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"1 in 4 women in the US will experience severe domestic abuse in their lifetime.

the #1 reason they stay in the relationship: they can't afford to leave.

the impacts of that abuse will cost a female survivor $103k on average." @PassiSonya of @freefromorg
this talk resonated so much. thrilled @freefromorg got a #EqualityCantWait grant to scale their groundbreaking work!

there’s shame/pain in talking about what i went thru, but i'll say one thing with 100% certainty: we need more support for survivors healing from financial abuse.
my story: after years of trying, i finally broke free of a dark situation.

the impetus: out of the blue, a friend who knew wrote me a check for $10k: "treat it as a loan. but don't let $/logistics be the reason you stay.”

i never cashed the check. but i realized he was right.
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#Democrats believe there is nothing to fear from the voices and votes of the American people. We will restore the full power of the Voting Rights Act and stamp out voter suppression in all its forms. 1/18 #DemPartyPlatform #votingrightsact #DemFuture
#Democrats will curb the corrupting influence of money in politics and protect the integrity of our elections from all enemies, foreign and domestic. We will never accept political gridlock as our fate. 2/18 #DemPartyPlatform #MoneyInPolitics #FreeAndFairElections
#Democrats will never tire in our fight to deliver results & create opportunity for all Americans.We will end the war on government that has politicized our institutions,denigrated public service & left the American people on their own instead of working to make them whole. 3/18
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on #WomensEqualityDay, I'd like to remind you all the ways Trump has failed women and made life more dangerous for us and how Biden will be a champion for us.

A THREAD
Trump has tried to rip away health care benefits & protections for millions of women. In
the middle of a pandemic, Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare,
which would allow insurers to deny women coverage because of pregnancy or pre-existing
conditions.
Trump rolled back protections from discrimination/harassment in the workplace. He revoked the Obama-Biden Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order,
which required that federal contractors comply w/ labor, wage an hour, family & medical
leave, safety & health, and civil rights
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It’s that time again! Time to acquaint ourselves with the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. A platform is guiding principles of a party..goals, vision, mission, promise. Only one party has a platform for the next four years..Here is the #DemFuture vision for the next four years..1/12
The last 3.5 years has revealed , at tragic economic and human cost, the emptiness of the Republican Party’s “America First” foreign policy. Under President Trump, America stands alone. 2/12 #DemPartyPlatform
Friends and foes alike neither admire nor fear President Trump’s leadership—they dismiss and ridicule it. The Republican Party under President Trump has made America small—when we are a people called to do the greatest things.3/12 #DemPartyPlatform #DemocraticLeadership
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1/10 Time for some fun facts in this series.
A college kid (hid his twitter id) doing a Ph.D. pinned a tweet that you see below. So he talks about encouraging merit-based immigration and complains that people in the backlogged community are fakers..#YESS386
2/10 ..But even if he had spent a few mins of his trolling time in googling, he would have quickly unpinned his tweet. 😂
I always put forth any of my facts with real data points unlike throwing random racial stones at the affected 😡.
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#EqualityCantWait #YESS386
3/10..
Australia:
In terms of permanent migration of skilled workers, the top source countries were as follows:[33]

General Skilled Migration: (1) India, (2) United Kingdom, (3) China, (4) Sri Lanka, (5) Malaysia.
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#EqualityCantWait #YESS386
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📺NEWS Thread📰
#ncga #ncpol #ERA

NC may just become the 38th state to ratify the #ERA this year!

NC State Senator @EricaforUSSen20 made NC history Thursday filing a discharge petition to free ERA bill S184 from committee to force a floor vote this session! 1/

@ratifyERAorg
@EricaforUSSen20 @ratifyeraOrg @EricaforUSSen20 employed the same Discharge Petition process first used by US Rep. Martha Griffiths in 1970 to force Congress to vote on the #ERA. Introduced in 1923, the #ERA bill was ignored for 47 years! That is 'til Rep. Griffith got fed up! 2/
@EricaforUSSen20 @ratifyeraOrg US Rep. Griffiths initiated a Discharge Petition, a method lawmakers use to free a bill intentionally buried in committee. By gathering enough petition signatures, Griffiths' #ERA DP forced a floor vote and accountability on her colleagues. in 1972, Congress passed #ERA and..3/
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So, wonder what it's all about at the Supreme Court and #GayRights today?
Here's a primer & photos (pulled off interweb w/ credit) of some of the thousands of activists who turned up in front of #SCOTUS to fight for #EqualityForAll
#RiseUpOct8 #RiseUpOctober8 #RiseUpOctober8th
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#EqualityCantWait: 99 years after American women won the right to vote, the average full-time working woman still spends over 21 hours a week on housework bloom.bg/2zp2GPW
In 2019 we have:

✅Magical dishwashers
✅High-efficiency washing machines
✅Refrigerators that tell you when you’re running out of almond milk

How is it possible that women are spending the same amount of time on housework as they did in the 1900s? bloom.bg/2zp2GPW
Using data drawn from thousands of time diaries, one economist calculated how much time women spent on cooking, cleaning and childcare.

⌛️ In 1900, a married employed woman put in about 27 hours a week, and in 2005 she did … about 27 hours bloom.bg/2zp2GPW
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