NEW: Twitter hasn’t paid thousands of dollars in charitable donations that employees made in 2022, around the time of the acquisition. The money was taken out of employee paychecks but never reached the organizations. Benevity, the third-party platform that is used to facilitate the payments, told employees Twitter hasn’t yet approved the payments. After I started asking around about this yesterday Twitter said it is “actively working” to get the money to the NGOs.
@mcuban@costplusdrugs My dad needs enzalutamide, which might cost him $11,000 *with* Medicare. Many Americans pay $156,000 per year for it, 5x the price Canadians are charged.
A pregnant Black woman in South Carolina is serving 4 years in prison for chanting at police at 2020 protests — convicted of "breaching of the peace."
Brittany Martin has lost 12 lbs in prison and was hospitalized twice for pregnancy complications in July, family says. 🧵
New York banned incarcerated people from getting packages from home and may soon ban letters on paper.
Food packages are a major source of healthy food in prison. Families can now only use 3rd-party vendors, which are prohibitively expensive, costing hundreds of dollars.
28 women held at an Indiana jail are suing after guards gave the keys to their cells to incarcerated men in exchange for a $1000 bribe, allowing the men to rape and assault the women. https://t.co/jw6rQIN4Uy
And if you're in your car and nobody is around to film the encounter? The officer will be one foot away and you won't be allowed to make a record of the interaction. This is terrifying.
"Nobody walks up to a cop when he is questioning a suspicious person or arresting somebody and stands one or two feet away. Common sense says you’re asking for trouble," Kavanagh said on Arizona PBS. https://t.co/FuVVv27OJT
Preventing people from filming police protects them from accountability, not physical harm. This won't be the only law of its type to chill free speech and give cover to the worst on the force.
Abortion, which is lifesaving in cases of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, etc, will now be illegal in many states & even criminal in some & women will die as a result of this decision. So don't tell me you're pro-life.