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Proud husband & father; Co-Founder & Executive Director of The Grassroots Law Project; Founder ; Host ; Co-Founder .

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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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    10 hours ago

    If we banned Congress from getting a paycheck or pulling from their investments until a stimulus is passed, I guarantee we'd see an agreement by the end of the day.

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    9 hours ago

    Wow. In Los Angeles – with a population of 10 million, the most populous prosecutorial district in America – the new reform DA says he will no longer seek cash bail.

    "Cash bail is as unsafe as it is unjust.... We will be the largest office in the nation to eliminate cash bail." will revisit ppl currently held in custody on bail and implement a new policy to revisit cash bail's use in LA
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    5 hours ago

    If LA can do it, I am 100% confidant that VT can do it. So, let’s.

    Wow. In Los Angeles – with a population of 10 million, the most populous prosecutorial district in America – the new reform DA says he will no longer seek cash bail.
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    Dec 6

    Jolynn McCabe — a 115 lb. grandma — called 911 for help with her struggles with alcoholism. The cops took her to Santa Rita Jail for being drunk in public. The run-in left her with shocking injuries. ⁦⁩ and I report for ⁦⁩

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    7 hours ago

    Just interviewed a man who spent an extra 13 years in prison - most in solitary confinement- on an otherwise 7 year sentence because of gang enhancements. Hear his story tonight and tomorrow

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    8 hours ago

    One prominent criminal defense attorney who supported Jackie Lacey just texted me: “This is the most significant criminal reform that is taking place in the history of Los Angeles county. And it’s just the beginning.”

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    13 hours ago

    "I served on Brandon Bernard's jury, and I believe his death sentence is wrong" via

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    3 hours ago

    I love this so much.

    Meet the all-Muslim girls’ team from Milwaukee that’s challenging gender-norms within their community—and winning a lot along the way:
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    4 hours ago

    Unbelievably proud to have worked with the entire team to make today possible. Emotional day, worth every minute of the past fifteen months

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    5 hours ago

    "[Kamala Harris' sister] Maya Harris has participated in conversations with allies aimed at boosting her husband [Uber chief legal officer Tony West]’s candidacy for attorney general, according to people familiar with the calls."

    Bunch of Biden/Harris associates have advised Uber/Lyft or advocated compromise on how their gig workers are classified. One early test for Biden, who opposed Prop 22 and supported sweeping pro-labor reform, is whether he fires Trump’s NLRB general counsel
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    4 hours ago

    In 2019, over 500k New Yorkers voters said YES to ranked choice voting. That's more people than voted for Mayor in the Democratic primary last cycle. There is no honest reason to attempt to delay its implementation.

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    3 hours ago

    The $1,200 direct payments to working class adults and $500 for children passed in March kept 3.3 million Americans out of poverty. Today, 1 in 4 workers are unemployed or make less than $20,000. Congress must provide direct payments to the working class NOW! At least $1,200.

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    2 hours ago

    U.S.: The average cost of child care for a child under 4 is $9,589 per year Sweden: Child-care costs account for no more than 3 percent of a family’s income, capped at $1,800 per child

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    2 hours ago

    I’ve said this before on here, but in the UK the moving trucks arrive in Downing Street to take all the outgoing prime minister’s belongings the *morning after* the election is called. There is no lameduckery.

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    2 hours ago

    . LA’s newly elected DA will end cash bail in nation’s largest prosecutor office

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    8 hours ago

    LA County DA announced an end to Money Bail, Enhancements, 3 Strikes, Juvenile Transfers, & the Death Penalty; & efforts to resentence 20,000 ppl in prison. We applaud these changes, but we MUST work to make them all apply retroactively in the interest of justice.

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    11 hours ago

    2020 marks yet another year where the police have killed more than 1,000 people. Black people are 3X more likely to be killed by police than white people. No other country even comes close to this amount of death. It's an epidemic.

    Graph that shows the rate of people killed by law enforcement per 10 million people. USA: 33.5, Canada: 9.8, Australia: 8.5, Netherlands: 2.3, New Zealand: 2.0, Germany: 1.3, England and Wales: 0.5, Japan: 0.2, Iceland: 0.0, Norway: 0.0.
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    16 hours ago

    THREE DAYS. In three days, Brandon Bernard will be murdered by Donald Trump and Bill Barr. Unless. Please watch and then take action here: .

    Brandon Bernard. Sentenced to death at 18 as an accomplice. Attorneys declined opening statements. Called no witnesses at penalty stage. 11 of 12 jurors were white. 5 of them now don't want death. His prosecutor has called for mercy. Bill Barr wants him executed on Dec. 10. More:
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    11 hours ago

    My theory for why Democrats don't just say this plainly when campaigning is that it feels too unbelievable. If there is no restriction to what we can do and build (other than inflation, which good economic development can account for), why don't we just do it?

    Today in I explain why the federal government isn't like a household, or a business, or even a state government!
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    4 hours ago

    The two newspaper columnists named in here are Tom Friedman and David Brooks. Biden admires them both. *sighs*

    What Joe Biden reads and watches via
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