#ReparationsNow
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) July 21, 2023
This is how
Check out ReadyForRevolution’s video! #TikTok https://t.co/flgKTC7dFG
Justice
“The willingness to allow certain people to die while every effort is made to save others … it’s a really dark reflection on humanity.”
“The willingness to allow certain people to die while every effort is made to save others … it’s a really dark reflection on humanity.” https://t.co/k5yPzl6C1n
— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) June 22, 2023
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Barack Obama called out the disparity in news coverage between the missing Titan submersible, which received nearly wall-to-wall coverage this week, and a capsized boat carrying 700 migrants in the Mediterranean, which received barely any attention comparatively pic.twitter.com/aL8zSDZWgu
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 23, 2023
Shutting down DEI offices on the eve of Juneteenth is nasty work.
“You can’t kill our loved ones, just because of the color of their skin, just because they were living while Black,” said @AttorneyCrump. “We cannot let them kill our loved ones for just knocking on a door, for loving their children, while Black.”https://t.co/jR6kUgPNSe
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) June 14, 2023
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Judge calls white supremacy a “cancer” after sentencing Buffalo supermar… https://t.co/mNEIhcsnWp via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) June 11, 2023
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“As young as 4 to 6 years old, children of color begin to experience race-based traumatic stress,” finds Dr. Steven Kniffley, a licensed psychologist.
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) June 1, 2023
✍🏾 @anniema15 https://t.co/4YjHplLhcE
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Gov. Greg Abbott signed a racist law that orders all state-funded colleges and universities in Texas to close their diversity, equity, and inclusion offices. Let’s put this action in perspective. A thread. 1/https://t.co/cusWVVbkEw
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) June 16, 2023
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All state-funded colleges and universities in Texas will have to close their diversity, equity and inclusion offices under a measure signed into law by Gov. Abbott. https://t.co/FmGYO4EG5E
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 16, 2023
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Shutting down DEI offices on the eve of Juneteenth is nasty work. https://t.co/HxYIMN7olI
— Anna Gifty says buy The Black Agenda Book! (@itsafronomics) June 16, 2023
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Kind of crazy how to majority of people opposing critical race theory have today off. What do they tell their kids?
— Kalen Allen (@TheKalenAllen) June 19, 2023
Republicans in the Senate + Dem Senators Manchin, Sinema and Tester just voted to kill student debt relief and *raise* student debt balances by retroactively adding interest. Tester, Sinema and Manchin are all up for re-election in 2024 and will have to explain their votes.
Republicans in the Senate + Dem Senators Manchin, Sinema and Tester just voted to kill student debt relief and *raise* student debt balances by retroactively adding interest.
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) June 1, 2023
Tester, Sinema and Manchin are all up for re-election in 2024 and will have to explain their votes. pic.twitter.com/vfBZM0m4Is
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BREAKING: Allies at @NAACP have sent a letter to @POTUS sharing frustration that the debt-ceiling agreement ends the student loan payment pause and urging him to use all legal pathways to achieve his #CancelStudentDebt plan. https://t.co/rcMt0KlOII
— Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) (@DebtCrisisOrg) June 14, 2023
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The NAACP sent a letter to @POTUS expressing “disappointment” in Biden permanently ending the pause on federal student loan payments—which will hurt Black folks the most.
— Braxton 🟥 (@Braxtonbrew96) June 14, 2023
I kid you not the White House response is “well Black unemployment is low”
Read: https://t.co/AE8GTB4Ys1 pic.twitter.com/kjIzvkMzLn
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Student loan payments have been on pause for the past three years, and thanks to the debt ceiling deal, Joe Biden must restart loan payments by the end of this summer. That’s a looming disaster for over 40 million Americans. https://t.co/a8twuJ9EXA
— Jacobin (@jacobin) June 6, 2023
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In 2019–only just before the pandemic—a student loan borrower defaulted on their debt every 26 seconds. Over 1 million people defaulted in a year. This is the “normal” Biden wants to resume.
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) June 13, 2023
Since 2007, private health insurance companies spent $141 billion on stock buybacks. During that same time, the cost of the average family health insurance plan skyrocketed by 86% to $22,463 a year while average premiums soared by over $4,300. Yes. We need #MedicareForAll.
Since 2007, private health insurance companies spent $141 billion on stock buybacks. During that same time, the cost of the average family health insurance plan skyrocketed by 86% to $22,463 a year while average premiums soared by over $4,300. Yes. We need #MedicareForAll.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 12, 2023
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The idea that corporate profits contribute to inflation went from conspiracy theory to real and probably good pic.twitter.com/SAUwBTcFiY
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 26, 2023
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Today, two Democrats voted with Republicans to say that not only should student debt relief be repealed, not only should the pause on payments end, but that you should make *retroactive* payments from previous months.
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) May 25, 2023
Introducing Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez: pic.twitter.com/5UMPMhLndY
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It’s called union busting, @nytimes. https://t.co/wJ1QFF8W8a
— Dripped Out Trade Unionists (@UnionDrip) May 23, 2023
Your regular reminder that inflation is being driven by corporations jacking up prices.
Your regular reminder that inflation is being driven by corporations jacking up prices. pic.twitter.com/RZP0fyWLMz
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 25, 2023
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how many people did they layoff again? https://t.co/nDkMQBnFJp
— Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸 (@wagatwe) April 25, 2023
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Musk beautifully showing us that billionaires become billionaires by breaking things that work so they can force shittier paid versions.
— Rafael Shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) April 20, 2023
Break public ed, affordable housing, health care, food & water.
Invoice for charters, company towns, med loans, organic food & purified water
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The federal minimum wage is still $7.25. pic.twitter.com/OxfbRTqPIT
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 22, 2023
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Reminder: SpaceX received $3,000,000,000 in taxpayer dollars. https://t.co/a6tN0ZGoMU
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 20, 2023
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I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or none of the above—we should all be able to agree that water is a human right, not an investment opportunity. pic.twitter.com/MLbnASBV20
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 27, 2023
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the NYPD is on pace to blow past its allotted overtime budget for FY2023 by ~$366 million which is 16X what it would cost to keep public libraries open on the weekends. Keep in mind, $366 million isn’t their OT budget, it’s what the NYPD went OVER their allotted OT budget ($374M) https://t.co/K9VsQEY3OO
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonCHI) April 25, 2023
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A judge says San Francisco’s Marriott Hotel illegally kept about $9 million in more than five years of banquet “service charges” that its customers reasonably understood to be tips for food servers.https://t.co/wixcaBvOuS
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) May 1, 2023
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Know how this isn’t an accident?
— tall erin, Ph.D (@emfundertaker) May 8, 2023
They have kid-sized protective wear. https://t.co/egBz2mfRBt
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One in four Americans live with medical debt. 18 million Americans cannot afford to fulfill prescriptions given them by their doctors. 68,000 people a year die of lack of healthcare. 500,000 medical bankruptcies a year.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) May 9, 2023
But health insurers spent $141 billion on stock buybacks,… https://t.co/NR8KXVG9WX
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Someone on Reddit asked, “if you’re injured as a result of a mass shooting, are you responsible for that medical bill?” And I find that a uniquely American question.
— Kimberly Nguyen (@knguyenpoetry) May 8, 2023
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BREAKING: Hollywood writers are striking.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 2, 2023
They’re fighting for their livelihoods against billion-dollar studios and streaming companies who have been squeezing writers to eke out more profits.
Writers didn’t shut down Hollywood — the studios did.
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also a reminder that because of the inexorable march of time the youngest millennial is now almost 24, and the oldest ones are in their early 40s https://t.co/GOcPOjNlUc
— yves adele fartlow (@vogon) April 28, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank last week became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis, sending shock waves through the tech industry, Wall Street and Washington. Here’s what we know, and what brought the bank to its collapse.
Silicon Valley Bank last week became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis, sending shock waves through the tech industry, Wall Street and Washington. Here’s what we know, and what brought the bank to its collapse. https://t.co/Jd9QlxWwSy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2023
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The usual combination of corporate power and corruption in Washington, DC, weakened regulations for Silicon Valley Bank and set the foundation for its collapse. How much longer people will tolerate a system like this? https://t.co/b2JmFsJhyR
— Jacobin (@jacobin) March 13, 2023
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I can’t stop thinking about how we cut food stamps the same month we bailed out VC guys.
— Kate Willett (@katewillett) March 13, 2023
People going to bed with the ache and weakness of hunger, some working full time for some of the same guys that got bailed out.
While they build cop cities to prevent any pushback. pic.twitter.com/1dYew9l1ps
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Notice that literally no one stopped to ask how this would be paid for. They just did it. “How will we pay for it” only applies when it’s for the benefit of everyday people. The rich, the military and cops don’t get those kinds of questions. Only the public good is questionable. https://t.co/jgwBVdgfDN
— Plz Preorder Let This Radicalize You 🔥 (@MsKellyMHayes) March 13, 2023
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It took them less then 48 hours to make sure depositors at SBV were covered, yet student debt cancelation is means-tested and is being challenged by the court.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 12, 2023
Just in case you forgot who exactly the system is designed to work for and against.
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My debut at @Slate: Venture capitalists are parasites who couldn’t be trusted with the financial institution that held up their industry, let alone the direction of our technological development. Euthanizing them is imperative if we want a better world.https://t.co/FyHocUXEX0
— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) March 13, 2023
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Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, Pres. Biden made clear Monday that ‘no losses will be borne by the taxpayers,’ while detailing the measures taken by his administration pic.twitter.com/whFUNzFoAI
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 13, 2023
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Cool cool cool
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) March 13, 2023
So those junk fees that bank charge poor people whose account is so far below $250k it’s sometimes below $0 are what is going to fund the bailout of Silicon Valley VCs https://t.co/TuTI021esJ
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Long before Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, its CEO helped kill tougher oversight of banks like his https://t.co/PD5p764WuF
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 13, 2023
Multi-billion dollar corporations will claim they don’t have the money to pay workers better, then spend millions so that they don’t have to pay workers better.
BREAKING: The Labor Dept has released some horrifying findings in its child labor investigation in meatpacking plants.
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) February 17, 2023
They say Packers Sanitation employed *at least 102 kids* as young as 13 across 8 states. Minors cleaned ‘back saws, brisket saws and head splitters.’
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You’re not only closer to homelessness than being a billionaire. You’re closer to homelessness than to buying any home in many major cities. You’re closer to homelessness than being able to ever actually retire. When you see it that way, the crisis is impossible to ignore.
— Dana White (@ItsDanaWhite) January 26, 2023
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Multi-billion dollar corporations will claim they don’t have the money to pay workers better, then spend millions so that they don’t have to pay workers better. pic.twitter.com/kcPyaHJ8oF
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 26, 2023
The price of groceries and rent will never go back down. In one year, they made cost of living go up so much that any raise anyone got at any time in the last 5 years is completely wiped out.
The price of groceries and rent will never go back down.
— Hanukkah Solo (@BostonJerry) January 4, 2023
In one year, they made cost of living go up so much that any raise anyone got at any time in the last 5 years is completely wiped out.
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40% of homeless people in the United States have either a part time or a full-time job.https://t.co/6sWW1A52vQ
— Say it loud (@thetimeisnowTB) January 2, 2023
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The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at Home Depot is 455:1.https://t.co/2ekpb3oYfs https://t.co/0QHDrm5DUh
— jordan (@JordanUhl) December 30, 2022
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Amazon has hired Trey Kovacs, a former Special Assistant at the US Department of Labor, as a union-busting consultant.
— Seth Goldstein (@SethGoldstein13) December 26, 2022
Kovacs has been holding captive audience meetings at ONT8 in Moreno Valley, California since April 2022. 🧵#UnionBusting #Amazon #Kovacs #LaborRights pic.twitter.com/3e0w1cv9pJ
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Starting tomorrow, insulin prescriptions will be co-pay capped at $35 a month for seniors.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 31, 2022
While it’s a good step, this doesn’t impact younger people or seniors who still can’t afford $35/month.
These are crumbs. Insulin should be free—all healthcare should be free.
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Last year Walgreens repeatedly sounded the alarm about shoplifting. But today, a Walgreens exec admitted that they might have “cried too much last year” about theft.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 5, 2023
What he didn’t acknowledge is that Walgreens is losing money because of billions in fines, not robbery. 🧵
Landlords are going on a capital strike, holding thousands of units vacant while homelessness reaches Great Depression era levels. Clearly a profit driven system will never solve the housing crisis. We need social housing and tenant control.
Also follow @brian_goldstone on housing and homelessness and read everything he writes https://t.co/c17IF2aHt2
— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) October 15, 2022
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There are folks who are experiencing homelessness and have a job. Having a job is not some magical title that makes everyone upper-middle class. Telling our unhoused neighbours to “just get a job” is ridiculous.
— Ahmed Ali (@MrAhmednurAli) October 20, 2022
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There are 61,000 SF housing units, rentals included, that are sitting empty on any given day for one of a variety of reasons, and putting even a fraction of these into service as supportive housing would solve homelessness in the city overnight. https://t.co/Uc3L0owoNP
— SFist (@SFist) October 20, 2022
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Landlords are going on a capital strike, holding thousands of units vacant while homelessness reaches Great Depression era levels.
— Sumathy Kumar (@Sumathy_Kumar_) October 19, 2022
Clearly a profit driven system will never solve the housing crisis.
We need social housing and tenant control. https://t.co/p7QgXrniIz