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@showandtal

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that girl over there? the one you called performative? her speech functions as action and constitutes social change

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People love to say “we failed” at Covid response, but the ruling class was quite successful in preserving and increasing their wealth at the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives, and also convincing the public that its our fault

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

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We are a bunch of idiots.

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+500 people fill MoMA’s atrium chanting Palestine will be free, protesting the museum’s donors’ ties to Israel

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Meanwhile, downstairs:

Late Night with Seth Meyers

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It’s a 10 year reunion between @SethMeyers , Amy Poehler and @POTUS @JoeBiden ! Tune in tonight.

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It’s worth noting that in 2019, 70% of Brown’s student body voted to divest from Israeli apartheid. The uni pres said that only the committee on ethical investing could make that decision—so the committee passed a resolution. Then the pres dissolved the committee.

Daniel Denvir

@DanielDenvir

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Police are currently arresting around 20 Jewish Brown University students non-violently demonstrating for a ceasefire now!

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It’s much easier to blame Orthodox Jews for a contagious disease outbreak than it is to translate public health materials into Yiddish, recruit community leaders, and do community education on the disease

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The climate crisis is not just hypothetical future scenarios of winters with no snow. It's working class people losing their homes, their livelihoods, and sometimes their lives so that huge corporations can make more profits.

Steph Machado

@StephMachado

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Awilda Acevedo shows us the flooding in the lower level of her Johnston, RI apartment where she says the water got up to a foot and a half this morning. Her granddaughter’s beds are soaked and belongings were destroyed

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i believe that everything happens for a reason. and the reason is class war

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Israeli separation wall falls due to heavy rain (2019) and Trump’s border wall falls due to wind (2020) mother nature really said no walls on stolen land

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today, students disrupted @amazon recruiting at the career fair. @BrownUniversity called the police. Brown Immigrant Rights Coalition will continue to fight ICE collaborators on campus. #NoTechForICE @ConMijente @NeverAgainActn

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Mariame Kaba reminds us that in the 50 year history of civilian oversight boards, there has never been a board that could actually enact meaningful change or prevent police violence before it happened. We don’t need oversight, we need to abolish the police.

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It’s not a metaphor: police will destroy New York, its infrastructure, schools, streets, in order to crack down on dissent to a genocide

Outlive Them NYC

@outlivethemnyc

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Another angle: NYPD drove a Lenco Bearcat w/Mobile Adjustable Ramp System (MARS) into, and totally destroyed, this @MTA bus stop

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Corporations are reaping record profits, and workers are picking up the tab.

More Perfect Union

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Your regular reminder that inflation is being driven by corporations jacking up prices.

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Columbia is the largest landlord in NYC but does not pay taxes. NYC taxpayers who subsidize Columbia’s investments and foot the bill for NYPD repression have just as much a right to protest and occupy Columbia as students

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providence, rhode island: the paris of new england

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ur in her dm’s i’m in the right head space to receive some news that may hurt me we are not the same

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Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

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My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period.

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Providence police car 15 drove into line of protestors in the street

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Woke up this morning thinking about how the Governor, who created a budget with $230 million for prisons and $35 million for new police barracks, said she shouldn’t act on Defund the Police because as a white woman it’s “her job to listen”

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no one with $50,000 in student loans is too rich to deserve relief. if they were, they wouldn't be carrying $50,000 in student loans like....

The Debt Collective 🟥

@StrikeDebt

3 years

Just now: @PressSec explains that Biden would only favor $50,000 in student loan debt cancellation if it were "targeted." If there is a concern that rich people would benefit from debt cancellation, then just tax the rich.

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People in Rhode Island will say “we were here first” but live in places called Narragansett, Canonicus, Pascoag, Pawtucket, Scituate, Woonsocket, Conimicut, Chepachet, Aquidneck, Apponaug, Quonochontaug...

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Story time! When I was an undergrad, survivors and SA prevention advocates were invited to meet with Brown Corp members about our restorative justice proposals. It accomplished absolutely nothing 👍

Amy Russo

@amymrusso

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Here's the letter Brown President Christina Paxson sent students at the encampment today. She says if they clear the area, the Brown Corporation will hear their case for divestment, but it will not be taken up for a vote.

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Wow! @BrownUniversity responded to outrage over track and field before: - divesting from the occupation, per ACCRIP recommendation - fully implementing the recommendations of Slavery & Justice report - fulfilling the demands of the 1968 Black student walkout.

Brown University

@BrownUniversity

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President Christina H. Paxson notified the campus community today that Brown will reinstate the varsity status of its men’s track, field and cross country teams.

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each quarantine day can only contain two of these: - exercise - 8 hrs of screen time - suffering

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3 years

what is Biden's plan to address the NYT Cooking paywall.

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Honestly at this point I don’t even crave “good” social gatherings. If I was dragged to a family friend’s kid’s bar mitzvah lunch I would be so thrilled......... walking up to get a bagel and having to shmooze with someone I went to shul with... titillating

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Is providence the brooklyn of boston? Discuss.

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The state of Rhode Island has about as many daily covid cases as NYC, and yet gyms, indoor dining, bars, etc. are all still open.

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Christina Paxson can’t wait to send out an email on October 13th saying that due to the number of dorm parties, Brown will be sending all students home, no refunds

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So proud to be part of @NeverAgainRI @NeverAgainActn with @amornetwork . We will keep going back, even after they rammed a truck into us. We will build a better world. We will #ShutDownWyatt

✡️ Never Again Action ✡️

@NeverAgainActn

5 years

By shutting down the Wyatt, we will signal to the rest of the US that the era of making money through prisons is over. -Kinverly Dicupe #NeverAgainIsNow

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We need to stop talking about disciplining individual officers and start talking about drastically reducing the size of the police force. Providence has 50% more officers than the average city our size, and the City Council is about to approve a budget hiring 50 more officers.

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Which is the hardest for you to say: 1. I love you 2. I was wrong, I’m sorry 3. Worcestershire Sauce 4. Free Palestine

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maybe instead of Brown creating their own program for Providence public schools, they could pay into a general pool of money that is used to fund public schools? we could collect the money from them every year and distribute it democratically? idk just a thought

Ted Nesi

@TedNesi

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Some big announcements on financial aid from @BrownUniversity today after the blockbuster endowment results for 2020-21, including creation of a new program "that prepares talented students from public schools in Providence for college"

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today I voted in the NY primary, and I chose to #leaveitblank to protest Biden's support for the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and I hope you join me <3

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NYPD violently arresting peaceful protesters in grand central #FTP #J31 #WeKeepUsSafe

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Police reform = more money for a system built to brutalize. The only answer is abolition

Kaepernick Publishing

@KaepernickPub

4 years

NEW from Dr. Naomi Murakawa “The more police brutalize and kill, the greater their budgets for training, hiring, and hardware.” Read #AbolitionForThePeople "Police Reform Works — For the Police" now on @levelmag .

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it's always 'jimmy dore' this and 'aoc' that, never 'i think you're so gorgeous and love you so much'

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This is maybe a good time to remind people that the owner of Blueno committed insider trading & was banned from stock trading, and yet still sits on boards at Brown. His company also recruits brown students :)

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Opening a combination gyno-bagel store & calling it Pap Shmear

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Why isn’t the @projo reporting on perhaps the longest @pvdcitycouncil budget hearing in history, with 9 hours of unanimous testimony to defund the police? Wrong answers only

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spent a night in an a*rbnb with friends, just vibing. they even left out cozy patag*nia fleeces for us to wear. next day went for a walk, as we got back police pull into the driveway... “what are you doing here?” turns out our airbnb was next door, we slept in the wrong house.

Aidan Moher

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Tell me a story about yourself the sounds like a lie but is absolutely true.

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It takes two weeks to get test results back, schools are reopening, and indoor dining is happening, but Gina wants you to call the cops on your neighbor 👌🏻

Gina Raimondo

@GovRaimondo

4 years

We are also setting up a new Crush COVID unit in the @RIStatePolice to crack down on social gatherings. If you see a large social gathering, we’ve set up a hotline specifically for this unit: 764-5554. The State Police will be working with local law enforcement.

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No one facilitates a meeting like a child of divorce 😎😎😎

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Brown robs Providence of $47 million per year, money that could be used to address homelessness, education, health inequity, and so much more.

Alexa Gagosz

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3 years

Also: Many in Rhode Island will point out the fact that Brown doesn’t pay property taxes in Providence. If it did have to pay taxes on the properties they own, Brown would owe the city ~ $48 million annually, based on 2018 assessed values. But they pay $1.7 million.

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phew, those RED states. glad my family lives in a BLUE state, where our governor lied to the public about the number of people who died in nursing homes

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If your college reopening plan relies on a bunch of 19 year olds following a strict set of rules about underage drinking, it’s probably a bad plan

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If you hate israeli annexation in 2020, wait till you hear what happened in 1948

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This is assault with a deadly weapon, but the police will never face charges for this. This is why we need to fully abolish the Providence police.

Madeleine Valera

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Protesters are now facing down a police cruiser. More officers are arriving on scene

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The Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Reps is talking about creating the first-ever statewide public developer that would invest millions of dollars to build social housing (!!!!!!)

Reclaim RI

@reclaimri

1 year

So excited to work w/ Speaker @JoeShekarchi to pass Create Homes Act and make Rhode Island the first state in the country w/ a public developer of housing. The public sector can and must play a lead role in solving the housing crisis and the Ocean State is poised to lead the way!

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This is beyond reform, an investigation, or one “bad apple” cop getting fired. Defund and abolish the Providence police department.

Uprise RI

@UpriseRI

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Jhamal Gonsalves is in a coma after Providence Police officers hit his motor scooter. Here's video, with context via @willconns . @UpriseRI

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#new #profile #pic

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Together, @ripolcoop @ProvDSA @sunrise_PVD @ri_wfp and @reclaimri showed that Rhode Island is ready for new, progressive, leadership. Old conservative “Democrats” beware. When we fight, we win.

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The fact that @pvdcitycouncil invited community members to speak for 6 minutes each and then spent the last 2.5 hours asking the police if they need more funding is how the cops get their way. The people will be heard, loud and clear: Defund, Disband, and abolish the police.

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the Rhode Island State Senate ran a winter coat donation drive but has yet to vote on a bill that would ban evictions

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In 2019 students presented divestment to Brown’s Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investing Practices recommended the University. In 2020 the committee voted to recommend divest. Then @BrownUniversity disbanded the committee and ignored the recommendation.

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Rhode Island just elected a slate of real progressives with a platform of Medicare for All, statewide rent control, Green New Deal, and tax reform. Either get with it or get out of the way.

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We are at the worst COVID has ever been in RI and @GovRaimondo has yet to meaningfully implement restrictions, relief, or any type of mitigation, so it's only going to get worse. Wearing a mask isn't enough when the government has stopped caring.

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i feel like every three weeks people are like 'is anyone feeling worse than ever before in the pandemic?' and everyone else is like 'yes it's worse than ever before'

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They’re using a tactic that they learned from white supremacists in Charlottesville, that they practiced at the Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island, and that they have learned will have no consequences.

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THREAD: SO glad these folks got out. but their testimony speaks for itself: these are concentration camps. #NeverAgainIsNow #shutdownwyatt #abolishICE

Liberan a 3 inmigrantes de centro de detención Wyatt en R.I.

Inmigrantes cubanos rompen el silencio sobre el maltrato recibido por oficiales.

www.telemundonuevainglaterra.com

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people who advocate for “both sides to reach an agreement” in Israel/Palestine love to leave out the $38 billion in military aid to exactly one side

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what will you do with your one wild and precious month between variants

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Last year a prison guard drove a truck into our protest and it made national news. Last month a Providence cop drove into the crowd and no one was talking about it. There have been ~100 car rammings since March by right wingers and police yet Democratic mayors condemn antifa.

Nat

@Gnatatat

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At the time, the event made national news. Now, as we’ve seen, this car-ramming tactic has become standard for both the cops and the right. It often doesn’t even make news or it’s only on the local level. I know mnay others (incl @showandtal ) have talked about this dynamic too

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It’s not lost on me that @GovRaimondo spent four million dollars to let wealthy business owners in fed hill keep their restaurants outside on the streets, while her and @Jorge_Elorza criminalize bikers for using the same streets.

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Straight men apologizing: thank you for bringing this up to me. In fact, you’re not the first—people have been telling me about this bad trait of mine for years, and I’m telling you this so that you know that I have no intention to change!

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So the projo is publishing red scare copaganda now cool cool

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This cartoon in today’s @projo really gets it wrong.

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We need to stop talking about investigating incidents of police violence, especially those caught on camera. We know what happened. The only way to end police violence is to abolish the police.

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it’s actually really hard to be the youngest, hottest, best dressed person in the office. it takes a toll and we don’t talk about that enough

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Minnesota has free school meals--NY should follow suit with @votejgr bill to ensure no child goes to school hungry.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.

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can’t believe the ny times endorsed christina paxson

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every arrest, detention, prison sentence is family separation

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this is the sexiest thing i have read since march 3rd......

CNBC Politics

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Shutting down businesses and paying people for lost wages for 4-6 weeks could control the pandemic and revive the economy until a vaccine is approved and distributed, said Biden coronavirus advisor Dr. Michael Osterholm.

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Going✈️ highest minimum wage in the country ☺️

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it is remarkable that across these united states, hardworking people like you and me pay good money for absolutely awful wifi

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seen a lot of people posting about this but like... the problem isn't that Israel's definition of which Jews get to be settlers on Palestinian land is too narrow.. it's the fact that a settler state is deciding who has access to Palestine

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today is the anniversary of my grandpa Yehuda's death. this morning my lyft driver was named Yehuda. his daughter's name is Tali. g!d rlly does that sometimes i guess??

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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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Ok I’m a bitter cynic but I guess joy is important also the sunset was pretty today

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a certain education official in RI will say that she admires Angela Davis but then refuse to get cops out of schools and then sell the Providence school district to private charter schools.... make it make sense...

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EXPOSED: the @NFIB claims that raising the minimum wage would kill jobs. Their members already pay far above minimum wage, though, and they know workers need a raise. 🧵

“Everyone Wants A Raise When The Minimum Wage Goes Up”

Lobbyists opposing a minimum wage hike in New York say the quiet part out loud behind closed doors.

www.levernews.com

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Warwick, Rhode Island nationalism

Patrick Anderson

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Airline announcement has turned into a pro-Warwick rally. Mayor Picozzi calling for pilots to stop welcoming people to Providence.

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At a protest against the police who rammed their cars into a young man on a moped, police arrested people from their cars. Tell me why we should be spending tax dollars on their salaries again?

Darren Botelho

@DarrenBotelho

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. @ABC6 crew there as man pulled out of vehicle and arrested several blocks away from PVD police department

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i also love to institute a hiring freeze, pause graduate admissions, refuse to provide ppe, but then spend $125 million on a private healthcare merger

Alexa Gagosz

@AlexaGagosz

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BREAKING: Lifespan and Care New England have signed a definitive agreement to merge and create an integrated health system with @BrownUniversity . Brown is committing a minimum of $125M over five years. This is the two systems' fourth attempt to merge since the 1990s.

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romcom about a professional organizer (political) and a professional organizer (closets) who fall in love organizing each other

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Today I met Kenia and Marta, who clean up after legislators in the Capitol complex. Even after 7 years, Marta only makes $15.88 an hour. We need to #RaiseTheWage to $21.25 for all the workers who keep New York running, especially those who pick up after politicians all day.

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the @projo just published some words I worked on with @darepvd @BlackandPinkPVD on our vision for defunding and abolishing the Providence police -- peep the @CharlotteAbotsi shoutout too!

Our Turn: Kiah Bryant and Madeline Chin: A vision for defunding the police in Providence

Last month, testifying before the Providence City Council, Vatic Kuumba gave an incisive history of U.S. police...

www.providencejournal.com

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lists of jews are bad, @NeverAgainActn @NeverAgainRI are good. honored to be interviewed as part of this movement, s/o to @amornetwork for everything they do, and as always #abolishICE #ShutDownWyatt #NeverAgainIsNow ?

Forward 50 | Tal Frieden: The disobedient one

Starting this summer, Never Again Action’s deeply Jewish protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) swept the country.

forward.com

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brown students are really out here making gentrification algorithms for investors and calling it ethical tech 🥴

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may just be me but i'd much rather have a homes guarantee or free healthcare guarantee than a job guarantee

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If 50% of my followers like this tweet maybe we can make @BrownUniversity pay taxes

Ivy Scott

@itsivyscott

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@BrownUniversity r u ok?? Definitely did not attend this institution for 4 years to leave with the impression that it’s ethically acceptable to withhold money from vulnerable communities so you can... bribe college students to take your survey???

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so glad we have a president who believes science and has qualified appointees who get on tv and tell us that we will not have a federal mask mandate or pay people to stay home. huge win for science.

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out here in iowa knocking doors for #PresidentSanders because #ITrustBernie — the only candidate who will end all medical and student debt, and stop deportations on day 1 (!!!!!!)

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shark coochie night 😋

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my family had the nicest sukkah growing up and I miss it 🥺🥺🥺 there were like +20 years of doodles and poems and notes on it

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Providence police spent over $100k just on overtime at one protest, money that could go to housing, healthcare, education, overdose prevention, and so much more. Defund the police ‼️‼️‼️

Brian Amaral

@bamaral44

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The pandemic and protests against police are driving up OT at the Providence PD this year; they could run over budget by $1 million. Costs can escalate quickly. During the huge June 5 protest, the police spent more than $100,000 in OT.

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The cops are talking their heads off at #PVDCityCouncil about how much their job sucks, how much mental illness plagues their lives, and how hard it is to be cops. If we didn’t have police, y’all would be able to do something else !!!!!

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which is more damaging for students: remote learning during the worst covid wave on record, or the state completely abandoning public health and enforcing mass death 🤔

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@showandtal

4 years

Maybe worth reminding that the Rhodes Scholarship is named after Cecil Rhodes who was a genocidal colonialist who made money off blood diamonds

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