•1,720 US civilian contractor deaths
•2,372 US military deaths
•20,320 US military wounded
•111,000 Afghan civilian deaths
•$2T CostUntold horror b/c US Officials deliberately misled US public
In a just world every such Official would go to prison https://t.co/FN3vwxaRwe— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 9, 2019
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It’s been seven years since the shooting at #SandyHook Elementary School, and Congress has done nothing to prevent another tragedy like this from happening.
Every 16 hours, a woman in America is shot and killed by a former or current partner.
Yet @senatemajld and @SenJoniErnst are REFUSING to reauthorize #VAWA to close the deadly "boyfriend loophole" that allows domestic abusers to access guns. This is a disgrace. #VAWA4ALL https://t.co/7YIdd4QBHX
— Brady (@bradybuzz) December 12, 2019
In any other situation with lives on the line we act w/o hesitation. Why are we not waking up to the 384 mass shootings, and the 35K that have died in just 2019?
The #NewOrleansShooting like each before it should be the last. We NEED to raise the standard for gun ownership. https://t.co/hqf5cGkzMb
— Guns Down America (@gunsdownamerica) December 1, 2019
We agree @SpeakerPelosi, gun violence prevention is an issue which can unite the nation. 97% of Americans support expanding background checks yet @senatemajldr refuses to hold a vote on **bipartisan** legislation which the House passed over 280 days ago.#PelosiTownHall
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) December 6, 2019
Yesterday during our rally outside the Supreme Court, @NRA employees harassed gun violence survivors and made videos mocking them, and their supporters interrupted a moment of silence for victims by reading the Second Amendment through a bullhorn.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 3, 2019
▪️Leah Minda Ferencz owned the Kosher deli w/ her husband
▪️Douglas Rodriguez had immigrated from Ecuador 3 years ago
▪️Moshe Deutsch was a yeshiva student grabbing lunch
▪️Joseph Seals was a 15-year-veteran of the police department#HonorWithAction https://t.co/D3jXHsRnMC
— Brady (@bradybuzz) December 12, 2019
Today,
We mourn the loss of 20 children
& 6 adults that were lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School on this day 7 years ago. We are sending love & strength on this painful day to all who were affected, & pledge our continued action so that tragedy like this never happens again. pic.twitter.com/aVSoTtTXQo— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) December 14, 2019
Seven years ago today, a gunman armed with an assault weapon murdered 20 children and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
We must end this country's gun violence epidemic. We vow to never stop fighting in their honor. #HonorWithAction #EndGunViolence pic.twitter.com/XpGHdYRkQ5
— Brady (@bradybuzz) December 14, 2019
It's been seven years since the shooting at #SandyHook Elementary School, and Congress has done nothing to prevent another tragedy like this from happening. pic.twitter.com/2NkfzMvLnu
— Guns Down America (@gunsdownamerica) December 14, 2019
The U.S. policing culture of brutality & incarceration is a GENOCIDE. This is a human rights struggle.
Are the police using civilian cars as cover? With people still in them? And shooting at a hostage? Over some jewelry? In rush hour traffic?
What kind of clown show are they running in Miramar? Absolutely ridiculous. I hope they get their asses sued. https://t.co/SaQbodzSNj
— ❄️🎄🎅🏾Cupcakes & Clonazepam 🎅🏾🎄❄️ (@entmom420) December 6, 2019
Cops just unloaded on an innocent UPS driver that was hostage in an armed robbery. You can watch the video for yourself pretty graphic.
This happened in Miami. pic.twitter.com/OB3W35D3Dz
— Kluebtorious (@rklueber28) December 5, 2019
"Portland police fatally shot a person Sunday afternoon outside a Starbucks coffee shop in Southeast Portland." https://t.co/nxkiNOY88Y
— Jeff Thomas Black (@LRBitisnot) December 9, 2019
We just published evaluations of all 58 California Sheriff’s Depts + 100 largest CA Police Depts. Data on police violence, arrests, accountability, police budgets, ICE cooperation, jails and more. The data evaluation framework to hold police accountable: https://t.co/bHMBm5zWaM
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) December 4, 2019
Media is being eerily quiet about these three murders … https://t.co/SVnUNl4AsZ
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) December 10, 2019
I’ve been hired by 3 black fathers murdered by police this week. #CameronLamb (Kansas City, MO 12/2); #MichaelDean (Temple, TX 12/3); #DemetriusWilliams (Marshall, TX 12/5).
The U.S. policing culture of brutality & incarceration is a GENOCIDE. This is a human rights struggle. pic.twitter.com/y36Nk32yd0
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) December 9, 2019
CRACK VS. HEROIN An unfair system arrested millions of blacks, urged compassion for whites
Baltimore's reform DA indicts 25 prison guards for excessive force, intimidation, evidence tampering, participation in a criminal gang, and other crimes. https://t.co/c54y4NF4qq
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) December 4, 2019
None of the politicians who brand themselves “fiscally responsible” ever raise concern about rushing to shower ICE & CBP w/ $billions with 0 guardrails or oversight.
None of them ask about how we pay for corrupt contracts or mass incarceration.
Ask yourself why that is.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 28, 2019
I have $1,000 for the unblurred version of this photo of these new West Virginia prison guards doing the Nazi salute.
Email it to me at shaun@thenorthstar.com and I’ll pay you anonymously. pic.twitter.com/GLyfLnyGTY
— Shaun King (@shaunking) December 6, 2019
NYPD commander tells officers to think of white and Asian people as “soft targets” and instructs them to instead target Blacks and Latinos for minor offenses like jumping the turnstile.
This is racial profiling in the era of de Blasio.https://t.co/4mNMSvsoU9
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) December 7, 2019
In my view, it would be insane to argue that our criminal justice system is not racist, broken, and in need of serious reform. https://t.co/bP3YfGlHaz
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 7, 2019
CRACK VS. HEROIN
An unfair system arrested millions of blacks, urged compassion for whites – https://t.co/uq4MH9l1y7— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) December 10, 2019
Racist Rants
Houston, Texas
This racist White Man screamed the N word at a young black woman and tried to make a rear-end collision happen by speeding up and stopping in front of her!
Who is he?! WHERE DOES HE WORK!
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. pic.twitter.com/ye0DZzxoJC
— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) November 11, 2019
Martin Hyde, a Florida politician allegedly offered a teenage Latino tennis player $50,000 to delete a racist video of him telling him to "cut grass." https://t.co/usR3IX3Icy pic.twitter.com/HDbgdW9gVf
— Complex (@Complex) December 3, 2019
In this minute and a half clip, you can hear the teacher saying, “You’re probably on welfare, too” to the Black student's father. https://t.co/NO54S1v80V
— ESSENCE (@Essence) November 24, 2019
“Hate speech is not free speech."
A 17-year-old high school student was targeted with a racist slur in graffiti at her school. The attack came after she protested against a Confederate flag painted onto a student’s parking space. https://t.co/l3ebppMO2m
— Pillars Fund (@pillars_fund) November 30, 2019
“You don’t know a damn thing, go back to China where you belong." A racist tirade in a #Richmond, BC, parking lot has been caught on camera. https://t.co/fQXTTfwdNo
— Daily Hive Vancouver (@DailyHiveVan) August 24, 2019
HER NAME IS Michelle Rajacichttps://t.co/y6O2yiK4LI
— 🇬🇭 Denny Blanco @SocietyBlackCo (@iamdennyblanco) November 26, 2019
“Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them.
Your periodic reminder that Trump tore babies away from their mother's arms and puts kids in cages.
Listen to this audio. Then listen to it again.
Because we must never forget.
https://t.co/mV0OpSq747— Doug Gordon (@dgordon52) November 26, 2019
“I find it ironic that right after we went through the civil rights movement—and African Americans started voting primarily as Democrats—then the nominating process for president goes to two states that have the least number of African Americans in them.” https://t.co/wDM0OuiLxd
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) November 25, 2019
Buttgieg had access to all of this information. He went to some of the very same schools involved in the research. But hey, here's more recent info. https://t.co/vYEOPyCWu0
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) November 26, 2019
Byron Coleman is one of nearly 50,000 people living in #Mississippi who were banned for life from voting between 1994 and 2017. We will give oral arguments on 12/3 on why he & other affected Mississippians should be allowed to vote in the #2020Election. pic.twitter.com/5zHkTvI307
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) December 1, 2019
#BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. https://t.co/9bwtdSYDgU
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) December 3, 2019
In a 2011 interview, Indianapolis mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said the problem with the educational system is that kids in "lower-income, minority neighborhoods" just haven't seen it work.
Here's why Pete Buttigieg is a liar:https://t.co/reQVXPmxxT pic.twitter.com/zJrJnVFRYt— The Root (@TheRoot) November 26, 2019
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang sits down with WSJ's Greg Ip to discuss his universal basic income plan https://t.co/b9ACfrl1bj
— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) December 1, 2019
Hold on. Every reporter I follow is 🤷🏽♂️ at this. This is the CEO of company mentioned 74x in Mueller Report investigating Russia’s interference in 2016 US election. He’s moving to another continent for much of 2020 election??? And we’re 🤷🏽♂️ with this? WTF. https://t.co/cR5ZCrTwfp
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) December 1, 2019
“Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election,” Fiona Hill testified last month. “We are running out of time to stop them.”https://t.co/1E4x9saCdg
— Salon (@Salon) December 3, 2019
Shooting on the edge of the French Quarter leaves 11 injured in New Orleans
#NewOrleansShooting pic.twitter.com/FxMsUZpahR
— March For Our Lives New Orleans (@march_nola) December 1, 2019
At least 11 people were shot in New Orleans overnight. The shooting happened a few hours ago on Canal Street. Police say two were critically injured and one person is in custody. #NewOrleansShooting pic.twitter.com/vwbHPaXkV7
— ⓐⓓⓡⓞⓩ (@adroz) December 1, 2019
Shooting on the edge of the French Quarter leaves 11 injured in New Orleanshttps://t.co/0MJDs0kHm5 pic.twitter.com/jyITq2ZbHF
— CNN (@CNN) December 1, 2019
It makes no rational sense to invest more in keeping people in prison than keeping them in school.
And… cutting the current population down by 50% doesn't even get us close to the U.S. incarceration rate in 1970 which was much much lower. A 50% cut means the U.S. will STILL remain the largest jailer in the world. People need to understand this. https://t.co/A7T2m2I2i3
— #AbolitionMeansNoPrisons (@prisonculture) November 14, 2019
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People incarcerated in West Virginia prisons will soon be charged $3 an hour to read books and $15 an hour for video visitation with their families.
Prisoners in West Virginia are paid between 4 and 58 cents an hour for their labor.
— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) November 23, 2019
Three men who were falsely convicted of murder in Maryland have been freed. They have served 36 years in prison. They were sentenced in 1984 for killing a 14-year-old boy.
Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby said “police and prosecutorial misconduct” was to blame. pic.twitter.com/8YUBC5i7Np
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 26, 2019
Yes, it’s a gateway to a prison cell and a permanent record for a disproportionate number of black and brown men. But, go ahead Mr Crime Bill, we wouldn’t want to starve the beast known as the prison industrial complex… https://t.co/lG5mQNyxGF
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) November 18, 2019
Last year South Carolina spent:
$21,756 per prison inmate
$11,552 per studentIt makes no rational sense to invest more in keeping people in prison than keeping them in school.
As president, I will do everything I can to reverse this absurdity.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 1, 2019
Colombia protests: What prompted them and where are they headed?
Colombia protests: What prompted them and where are they headed? https://t.co/y4v7YeuPgJ
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 26, 2019
it’s wild to think that the purge was just a movie for us but a reality for Bogotá, Colombia. At this very moment, there is chaos because of anti-gov protests which has lead to death, theft and home invasion and all the gov thought to do was implement a curfew..
— ✩𝒸𝑒𝓁𝓎✩ (@celerystixx_) November 24, 2019
1-4https://t.co/gCFu6N2e2E #Protests#Bogota #Colombia mass demonstrations against the Colombian government headed by President Ivan Duque enter their seventh day on Wednesday, November 27. Read the "show more."
— )))ANOINTED BY MY SAVIOUR CHRIST JESUS((( (@brucekenneway) November 27, 2019
"Protests Put Colombia's Duque in the Hotseat on Tax Reform" by Reuters via NewYorkTimes about Bogota, Colombia https://t.co/VbxirAuVKq #bogota
— Visit Bogota (@Visit_Bogota) November 27, 2019
Myriad Frustrations Draw Colombians Back Onto the Streets https://t.co/RzTdhdURy7
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombians unhappy with President Iván Duque’s response to nearly a week of boisterous protests are taking to the streets again Wednesday demonstrating over issues ranging…
— Enter Sandman (@EnterSa64248346) November 27, 2019
"Death of Colombian Teenager Drives Protesters Back to Streets" by Alan Yuhas via NewYorkTimes about Bogota, Colombia https://t.co/FRyTXb0usy #bogota
— Visit Bogota (@Visit_Bogota) November 27, 2019
Michael Bloomberg Pushed ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Policing. Now He’s Apologizing.
Way too little. Way too late! After 3 terms as Mayor, now he wants to apologize for #stopandfrisk? Sorry but black and brown folks in #NYC have 13 years of receipts. https://t.co/hGpjThEILK via @NYTimes
— Vince Warren (@VinceWarren) November 17, 2019
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“The racial disparities in Stop and Frisk enforcement were jarring. Of 575,000 stops in 2009, Black and Latino people were 9 times as likely as whites to be targeted by police. In 2011, police questioned 685,000 New Yorkers. 87% were Black or Latino.” https://t.co/OqclleYE00
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) November 17, 2019
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Apology not accepted.
Studies on stop and frisk tell us those stopped experienced physical and psychological distress, the kind associated with surges of cortisol that can harm your brain and organs if the event is chronic or recurrent.
Stop and frisk was both. https://t.co/Dp9PrhR3LJ
— Rhea Boyd, MD (@RheaBoydMD) November 17, 2019
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Michael Bloomberg apologizes for "stop and frisk" just a few months after defending it https://t.co/5YF4dj1KWG
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) November 18, 2019
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The NYPD was committing constitutional violations against Black and Latino New Yorkers on a gargantuan scale. Millions of stops and frisks. Millions!
Bloomberg told his lawyers to fight fiercely to keep the program. They dragged out the litigation for six years.
— Ady Barkan🔥🌹 (@AdyBarkan) November 17, 2019
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A thread on @mikebloomberg & #stopandfrisk:
When I was a med student in NYC, I was stopped/frisked. I was a young, brown man in a hoodie in Washington Heights.
In 2012, he spoke at the @PDSoros conference. I took the Q/A opportunity to bring it up.
— Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) November 17, 2019