🧵: How many of your state’s lawmakers do you think are women?
If you live in the Southeast, it might not be even 1:5.
Policy about issues like abortion, maternal health & pay equity is controlled by vastly male legislatures across the region.
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The cops killed more people in 2023 than any year since we’ve been tracking. But white folks don’t care anymore and now they get to feel victimized because Claudine Gay incorrectly cited some sources.
My disgust in @thenation
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This is why I called for a ceasefire early. This is why I voted against war in Iraq.
Violence only begets more violence. We need a ceasefire now to prevent deadly, costly, catastrophic escalation of violence in the region.
The US and UK will bomb Yemen to both distract from the genocide trial against Israel, while simultaneously ensuring that the genocide in Gaza continues.
The whole world is watching as war mongers further reveal their hypocrisy & moral bankruptcy.
Enough is enough.
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Liberals are more upset that ceasefire protesters interrupted a speech in a black church than they are about 10,000 brown babies and children being slaughtered by Israel with weapons given to them by the man making the speech.
For most people, the inner workings of their health insurer are a black box: Requests to cover treatment or pay claims go in, and approvals or rejections are spit out. Our investigation looks inside the system that denies care. https://t.co/Ukp9pX2qIU
SCOOP: The Texas Historical Commission removed books on slavery from plantation site gift shops.
An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise. My latest for @TexasMonthly.
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@BenTTravers This article is so so SO good, well-written, and fascinating!!! Great background info about the show and insight into Benny and Nathan’s methods!
But please, I beg you, fix (or get someone to fix) the typo in the first sentence (where it says “legalize” instead of “legalese”)…
@jenelleriley Did Nathan and Benny go to this too?! (You did a great job with the Q&A at The Curse screening… and I’m so envious of that AWESOME Scrabble dress!)
"The pain of losing entire drafts and having to start all over again is bad enough. But for those of us in prison who have turned to writing as both a career and a form of therapy, the loss is only compounded." @ChrisWBlackwell reports with @EthanSCorey https://t.co/MbYfb15yKW
Reforms to tax codes & the IRS don’t address basic questions like:
“Why does Israel have universal healthcare but Americans don’t?”
“Why do Americans have so little influence on how our tax dollars are spent?”
“How is this not the definition of tyranny?”
This is a good time to recall that Gabriel García Márquez got rejected by The New Yorker in 1981—and the next year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.