Conservatives arguing that Ashli Babbitt was unjustly shot & demanding the name of the officer who killed her confirms that they believe the role of police is to murder Black people.
I think there is every reason for the US to basically treat global vaccination as our absolute key global priority, a spare-no-expense, war-footing kind of undertaking.
@allahliker It's a way to liquidate a shitload of shares at the peak of its value without being subject to a rigorous investigation because the liquidation will be court ordered.
Why blood quantum is an irrelevant practice, and why it’s doing nothing but inhibiting our ability to build kinship, survive and adapt.
We need to adopt others in, we need to accept the kinship we already have that blood quantum has excluded, exiled and erased.
Indigenous ancestors adopted in other people in as their kin, before colonialism but also during the times where many were seeking refuge.
It was always a practice to build up kinship not just through blood but by principle of sharing the land and giving others a home.
You know, we have this saying "fight or flight", but I notice this society demonizes "fight" a lot, especially if you're marginalized or not seen as someone with "authority".
What does Bill Gates have to do to stop being blithely deemed a “philanthropist” in the media? Decimate education systems for years, fight with all his might to deny poorer nations vaccines, and use his immense wealth as a means of feeding his insatiable god complex?
Oh wait...
I am still about 35% convinced we aren't going to make it through all of this....not #COVID....although that too, but the total collapse of our ability to see each others humanity...the reduction of everything to partisanship and anger...and the lack of common cause
Michigan vaccination data as of 5/4: 50.6% have at least one dose, 39.3% fully vaxed. About 68% of the 65+ group is fully vaxed.
One dose % by area:
Detroit: 31%
Wayne: 56%
Oakland: 59%
Macomb: 49.6%
Washtenaw: 61%
St. Clair: 43%
Lapeer: 41%
Kent: 55%
Genesee: 44%
Ingham: 51%
If you prescribe crutches for a broken leg causing significant pain & loss of mobility, but you deny someone a cane, rollator or wheelchair for chronic degenerative joint disease that's caused significant pain & loss of mobility; I need a 25 page explanation on my desk tomorrow.