Boycotting Target is the correct thing to do. We also must ensure the Black & other minority-owned businesses that sell their products in Target are supported. It’s important to note that Target is rolling back the program that brought so many of these brands to their stores. 🧵

Some bad news: MDOT $17.5m Reconnecting Communities funding request for repairing/replacing five Lodge pedestrian bridges was *not* awarded. Waiting to hear about next steps. Grandmont-Rosedale Streetscape Design, RTA Woodward transit & I-375 planning grants also not funded.

Making art makes me feel better. But to make art I have to feel better. What is this nonsense.

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Metro Detroiters driving through Southfield were in high spirits despite low temperatures on Saturday as activists, firefighters, police officers and city officials distributed free children's holiday gifts to families in need. Demetrius Williams, 53,… #MetroDetroit #HolidayGiving #Christmas2023

Hey all, I’ve been co-coordinating a journalism workshop for DMV-area high school students for the last few years and applications have opened for next year’s program. It’s completely free. Please share with someone you know!

In the US billionaires and their corrupt politician lackeys sell the school shooters the weapons then put all the victims into lifelong medical debt, then gaslight them while praising God. All along the way they squeeze hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions from the entire process.

We MUST keep vaccines. have you written your Senator to let them know?

Cancer is a common cause of line-of-duty death for firefighters. We worked across the aisle to reauthorize the Firefighter Cancer Registry so we can improve research into health and safety standards for these heroes who put their lives on the line for us every day.

In Washington, DC, a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

Crazy how this keeps happening to whistleblowers

clearly we need to address the mental health crisis in the whistleblower community

Key OpenAI whistleblower found dead by apparent suicide

To no one's surprise, RFK Jr's weird job application which asks people if they like poetry, want to have sex or have ever had bizarre fantasies, was created by Jordan Peterson. Peterson, who Trudeau recently testified under oath is a paid propagandist for Putin, has left Canada and moved to the US.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. We built a database so you can more easily search these organizations' finances — which we just updated with a total of ~350k new contributions and expenditures: https://propub.li/4i01FSv

A team of lawyers and public safety specialists has the power to recommend that Chicago and its police department be punished for failing to meet the terms of its court-ordered reforms. Despite pleas from reform groups, it has never done so.

Louisiana Pro-Trump lawmakers passed income and corporate tax cuts, raising the statewide sales tax to pay for it. They are making the poor pay more while the rich pay less, and this is only going to get worse for the rest of the US.

What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights? Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com‬ reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.

YouTube is out of control with the ads these days. I got hit was 4 ads for a 3 minute video!

NEW: From 2018 through 2022, Palatine, Illinois, police ticketed students nearly 400 times. Black and Latino students sometimes received tickets when white students were given lesser punishments or offered help to cope with substance use, the probe found.

"An unidentified hacker has reportedly gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz"

Thanks! Found it and officially deactivated!

Number of older adults who lost $100,000 or more to fraud has tripled since 2020, FTC says

Being here and no longer on X as a small act of resistance

The DOJ reportedly plans to ask a federal judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser to break search monopoly

It's not a difference of political opinions if the opposing side's opinion is that you aren't human or shouldn't exist. That's not how anything works.

Update: “Man, can we work?” - Usher? Me:

Alright y’all, Are we gon’ be tf still or what?