The most disgusting part of all of this is Mississippi has both the highest child poverty rate AND the lowest welfare acceptance rate in the nation: 1.42 %. Nearly every person who applies for welfare in MS is denied, and yet the gov was orchestrating give outs to rich people.
Today I signed an Executive Order to protect the reproductive rights of women in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It formalizes the actions I announced right after the decision and will add new measures to protect women's health.
I’ve avoided tweeting about the white supremacist massacre so not to dishonor the dead in anyway. But I keep obsessing over the constant drumbeat of the last year abt the dangers of CRT when the literal violent danger of the white supremacy CRT exposes has been downplayed/denied.
“Lest we forget, enslavers were the original book banners. Lest we forget, antislavery texts were the original books being banned."
My latest video essay @the_emancipator. To see it in full and learn about the bans of David Walker’s Appeal in 1829, visit https://t.co/tot8K35FJk.
It’s time we ensure billionaires and giant corporations pay their fair share in taxes — and then use that money to reduce the deficit and invest in the middle class.
My budget will make that a reality.
I just became the first U.S. Secretary of Education to call on President Biden to unilaterally cancel student loan debt. Can I count on you to retweet and help me hit 35k followers so we can spread the word?
Imagine a bill barring your school from discussing you, a bill seeking to make an aspect of you invisible when you're struggling to see and be your full self, and learn your full self in your world. These bills of bigotry are toxic to developing children.
https://t.co/tsOdQGliso
I am a product of a HBCU, where I learned how to think and write and be me. It is tearing up my heart seeing all these bomb threats. Our HBCU family is resilient. But we shouldn’t have to be.
When you own a product, you should be able to repair it yourself. That’s why I included support for the ��right to repair” in my Executive Order.
Now, companies like Apple and Microsoft are changing their policies so folks will be able to repair their devices themselves.
I regularly test for COVID & while I tested negative earlier this week, today I tested positive with a breakthrough case. Thankfully, I am only experiencing mild symptoms & am grateful for the protection provided against serious illness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted.
My message to unvaccinated Americans is this: What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see?
We have made the vaccinations free, safe, and convenient. The vaccine has FDA approval. Over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot.
Do the right thing.