(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading)
Please.
Folks, seriously.
PLEASE.
Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.
Thinking today of all the Texas prisoners whose cells will be over 100 degrees this week.
We know from past heat waves that many won't make it out alive.
The state legislature just had another chance to pay for A/C, and again decided not to.
https://t.co/AdlJDoPzLK
Hundreds are still missing and feared dead after a boat carrying migrants sank in Greek waters last week.
Advocates say they’re frustrated the sunken migrant ship has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for 5 people. https://t.co/NYRoA3X3um
North Dakota GOP senators voted to increase their own meal reimbursements, 10 days after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students
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BREAKING: The U.S. Justice Department has sued Norfolk Southern, accusing the rail giant of "unlawfully polluting the nation’s waterways" in last month's derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and demanding it pay "all past and future costs" for cleanup and recovery.
BenDeLaCreme on GOP laws targeting drag events: "There's a sense and rhetoric that this is somehow harmful to children. I would argue that seeing drag queens, seeing queer people, people from other walks of life is essential to children." https://t.co/RdYLvfum24
All fish caught in Michigan rivers and tested for toxic PFAS contained the ‘forever chemicals’ – and at levels that present a health risk for anyone eating them, a new study https://t.co/k4mIvhqUAb
When we say "crime is a social construct", what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.
@railroadworkers Not only are rail profits not helping workers, they’re instead being used to lobby against regulation. @TheLever found that rail companies spent big to block stricter safety rules, specifically for trains with hazardous materials like the one in Ohio. /9
https://t.co/fjtEJg9siD