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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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7 Jan
A few years ago @CapitolPolice arrested more than 150 peaceful protesters, many of them sexual assault survivors, using their 1st amendment right to protest the Kavanaugh nomination. I haven't been able to find one report or photo of any marauders or looters arrested today. Image
When disability rights protesters peacefully objected to cuts in Medicaid, more than 180 were arrested. @CapitolPolice took down people with physical disabilities. I have not yet found even one marauder or looter handled like these disabled heroes were. Image
When disabled people peacefully protested the harm legislators wanted to inflict upon them - @CapitolPolice literally flipped people out of their wheelchairs. I've seen no such aggression toward those who looted our Capitol today. Image
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2 Oct 20
I don't wish COVID-19 or any illness on anyone. But like countless others, I'm enraged it took this long for the WH to put on masks. To treat this as the crisis it is. 210k dead. Mourning families. Unpayable medical debts. Lost jobs & businesses. This global tragedy is unending.
Seeing discussions of helicopter vs. ground travel from WH to Walter Reed - which is well and interesting - got me thinking of March-May in NYC when ambulances were constant, EMS & ER staff were overwhelmed & hospitals had morgue trailers filling with our neighbors & loved ones.
Wishing New Yorkers had options then - or that other Americans have options now. In early months, folks were told to stay home unless they couldn't breathe. Hospital hall space was taken up with critical patients, many of whom died from lack of staffing & equipment.
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30 Sep 20
That "308,000 deaths in the military" number is very specific, so I did a simple search. Appears that 308,000 is the number of civilian casualties in Iraq. Real numbers, real lives - zero context here in #Debates2020. statista.com/chart/20699/es…
More than 20k people died of COVID-19 in my city. Healthcare workers had no PPE. NYC begged for supplies & equipment as morgue trailers filled. Deceased people were carried away in rental vans. We were failed by our federal govt profoundly. politico.com/news/2020/03/2…
NYC saved lives by limiting social contact and mandating masks. We do not want to go back to the mass-death we experienced in terrifying early months of this pandemic. This isn't a game, this isn't a political football. Americans are dying. #Debates2020
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24 Sep 20
"We are united & if they try to divide us they will not succeed." NYC has been labeled an "anarchist jurisdiction" but so many diverse Brooklyn neighbors came out tonight in sorrow, pain & anger to say that there was no justice today for #BreonnaTaylor. #BlackLivesMatter
A massive crowd in front of Barclays laid down flat, observing the full 8 minutes 46 seconds #GeorgeFloyd choked under a policeman's knee. We heard so many voices of pain tonight. #BreonnaTaylor #BlackLivesMatter Image
It's jarring yet fitting to have words of #RBG, daughter of Brooklyn, as backdrop tonight. Some of the young people leading tonight have been out here every day since May. They are exhausted yet relentlessly calling for justice for #BreonnaTaylor. #BlackLivesMatter Image
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6 Sep 20
A perfect weekend to read USMC vet @DoctorFaz's new memoir. 19 yrs on, are those who served post-9/11 "suckers" or "losers"? There's much to take heart in Teresa's story that shows such dignity & honesty in sharing the deeply moral convictions of her service in "Fidelis." 1/6 Image
Many who served in Iraq & Afghanistan never left their bases, but war nevertheless found them inside base walls. Teresa paints beautiful & frighteningly vivid scenes of daily life in Iraq where she did maybe one of the most critical jobs of our digitally-connected wars. 2/6
All while navigating her identity as a young woman striving to give her best as a warrior & leader of mostly male troops in tight quarters amid raging battles. Teaching Marines to wrestle by night & do their best by day—as she wrestles with her worthiness to feel loved. 3/6
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28 Aug 20
I watched the DNC & RNC in full... now ready to tune in to #BNC2020. Looking forward to hearing from @BlackVetProject @crtv_drctr!
.@angelicaross! #BNC2020 Image
#BNC2020 is really powerful. Great talks & videos - plus a devastating segment on Lakota protesters shutting down Mt Rushmore to reclaim ancestral land--if only for a few hours. Climate justice talk now on anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina. Tune in here:
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