Pinned
“Prison is necessary to deter crime.” We have the highest incarceration rate in the world and we’re not even a top 30 safest country. What are we deterring?
GNCordova
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GNCordova
@GNCordova
Award-winning writer. I spend most of my time trying secure funding for grassroots community programs.
- Being bilingual.What’s considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?
- People are in the quotes and comments trying to tear apart this beautiful art because there’s no father when the artist’s dad passed away when she was 3. The way so many of you have a knee jerk impulse to harass Black women is terrifying.“Open that one over there next”
- Just a reminder that being a garbage collector/sanitation worker is more dangerous than being a cop. And their roles are absolutely essential to preserving public health.The trash men wanting a 24% raise for a job they don’t need clearances, certifications or a degree for is crazy🫣everybody else I understand but come on now
- I think about this fit a lot.Just a photo of my dad wearing a Palestine flag tracksuit in the 80s
- Black women are fighting so many different wars.
- This isn’t funny to me at all. Delivery workers deserve so much more for their work. This country would be in shambles without them.Some of these are hilarious!!!!!! Dogs really do love to antagonize delivery people. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
00:00 - Charlie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is the only role Peter Ostrum ever played. He went on to become a veterinarian. He still receives about $9 in royalty payments, quarterly.
- Which is wild considering so many people support Ben & Jerry’s because of their activism.Ben & Jerry’s alleges that Unilever (their parent company) fired their CEO over the brand’s political activism, including support for Palestine.
- She was killed by another cop—her partner. If she’d been killed by an immigrant, it’d be in the headline.A 36-year-old police officer who was a mother to a young daughter has been shot and killed while on duty in Chicago, authorities said. abcnews.link/WuSn8JfReaders added contextImportant context: while this article uses passive language to avoid saying who she was killed by, implying it was a suspect, it was in fact a fellow officer who shot and killed this woman, as reported by her own department. cbsnews.com/chicago/news/c…
- I’ll never forget the time I called my mom at work crying because a kid called me poor and she confirmed that we were poor. Lmao. She was probably so annoyed.Aint no way we used to call our mom job & ask to speak to her like she not working😭
- I just learned the director of Ray didn’t even know Jamie Foxx was a pianist. He told him they’d hire a piano player to make it seem like he was playing and Jamie was like “I’m a classically trained pianist.”
