Really hope people don't just take away "Ellie Kemper was part of a racist ball" from the trending story, but take away the bigger picture "a lot of the wealthy and famous people you know were part of deeply fucked up racist shit, because deeply fucked up racist shit is ongoing."
Palestinians are being attacked in their holy site during Friday prayers. This level of indignity, injustice and cruelty is unacceptable.
Israel’s military functions with impunity because the world let’s it. This has to change.
“objectivity” feels fickle when the basic terms we use to report news implicitly stake a claim. using “israel” but never “palestine,” or “war” but not “siege and occupation” are political choices—yet media make those exact choices all the time without being flagged as biased
@JulienHKK @hallaq_ra @mikiebarb@nytimes@mikiebarb you talk about what Israel is responding to but make no mention what Hamas is responding to. Violence is reprehensible, but you’re making an uneven and biased assumption that Israel is merely defending itself while making land grabs and perpetuating an apartheid state.
Israeli settlers in Bat Yam south of Tel Aviv are chanting death to Arabs. Palestinians have been warned to stay home because they might literally get killed. In Lydd, Israeli settlers are marking Palestinian homes so they can be attacked. #Save_Sheikh_Jarrah#Palestine
By only stepping in to name Hamas’ actions - which are condemnable - & refusing to acknowledge the rights of Palestinians, Biden reinforces the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence.
This is not neutral language. It takes a side - the side of occupation.
If people aren't returning to work, it's because:
A) they're being paid poverty wages
B) they want health care that won't bankrupt them
C) they need child care
D) they want you to treat them with dignity
E) they want you to recognize their humanity
F) all of the above
This is how you treat your constituents @Sen_JoeManchin ? West Virginia is one of the poorest & sickest states in the country. We have sacrificed a lot to power this country & the people here don't deserve a living wage? How do you sleep at night?
If @Sen_JoeManchin does not support the @WV_Dems_ party platform then why does the leadership in the party continue to support him?!?
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Team AOC is launching relief efforts for Texas starting today.
Our first effort is a partnership w/ 5 Texas orgs getting on-the-ground relief to Texans ASAP.
If you’re able, please donate here - it’ll split your contribution to all 5.
💯% goes to them.
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I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment.
Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.
We can’t allow him to remain in office, it’s a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath.
If this horrific pandemic has taught us anything, it is that national security means a lot more than building bombs, missiles, jet fighters, tanks, submarines and nuclear warheads.
National security also means doing everything we can to improve the lives of our people.