Not here to defend burning man but this is me listening to people from Vegas make fun of burners for building a city in the middle of the desert without enough resources while simultaneously dumping carbon into the atmosphere through over consumption in the name of entertainment
BREAKING: A cop in Nevada brutalizes peaceful climate protesters from @ExtinctionR and @RaveRevolution trying to block access to #burningman over the festival's carbon footprint. Scary to watch.
As we grow stronger, they become more vicious. ⤵️
"30 seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let's talk, get off the fucken road" - Tribal Ranger announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED through blockade, made arrest at gun point.
In times of change, loss and uncertainty, there is a risk that fear will hold us back. But let us remember: We are UU’s – a people of hope willing to make radical change!
Today in 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.
After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.
This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #FreshVotesBlue #BlackHistoryWithLana
The idea that homelessness is a personal failing or choice is a myth. Below the surface is a long history of the U.S. failing its most vulnerable people.
Hey Brett Kavanaugh.
Want to talk about affirmative action and student loans?
Let’s examine how you got into Yale, shall we?
During your Senate testimony, you said “I got into Yale Law School. That’s the No. 1 law school in the country. I had no connections there. I got there by busting my tail in college.”
But, like much of your testimony, this wasn’t exactly true. 👇
You see, we found a copy of a 1928 Yale yearbook and it turns out your grandfather Everett Edward Kavanaugh also attended Yale as an undergraduate student.
So that makes you a legacy student a liar.
So to recap, you got into your grandfather’s alma mater, then went to the Law School.
That matters — because admission to an undergraduate institution can more than double a student’s chance of getting into that institution’s graduate schools.
In 2011, Yale said that up to 25 percent of its students could classified as legacy students.
Turns out, getting into college, especially Ivy League schools, is traditionally as much a matter of who you know as it is what you know.
AOC said it best, “If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous “colorblindness” claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged.”
But of course you wouldn’t do that. It would mean you’d might have never gotten to the Supreme Court. It would have impacted the 70% of Harvard legacy students who are white - and harmed Harvard’s ability to rely on them as patrons.
So how about we also ban legacy admissions and see how people like you fare without the privilege, shall we?
Bennita Watford with @N2Nma: “At night I can hear mice scurrying. My bathroom is moldy. The hallways are unsafe. I slipped and fell in a puddle at home and cracked two ribs. I can’t have my grandkids over in these conditions.” #RentTooDamnHigh
Katie Talbot is here with @N2Nma: “we’re here with 900 people from every corner of the country to say what we know, what we feel on the first of every month: THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH.” #RentTooDamnHigh
A victory for Tribes, the Indian Child Welfare Act is upheld in this 7-2 #SCOTUS ruling
The ruling leaves room for future fights, and we’re thankful to @SheaBackusEsq for protecting ICWA in NV law #nvleg
(Alito and Thomas are forever trash)
Today, less than a week since the #NVLeg began consideration of #SB1, to allocate $380 million in taxpayer funds to construct another stadium, the Assembly voted to pass the bill despite considerable community opposition and concern.
OUR STATEMENT:
https://t.co/3J7yMUUGPW
It makes me sad that:
1: Fisher is abandoning all of these fans for a Vegas that doesn't even want them
2: #NVLeg is willingly complicit in this and willing to give him $380m.
"Attendance that has never gone beyond 10k attendees will now be 27k ... and somehow, a deadbeat owner is going to invest in his team over night and a losing team will become a winning team," says @La_Rue_Hatch on the mysteries of the #StadiumScam#NVleg