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The real story of "Che Guevara with Bling On" - @mendezberry on how she inspired one of Jay-Z's most infamous bars. :) Catch our full convo at

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Jay Smooth

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6 years

The code for the bathroom at this Starbucks is 90210 which the young barista passed on matter-of-factly as "nine zero two one zero" causing me to crumble into infinity dust

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3 years

The cult members are taking this new video pretty well

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7 months

There's a Palestinian restaurant here named Ayat that's been getting a bunch of one-star reviews and I'm here to tell you: these people are lying about some GOOD ass food

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3 years

I hate when people overhype things on on twitter so I will just state calmly that this is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life

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7 years

Waits for everyone defending PewDiePie's "free speech" to do the same for Jemele Hill. Waits. Waits. Dies waiting like that dog on Futurama.

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6 years

Instead of asking "should an 81 year old be punished this way?" another question you could maybe ask is "should a lifelong serial rapist have escaped punishment until he was 81?"

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5 years

I don't know what bugs me out more: how many comics talk about standup like they think they're storming the beach at Normandy, or how many fans take all this self-mythologizing seriously.

Rob Schneider

@RobSchneider

5 years

Dear @Shanemgillis As a former SNL cast member I am sorry that you had the misfortune of being a cast member during this era of cultural unforgiveness where comedic misfires are subject to the intolerable inquisition of those who never risked bombing on stage themselves.

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Jay Smooth

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4 years

Surely the master strategist Donald Trump would not soft-launch his new slogan without buying the domain name first?

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4 years

Trump is really trying to make "transition into greatness" a thing

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6 years

She won. Newt Gingrich's House seat is now Lucy McBath's House seat. Let that marinate.

A white man shot and killed her only son. Now Lucy McBath is running so it doesn't happen to anyone...

"The work was calling me."

www.motherjones.com

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Jay Smooth

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2 years

I asked DALL-E 2 to show me the rest of what was happening with this King Crimson album cover 👀👀

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7 years

Jemele Hill was doing her job. Jemele Hill was DOING HER JOB.

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4 years

This feels like we all went out for a fancy dinner, pored over the specials for like half an hour, and then finally said "you know what nevermind I'll just have this bread." Bread 2020.

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3 years

What other conclusion can we possibly draw, except that the Police and Dept of Defense made a decision, in advance, to let this happen?

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6 years

Do not link to the line steppers. Do not link to the line steppers. Do not link to the line steppers.

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4 years

huh I didn't expect Trump to endorse a candidate

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8 years

The people of Chicago decided it's best to bar Donald Trump from entering. Just temporarily. Until we can figure out what's going on.

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9 years

The man is unarmed. The chokehold is banned. The coroner ruled it a homicide. It is on video. None of this matters. I can't breathe.

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6 years

Miss me with any take that worries more about "division" and "polarization" than the issues we are divided and polarized about. If you are in opposition to my humanity, I will not be meeting you halfway on that.

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4 years

"I'm going to tell them an African-American man is threatening my life" That woman straight up told him: "I know this racist system gives me power over you, and I'm going to lie right now to use that power against you" No way this was the first, second or third time she did so.

Franklin Leonard

@franklinleonard

4 years

How many times has Amy Cooper said behind closed doors that a black co-worker “wasn’t a team player,” “isn’t one of us,” “made her uncomfortable.” How many times has she just not been able to put her finger on it, but just doesn’t think they’re the right candidate for the job?

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7 years

Unpopular opinion on these Richard Spencer videos: I believe the right choice is to sync the punch with the snare, not the kick drum.

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4 years

. @sarahcpr 's bat phone ringing off the hook right now

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4 years

Trump: I think I’ve done more for the black community than any other President and let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good but although it’s always questionable, you know in other words the end result Harris: Well we are free Mr. President

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9 years

The fundamental danger of a non-indictment is not more riots, it is more Darren Wilsons.

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3 years

@CNBC "The 125,682 'breakthrough' cases in 38 states found by NBC News represent less than .08 percent of the 164.2 million-plus people who have been fully vaccinated since January, or about one in every 1,300." If there's a story here, this is it. This is the tweet. Just say this.

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6 years

MC stands for Member of Congress.

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6 years

CNN projects that NY Democrat Antonio Delgado, the Rhodes Scholar whom Republicans had insisted on calling a "big-city rapper," has unseated Republican John Faso.

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1 year

FINALLY one of the boys from that bike incident gets to tell their side of of the story. I hope everyone who went off and running with the lawyer's narrative will at least come back and give this a good-faith read.

Mother Of Teen In Citi Bike Video Speaks Out: ‘No One Bothered To Ask Him What Happened’

In an exclusive interview, the teen who refused to give his Citi Bike bike to Sarah Jane Comrie and his family spoke out about the incident.

newsone.com

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6 years

Santa Claus is black, and he's coming early this year

Megyn Kelly Expected to End NBC Morning Show

Megyn Kelly is expected to wind down her 9 a.m. 'Today' show hour by the end of the season, a source close to Kelly tells The Hollywood Reporter. Kelly has met with network executives in recent weeks...

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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5 years

Megan Rapinoe, that's it that's the tweet

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7 years

I don't have a clever caption for this I just love it.

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7 days

Look at this hall monitor may I speak to the manager snitching ass dork over here. Are you kidding me 😄

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7 years

A prediction about Sean Spicer, and his fellow garbage fire enablers.

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6 years

Nike's new Colin Kaepernick ad is stressing me out.

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6 years

Please never speak to me again about how we need to appeal to Trump's base through compassion and empathy

Ken Dilanian

@KenDilanianNBC

6 years

New Quinnipiac poll: American voters oppose, 66 – 27 %, the policy of separating children and parents when families illegally cross the border, Republican voters support the policy, 55 – 35%.

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3 years

@texaninnyc

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4 years

"I am urging my supporters to go to the polls and watch them very closely" In case you were wondering what he told the Proud Boys to "stand by" for 👀

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3 years

@CNBC how is it this hard for y'all to communicate responsibly about COVID?

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3 years

Looking through some old magazines and wow, I completely blocked out that this happened 👀

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5 years

About @AOC 's Green New Deal and "wondering what the polls will say." #YellingAtBadTweets

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3 years

What if I told you the Georgia runoffs were two days ago

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5 years

If you think "gangbanger" and "next poet laureate" are mutually exclusive you're part of the problem, Joe

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5 years

Joe Biden: "We've got to recognize that kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger." 😬

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5 years

I'm watching Botham Jean's mother speak at church last night, and hoping her words get every bit as much attention as the hugging. IMO just incredibly clear & graceful, speaking to what they felt their faith required in the moment but also squaring it with the real-world context.

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4 years

Banned "unless their life is at risk" is no ban at all

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4 years

Chokeholds will be banned unless an officer’s life is at risk, Trump says of his executive order

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6 years

Why are Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph not hosting

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Jay Smooth

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4 years

This, BTW, is the only "race card" that actually exists.

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4 years

"I'm going to tell them an African-American man is threatening my life" That woman straight up told him: "I know this racist system gives me power over you, and I'm going to lie right now to use that power against you" No way this was the first, second or third time she did so.

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6 years

Life has a funny way

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4 years

Tom Steyer is infinitely more likable than the other billionaire, he just shouldn't be a candidate and there should be no billionaires

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5 years

Listen to me, please. Registered Democrats. There are like 28 other choices. We don't need this. Do not do this.

Matt Viser

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"I just want you to know. I had permission to hug Lonnie,” Joe Biden jokes, as he takes the stage after hugging the IBEW president.

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5 years

I see his mouth moving but all I hear is "Laquan McDonald. Laquan McDonald. Laquan McDonald."

CBS News

@CBSNews

5 years

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel compares Jussie Smollett's dropped charges to the recent college admissions scandal: "You cannot have, because of a person's position, one set of rules apply to them and another set of rules apply to everybody else"

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5 years

and i COOP

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5 years

@ByronTau "posturing" Right, because someone couldn't possibly just be sincerely troubled by all these kids surrounding and harassing this elder.

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4 years

Taking an unavoidable subway trip to/from Brooklyn, good news my trains are nice and empty, bad news rats are out on the platform like "OUR TIME HAS COME BROTHERS"

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6 years

Charles Barkley: 1 Steve Bannon: 0

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6 years

Listen y'all Kanye is not our relative, we don't have to keep inviting him to things.

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6 days

@bomani_jones @djvlad Anyone who actually knows Prince's music can tell you "If I Was Your Girlfriend" is top 10 in his catalog 😆 Vlad is a tourist trying to use Google Maps to argue with the locals

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5 years

I believe America is ready for a candidate with the vision, and courage, to acknowledge there are other Black people in Harlem besides Al Sharpton and other Black businesses besides Sylvia's

Pete Buttigieg meets with civil rights activist Al Sharpton in Harlem

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg met Monday with the Rev.

www.latimes.com

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11 months

Friendly reminder, there's a whole HBO Max documentary about Russell Simmons that's still up and streamable

Watch On the Record | Max

Watch On the Record and more new movie premieres on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. A timely and powerful documentary that follows former A&R executive Drew Dixon and other women of color who...

www.max.com

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5 years

Obvious but worth repeating: "the President has had a lying dirtbag as his right-hand man this whole time" is the PRO-Trump argument today.

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4 years

Please, please people, we must hide the rest of the kente cloth before Joe Biden gets to it

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Jay Smooth

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1 year

Dunno how we will ever replicate the quintessential Twitter experience of logging in to find a wall of inscrutable tweets about today's Main Character, and then spending 10+ minutes searching something like "who is the bringing chili to your neighbor person"

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2 years

@chrislhayes Why on earth, from his point of view, would he come out of this thinking he needs to "turn his life around"? He just got a red carpet laid out for him, into a life of $$$ and adulation as a "people's hero" for the right.

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6 years

Two things the @nytimes can do right now are 1) publish this entire thread as a rebuttal. 2) Give this woman Ross Douthat's job.

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5 years

Anyone who says "you might drive me to be racist" is already close enough to walk.

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3 years

Reminder: when you can it's always good to check a restaurant's website (or window) directly, and see how they prefer to take orders..sometimes they don't want that delivery site all up in their video dancing

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump You suck at your job.

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4 years

Brian Williams just shared this on screen like it was accurate, and did it with enough confidence he had me pulling out a calculator and thinking *I* was tripping.

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5 years

I've never meant this more than I mean it about whatever Malia Obama story you're about to link to.

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6 years

Do not link to the line steppers. Do not link to the line steppers. Do not link to the line steppers.

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4 years

When you're counting how much money you spent to come up here and get trash-compacted on live tv

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3 years

wow Glenn Greenwald finally read Glenn Greenwald's resignation letter

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4 years

Almost every knock on @AOC around here is based on other ppl's narratives about her, rather than anything she's actually saying or doing

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1 month

This video and the "why can't Austin Butler just say he likes Toy Story?" tiktoks make me think people are growing up learning from social media how to mirror the tone and posture of critical analysis without actually doing it, for their own relationship with celebrity etc

Ashley Reese

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Aside from her metrics being really goofy, there’s something very immature and antisocial about people who are this fixated on how attractive someone is or isn’t.

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5 years

"I don't know what 'in his heart' means" ^^^ YES. This is the correct answer forever and always

Text RESIST to 50409

@resistbot

5 years

Sen. Sherrod Brown: “This country hasn’t dealt well with issues of race. We have a president who’s a racist.”

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5 years

There is no earth on which Tim Ryan should be getting more coverage than Elizabeth Warren

Micah Cohen

@micahcohen

5 years

Most cable news coverage last week: 1. @BernieSanders 2. @BetoORourke 3. @PeteButtigieg 4. @KamalaHarris 5. @TimRyan 6. @ewarren 7. @JulianCastro 8. @amyklobuchar 9. @SenGillibrand 10. Everyone else

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"If the Blacks would just be compliant there wouldn't be a problem I mean you might not like it but the rules are the..what? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WEAR A MASK IN THIS STORE I AM A FREE AMERICAN I WILL BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND"

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5 years

I don't know what to do with this thing where people threaten to become racist like it's a bargaining chip.

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5 years

She didn't say "don't question me." She was asked a question and gave an answer, that she's already spoken on it and has no further comment. This is utterly mundane and commonplace and a million politicians have done it a billion times without being accused of "attitude:"

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5 years

This attitude from @IlhanMN -- don't question me, just quote my tweets -- is a problem on both sides of the aisle. Politicians' tweets aren't a substitute for journalism, they're a starting point for journalism.

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7 years

I had to put this to music. #Durham #TakeChainsOff (video via @DerrickQLewis )

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5 years

There is no way you're gonna tell me this is not impeachable.

Prince

@prince

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President Trump played Prince’s “Purple Rain” tonight at a campaign event in Minneapolis despite confirming a year ago that the campaign would not use Prince’s music. The Prince Estate will never give permission to President Trump to use Prince’s songs.

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Dax Shepard blocked me on twitter for trying to explain what "intersectionality" means 🤷

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4 years

OMG please call it already, I'm ready to start this transition into constant disappointment with Biden ASAP

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6 years

Dear @MSNBC there is never a good reason to book Candace Owens thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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2 months

With all the Diddy news I missed this 😮

Russell Simmons Surprised By Process Server In Bali: "Ah F##k, S##t"

Russell Simmons was surprised when a process server showed up at his luxury resort in Bali and served him with a lawsuit from the U.S.!

allhiphop.com

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"This person whose public work is loathsome turns out to be totally charming and schmoozy with other members of their elite social class!!" is not an important revelation or life lesson, y'all.

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6 years

Great gowns. Beautiful gowns.

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6 years

*checks Youtube recommendations* [...] No. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors.

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Yes yes sure I'm totally against all racists, now if you'll excuse me I'm late for my meeting w/ Steve Bannon about pardoning Joe Arpaio.

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7 years

"Okay fine RACISM IS BAD. Are you happy now?" #profilesincourage

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The creator of Godwin's law:

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@sfmnemonic

7 years

By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.

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4 years

Whenever I knock Joe Rogan someone on here always asks "but what's really so bad about him?" meanwhile there's something like this once a week

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6 years

‼️‼️‼️New Yorkers this is bad advice please do the opposite of this ‼️‼️‼️

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4 years

Please put some loving thoughts in the air for the Biz

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My only comment is: Johnnie Cochran had a long career that included repping the Black Panthers, getting Abner Louima his measure of justice from the NYPD and helping get Geronimo Pratt out of prison, and should not *just* live on in public discourse as "OJ's lawyer"

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I have friends who made this trip and each spoke of it almost exactly like this. Each one is on the left & politically engaged, not at all naive about the situation. But seeing up close the subjugation, the day-to-day indignity Palestinians live under, left each of them changed.

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

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“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.” Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.

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I don't even have the heart left to keep retweeting this 😠

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7 years

A prediction about Sean Spicer, and his fellow garbage fire enablers.

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There are a lot of people I would refuse to be friends with. One of them is whoever decided to end the debate with this Ellen question.

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11 years

The fundamental danger of an acquittal is not more riots, it is more George ZImmermans.

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6 months

de·col·o·ni·za·tion /dēˌkälənəˈzāSH(ə)n,dēˌkäləˌnīˈzāSH(ə)n/ 1. the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent. 2. the process of freeing an institution, sphere of activity, etc. from the cultural or social effects of colonization.

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7 years

@pareene A tale of two ratios..

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6 years

This statement from Pelosi has 112 words of praise the candidate who lost, and 8 words for the candidate who won. If you count her name as three words.

Seung Min Kim

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Pelosi statement on @repjoecrowley , who lost his primary tonight to Ocasio-Cortez

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This platform already had a lot of "typing at people in a way you'd never go outside and speak to people" energy, and a whole year of us not going outside and speaking to people does not seem to be helping with this 😀

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