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Kid from Congress Heights. Advocate, Organizer, National Political Director @PeopleFor . Fmr ANC Commissioner, @MarkusSBOE , Council candidate. Good Troublemaker.

Southeast, DC

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Joined November 2008

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Markus Batchelor

2 months

Donald Trump is a racist and a fool and his “mugshots and sneakers” campaign to Black voters proves both. On last week’s Weekend DeBrief on @scrippsnews , I talked about the stakes for Black voters and the candidates that need us in November. @peoplefor

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2 years

Remember when 3 children were murdered in their school and the major newspapers didn’t carry the story above the fold? That was today.

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3 years

Stop asking Black and brown activists to out-organize racist laws.

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4 years

What a year of a week.

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2 years

Friends: What’s it like living in DC? What it’s like living in DC:

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3 years

If Iverson Mall is still making it, so can you. Keep grinding.

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3 years

Don’t forget about Harriet Tubman on the $20.

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3 years

Those protesting to throw out Black votes today got a warmer reception by the police than those protesting for the last 4 months to save Black lives.

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3 years

Ok, Georgia got their two Democratic Senators. Now I want mine. #DCStatehood

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3 years

I have a pastor for thoughts and prayers. We have politicians for policy and change. Do your jobs.

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2 years

. @AriLennox returns home to DC for the release of her sophomore studio album “age/sex/location”. We love you, Ari! ♥️ @siriuscompanydc @ICSHDC

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“When we ask ourselves how America became the world’s greatest jailer, it is natural to focus on shiny objects: national campaigns, federal legislation, executive orders from the Oval Office. But we should train our eyes, also, on more mundane decisions and directives, many of…

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Lorenzo Hall

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#NEW - Mayor Bowser signs the Secure DC crime bill into law @WUSA9 .

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2 years

Actually, DC is bordered on 3 sides by land + 1 by water. We’re majority people of color, a pop. >than VT & WY. We mostly work private sector, pay more fed. taxes than 22 states; more per-person than all. We pray on Sunday, vote on Tuesday (or early) & pay our dues all week long.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley: "Washington D.C. is an island surrounded by reality. Iowa -- common sense -- it's what I come home for to bring back to Washington D.C. Iowa is the real America."

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4 years

John Lewis says hello.

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4 years

. @MayorBowser : Release the tapes and ensure #JusticeForDeon . We’re waiting.

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@davidhogg111 The Department of Homeland Security didn’t exist.

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3 years

Happy Birthday to a legendary son of DC, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, born today in 1899.

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3 years

Starting in June, D.C. police will not be the first responders to some mental health calls in the city. Under a new pilot program, 911 operators will instead send unarmed teams of behavioral health experts and peers to the scene.

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D.C. to divert some mental health calls away from police

A pilot program starting in June will send behavioral health experts to some calls.

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7 months

Bill got around town in his day. Lol

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every bomb immigrant food place in dc has a grainy ass pic of bill clinton visiting and shaking hands with some uncle

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2 years

As @JamaalBowmanNY engages and thanks a group of of us fighting for voting rights outside the Capitol, @CapitolPolice cuff him and put him under arrest with the group. Thanks for always standing with the people! #VotingRightsNow @LetsUnpac @peoplefor

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1 year

Thanks to @VP for convening today’s gathering of young men of color to talk about issues we face most acutely + think critically about ways The @WhiteHouse can create opportunity, expand access, & make this a nation where all of us are seen and have a seat at the table. An honor.

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1 year

When everyone asks for separate checks at brunch.

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Washingtonian Problems

1 year

Caption this (DC Edition)

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3 months

DC + Virginia teaming up to ruin Ted’s plans:

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L. Louise Lucas

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3 months

As I said this morning in committee- if Monumental Sports will renege on its agreement with DC why would we ever believe they would not do the same to us?

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4 years

DC teachers are paying for supplies out of their pockets. Schools can’t fit a field trip in the budget. Principals are choosing between paying for a behavioral tech or a librarian. When do we get to the argument that underfunding them is a threat to public safety?

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3 years

Multiple armed officers with a ballistics shield, apparently trained to deescalate and protect “sanctity of life”, fired on a 27-year-old they startled awake at a traffic light. #AntwanGilmore might have needed assistance, but instead got a death sentence.

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4 years

Gun 👏🏾 violence 👏🏾 is 👏🏾 a 👏🏾disease 👏🏾 that 👏🏾 requires 👏🏾 a 👏🏾public 👏🏾 health 👏🏾 approach!

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FOX 5 DC

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DC deputy mayor vows to increase police presence after deadly weekend

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3 years

Too many “accidents” on Black bodies.

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2 years

“And before this campaign fails, we’ll all go down to jail — because everybody’s got a right to vote” #DeliverForVotingRights @peoplefor @BlackVotersMtr @faithblacklives @untilfreedom

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2 years

Full service grocery stores open on Wednesday morning: Ward 3 - 14 Ward 8 below the bridge - 1

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Nathan Baca

2 years

Tenleytown, meet your new @Wegmans . Opens next Wednesday. @wusa9

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2 years

If the U.S. prison population was a city, it would be the 5th largest city in America.

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I’m running to be #Ward8 ’s champion on the DC Council. Together, we can tackle our toughest issues and achieve the bold solutions required for all of us to thrive. Let’s build @OneWard8 for all of us.

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3 years

. @PeteButtigieg doesn’t measure out his laundry detergent. Just pours it in. But the #MayorPete doc was incredible. Stream it now.

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9 months

Good Morning, DC. ☀️🪘

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1 year

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up.”

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Be A King

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58 years ago today…my mother making sure that my father is sharp as he prepares to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. His Acceptance Speech: #MLK #CorettaScottKing

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1 year

Transfer of Power, Republican Edition Jan. 6 2021 Jan. 6 2023

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8 months

Great. They’re not closing the store. They’re just not putting anything in it. In the nation’s capital, whole communities become deprived of basic essentials while leaders underinvest and under-commit to lasting solutions.

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The Giant Food grocery store on Alabama Avenue in Southeast D.C. will no longer be stocking brand name health and beauty items such as Colgate, Tide and Advil.

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4 years

The use of tear gas has been banned in DC for weeks. MPD used it on peaceful protesters last night. Let’s talk accountability.

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4 years

Lines in #Ward1 & #Ward8 this afternoon to vote in person. Communities of color are showing up b/c our imperfect mail-in process has inequitably failed them. Today’s 7pm citywide curfew — an hour before polls close — discourages voters who need to be heard most. #RespectOurVote

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3 years

There is racism in transportation infrastructure. Residents use this footbridge every day to cross a highway that splits their community in half and it’s clearly been neglected for years despite it. I have many questions that need answers.

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Steve Rudin 7News

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3 years

⚠️ NEW: Photo from @dcfireems shows extent of pedestrian bridge collapse this afternoon in Northeast #DC . ➡️ The incident took place at Kenilworth Avenue and Polk Street, NE. Stay with @7NewsDC for expanded coverage.

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4 years

Hearing of 4 shot (at least one fatally) tonight on the 400 block of Orange St — where I grew up, my family still lives & #DeonKay was killed by police a few weeks ago. Trust me when I tell you: we won’t police our way out of gun violence on Orange or anywhere else in our city.

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2 years

What a beautiful #MLKDay — but we can’t celebrate until we defend our democracy and our right to vote against those determined to suppress and silence popular democracy. It’s time for @SenatorSinema & @Sen_JoeManchin to do what is right. Right now. #DeliverForVotingRights

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4 years

In both the killings of #DeonKay and #KaronHylton , a young man died interacting with officers who knew them by name. Tell us more about how “community policing” will save us.

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Mark Segraves

4 years

4 @DCPoliceDept officers placed on non-contact leave after fatal crash that occurred during police pursuit of 20 yr old Karon Hylton-Brown. All 4 were in car seen chasing scooter. Body Worn Camera shows at least one officer knew Karon and called him by name. @nbcwashington

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From the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you. —MB

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From the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you.

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1 year

@RepMTG @Walmart This you? Shut up.

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4 years

While there are many strong voices in the contest for President, I believe Senator @ewarren is the bold voice we need to win in November and achieve the big structural change to make the American Dream real for all of us. I’m proud to join @TeamWarren ! #WinWithWarren

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3 years

I’ve seen enough. Give @MsSarahPaulson all the Emmys. #ACSImpeachment

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3 years

Great. Now do voting rights so we can have a functional democracy to go with all those roads and bridges. #EndTheFilibuster and pass #ForThePeopleAct .

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#BREAKING : The Senate passes bipartisan #infrastructure bill 69-30 with VP Kamala Harris presiding over the Senate.

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3 years

Right Now: Secret Service are arresting civil rights leaders and clergy outside the White House demanding that President @JoeBiden take bolder action to protect the #FreedomToVote . Officials say they will likely be detained overnight. @peoplefor @LWV @BlackVotersMtr

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3 years

Normalize not calling housing at 80% AMI “affordable”.

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2 years

This ain’t a drill! The attack on abortion rights is just one bullet in the gun the far right is aiming at popular democracy. Whether it’s the right to choose, love, learn, or vote, we’re all in the crosshairs.

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Why is the party of "freedom" trying to ban abortion? Because it's not actually about freedom. It's about power. Watch.

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5 months

Tired of this talking point. The reforms made in DC post-2020: -Make police misconduct files available and open. -Release body cam footage after shootings or use of force -Limit use of chemical munitions -Raised the bar for deadly force Which one caused crime?

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You want to know how DC can solve their problems? Repeal the post-2020 criminal justice reforms made in the wake of the BLM riots. Repeal them all. #DC

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3 years

For those saying $250,000 is not rich in DC, go talk to the *average* Black resident who brings home < 1/3 of that trying to afford housing, childcare, transportation, and groceries in the same city. Or the average #Ward8 resident making 1/6 of that. Word of the day is equity.

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2 years

Me when my friends come to DC and ask me to show them around:

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We’re failing so many of our young people, DC.

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3 years

News! Excited to be named as Deputy Director of Leadership Programs at @peoplefor ! In this new role, I’ll help develop and amplify the voices of thousands of leaders fighting for bold progressive change in their communities across the country.

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3 years

It’s my birthday! 🎈 I’m so grateful for 28 amazing rotations around the sun — and for all the incredible people and experiences; the laughs and love that have made it worth living. I wouldn’t change a thing. With God’s grace, the best is yet to come.

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3 years

PULL UP RIGHT NOW! We’re ready to be out #AllNightforVotingRights . I’m with bold young leaders, including state representatives from across the country staying on the steps of the Capitol until there’s a path forward to #EndTheFilibuster and pass the #ForThePeopleAct .

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3 years

Marijuana pop-ups and soft judges did NOT make this DC’s most deadly year in two decades — Ballooning inequality and the lack of urgency to address it did. If you’re so passionate about improving public safety, show us how passionate you are about ending poverty.

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2 years

If the residents of DC haven’t earned a piece of real America after 200 years of second-class citizenship, may we have a refund? We’ll take it in #DCStatehood .

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1 year

There’s no such thing as supporting home rule until you don’t, Mr. President. No such thing as supporting democracy until you don’t.

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President Biden

1 year

I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule – but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections – such as lowering penalties for carjackings. If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did – I’ll sign it.

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2 years

Pretty sad to see city leadership throw artists and curators that have always been about uplift, peace, and empowerment under the bus for a gun violence crisis they’re failing to holistically address. Especially when any other time they break their necks to use their platform.

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3 years

Your daily reminder that Climate Justice is Racial Justice.

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NASA Earth

3 years

New research shows that neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., with more people of color, are exposed to more air pollution and have higher rates of disease.

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Mitch McConnell pushed through Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation 30 days after her nomination and 8 days before the 2020 election — the shortest consideration in recent history.

@LeaderMcConnell

Leader McConnell

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2 years

The Senate must conduct a rigorous, exhaustive review of Judge Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. This is especially crucial as Americans families face major crises that connect directly to our legal system, such as skyrocketing violent crime and open borders.

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3 years

When politicians use a violent incident to disparage “defund” rhetoric, they always conveniently forget to explain (1) how something that hasn’t happened yet caused it or (2) how more cops would prevent an incident police only respond to *after the fact*.

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Mayor takes aim at 'defund' movement after 'senseless' shooting of mom, son over scooter

It doesn’t look like many of the places where street shootings occur. Tenth and P NW, in D. C. ’s Shaw neighborhood, is a quiet area with expensive row houses, carpenters coming and going out of...

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Happy 90th Birthday, Dr. King. In all, an embodiment of a dream inspired; of victories won; and of the promise of a brighter day — if we keep fighting for it. #MLK90

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4 years

The public has better guidance and benchmarks for re-opening a bar in DC than we do to re-open a public school. Let that sink in.

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3 years

How much police overtime do you need to prevent shootings committed in front of police?

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Mayor Muriel Bowser

3 years

Today, I notified the DC Council that I have directed @DCPoliceDept to use any overtime necessary to meet our public safety needs. #SaferStrongerDC

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Polls don’t close until 7pm today & 8pm tmrw. No matter how you shake it, a citywide curfew will suppress the vote for those Black & Brown communities who are showing up in person because the mail-in process has failed them or because they’ll attempt to avoid encounters with MPD.

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MSNBC

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Washington DC Mayor Bowser announces 7 p.m. ET curfew for the next two nights. Bowser says the curfew will not impact the functioning of the city's primary election on Tuesday and essential workers and the press will be exempt from it.

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I’m really not interested in hearing shit from “common sense” Republicans who made room for the radical right, allowed a fascist to co-opt their party, then either tip-toed around or downright embraced him and now want to pretend they had nothing to do with it. You can go, too.

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Half of DC’s school aged children *live* in #Ward7 and #Ward8 . HALF. I mean, come on.

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Carlene Reid

3 years

Thank you @MaryLevy17

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3 years

“tHeY’rE bUrNinG tHiNgS! WhEre aRe tHe pOliCe!?” 😒

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Sawyer Hackett

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Now they’re burning it.

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1️��0️⃣ cities, 9️⃣ days, 1️⃣ goal: Our Vote! I’m hopping aboard the @BlackVotersMtr Blackest Bus in America from June 18-26, organize across the south & tell Congress to pass the #ForThePeopleAct , #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct , & #DCStatehood . Join us! Text FreedomRide to 7️⃣9️⃣7️⃣9️⃣7️⃣9️⃣

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The jig is up. #SOTU

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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦

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"And tonight, I’m announcing that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud." -- Pres. Biden #SOTU

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“Let us march on until victory is won” #Selma57 #DefendTheBlackVote @peoplefor @BlackVotersMtr

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Since it first convened in 1789, nearly 2000 individuals have served in the United States Senate. Only 10 have been Black.

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The District: •has more cops + spends more on cops/prison per capita than any state •has highest incarceration rate of a state outside the Deep South •has more men in DC Jail than enrolled undergrad at UDC •has a 1 in 10 returning citizen pop Soft on crime!? Miss me.

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President Biden summoned the support of the Congress and a global alliance to defend democracy and the will of free people abroad — and won’t even raise his pen to defend them for those Americans closest to him.

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Biden willing to sign effort to block new DC crime laws

President Joe Biden says he's willing to sign a Republican-sponsored resolution blocking new District of Columbia laws that would overhaul how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime.

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Pennsylvania Avenue & 6th Street, SE. April 1968.

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4 years

“Black people make up 40% of #COVID19 deaths in Michigan, where only 14% of the pop. is Black. In Chicago, where Black people make up 29 percent of the pop., 70% of COVID-19 deaths are Black residents.” It’s time for DC to release its racial data. Now.

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Early Data Shows Coronavirus Infecting And Killing Black People At Alarming Rate | Essence

As data slowly rolls in about where and who is impacted by the coronavirus, it's becoming quite clear that Black communities are at a higher risk.

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3 years

Had to. #EatLocal #OnlyAtGW

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Today, my mom & I gave my 92-year-old grandmother — the granddaughter of slaves — a framed photo of her grandson and the first Black President of the United States. Denied the right to vote well into her 40s, she’s cast a ballot for us both — twice. So grateful this Christmas.

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@MaxwellFrostFL We’re gonna get you off the hill and into real DC if it kills me 😂

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1 year

All this backstory and no one caught the potentially problematic symbolism of a pig with a military helmet on…

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Darren M. Haynes

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Major Tuddy is from Upper Marlboaro, Maryland. He loves go-go music and Mambo Sauce wings aaccording to the Commanders #HTTC

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3 years

We all know a Charles McMillian in the hood — road tested, street smart, heart of gold, with a deep commitment to and love for his neighbors. He did all he could to show up for #GeorgeFloyd that day and still is, even in death. God bless him.

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Yamiche Alcindor

3 years

Charles McMillian, who tried to speak to George Floyd as officers first tried to put him in a police car and then later as Floyd shouted for his mama while Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck, just broke down on the witness stand. Court on a break now.

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Markus Batchelor

3 years

We promise. One more star won’t hurt. #FlagDay #DCStatehood #WheresMyStar

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Markus Batchelor

10 months

Florida Dems are coming back swinging🥊!

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Nikki Fried

10 months

Republicans are trying to burn our state and your @FlaDems to the ground. Not on our fucking watch.

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Markus Batchelor

2 years

Thank you, @kerrywashington ! ✊🏾🖤

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Markus Batchelor

4 years

The values we’re advancing in this race are DC’s values: 65% support #PoliceFreeSchools & investing the $ in mental health + student supports. 83% support raising taxes on the wealthy, esp. those earning $350k or more. This is what we’re fighting for.

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Two-Thirds Of D.C. Voters Surveyed Support Removing Police From Schools, New Poll Finds

The findings also indicate broad support for increasing taxes on wealthy Washingtonians.

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Markus Batchelor

4 years

We can’t separate the violence of racism from violence of poverty. In a DC where #BlackLivesMatter , poverty should be the crime — not being poor. Housing as a human right, a guaranteed basic income, education, mental health, addiction recovery. This is what we’re fighting for.

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DCist

4 years

In light of recent protests over the death of George Floyd and other Black people killed by police, activists and local nonprofits are pushing for the city to allocate more toward ending homelessness.

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Markus Batchelor

5 years

The 14yr old son of a community activist in #Ward8 was shot last night in Congress Heights. Someone fired 5 rounds at him & his 12 & 13yr old friends. Where’s our outrage? What about him? What about his mom who serves her community too hard to be so miserably failed by it?

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Markus Batchelor

3 years

No Rights, No Flights! ✊🏾 #RecessCanWait , democracy can’t. #EndTheFilibuster and pass the #ForThePeopleAct !

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Alejandro Alvarez 🫡

3 years

#Breaking : Dozens are risking arrest in blocking the drop-off zone outside Reagan National Airport’s main concourse. They’re demanding safeguards for voting rights, D.C. statehood and reparations — marking the Voting Rights Act’s 56th year.

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Markus Batchelor

3 years

It’s always a process question when you’re trying to feed and house poor people, but never when you’re trying to police them.

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Markus Batchelor

3 years

How about you scoot your ass back inside and protect the voting rights of people who look like you.

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Tim Scott

@SenatorTimScott

3 years

Scootin’ past the press corps like... 🛴💨

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Markus Batchelor

2 years

Don’t let the end of #BlackHistoryMonth fool you. See you in the morning.

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Markus Batchelor

3 years

There should be a moratorium on new DC charter school applications and a serious discussion about what the hell we’re doing when it comes to public education. We’re throwing bowls of spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks & our city’s most vulnerable kids are caught in middle.

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Markus Batchelor

3 years

On DC #EmancipationDay , we celebrate the living legacy of the nation’s ‘first freed’ — 3,000 enslaved Black Washingtonians emancipated on April 16, 1862, eight months before Lincoln’s proclamation and over three years before the 13th Amendment.

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Markus Batchelor

4 years

Deon Kay should be here, not a hashtag. He deserved a 2nd (3rd, 4th) chance at success, not a death sentence. He deserved a community where gaining access to opportunity is easier than gaining access to a gun. (1/2)

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Markus Batchelor

2 years

It’s rich how the “DC’s pretty safe, just don’t go to Anacostia” people are now “sick of the crime” all of a sudden.

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