Changing the status quo in safety net benefits delivery @CodeforAmerica // Here for the soccer commentary
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How are House Republicans meeting the austere spending caps in their #DebtCeiling-and-cuts bill? Slashing the amount of fruit & vegetables #WIC participants receive:
cbpp.org/research/food-assis…
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“This is not ‘just business.’
This is about my rights as a worker, as a woman and as a human being.”
Finally telling my story after I got pregnant in Lyon and the treatment I got while I was pregnant and returning to the pitch!
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Whenever I hear "we must understand the problem before building anything" I immediately fear what will be built after the illusion of understanding has been gotten after [study, discovery, etc.] There's a big difference to building with low knowledge as a given/learning as goal.
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USWNT and Thorns defender Becky Sauerbrunn's opening statement on the Yates investigation findings during Tuesday's media call.
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As we await the E60 special tonight & after reading the Yates report, we want to extend our upmost support & deepest gratitude to Kaiya McCullough, Christen Press, Mana Shim, Sinead Farrelly, Erin Simon, and every other player impacted by the blatant abuse & neglect described.
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The Duke/BYU racial incident is a PERFECT example of how we dismiss institutional racism by casting it as a random act of racism and not what it really is.
A long-standing systemic problem at a racist institution
A thread:
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No vaccines. No baby formula. No healthcare. No affordable housing. No basic income. No infrastructure. No student loan forgiveness. No tax credits.
Just more cops. – at New Orleans, LA
NEW: @POTUS announced the Safer America Plan to increase police funding, combat drug trafficking, prevent ‘smash and grabs,’ and make sure Americans feel safe.
I’m also glad to see the White House commit to getting 100,000 additional police officers on the nation's streets.
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Protesters show up outside SCOTUS homes & suddenly Congress gives them high priced security. A 70 year old black poll worker in Georgia gets death threats from MAGA Trumpers and she's on the run for 2 months and the FBI basically says figure it out. This is why people are angry