This failed state...oh come on now. https://twitter.com/cascamike/status/1290596524494327809
It's so completely fucking predictably depressing and infuriating and the political class is just doing...what, exactly?
To link this to earlier issues, @CoriBush 's opponent tried to shame her for having been evicted: https://mobile.twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1289237060465778688
But it matters to have people who know firsthand what this feels like in Congress. It matters to have people who know how traumatizing it is to lose your home.
The movement in Ferguson and broader St. Louis has always had the sharpest analysis of how economic violence and police violence intertwine.
Anyway, have to get to work but there's much more on this in the book chapter we shared if you wanna download https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahljaffe/status/1267492377834541059
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