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Against my and hundreds of community members' voiced objections. Today Council passed a loitering ordinance directly aimed at our homeless neighbors.🧵
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Please! If you see this or if you know someone who is headed into #KC on I-35 northbound, call them, the highway is flooded at Pennway St. in the Crossroads! Do NOT drive into flooded roads! #mowx #kswx #kcmo
ALT I-35 northbound lanes with water and cars driving through the water in Kansas City downtown.
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Terrible situation in Kentucky where at least 10 are dead and many still missing after a tornado outbreak last night.
The local National Weather Service office was severely impacted by DOGE cuts, leaving it without an overnight forecaster.
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If jail is the last resort, why are we asking taxpayers to fund it first? Read why I’m voting no on the jail tax in the @kansascitystar here: kansascity.com/opinion/reade…
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🚨 REALITY CHECK: KC Politicians are FEAR-MONGERING to justify a new jail🚨
City politicians are pushing for a new jail, claiming it's for high rates of "assault" cases - but the data tells a different story. Read on for the truth about who's actually behind bars in KC 👇
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The federal regulator is cordially invited to sleepover at Quality Hill Towers or Independence Towers.
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RENT STRIKE DAY 31. This month tenants in Kansas City launched strikes in federally-backed properties, targeting landlords AND federal regulator @FHFA. Rent is due again tomorrow, November 1. Tenants organizing in Michigan, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Montana, Illinois...
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If Trump does come to power, you lil angry libs will do nothing. You won't organize any resistance for abortions, for feeding people, for the homeless, for migrants, for racial justice. I know you won't because you're not rn. But I am, and I will no matter which lil fascist wins
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RENT STRIKE AUTHORIZATION: LAST NIGHT TWO KC-AREA BUILDING UNIONS VOTED TO AUTHORIZE RENT STRIKES TO LAUNCH OCTOBER 1.
Quality Hill Towers and Independence Towers, both majority unions in federally financed properties, demand national rent caps, new ownership, bargained leases.
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We cannot allow ourselves to “all sides” a genocide; we must stand together to speak truth to power. Hate & bigotry breed eternal under the cover of darkness & ignorance- truth is the light & knowledge that shines to disarm those who would otherwise seek to keep our eyes shut./5
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Today Kansas City’s Council aimed to recognize the distinguished service of the Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA) for their tireless efforts to provide medical aid to Palestinians impacted by the ongoing onslaught in Gaza and beyond. 🧵
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DESPERATE TACTICS BY YES CAMPAIGN
In a racist, last-ditch effort to get people to vote “yes” on a $2 billion handout to billionaires, a far-right campaign committee, presumably funded by the yes campaign, sent this mailer to thousands of Jackson County households today.
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VOTE NO ON APRIL 2
Mayor @QuintonLucasKC in 2019: “We need a new downtown baseball stadium like I need a new Maserati."
Source: kansascity.com/news/politics…
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History lesson 🤓 In 2004, voters in said NO to a tax increase and the teams didn't leave. Instead, the teams came back 2 years later with a different proposal.
This time around, John Sherman said himself that they don't plan to leave KC even if the tax fails 👇
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BILLIONAIRE BALLPARK? THAT AIN’T RIGHT.
NOW: KC TENANTS ACTION AT ROYALS OPENING DAY.
VOTE NO ON APRIL 2
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STADIUM FAQ / VOTER GUIDE IS LIVE! Share like your city depends on it (it does). bit.ly/StadiumTaxFAQ
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Still trying to decide how you feel about the stadium tax? Here’s a video to help build your knowledge! youtube.com/watch?v=sC43OfBQ…