The school shooting in St. Louis, like all school shootings, involves a specific gun made by a specific manufacturer. And we’re going to keep naming the gun, because decisions made in the boardroom have real life consequences in the classroom for America’s kids. #NameTheGun
Several yooung women in the northern city of Rasht block a road, take off thier hijabs and start waving them in the air demanding support from drivers on the 40th night of protests after the death of #MahsaAmini.
#مهسا_امینی
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This is not hyperbole. But the fourth part of Fiona Apple’s story is one of the clearest, most succinct, & powerful explanations of the impact of pretrial detention. Not just on individuals but on families and communities.
"Every time you touch this system, it sticks to you."
Make no mistake, the GOP is now the party that locks up pregnant people who cross state lines to get an abortion and cheers on guys like Kyle Rittenhouse who cross state lines to commit mass murder.
Memo to the Fed: Your rate hikes aren't slowing inflation because inflation is coming from big corporations using the cover of inflation to increase their prices more than their costs.
Mental Illness IS a disease but should NEVER be used to minimize the danger of hate speech, advocating anti-semitism and violence against religions or ethnicities. We have found ways over centuries to rationalize this behavior and viewed the atrocities that followed. SPEAK UP!
Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives – for conduct that is legal in many states. That’s before you address the clear racial disparities around prosecution and conviction. Today, we begin to right these wrongs.
As I’ve said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.
Today, I’m taking steps to end our failed approach. Allow me to lay them out.
One of the greatest ongoing scandals of today is that our elected officials — Democrats included — continue to refuse to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
What a remarkable image. The daughter of Minoo Majidi--a mother of two who was killed by the Iranian regime while protesting for #MahsaAmini--stands at her mother's gravesite. She is defiantly unveiled, and in her left hand she holds the hair she cut from her head.
Taxpayers will have to bear the costs of cleaning up the infrastructural damage caused by Hurricane Ian. Do you know who doesn’t have to pay a dime? The Big Oil Giants and the Meat Industry — the two major contributors to global warming and climate change.