Kate Emma Lewis ⚖️⚕️🩵☀️🇵🇸

1st woman to coach a college football game • Civil rights attorney in progress ⚖️⚕️• Advocate for equality & DV/SA survivors ♿️🏳️‍🌈 Sikh 🪯

[Kate Emma Lewis ⚖️⚕️🩵☀️🇵🇸 @coachroach46]

For those in areas where obtaining abortion care is difficult/impossible, check out https://t.co/OFdrxyWKIh, a Canadian non-profit that mails abortion pills worldwide #AbortionIsHealthcare #TexasAbortionBan #BansOffOurBodies

[Innocence Project @innocence]

Qualified immunity is a doctrine developed by the Supreme Court that shields public officials from liability for misconduct, even when they break the law. This means people can’t hold the government accountable when their civil rights are violated. https://t.co/OfwcaYgz32

[Dr. T. Anansi Wilson, JD, PhD 🇵🇸 @blaqueerflow]

We’re quick to tell folks not to vote; but what are we telling them about to survive Project 2025? What have prepared for a trumpian judicial system? Never mind the Supreme Court, but the district courts that deal with our daily lives? What of the dismantling of Obamacare and healthcare for the poor? What have we prepared for deep inaccess to medications? What do we do when the civil and voting rights acts are completely unenforced? Who are we throwing to the wolves?

[Innocence Project @innocence]

“Police misconduct has contributed to far too many wrongful convictions, a disproportionate number involving people of color ... Too many people have been unable to hold police accountable for violating their rights [because of] qualified immunity.” https://t.co/NG63QJCpTh

[brighter days ☁️ @tyrathetaurus]

some things we learned during the george floyd protests that you should know if you’re attending a protest—a thread 🧵:

[Kate Emma Lewis ⚖️⚕️🩵☀️🇵🇸 @coachroach46]

“Trump & MAGA Republicans packed the Supreme Court with far-right judges who serve lifetime appointments & keep stripping away our rights, freedoms, & bodily autonomy.

The Supreme Court is corrupt.

Sign to demand term limits for SCOTUS judges NOW. ⬇️” https://t.co/athA5I9xC1

[SALDEF @SALDEF]

📝 Let's use the power of data to prevent bullying.

@acttochange is conducting a nationwide AAPI Youth Bullying survey to lift up your stories and experiences.

Take the survey by April 30, 2024: https://t.co/OnOtggReCY

[Karen A Scott MD MPH FACOG @RJEpiOBWarrior]

Obstetric Violence is not mistreatment.

Obstetric Racism is not mistreatment.

Obstetric violence is a quality, safety, and human rights violation.

Obstetric racism is a quality, safety, and human rights violation.

Let me go finish ✍🏿 my 📕.

https://t.co/Fg4E9Z96O8

[SALDEF @SALDEF]

Learn 5 surprising facts about #Sikhs, a religion that emphasizes gender equality, has a unique holy scripture, and a rich history in the United States. 🇺🇸

📰Read the full article on our partner, @MyFaithCounts website: https://t.co/MZkWqFytbM

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

While these two new resources provide valuable data about jail communication policies, there is still a long way to go to fix these injustices.

Learn more in our new blog post: https://t.co/Kyak0FKqbl

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

2. In-person visits and physical mail are disappearing in jails, allowing for jails to cash in on greater kickbacks from video calling. 33 jails out of a sample of 40 in Michigan have banned in-person visits.

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

We get asked a lot about the cost of family contact in local jails. But it’s hard for us to give answers since the thousands of local jails across the US are independently run.

Now, new data from Michigan and Minnesota are helping us fill that gap. Here’s what you should know 🧵

[Solitary Watch @solitarywatch]

In solitary, even a short sentence can turn into a death sentence. Learn more about the collateral consequences of #solitaryconfinement here: https://t.co/N39fzRkKor

[L.A. County Public Defenders Union @LApubdefunion]

In the DA's race, there's been talk about how eliminating money bail has fueled an epidemic of crime, but LA Superior Court data shatters this fear-mongering lie. Ending money bail has not increased repeat arrests or court no-shows — AKA it's working.

https://t.co/aoKu9kpwCK

[Innocence Project @innocence]

Nearly 300 women have been exonerated since 1989. About 73% of women exonerated in the last three decades were wrongfully convicted of crimes that never took place at all, according to data from the National Registry of Exonerations. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/SL9ksHQvBy

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

If your list of what constitutes diversity does not include disability or disabled people, it is exclusionary.
Diversity should not be exclusionary.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Standing up for the humanity of Palestinians and speaking to their pain and suffering is not antisemitism.

[Innocence Project @innocence]

"There is a moral necessity for police departments to examine their internal practices and ensure steps are taken to mitigate the risk of wrongful convictions," said @innocence board member @dr_yusefsalaam of the Exonerated Five. https://t.co/dmItVQLA6l

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

AARON BUSHNELL WAS A PHILANTHROPIST WHO HELPED SERVE THE NEEDY

He helped with the charity “Serve The People” in San Antonio, Texas.

“Aaron was a valued member of our organization and the community who immediately jumped in to help the unhoused and any project that came up.”

“He was dependable and persistent in the mutual aid work he did in a city that was still new to him.”

The phot depicts Bushnell helping on a food stand for ‘Serve The People’.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I’m not Palestinian

I just consider a crime against the whole humanity to murder nearly 40,000 civilians. Is it really so wrong to feel like that? Am I really being political just for defending humanity? You don't have to be Palestinian to support Gaza. You just have to be Human

[Kate Emma Lewis ⚖️⚕️🩵☀️🇵🇸 @coachroach46]

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[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

If, upon seeing a man self-immolate to protest a genocide that’s been live-streamed to the world for 143 days, your reaction is to criticise or dismiss, you simply do not understand the gravity of his act or the magnitude of what he is protesting—and in doing so you become a part of the very problem his defiant act rejected.

Tens of thousands of innocent people are being slaughtered with US arms and US taxpayer funding, and US propaganda is working tirelessly to cover this up and manufacture consent for it to continue.

The enormity of this moment cannot be understated, for both what it represents here and now and the ramifications and precedents being set. And the depraved and dictatorial US Empire refuses to be swayed by international law, by the Genocide Convention, by the ICJ, by the UN, by protest, by voters, by tens of thousands of children dying—by anything.

This act, as devastating as it is, is a final, defiant scream in protest at the incalculable tyranny of an Empire that has entirely lost touch with humanity. Don’t become that, too. Don’t downplay, dismiss or criticise the person who makes the sacrifice in an attempt to stop tyranny—for you then become a part of that tyranny yourself.