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Tortuga

@amlover218

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calendar_today09-06-2022 14:45:20

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer (@brcremer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about cruel people having unprecedented wealth and power over all of us.

Pound4Pound (@pound4our4pound) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Terence Crawford says he doesn’t think any other regular boxer could have done what he did to Errol Spence‼️ He kept getting up he was in the best shape of his life he didn’t fight no different you couldn’t see a change in his style My style just matched up with him- #Boxing

Jordan Weissmann (@jhweissmann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A must-read article about the insane per-unit cost of building affordable housing in DC. These projects cost $1.3 million per unit to build, roughly 4x what some similarly nice market rate projects cost in the city.

A must-read article about the insane per-unit cost of building affordable housing in DC. 

These projects cost $1.3 million per unit to build, roughly 4x what some similarly nice market rate projects cost in the city.
Jordan Weissmann (@jhweissmann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Relatedly: Part of the reason I think Abundance folks should take social housing proposals seriously is that it simply might be cheaper and more efficient than this insane system a lot of cities have created...

Jordan Weissmann (@jhweissmann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

(Allowing more market rate housing to be built should be step one of the answer. But you need a financing system that creates deeply affordable units too, and social housing authorities in theory can be a backup in the market when private money is tight)

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@repjimmygomez) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These are very disturbing reports from LA's Roybal Federal Building. Law-abiding asylum seekers — many with kids — are being detained after showing up for routine ICE check-ins. No food. No water. Locked in holding rooms for over 12 to 24 hours. 🧵1/8

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@repjimmygomez) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Overcrowding is so bad that women and children are being forced to sleep outside in tents. Meanwhile, the lights in the building shut off at 5pm. Families are sitting in pitch black. 4/8

Jordan Weissmann (@jhweissmann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What's especially insane about the aquaponics farm — and the article gestures a little at — is that the developments are in a rich neighborhood with multiple good grocery stores. You have to have completely lost the plot to OK that. x.com/bigseb31213/st…

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨This is one of the most appalling reports of terrible conditions I've ever heard about in ICE detention. Families who had been complying with the law are being locked in a basement in a federal building, held in pitch black and with NO FOOD OR WATER for 12+ hours at a time.

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A great visual showing how US tariffs on aluminum put US aluminum-consuming manufacturers (eg Boeing) at a big cost disadvantage vs their competitors abroad (eg Airbus)

A great visual showing how US tariffs on aluminum put US aluminum-consuming manufacturers (eg Boeing) at a big cost disadvantage vs their competitors abroad (eg Airbus)
People's City Council - Los Angeles (@pplscitycouncil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FBI RIOT TEAM OUT IN STREETS OF LOS ANGELES (& GETTING PUSHED OUT BY COMMUNITY ON THE GROUND) Dozens of FBI, ATF, & DHS agents in camo fatigues with guns out. FUCK THESE GESTAPO PIGS! Angelenos are pushing the feds out!

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If a Muslim in the US publicly called for a missile strike on a famous celebrity activist onboard a civilian ship or plane, the FBI would be investigating them for terrorism. But a rich white guy gets to incite violence without any consequences 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽