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    Dec 6

    Small businesses are being absolutely crushed right now. You can’t reasonably ask people to shut down their businesses, even during a pandemic, IF YOU DON’T PROVIDE THEM WITH REAL SUPPORT. This is how people pay their bills and cover their basic necessities. It’s awful.

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    9 minutes ago

    Your mom was sentenced to two months in prison for spending $500,000 to have you and your sister admitted to the college of your choice. Tanya was sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to send her infant son to public school.

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    21 minutes ago

    Tom Vilsack for USDA Secretary Is What's Wrong With the Democratic Party — important read to get up to speed on how bad this pick was

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    2 hours ago

    We talked about many aspects of gardening and how Black folks have been in the soil since the soil first existed. However, there is a devastatingly low percentage of Black farmers who own land and crops today.

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  5. 3 hours ago

    3 students have been shot and killed in Atlanta in the past 5 months. 1 shot in the back by police. 1 shot in the car with their mother. 1 shot in the front yard playing.

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    11 hours ago

    SCOOP: The ex-Queens prosecutor who relied on notes reminding him to keep women and Black, Latino & Jewish New Yorkers off juries has worked as counsel to the NYC PBA since 2007 His misconduct led to two conviction reversals Thurs — one for shooting a cop

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    3 hours ago

    Let’s call this what it is: state-sanctioned murder. I’m thinking of Brandon Bernard and his family—the system failed them. We cannot allow this to continue. The Biden-Harris administration should commute the sentence of every single person on federal death row.

    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — US carries out 9th federal execution of 2020, 1st during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years.
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    13 hours ago

    The federal government under Donald Trump has executed more individuals in recent months than had been executed in the preceding 60 years. The death penalty is inhumane and fraught with error. No government should have this power. It’s past time to .

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    15 hours ago

    Who is Seth Weathers, why is he laughing out loud about the death of Brandon Bernard, and how do people like this even exist?

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    15 hours ago

    Brandon Bernard. Heartbroken and fatigued from mourning but we cannot stop raising our voices and organizing for justice. 4/5 of the remaining federal executions this year will be Black men. we need an end to federal executions. We must abolish the death penalty.

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    15 hours ago

    Rather than heal trauma and appreciate rehabilitation our system multiples trauma and inhibits and ignores rehabilitation.

    spoke for over three minutes, saying he'd been waiting for this chance to say he was sorry, not only to the Bagleys, but also for the pain he caused his own family. "I wish I could take it all back, but I can't," he said, reports.
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    15 hours ago

    As a baseline, I hope our next Attorney General has no corporate ties and is horrified by our history of executing people.

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  13. 15 hours ago

    Dear , You built this. Now we are demanding that you deconstruct it. Since you are the architect, the mastermind, you should know the blueprints well.

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    No living American worked harder to make it easier for the federal government to execute people than . Here, he loses count of how many crimes he made it possible for people to be executed for in the “Biden Crime Bill.” “Everything but jaywalking,” he said.
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    15 hours ago

    Brandon Bernard's last words were for the family of the victims. “I’m sorry,” he said, lifting his head and looking at the witness-room windows. “That’s the only words that I can say that completely capture how I feel now and how I felt that day.”

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  15. 15 hours ago

    Wow. said no.

    At candidate forum held by & others, mayoral hopefuls were asked if they support ending solitary confinement in city jails. -No: Sutton, Adams -Yes: Wiley, Donovan, Morales, Stringer, Menchaca, Garcia, Taylor -Iscol said 'move toward it'
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    15 hours ago

    The Biden-Harris administration should commute everyone on federal death row to life sentences upon taking office

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    15 hours ago

    Tomorrow, Trump plans to kill another Black man.

    The next person to be executed in the U.S. is Alfred Bourgeois in 20 hours and 16 minutes.
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    15 hours ago

    We killed our brother tonight....we are one sick country

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  19. 15 hours ago

    No living American worked harder to make it easier for the federal government to execute people than . Here, he loses count of how many crimes he made it possible for people to be executed for in the “Biden Crime Bill.” “Everything but jaywalking,” he said.

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    16 hours ago

    I have multiple colleagues who BEGGED the Obama Administration, in the final months of his presidency, to commute all (or even some) of the federal death penalty cases to life in prison - including Brandon's case. Obama refused. The DOJ refused. The Attorney General refused.

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  21. 15 hours ago

    Joe Biden's transition team met w/ my organization & a cross section of civil rights groups led by younger leaders. After they met w/ us, Biden himself met with the leaders of 7 legacy civil rights groups. Many of them are respected elders themselves. He yelled the whole time.

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    Wow this fucking sucks.
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