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Prosecutors have extraordinary power to fuel — or dismantle — mass incarceration. We have the power to vote them in or out of office.
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At least 16 trans people, mostly trans women of color, have been murdered so far in 2018. We honor their lives and their truth. Law enforcement and those reporting on these tragedies should do the same.
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Reminder: The consequences of family separation will far out-last this administration. Watch one family's reunion after months of separation:
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Four years ago today, 18 year old Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson by police officer Darren Wilson. Charges were never filed.
We honor Brown’s memory by continuing the fight for police accountability nationwide.
#BlackLivesMatter#michael brown#Darren Wilson#Police reform#police accountability#stopkillingus#black lives matter
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The Trump administration has repeatedly failed to reunite families they separated. Meanwhile, hundreds of children are still locked up in detention centers and parents have been deported without plans to locate them.
We won’t stop fighting until these families are reunited.
#stop separating families#FamiliesBelongTogether#families belong together#trump administration#Donald Trump#DHS#Immigrants' rights#immigrants#immigration
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Pennsylvania is now the first state in the country to have a commission on LGBTQ affairs.
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Jeff Sessions has repeatedly attacked the integrity of asylum seekers, but he’s actually the one gaming the system.
WATCH how his new policies illegally gut asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality.
#jeff sessions#Donald Trump#Immigrants' rights#xenophobia#immigration#immigrants#immigration law#asylum seekers#racism
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President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen must reunite the families they separated. It’s time they fix the crisis they created.
#family separation#FamiliesBelongTogether#Donald Trump#kirstjen nielsen#jeff sessions#stop separating families#DHS#Immigrants' rights
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The Trump administration needs to stop wasting time and reunite the children they kidnapped. This isn't the America we want to live in.
#FamiliesBelongTogether#Trump#family separation#DHS#Immigrants' rights#stop separating families#families belong together
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Jim Crow is still playing a role in Louisiana’s criminal justice system, where just 10 out of 12 jurors are needed to find someone guilty.
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We won’t stop saying this: Families. Belong. Together. #FamiliesBelongTogether
#FamiliesBelongTogether#families belong together#immigration#immigrants#DHS#end family detention#kirstjen nielsen#Donald Trump#Trump
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Artificial intelligence is being used by the government to make more and more decisions about our lives. This week we're discussing why it poses a threat to our freedoms.
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The government isn’t even trying to reunite the children they forcibly separated from parents. They need to stop wasting time and fix their crisis. #FamiliesBelongTogether
#families belong together#FamiliesBelongTogether#DHS#Donald Trump#kirstjen nielsen#immigrants#Immigrants' rights#immigration
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Although students with disabilities are only 12 percent of the national public school student population, they account for 75 percent of students subjected to physical restraint in schools.
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The Trump administration tried to wash its hands of the responsibility to find hundreds of parents whom it deported without their children.
In court, the judge refused to let them off the hook in the clearest possible terms:
#lawsuit#Donald Trump#Immigrants' rights#immigrants#family separation#families belong together#FamiliesBelongTogether
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REMINDER: DACA is and always will be constitutional.
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8 days after failing to reunite families by the court's deadline, Trump is now trying to say we're responsible for fixing the mess he made.
📣 You're the one who kidnapped those kids, Donald Trump. We won't back down until you reunite them.
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