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@Ed4Excellence & @TNTP have joined forces to expose antiquated layoff policies that ultimately impact teachers of color.
We need a diverse teacher workforce #SoAllStudentsThrive.
Visit https://t.co/6M0Cy9btD0 to read the paper & the NEW policy recs.
If more guns in more places made us safer, America would be the safest country on earth. Instead, the U.S. gun homicide rate is 26 times that of other high-income countries.
Text ACT to 644-33 to join the millions of Americans fighting to #EndGunViolence in our country.
"Research shows it costs taxpayers $31,065 a year to criminalize a single person experiencing homelessness while the yearly cost for providing supportive housing is $10,051."
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GREAT NEWS: If you're experiencing symptoms and don't know what you have, now you can go to any of dozens of mobile "Test to Treat" sites around NYC and get tested for covid, flu & rsv AND if you need it get an Rx for paxlovid or tamflu *on the spot*.
Locations/times by borough:
@LMSA_Northeast i made a google doc with a list of free clinics and organizations that support immigrants in NYC: https://t.co/iHnv3X895Q (if i missed any, my DMs are open!)
for those outside NYC, please check out https://t.co/EfNaR3x8J1 for free clinics in your area
@NAFClinics
Thousands.
“How many more Adnan Syeds are in the justice system with no journalists to advocate for them?” | GUEST COMMENTARY – Baltimore Sun https://t.co/f5Rr9kCYGL
Hey anti-abortion fanatics. People getting abortions doesn’t affect you AT ALL. Your neighbor had an abortion last month. You didn’t know she was pregnant. She took 2 pills. She’s no longer pregnant. Your life was not affected. Because it’s none of your damn business.
Every “But her emails” hat or shirt sold helps @onwardtogether partners defend democracy, build a progressive bench, and fight for our values.
Just saying!
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Ten years ago today, six congregants in a Sikh house of worship were killed by a gunman with ties to white supremacist groups.
Now one victim's son and a former white supremacist are coming together to combat hate. https://t.co/pEW696xvKw
The more I read these panicked articles about places like NYC and San Francisco being 'unsafe', the more I realize it's not about crime at all - just discomfort with poverty being more visible