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Thursday is Election Day in Tennessee. Voting is an important part of civic life – don't miss the opportunity to make your voice heard. 💥 - If you're eligible to vote, make a plan to cast your ballot. Double-check your polling place and learn more about primary elections: https://bit.ly/4xD0nE7 🗳️✅

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1/ It looks like one of the largest Cyclospora outbreaks in U.S. history is slowing. The U.S. has now reported over 17,000 cases. And we are largely flying blind, but one of the only data points— percentage of tests that are positive—is declining, which is a cautiously optimistic sign.

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🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

Screenshot of a contract award showing that ICE has awarded CoreCivic with a $536 million contract to operate the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, MN as an immigration jail.

BREAKING: We’re suing Texas A&M University’s Board of Regents to challenge their censorship policy that restricts instruction on race, sexual orientation, and gender. Public universities can't ban ideas they don't like.

Very early in the pandemic, I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Waiting my temp. to spike. Worrying about my kids. Fighting against dying. In the middle of this covid revisionist, anti-vax bullshit, it was worth saying what that felt like:

Poem titled "Gnawed." The text of the poem reads:

Gnawed

Kalends of April, 2020

I can feel the rat,
dark and angry,
buried
in the furrows of my chest,
trying hard to pull apart
the fiber of my breathing.
Twisting. Writhing.
Clawing
with a feral-hearted hatred
at the bonds that sinew
soul to skin.
I cannot walk across the room without
the rasping of its teeth
along the inside of my ribs,
or speak without it screaming
in the shallows of my breath.
I can only lie beyond
the borders of my life,
checking the thermometer
a hundred times a day
as all the while
I am being
eaten
from the inside out.

	– John Wyatt Greenlee

🧵On Election Day, August 6, several organizations in Memphis are collaborating to provide free rides to the polls. The organizations that are coordinating this effort are the NAACP, Shelby County Voter Alliance, and the Black Clergy Collaborative. If you are in need of a ride to the polls......