DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SIGNAL
Isolation can increase the risk of violence at home. Use this discrete gesture during a video call to show you need help:
1. Hold hand up with palm facing other person.
2. Tuck thumb into palm.
3. Fold fingers down over thumb.
God I love a woman who will abandon the world's expectations before she'll ever abandon herself. Simone Biles is a goddamn cheetah and I'm in her corner forever.
46-year-old Brandon died six days after contracting COVID. He had told his mom that he wanted to wait before getting the vaccine.
"I wanted [his friends] to see his ashes. I wanted them to know, 'Look, Brandon is dead because he did not take the vaccine,'" his mother said.
"My silence has, for far too long, been seen as my complicity."
@brhodes talks to journalist @RanaAyyub about why the Indian government is targeting her over a tweet and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s larger crackdown on free speech. https://t.co/nG716IFFBF
I spoke to my dear friend @brhodes on the intimidation of journalists in India. ‘My silence has been seen as my complicity and construed as my weakness , so I must speak up. Knowing that this interview will have consequences for me’
https://t.co/e2bW4FOGVi
Please stop for a moment and watch this, with the sound on. Share with others. An unflinching rebuttal to all those who are politicizing studies of race and injustice courtesy of Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Back to writing about the pandemic. I wrote about how the US might react to the traumas of the last 14 months in the quiet moments after adrenaline fades.
It's about what happens when you can finally exhale, but the breaths come out as sighs. 1/
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Gretchen Whitmer: Free Horace Peterson! Michigan man serves life in prison for murder he didn't commit - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/DXPvQNjXM5 via @Change
We interrupt the coverage of the shooting of a 13-yr-old boy that interrupted coverage of traffic stop shooting of a 20–yr-old man that interrupted coverage of Derek Chauvin trial for the killing of George Floyd for news of 8 ppl killed at Fedex facility in Indianapolis
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I don't care what was in his system. I don't care if he was drunk. I don't care if he was high. I don't care if he was angry. I don't care if he was sad. I don’t care. THAT COP’S KNEE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THAT MAN’S NECK FOR ALMOST 9 MINUTES. Period. End of story. That’s it.