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Cori Bush Profile picture
@CoriBush
Jul 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
STL is reaching peak summer temperatures. We are in a global pandemic. Over 40 million people are unemployed. 5 million have lost healthcare.

And thousands of people in my district are about to lose access to lifesaving utilities. This is not ok. stltoday.com/news/local/met…
For Black folks in #MO01, the closest “grocery store” may be miles away.

If you rely on public transit, it could take hours round trip to buy food.

If you are working poor like I’ve been, you can’t afford to lose the food in your fridge because your electricity is shut off.
As a working class nurse, I’ve experienced shutoffs myself and I know the risks. High temperatures & humidity can increase:

➡️ Dehydration
➡️ Heat exhaustion
➡️ Asthma
➡️ Domestic violence rates
➡️ Violent crime rates

People NEED access to cool air and running water.
Evictions have begun. Rent is due next week. Those who can’t afford utility shutoffs likely can’t afford rent or healthcare. The CARES Act expires in 5 days, with no relief in sight for millions of working people.

We are fighting for our right to live.

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Apr 28
As the U.S. government sends $14 BILLION more to fund Netanyahu’s war crimes, young folks on college campuses across our country are standing up & speaking out for what‘s right: ending the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians.

Listen to them.
But instead of listening to what our young people are demanding, those in power have beaten, brutalized, arrested, charged, suspended, & evicted them.
Instead of condemning the Israeli government for mass killings, many public officials have chosen to condemn, ridicule & belittle student activists for being outraged that their tax & tuition dollars are used to fund these atrocities.

It’s unconscionable.
Read 8 tweets
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Nov 11, 2023
My soul aches.

We can’t hear the screaming of the injured or the young crying out for their mothers.

We can’t hear the breaking of bones or crushing of skulls when the buildings collapse.

1/4
We can’t hear the sound as US-made bombs move through the air toward their targets in Gaza or as they make deadly contact.
But what we can hear is the silence of our friends, the complicity of our government & media, the gaslighting from those who are quick to label us “terrorist sympathizers” for being outraged at the killing of thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women, and children.
Read 4 tweets
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Oct 1, 2023
.@BarbaraLeeForCA is exceptionally qualified & prepared to be the next Senator from the state of California.

@GavinNewsom should appoint her, without conditions, to fill the newly vacant seat.

1/4
Governor Gavin Newsom did the right thing when he promised to appoint a Black woman to the U.S. Senate.

If he intends to keep his promise and appoint a Black woman to the Senate, there shouldn’t be any strings attached.
In 2021 when @GavinNewsom appointed Sen. Padilla, he didn’t appoint a “caretaker.”

Black women are more than caretakers and it’s offensive that a Black woman would have to be subject to such constraints.
Read 4 tweets
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May 19, 2023
🧵Marjorie Taylor Greene’s words about Rep Bowman are a result of the exclusion of Black History being taught in schools

Stating she doesn’t feel safe around a Black man is what a racist would say — it’s a line that has been used to justify the killing of Black men for centuries
Not only is MTG a white supremacist, her playbook isn’t even original and the response is all too predictable.

By drawing a false equivalency between being called a white supremacist vs. the n-word, and claiming she feared Rep. Bowman, she’s making herself out to be a victim.
She’s not a victim. Full stop.

This is the same playbook that perpetrators of police brutality and gun violence use to justify killing Black people.

“I was afraid.”

After they killed Michael Brown.
After they killed Tamir Rice.
After they killed Philando Castile.
Read 4 tweets
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Feb 26, 2023
It’s disgusting that the Missouri AG and other Jefferson City lawmakers are using this tragedy as an opportunity to attack Black leaders in St. Louis to garner attention for their future political campaigns — all while ignoring issues in other parts of the state. Screenshot of Attorney General Andrew Bailey Tweet reading:
AG Bailey is targeting @stlcao, but not the Cedar County prosecutor who refused to pursue real accountability for the years-long abuse of young boys at the Agape Boarding School.

Where is his concern for the reprehensible abuse of prosecutorial power in this case?
Jefferson City politicians who are pushing HB 301 and SB 78 want to control St. Louis so badly, yet they have issues in their own districts they should be tackling.

Rural hospitals are closing, forcing their constituents to travel hundreds of miles to seek healthcare.
Read 6 tweets
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Jan 17, 2022
I'm going to share an excerpt from Dr. King's "Give Us the Ballot" speech in 1957.

I want you to read it. And truly let it sink in.

Then remember it next time someone says that our movement for justice needs to slow down, or be quiet, or wait our turn.
"There is a dire need today for a liberalism which is truly liberal.

What we are witnessing today [...] is a sort of quasi-liberalism which is based on the principle of looking sympathetically at all sides...
"It is a liberalism so bent on seeing all sides, that it fails to become committed to either side.

It is a liberalism that is so objectively analytical that it is not subjectively committed.

It is a liberalism which is neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm...
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