I’ll be joining thousands in NYC on 9/17 to urge @POTUS + other leaders to speed the transition off fossil fuels
After months of wrenching disasters, it's past time for a show of strength and unity.
#EndFossilFuels
Find actions near you: https://t.co/bu0tOj6BHL
Nurses at @SutterHealth Davis voted this week by a landslide to join our union! 🎉
When we organize collectively our unity and strength in numbers is the key to winning protections for our patients and for our communities. 💪
‘I was arrested for civil disobedience … I turned 82 in jail!’ — Actor and activist Jane Fonda sounding the alarm about the need for ‘bold action’ on the climate crisis.
There's no time to wait. This planet is all we've got. Defend it. #ActOnClimate#ClimateEmergency#climate
I still find it despicably appalling that the ALL-MALE ruled South Carolina Supreme Court voted to uphold the fascist GQP 6 week abortion ban thus stripping 1.5M women from access to vital healthcare.
Men should not be telling women what the fuck to do with their bodies, PERIOD!
Take a look at Manda’s trunk. He’s using his ‘fingers’ to hold the milk bottle at his desired angle, ensuring minimal spillage. Tall & strong, our big boy knows how to use his size and strength to his advantage. But it wasn’t always this way: https://t.co/1y4HFFcrpB
The world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay #LossAndDamage for it, according to a study by economists of nearly 15,000 public companies.
#PeopleOverProfits https://t.co/Mc23fSiFTg
libertarians argue to dilute the legitimate sufferings of others; it's the single most reprehensible feature of libertarianism. ("I'm rich, I'm superior, I'm not suffering, why should I care about you, you, & you--since I am not 'you.'")
68 years ago today (8 years to the day before the #MarchOnWashington and my father’s #IHaveADream speech), #EmmettTill was tortured and murdered in a brutal act of white supremacist terrorism. The horrific murder of Emmett Till further galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. #MLK
It's genuinely surreal to watch a bunch of soccer bureaucrats treat their own world championship team like striking workers at a 19th-century coal mine. But as @timothypmurphy writes, Spanish soccer has long been a misogynistic hell. https://t.co/CMq2FWts16
We're all just trying to get by in life. Most of us just want to love and be loved and feel some joy during our limited lifetimes where the end is never known. Can we please just give more of a shit about each other, and try to make life a bit better for each and every one of us?
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.
The data speaks for itself.
Data: https://t.co/gTtB9g78KU #basicincome
2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the West Bank in 15 years, and 2023 is on track to meet or exceed this.
The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian children with virtually no recourse for accountability. https://t.co/EtRfV3ERCR