Karen

Chingona | Untamed | Here to Stay

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

It's pretty cool that most cities are becoming unliveable, billionaires got 700% wealthier during a global plague, the planet is literally cooking, and major political institutions are basically hardwired to neutralize leaders and movements who actually want to fix it

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Airplanes in England are grounded because runways are melting.

Meanwhile, a coal baron is standing in the way of climate legislation in the US Senate.

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

A real lesson for all of us comes from Ecuador where Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza led a successful 18-day national strike that resulted in lower gas prices and a end to new oil drilling in the Amazon.

We need more direct action like this in the US.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

8 Akron, Ohio cops shot 90 shots at 1 Black man. His name was Jayland Walker. Over 60 of those shots entered his body, legs, and face. He was only 25-years-old.

This will get swept under the rug. Black folks dying as victims of police terrorism isn’t a “hot topic” anymore.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Still unable to process that NYC will now officially give the NYPD $11.2 billion dollars, while cutting funds to schools and housing. If you think this will drive crime down you don't understand that communities with more resources have less crime, not communities with more cops.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Unfortunately powerful people are already trying to rehabilitate police and give them even more money, so we need to say, again, that what happened in Uvalde wasn't police failing. It was the outcome of us relying on cops to keep us safe when that is not their purpose. 🧵

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

The cops let the shooter in, refused to go in and stop him, and then kept parents out. If this doesn’t change your views on policing I don’t know what will.

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously we’re taking the climate crisis

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

For-profit healthcare is killing us.

[Kei Pritsker @KeiPritsker]

The moment Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse declared victory in their vote to form the first Amazon union in the United States

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

John Wayne tried to assault Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Oscars. But let’s keep talking about how the “slapping incident” was the award show’s most violent episode ever.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The pandemic is still happening.

Cut people $2000 checks and cancel student debt.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

You don’t say.

War is destructive, it robs people of their lives and their sense of security.

As we acknowledge the harm it does to kids, let’s not forget the kids around the world who survived war or still live in war zones, by only focusing on Ukraine. These are kids too 👇🏽

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

How the world treats Ukrainian Refugees, should be how we treat ALL refugees.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

It’s simply not possible that the US is leading a global fight to save democracy when the US senate can’t pass voting rights & the party that staged a coup last year is still regarded as a legitimate wing of the government. What are we even talking about?

[Hassan El-Tayyab @HassanElTayyab]

US media is blatantly displaying racism by only adequately covering a war between white people. In comparison, we see almost no coverage of wars in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, Somalia, Ethiopia, etc. Implication is white lives matter more to them than black/brown lives.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is a former public defender.

Our first voice on the Court in its 233 years has a career of standing up for those most in need.

Say it with me, y’all: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

A byproduct of the press selling war as a product & military propaganda infecting the media. A total detachment between the viewer & the consequences of war. The real, horrific human suffering is totally sanitized. All reduced to mindless consumption.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Two-thirds of the Afghan population is under 25 yrs old. That means most Afghans either weren’t yet born or were too young to remember 9/11.

The US is collectively punishing—with starvation & theft—an entire people who weren’t even alive for a crime their country didn’t commit.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Black women carry more student debt than any other group in America — and carry it the longest.

A great way for @POTUS to honor Black History Month?

Cancel student debt. All of it.