Rep. @AOC: “Abusers will sabotage their partner’s birth control in an effort to exert power … The attempt to control and sabotage a victim’s reproductive care and control over themselves then becomes mass-adopted by overwhelmingly, frankly, cisgender male state legislators.”
That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.
And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change.
Daunte Wright’s killing was not a random, disconnected “accident” - it was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence, rewards it w/ endlessly growing budgets at the cost of community investment, & targets those who question that order.
Ted, this is pretty rich coming from someone who fled their own home (and responsibilities) during an environmental crisis to cross the border and seek refuge in Mexico.
Also you funded cages, expanded cages, and yet you’re complaining about cages. You have no policy, just puff.
In the last 24 hours:
➡️ 10 lives were stolen in Colorado.
➡️ Republicans called a Congressional hearing on gun control "theater."
It's long past time to end the obstructionism that's costing lives. Abolish the filibuster and pass meaningful gun control legislation. Now.
Dismantling racist, anti-Asian violence means standing up to white supremacy - the same ideology that asks us to empathize with those who commit racist violence rather than the families destroyed and communities targeted by it.
#StopAsianHate