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13 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#LisaMontgomery is the first woman to be executed by the federal government since Ethel Rosenberg in 1953 and the 11th prisoner to be executed by the Trump DOJ since Trump resumed the federal #deathpenalty in July.
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nytimes.com/2021/01/13/us/…
Although Lisa Montgomery had a long history of mental illness and severe sexual trauma, the court found that data should have been presented sooner. Montgomery's attorney had pleaded for commutation of her sentence to life in prison.
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Few global democracies still utilize the death penalty. And while the DP remains on the books in some, actual executions are mostly carried out in nations we consider rogue states or authoritarian. The #deathpenalty is state-sanctioned murder applied with no consistency.
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Trump has other executions scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Trying to get as much killing in as possible before he leaves office.
No one is disputing that most DP crimes are heinous. But life in prison without parole is a real punishment. We must end the #deathpenalty.
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9 Jan
THREAD 📌Those of us whose lives have been made a living hell by Trump's presidency have a right to ask those of you who voted Trump/Trump proxy (yes, your Stein votes threw the election to Trump in PA, WI & MI), to have the decency to just STFU. Not everything is about you.
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And FGS everyone stop applauding GOP who put us here for their belated mea culpas or one tweet you agree with. If you want to applaud, applaud folks who were doing the work of the past 4yrs, not coming in at the end to say they wouldn't make the same awful mistake again.
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And if you want "healing," don't demand it of people who have been hurt. Let the folks who skimmed through the past 4yrs painlessly do that work. Some of you don't even know that Betsy DeVos was one of the most effective Cabinet members--destroying thousands of young lives.
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7 Jan
If @LindseyGrahamSC had made these statements in November, none of the disgraceful actions of yesterday would have occured.
"When asked to violate the Constitution, Mike Pence said no." --@LindseyGrahamSC
Graham says that the events of yesterday were heartbreaking as was Trump's support of those actions.
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3 Jan
THREAD📌 I'd really hoped that the #pandemic would make folks more conscious of #disability & recognize how suffocating it is to be isolated from society by illness, but instead non-disabled people just wrote about how hard it was for them to not go where they wanted whenever.
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Today is Day 1,611 since the hospital sent me home after I was paralyzed. I can count the times I have been out of the house since, and every single time was to the hospital. For 4yrs I've been trying to get a wheelchair lift and an motorized chair so I can escape this prison.
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The US does less than nothing for #disabled people. Being disabled is a daily fight for survival and the most basic care. If I didn't have a loving, committed and non-disabled spouse, I would likely not have survived that first year. Most disabled people are not so fortunate.
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THREAD 📌
There is some irony here in the Socialist who just wrote about being grateful for getting her food stamps back because she is so poor standing up for Yellen, but the policing of women's work is a full time job for some and it never seems to extend to their poverty.
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Last year we heard this story about Shonda Rhimes, who brought ABC prime time back from the dead and added much needed color and also has the longest running show on ABC still in Grey's Anatomy. How dare she ask for money equal to her accomplishments, we heard.
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Now it's Yellen. One of the top economists in the world and the only woman to ever head the fed. Claiming she's beholden to Wall Street because she was paid for speeches is a sexist canard. This is her work--she had no idea Biden would even run, let alone win and choose her.
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2 Jan
#UPDATE
So I fought to get my #SNAP benefit reinstated after DeJoy was responsible for hundreds of Philadelphians losing their food stamps because the mail is utterly f*d here. I wrote this ↘️ thread📌about it.
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I had to go to all my editors and request that they write a letter saying how much I make a month. Because getting poor people to grovel is part of the process. So the great news is on New Year's Eve day I finally spoke to someone who just let me foward the letters via email.
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As of today, my food stamps have been reinstated for January. I lost November and December benefits, but this is good news and I wanted to share it. We aren't supposed to talk about #poverty--my mother taught me to hide it. But 1 in 3 Philadelphians is poor. I am one of them.
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29 Dec 20
I want to see USPS's DeJoy brought before a House committee and jointly reamed by Katie Porter, AOC and Ayanna Pressley. I am one of hundreds of Philadelphians whose #SNAP renewals didn't get through the Philly mail system on time and got kicked off.
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This is food, folks. We all have to re-do our applications (which was hard enough the 1st time because the govt doesn't want poor people to access help). I have already lost Nov and Dec benefits. 28% of Philadelphians live below the poverty level--we are the poorest big city.
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I mailed my renewal in mid-October. It arrived last week. The post office is literally a mile from the county assistance office. And all the offices have been closed since the pandemic, so it's not like you can drop stuff off at the office.
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