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[Crazy Clips @crazyclipsonly]

Cop flips pregnant woman's car for pulling over too slowly 😳

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Rep. Kelly had $987,237 in PPP loans forgiven for himself, voted to hand out over $1 trillion in tax breaks to profitable corporations and the top 1% and voted to give $886 billion to the bloated Pentagon with ZERO offsets.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Our reaction: "Every acre of habitat left in the Rio Grande Valley is irreplaceable. President Biden’s cynical decision to destroy a wildlife refuge and seal the beautiful Rio Grande behind a grotesque border wall must be stopped." https://t.co/IJmd9m30yD

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Download the app Libby for free. Put in your library card. Every audio book at the library is now free. Unlimited hours, too.

[Dalila Ali Rajah 🧚🏿‍♀️🧙🏾‍♀️✊🏿 (Querying) @dalilaalirajah]

Non-industry folks who may not know: the studios can use snippets of our work w/o compensation for promotional purposes. By putting the film up in small parts, they get $ from the ads that they don't hv to compensate us for because of a technical loophole. Part of why we strike.

[Dyjuan Tatro @DyjuanTatro]

NYC didn’t defund the NYPD; the NYPD is defunding NYC.

10 cops. $68,000,000 in lawsuits over 10 years. They remain employed.

[eric63 amg biturbo 4matic @EricMTerrill1]

Raisins should cost more. I would pay more for raisins

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

A police officer going three times the speed limit without his siren on hits and kills a pedestrian in a crosswalk, and investigators dig into whether the pedestrian was asking for it by wearing dark clothes or maybe having headphones in.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

New York City emergency officials have issued a travel advisory as heavy rain and flooding hits https://t.co/E30q97yK2O

[xxxxxxxxxxx @MorganEliseJ]

Corporations will say this, while throwing away tons of unsold merchandise in the dumpsters behind their stores. Dig deeper.

[Reggie The Don 👑 @rreggiehart2]

Back to Europe Germany isn’t at war nor is their political upheaval

You wanting to home school your kids doesn’t give you the right to asylum

And it’s funny how Laura thinks that European asylum claims are legitimate while South American people asylum claims aren’t very telling

[AJ+ @ajplus]

You know who can’t access Jamaica’s white-sand beaches? Jamaicans.

[layla, lmsw @itslaylas]

how rich people are protecting themselves from COVID, a thread:

1. Cue COVID tests: at home PCR level testing that accounts for new variants. if you test positive, you can get treatments like Paxlovid through their app.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Elvira shared video of the tomato harvest near Hollister CA. Workers pick the tomatoes green so they can arrive to the supermarkets just as they ripen. They are paid for each bucket they harvest so they must work rapidly. #WeFeedYou

[Joshua Fechter @JoshuaFechter]

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson is switching parties from Democrat to Republican, he writes in @WSJopinion https://t.co/0YQQgr1TBH #txlege

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Another day, another successful multi-year test of universal basic income. This time in Uganda:

"Simply transferring money to people living in poverty works. They then invest it in food, clean drinking water, education and a sustainable house with solar panels. These are the main findings of a study by the University of Groningen that examined an initiative by INclusion, which was the first Dutch NGO to launch a universal basic income project in Uganda in 2020."

"The universal basic income project started in August 2020 in the village of Welle, Uganda, in cooperation with the Ugandan NGO AFARD. The village then had 350 inhabitants, more than half of whom lived in extreme poverty. For the past three years, INclusion gave all the inhabitants of Welle - adults and children - 15 euros per month, without conditions."

As a result of the #UBI:

✅️extreme poverty has decreased from 55% to 10%

✅️food security increased significantly, as did access to clean drinking water

✅️elementary school participation increased from 70% to 87%

✅️there was 75% less dropout from work and school due to illness

✅️many residents built new, more sustainable homes

✅️residents also invested in land for agriculture

✅️the percentage of households owning cattle increased from 9% to 49%

✅️ownership of solar panels increased from 19% to 74%

"Given all these positive changes, it is not surprising that the residents also told the interviewers that their stress has greatly decreased - such as daily worries about food and medicine - and that they are now more optimistic about their future."

"The basic idea is that people living in poverty know best themselves what they need, and that they are also the most motivated to improve their own situation. That idea is confirmed by this project and other research on this topic. When you give people living in poverty the opportunity to improve their own living conditions, with a little help, they grab it with both hands."

We don't need any more tests. Some country just needs to be the first to actually do it.
https://t.co/uIEEu9VvFz

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

"You make almost $30 million. Why should your workers not get the same type of pay increases that you're getting leading the company?"

General Motors CEO: "My compensation, 92% of it is based on performance of the company...When the company does well, everyone does well."

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

There are enough vacant apartments to house every homeless New Yorker.

We have all the resources we need to end this. The continued existence of homelessness is a policy choice.

[Robert Greenwald @robertgreenwald]

The officer heard mocking the death of a 23-year-old woman is Daniel Auderer.

He's been involved in 29 INCIDENTS of misconduct and he's the vice president of the Seattle police union.

This rotten system isn't going to reform itself.