Some passengers say they were stuck in the cabin of a Flair Airlines flight for about 10 hours this week, fending off hunger and thirst by sharing snacks and drinking from the bathroom sink.
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Oregon Public Broadcasting confirms tweets today that federal officers in camouflage but no agency identification or badges, driving unmarked non-government rental cars, are grabbing protestors off streets in Portland and not talking w local authorities
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I guarantee you that every single trans person you know would rather be doing anything else right now, and not have to be constantly advocating our own existence.
So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but outright lies.
A lot of what you're told about protests, MLK, etc. is wrong.
A thread.
Rep. @AOC: "We would not be giving local police departments who are undertrained A TANK if we didn't give the military too much money to have extra damn tanks lying around to begin with."
It is outrageous that one man, Rand Paul, has BLOCKED Congress from final passage of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. His actions amount to acceptance of racial violence which continues to this day. https://t.co/1srpfZUAGe
Horrifying. You start with the tiny possibility that two officers may be walking over to deescalate the abusive one.
Instead, they join in beating a man trying to get out of traffic.
This isn’t a problem of bad apples or incidents. This is an institutional and systemic crisis.