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22 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Why was Ma'Khia Bryant in foster care & what was happening to her there that she felt so endangered at only 16 that she called police for help? Why didn't police make ANY attempt to intervene before going directly to deadly force? Why was no attempt made to diffuse the situation?
There are so many questions raised about the too-short life of Ma'khia Bryant and why the State failed her at every level. She needed help and instead of getting it, she was shot to death. How many levels of harm did she endure and why? This needs a full investigation.
When Black bodies are involved, police are far more likely to use deadly force. This is statistical fact. Why did this happen to Ma'Khia Bryant, though? Why didn't police try to ascertain who was the victim? She was protecting herself and was shot to death. Why?
Police arrest armed people every day. People armed with guns. Why wasn't Ma'Khia Bryant deemed worthy of intervention to prevent her death at only 16 at the hands of the very people she called to protect her?

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24 Apr
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In 2018, Christine Hallquist was the 1st out trans woman to run for governor for a major party. Hallquist won the Vermont Democratic race, beating FOUR other candidates. She lost to popular incumbent GOP Gov. Scott 55-40, but Hallquist's was an historic race in the US.
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For a decade, Hallquist had been the CEO of an electric company prior to running for governor, so she had defining executive experience. Also, Vermont is the 2nd least populous state in the US with only 625k people and the whitest. So a small, homogenous demographic.
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California is the most populous and most diverse state: 40M people, only 36% white. Caitlyn Jenner has no executive experience and little actual job experience. She was an Olympian in 1976 and a reality TV star for 15yrs due largely to her wife and stepdaughters' celebrity.
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22 Apr
I won't be writing about this until next week, but having written extensively about this issue, let me say that this is a terrible, terrible ruling.

Supreme Court ruling will make it easier to sentence juveniles to life sentence without parole
cnn.com/2021/04/22/pol…
This dangerous ruling, by Kavanaugh, has such far-reaching impact, it is taking the collective breath away from defense attorneys across America--as well as social workers and teachers. Kids' brains don't fully develop until they are about 22-25. Mitigation for age is essential.
No one is suggesting that some heinous crimes by juveniles--and I have covered a few--should go unpunished. But these kids are often mentally ill and/or have mitigating life experience. Parole must be a possibility. But now it's not. This will trickle down to the states & cities.
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21 Apr
Wow is THIS a lunatic story. Tucker Carlson attacked Washington Post columnist Eric Wempel, whom he called "dusty and middle aged" (Carlson is 51) and said Jeff Bezos ordered Wempel to investgate Carlson, which of course never happened.
thehill.com/homenews/media…
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post company. He has literally nothing to do with the paper. Zero. Not an editor. Also, we columnists are not assigned stories. That is why it's a dream job. So Wempel decided to investigate Tucker Carlson's racist and homophobic roots.
Tucker Carlson thinks teenagers--actual teenagers--are villainous if they are POC. Or left-leaning like the Parkland survivors. But he does not want to be accountable for *his* teen/college years at his elite schools. Huh.
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15 Apr
THREAD:
If #BlackLivesMatter to you, please RT

Black people were 28% of those killed by police in 2020 despite being only 13% of the U.S. population.

Black people are THREE TIMES more likely to be killed by police than white people.
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 mappingpoliceviolence.org
Police killed Black people at higher rates than white people in 47 of the 50 largest US cities.

Chicago had the worst ratio: Black people were killed by police at TWENTY TWO TIMES the rate of white people.

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 mappingpoliceviolence.org
There is no accountability--just as #DaunteWright's mother #KatieWright said in the April 15 press conference.

98.3% of killings by police from 2013-2020 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime.
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13 Apr
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This J&J pause is a disastrous and unnecessary decision by @CDCgov and @US_FDA. There were NO blood clots in any of the thousands of women involved in the clinical trials. That is pretty significant in terms of the possible correlation between this vaccine and clots.
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@CDCgov and @US_FDA should have weighed the deleterious impact of a pause against the miniscule number of clotting incidents which may not even be linked to the vaccine and are fewer than idiopathic clotting incidents in women 18-48 in the random general population.
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The need to vaccinate the US population to reach herd immunity really should be pre-eminent here. Compounded with the vaccine hesitancy exacerbated by the previous administration, this could be a dangerous decision. We already have 45% vaccine refusal in the military and GOP.
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#DuanteWright had a learning disability so severe he dropped out of high school. His dad says he was planning to get his GED.

More than half of people killed by police have some kind of disability. I've reported so many stories about this.
Half of People Killed by Police Have a Disability: Report
namiillinois.org/half-people-ki…
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