#ALERT Please RT:
6yr-old is still missing 7hrs later from 5600 Greene St.
My neighborhood is dicey, w/many carjackings lately.
The car her mother left her in is a burgundy Scion TC, license plate # LKV 1067. The child is Black, and wearing a pink puffy jacket and khaki pants.
Mother pulled up in front of the pizza place and left her car running with the child inside as she went in to get the pizza. She came out to find the car--with child--missing and called 911. Helicopters were searching the area for a couple hours. (Praying for her safe return.)
⚠️This is in the North Philly area of Philadelphia, PA.
The helicopters are circling again and have been for about a half hour. No news yet on the missing child.
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This is a lie.
Abortion is actually often medically necessary to save a woman's life at all stages of pregnancy, but most commonly in the 2nd and 3rd trimester, when catastrophic health crises can occur. This is why it is spelled out so clearly in the Roe v. Wade ruling.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Physicians for Reproductive Health released the following joint statement: acog.org/news/news-rele…
“Pregnancy imposes significant physiological changes on a person’s body. These changes can exacerbate underlying or preexisting conditions, like renal or cardiac disease, and can severely compromise health or even cause death." acog.org/news/news-rele…
So many people were shot in Philly over the weekend that #GunViolence was the lead on the early local news. If a 16 year old is shot EIGHT times, that's a targeted hit over drugs or gangs or both. Where is the PPD gang unit? Twice as many teens have been shot in 2021 as in 2020.
Another teen was shot in the face at close range. These are not accidental shootings or kids caught in crossfire (though there have been a few of those this year). These are retaliatory hits. Treat them that way and get the PPD to act like these kids' matter, gangs or not.
Also, WHY DO ALL THESE KIDS HAVE GUNS? A teen shot a Temple student to death on Sunday as he was returning home from the Thanksgiving holiday. It was a robbery gone bad RIGHT ON CAMPUS. 2nd shooting at Temple in a couple weeks. Unnecessary gun-stoked tragedy.
A little🧵about supply chain + USPS + healthcare + poverty: I have been waiting for oxygen tubing for nearly two months. It's likely on a container in some port because it's mostly made in China. My healthcare provider doesn't pay for tubing, even though I'm on oxygen 24/7.
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People on oxygen get tanks for travelling and an oxygen generator for daily use, which is large, loud and you're tethered to it. Insurance will pay part of the rental, but won't pay to buy it. So I've paid thousands of dollars to rent it over the past decade. Madness.
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And they won't pay for tubing which should be changed every month or so but most people only change it once or twice a year because of the extra expense. But the plastic canula on your face gets hard and brittle over time. 3/🧵
#BREAKING
A woman was raped on a SEPTA el train in Philadelphia. The rapist threatened her, tore off her clothes and sexually sexually assaulted her. Instead of intervening, other riders filmed the rape and posted it on social media.
Fishton Ngoy, 35, has been arrested and charged with rape and other offenses in the attack. Police commented that the train was crowded and someone should have intervened to help the victim.
This terrible story reminds me of Kitty Genovese, a young lesbian raped and murdered in NYC decades ago. Her screams went I responded to. I wrote about her for Curve magazine on what would have been her 80th birthday. curvemag.com/blog/blogger/a…
Ignoring decades of scholarship and data on the topic, Netflix claims that perpetuation of stereotypes of marginalized people has no real world impact.
⚡️ “Netflix co-CEO doubles down on defending Chappelle amid mounting controversy over comedy special” twitter.com/i/events/14484…
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos went well beyond the Chappelle special to broaden his wrong messaging out to include excusing violence against women, and it's extraordinary Sarandos never heard of Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will, both of which caused immeasurable violence.
Regardless of what you feel about Chappelle's The Closer, Netflix has gone way beyond staring up for Chappelle to refute the impact of on screen violence on marginalized groups generally. Which is utterly irresponsible and ahistorical.
I am a paraplegic.I've been talking about #CliffordOwensby's story for days.
More than half of all assaults and killings by police are of #disabled people.
Derrick Forward, president of the Dayton ACLU, says they are not calling it racial because the police officer is also Black.
But Derrick Forward says that this was a "pretextual context," for police profiling #CliffirdOwensby alleging that he was involved in drugs. There were no drugs in the car. BUT THERE WAS A CHILD IN THE CAR with Owensby.
#CliffordOwensby says he is still in pain from this horrific assault. Let me say, as a paraplegic, that you are in pain most of the time anyway. Being pulled from a car to the ground and then dragged to a police car is an egregious human rights violation.