.@BobReiterJr: This Labor Day, let’s honor the workers who are beyond essential. chicago.suntimes.com/2020/9/6/21421… 👇🏾is heartbreaking. But it make my heart glad to hear the head of the CFL mention systemic racism within & out of movement + centering Black & Brown voices. #1u
Check out this write up of the Catholic Labor Network’s Labor Day Mass by @cwwhite212: ncronline.org/news/justice/c… Really glad to be on their board as they’ve stepped up to keep people connected during the pandemic. Full text of the homily up the 🧵.
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Another 5-3 election case decided. This one features Kavanaugh vs. Kagan, in which he agues ballots postmarked by E-Day risk flipping the results, as opposed to, you know, just being a part of the count. electionlawblog.org/?p=117435 These folks...
Not only was Kavanaugh’s decision enraging, his work was sloppy. 1. About Vermont:
The alert that broke my phone. America was already going to be fixing this dude’s mess for years. The courts are forever changed by him. But another SCOTUS seat, Lord, have mercy.
Y’all don’t have to guess, Mitch already said if he had the chance he’d fill the vacancy this year. cnn.com/2019/05/28/pol… He cares not about consistency.
I’d avoided news of Daniel Prude’s death because I wasn’t ready. Today I listened to The Daily on it. It’s as rough as anticipated. nytimes.com/2020/09/08/pod… Anyways, I listened to this version of “Strange Fruit” halfway through because my heart was heavy. npr.org/2020/06/12/875…
So we’re clear, no one in the Rochester Police command staff was asked for their resignation. The chief & two others are retiring in protest. Two others are going back to a lower rank. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r… The Mayor has stood by the chief’s actions the entire time.
Missed this yest: Rochester mayor relieves police chief ahead of his retirement, cites city review of Prude case. nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ro… She also suspended the city attorney & her own communications director for 30 days without pay.
I slept when the baby did, so late to the shock. It’s only appropriate I learned from a text from Christian. When they say you never know what people are going through, this man right here. He made the most of his public facing time, & half of it while battling cancer. Just, wow.
I’m praying tonight b/c it feels the only thing I’m capable of. Police shootings are like mass shootings: very American, very upsetting, very unlikely that yet another incident will tip the scales into necessary policy changes. And Jacob Blake’s children witnessed that violence.
‘The rifle was being jerked around in all directions while it was being fired.’ Gunman kills two, wounds another during another night of unrest in Kenosha: chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/…
The appraisal of how little Black life is worth begins at birth, and never ends: miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-co… I hadn’t seen that newborn study, geez. The end gutted me.