Funding body cameras.
Funding more trainings.
Funding updated use of force guidelines.
All that funding and reform hasn’t stopped the police from killing people or made our communities safer.
The problem is systemic and it requires systemic solutions.
@RepMichaelGuest Did you pay attention in your college science classes, or did you just sleep through those? Like, I already know the answer, but I'm just wondering what you think
Today the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states can be forced to fund religious education using taxpayer dollars.
This undermines true religious freedom and attacks the foundations of the separation of church and state.
Mississippi ran 50 yards and fumbled the ball at the endzone. (I don't know anything about football.)
Changing the flag is historic and necessary, but it would be great if legislators could remember their fundamental obligation to maintain a separation of church and state.
BREAKING: It's done. A truly historic moment in Jackson.
After 126 years, Mississippi will permanently remove its state flag that features the Confederate battle emblem.
https://t.co/nKHR8e27sp #msleg
The mayor of Tupelo, #Mississippi, has ordered people to wear masks in public, starting Monday, to slow the spread of the #coronavirus. He’s not here for any of your foolishness.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but when Indian Health Services doesn’t have the money or resources it needs, it isn’t “underfunded”, it’s because the US is not honoring treaty rights - in other words: breaking the law.
Like me could get married. That being said, there's more work to do. Queer people still need protections for housing and other services. Disabled people still don't have marriage equality due to the rules of some benefits. (2/2)
In the interest of celebrating victories, #thrownbackfriday or w/e to the Obergefell SCOTUS decision, which granted marriage equality to same gender couples. I remember waking up in 2015, reading the decision, and feeling this incredible wave of relief and joy that people (1/2)
@RepMichaelGuest@realDonaldTrump What you did was take money from other parts of the budget and ruin the environment, all while demonizing Latine people. There's a connection between wall rhetoric and the border camps, and you're a part of it, you racist.
Kentuckians are protesting for Breonna Taylor in our state capital today. There cannot be two systems of justice in our country depending on the color of your skin.