the Mother of Afrofuturism," an open-ended genre combining science fiction, fantasy, and history to imagine a liberated future, through a Black lens. Listen now to this episode of @throughlineNPR https://t.co/xKCRmSCq2u

[David Domoney @daviddomoney]

Circle of life.

#plants #science #nature #gardening