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[Jason Call 🇵🇸 🇨🇩🇸🇩 @CallForCongress]

Railroad Corporate Lobbying
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In 2022, lobbying groups spent $25bn on behalf of the railroad industry to lobby Congress.

Norfolk Southern, responsible for the East Palestine derailment, was the 4th biggest spender

They offered East Palestine $25,000 compensation

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

On February 3, a horrifying railroad accident took place. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. You might've seen images of the flames, but you probably haven't heard that unions were trying to prevent this exact accident. 🧵

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

I'm not sure people know just how bad the "cop city" project in Atlanta would be. They want a whole mock city to practice police repression.

[Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City @defendATLforest]

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Atlanta city government joins with Governor Kemp in anti-protest crackdown, with arrestees facing heavy charges and high bonds.

If you have money to spare to #StopCopCity: https://t.co/CCdAbnI1gK

[Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City @defendATLforest]

Hundreds of organizations & individuals have signed in solidarity with #StopCopCity

"The struggle that is playing out in Atlanta is a contest for the future...It is up to us to create a peaceful society that does not treat human life as expendable."

https://t.co/BvfkaicNC1

[Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City @defendATLforest]

Please donate to the family of Tortugita, murdered by GSP for defending the Weelaunee Forest and fighting to #StopCopCity

https://t.co/t1KzKnMYXw

[Khara Jabola-Carolus @KharaJabola]

BREAKING: The first #MMIWG Hawai’i report exposes data that the U.S. military contributes to child sexual exploitation in Hawai’i.

38% of men arrested on O’ahu for soliciting sex from a 13-year-old kid online through Operation Keiki Shield (2019-2022) are active duty military.

[Avid Halaby @AvidHalaby]

The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Al Jazeera has presented the findings of a 6-month investigation to the ICC, saying journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was clearly targeted and deliberately killed by Israeli forces ⤵️

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

Anyone who shared this fake news should be ashamed. You could’ve found it’s atrocity propaganda w/ a quick Google search but instead ur helping manufacture consent for Western intervention & sanctions on Iran bc moralizing on ur IG story is more important than actual facts 🤷‍♀️

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

This is a common colonial tactic. In Iran, after Mohammad Mosaddegh
became Prime Minister and nationalized the British ran Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the British proceeded to destroy much of the AIOC equipment and made it difficult for it to run smoothly without them.

[Steve Krenzel @stevekrenzel]

I wound up meeting with a Director who came in huffing and puffing.

The Director said “We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

[Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OwsWills]

Elon Musk has fired Twitter's entire accessibility division. Those people whose job it is to think about how blind, deaf and visually impaired people use and experience the product across platforms have been fired.

The man is an embarrassment.

[Brian Bennett @ByBrianBennett]

Journalist and former Texas Monthly editor Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks has had his Twitter account restricted after posting this tweet about @elonmusk Elon Musk (the retweet function is disabled for the tweet as well)

[Rob Kazinsky @RobertKazinsky]

Years ago, before verified accounts were a thing, back when I was on Eastenders, I was contacted multiple times by parents of children who had been “conversing” with me online. 11-15 year old children that had been talking with a fake me.
I was informed one of these children-

[Rob Kazinsky @RobertKazinsky]

I don’t tweet much, I am scared of the internet, I struggle with a lot of things in life. But this account exists so that fake accounts can’t.
If @elonmusk removes that simple ability to protect people, to protect children with verification then this company is dead in the water

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Two Harvard professors published an academic article calling for 500,000 more armed cops, who they say will arrest 7.8 million more people per year. The article reveals alarming flaws in elite academia at a time of rising fascism. This is one of my most important posts.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

@mattkatz00 In the tweet, you could have said: "Rikers officials to ban incarcerated people from getting letters in the mail from their families. They claim the reason was 'fentanyl-soaked children’s drawings, love letters, prayer schedules, and T-shirts,' but experts are skeptical."

[Josh Ruebner @joshruebner]

🧵I recently saw a list of the best books on the so-called "Israeli-Palestinian conflict" compiled by a prominent academic. It didn't contain A SINGLE BOOK written by a Palestinian academic. This made me 😠 so here's a list of 10 great books by Palestinian academics you should📖:

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

🧵Want to know why rents have been skyrocketing? This jaw dropping @propublica investigation has one answer--collusion. @RealPage's YieldStar proprietary software is helping the nation's biggest landlords and property managers jack up prices together. 1/10 https://t.co/nfGKT5Dxyt