#Prisons

Jake Snow

snowjake

For MONTHS, Californians in prisons, jails, immigrant detention centers, and shelters were prioritized for vaccines.Then the state reversed course, appearing to leave those people behind.TODAY: over 30 groups are asking

Beth Shelburne

bshelburne

THREAD: Today I talked to Willie Simmons, who has spent the last 38 years in prison for stealing $9. He was convicted of 1st degree robbery & sentenced to life

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

And when young people die? They are often again from African-American, Latino communities. This is what the data shows. So discussing racial equity in health isn't a conversation about affirmative

N th n - #FreeThemAll

n_th_n_

People's brains shut off when it comes to prisons/jails. As the pandemic spirals, folks call for BS like *testing COs* as if that will make cages—which are death-making in the

Hashtag Activism Elects Republicans #Biden2020

chrisdameanor19

Something Dems (and all Americans) need to reckon with: As deeply imbedded as racial violence is in our policing system, so too is Americans’ base instinct to punish as harshly

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Enough with the beach-scolding! It's not scientifically-sound and it's counterproductive. It's a virus—not a moral agent geared to smite people who dare enjoy themselves. Six months in, we *know* most

UnKoch My Campus

UnKochCampus

The Koch network has been funding white supremacy for years. The GOP insurrection is further evidence. We've called it out and so have many others. Disrupting the Koch network is

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

I remain annoyed that, largely, the US is not going to ppl with vaccines, but leaving it up to 330,000,000 ppl to fight it out among each other to find

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)Iranians are campaigning to #StopExecutionsInIranAn ethnic Baluch political prisoner in southeast #Iran was executed Saturday at dawn local time despite his lawyer in the process of an appeal request.#اعدام_نکنید https://i

Dr. Jessica Taylor

DrJessTaylor

Single sex spaces are essential to trauma informed approaches and services - this isn’t through hatred, bigotry or exclusion. We have to retain the right to support safe spaces when

Daniel Brown

DanielBrownLaw

Earlier this week, @StatCan_eng released their report on adult and youth correctional services in Canada in 2018/2019. Shockingly, Ontario leads all of Canada in the incarceration of presumed innocent people

SamVimes

SamuelVimes10

I've noticed a pattern in which whenever I engage with anything on here to do with Trans issues I lose 2/3 followers, and that's fine, but to be honest I'd

David Dayen

ddayen

The "it's just an index fund" people obscure BlackRock's habit of placing officials in top government positions around the world, to conjure up business for the company from scratchBut Matt

Open Society Health

OSFHealth

Director of @OpenSociety's Public Health Program @JonCohenNYC, lays out the top 10 things the new Biden COVID Task Force can place at the center of its work to ensure a

Andreea Lachsz

Lux_AI

Latest Cth Govt responses to @lidia__thorpe’s questions on #OPCAT.1/ Cth Govt states it’s not necessary to incorporate provisions of OPCAT into federal legislation & it’s a matter for States/Territories whether

Maya Forstater

MForstater

This is an absolute failure of the equality industry... Does section 7 of the Equality Act 2010 give some males the right to access spaces where women and girls expect

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