May 25, 2024 by V Leigh

Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.8 billion to spend. In November 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million. The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit.

Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.8 billion to spend.

In November 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million.

The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit. pic.twitter.com/8CUcLUrYsc
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 21, 2024

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— alex james kane (@alexjkane) May 22, 2024

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You literally need to win a lottery to be added to a *waitlist* for housing assistance. It’s been 15 years since you could even enter your name into the lottery.

We live in a permanent housing crisis. https://t.co/SwsF3qVjIX
— Bench Ansfield (@benchansfield) May 21, 2024

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So you agree, inflation is just a made up thing for companies to increase profits without doing any actual work. https://t.co/07VQuVod3g pic.twitter.com/rWmkcNLsNI
— Gay and Tired (@GayChemist) May 20, 2024

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A hedge fund bought the company, sold off all the land Red Lobster restaurants are located on, leased the land back to Red Lobster, and jacked the rent. Just so you know what is really going on here https://t.co/kHlbBfRWwN
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) May 20, 2024

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One of the ten biggest companies on Earth. And over half of its warehouse workers have trouble putting food on their plates. This is why we need a massive overhaul. https://t.co/RAj3d2nAqs
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 15, 2024

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“we don’t get rights until we mess up a white mans money” boom. and there it is. https://t.co/1RWltIrHCF
— darkie malarkey (@sailorfemme) May 15, 2024

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May 24, 2024 by V Leigh

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.https://t.co/vUiM1tjjTr
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 19, 2024

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Don’t tell me we can’t fund healthcare for everyone when we can fund a genocide.

If we’ve got money for bombs, we’ve got money for people.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) May 17, 2024

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3M poisoned you and every other person on earth. The company should be dismantled and every executive involved in the coverup should be subjected to a swim in a PFAS plunge pool.

My fucking god. What is the point of regulations if we cannot hold these people accountable? pic.twitter.com/XJ5ZOvTUZF
— Tom Winter (@WinterForMT) May 21, 2024

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Republicans: Diabetes could be 100% solved with healthier eating (not true btw)

Also Republicans: No healthy food on our watch—your options are to eat processed canned food…or starvation

Here are the GOP’s proposed SNAP (food stamp) restrictions. Cruel & dangerous. pic.twitter.com/gXXw2ue57a
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) January 21, 2023

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Nearly 14,000 Black Americans will move up the kidney transplant list after an unfair test was discovered to misrepresent kidney function among Black patients. Now, the formula for this test is being changed, bringing us closer to #healthequity. https://t.co/QfpcQRpNvX
— Robert F. Smith (@RFS_Vista) May 21, 2024

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Poor levels of preventive care because of racism.
Poor levels of access to medical trials because of racism.
Poor support systems because of racism.
The answer is…racism https://t.co/Pc9wUgRsDm
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) May 9, 2024

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The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago https://t.co/Tf1bjAfgIP
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 21, 2024

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May 24, 2024 by V Leigh

Just Don’t Open the Door! | It’s Probably the Police

Just Don’t Open the Door! | It’s Probably the Police https://t.co/fj3FbwsD6p via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) May 18, 2024

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This brother is speaking TRUTH to POWER! #RogerFortson and so many others have been victims of senseless police violence — this epidemic of death must END!

🎥: blackdragonbikertv pic.twitter.com/ctmC2s2sNU
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) May 15, 2024

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City Pays $8 MILLION! | Homeless Man Killed by Cops Over a Bicycle! https://t.co/9vW2I5y1Ot via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) May 16, 2024

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The NYPD wrote 467 summonses for jaywalking last year. 92% went to Black or Latinx people. Just blatant racism. If you ask the NYPD to enforce a law, they will do so in a racist fashion, without fail. https://t.co/nHAqUQJMAq
— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) May 22, 2024

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May 21, 2024 by V Leigh

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pardoned Daniel Perry, the man who wrote “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work” and then drove into a Black Lives Matter protest and shot and killed a protester because he felt “threatened.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pardoned Daniel Perry, the man who wrote “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work” and then drove into a Black Lives Matter protest and shot and killed a protester because he felt “threatened.”https://t.co/oPUjUpgJCb
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 16, 2024

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Texas sentenced Crystal Mason, a Black woman, to 5 years prison for filing a provisional ballot that was never counted—but pardoned Daniel Perry, a white man, for deliberately killing a peaceful protestor & Veteran.

This is not from 1824—but 2024. White supremacy is alive & well
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) May 16, 2024

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In a highly unusual move, the Austin Police Department considered sending a letter to the pardon board that argued Daniel Perry — a man who was convicted of murdering an open-carrying veteran who was protesting against police brutality — should never have been charged. https://t.co/WSvAW5Hep8
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) May 21, 2024

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott extended a rare state pardon to a man convicted of murdering a BLM protester in 2020. The killer had posted violent fantasies about murdering leftists and minorities on social media.https://t.co/6QyKWUzLNK
— Michael W. Hudson (@michaelwhudson) May 21, 2024

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May 17, 2024 by V Leigh

The Biden administration is moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel — just days after the White House said it paused a shipment of bombs

The Biden administration is moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel — just **days** after the White House said it paused a shipment of bombs https://t.co/8EU0gRqcoL
— Rowaida Abdelaziz (@Rowaida_Abdel) May 14, 2024

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Declare a climate emergency 🤷
Cancel all student debt 🤷
Send weapons to Israel ✅ https://t.co/Mk125Xp19R
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) May 15, 2024

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Eric Andre just posted this video pic.twitter.com/ViEuKvMd63
— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) May 16, 2024

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The Leahy Laws prevent our military assistance from funding human rights abuses. But under current guidelines, not every country is vetted the same. And there’s only one country where aid wouldn’t be cut off immediately—Israel.

I’m looking into this special treatment. pic.twitter.com/G2VpmaDIoN
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) March 21, 2024

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May 16, 2024 by V Leigh

George Conway writes in The Atlantic that the porn star-hush money case so disturbs Donald Trump because it perfectly embodies who and what he is. Have to say, that makes sense.

Arizona indicts 18 Republicans, including Giuliani, Meadows, over 2020 fake elector scheme https://t.co/3JuzMr9ODr
— Melissa del Bosque (@MelissaLaLinea) April 25, 2024

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LOL look at how Vivek giggled at her comment about Black Americans, but was stone cold when she talked about him being Indian. Prime example of how quickly assimilating as a “person of color” can come back to bite you. They’ll never learn 🤷🏽‍♂️ https://t.co/NgWGzOrWsY
— Friendly Neighborhood DEI Hire (@ejmills42) May 9, 2024

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I hope everyone is paying attention https://t.co/wdpySkyxVf
— Qondi: A Congressman Teddy Bae Harry Dunn Account (@QondiNtini) May 11, 2024

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Headlines like this should not exist in the richest country in earth. pic.twitter.com/TmTVV2zLh7
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 9, 2024

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On this week’s @LastWeekTonight, @iamjohnoliver made several great points about supporting our public libraries. Here are some highlights, and ways you can stay informed and take action. #FreePeopleReadFreely 🧵 pic.twitter.com/zCwrmxJC5S
— American Library Association (@ALALibrary) May 9, 2024

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WATCH– @RepRaskin on Republicans flocking to Trump’s trial: “I think it’s a good thing that they are identifying themselves, the people who have completely allowed Donald Trump to devour their critical thinking skills and their political and moral independence.” pic.twitter.com/qyKRlBEyEw
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) May 16, 2024

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George Conway writes in The Atlantic that the porn star-hush money case so disturbs Donald Trump because it perfectly embodies who and what he is. Have to say, that makes sense. https://t.co/rM2icvZ7Kp
— Eric Deggans at NPR (@Deggans) May 15, 2024

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May 15, 2024 by V Leigh

Eric Garner, George Floyd, and Frank Tyson all took their last breaths crying out, “I can’t breathe!” America, why are we not learning from these totally avoidable tragedies?! We have to end this vicious cycle of PREVENTABLE police-involved deaths!

Eric Garner, George Floyd, and Frank Tyson all took their last breaths crying out, “I can’t breathe!” America, why are we not learning from these totally avoidable tragedies?! We have to end this vicious cycle of PREVENTABLE police-involved deaths! pic.twitter.com/Qi5ShlICC4
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) May 2, 2024

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— Chicago Urbanist (@chi_urbanist) May 2, 2024

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BODYCAM: Shows 23YO Airman Killed Over Nothing | BAD SHOOT https://t.co/II6qvb03d3 via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) May 11, 2024

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Either Americans have a right to bear arms, or Americans can be legally killed for carrying a gun in their own home.

Pick one. https://t.co/nZaHl0Wf1Z
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) May 13, 2024

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If the government (the police) can shoot a citizen holding a gun, pointed at the floor, in their own home do we really have the right to bear arms?
— Randal Babin- FF$17 Live & Let Live (@babin_randal) May 10, 2024

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Cops Kick DYING Man Out of Ambulance! https://t.co/ootq9kbtZ6 via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) May 11, 2024

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Cops Paralyze Handcuffed Man and Mock Him | He Later Dies! https://t.co/DDUb1Zm1pB via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) May 11, 2024

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May 14, 2024 by V Leigh

Senator Sanders: “When we talk about college campuses, I want everybody to know there are no protests on college campuses in Gaza. You know why? Because every one of the 12 universities in Gaza has been bombed and destroyed.”

Senator Sanders: “When we talk about college campuses, I want everybody to know there are no protests on college campuses in Gaza. You know why? Because every one of the 12 universities in Gaza has been bombed and destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/wxsMxpI9n8
— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) May 8, 2024

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Barry Blitt for the win on the state of American higher education right now pic.twitter.com/eelRsgYQcq
— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is with our students🔻 (@thrasherxy) May 10, 2024

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HIND’S HALL Now Available on Streaming. All Proceeds to UNRWA. https://t.co/daXnWRmBHE pic.twitter.com/J0Ft6wjuSv
— Macklemore (@macklemore) May 10, 2024

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A comic on being silenced. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/Ms6ShEA4oc
— 張嘉欣 🇵🇸 (@Kaitoonist) May 9, 2024

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Leaving this here 👇🏾 pic.twitter.com/dZ6GsYDkBw
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) May 6, 2024

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“The students don’t know what they’re talking about”

The students: pic.twitter.com/S49k31sMCg
— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) May 7, 2024

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Black Americans experience the most hate crimes of any group in America. They live at the bottom of every indicator of well being. They face rampant and documented discrimination in employment, housing, you name it. I really wish pundits discussing campus protests and…
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 6, 2024

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Student protests calling for an end to the war in Gaza and universities’ investment in companies that support Israel’s occupation of Palestine are not slowing down. Salma Hamamy of the University of Michigan describes disrupting the school’s graduation ceremony on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/Yrw6CuRabb
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) May 6, 2024

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Over the weekend, anti-war protesters disrupted several college graduation ceremonies, including one involving comedian Jerry Seinfeld at Duke University. https://t.co/MzPVDqpCse pic.twitter.com/YTZpcTS0sm
— ABC News (@ABC) May 13, 2024

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Students who walked out of a commencement ceremony in Duke University to protest its guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, held a makeshift graduation ceremony and continued to chant, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.” https://t.co/45odJdpo1i
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) May 14, 2024

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May 12, 2024 by V Leigh

This is Roger Fortson — a 23-year-old active-duty Senior Airman who was shot 6X by a Florida officer last Friday. We are calling for transparency in the investigation into Roger’s death and the IMMEDIATE release of bodycam video to the family.

This is Roger Fortson — a 23-year-old active-duty Senior Airman who was shot 6X by a Florida officer last Friday. We are calling for transparency in the investigation into Roger’s death and the IMMEDIATE release of bodycam video to the family.
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) May 9, 2024

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Just saw the body cam video of police killing Airman Roger Fortson.

They knocked on his door, Roger opened it, & within 1 second the cop raised his firearm & shot Fortson 6 times and killed him. No commands. No deescalation. Just cold blooded execution in broad daylight. Horrid.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) May 9, 2024

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Individuals who knew Roger Fortson describe him as an incredible young man, brother, friend, and accountability partner who was always willing to give his last to support someone else! Now, sadly, this incredible USAF Senior Airman has been taken from us! We demand JUSTICE! pic.twitter.com/kkKGJCFvbe
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) May 9, 2024

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The SPLC is calling for a full investigation into the killing of Roger Fortson, a Black airman in the U.S. Air Force, by sheriff’s deputies in Florida.

We urge police departments across the U.S. to address the scourge of anti-Blackness in policing. https://t.co/EtnIqhGtf2 pic.twitter.com/jPblSozHFU
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 9, 2024

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MIAMI (AP) — Deputies burst into wrong apartment last week and fatally shot Black US Air Force airman, attorney for family says.
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 8, 2024

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A Florida county sheriff on May 9 released body-camera video of a deputy fatally shooting Robert Fortson, a Black airman, in his apartment on May 3, after civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family, urged officials to release it https://t.co/xSYorgKkiJ pic.twitter.com/iDNF4ZQfMs
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) May 11, 2024

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*TRIGGER WARNING*

Funeral plans set for Senior Airman and Atlanta native, Roger Fortson.
A Florida Sheriff Deputy, shot and killed Fortson after the 23-year-old opened his own front door.@wsbtv @newbirthmbc @jamalhbryant @AttorneyCrump pic.twitter.com/T8uh0ycJlg
— Audrey Washington (@AudreyWSBTV) May 10, 2024

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May 11, 2024 by V Leigh

a Zionist asks Chomsky what he thinks about the statement that Israel should not exist, and whether he is horrified by it and thinks it’s anti-Semitic and genocidal. He responds: “Actually, I agree with that.” And adds that Zionists are the actual genocidal ones.

When human life doesn’t matter #Genocide_in_Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/FgN10ekeD4
— SR-Qureshi (@SMRQ_1) May 10, 2024

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For five days, almost no humanitarian aid has gotten into Gaza. Israel’s military operation in Rafah has closed both main border crossings.

No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.

Children are starving.

The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in this humanitarian disaster.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 10, 2024

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Even Israeli military intelligence says Hamas will continue to exist as a terrorist group after the war. The error in this war, Iraq, Vietnam, etc…is acting like there is a military solution to a political problem. https://t.co/GTbdaiQmX2
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) May 9, 2024

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“200 days of Israel systematically wiping Gaza from the earth, 505 bombs a day, with the active complicity of the EU who increased the flow of weapons to Israel tenfold!

European values: same as it always was, murder & colonialism.”

—Irish MEP Clare Daly pic.twitter.com/zIVmQ3ogsd
— sarah (@sahouraxo) April 24, 2024

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This is a very dark day. The vast majority of professional news we get on the genocide comes from Al Jazeera. US-backed Israel has killed many Al Jazeera journalists, and now is shutting the network out entirely. And what happens in the colonies will come to the metropole. https://t.co/6gioBUiucT
— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is with our students🔻 (@thrasherxy) May 5, 2024

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a Zionist asks Chomsky what he thinks about the statement that Israel should not exist, and whether he is horrified by it and thinks it’s anti-Semitic and genocidal.

He responds: “Actually, I agree with that.” And adds that Zionists are the actual genocidal ones. pic.twitter.com/Pt3l1Ln9tt
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) May 9, 2024

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Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.8 billion to spend. In November 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million. The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit.

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The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.

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Just Don’t Open the Door! | It’s Probably the Police

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pardoned Daniel Perry, the man who wrote “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work” and then drove into a Black Lives Matter protest and shot and killed a protester because he felt “threatened.”

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The Biden administration is moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel — just days after the White House said it paused a shipment of bombs

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George Conway writes in The Atlantic that the porn star-hush money case so disturbs Donald Trump because it perfectly embodies who and what he is. Have to say, that makes sense.

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Eric Garner, George Floyd, and Frank Tyson all took their last breaths crying out, “I can’t breathe!” America, why are we not learning from these totally avoidable tragedies?! We have to end this vicious cycle of PREVENTABLE police-involved deaths!

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Senator Sanders: “When we talk about college campuses, I want everybody to know there are no protests on college campuses in Gaza. You know why? Because every one of the 12 universities in Gaza has been bombed and destroyed.”

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This is Roger Fortson — a 23-year-old active-duty Senior Airman who was shot 6X by a Florida officer last Friday. We are calling for transparency in the investigation into Roger’s death and the IMMEDIATE release of bodycam video to the family.

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a Zionist asks Chomsky what he thinks about the statement that Israel should not exist, and whether he is horrified by it and thinks it’s anti-Semitic and genocidal. He responds: “Actually, I agree with that.” And adds that Zionists are the actual genocidal ones.

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