Conservatives in the 1980s greeted AIDS with nothing short of glee - Rush Limbaugh had a daily "AIDS update" segment celebrating the rising death toll and Pat Robertson called AIDS "God weeding his garden." Their goal, then as now, is more dead queers
At nearly every crisis point over the last year - and there have been so so many 🫠 - totally ordinary people have been exponentially braver than the billionaires and elite. Turns out, you can’t buy courage!
Targeting and abducting a legal U.S. resident for political speech is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Mahmoud Khalil should be home with his wife.
Trump and Musk want to see what they can get away with.
That’s why we can’t be quiet in the face of their power grab.
A NICU unit in danger of losing power - just think about what that means. As a mom my heart is breaking. We cannot accept the logic of collective punishment - not for Israeli children and not for Gazan children.
Title 42 is no longer just a Trump-era policy. This harmful, anti-Black & brown policy is now an official position of the Biden administration.
This announcement is unconscionable & will result in the continuation of life-threatening harm to vulnerable migrant communities.
The uproar and outrage have died down, but the practice continues.
From the day Biden took office until July 2022, U.S. officials have reported at least 363 cases of family separation.
My latest, with @AnnaCat_Brigida, for @TexasObserver
https://t.co/yNKqVY3npp