January 9, 2020 by V Leigh

76% of people currently incarcerated in America’s jails have not been convicted of a crime and most are there because they cannot afford bail.

61 year old Stephen Wayne Cole is the third person to die at the Bexar County jail in 12 months after being booked on a trespassing charge. Cole was held at the Texas jail because he couldn’t afford a $40 bond. https://t.co/lvSnZwqFZN

— Ethan Brown (@ethanbrown72) December 28, 2019

All Mississippi prisons remain locked down after five inmates violently died in state prisons in one week https://t.co/qIG7tDIn39 pic.twitter.com/a50yk8YYvm

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 4, 2020

Meanwhile people who are homeless and charged with trespassing on non-residential property – as opposed to police officers committing home invasions – are dying in jail sometimes after being held for months because they cannot afford bonds of under $100. https://t.co/pXAnZemMxT

— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) January 2, 2020

BREAKING: After Fairfax County’s new prosecutor announces plan to drop prosecutions for pot possession, judge denies motion to dismiss first case. Says cases need to be evaluated on individual basis.

— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) January 2, 2020

At least five people have died in Mississippi prisons in the past week and it’s the result of longstanding issues that have been ignored for far too long — including chronic understaffing and failure to protect incarcerated individuals from harm. https://t.co/DmmDsb892d

— Real Justice (@RealJusticePAC) January 8, 2020

Greetings from today's contentious Metro Council meeting. Still on the agenda: presentation from CorrectHealth, the firm overseeing jail medical care, which has come under fire for an inmate death rate more than twice the national average. Background here: https://t.co/XzSp5f16ME

— Lea Skene (@lea_skene) January 8, 2020

Texas executes man whose trial featured false testimony https://t.co/wR9cfkraEr

— Shaun King (@shaunking) December 12, 2019

76% of people currently incarcerated in America’s jails have not been convicted of a crime and most are there because they cannot afford bail. https://t.co/dwyq4ULBnC https://t.co/Kp3XtNpe3n

— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) December 28, 2019

January 9, 2020 by V Leigh

For a black person to say, “Black is Beautiful,” a white person first said, “Black is Not Beautiful.”

Black drivers in California are 2.5x more likely to be stopped by police than white people, says a study on racial profiling — and 3x more likely to have a gun pointed at them.

Black people were overrepresented in police stops by:
▪️ 3x in Los Angeles
▪️ 5x in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/c21x6cER6g

— AJ+ (@ajplus) January 3, 2020

Undoubtedly police brutality is causing us alot of money than we think. Kindly watch retweet, like and let's talk about it, its our money 😡😡😡#PoliceBrutality #Police #Blacktwitter #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTwitterMovement pic.twitter.com/RjwLKzF0IL

— Black Barriers (Stop🚫Racism🚫PoliceBrutalty🚫) (@BlackBarriers) January 5, 2020

Doctors are less likely to prescribe narcotics if a patient is black, and new analysis finds this racial bias has saved thousands of lives.https://t.co/ISf92UxqCy pic.twitter.com/QUPiigSvN8

— TPR News (@TPRNews) January 4, 2020

I guess medical racism and negligence is finally good for something. pic.twitter.com/5BoNJdvZ99

— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) January 5, 2020

For a black person to say, “Black is Beautiful,” a white person first said, “Black is Not Beautiful."
For a black person to say, “Black Lives Matter,” a white person first said, “Black Lives Do Not Matter.”https://t.co/IUjmss2IMy

— Christa Lax (@chrixxlax) January 7, 2020

January 6, 2020 by V Leigh

DeRay Mckesson on Black Lives Matter: ‘It changed the country’

Black Lives Matter didn’t just start with a hashtag. It started with a long history of discriminatory policing, segregated Black neighborhoods left abandoned, and state-sanctioned violence. https://t.co/82hVaTSFfk

— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) January 1, 2020

"From Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to school climate strikes, the power of popular movements can no longer be ignored." https://t.co/3ZGH9jgxm3

— MoveOn (@MoveOn) December 30, 2019

Glad to see Colin Kaepernick's protest and Black Lives Matter identified among the "best leadership moments" of the decade.

From the Civil Right Movement to protests of today, Black activism has always been a powerful force in moving our country forward.https://t.co/mJycSnCq3u

— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) December 31, 2019

DeRay Mckesson on Black Lives Matter: 'It changed the country' https://t.co/PteoCLo7E0

— The Guardian (@guardian) December 30, 2019

January 5, 2020 by V Leigh

The Dire Consequences of Trump’s Suleimani Decision

Trump has managed to get disparate groups inside #Iran who have little to otherwise agree on to rally around the flag.

Millions of Iranians are out on the streets now to commend and mourn a commander of the same Revolutionary Guard which cracked down on major unrest weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/cWw47DNn7e

— Mohammad Ali Shabani (@mashabani) January 5, 2020

My take on the probability of war with Iran.

Opinion | The Dire Consequences of Trump’s Suleimani Decision – The New York Times https://t.co/7AG9p1GvNa

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) January 4, 2020

New York Times: When Trump made the decision to assassinate General Suleimani, top Pentagon officials were stunned. One official described the intelligence as "thin" and said an attack was "not imminent."https://t.co/YqBMp0ywNy

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) January 5, 2020

January 4, 2020 by V Leigh

Australia’s fires could change the country forever

On January 4, three fires in Australia combined to create one of the largest fires in Victoria state so far. The massive blaze currently spans more than 23 square miles, making it larger than the NYC borough of Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/ZPLfAPiONp

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 4, 2020

We're literally watching species go extinct in real time during these Australian bushfireshttps://t.co/7iqvmqjhzG

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) January 4, 2020

We’re seeing it in Australia.
We’re seeing it in California.

Our entire planet is in the midst of a climate crisis. There is already devastating, irreversible damage happening. We must act swiftly to combat it. https://t.co/kPhVFcb6Dy

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 4, 2020

"We’ve never seen fires like this, not to this extent, not all at once, and the reservoir of animals that could come and repopulate the areas, they may not be there," one research fellow said. "It really is an ecological Armageddon."https://t.co/NA9dp45LfJ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 4, 2020

Australia's fires could change the country forever. https://t.co/muzpkcyRBr

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 4, 2020

January 1, 2020 by V Leigh

US Mass Shooting Reach Record in 2019

“This seems to be the age of mass shootings.” https://t.co/X3y6CGG4ak

— Slate (@Slate) December 29, 2019

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