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Former SC House of Rep '06 - '14. @CNN @StromLaw . 2x NYT Bestseller. “THE MOMENT” Out April 23, 2024

Columbia, SC
Joined January 2011
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Bakari Sellers
5 months
Really excited to announce this new project. Grateful to @AmistadBooks @HarperCollins @PatriksPicks for another opportunity to share my work. This book is timely as we explore the racial reckoning that wasn’t. Please pre-order at:
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Dear Apple, No one uses the word “ducking”. No one. Thank you!
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Dear Trumpers, Trump picked the FBI director that raided his home. Ok bye.
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They arrested a CNN reporter before the killers of #GeorgeFloyd
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Saying Kung Flu is racist. The President of the United States is racist.
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You have time to do everything but arrest the police who killed Breonna Taylor.
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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron pushes back on Joe Biden's Black voters comments in RNC speech
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A man has a 7 story home worth $77m in the middle of Manhattan, and no one knows how he makes his money. Where I’m from you get a new car and you ain’t got a job, law enforcement is sitting outside your house taking pictures.
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Y’all worried about Bidens brain and Trump told y’all to pop a Tide Pod and call him in the morning.
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Jesus was a brown refugee, Yall would’ve put him in a cage.
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Statues of Jesus are next. It won't end. Pray for the USA
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Y’all show up to school board meetings over American History (I mean CRT), but y’all mighty quiet over school shootings.
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Do y’all ever sit back and think about how much @HillaryClinton was actually right about?
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This Critical Race Theory halftime show is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I know some of y’all are appalled but literally every Black or Brown person in public life has been told “go back to Africa” at one point or another. Racism ain’t new, it just doesn’t wear a hood anymore
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The “billionaire”paying $750 in taxes getting the best healthcare in the world for free.
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The President can wish #GhislaineMaxwell well, but can’t say Black Lives Matter. Wild.
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If my 15 year old daughter looks at me and says “I’m still speaking....” one more time.....
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Obama’s subjects and verbs agree. Y’all remember when Presidents did that?!
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Y'all remember Charlottesville White Supremacists "very fine people". Black NFL players Sons of bitches that need to be fired.
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At what point do we acknowledge the bomber was radicalized by the President of the United States.
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The @POTUS committed a crime.
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This Baldwin clip in light of the Bloomberg audio released yesterday means so much. Spend 2 mins of your day and watch this.
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Texas signed a fetal heartbeat bill and executed a man on the same day?!?
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Can we talk about white nationalism and white male domestic terrorism now?
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So powerful. South Carolina’s own @violadavis
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Can I ask y’all a question? If getting kids back in school is a priority, which it should, why aren’t teachers also prioritized in getting vaccinations? We have enough.
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Roger Stone has y’all talking about reviewing use of force guidelines. Not Alton Sterling Not Eric Gardner Not Walter Scott Not Sandra Bland Not Keith Lamont Scott Not Philando Castile Not Terence Crutcher Not Dontre Hamilton .......... But Roger Stone!!! Think about that.
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Black voters Detroit Milwaukee Atlanta and Philly did the damn thing! And by the damn thing I mean save this country from itself
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Y’all already forgot about Buffalo.
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So MAGA and black ppl are different. We knew it but thank for saying so...
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Jake Tapper
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Trump: “MAGA is make America great again. By the way, they love African-American people, they love black people. MAGA loves the black people.”
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What time y’all wanna watch Black Panther? Noon/1? Let’s watch together
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Why is everything open in Georgia but Grand Juries? You can literally get a tattoo but not get justice.
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This is powerful.
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Why do we always have to explain....walking away from officers, turning your back on officers, even resisting arrest IS NOT A DEATH PENALTY CRIME.
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Me and my boys been talking about this all day...how is your accountant so good but he can’t get rid of that final $750.
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Sidney Powell was a federal prosecutor. I kinda think someone needs to review her cases.
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If Biden said screw this and walked off, I think we’d all understand
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Reminder: Arrests aren’t justice. Goodnight.
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We have a chance to win the Senate and y’all are on here being messy about a spliced Obama quote. Focus.
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Dear Lord, please cover and protect @KamalaHarris . Order her steps. And may the words of her mouth and the meditations of her heart be acceptable in your sight. Amen!
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It never ceases to amaze me, when you call out racism, the racists get offended.
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Someone needs to explain to me how Wyoming deserves statehood and the District of Columbia does not...I’m here all day.
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I’m a trial lawyer.
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Is this your first time watching a trial?
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I have so much respect for the Secret Service, bc I would’ve just tossed Trump the keys and showed him where I parked.
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Biden announced his first task force and it didn’t have relatives or in-laws. Ethical leadership is refreshing.
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This is racist.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
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Pocahontas taking some scalps here.
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Biden ended a 20 year+ war.
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I think we will look back and recognize not electing @HillaryClinton was one of the most consequential failures in our country’s history. It fundamentally put democracy in peril.
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This may be the dumbest composed tweet in the history of The Twitter.
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Merry Christmas from our family to yours! I can’t send all of you a card so here you go. (This way even the haters get one!)
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There is nothing progressive about sitting out of the Presidential election. It’s entitled and privileged, yes. Most Americans, especially black and brown voters, can’t afford 4 more years of Trump. Push Biden to be better, always, but sitting out and tweeting is trash.
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Dear LE, If someone falls asleep at the drive through and runs from you, LET THEM GO. (You literally have their car and plates) Signed, Ppl who are sick of this...
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At this point you’re not resigning, you just taking the rest of your vacation days.
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Y’all mad Biden went and got an American? Really? Our President went and got one of us. Are you mad because of her hair? Because of who she loves? Because of her skin color? How do y’all pick and choose which Americans matter? #BGFree
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This is what happens when you’re about to get sued for your entire network.
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It’s not cancel culture, it’s consequences. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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The bad Kanye takes are something. Black folk ain’t voting for him just because he’s black. He’s a clown and black voters know this.
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“He live over there.” Ron Desantis
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If you Sadie can wear a mask, you can too....
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Who wants to tell him who was President in 2017?
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Nobody could’ve seen this coming..
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Let’s get 51. @ReverendWarnock you up next.
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This is Merrick Garland. He has a beautiful family too. Yalls self righteous BS is palpable.
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Biden/Harris would be special.
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I know it’s none of my business, but in 2021 I need some of y’all to go to therapy.
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A note to all my journo friends and TV commentators, this is NOT the “George Floyd Trial” this is the “Derek Chauvin Trial.” George Floyd, although many will try, is not the one on trial. Please and thank you.
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Compare Adam Toledo to Kyle Rittenhouse. This is what we’re talking about.
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Can y’all chill with the political obituaries until some black folk have voted? Thanks.
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8 years scandal free (all of them)
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Susan Page is worse than Chris Wallace.
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These two turn two today. It’s been a wild ride. You are both so tough, and Daddy loves you so much!!!
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Stokley Taggart (5lb 9oz) and Sadie Ellen (4lb 13oz) are here! Mom and babies are doing great!
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This @Trevornoah clip is very Baldwin-esque. So much truth. Here is your 4 minute weekend viewing.
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I miss @HillaryClinton . She was literally so right about so much.
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Man....can we vote tomorrow.
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Damn I miss Barack Hussein Obama.
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Pete said “repeat that dumb shit again.” 😂😂😂
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Try being called nigger
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Sahil Kapur
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Sen. John Kennedy: "It hurts to be called a racist. I think it's one of the worst things you can call an American."
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Howard grads are about to be insufferable 😂😂😂
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Do all black women intimidate you or just Kamala?
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Hope Hicks committed perjury, obstruction of justice, and federal election law violations.
@GeoffRBennett
Geoff Bennett
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BREAKING: The unredacted Michael Cohen search warrants describe a series of calls on October 8, 2016 between Trump, Cohen, and Hope Hicks - the purpose of which the FBI says was to keep Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels) from going public with her story - @Tom_Winter reports
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Unguardable
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Happy Holidays from our family to yours....
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I feel like we need to fry some turkey, buy some gifts, and just call 2020 done. I’m over it.
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Guys your masks has to cover your nose.
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Don’t get fired for your takes on Twitter today.....
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Found it! The dumbest tweet of all time!
@RonnaMcDaniel
Ronna McDaniel
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Joe Biden can’t run from his disastrous record responding to the coronavirus. The truth hurts, Joe!
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😂😂😂 Your husband once called me, a full grown black man, “Boy” during a commercial break. Please stop.
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Mercedes Schlapp
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. @JoeBiden has no respect for Blacks with his #YouAintBlack comment. The one guy who supported the Crime Bill, which led to mass incarceration of so many Black men.
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So let’s use the right language. This wasn’t an accidental shooting. This was a negligent and reckless shooting.
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Merrick Garland is again stepping up to the plate. He is announcing today DOJ is filing suit against the state of Georgia over their Jim Crow 2.0 voting laws. This is a big f’ing deal!!!
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. @HerschelWalker out here lecturing black men on fatherhood and ain’t seen his kid since Obama’s first term.
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It was all fun and games until Donald Trump got a real crisis and had to display some level of competence.
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I’m not inside the bubble. So here. House Leadership and Justice Democrats need to cut this shit out. We have a predator in the White House, and y’all sending anonymous quotes back and forth to the Hill. Use all this damn energy and impeach Trump.
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How old you think Barron was when he found out, his daddy put bills and credit cards in his name?
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When we told you about Joe Rogan, we were scolded.
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JOE ROGAN: "I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet."
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I feel like someone should tell y’all the vaccine is free. Paying real money for a fake vaccine card of a free vaccine is a different type of scamming,
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Y’all rather Boycott baseball than Jim Crow.
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Black history doesn’t start with slavery. You’re welcome.
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Watch this for your morning laugh. @RepThomasMassie is apparently serious but this is the dumbest line of questioning in committee this year, and that’s hard to do.
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We should also thank @HillaryClinton for paving the way and chipping at that glass ceiling so we can have MVP @KamalaHarris .
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Who wants to run against Rubio in 2022? Take all my money now.
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