August 22, 2023 by V Leigh

This statement by Ruby Freeman just stays in my head tonight. We must never forget that Trump’s alleged crimes were not victimless crimes. And to the extent that as a former President he continues to target judges and prosecutors, the danger Trump poses has not been neutralized.

This statement by Ruby Freeman just stays in my head tonight. We must never forget that Trump’s alleged crimes were not victimless crimes. And to the extent that as a former President he continues to target judges and prosecutors, the danger Trump poses has not been neutralized. pic.twitter.com/2keNIWo4BK
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) August 15, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

“Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, a relic of the State’s 1890 Jim Crow laws, violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled.”

✍🏾 @ashtonpittman https://t.co/LnQLgdIPTi
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) August 11, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

I’m telling you, this is the new voter suppression. https://t.co/25HN8wuoJZ
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) August 9, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Same folks are ok with forcing girls to become mothers at 12.

The hypocrisy is astounding. https://t.co/l4QKgCOHA3
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) August 20, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

But they are mature enough to have an AR-15 🤡 https://t.co/JxFmBE2IyR
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) August 20, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 21, 2023 by V Leigh

Activists and community members protested Florida’s new education standards, which require middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

There’s been much gaslighting & moderate justifying of the new Florida social studies standards, people stating the “clarifications” were designed to show Black resilience, or were just “facts.” So, I thought I’d compare the African-American history standards to the Holocaust’s.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Activists and community members protested Florida’s new education standards, which require middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” https://t.co/DiMktBAOrK
— CNN (@CNN) August 17, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

DeSantis has imposed a speech code on Florida’s public schools that’s now taking effect. It compels trans teachers to convey the state’s message that their gender identity is “false.” They may be fired if they fail to promote this viewpoint through speech. https://t.co/SfcOYebhZU
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) August 8, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Given the undeniable suffering of enslaved Black people, you have to wonder why anyone would want to find a silver lining in such a dark history…@garrison_hayes takes us to school and debunks Florida’s slavery argument in 120 seconds. pic.twitter.com/X2zFyZmgas
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 11, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Florida’s Board of Education banned the 1619 Project from being taught in schools but approved PragerU. At least they’re not even pretending anymore. https://t.co/vPuvwl1hzz pic.twitter.com/e6c1FTwUBH
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) August 19, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 20, 2023 by V Leigh

Gov. Abbott is destroying the Rio Grande for a fearmongering photo-op. Miles of deadly razor-wire have been deployed to ensnare & impale border crossers. Bobcats, bear, mule deer & other wildlife will also be cut off from their main source of water.

Gov. Abbott is destroying the Rio Grande for a fearmongering photo-op.

Miles of deadly razor-wire have been deployed to ensnare & impale border crossers. Bobcats, bear, mule deer & other wildlife will also be cut off from their main source of water.pic.twitter.com/CKlyIeDL5S
— Laiken Jordahl (@LaikenJordahl) August 14, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Trump’s practice of separating families at the border tore thousands of kids away from their parents, & some have never been reunited to this day. @HispanicCaucus and I are calling on the Biden admin to prevent @govabbott from repeating history in Texas. https://t.co/AMzIcLKstT
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 15, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

I’m saddened & horrified but not surprised by a child’s death on a Texas-sponsored bus to Chicago.

Operation Lone Star has trafficked asylum-seekers across the country in squalid conditions for months. @GovAbbott‘s barbaric practices are killing people.https://t.co/kTwhCFefNV
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 11, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 19, 2023 by V Leigh

In 2022, Ashley was raped outside of her Mississippi home. Her closest abortion provider was in Chicago, a nine-hour drive away. Ashley is 13 years old. Soon she’ll start seventh grade.

In 2022, Ashley was raped outside of her Mississippi home. Her closest abortion provider was in Chicago, a nine-hour drive away.

Ashley is 13 years old. Soon she’ll start seventh grade. https://t.co/yzwywvMVb1
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 14, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

64% of Americans disapprove of Roe v Wade being overturned, and it shows:

Abortion rights have won in every election since the decision — in states both red and blue.

The far-right SCOTUS can do its best to erode abortion rights.

But the people are going to fight it like hell.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 17, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Abortion Clinic Near California-Arizona Border Burns Down, a Major Blow to Regional Access https://t.co/Eu3BR1jtcu pic.twitter.com/izL4GY6YOl
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) August 17, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

This is why I have very little respect for those who go around bleating that “but anti-abortion people will make sure THEIR daughters can abort after a rape!”

No. They won’t. Their cruelty & need for control don’t HAVE limits. Get it through your heads.

They have no empathy. https://t.co/f4jfbPj2Ej
— Jennie ⚢ Trott 🏳️‍🌈 (@nevergetfooled) August 18, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 17, 2023 by V Leigh

Four weeks of missing backpay, unsafe living conditions, and physical assault. #Utah Check out Mike Anderson’s video! #TikTok

Four weeks of missing backpay, unsafe living conditions, and physical assault. #Utah

Check out Mike Anderson’s video! #TikTok https://t.co/zLDZl8qk0l
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) August 12, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

UTAH: @UtahFarmBureau president Ron Gibson arrested for assault after BACKHANDING A FARM WORKER ACROSS THE FACE (video below👇🏾) who was asking for money they were owed — also now being investigated for human trafficking.

FULL: https://t.co/wdoMfCSuxZ pic.twitter.com/RvrWrx5nUh
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) August 14, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

A Utah farm owner arrested for assaulting an employee is now being investigated for fraud and human trafficking.

Farm labor abuse is common. Vulnerable workers are often too fearful to report it. The workers who raised the alarm on this deplorable situation are incredibly brave. pic.twitter.com/gyZZgP6wLs
— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) August 14, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 14, 2023 by V Leigh

Businesses are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor. It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%. Are profits really more important than the safety of children?

Question: should middle schoolers be bartenders? Wisconsin Republicans say yes. pic.twitter.com/2bFadX7lZf
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) August 1, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Child labor is making a comeback in America. Shameful. https://t.co/wDymgainmG
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) July 31, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Businesses are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor.

It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%.

Are profits really more important than the safety of children? pic.twitter.com/cTjBaCkEzb https://t.co/UnDxlDvPlq
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 9, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Duvan Tomas Perez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, died in a Mississippi poultry plant on July 14. As a minor, his employment at the plant was a violation of federal law. Meanwhile, some GOP state legislators are trying to roll back child labor laws.https://t.co/tPj9JlrUQh
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) August 2, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 13, 2023 by V Leigh

Everyone needs to see what I saw in Eagle Pass today. Clothing stuck on razor wire where families got trapped. Chainsaw devices in the middle of buoys. Land seized from US citizens. Operation Lone Star is barbaric — and @GovAbbott is making border communities collateral damage.

Everyone needs to see what I saw in Eagle Pass today.

Clothing stuck on razor wire where families got trapped. Chainsaw devices in the middle of buoys. Land seized from US citizens.

Operation Lone Star is barbaric — and @GovAbbott is making border communities collateral damage. pic.twitter.com/PzKyZGWfds
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 8, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 12, 2023 by V Leigh

Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function.

Welcome to the USA where disabled patients are wheeled out to the street corner and discarded like trash. pic.twitter.com/ZXErfE5zvk
— 🥀_ Imposter 🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) August 5, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function. pic.twitter.com/QHh8ReW043
— Ahmed Ali (@DrAhmednurAli) July 25, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Houston Food Not Bombs (which has been around since 1994) has now been ticketed at least 30 times for sharing free food with unhoused neighbors.

Each ticket is $2000!

It specifically says “feed homeless” on the citation. pic.twitter.com/Ih46KEnb5h
— Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP (@clairezagorski) July 23, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Today marks an unfortunate anniversary. The last time the federal minimum wage was raised was July 24, 2009.

This is the longest time that the federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in U.S. history.

At $7.25/hour, the federal rate is also the minimum wage in 20 states.
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 24, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

actors are on strike, writers are on strike, teamsters are on strike, hotel employees are on strike, grad students are on strike, health care workers are on strike… can we realize there are deep systemic issues in this country yet
— wells santo (searching for alternatives) (@WellsLucasSanto) July 13, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Every time I see that minimum wage figure, I’m reminded of my first job. I made $7.25 in California … in 1999. I’m aware we made more than other states, but it isn’t lost on me that that figure is still around 20 years later. https://t.co/XkGiLjIRfe
— Jo Von M. McCalester, PhD (@DrMcCalester) July 11, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

“While it will be up to members to decide on the contract, at least one lesson should be clear: Strikes, or the real threat of strikes, work.”https://t.co/aaQr40Zsn1
— UAW (@UAW) July 27, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Boomers are going to move into assisted living retirement communities owned by private equity, and all this wealth will be completely stripped out of the population. pic.twitter.com/NwcU1ACuvz
— My weight class is Karen (@InsightTweeting) July 13, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

“Every time I walk through that door, I don’t know if I’m going to come out in a body bag.” – testimony from worker at Ultium Cells, one the many EV battery companies receiving billions of $$$ in taxpayer handouts while employing workers in dangerous conditions at poverty wages. https://t.co/sgoXfm2XhA
— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) July 31, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The average student debt payment is $400+ and you cannot file for bankruptcy if you default. https://t.co/2S5dV60diS
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) July 30, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 11, 2023 by V Leigh

NEWS: Amid record-breaking heat, Republicans are introducing legislation to block any president from declaring a climate emergency. Fossil fuel donors funneled more than $5 million to the bill sponsors — and some of the lawmakers are oil/gas investors.

NEWS: Amid record-breaking heat, Republicans are introducing legislation to block any president from declaring a climate emergency. Fossil fuel donors funneled more than $5 million to the bill sponsors — and some of the lawmakers are oil/gas investors.

🚨NEWS: Amid record-breaking heat, Republicans are introducing legislation to block any president from declaring a climate emergency.

Fossil fuel donors funneled more than $5 million to the bill sponsors — and some of the lawmakers are oil/gas investors. https://t.co/l5p4GblIS0
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) July 19, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The forced acceptance of 1.1 million people dying over 3 years, the U.S. government and media pushing a return to normal without reckoning with systemic failure, is the plan for climate disaster. You will go to work. Your rent will be due. Survival will be your responsibility.
— Dana White (@ItsDanaWhite) May 16, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Climate emergency in #Iraq: “What is happening here is a window into a future that is now coming for other parts of the world – if we continue to fail in our responsibility to take preventive & mitigating action against climate change” – @volker_turk https://t.co/Zw35PR6z55 pic.twitter.com/AHDUGvK8hW
— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) August 9, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

“This salt water has destroyed my childhood, school, and life.”

Thousands of Bangladeshi women face reproductive health issues caused by the increasing salt content in the waters in which they live and work. https://t.co/AdaKlvclE0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 10, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

I’d rather ExxonMobil build up tolerance to lower profits. pic.twitter.com/fGmrHzYe9b
— Jamie Henn (@jamieclimate) July 30, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

August 10, 2023 by V Leigh

Today is the 9th anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing. He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated. He should be alive today. We will never forget. We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.

Kansas City police department claims that two of the cops in this clip have been “disciplined” for attacking a man they assumed didn’t pay for a $5 pizza.

Not only did he have a receipt showing he paid, he was also not legally required to show it.

It would be wonderful to… pic.twitter.com/YoPsMM0d2n
— 🥀_ Imposter_🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) July 10, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

A police dog mauled a Black man in Ohio during a traffic stop after he surrendered with his hands raised in the air following a “lengthy pursuit,” officials said

“Do not release the dog with his hands up!” a trooper can be heard yelling multiple timeshttps://t.co/sSOrrGznX2
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 24, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Six White former Mississippi cops, who nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad,” have pleaded guilty to an assault in which they entered a home without a warrant, assaulted two Black men with a sex object, used a taser on them, and shot one in the mouth.https://t.co/2e6lfr58Vx
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) August 8, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Today is the 9th anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing.

He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated.

He should be alive today.

We will never forget.

We will continue to fight for justice and accountability. pic.twitter.com/7E2svmNMOb
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) August 9, 2023

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Oppression Monitor Daily

A Community Village Site

Author: V Leigh

This statement by Ruby Freeman just stays in my head tonight. We must never forget that Trump’s alleged crimes were not victimless crimes. And to the extent that as a former President he continues to target judges and prosecutors, the danger Trump poses has not been neutralized.

Activists and community members protested Florida’s new education standards, which require middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Gov. Abbott is destroying the Rio Grande for a fearmongering photo-op. Miles of deadly razor-wire have been deployed to ensnare & impale border crossers. Bobcats, bear, mule deer & other wildlife will also be cut off from their main source of water.

In 2022, Ashley was raped outside of her Mississippi home. Her closest abortion provider was in Chicago, a nine-hour drive away. Ashley is 13 years old. Soon she’ll start seventh grade.

Four weeks of missing backpay, unsafe living conditions, and physical assault. #Utah Check out Mike Anderson’s video! #TikTok

Businesses are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor. It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%. Are profits really more important than the safety of children?

Everyone needs to see what I saw in Eagle Pass today. Clothing stuck on razor wire where families got trapped. Chainsaw devices in the middle of buoys. Land seized from US citizens. Operation Lone Star is barbaric — and @GovAbbott is making border communities collateral damage.

Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function.

NEWS: Amid record-breaking heat, Republicans are introducing legislation to block any president from declaring a climate emergency. Fossil fuel donors funneled more than $5 million to the bill sponsors — and some of the lawmakers are oil/gas investors.

Today is the 9th anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing. He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated. He should be alive today. We will never forget. We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.