The US is one of six countries in the world without national paid family or maternity leave. Glamour followed the journey of eight women through their first 28 days postpartum to find out what paid leave looks like in America. #PassPaidLeave https://t.co/e0d5HlKb2Q
Okay @UFT time to hold you accountable.
We endorsed @NYCMayor and he trampled state law & illegally cut @NYCSchools budget
We endorsed @GovKathyHochul and she is about to pocket veto historic smaller class size legislation.
The endorsement process needs to be revisited. NOW.
Please stop saying that we need to increase teacher salaries in order “recruit the best and brightest” as if the best and brightest are not currently teaching.
We need to increase teacher salaries because those currently teaching deserve and earned it.
NEW: A woman in Dallas is arguing that she can’t be ticketed for driving alone in the HOV lane because she’s 34 weeks pregnant and the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—and Texas law now says a fetus is a person. She says they can’t have it both ways. https://t.co/LJecTAmw0i
Holy crap. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) said she would shoot her own grandchildren to oppose a gun safety reform bill that would keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them. (h/t @RyanShead)
Israel had the highest rates of cannabis use worldwide in 2020. In fact, nearly one-third of the adult population had consumed cannabis during the year. And yet, that same year, there were fewer than 125 gun deaths in Israel. There were 40,000 in America.
It’s the fucking guns.
A traffic stop. I know it’s hard for some of you but but THINK critically about this response for a traffic stop versus their response for mass shootings of children in schools, families at a parade and elderly in a supermarket. All in custody ALIVE.
I can’t stop thinking about 2-year-old Aiden McCarthy who lost both his parents in the span of a minute because some politicians value weapons of war more than people’s lives.
A white man, deemed “armed and dangerous,” was peacefully detained as a person of interest after 7 were shot dead. More than 24 hours later, he has yet to be charged.
A Black man—unarmed—was shot over 60 times by police after a “routine traffic stop.”
Welcome to America.