Sobering stat just now from @CenterOnBudget:
-- Over 7 days at end of February, 14% of adults w/ kids did not have enough to eat
-- By contrast, over full 12 months of 2019, only 4% of adults w/ kids reported not having enough to eat
Evacuations were ordered in Maui County, Hawaii, on Monday after flash flooding prompted concerns that a dam had been breached.
Gov. David Ige urged residents to stay out of the area downstream from the Kaupakulua Dam until the danger had passed.
Here’s how much oil & gas cash Deb Haaland’s opposition has received:
Sen. Bill Cassidy: $1,700,000
Sen. James Lankford: $1,300,000
Sen. John Barrasso: $1,200,000
Sen. Steve Daines: $1,200,000
Sen. John Hoeven: $690,000
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith: $357,000
They’re bought off.
Pedro Sanchez-Laporte is wanted by the #FBI for his involvement in drug trafficking and murder in Reading, Pennsylvania, in January of 2018. He may travel between Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico. A reward of up to $25,000 is offered for information: https://t.co/03PKmmHuMA
Two whistleblowers say during the final days of the Trump administration, a former Justice Department official conducted a "sham" hiring process and elevated a person who volunteered to defend a controversial Trump policy on abortion access. https://t.co/1AEjR4bBGN
Indigenous youth are headed to DC to demand that President @JoeBiden respect tribal nation's right to free, prior & informed consent
Indigenous communities have been clear. Biden must #ShutdownDAPL and #StopLine3
https://t.co/H6Kw2ONzDq
At least one person has died and two students have been injured in clashes between South African university students and police over tuition fees at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. https://t.co/Ow4kbQtObs
Neil deGrasse Tyson points out that some states removing mandatory mask mandates is like “having a peeing section of a swimming pool”.... “that’s bad”. #MaskUp#COVID19
https://t.co/ILLpNATaXq
The FBI has released new video showing someone placing two pipe bombs outside the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees the night before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. https://t.co/IuBCmJrM3v
Missouri is the first fascist state in America.
The legislative branch is controlled by an autocratic super majority due to gerrymandering + voter suppression.
The executive branch is controlled by an autocratic puppet.
Now, they're dismantling the judicial branch.
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Court filings against FLORIDA MAN arrested at US Capitol Insurrection was recorded on video saying "Now they know we can do it again and we will f***ing do it again"
Focus, people. Focus!
There are +250 voter suppression bills being pushed by GOP legislators in +40 states.
While they gaslight America w/fights over Pepe LePew, Dr. Seuss and God knows what other fabricated, faux-cancel, bull-sh*t, they’re making it harder for people to vote.
Myanmar police are fleeing into India to avoid having to follow orders to shoot at the pro-democracy protesters. Let's hope that other security officers still in Myanmar will refuse such clearly unlawful orders from the junta. https://t.co/Y8rTiJQN65
For the second time this week, an official from the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi's party, has died in the Myanmar military's custody following alleged torture, raising serious concerns about the junta's treatment of detainees. https://t.co/g94D9Fudcp
"It's just different this time."
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"Right now we are facing an avalanche of voter suppression that we have not seen before, at least not since Jim Crow, in state after state."
- @marceelias