Canceling student debt is literally the most economically sound thing we could do to boost the economy
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Normal has never served Black women.
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I hope corporations/institutions take a min to understand how triggering the phrase “return to normal” is regarding the workplace and society in general for marginalized ppl. We had FINALLY cracked the door on so much progress & the fact some want to slam it shut is so upsetting
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Deploying the National Guard against people exercising their right to protest in ATL is a prime example why we don’t need any Cop City.
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Appears from this Executive Order that Brian Kemp is bringing the National Guard to Atlanta in response to protests against Cop City
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Disgusting
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Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, developed with taxpayer dollars, helped the company rake in BILLIONS. Now they want to make even more by raising the price.
@PeterWelch and I are urging @moderna_tx to reconsider this decision and put people's health first.
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Overdraft fees were created in 1990.
Credit scores were created in 1989.
We can live without them.
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If Republicans hadn’t spent nearly $2 trillion on the Trump tax cuts for giant corporations and hollowed out the IRS to help wealthy tax cheats, the United States wouldn’t need to raise the debt ceiling this year.
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Police don’t prevent crime. They show up after it happens. Crime prevention starts with funding social programs and creating opportunity.
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Air just air
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How the fuck are eggs $13 a dozen?!?!?
What am I supposed to eat?
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I need Bleacher Report to explain because the Brock Purdy photo choice still makes absolutely no sense to me vs. the photo of Jalen Hurts 😩
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This can’t be the American Dream they keep talking about …
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Why Are Black Women Ignored When It Comes to Social Change? | Time
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The war on the poor continues
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The cost of food, the cost of rent, the lack of wages is crushing the working class. It is not sustainable.
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The White House announced a plan Wednesday to promote rent affordability and fortify tenant protections for the more than a third of Americans who rent—a plan the administration says will be implemented with the help of multiple federal agencies.
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Check out "2023 Tech Intersections Conference" this weekend in #Oakland via #womenintech eventbrite.com/e/2023-tech-in
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Check out "2023 Tech Intersections Conference" this weekend in #Oakland via #womenintech eventbrite.com/e/2023-tech-in
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Facts. It’s like Andrew Gillum said when they were running against each other. Even if he weren’t racist, the racists think he is so that’s why they love him and he’s pandering to him.
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He’s not only racist but he knows exactly what he’s doing — he knows the base he’s playing to.
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Please don’t try and convince me that Ron DeSantis is not racist. Banning African American studies is truly something.
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Black women are elite
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Thank you for this incredible honor in *this* particular moment. I’m very grateful. And charged. Charged and amped all the way up.
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I finally got the police report from , and clearly, expecting them to tell the truth about a police officer crashing into my car on Thursday was asking for too much.
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Over 500,000 Americans will go to sleep on the streets tonight. Housing is a human right.
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If you don’t support gun reform, you’re not pro-life. It’s that simple.
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why hasn't Hollywood done multiple movies showing the horrors committed by King Leopold II?
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"The removal of books is ultimately a tool designed to discourage young people from building a more just future."
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To protect libraries, we need to fight defunding as hard as we fight book bans.
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The Books Unbanned program asked kids to write about censorship in their schools and libraries. Hear what one librarian learned from reading their responses. #UniteAgainstBookBans
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This is offensive.
Not just because it’s patently racist. But because it is insulting to everyone’s intelligence to insist that children can’t handle the truth.
Floridians-and people from school districts everywhere facing the same book and curriculum bans should be offended.
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“Florida’s Department of Education’s Office of Articulation said the curriculum ‘is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.’ ”
This is what fascism looks like. rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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This might be the dumbest analogy I’ve ever heard. Raising the debt ceiling would not authorize new spending. It would let the U.S. pay the bills that Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump ALREADY ran up with tax breaks for billionaires and giant corporations.
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Considering how many people have and are being laid off — this is a reminder that.
Healthcare should not be linked to employment
Healthcare should not be linked to employment
Healthcare should not be linked to employment
Healthcare should not be linked to employment
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EAT THE RICH
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So the war on the poor continues …
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People who make minimum wage pay little if anything in federal income taxes.
They would pay out the nose on a 30% sales tax.
Almost ALL of their money would be taxed through spending for basics,
while the rich would be able to squirm away millions tax free.
INSANE. EVIL.
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These “once in a life time recessions” are starting to sound like a broken record for millennials.
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Do you ever have days where your brain is completely off? That's how I feel today. I am completely on autopilot.
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The San Francisco District Attorney's office has issued an arrest warrant for Collier Gwin
He is being "charged with misdemeanor battery for the alleged intentional & unlawful spraying of water on & around a woman experiencing homelessness"
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The Republicans that are against raising the debt ceiling citing “out of control spending” are the same people who vote yes to raise the military budget year after year.
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Today, my team announced the release of The Black Tech Effect report. In partnership with the Omidyar Network, we analyzed thousands of high-growth, Black-led technology companies in the U.S. and beyond.
Get your copy of the report over at theblacktecheffect.com.
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I’m sick and tired of hearing this lie peddled by the GOP and corporate media. Raising the debt ceiling does not increase spending or the federal debt. It simply allows the government to pay bills it has already taken on— and defaulting on the debt would be catastrophic.
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