Nikil Saval
@NikilSaval
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State Senator, 1st District, PA. Writing: "Cubed," @nplusonemag , @nytimes , @newyorker . Personal Account. (He/him)
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I'm running for re-election alongside a vast coalition of local leaders and working families.
Solidarity is how we will make housing affordable, fully fund our schools, and address the climate crisis.
Solidarity is how we recognize our shared stake in achieving a better world.
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First day on the job as the Senator for the First District in Pennsylvania! (Just before going down to the basement to get on Zoom.) Excited to serve!
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Nearly a year ago, we launched our campaign for State Senate.
Thanks to dedicated staff, hundreds of volunteers, and thousands of supporters, we won.
I am excited to be the first Asian American to join the PA Senate and will be honored to represent the First District.
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As good a time as any to remind everyone that, in Pennsylvania, the third largest extractor of new oil and gas in the world, fracking is unpopular and fighting climate change is popular:
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What is happening in our city right now is absolutely insane, with police trapping and teargassing peaceful protesters. I have blocked streets with people many times, and never been met with anything like this. We need a de-escalation of this brutality right now.
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I'm honored to receive the endorsement of
@BernieSanders
Our community deserves more and we're ready to win this. Are you with me? Contribute now.
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Meet Mayukh, the newest member of the Garrison Saval family, born April 1st. Mama and baby both doing splendidly.
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Ready for zoom Harrisburg — first day of session since swearing in.
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With 100% of divisions in the district reporting & 15,196 votes currently counted, we've won the in-person vote, with 68%. We're ahead by 4,835 votes. But there are still thousands of votes to count, and we intend to fight for the voices of each & every Philadelphian to be heard.
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I'm going to be the Democratic chair of Urban Affairs and Housing. Honored by the assignment and ready as always to fight for housing as a human right.
Committee assignments came out this morning, and I’ll be the Democratic Chair of the Senate Urban Affairs & Housing Committee! I’ll also be serving on the Appropriations Committee, Communications & Technology Committee, Local Government Committee, and Aging & Youth Committee.
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Bucks, Magic, Rockets, Blazers, Lakers, Blazers —all sitting. This is a **strike**. ✊🏾
Breaking: The Thunder and Rockets are also boycotting Game 5, first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by ESPN.
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Hope the plan is to replace him with five justices under 55
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"Unlike other cities, Vienna does not readily sell off public land, using it instead to build more housing. One-bedroom apartments in sleek modern buildings can rent for as little as $350."
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I joined fellow
@nytimes
contributors in signing an open letter that expresses "serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people."
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One year ago, I started my job as a state senator representing the 1st District in PA. I took this picture with my son. I love my job and love my district; I’m proud of what our office has accomplished. 🧵
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Boston dispirited and crushed…is there anything sweeter in life
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Hoping that all Jokic MVP voters are deeply embarrassed and contrite at this time
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The museum never showed up to negotiations today. That’s what’s known as “bad faith.”
Friday, September 30: the museum is open today. We are committed to serving our community as we continue to negotiate in good faith toward a fair and appropriate new labor agreement.
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Another takeaway from the debate: the xenophobic discourse about China and the diaspora is prevalent and widespread. It is antithetical to the goals of the Left. It should not be welcome, in any stripe, in any political space, anywhere.
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UPDATE: Trump is sending reinforcements. We need to keep the joyful party going and demand that we count every vote.
Join the celebration of democracy and the tireless work of the committed vote counters at the corner of 12th and Arch.
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What a nightmarish experience. Is there anyone as good, in any sport, as Tom Brady, who is similarly as deeply and truly loathsome?
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@TempleUniv
: “We’ve made some hard, data-driven, analytical decisions”
Also
@TempleUniv
: “We hired a neo-nazi”
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This is disgraceful.
@PhillyOTIS
has given up on the safest option, presented in 2020 as final. Thousands participated in the process, overwhelmingly supporting 3 lanes. Like all of them, I feel betrayed and duped.
@PhillyOTIS
owns this farce and should be ashamed.
This year, Washington Avenue will be repaved from Grays Ferry Avenue to 4th Street and improved to increase traffic safety for all users. Learn more about the latest engagement and next steps for the project ➡️
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Beautiful day knocking on doors in Allentown for
@nickmillerforpa
@wildforcongress
@JohnFetterman
@JoshShapiroPA
@AustinDavisPA
@peter_schweyer
!
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This morning's commute to Harrisburg: 47 🚍 to the El 🚇 to Amtrak 🚆
I remain determined to fight for greater resources for transit systems throughout our city and Commonwealth.
An investment in public transit is an investment in our people and our future!
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Proud to stand and march with thousands for abortion rights. We will not go back.
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Boston fans leave the arena after their team gets waxed, and they’re still just…in Boston.
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I'm Nikil Saval and I'm running for state Senate to fight back and demand a bold recovery that puts working families first. Every day, our people-powered movement is inching towards a future where we truly have justice for all. We can win this!
Are you with me?
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Solidarity with everyone marching for justice, freedom, and liberation. What an an extraordinary protest; what a extraordinary series of days.
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Awesome to see such an enormously diverse rally at City Hall for sanitation workers fighting for PPE, hazard pay, and other insanely basic rights, with city and union workers of all sectors (librarians, teachers, et al.) out in force. Happy Labor Day. ✊🏾
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Best of luck to our extended movement family in NYC today!:
NYS legislature:
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@ZohranKMamdani
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@phara4assembly
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@JabariBrisport
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@marcelaforny
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@JuliaCarmel__
US Congress:
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@JamaalBowmanNY
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@AOC
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@SamelysLopez
Solidarity! ✊🏾
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Numb and heartbroken by what is happening in India. Multiple extended family members of mine (cousins, aunts, uncles) have gotten sick, or are still sick—one uncle is recovering after his oxygen levels dropped, and he was able to receive (scarce) O2. (1/3)
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We’re next.
@HelenGymPHL
Brandon Johnson winning in Chicago and Helen Gym winning in Philly would be such a powerful and historic repudiation of the decades-long bipartisan corporate ed reform campaign to privatize public schools and destroy teachers unions.
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Sick over this horrible news.
@JoshKrugerPHL
fought for housing justice as a public servant and journalist, he had so much more to do. Sending love to his family and everyone close to him.
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"I'm not sad, I don't want your pity. I want change."
1/This is Jacob Blake's sister Letetra Widman. Here is her powerful statement.
"I am my brother's keeper."
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I disagree with Governor Shapiro on some major issues, as he does with me. But he has shown a strong willingness to build coalitions with people that he also disagrees with, and to change his views and policies through that act of coalition-building. 1/🧵
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Good morning!
@gainey_ed
, who ran on police accountability, is going to be mayor of Pittsburgh.
@wutrain
, who ran on a Green New Deal, is going to be mayor of Boston.
@Krasner4DA
, a longtime fighter against mass incarceration, has been re-elected as Philly’s DA in a landslide.
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A Pennsylvania for the many, not the few. We could have this society. We could—and we must. I am done waiting. We are done waiting. The society we want to see is the one we have the capacity to build. And it will be a joy to do so.
Are you with me?
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Tomorrow: clarity of purpose and mind. The nation’s best city once again faces its worst. All of Philadelphia and indeed the entire country—save one insignificant corner of the state of Massachusetts—can set aside differences and focus on a common enemy. 🏀
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“Is Rick Krajewski too handsome to be in state government? Maybe.”
State Representative Rick Krajewski tells AL DÍA his story.
READ:
Discover the Best of the American Latino experience. Read more stories, subscribe today:
@rick4westphilly
#RepRickKrajewski
#Philly
#Harrisburg
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"So of course the Green New Deal finds itself under fierce attack. Because for the first time in a long time, Republicans face the very thing that they claim to revere but never actually wanted: competition—in the battle of ideas."
@NaomiAKlein
on 🔥
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One judge in Philadelphia "has rejected every request for inmate release — and has even increased the bail for four." This morning brought news of the first incarcerated woman in Philadelphia to die from COVID-19. This is as dark as it gets.
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@savthorpe
, I’m officially applying for train girlie status! Let’s build a Commonwealth that is welcoming, diverse, and sustainable, powered by 100% renewable energy, with fully electrified homes and schools that are safe & healthy, built with union labor! LFG!!!
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Beautiful day to knock doors in Phoenixville for
@Muth4PA
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@MelissaForPA
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@HoulahanForPa
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@JohnFetterman
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@JoshShapiroPA
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So much love for my union family,
@UNITEHEREPhilly
. 300k doors knocked, 60k pledges for Biden—30k who didn’t vote in 2016. Lots of reasons we won PA, but for me this is damn near the biggest.
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Philadelphia is suffering from interlocking crises—in community violence, housing, public services, and climate change. We need a skilled and experienced leader, and a visionary and transformational one. That leader is
@HelenGymPHL
, and I am proud to endorse her for Mayor. 🧵
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This morning 3-yr old asked me to tell him a story about superheroes fighting a bad guy, and I asked him which bad guy. He paused: “…Tom Brady.”
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That dark blue county in the central southern part of the state is Cumberland County. There were *three progressives* running for local office there:
@shannaforPA
for PA Senate, and
@TaraForPA
and
@VoteNicMiller
for PA House. It shifted 5.7% for Biden.
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Some climate change denial “literature” was sent to my Harrisburg office 🗑️
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I support overdose prevention sites, I support the opening of Safehouse in South Philadelphia, and I support harm reduction advocates in their work to recognize the humanity of people who use drugs. My full statement :
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Yesterday was quite a day! Wishing a good morning specifically *not* to the
@PASenateGOP
(seat
@SenatorBrewster
!!!) and specifically *to* the state of Georgia! Hello Senator-elect
@ReverendWarnock
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"Under the new measure, landlords will be barred from evicting most tenants for at least another 60 days in almost all cases."
Congrats to the NYS legislators who got this critical piece through. We need to do it in PA—and get housing and rent relief.
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Many unsung stories to celebrate in PA, but I want to single out the extraordinary members and leadership of
@UNITEHEREPhilly
: 60,000 Biden pledges, 30,000 people who didn’t vote in 2016. Effective, inspired organizing.
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Chag sameach to everyone celebrating Passover today! (Also: Relatively proud of how these matzo balls made with garam masala came out; and a little zhug added to the broth goes a long way.)
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The GOP expulsion of two Black state legislators in Tennessee is horrifying: plainly authoritarian and virulently racist. It deserves the widest possible condemnation, from every corner of the country.
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"It’s past time we end the billions of taxpayer subsidies to fossil-fuel companies. Our focus right now needs to be on getting the American people through this difficult, unprecedented time, not providing giveaways to polluters."—
@Ilhan
🔥 🔥 🔥
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Proud to have spent the weekend supporting
@Krasner4DA
, rallying with our progressive and AAPI communities.
@Krasner4DA
has fought consistently for immigrant rights, breaking the data sharing with ICE and refusing to collaborate with their terror.
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My book "A Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture," a transcript of a 2020 lecture I gave on June Jordan's architectural thinking and writing, is out today. Thank you to
@HarvardGSD
for inviting me to speak, and to
@SternbergPress
for publishing:
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Honored to join the organizers of
@sunrisephilly
this morning to demand that the President-elect make good on commitments to fight climate change. (With
@rick4westphilly
!)
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Sending love and respect to my friend
@JamaalBowmanNY
on Election Day in NY State. We deserve a Congressman who knows deeply the importance of our public schools, and how much our students deserve investment.
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Was honored to speak to the members of
@newyorkerunion
this morning and express my utmost solidarity.
@NewYorker
is an extraordinary magazine, but it is an ordinary workplace. Its workers deserve nothing less than what they are fighting for. You can't eat prestige.
Today, the New Yorker Union is undertaking a twenty-four-hour work stoppage in protest of
@newyorker
management's egregious wage proposal. Our statement:
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Jeffrey Yass trying to buy our election is disgusting—but it is also clarifying. It is time for Philadelphians to pick sides.
When it comes to Republican megabillionaires vs a champion for public schools and environmental justice, I know whose side I'm on:
@HelenGymPHL
.
A super PAC running anti-Helen Gym ads is largely funded by Main Line billionaire Jeff Yass, a strong proponent of charter schools. Several other notable contributions to the PAC:
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Proud to join
@uaw
/
@UAWregion9
workers in Langhorne with
@RickforPhilly
. We stand with autoworkers fighting for what they deserve—and against corporate greed.
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Overwhelmed by disgust at this gratuitous gesture from
@TempleUniv
.
I just contributed to
@TUGSA_6290
’s strike fund.
More ways to support the graduate workers here:
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What a nightmare, the slow mental collapse of the entire series encapsulated in the spectacle of a man being confronted by the possibility of, and refusing to take, an open dunk.
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"More than 90% of Philadelphians surveyed in a new poll from the nonprofit Movement Alliance Project say they support redistributing money from police toward social, health, and housing programs."
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Back in session! New Governor, new US Senator, new colleagues in the PA House and Senate, new PA House majority (!). Welcome to the new power generation!! 💜
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So proud!!
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I'm delighted to share that we've officially filed for re-election with over 3,000 signatures!
My entire team and I couldn't be more grateful to every resident of the First Senatorial District who signed our petitions as well as to all the volunteers who supported this effort.
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My family and I spent Friday evening holding the line with
@PMA_Union
, and I spoke with many people that refused to attend, including several that had traveled long and far, once they discovered what
@philamuseum
was doing to their workers and to our city. No contract, no peace.
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Out in East Kensington knocking doors for
@kendraforphilly
and
@NicForPhilly
! Republicans out, working families in!
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These are protests for justice, for life, for the ability to live free from harm and surveillance and police brutality, for housing and healthcare. The response is to fire rubber bullets, and to gas and beat people. None of us want our points proven this way, but here we are.
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Honored (but also rueful and saddened) to present Joseph Fox Bookshop, on its last day of operating, with a PA Senate recognition of its immeasurable contributions to the City and Commonwealth. Sorry beyond words to see it go.
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This is a great victory for
@PhlHousing
and housing advocates generally. And by securing the transfer of vacant city-owned properties to a land trust that renders them permanently affordable, it sets a major precedent. Organizing works.
Philly housing activists declare victory, say city will transfer properties to community land trust
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I believe in our movement, we need power in order to accomplish what we want to see in the world, to confront the multiple crises we face. I know that I can translate movement energy into legislative and political success. So, I've decided to run for the Pennsylvania State Senate
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"Capitalism and democracy are splitting up and we need to pick a side. I choose democracy, which means—like a growing number of people—I choose socialism."
When I was interviewing people for my documentary about democracy I saw a lot of evidence of deeply anti-democratic sentiment from conservatives. It was one of the most chilling and unexpected things I encountered.
Thread:
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Though history and social science aren't predictive, it's increasingly clear that Mike Davis predicted everything. Global pandemic; California fires; the Los Angeles uprisings of the early '90s. What else? Should we just be reading his books and divining the future from them?
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With my friends
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and
@rick4westphilly
, we observed the vote counting, and reported back to the crowd. Our impression: it is methodical, precise, and boring work, done by dedicated professionals. Bless them. Count every vote.
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In their infinite wisdom,
@PHLDems
endorsed a Trump supporter instead of hugely popular, trailblazing incumbent
@Fiedler4Philly
. Join me in supporting Elizabeth Fiedler for re-election:
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I was honored and proud to support
@HelenGymPHL
's campaign for Mayor. While the extraordinary coalition assembled around her fell short, the ideas and passion that sustained it will endure.
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"One cannot continue to decry the rising rates of black death while preparing to change not a single thing about our failing political and economic systems." Searing piece by
@KeeangaYamahtta
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The University of Pennsylvania to contribute $10m/year to the School District of Pennsylvania. This is a major win for organizers fighting for payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs).
We need more from Penn and other institutions—and we need more institutions—to do it.
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We will have Safety Captains at the polls all day with hand sanitizer, water and masks for you.
Polls are open 7am-8pm
If you’re out participating in the uprising today, stay safe. Stop by a polling place and a Safety Captain will give you water/mask/hand sanitizer.
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