Via Will: "When a cargo ship took out a #Baltimore bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our #immigration debate

The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life.

This column meant more to me than anything I've written for a while. Here's an excerpt. Please take a moment to read the whole thing."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse-immigrant-deaths-20240328.html#loaded

🧵 So I try to do semi-regular #STFUfriday posts reminding people to exercise their right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present for custodial questioning.

Every once in a while, I get comments to the effect of, “that doesn’t work for people of color.”

Whether people of color can safely invoke their Miranda rights is a sensitive and case-specific discussion probably not suited for a social media discussion. But I’ll try. /1

From 1989 to 2019, the richest 1% of families increased their share of total national wealth from 27% to 34%.

At the same time, families in the bottom 50% saw their share drop from 4% to 2%.

When I say trickle-down economics is a hoax, this is what I mean.

 #MykhailoRohoza

No, this photo is not #Ukraine

This Is Chechnya in 1999, the capital #Grozny was destroyed by the Russia. But 3 years earlier, Russia signed a peace treaty with #Chechnya

They had lost the war and needed a pause, only to go back and kill up to 300,000 #Chechens, 25% of the entire small, proud nation that wanted freedom

This is how peace talks with #Russia always end. That's why #Ukraine does not want them until they leave our land

That's why we're asking for guns ⏩

Cops arrest 17-year-old suspected of hundreds of swattings nationwide

Police traced swatting calls to teen’s home IP addresses.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/cops-arrest-17-year-old-suspected-of-hundreds-of-swattings-nationwide/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

It was an unbelievable year for global climate.

As data is released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new climate change records. Apologies for all my graphs in advance!! 😬

See the spiral animation produced by NASA at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190/