LA officials have designed signs and delivered remarks claiming otherwise, but the truth is that Echo Park Lake was secretly, suddenly, and violently fenced off overnight by 400 cops in riot gear to banish the community that called this public space home link source

🗣️ Tell Arkansas Governor Hutchinson to veto HB 1570 NOW.

☎️ 501-682-2345

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Those random hand sanitizers you picked up when you couldn't find Purell might contain a carcinogen, according to a testing firm’s analysis.

@annaedney has the details trib.al/yTsdegM source

Boycott all @CocaCola products. Our money won’t be used to profit their habit of supporting racism. What do you say? source

Amazon claims to support Black Lives Matter. But when the majority Black workforce at Amazon’s Alabama warehouse began to organize for better working conditions, the company met them with surveillance and police. source

#SB202 suppresses voters, criminalizes compassion & seizes election authority from local + state officials. In 11 years, I never witnessed a massive bill approved at such speed and signed in such desperation. This wasn’t efficiency or principle. This is cowardice. #gapol
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Voter fraud is a myth peddled by a Republican minority to disenfranchise people of color. source

Soldiers and police have reportedly killed dozens of people in Myanmar as they suppressed protests against last month's coup. One of the deadliest days comes as the military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade in the capital. apne.ws/DMRlrpl source

When you say, “he was drunk, he didn’t know better,” together with, “she was drunk, she should have known better,” what you’re really saying is, “men are predators, lowered inhibitions make them dangerous, and if you make yourself more vulnerable to them, you should expect rape.” source

Rapists and men who don’t rape look exactly the same. They are impossible to distinguish. To believe that women are responsible for staying away from men who might rape them is to believe that a woman must either avoid men all together or be told she was asking for it. link source

We are deeply concerned by growing signs of anti-democratic behavior and politicization of the legal system in Bolivia. The Bolivian government should release detained former officials, pending an independent and transparent inquiry into human rights and due process concerns. source

Susan! My bowl is fucking empty!!! source

More than 100 San Francisco artists will be guaranteed $1,000 a month for six months under a pilot program set to launch in May. trib.al/hfJ3Qd5 source