My column: All-white Alabama Supreme Court puts personal feelings over law and precedent. al.com/news/2021/09/a…

The 2021 regular session saw limited in-person public access but unprecedented levels of online access. Arise members’ determined advocacy helped fend off attacks on voting rights and made meaningful progress on issues like criminal justice reform and broadband access. #Arise2022

Grateful to be participating in this Annual Meeting for the first time. #Arise2022

Arise’s Carol Gundlach: Alabama avoided a revenue meltdown during the #COVID19 pandemic, but legislators “aren’t talking about what’s *not* in the budget.” Unmet needs include #MedicaidExpansion, #childcare, affordable housing and #publictransit. #Arise2022

Arise’s Carol Gundlach discusses ways to repair Alabama’s broken, upside-down, regressive tax system. Policy solutions include #untaxgroceries, adopt combined reporting on corporate income taxes and end the state income tax deduction for federal income taxes. #Arise2022

We’ve done extensive advocacy to strengthen Medicaid, SNAP, TANF and other safety net programs. Arise’s Celida Soto Garcia explains how expanding community eligibility would put Alabama on an enduring path for food security for all children: alarise.org/blog-posts/com… #Arise2022

Read our full slate of principles and recommendations for ways Alabama can use #AmericanRescuePlan money to drive transformative change in our state: alarise.org/resources/to-s… #Arise2022

Support for #MedicaidExpansion in Alabama is strong, broad-ranging and growing by the day. Visit coveralabama.org today to join our Cover Alabama coalition and urge our state to ensure all Alabamians can get the health care they need when they need it. #Arise2022

The first issue proposal — from Church Women United, Montgomery — is to amend the Alabama Literacy Act and increase funding to help ensure children in areas with high poverty have the resources they need to thrive. #Arise2022

Next up: Dillon Nettles of ACLU of Alabama urges support for criminal justice reform, particularly repeal of the state’s outdated, broken Habitual Felony Offender Act, which has contributed to the severe overcrowding in Alabama prisons. #Arise2022

Spencer Hahn of PHADP makes the case for continuing Arise’s work on death penalty reform as an issue of both economic and racial justice: “Killing people is undignified. It’s the most undignified thing you can do.” #Arise2022

Our next issue proposal is #publictransit. “Mass transit means access. Most importantly, it means access to jobs,” said Marva Douglas of the Transit Citizens Advisory Board of the Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church. #Arise2022

Robert Kagan has done us all a favor. We are collectively sleepwalking as the greatest threat to American democracy and to the republic itself since the civil war gathers momentum. wapo.st/3u8FAbS

BREAKING: The jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial finds him NOT GUILTY on all counts after he killed two men and injured a third with an AR-15 — meaning he will walk free as if nothing ever happened. RT IF YOU THINK THIS IS NOT JUSTICE!

The verdict in the #KyleRittenhouseTrial is a reminder of the treacherous role that white supremacy and privilege play within our justice system.

I wrote about being ignored by Alabama Department of Corrections public affairs office & being dropped from the press distribution list for Governor Kay Ivey. The first Amendment isn't limited to journalists who only provide favorable coverage to government agencies. bit.ly/3IYXx2X

Statement from Alabama Democrats Chair Chris England:

A functional society does not have a shortage of teachers and nurses and an overabundance of police.

My name is Mandela Barnes. I am Wisconsin’s Democratic Nominee for Senate. And in 90 days, I am going to beat Ron Johnson and bring our fight for working people to DC.