Send that text. Tell somebody you love them. Miss them. Or just glad they're around. Like that post you've ignored. Don't leave 'em on read. No matter what's gone down or going down. Today's a good day to do it.
Protesters show up outside SCOTUS homes & suddenly Congress gives them high priced security. A 70 year old black poll worker in Georgia gets death threats from MAGA Trumpers and she's on the run for 2 months and the FBI basically says figure it out. This is why people are angry
PA says they won't be done counting until Friday. Fulton Co GA won't be done counting till Friday.
@USPS
has lost almost 300,000 ballots that a federal judge demands they discover. No one can declare victory tonight. Or even tomorrow. Probably not until next week
!!! NEW: US Justice Dept tells judge Riley Williams, woman accused of stealing computer from Nancy Pelosi's office, is suspected of using internet in recent days, encouraging people to destroy evidence in Capitol insurrection case. They want judge to prohibit internet access
A CNN commentator said โmaybe we can get back to normalโ. But whatโs normal? When Obama was President, I was marching for Trayvon Martin fresh out of collegeโ
#DCProtests
on
#Election2020
of
#BidenHarris2020
If press coverage is going to keep making the distinction between 'peaceful' protesters and 'violent' protesters perhaps we should also be distinguishing between 'Peaceful' police and 'violent' policing.
I'm legitimately curious as to "How Much" Biden was supposed to win by in order to justify his nomination? 5 million? 10 million? 375 EC votes? Biden (appears to have) beaten a cheating incumbent president, against massive voter suppression, during a pandemic. That's good right?
Absolutely inspiring. Georgia resident Viola Hardy got on line to vote at 6:20 AM and spoke with
@AndyPierrotti
at 11:15. This is what it's going to take folks.
I am always amazed that
@Jim_Jordan
can find immense conspiracies during
#MuellerHearings
but claims he was completely oblivious to allegations of molestation and abuse right underneath his nose at Ohio State
" From the first day I got into office I said I wanted
#alBaghdadi
" - Donald Trump
This is an absolute lie. You cannot convince me that Trump had any clue who this person when he came into office. Probably didn't remember the guy's name until the operation started two weeks ago
This entire night of the
#RNC2020
is illegal and a violation of the Hatch Act. The fact that no one will be arrested for this is indicative of how close we are to an autocratic dictatorship already
You know who doesn't scream and yell on twitter about every little thing written or said about thier candidate?
Elizabeth Warren supporters.
No snark, no chants, no bros, just getting out there and pushing for thier candidate. Other campaigns should take note...
Trump's tweets today are a reminder of something I've said for years :
Donald Trump will NOT voluntarily leave office, even if he loses the 2020 election. The press, politicians and the public need to realize this and prepare accordingly
First off, the intentional mispronunciation of
@AyannaPressley
and
@KamalaHarris
names by this Trump lawyer makes it clear that he's speaking to an audience of one in Mar-A- Lago.
#Impeachment
A friend of mine, older black woman, just told me that her white therapist, whom she'd been seeing for two years called and asked for "Help" on how to navigate all of these racial issues. She cancelled her next appointment and will never see him again
You know what would have been better than a press conference with four WOC members of Congress attacked by the
#RacistPresident
fighting back? If the ENTIRE Democratic Party Leadership was standing there with them - Maybe I was expecting too much from Pelosi
Yesterday, a pro Trump caravan, escorted by Fort Worth police, tried to intimidate voters by driving through a polling station in a predominantly Black neighborhood. But the community wasnโt having it.
No way Will Smith does that to a white comedian. A Bill Burr or Ricky Gervais. He wouldn't have even been able to reach the stage. He definitely would've been asked to leave afterwards. And both of those comedians would be just as likely to make that joke.
#Oscar
The way that violence in majority white sports like hockey and NASCAR is tolerated compared to the absolute media flip outs that occur when there are fights in sports with majority black players never ceases to amaze me
I say this without a drop of hyperbole or stanning or Yassqueenin' by any measure :
Harris wouldn't just eviscerate Trump during a presidential debate, Trump would be so frustrated that within the first 15 minutes he'd walk off the stage and not come back
A Sheriff's Deputy in Florida planted drug evidence on poor folks, for years, until the Florida States Attorneys office, looked through body cams & caught this criminal cop planting drugs on Floridians.
Sanders 2016 2020
MN 61% 30%
AK 29% 20.8%
OK 51.9% 25.1%
VA 35.2% 23.1%
TN 32.4% 24,5%
CO 59% 36%
Across the board, Sanders has performed below his primary polls in 2016.
#Supertuesday
Raise your hand if you lost your job over swine flu, saw your school closed over swine flu, or were forced to shelter in place under swine flu ?
#VPDebate2020
A white man hurled racial slurs at this child and then threatened him and his friends with a gun during an
#MLK
march - I'm pretty sure those boys could use a morning show interview or perhaps a thorough 48 hour "analysis" of the "Full video" by dozens of media outlets
13 y/o Tay is one of the children threatened by a white man w/ a gun during a โBikes Up Guns Downโ protest on
#MLKDAY
. He is in the 6th grade & a member of the band. He also participate in the
@5000RoleModels
program. His mom fights like hell to keep him safe from gun violence.
Steny Hoyer seems like the FIRST Democrat to point out that Trump LOST the popular vote. Quit allowing Republicans to say impeachment overturns the popular will, The majority of America didn't want him as president
#ImpeachmentDay
Can we stop pretending that America JUST started separating parents and children?
African slaves
Indigenous nations
What's happening at the border is NOT new - As abhorrent as it is
#DemDebate
It's gonna be really hard to vote by mail when millions of Americans will be kicked out of their homes when
#COVID
rent exemptions end and they don't have stable addresses. None of this is by accident folks ๐
Today is the birthday of both of these guys, several decades apart.... One of them remembers life before the pandemic, Nintendo and Michael Jordan, the other is just mastering a sippy cup, but they're both gonna have a great day (even though I celebrate all month) ๐ค๐ฅณ๐บ๐ฟ๐ง๐ฟ
I'm not worried about the results next Tuesday. I'm worried about the aftermath and the naked power grab it will expose. Trump appointed judges will try to steal the election in broad daylight and Amerricans have to be willing to do more than just "vote" to stop the takeover
Brian Kemp and the GA secretary of state are again overseeing a dysfunctional and likely corrupted election. This is not an accident. This is intentional and Democrats need to be prepared for this on a national scale in November
#GAprimaries
Poll worker just tells long line of voters that the machines are not working properly and they donโt know why. Says technician is coming from 17 miles away in downtown Atlanta. Many people leaving now.
#GeorgiaPrimary
Do not be fooled. Every GOP argument about how 'upset' part of the country will be about
#ImpeachmentTrial
is a veiled threat of future violence if Trump is not allowed to face zero consequences for any of his actions - not just the
#insurrection
A new survey finds a majority of parents rarely, if ever, discuss ethnicity, gender, class or other identity categories with their kids.
Researchers say that's a problem โ because kids are hardwired to notice differences early on, and they ask questions.
Note to pundits : Any "Disaffected Sanders Voter" who will vote for a potential 3rd Party run by Tulsi Gabbard was never going to vote for any other Dem anyway and should never have been part of your 2020 Democratic calculus
Pete Buttigieg really went on Fox News and asked "why an evangelical Christian like Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star."
If
#Georgia
beats all that voter suppression and flips to Biden I wanna see a montage of fireworks and black folks celebrating in Atlanta, SWAT, Atlantic Station, Midtown and Five Points like at the end of Star Wars when they beat the Empire
#Gapol
#ThePostElection
You know why most of the
#HunterBiden
stories never made much sense to me? Because Joe Biden was in the White House from 08' to 16' w/ the
@GOP
controlling the House oversight committee for 6 of those years. If the VP was doing ANYTHING dirty, they'd have investigated it
Literally every woman that has testified during
#ImpeachingHearings
has delivered the strongest points and messages but somehow this country can't figure out how to put a woman in the White House ๐
Privately black journalists, academics etc. have been talking all weekend about being careful what tweets we send or like about Trump having
#COVID
. A level of restraint that white conservative talkers NEVER have to consider about
#BLM
regardless of where they work
I will say this again for anyone who isn't listening : If Nick Bosa was black and tweeting & liking homophobic posts on social media his draft stock would stumble to the 2nd or 3rd round at least. The SILENCE about his racist tweets by some sports show hosts speaks volumes
Nick Bosa Latest Likes From 2nd White Nationalist IG Acct Shows He Dislikes Beyonce Not b/c of Her Music, But b/c She Dressed Up Like a "Black Panther" & Protested Against Police Brutality During SB Performance (Deleted Tweets-IG)
We know Trump is trying to destroy
@USPS
by having DeJoy remove sorting machines, cut back hours and increase the cost of stamps for mail in ballots. We also know DeJoy can be removed by the USPS BOG. But how did we GET here? You may not like the answer....
Trump is not faking
#COVID
there is nothing in this diagnosis that helps him politically at all. Meanwhile Republicans are STILL trying to steal the 2020 election, so keep registering, checking your registration, vote and bring four friends along with you
I said this a few weeks ago. Mayor Pete was not ready to be president, and I believe he learned a lot during the primaries. But Mayor Pete as surrogate is so much more adroit and engaging than the man who ran, he really does have a bright future if he keeps it up
Pete Buttigieg for the win.
This is a with a master class on handling a MAGA heckler in Florida and got the guy to denounce white supremacy in the process...
These black folks allowing themselves to be exploited by this administration, that has consistently encouraged and coddled white nationalists, should be ashamed.
#SOTU
I'm much less worried about "Black People rioting" if
#DerekChauvin
isn't convicted than I am with the likelihood that police will be even MORE emboldened to engage in indiscriminate violence against black people.
Black people shouldn't have to cry in front of congressional committees, die from police brutality, or suffer publicly in order to have our humanity acknowledged. The need to "Perform Blackness" in order to get the US to respect black lives is another form of oppression
#Jan6th
This entire
#SOTU
is a micro-Targeted campaign speech.
Handing out gifts for poor black folks
Pitying single black mothers to appeal to white women in the burbs
This is about the base and suppressing the black vote.
Dems aren't paying attention
Paul Murray is the man who was arrested outside of Vice President Kamala Harrisโ residence with a rifle. His face isn't being showed enough, so let's fix that.
A white man swinging an axe approached NYPD officers, watch how close he comes to cutting one of them. If this man was Black, this would have ended very differently.
So the
#ChauvinTrial
defense is basically
#GeorgeFloyd
would've died that day....at THAT exact time...because of
#fentanyl
in his system and being suffocated by a cop had nothing to do with it. In a just system you wouldn't even be able to make an argument that ridiculous
The fact that we need to specify that *THIS* Richard Spencer isn't the Neo Nazi White Nationalist Richard Spencer being appointed acting Defense Secretary says all you need to know about the current administration
If you don't want to listen to
#AlanDershowitz
defend Trump you can just keep re-tweeting this article over and over again until it's trending.....
#ImpeachmentDay
Remember: Democrats control the White House, the House and the Senate. Yet continue to negotiate with a Republican Party that initiated and continues to defend a violent White Nationalist coup 8 months ago.
The ease with which the judicial system has let people who engaged in a violent
#insurrection
go free, while poor people and black people get jailed for shoplifting, voting, etc is a reminder that the law is about protecting a type of whiteness even moreso than public safety
Banning
#Chokeholds
except when police fear for their lives does nothing. Banning
#NOKNOCKRAIDS
when police routinely lie about whether they have identified themselves before entering a home does nothing. Frankly I'm tired of piecemeal policies being framed as radical reform
Gabbard's views on staying out of Syria aren't the problem. It's her disingenuous positions on LGBTQA and Race issues, and her comfort w/ the MAGA technocrats that's the problem. When most of your cheer squad is the far right & racist left your cover is blown
"Biden should've won by more" is the last gasp of the boomerang left Dead Enders who secretly wanted Trump to win so that they can claim they were right all along.
To put this in perspective. I've gotten text messages from everyone from my barber to my neighbor about
#January6thHearings
tonight. People really are paying attention
You can purchase a gun, go out, and shoot someone the same day in Georgia, but you can't register and vote on the same day. As long as these types of laws reflect politicians' values, you'll see racist tragedies like we've seen this week.
It's not random Twitter people, Bernie's actual paid staff routinely harass journalists, organizations and regular citizens online. He's seldom publicly reprimanded or removed anyone for this behavior. This statement is empty
Just now in interview with
@NewsHour
, Sen.
@BernieSanders
floated the idea that those online who are reportedly harassing Culinary Union members for not supporting Sanders are not actually Sanders supporters. โSometimes people attack people in somebody elseโs name,โ Sanders said.
Earlier this week in a conversation about the Sanders campaign and the behavior of his staff and supporters I referred to his campaign spokesperson as coming from the Island of Misfit Black Girls. It was a harmful and unnecessary comment and I apologize.
#BreonnaTaylor
wasn't "lost" to her family. She was killed by three cops that shot up her home while she was sleeping while they were at the wrong address looking for someone who had already been brought into custody.
I don't remember schools closing and 30 million Americans out of work and almost 200,000 people dying in America from Swine Flu. Yet Trump says it was a disaster. This is why
#TrumpPressConference
are often a waste of time - just a stream of absolute lies
This is DAY 2 of Early Voting in Columbus.... and this is only half the line.
@FrankLaRose
why is there only one early vote location and one drop box per county?