May 8, 2022 by V Leigh

The Supreme Court of the United States decided not to extend basic constitutional rights to residents in state territories, including Puerto Rico.

http://gradsgate.com/inputs.php Indigenous Taíno people in Puerto Rico struggle to get their concerns acknowledged by the U.S., so they’re going to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.https://t.co/yewVYz7BTT
— grist (@grist) May 7, 2022

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President Biden’s administration, like the Trump administration before it, defended Congress’s right to exclude residents of Puerto Rico from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program without violating the Constitution’s promise of equal protection. https://t.co/mWBktGjP7n
— The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) April 21, 2022

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There is a nationwide power outage across US colony Puerto Rico right now

The US government, which appointed an unelected colonial board to control Puerto Rico’s finances, forced the privatization of the power grid to a corporation

Ever since there have been constant blackouts https://t.co/lcQlHIqafZ
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 7, 2022

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A recently published bill in Puerto Rico seeks to prohibit abortions after 22 weeks with the only exception being if the pregnant person’s life is in danger. We call for urgent objective public hearings and meaningful human rights scrutiny of this bill.https://t.co/CuIUeYtYsM pic.twitter.com/pKzLGz3slg
— Amnesty International USA (@amnestyusa) April 21, 2022

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Puerto Rico accounts for 1% of the US pop. but 7% of US cases. Hospitalizations are up 3x. The reasons:
– explosion in travel
– end of mask + vax requirements
– low boost rate (despite 78% primary vax rate)

Given the right ingredients, COVID will cook.https://t.co/NhcTCa2fQt
— Dr. Taison Bell (@TaisonBell) May 4, 2022

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“The Supreme Court of the United States decided not to extend basic constitutional rights to residents in state territories, including Puerto Rico.”https://t.co/0NPUt4BBiN
— Affinity Magazine (@TheAffinityMag) April 29, 2022

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November 29, 2021 by V Leigh

‘No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.’ — @AOC

.@AliVelshi: Taxing ultra-wealthy Americans differently than the rest of us is not a controversial idea. https://t.co/IGzJ80BaVg
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 26, 2021

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If we’re serious about taking on the military industrial complex & cutting the Pentagon budget, we have to expose the military contractors who profit from endless war.

Share this clip from our film “Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers” and help expose the for-profit war machine! pic.twitter.com/3iLBV5P9MO
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) August 14, 2021

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20 years after taking out student loans, the typical white borrower owes about 5% of their debt. The typical Black borrower owes about 95%. Because of the wealth gap & systemic discrimination, Black students go into more debt & have a harder time paying it. #CancelStudentDebt
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 3, 2021

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No one should have to ration life-saving medication due to price, and yet 1/4 diabetic Americans aren’t taking insulin as prescribed because of its skyrocketing cost. Today, on #WorldDiabetesDay, I’m wearing earrings made from old insulin vials to keep the pressure on Big Pharma. pic.twitter.com/BSAMmtt9pM
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) November 14, 2021

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‘No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.’ — @AOC pulled no punches when discussing income inequality, capitalism, and the ultra wealthy’s grip on power in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/74LMHVM6O4
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 16, 2021

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How Manchin and Sinema’s status as Senate holdouts is proving lucrative

“The Democratic senators have received a flood of money from conservative donors, leading some to raise concerns of corruption”https://t.co/phePsgUB1i
— Coal Miner’s Granddaughter (@TerenehIdia) November 28, 2021

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November 28, 2021 by V Leigh

“If he didn’t break the law, we should change the law.”

This photo says it all! Black kids need to know their lives matter! #JusticeForAhmaud pic.twitter.com/pJLQUBwnED
— Arndrea Waters King (@ArndreaKing) November 24, 2021

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This #JusticeForAhmaud came from people speaking out & showing up. Remember we went 74 days without an arrest; this was never inevitable. Gratitude to all. To the runners, the #BLM activists, the preachers, the local citizens, all who said that his life mattered. pic.twitter.com/FTHHF4lqxz
— Heather McGhee (@hmcghee) November 24, 2021

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Police have killed 961 people this year. To date, officers have being charged with a crime in only 10 of these killings – 1% of the total. https://t.co/vqURbJZyIR
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) November 24, 2021

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Check out Mississippi Goddam Chapter 6: Mississippi Justice https://t.co/fqqRqcq7yZ
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) November 27, 2021

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Footage shows the killing of the 32-year-old Black man in his home by a white officer — over the objections of his Black, more-experienced partner. Both officers are still on duty.https://t.co/4iFwxeJx4s
— ProPublica (@propublica) November 22, 2021

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“If he didn’t break the law, we should change the law.”

— @StephenAtHome hits at Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal after killing 2 protesters and injuring 1 during Black Lives Matter demonstration. pic.twitter.com/gMPUQLmmI6
— The Recount (@therecount) November 23, 2021

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November 19, 2021 by V Leigh

The system is beyond rigged

The system is beyond rigged pic.twitter.com/JXemdGH8J6
— Read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (@JoshuaPotash) October 26, 2021

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Check out Ep. 527 – The brutal, grotesque, barbaric execution of John Grant was quintessential America. And illegal. https://t.co/qAWCmLQ8dO
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) November 4, 2021

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I am thinking of #JuliusJones today. And the trial of #AhmaudArberry’s killers. And the wait for the #Rittenhouse verdict. And the racist chicanery that attends them all. It’s all feeling like 1880-1920 those years that Rayford Logan called the “nadir of American race relations.”
— Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) November 18, 2021

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In Oklahoma, the moment supporters found out the governor granted clemency to Julius Jones, via @TheBlackTimesOK: pic.twitter.com/krfP1Lq0Ax
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 18, 2021

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Oklahoma plans to execute #JuliusJones on Thursday despite a parole board twice recommending the governor grant him clemency.

Jones says he was framed for a 1999 murder. Legal experts say he did not match witness descriptions, his alibi was ignored and a juror called him a slur. pic.twitter.com/paOi04ZE7q
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 18, 2021

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.@marclamonthill takes a moment to reflect on #JuliusJones, who was scheduled to be executed today and granted #clemency. “They had this man thinking he was going to die, knowing that they were going to commute the sentence the next day. You know how perverse and cruel that is?” pic.twitter.com/DOCQaMihaQ
— Black News Channel (@BNCNews) November 19, 2021

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October 4, 2021 by V Leigh

#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

“There is one rule for the rich, and one rule for ordinary people, we’ve got a situation where the richest people on earth are paying lower taxes than a nurse or cleaner”

Max Lawson, from Oxfam International, reacts to findings of the Pandora Papershttps://t.co/H0yx1kRRiW
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 4, 2021

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The #PandoraPapers unmask the covert owners of offshore companies, incognito bank accounts, private jets, yachts, mansions and famous artwork — providing more information than what’s usually available to law enforcement and cash-strapped governments. https://t.co/JxKKwYqrtt pic.twitter.com/zJmtqhUYe5
— ICIJ (@ICIJorg) October 3, 2021

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World leaders, celebrities and billionaires are among those who’ve used offshore accounts to hide assets, a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveals. The “Pandora Papers” analyzes nearly 12 million leaked files. https://t.co/yyA3iIP2LT
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2021

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Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth https://t.co/1vnuJUaY2c pic.twitter.com/QH0ry4FZ55
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 4, 2021

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Massive data leak, the Pandora Papers, exposes how world leaders and the super-rich are secretly buying up luxury property to hide their wealthhttps://t.co/DGNOuSbLkb
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 3, 2021

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You guys it’s definitely just a coincidence that Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp goes down the day of a 60mins expose and the Pandora Papers drop.
— Camilla Blackett (@camillard) October 4, 2021

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The offshore secrets of more than 35 current and former presidents revealed in a massive leak. This is one of the most exhausting, complex and potentially explosive investigations I’ve ever worked on. https://t.co/abUFJB2o5P
— Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) October 3, 2021

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While Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp aren’t competing for your attention, read our thread 🧵 on everything you need to know about the Pandora Papers 👇 https://t.co/SRvbVnfEWy
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 4, 2021

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#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful https://t.co/r28CVIgkJ2
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 3, 2021

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April 16, 2021 by V Leigh

Inequality is the greatest harm to our democracy

Arkansas GOP legislature just passed Georgia-style voter suppression bills making it crime to give food and water to voters waiting in line & stripping power from nonpartisan election officials
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 13, 2021

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I cried looking at the new Forbes billionaire list so I did a bunch of number crunching (as I do) to calm down.

First, let’s say this loud and clear. COVID-19 has been a boon for the rich. Founders, families & CEOs of the five Big Tech companies are now worth $651,800,000,000.
— jane chung (@Jane24477) April 7, 2021

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Jeff Bezos is worth $182 billion and the fact that he chooses to do everything within his power to keep the 5,800 predominantly Black workers in Alabama from unionizing for humane working conditions proves that he knows he didn’t earn his fortune. He exploited workers for it.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) March 19, 2021

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Waiting for justice: Unsentenced people locked up for years | CalMattershttps://t.co/1qdN72gZf0 #presumedinnocent #jailreformnow
— LaDoris Cordell (@judgecordell) March 31, 2021

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Policing is a public health crisis.
Mass incarceration is a public health crisis.
Housing injustice is a public health crisis.
Medical apartheid is a public health crisis.
Racism is a public health crisis.
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) April 10, 2021

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“Inequality is the greatest harm to our democracy because inequality asphyxiates hope,” says Ford Foundation president Darren Walker. Now, the mission of every Ford Foundation grant is fighting inequality. https://t.co/7C6uKiDqRc pic.twitter.com/W6nKviEUcu
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 4, 2021

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March 28, 2021 by V Leigh

Crumbling infrastructure in the rural South is a racial justice issue.

.@KeriLeighMerrit: “It is nothing short of a moral and ethical tragedy – an indictment of the entire country – that our citizens are being deprived of clean, running water in one of the richest nations on earth.”https://t.co/ApB1xgnO0f
— CNN Opinion (@CNNOpinion) March 14, 2021

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“It’s now week four of the water crisis in Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson. The water is still not safe to drink.”https://t.co/sYYXrG2tqq
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 12, 2021

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You can’t bathe. https://t.co/70qNjYgOIU
— Kiese Makeba Laymon (@KieseLaymon) March 13, 2021

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Mississippi’s capital city enters week 4 of a water crisis: Here’s how it got to this point https://t.co/IZecn04q1o via @usatoday
— Ben Barber (@Ben_Barber_) March 10, 2021

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Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, were left without water for weeks after a deep freeze hit the south, bursting pipes and forcing people to rely on bottled or collected rain water. @nickjudin dives in on Jackson’s water crisis on What Next:https://t.co/e8z3cUS2Qu
— Carmel Delshad 📻 (@cdelshad) March 23, 2021

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Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis: Crumbling infrastructure in the rural South is a racial justice issue. https://t.co/LaO5ovlgxg #environmentalracism
— Robert D. Bullard (@DrBobBullard) March 23, 2021

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October 23, 2020 by V Leigh

The top 1% of Americans

BREAKING: The Seattle Human Services Department just announced that providing housing to Seattle’s 12,000 homeless would be “reckless and irresponsible”. Over 1 in 10 Seattle apartments are currently empty. We are in a pandemic and our air is at toxic levels due to wildfires. https://t.co/9OQnV1F6r6
— Dae (@daeshikjr) September 17, 2020

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The top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%—and that’s made the U.S. less secure https://t.co/o7Nm9JUOWI
— TIME (@TIME) September 14, 2020

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August 12, 2020 by V Leigh

“The rot from slavery and its aftermath are still with us, in a thousand different ways.”

A Black man will spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing hedge clippers after the Louisiana Supreme Court denied his request to have his sentence overturned last week. https://t.co/IuVmbNSjd8
— CNN (@CNN) August 6, 2020

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The Louisiana Supreme Court denied a request to review a LIFE sentence issued to a Black man convicted of trying to steal hedge clippers from a storage room in 1997. Chief Justice Bernette Johnson, the court’s lone Black justice, was the sole dissent. https://t.co/YVpQkFBP7D
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) August 4, 2020

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Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson: A life sentence for a failed attempt to steal hedge clippers is a “modern manifestation” of the “Pig Laws designed to re-enslave African Americans.” https://t.co/L4GYMz4G2R
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 7, 2020

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“The rot from slavery and its aftermath are still with us, in a thousand different ways.” @JoyAnnReid discussing Louisiana Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the prison sentence of a Black man who is serving life for stealing hedge clippers in 1997. https://t.co/Wa6mkTll4u
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) August 8, 2020

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The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to review the life sentence imposed on a man for attempted theft of hedge clippers. The court’s only Black justice dissented and identified this as a harsh legacy of racially-biased punishment. https://t.co/zMGbwqFMTC
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) August 7, 2020

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“If he lives another 20 years, Louisiana taxpayers will have paid almost one million dollars to punish Mr. Bryant for his failed effort to steal a set of hedge clippers,” wrote the sole dissenter in the court’s decision.https://t.co/ffTLXdB9cF
— NPR (@NPR) August 7, 2020

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May 18, 2020 by V Leigh

“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen”

Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week.

Now, they are being replaced by prison labor. https://t.co/Os5a52qOo5
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) May 10, 2020

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Capitalism has brought about levels of income inequality that are unjust and unsustainable.

Three men in America own more wealth than the bottom HALF of the country. This is disturbing. Unfettered capitalism is not the path forward.#RIPCapitalism

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— McAuley 🍽 (@McauleyHolmes) May 13, 2020

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On top of years of income inequality, women have also been most heavily affected by this economic crisis. We have a responsibility to provide aid to displaced workers and ensure equal pay for women as they re-enter the workforce. https://t.co/iDQciwYF78
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) May 11, 2020

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Before the early 1980s, there weren’t millions of people experiencing homelessness in the United States. The modern crisis can be traced to drastic Reagan-era cuts to affordable housing in the middle of an economic recession. https://t.co/W3nLJSaPiE
— The Appeal (@theappeal) April 25, 2020

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“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen…” As I have said before, homelessness and housing insecurity are directly connected to income inequality. Time to fix that. #waleg @markoliias America’s Cities Could House Everyone if They Chose To https://t.co/3jO1TlQL7c
— Patty Kuderer (@senpattykuderer) May 17, 2020

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