I’m livid about the mass arrests of children skateboarding in San Francisco last night in San Francisco: https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/breaking-sfpd-shuts-down-dolores-park-hill-bomb-arrests-teenagers/

Swinging batons and leaving young people in cold weather for hours without bathroom breaks forcing some urinate on themselves because they gathered together to skateboard down a street is absolutely unjustified. Pulling out those over 18 and sending them to 850 Bryant was also entirely uncalled for, especially given the conditions at the jail.

“When one asks for the minimum protections, even the most sensible individuals shrug and say, “but for how long?” Those who ask, those who mask, are made to feel that we are demanding impossible things.

#COVID has yielded the most stunningly pervasive gaslighting phenomenon in recent history.”

https://truthout.org/articles/covid-hasnt-disappeared-but-empathy-care-and-solidarity-have/

Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion

Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Dear journalists who keep writing that Americans don't support affirmative action but do think colleges should do something to have more POC students:

Your job is to explain what affirmative action actually is, and that the people who know what it actually is and oppose it are racists.

Do this in the headline and first sentence of the first paragraph, not the tenth paragraph.

Stop licking boots for ten seconds and do your fucking job.