Blue Ridge ABC<p>Is this the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CaliforniaModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaliforniaModel</span></a>? Heat deaths. Constant violence. ENOUGH. Incarcerated people are dying while @CAgovernor <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/gavinnewsom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gavinnewsom</span></a></span> sweeps <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/homeless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homeless</span></a> encampments and spends $240 million on monuments to himself in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanQuentin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanQuentin</span></a>. </p><p>On 8/19, there's a protest at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CCWF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCWF</span></a> demanding an end to this brutality. Instead of investing in communities, Newsom is ignoring calls to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CloseCAPrisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CloseCAPrisons</span></a>, criminalizing people, and stealing the belongings of the unhoused.</p>