For no particular reason, I’m reminded that Nestle fought against having water declared a basic human right.

I think about this a lot.

I think white athletes should boycott those states as well. We're all Americans and this situation is completely unacceptable.

Terrifyingly, the most delusional people in America appear not to be Republicans, they are Democrats who believe the American government is somehow still operating normally.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

MSM here is a story. WE know TRump is too stupid to make his stock trades. He has brokers for that. Why not investigate them’. How are they getting the inside information. NOW THATS A STORY

Mt Vernon Ave being bike friendly enough for my children to ride in the street by the time they get to middle school is my dream. Sharrows dont cut it. My oldest starts kindergarten this year. Apologies in advance as she will be biking on the sidewalk.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

Justice Samuel Alito has fossil fuel stocks making up nearly a quarter of his personal investment portfolio. And he just voted to put a major climate accountability case on the Supreme Court’s docket after recusing himself from virtually identical cases for the exact same reason.

Beware of any Christian movement that needs a government in order to succeed. Beware of any government that needs a Christian movement in order to succeed.

In cities, building is continuous We can build for cars or we can build for people To save democracy, we need to center people I don't vote for politicians who support cars over people Ever Build for people: betterbraddock.org Read more: grassrootsalexandria.org/our-children...

Today, I attended the Board of Housing and Community Development’s 9-hour-long meeting to consider proposals to change the building code. I’m excited to share that my proposal to require baby diaper changing stations in new buildings open to the public has been adopted! Look at all the proposals!

Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesn’t make them right, and they won’t survive the real justice that is coming.

Thank you to everyone who came out and helped out! Will post how many folks we had turnout later today but it was more than I expected. #bikeva #alx #braddockrd

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

Pretty infuriating that while we haven't touched the negative signs they've posted all over the neighborhood, bike lane opponents have gone around tearing down our supportive fliers and thrown them in the trash

Families at Naomi Brooks, Mt Vernon Community School, and Patrick Henry Elementary showed up for Bike to School Day Riding together helped reduce emissions and traffic. Small actions, big impact for Alexandria. #ecocityalx #lexandriavagov #biketoschool

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

The Republican Party is systematically stealing political power from Black Americans. It’s a hate movement, an embrace of indecency. When Republicans said “Make American Great Again,” what they really wanted was the complete erasure of the civil rights movement.

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This is a war based on lies

Seeing how Trump reacts when anyone tells him 'no' is how we immediately know he’s a rapist.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Don’t let this explosive story disappear. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Let’s keep this front and center EVERY DAY.

The decision to overfund a military to “defend” a people who are far more likely die of preventable causes because we refuse to ensure that they have healthcare is maddening

If their was no birthright citizenship then the government would be able to choose who is allowed to be an American based on any criteria it chooses that's why we have it

End of the day, it just happens to be Trump. Never forget that every single enabler disregarded their duty and betrayed the American people because it benefited them in one way or another. I say this because it's *not* enough to be mad at Trump. The *entire* party decided they were ok with it.

I'm confused how an American president can reduce sanctions on two countries currently killing American citizens and others and remain in office. Perhaps 'treason' means something different in the US?

Live Nation-Ticketmaster looked like a monopoly. The government should have broken it up. But Donald Trump got a call from his buddy, and Ticketmaster got only a slap on the wrist. Trump wants you to keep paying sky-high ticket prices so his friends can get richer.

Putin told Orban to fake an assassination attempt, to get sympathy votes in the upcoming election. Hmm, that sounds familiar. 🤔

I do think we are staring down the barrel of having to pay a handful of companies until the end of time just to exist in society while they harvest everything about our lives for profit and absolute control... and if we can't stop it now, it'll never be stopped.

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

Americans, why accept a second class government? The richest country, which exists because of your hard work and productivity, hands you shit and you just accept it? When you see the efficient governments of other countries, and the remarkable services provided citizens, don't you want that?

TSA workers are working without pay without option. Homeland Security is rolling in dough and could pay them. They are choosing instead to put more into ICE. And suggesting we give TSA folks gift cards to help them. The Trump Elite are vile.

If in the future there's an Iran-linked terrorist attack against the US, or if Iran get nuclear weapons, it will be Donald Trump's fault. But there will be immense social pressure against saying so, because while factually accurate, it'll be considered partisan, biased, and old news.

The full Epstein files need to be released so Donald Trump can stop working for foreign powers holding it over his head.

Politics of semantics 😏

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

At some point in a better future. We will ask ourselves how was it, for so long, acceptable that a human gets one licence to drive any tin box of any power rating or size forever without re-testing. Even if they abuse that power. 🌍 Cyclists & pedestrians killed by the hour. One day that will change

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

uh holy SHIT?

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.