Just wow. link source

The pandemic forced 40 million people onto unemployment aid.

But because of a 1980s GOP law, they have to PAY TAXES on those benefits, as @ENPancotti explains.

Senate Democrats have a temporary fix in the relief bill. But there's more to this story. source

There’s a backup plan if Joe Manchin guts tax relief for millions of unemployment workers. The Biden Administration can step in, and it should. link source

How can you get involved?

Text SUNRISE to 79606 to find your hub, or go to smvmt.org/start-hub to start one in your community. source

Why is Senator Sinema from AZ so happy about voting against minimum way increase?

How infuriating when millions of people are struggling including in her own state. source

Lawmakers were in Alabama today to challenge Amazon and support the Black women-led workers who are trying to form a union.

We were in the room when workers shared stories like this, of being injured on the job & then battling Amazon management. (1/) source

If Sen. Manchin insists on removing the $10,200 in tax forgiveness for unemployment benefits, Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen could fix the problem with the stroke of a pen. link source

Imagine having the ganas to go home and ask minimum wage workers to support you after going back on your own documented stance to help crush their biggest chance at a wage hike during their longest drought of wage increases since the law’s very inception. Sin vergüenza. source

Chinese human rights activist calls for the world to organise ‘clean Olympics’, says #China should not have the honour of hosting #Beijing2022Olympics

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#UyghurGenocide #Uyghurs
#BoycottBeijingOlympics @beijing2022 @Olympics #IOC source

The Senate Dems who voted against an effort to advance a federal minimum wage hike to $15 per hour: Manchin, King, Sinema, Carper, Coons, Tester, Hassan, Shaheen. source

【民主派47人案】香港政府顯然毫不在意《公民與政治權利國際公約》的要求：羈押候訊被告應為例外而非常態。- @SophieHRW

【香港：47人遭國安惡法起訴 bit.ly/30gDoB4】 link source

Trans kids are awesome, incredible, beautiful, and wonderful. Bigotry is not. Republicans need to stop obsessing over other people’s gender identity bc frankly it’s very weird and they’re doing a lot of harm to children who are just trying to be themselves.

#LetKidsPlay 🏳️‍⚧️💕 link source

This trend is outrageous:

Eliminating $15/hr
Reducing thresholds for payments (cutting off ~400k New Jerseyans)
Cuts to weekly payments

What are we doing here? I'm frankly disgusted with some of my colleagues and question whether I can support this bill.

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@SwedenMoli2017 @RFI_Cn 媒体是公器，事关所有人，必须公正客观，不可夹带私货。公器被全社会每一个人批评和监督是正常合理的现象。如是记者私个人平台，表达记者私人观点，不会有人干涉。尽管我是个文化水平不高的艺术匠人，也明白这并不是个复杂的道理。 source

【中国人权活动人士呼吁世界举办 "廉洁奥运"，称 #中国不 应获得举办奥运的荣誉】

”中国人权活动家滕彪⁦ @tengbiao⁩ 在叙述 #中共独裁政权 多年来犯下的无数暴行时，要求世界至少这次应该在其他地方举办一次 "清洁奥运"。

#抵制北京奥运2022
#维吾尔种族灭绝 link source

I agree. It is nauseating to read accounts of the 1936 Olympics, Nazi triumphalism everywhere, everything looking pretty for naive foreigners, while the concentration camps and Gestapo were already hard at work. #Beijing2022Olympics should not be 1936 revisited. link source