Jessica Ripper
@jessicaripper
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Consultant. Strategist. #Activist. #Philanthropist. 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' - #mlk
San Diego, CA
Joined February 2009
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “Musk is so arrogant that he is even intervening in a Supreme Court election right here in Wisconsin…if this guy can intervene in a Supreme Court election in one state, you tell me what mayor's race, what governor's race, what Senate race he cannot buy.”
Pay attention to this: Elon Musk is now trying to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why aren’t more Democrats talking about this??
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“Once the executive branch decides it doesn’t have to follow the law for one person, it has established that it doesn’t have to follow the law for anyone,” @GrahamDavidA writes in The Atlantic Daily:
theatlantic.com
The president’s definition of law and order is a narrow one.
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After an executive order ending DEI initiatives, the U.S. Marine Band canceled a concert featuring young musicians of color. Veterans stepped in to mentor the aspiring musicians.
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After an executive order ending DEI initiatives, the U.S. Marine Band canceled a concert featuring young musicians of color. Veterans stepped in to mentor the aspiring musicians.
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On this day in 1831, the Supreme Court failed to enforce treaties that would have protected the Cherokee people from state and federal interference and from forcible removal later that year. https://t.co/XHvWbLJXrT
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On this day, the Supreme Court ruled the Cherokee nation was barred from suing to enforce treaties.
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Shutting down recognition of Tuskegee Airmen? Who are these idiots? Will spineless Republicans push back at this?
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The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — female World War...
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We need a full investigation here, and I’ll keep working to root corruption out of Washington.
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Leading figures urge Pam Bondi to examine ‘Mr Musk’s activities at the FAA’ amid conflict-of-interest concerns
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Pay attention to this: Musk is trying to make our air traffic control system "dependent” on him by integrating his equipment, which has not gone through security and risk-management review. It's corruption. And it's dangerous. Fire Elon Musk. https://t.co/uYUjdOpNqr
theatlantic.com
The agency responsible for air safety is facing deep cuts and interference by Elon Musk.
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Almost every major Trump action is intentionally illegal. Trump is gambling that the US democratic system is too broken to stop him. He assumes, to borrow a phrase: "All we've got to do is kick the door in and the whole edifice will come crumbling down." Testing hour is here.
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With Elon in charge, SSA clawed back $5,201 from an 82-year-old constituent of mine, Ned, who was falsely labeled as dead. Ned struggled to correct this mistake because Elon is firing SSA staff and shuttering offices. This is real waste, fraud, and abuse—thanks to
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Trump & Musk want to fire 83,000 employees from the Veterans Administration. That means the quality of veterans' health care will deteriorate, and they will wait even longer for benefits. You do NOT balance the budget on the backs of men & women who defended this country.
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Trump is defying court orders and abusing wartime powers to deport people with no due process. He's using the law that put Italian, German, and Japanese immigrants in detention camps during World War II. We are not at war. Donald Trump is not a king. He is not above the law.
President Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself sweeping powers.
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Musk is rich because you gave him $38 billion in tax money to make that. He is happy to tell you what you don’t need. He’s also picking a side in foreign policy, and it’s not our side
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Israel has resumed its genocidal attacks against the people of Gaza as the fragile ceasefire now looks to have failed. A world where this level of savagery is not only allowed, but supported and praised, is a barbaric world without any values and decency.
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Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli military will continue to fight until Hamas ‘no longer posed a threat’
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1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details.
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Meteorologists and climate scientists are raising alarms about major cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, saying they will harm the country’s ability to forecast and respond to major weather events and put lives at risk.
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As severe weather season kicks off for large portions of the country, climate scientists warn cuts at NOAA and NWS could put public safety in jeopardy.
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Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in
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A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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https://t.co/niLdUyo0Ec - San Diegans stay twice as long in homes as 2005
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Quite something to complain about how not enough American journalists are reporting on the Russian side of Putin's invasion of Ukraine when two of them – Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva – are *in jail right now* for doing just that
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For 10 years, I have been trying to secure funding to put an investigative reporter in South Bay to tell vital stories and hold officials accountable among dozens of city councils, school board, water districts and more. It's finally happening. Apply:
voiceofsandiego.org
View job openings at Voice of San Diego, a pioneer in the nonprofit news industry dedicated to providing ground-breaking investigative journalism for the San Diego region.
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“While Black Californians account for only 7% of the state’s population, they represent over 26% of the homeless population.”
Our new report, “Toward Equity,” explores #CAHomelessnessStudy data to uncover causes, consequences & racial disparities of homelessness among Black Californians. The findings are striking. 🧵 (1/5) Report: https://t.co/Vz7SG2x9Og Webinar: https://t.co/KteUv5dQ0d
#SystemicRacism
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