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Local politics nerd. Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. She/her.
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Pittsburgh
Example: Oregon has a "Kicker". If tax revenue is 2% higher than was forecast, the surplus is refunded.
It's a godsend to poor people.
Whereas, I'd get a check for a few hundred dollars and be furious that it hadn't gone to benefits & infrastructure. I'd donate it all to charity.
Owning a little property where you grew up, and visiting family there, means "supporting all the national policies of that country"?
I guess everyone in the US who owns a house/condo/farm must support every one of Trump's policies then. How disturbing! 🤦
OK, those "spear it out of the ground" things are good for weeds in lawn, but I am PROFOUNDLY INDIFFERENT to non-grass green things in a lawn. Mow it all down!
The suburbs get mad about "subsidizing" cities but forget that they wouldn't have that money in the first place if they weren't the suburbs OF SOMETHING
Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.
Two bridges are closed for repairs in Pittsburgh, throwing more than usual traffic down Forbes Avenue -- past the CMU and Pitt campuses.
I'm not going ANYWHERE near there in a car for the next week!
My e-bike can come to the rescue. I can even ride over 1 of the bridges (only closed to cars). 🚴♂️
Also, Felco pruners are the best. That is all.
Scuffle hoes are god!
I also think it’s worth noting that the leftist leaders who most terrify the establishment (and not by any means exclusively in the GOP) are coalition builders. the FBI killed Fred Hampton because, among other things, he was bringing Black, Hispanic and white groups together to organize on housing
penncapital-star.com/civil-rights...
More than half of the people held at Moshannon Valley Processing Center experienced or witnessed mistreatment.
