NEW: Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s.
The state takes 40% of wages and often denies parole to keep people as cheap labor.
Getting written up can lead to solitary confinement. This is modern day slavery.
Crazy how the punishment is a fine and not the immediate liquidation of the company and disbursement of all its assets as reparations to the workers and communities.
Chappell Roan reveals she turned down offer to perform at the White House for Pride:
“In response to the White House who asked me to perform for Pride: we want liberty, justice and freedom for all. When you do that, that’s when I’ll come.”
NASHVILLE: Mayor @freddieoconnell wants to raise the min. wage for metro employees to $20/hour
As Tennessee state Republicans refuse to budge on a law blocking local communities from raising the min. wage for everyone (from $7.25/hour federally)
FULL: https://t.co/clhQQauOgP
Damnit I wish I still had my freshman paper about racism in cartoons and how it changed over the decades. Might have been the best work I ever did that wasn’t STEM related
Please send your love towards @rucoschools director of schools Dr. Jimmy Sullivan. It seems his 9yo son Asher, who was sucked into a storm drain yesterday, still needs a miracle. https://t.co/hhzRgA6nW5
Throughout my first term, I have been expelled, censured, silenced on the House floor, removed from committees, and last night, Republicans tried to kick me off the ballot.
This is about targeting voices of dissent, but they continue to FAIL because people power always prevails.
So we’re all on the same page, in response to a school shooting that left three TODDLERS and three caregivers dead, the TN Legislature responds, A YEAR LATER, with:
- arming teachers without parental permission despite it being WILDLY unpopular
- give gun manufacturers tax breaks and protect them
- silence democratically elected progressive leaders
To echo the chants heard on the House floor yesterday from protesters: “VOTE THEM OUT!”
DEVELOPING: Murfreesboro police detectives are encouraging any potential victims to come forward as a traveling minister and his wife are now facing additional child rape charges. https://t.co/5zRDWUuZer
📷: MPD
Crying Israeli diplomat’s son, 19, ‘intentionally’ ran over Florida cop with motorcycle, could avoid charges due to father’s immunity, lawyer claims https://t.co/Lz1yIxiO92