@ElectShannel

Just a Gamer, Policy Nerd w/ Cerebral Palsy, Green Party candidate for CA Assembly District 52, GPUS National Diversity Committee Co Chair

 East Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2014
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🚨TOMORROW City Council may block some Charter reforms that WERE possibly headed for your Nov. ballot: - Council expansion - Ranked choice voting - More LAPD oversight 📣Make your voice heard Fri 1pm at City Hall! ✍️Submit written comment: lacouncilcomment.com CF 26-0489
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Kenneth Mejia, CPA@kennethmejiaLAMay 9
My opponent’s mom is spending $4 million to oust me as City Controller. This buys him a platform for disgusting lies but it cannot erase the truth. For 3.5 years, I’ve led as Controller with integrity and trustworthiness. My record speaks for itself - and so does my opponent's.
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We need your help. California is about to make it a deportable crime to loiter with the intent to purchase a commercial sex act. Even if that commercial sex act is not illegal. #AB379
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Cody Hannah was an incredible advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. We’re grateful for one-n-ten honoring Cody’s memory and work in Arizona through their fundraiser. Please donate if you can. give.onenten.org/campaign/66…

Donate to In Loving Memory of Cody Hannah

Support our cause by donating in loving memory of Cody Hannah.

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EFF
@EFF6 Apr 2025
Good privacy decisions begin with proper knowledge about your situation—and we’ve got you covered. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/pr…

Privacy Loves Company

Most of the internet’s blessings—the opportunities for communities to connect despite physical borders and oppressive controls, the avenues to hold the powerful accountable without immediate

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Five years ago this month, the world shut down due to Covid-19. A measles outbreak and H5 bird flu again raise the question what steps may government legitimately take to stop contagion. In a new essay at @CambridgeUP, I offer a framework for answering that question. 🧵 1/8
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EFF
@EFF7 Mar 2025
When laws are rushed, rights get trampled. The Take It Down Act can be easily abused. Tell Congress to stop it. act.eff.org/action/the-take-…

The TAKE IT DOWN Act Will Censor Legal Speech Without Helping Victims

Congress is pushing a dangerous internet censorship bill, the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146/H.R.633), and we need your help to stop it. While this bill claims to fight the spread of non-consensual...

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hijade2madre@HijaDe2Madre8 Jan 2025
The Department of Labor is seeking public comment on a rule that would eliminate subminimum wage for Disabled people. Let’s do this! ♿️ Federal Register :: Employment of Workers With Disabilities Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act federalregister.gov/document…

Employment of Workers With Disabilities Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) authorizes the Secretary of Labor to issue certificates allowing employers to pay productivity-based subminimum wages to workers with disabilities, but only...

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Prop 36 claims to fight homelessness and addiction, but it does the opposite: targeting poor, homeless, and addicted individuals while rolling back community-focused reforms. Here’s the truth behind the law: invisiblepeople.tv/propositi…

Proposition 36: A Step Backward For Justice In California

Proposition 36 exacerbates homelessness, addiction, and poverty in California by prioritizing incarceration over community-based solutions.

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☎️ Call House leadership directly at 202-519-4583 or find a script at fftf.link/KOSAsneakattack and urge them to block this censorship sneak attack. KOSA should stay dead!

Stop KOSA Sneak Attack

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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran7 Nov 2024
At the start of COVID, the government implemented many social programs that helped people who were struggling. These programs were immensely popular. Yet instead of fighting hard to extend and expand them, Democrats prematurely declared the pandemic was over and let them expire.
Several key U.S. anti-poverty measures expired or were eliminated after 2021. A snapshot of enhanced coverage from 2020 to 2023. This range chart plots the start of new health and anti-poverty initiatives in green and their end in red. Eviction ban, September 4, 2020 through July 31, 2021; extended unemployment coverage, May 5, 2020 through September 4, 2021; additional unemployment benefits, December 27, 2020 to September 30, 2021; child tax credit expansion, January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021; earned income tax credit expansion, January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021; free school meals, March 16, 2020 to June 30, 2022; emergency food aid, March 18, 2020 to February 28, 2023; Medicaid expansion, March 18, 2020 to March 31, 2023; student loan pause, March 13, 2020 to September 30, 2023; child care provider grants, April 15, 2021 to September 30, 2023; increase to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, June 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023.

ALT Several key U.S. anti-poverty measures expired or were eliminated after 2021. A snapshot of enhanced coverage from 2020 to 2023. This range chart plots the start of new health and anti-poverty initiatives in green and their end in red. Eviction ban, September 4, 2020 through July 31, 2021; extended unemployment coverage, May 5, 2020 through September 4, 2021; additional unemployment benefits, December 27, 2020 to September 30, 2021; child tax credit expansion, January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021; earned income tax credit expansion, January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021; free school meals, March 16, 2020 to June 30, 2022; emergency food aid, March 18, 2020 to February 28, 2023; Medicaid expansion, March 18, 2020 to March 31, 2023; student loan pause, March 13, 2020 to September 30, 2023; child care provider grants, April 15, 2021 to September 30, 2023; increase to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, June 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023.

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Kamala has even abandoned DACA and Dreamers now...
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Zeynab Day
@ZeynabDay31 Oct 2024
Let me make this clear. This is as abhorrent as what Giuliani said about Palestinians at MSG. Just as racist and dehumanizing. Just as bloodthirsty. Even if it's cloaked in civility and more flowery. It's the same damn speech.
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker31 Oct 2024
Bill Clinton in Michigan: "I understand why young Palestinian and Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died — I get that, but…" "Hamas makes sure that they're shielded by civilians, they'll force you to kill civilians, if you want to defend yourself."
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AshleyStevens@The_Acumen29 Oct 2024
This is exactly what’s happened. Democrats and their voters have not only accepted large-scale harm towards vulnerable people abroad, and the cost for their rights here, they’ve co-opted radical messaging and call it a form of liberation and radical justice. Nasty, nasty work.
Gio@TheSportProhet29 Oct 2024
Replying to @TheSportProhet
The notion that a certain level of human loss is "acceptable" has enabled the escalation of violence to genocidal proportions, with the same logic Obama’s administration fostered now wielded by others to justify large-scale, indiscriminate harm.
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🚨NEW Report: Probation is thought of as an "alternative" to incarceration. But is it actually? Well, 1 in 10 people admitted to state prisons every year have committed no new crime, but have simply broken a rule of their probation...🧵 prisonpolicy.org/reports/pro…

One Size Fits None: How ‘standard conditions’ of probation set people up to fail

Our national review of standard probation conditions finds these mandatory rules are often unnecessarily burdensome and incredibly vague, making it all too easy to “fail” at probation and land behind...

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If you want to learn more check out the Disability Justice x Palestine Syllabus disabilityvisibilityproject.…

Palestine X Disability Justice Syllabus

One of my goals an editor, writer, and activist is to speak out about the genocide carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces against the people of Gaza. I remember how scary it was to speak out in …

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Jess Walton@JessHealyWalton13 Oct 2024
Yesterday I tried to take my sign that said "There is no disability justice without a Free Palestine - this is the biggest cohort of child amputees in history" to the children's wing of the State Library Victoria, named after donors who support Netanyahu & Israel's genocide. 🧵
A fat white agender person in a red leopard print top and n95 mask, sitting in a power wheelchair, holding up a sign that says, "There is no disability justice without a free Palestine - this is the biggest cohort of child amputees in history"

ALT A fat white agender person in a red leopard print top and n95 mask, sitting in a power wheelchair, holding up a sign that says, "There is no disability justice without a free Palestine - this is the biggest cohort of child amputees in history"

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🔻Rio Slade 🔻@RioSlade27 Sep 2024
The Biden Harris Admin wants to let everyone know that they can also ban asylum seekers. Not just Trump. They are still in this race to be most evil. Don't count them out of evil yet! They've got way more evil left.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez
@camiloreports26 Sep 2024
NEWS: The Biden administration's is moving forward with plans to cement its sweeping asylum restrictions at the US-Mexico border, officials tell CBS News. The changes, planned for next week, would make it far less likely for the strict rules to be lifted. cbsnews.com/news/biden-asylu…

Biden moving forward with plan to cement asylum restrictions at U.S.-Mexico border

The Biden administration is planning to issue a regulation to cement the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted at the southern border over the summer.

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