Often, I think about how many people work for Walmart and Amazon and how simply forcing these two companies to pay a living wage and provide benefits would lift millions of people out of engineered poverty, and I get so mad I could spit.
THREAD: Let's talk about the problematic behavior of white progressives in Philly (this can be applicable to other cities, too) and how their antics will most likely make matters worse for the city's politics if they don't listen to Black people within the movement.
Here we go again!!! As @PAHouseDems fight to ensure you have a VOICE in Harrisburg & protect women's lives + their reproductive rights, the majority party is once again SILENCING US!!! And when they silence us, they’re silencing you & MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA!!!
The irony of companies paying for the travel of their employees requiring abortions is that that it goes to the very heart of the individual’s right to privacy—the legal doctrine on which Roe was based. If I needed one, it’s reasonable that I don’t want my employer to know.
Schools scared to death.
The truth is, one education under desks,
Stooped low from bullets;
That plunge when we ask
Where our children
Shall live
& how
& if
Three weeks ago, I had a miscarriage. I was six weeks pregnant. I live in Texas, a state that has effectively banned abortions.
A thread about what it is to cease to be pregnant in a state where abortions are banned: