September 11, 2023 by V Leigh

A 4-year-old Tennessee girl died after being shot point-blank in the chest by a woman who claimed she was teaching the girl “firearm safety,” authorities said

A 4-year-old Tennessee girl died after being shot point-blank in the chest by a woman who claimed she was teaching the girl “firearm safety,” authorities said https://t.co/9u0rhqU2Jx
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 30, 2023

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Seeing this written on the ground at UNC today really hit me. It’s hard seeing another school go through another shooting. The school year is just starting. Hug your friends and kids because they might not make it to the last day of school in this country. We deserve better. pic.twitter.com/lvFKwr6JU3
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) August 31, 2023

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Multiple People Shot, Wounded, in Illinois Mass Shooting: Report https://t.co/5589wxEMNv
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) August 31, 2023

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Only in America do white supremacists have easy access to guns. Racism, white supremacy, and gun violence target Black people with deadly results.

Black Americans deserve better than living in fear of hateful violence. #DisarmHate https://t.co/U9giE3LxS2
— Students Demand Action (@StudentsDemand) September 5, 2023

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September 6, 2023 by V Leigh

Officials have released bodycam video showing the deadly police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black woman who was shot outside a Kroger grocery store in Ohio on August 24.

No knock warrants are still happening in the US

Check out The News Movement’s video! #TikTok https://t.co/DQRaCn8mUg
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) September 2, 2023

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Cops planting drugs in cars, setting people up, lying on reports. Then after getting busted for it, the cop had the nerve to ask for a reduced sentence.

Who knows how many lives these pigs have ruined.. pic.twitter.com/g4d9eDXbFU
— 🥀_ Imposter_🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) September 2, 2023

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Chesa Boudin was the first SF district attorney to ever bring charges against a police officer.

The new “tough on crime” DA @BrookeJenkinsSF replaced Chesa after he was recalled and immediately dismissed the case.

Cops are prosecuted in less than 2% of fatal shootings pic.twitter.com/86jhNiaLgH
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) August 24, 2023

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“Are you going to shoot me?”

Those were some of 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young’s last words before a police officer shot her in Blendon Township, Ohio, according to body camera footage made public on Friday. https://t.co/Sf2g69kZ88
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) September 3, 2023

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The body cam footage of the fatal shooting of Ta’Kiya Young is hard to watch. Ta’Kiya was pregnant and a mother of 2 when she was shot and killed by an officer. Ta’Kiya’s family deserves answers and accountability! https://t.co/hUWNbScGqT
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) September 3, 2023

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On Thursday, August 24 Ta’Kiya Young was executed by police. Ta’Kiya was a 21-year-old pregnant woman leaving a Kroger grocery store in Blendon Township, Ohio with two other young children at home. Young was expected to give birth to a daughter in November. pic.twitter.com/QQv1XAPrMX
— Movement 4 Black Lives (@Mvmnt4BlkLives) September 1, 2023

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Officials have released bodycam video showing the deadly police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black woman who was shot outside a Kroger grocery store in Ohio on August 24.https://t.co/0lmUnihROd
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) September 1, 2023

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September 5, 2023 by V Leigh

The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averages $15.3 million. Median worker pay at these companies is just $31,672. That’s a ratio of 603 to 1. How can anyone defend this?

Stock buybacks were illegal until Reagan made them legal in 1982.

Just about the same time, wages stopped rising for most Americans.

Does that sound like a coincidence to you? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/9SfXWvTPSO
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 31, 2023

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Reminder: the life expectancy for Black men in the United States is 68. https://t.co/ZOUcWr1v33
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) August 25, 2023

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Reading this data about wage theft in NY restaurant industry. Employers stole $52 million from 2017 to 2021. https://t.co/C1rryFTACg pic.twitter.com/P0jlZUX4W7
— Clarissa A. León (@clarissaleon) August 23, 2023

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Health care companies are using debt to trap nurses on the job https://t.co/PmwiM8y3Kc
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 22, 2023

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Former Tesla workers recently described their work conditions.

They talked about collapsing from dehydration, working on the factory floor up to 12 hours a day 7 days a week, sleeping on the floor, and throwing up.

There was even a sewage leak workers were told to work through.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) August 17, 2023

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South Carolina is among the 10 states with the highest poverty rate, median household debt, & rate of foreclosures. It also has the lowest union density rate in the country. *Someone’s* “tainting the water” there and it ain’t unions… https://t.co/vbhKS0YGJx
— Maximillian Alvarez (@maximillian_alv) August 22, 2023

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.@ChipotleTweets fined $322K for violating child labor laws 800X. Previously they paid $15M fine for wage theft & $25M fine for food poisoning😳

They got $200M in Corp tax cuts, paid their CEO $38M, spent $100M spent on HQ, enjoy a $38B market cap—but pay their workers $13/hr.😑 https://t.co/nDOcn4uOHH
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) August 29, 2023

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The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios.

At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averages $15.3 million.

Median worker pay at these companies is just $31,672.

That’s a ratio of 603 to 1.

How can anyone defend this?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 31, 2023

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September 2, 2023 by V Leigh

Billionaires are the leading cause of climate change.

https://t.co/N5vl0co41k
— الكسندرا ميراي (@LexiAlex) August 19, 2023

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“The fires of today are in part due to the climate crisis, a history of colonialism in our islands, and the loss of our right to steward our ‘aina and wai’ [land and water],” said Carmen Lindsey of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.https://t.co/5dWwAXmtNx
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) August 17, 2023

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A study published in Science Advances Aug 16 found that there have been tens of thousands of ‘excess deaths’ from tropical storms hitting the continental U.S. between 1988 and 2019. A disproportionate amount of those deaths happened in low-income areas and communities of color. pic.twitter.com/1frhDAqzMg
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 17, 2023

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2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record, but we still have Republicans claiming the climate crisis is a “hoax.” What planet are they living on? pic.twitter.com/0YftfKNCcU
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 24, 2023

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The #ClimateCrisis and #AirPollution are threats to human health, driving diseases like cancer, asthma, heart disease, and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue. pic.twitter.com/5StLu2k55L
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) August 23, 2023

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September 1, 2023 by V Leigh

“These reports are indicative of the moral failure of our nation’s immigration detention system and waste of taxpayer dollars to enrich private prison companies,” said Erin Argueta, senior lead attorney for the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project.

“These reports are indicative of the moral failure of our nation’s immigration detention system and waste of taxpayer dollars to enrich private prison companies,” said Erin Argueta, senior lead attorney for the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project. https://t.co/bDVoGhjj53
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) August 21, 2023

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UPDATE: Official oppression charges against 2 El Paso police officers involve sexual harassment complaints filed by women officers. Arrests come in the wake of an El Paso Matters investigation showing a long history of harassment of women officers. https://t.co/q8c1E7MxwH
— El Paso Matters (@elpasomatters) August 31, 2023

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Breaking: El Paso police officers are facing charges of official oppression – a crime that involves intentionally denying another their rights, subjects them to mistreatment, arrest, or sexual harassment. https://t.co/q8c1E7MxwH
— El Paso Matters (@elpasomatters) August 30, 2023

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August 31, 2023 by V Leigh

Changes to Florida’s tort laws orchestrated by GOP lawmakers and Ron DeSantis will make it much harder for home insurance policyholders to sue their insurers for failing to adequately pay out claims for home damage. @abbyvesoulis reports:

I wrote about the Classic Learning Test, which FL’s public colleges will likely soon accept as an SAT alternative. “I get called a woke influence on the classical education movement, and I get called right-wing by people outside of it,” the CEO told me. https://t.co/br3f8FPMg6
— Kiera Butler on Threads @kieraevebutler510 (@kieraevebutler) August 25, 2023

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When the NAACP declared “the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans” and issued a formal travel advisory, DeSantis’s office called it “nothing more than a stunt.”

That was May. Yesterday, a white supremacist murdered three Black people in a Florida store.
— Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 (@reneeygraham) August 27, 2023

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DeSantis booed at vigil for victims in Jacksonville shooting

Gov. Ron DeSantis was booed Sunday at a vigil in Jacksonville, Fla., following the fatal shooting of three Black people by a 21-year-old white man at a Dollar General store on Saturday.…
— Isabel Santos 🟧🟦🌊🌊🟦📙 (@Busyisaworkshop) August 31, 2023

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“His position on climate change is essentially vaccine denialism at civilizational scale. To Ron DeSantis this existential threat to the peninsula he represents is just another political debate,” says @chrislhayes on DeSantis rejecting federal climate benefits for Floridians. pic.twitter.com/asgvTQKTkQ
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) August 31, 2023

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Changes to Florida’s tort laws orchestrated by GOP lawmakers and Ron DeSantis will make it much harder for home insurance policyholders to sue their insurers for failing to adequately pay out claims for home damage. @abbyvesoulis reports: https://t.co/XJK0gTuyKw
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 31, 2023

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Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America. Not cancer. Not car crashes. Not drugs. GUNS. And what is the <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP">@GOP</a> doing about it? Absolutely nothing.

August 29, 2023 by V Leigh

Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America. Not cancer. Not car crashes. Not drugs. GUNS. And what is the @GOP doing about it? Absolutely nothing.

Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America.

Not cancer. Not car crashes. Not drugs.

GUNS.

And what is the @GOP doing about it? Absolutely nothing. https://t.co/tEk8dEPr8v
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 25, 2023

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BREAKING: A University of North Carolina faculty member was shot and killed in a campus building, an official said. A suspect has been arrested. https://t.co/E4u8U9bonG
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 28, 2023

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One person, a faculty member, was reportedly shot and killed at the University of North Carolina

After a search of three hours, a graduate student was taken into custody

The students have only been in school for a week https://t.co/UpzR0iZm3q pic.twitter.com/VDUHP80nas
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 28, 2023

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The three victims, all Black, have been identified in the racist attack in Florida that’s being investigated as a hate crime. The gunman was a 21-year-old White man.https://t.co/AUIwYCJvLp
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 27, 2023

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Sending all my love to the families of Angela Michelle Carr, Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr. and Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion—families who never wanted their loved ones to be on the latest page of racist White terror in a state that has banned that history book. 1/2https://t.co/cZuWG8BKVZ
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) August 27, 2023

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Banning antiracist education and *not* banning assault rifles endangers Black life. Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, is not the only person who pulled the trigger in Jacksonville. He’s not the only person who hates Black people. 2/2
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) August 27, 2023

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Jerrald Gallion, 29
Angela Michelle Carr, 52
A.J. Laguerre, 19

A devoted dad, a beloved mom and a teen helping support his family were killed by a gunman in a racist attack in Jacksonville, Florida. https://t.co/65EE818OGL
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 28, 2023

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The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on…

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 28, 2023

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August 27, 2023 by V Leigh

Trump unleashed a domestic terrorism movement. Here’s what experts say must be done to defeat it.

Trump unleashed a domestic terrorism movement. Here’s what experts say must be done to defeat it. https://t.co/Sz8Vz9yum4
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 27, 2023

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Trump is getting most of the attention today as he heads to jail, but let’s take a moment to focus on Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two of the people hurt by his lies. pic.twitter.com/5hVXqZKcxO
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 24, 2023

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As Donald Trump faces felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president has continued to flood the airwaves and social media with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat. https://t.co/DswdE7npXf
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 27, 2023

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August 25, 2023 by V Leigh

One failed shoe bomb attempt and we all take our shoes off at the airport. 465 mass shootings in 235 days and Republicans still pretend that drag queens reading books to kids is the greatest threat to our safety.

Pass federal gun safety laws.

One failed shoe bomb attempt and we all take our shoes off at the airport.

465 mass shootings in 235 days and Republicans still pretend that drag queens reading books to kids is the greatest threat to our safety.

📢 Pass federal gun safety laws.https://t.co/w5V7i9Fv8t
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) August 24, 2023

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Orange County mass shooter identified as ex-cop targeting estranged wife, sources say https://t.co/9OnzSB80dr
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) August 24, 2023

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At least 3 dead and multiple wounded after mass shooting at California biker bar, police say https://t.co/HBLxwqT8Wy
— CNN (@CNN) August 24, 2023

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Not one a of these “pro life” presidential candidates has talked about doing a damn thing about one of the top killers of young people- gun violence.
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) August 24, 2023

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During the first Republican presidential debate, candidates deflected a question about what’s to blame for gun violence in the U.S. Meanwhile, a mass shooting was unfolding at a biker bar in California. pic.twitter.com/o6wYpwXfzJ
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 25, 2023

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August 24, 2023 by V Leigh

This cannot be swept under the rug. We took a deep dive into the social media activity of the shooter who killed a store owner for displaying a Pride flag – including his accounts that were deleted after he was identified. What we found was disturbing.

Hospital officials have confirmed that Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing a federal civil rights investigation after turning the medical records of transgender patients over to Tennessee’s attorney general. https://t.co/simBj4bk1a
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 11, 2023

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Georgia school board fires teacher for reading a book to students about gender identity https://t.co/Y6wPa3xPck
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) August 18, 2023

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Horrific. A mother of 9, killed for displaying a pride flag outside her store.

It hasn’t even been a month since a young man in Brooklyn was shot for voguing at a gas station.

Make no mistake: hate speech by the @GOP fans the flames of this extremist violence. Homophobia kills. https://t.co/cEFX7cqqS7
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) August 21, 2023

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(warning: distressing)

A store owner and mother of 9 died in an August 18 shooting that followed a dispute over a Pride flag hanging at her Cedar Glen, California, clothing shop
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 21, 2023

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This cannot be swept under the rug.

We took a deep dive into the social media activity of the shooter who killed a store owner for displaying a Pride flag – including his accounts that were deleted after he was identified.

What we found was disturbing. https://t.co/s3On0pZzk7
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 22, 2023

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Ikeguchi celebrated the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and wrote, “Next thing to abolish and [overturn] same-sex marriage and other LGBTQ policies.” https://t.co/s3On0pZzk7 pic.twitter.com/1UUEqrsm5L
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 22, 2023

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Oppression Monitor Daily

A Community Village Site

Author: V Leigh

A 4-year-old Tennessee girl died after being shot point-blank in the chest by a woman who claimed she was teaching the girl “firearm safety,” authorities said

Officials have released bodycam video showing the deadly police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black woman who was shot outside a Kroger grocery store in Ohio on August 24.

The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averages $15.3 million. Median worker pay at these companies is just $31,672. That’s a ratio of 603 to 1. How can anyone defend this?

Billionaires are the leading cause of climate change.

“These reports are indicative of the moral failure of our nation’s immigration detention system and waste of taxpayer dollars to enrich private prison companies,” said Erin Argueta, senior lead attorney for the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project.

Changes to Florida’s tort laws orchestrated by GOP lawmakers and Ron DeSantis will make it much harder for home insurance policyholders to sue their insurers for failing to adequately pay out claims for home damage. @abbyvesoulis reports:

Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America. Not cancer. Not car crashes. Not drugs. GUNS. And what is the @GOP doing about it? Absolutely nothing.

Trump unleashed a domestic terrorism movement. Here’s what experts say must be done to defeat it.

One failed shoe bomb attempt and we all take our shoes off at the airport. 465 mass shootings in 235 days and Republicans still pretend that drag queens reading books to kids is the greatest threat to our safety.

This cannot be swept under the rug. We took a deep dive into the social media activity of the shooter who killed a store owner for displaying a Pride flag – including his accounts that were deleted after he was identified. What we found was disturbing.