UFW remembers Kris Kristofferson: “Cesar Chavez went backstage in the 1970s to thank Kris when he headlined fundraising concerts for the United Farm Workers. They maintained a lifelong friendship. For the rest of his life, Kris wore around his neck a pendant w/the UFW black eagle symbol.”
Many of us have spent the past few decades warning about US policing crowding out all other social services. And all that's happened in that time is a tripling down on policing.
People don't realize how hard it is as a high-risk person to be stuck at home basically non-stop for years, have to beg folks to mask up so they don't harm us & see that that still isn't enough to protect us all. It's been nearly 5 years of this. Masks should be mandatory in healthcare facilities.
Trump’s suggestion of extrajudicial violence is a reminder that he doesn’t care about constraints on power, just deploying it against those he doesn’t like. It’s also reminds us that he’s popular with cops. Gift link: wapo.st/3N8hubw
The former president presents criminal justice as being too soft against his enemies — and too mean to him.
Anyone with pattern recognition and a strong sense of justice has basically been cycling in and out of burnout non-stop since February 2020.
Raytheon's parent corporation RTX Technologies began supplying missile components to the Israeli military in 2014 & continues to do so amidst ongoing genocide. RTX is the 2nd largest weapons manufacturer in the US with yearly revenue over $67 billion. unicornriot.ninja/2023/die-in-...
Over 100 protesters blocked the entrance to U.S. Air Force Plant 44, operated by Raytheon in Tucson, Arizona standing in solidarity with Palestinians.
No, but i do think Night Fruit is a solid band name.
On a Sunday mornin' sidewalk I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned 'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday That makes a body feel alone And there's nothin' short a' dyin' That's half as lonesome as the sound Of the sleepin' city sidewalk And Sunday mornin' comin' down.
Apropos *gestures at the world* I am constantly reminded that the burning question on billionaires’ brains is “after the world is reduced to a smoking husk by our own actions, how do we keep our security team loyal to us once money no longer has meaning?”
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
A wellness check led to a suicidal man being shot to death in Texas — not by himself, but by the cops sent to check on him. A Fifth Circuit decision on Friday all but says that this will continue happening. www.lawdork.com/i/149571566/...
