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elisabeth epps
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🐘🗝️🍋abolitionist. former public defender, legislator. forever afol. NC-VA-CO.🇸🇩🇨🇺🇵🇸
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he’s not an exception; to the contrary, he’s a great example of how ineffective cops courts and cages are at keeping us safe.😉

(I’m an abolitionist—not a pacifist…😇)
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can we go even 12 hours without a dem representative wholeheartedly and proudly reminding us they're also a fascist?
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I feel like very few Americans understand how much of our border security is just expensive security theater that does nothing but traumatize desperate people in need.
your bill was atrocious, your policy positions re: immigration are violent and oppressive, and you should be embarrassed to be so very functionally indistinguishable from the GOP.
This "Democrats and Republicans" line is bullshit.

I wrote a bipartisan bill last year that would have stopped all asylum seekers from being released into the country. It gave POTUS emergency power to shut down the border. It put billions into border security.

Trump killed it.
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“Chicago has long been a laboratory for policing. From the repression of labor movements in the early 20th century, to COINTELPRO surveillance, to Jon Burge’s torture regime... the city has been central to testing and refining state violence.”

-Ilā Ravichandran

truthout.org/articles/thi...
This Isn’t the First Time Chicago’s Been Used as a Laboratory for Policing
Ilā Ravichandran says the current anti-immigrant policing in Chicago builds on attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters.
truthout.org
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You can cook food for your neighbors. Set a free pantry box outside of your place. Pool money with your coworkers if someone at work has young kids or an elderly relative that likely has SNAP.

You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.
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Reading the anguished posts of everyone watching this game is hilarious
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So basically…hurricane Melissa is cat 5, the strongest one of this season, the worst one in Jamaica’s history, one of the worst of all time and is getting Katrina comparisons already in terms of potential devastation (tho obvi the two landscapes themselves differ).

I’m so sad.😔
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Look around your neighborhood 🔦
That streetlight? Could have a camera.
That squadcar? Could be hijacking your cell signal.
EFF is working to kick surveillance out of our communities. We just need your help: takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...
why did I just laugh out loud remembering that time you said fifty leven billion dollars wouldn’t even put a dent in your debt and we all gasped

(ok I might have the number wrong but I know you know what I’m talking about)
children be squirming and wriggling trying to leap from their parents’ grasp to get to me, then weirdo parents look at me sideways when I extend my arms to receive the child.🙄

maam your baby was self-propelling thru the air, you should thank me for catching her and not letting her hit the floor!
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watch carefully and you’ll see the Yahtzee tattoo actually makes Platner more palatable to establishment Dems, not less.
how much more evidence do you need that these people are absolutely irredeemable
Chris Murphy on Platner's Totenkopf tattoo: "He sounds like a human being to me. A human being who made mistakes, recognizes them, and is very open about it."
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
Hotchkiss—without a need based scholarship?😂 Lawd I didn’t think it get much more absurd.
is that a…transparent connect 4?
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A very incomplete list of things we wouldn't have done if we waited for the normies to care:

- abolish slavery
- child labor laws
- votes for women
- social security
- fdic
- welfare
- medicare
- medicaid
- desegregation
- women's sports
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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I’m sorry. You can’t call the other party the nazi party while defending your candidate with the nazi tattoo.
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Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.