Former Newport Mayor and City Councilor | Current RI Commerce Policy Analyst | She/Her | All opinions my own
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Jamie Bova retweeted
Prime Day is a good day to remember that while Amazon was fined just $7,000 for dangerous conditions that caused an Amazon worker to die in Indiana, Jeff Bezos became $1.6 billion richer YESTERDAY & Amazon made $30 billion in profits last year.
Every Amazon worker needs a union.
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BREAKING:
Israel has dropped bombs on Palestinians waiting for water in Zaitoun neighborhood, Gaza.
Over 17 killed, many injured.
The bodies are severely mutilated.
Read that again: Desperate civilians, starving and thirsty, standing in line for water.
This is a massacre.
Jamie Bova retweeted
1. I literally don’t even know who the @nytimes is for. Canceling my subscription, finally
If you want accurate coverage of Israel / Palestine + the Middle East at large, I recommend the following outlets:
Jamie Bova retweeted
“why people saying “ALL EYES ON RAFAH”?”
“where is it?”
“what’s happening there?”
🔻 Rafah is located on the border of Egypt & the LAST place for refugees
🔻 everyone in Gaza is displaced in Rafah now (around 1.7 million)
🔻 Israel still attacking Rafah, burnt people alive
Jamie Bova retweeted
Big resignation from the Biden administration - an extremely powerful one at that. This section, in particular, struck hard - read it and read it again.
“Because the hardest part of the past six months was feeling totally alone like I was the only one disturbed by the footage from Gaza. The only one who felt like a participant, not just a passive observer, in the destruction there. For six months, I never heard anyone speak about the war in those terms, ever. I felt like I was living in an alternate universe.”
Jamie Bova retweeted
The Senate today passed a bill sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairwoman @DawnEuer that would ensure contraception remains covered in Rhode Island, even if the coverage requirements in the Affordable Care Act are overturned.
Learn more: rilegislature.gov/pressrelea…
Jamie Bova retweeted
ALT "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984
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It is interesting, to put it politely, that Tiananmen remains the American reference point for state violence against political movements instead of, I don't know, Kent State, Wounded Knee, the MOVE bombing, LA '92, Ferguson, Standing Rock, NoDAPL, Stop Cop City, etc etc etc
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So much talk about Project 2025 when Project 2024 is right here and it is monstrous. This night is but one piece.
Tyranny is tyranny. You cannot excuse it because your preferred political party is the one building and backing the police state this time.
CNN's @miguelmarquez: "I've covered lots of this sort of stuff around the world, and i've never seen this many police moving into one area."
Read this thread! @BlessAmysHeart speaks clearly and passionately about the need to fund Newport schools. We cannot expect improvement without resources and we cannot allow our elected officials to act surprised when long term lack of investment comes back to bite us.
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Jamie Bova retweeted
TO BE CLEAR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS CALLED THE COPS ONTO ITS OWN STUDENTS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS, ON THE 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN THEY LAST CALLED THE POLICE ONTO CAMPUS TO ARREST OVER 700 PROTESTING THE VIETNAM WAR & HARLEM GENTRIFICATION ON APRIL 30TH, 1968
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And who's had more fun than us?
Thank you, Jack 👏
#NHLBruins | @NESN
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Five years ago today, roughly 7,100 National Grid customers in Newport and Middletown woke to the news they’d be without gas heat for roughly a week during what was a brutal cold snap.
We are getting closer and closer to a completed new high school!
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With my mother. Daddy’s funeral.
He wasn’t assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.”
But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism.
He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn’t exist.
