Stop trying and failing to figure out how to reopen businesses that can't be open during a plague. Start paying those businesses and everyone else to not work until the plague is over. There is no other workable solution.
Arming police officers with military weapons does not make us safer—period. Today, I joined @SenBrianSchatz on an amendment to limit the practice of providing military weaponry to local police departments.
When I was buying my house, it blew my mind when my lender asked if my family couldn’t just gift me the down payment money, saying that gifts/loans of $50k to $100k weren’t uncommon from families of first-time homebuyers. That’s the 400-year head start we don’t have.
It’s been 96 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered in her home. And for 96 days, while everyone has cried and protested and lobbied for her murderers to be fired and arrested, the state has ignored her.
THIS! Literally just brought me to tears. This is so beautiful. Our Polynesian Brothers and Sisters doing their traditional Haka for Black Lives Matter in New Zealand. The world is coming together and it is so beautiful. #blacklivesmatter#georgefloyd#breonnataylor#ahmadarbery