She/her Seattle-based writer & journalist. Black Lives Matter.
Seattle, WA
Joined October 2012
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ElizabethAmon retweeted
Tagging @spotify in case they want to pretend they didn't know that their $100 million man, #joerogan is racist AF.
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth @joerogan would like to weigh in. #thread nitter.gq/patriottakes/status/14…
ElizabethAmon retweeted
Here's what I want to know:
Why did Al Franken and Andrew Cuomo have to resign but Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan are still members of congress?
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In case you haven’t heard: Rolling Stone reported that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn + others were in regular contact with January 6th Protest organizers.
Please retweet this far and wide to spread awareness.
ElizabethAmon retweeted
Elon Musk got $150,800,000,000 richer during the pandemic.
Jeff Bezos got $75,000,000,000 richer during the pandemic.
Mark Zuckerberg got $74,200,000,000 richer during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, over 38 million Americans faced hunger in 2020.
ElizabethAmon retweeted
“The reality is that at 89 degrees, you are already getting into dangerous territory,” said Elizabeth Strater of the United Farm Workers labor union. “A worker's life is in peril at 99 degrees.” bit.ly/3m0hKNg
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“All this time, I’ve watched an unbroken river of foster youth come in after me,” Longworth said during one of two calls from prison with reporter @amonwriter. “We weren’t born to be criminals, but compounded trauma led to this.” bit.ly/3s5IPje
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“It’s a terrific model, something that other tribes with similar needs could and should consider.” bit.ly/3izijKJ
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Ed Snodgrass, white GOP official in OH who illegally voted on behalf of dead father, faces 3 days in jail/$500 fine
Crystal Mason, Black woman in TX who voted on supervised release when didn't know she was ineligible, gets 5 years in prison
Two justice systems in America
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Washington has agreed via a lawsuit settlement to end its practice of housing some foster youth in hotels, offices, or even cars. bit.ly/3qilGt4
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The 5th Circuit recently struck down the "active efforts" provision of #ICWA in a case that may soon be reviewed by the Supreme Court. @amonwriter explores the role that part of the law plays every day in child welfare courts around the country bit.ly/2QwINme
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Among the states and counties that have expressed interest in race-blind removal decisions: Minneapolis; Los Angeles; Austin, Texas; Chicago; New Jersey; Baltimore; Washington state and Oklahoma bit.ly/3ufhJWU #fostercare
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Legislation in #Washington could expand a promising program to support #homeless youth on college campuses bit.ly/3cgVYzK
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BTW, Joe Manchin’s number is (202) 224-3954 if you want to redress your grievances.
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Has any reporter asked @JoeManchinWV if his plan to kill @neeratanden’s nomination is related to the fact she was among the loudest voices calling out HIS DAUGHTER for hiking cost of epipens up to $5,000 per unit as CEO of drug maker Mylan?
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Skipping Palestinians under military occupation, to send vaccines across to nations that endorsed Israel’s unilateral grab of Jerusalem as its exclusive capitol. A move co-led by Trump in an effort to delegitimize Palestinian history and future statehood.
nytimes.com/2021/02/23/world…
ElizabethAmon retweeted
Federal minimum wage:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
End Starvation Wages Now.
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A modest Washington grant program helped youth #homelessness services providers improve on behavioral health. The funding is now on the chopping block. bit.ly/3pHVuWL
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All schools in New Zealand will make free menstrual products available to students for the next three years, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, adding the country to the global effort to reduce “period poverty.” nyti.ms/2LYXL1U
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Just confirmed @SenTedCruz and his family flew to Cancun tonight for a few days at a resort they've visited before. Cruz seems to believe there isn't much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing.
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A bill from State Sen. T'wina Nobles, who experienced homelessness and #fostercare in her youth, would ensure at-school support for students in the system bit.ly/3aRUmdX
