Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.
@JamaalBowmanNY
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Congressman for #NY16 . Life long educator. Former middle school principal. Causing good trouble. Fighting for jobs and education, not bombs and incarceration.
Yonkers, NY
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MAGA is coming for
#NY16
because they’re afraid.
Governing with and for the people, I’ve led the fight to make democracy work for US, and won $1 billion in resources for working people in my district.
Trump donors want to buy our seat? Tough. Our work is just getting started.
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I’m a Black man raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn’t usually end in Congress.
But today, that 11-year old boy beaten by police is about to be your Representative.
I can't wait to get to DC and cause problems for those maintaining the status quo.
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RT if you think Congress should make Juneteenth a national holiday.
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This is what structural racism looks like.
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It's too generous to say we "wasted" $2.26 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan.
The reality is, military contractors got rich off of those wars. We didn't just waste that money — we funneled it to the same people whose political donations will fund more pro-war candidates.
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The White House says it doesn't have authority to extend the eviction moratorium or cancel student debt.
But it hasn’t had a problem conducting airstrikes without authorization from Congress.
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Voting to acquit Donald Trump makes you a fascist.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene lacks compassion. She lacks humanity. She lacks respect for colleagues.
She lacks the baseline competencies necessary to legislate.
Her office is a waste of taxpayer $. She has no committee assignments. All she has is hate and attention-seeking bigotry.
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Ronald Reagan is one of the worst presidents in American history.
According to a study by the London School of Economics, 50 years worth of tax cuts contributed absolutely nothing to boost the GDP and employment rates across 18 nations that tried trickle down economics since the wealthy hoard far more than they spend.
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I’m speechless. NYC is a beautifully diverse, working class, democratic city. The NYPD is clearly showing they are not interested in working with the people of our city. This explains their continued aggression against innocent people. It’s time for dramatic change.
NYPD union endorses Trump: 'We need your strong voice across the country'
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Damn, Mr. President.
Didn’t you say “Trayvon could’ve been my son?”
In 2014,
#BlackLivesMatter
was too much.
In 2016, Kaepernick was too much.
Today, discussing police budgets is too much.
The problem is America's comfort with Black death -- not discomfort with slogans.
Obama: You lose people with "snappy" slogans like "defund the police"
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En route to congressional orientation with my son. 😊
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We didn’t come to the United States Congress to tolerate calls for insurrection from our colleagues.
We need to pass
@CoriBush
’s resolution calling for their expulsion, and we need to do it immediately.
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Just so we are clear,
@IlhanMN
and
@RashidaTlaib
were MAJOR factors in delivering Minnesota and Michigan for
@JoeBiden
. My sisters are movement and nation builders. So humbled to join y’all in Congress. Let’s go!
Out work the hate. Challenge conventional wisdom. Expand the electorate. Ignore polls & consultants. Listen to the people. Organize. Mobilize. Turnout. Repeat. S/O to
@RashidaTlaib
@IlhanMN
#Michigan
#Minnesota
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BREAKING: Man with an estimated net worth of $34,137,534 thinks $600 is enough.
BREAKING: As the American people continue battling the coronavirus this holiday season, they will not be on their own.
Congress has just reached an agreement. We will pass another rescue package ASAP. More help is on the way.
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Americans in their 20s have an average of $21,000 in student loan debt.
Those in their 30s have an average of over $40,000.
There's no better way to stimulate our economy and truly build back better than cancelling every penny of that debt.
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Big New York Public School Teacher Energy.
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Regardless of who's in the White House, the words "migrant facility for children" shouldn't be in our government's vocabulary.
First migrant facility for children opens under Biden
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It is with deep sorrow that I share the passing of our mother, Ms. Pauline Bowman. She battled Covid for many weeks before transitioning on Valentine’s Day.
Our mother raised us to live our lives with love and joy with and for each other. I share her legacy with all of you.
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Republicans booed sister
@CoriBush
when she denounced white supremacy.
They just cheered someone who said Parkland and Sandy Hook were “false flags.”
Source tells me that roughly half the House GOP conference gave Marjorie Taylor Greene a standing ovation after she rose to speak a few min ago.
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Under Medicare for All, Clint Capela would be fully covered at no cost.
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When Donald Trump cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, it wasn't bipartisan. Not a single Democrat voted in favor.
There's no reason that we need to be bipartisan in repealing that tax cut.
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The erasure of Dr. Jill Biden’s expertise is shrouded in both sexism and disrespect for the teaching profession.
Educators are experts.
While we’re at it, it also Dr. Jamaal Bowman.
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Outside the White House right now there are hundreds of young Jews calling for the end of violence on innocent lives in Gaza.
There’s nothing I could say that captures my respect, admiration, and heartache for members of this community who have endured unspeakable atrocities and…
BREAKING: I am by the White House in Washington D C where Jews are rallying in support of Palestine and Israel and are asking
@netanyahu
to "stop the killings", say no genocide in their names.
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The filibuster is a pillar upholding white supremacy. It's time to end it.
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Excellent. Now we should send everyone 100 of them. A month.
.
@PressSec
says
@USTreasury
is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman’s picture on the new $20 bills.
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Rahm Emanuel should not be considered for any position within the Biden administration.
Following progressive backlash against reports that Rahm Emanuel was being considered for transportation secretary, Joe Biden may now be considering the former Chicago mayor for the somewhat less visible position of U.S. trade representative.
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We should not be adjourned. We must reconvene to proceed with articles of impeachment immediately.
Articles of Impeachment for introduction, so proud of everyone co-leading this effort with us.
We need to move quickly to remove this President from office.
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We can't talk about the attacks against "Socialism" without talking about white backlash to demands for investment in communities of color.
Government programs, or what they call "Socialism," is apparently fine for white people but no one else.
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I’m gonna activate the block button if I see any of y’all watching this mess 😂
Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough will host competition series ‘The Activist’.
Activists go head-to-head in challenges to promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input.
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It is despicable and unacceptable that there is not unanimous support among Democrats in Congress for a $15 minimum wage.
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What was gained: “Bipartisanship”
What was lost:
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It is a fact, not an opinion, that our standardized testing system discriminates against kids who learn differently. It also discriminates against poor kids. Black and brown kids as well.
I need you all to understand the root causes of why. Take this journey with me.
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Dear Senator Manchin,
Numbers don’t lie, man. Because YOU let the child tax credit lapse, child poverty has increased from 5.2% to 12.4%.
Great job. And I mean that with sarcasm and incandescent rage.
Democrats can get MILLIONS out of poverty and win BIG in November if we just…
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Andre 3000 is one of the greatest musicians in American history.
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The crisis in Texas right now is not an accident.
This is the result of energy policy that puts corporate profits over human life — and we’re going to end that reckless greed with a Green New Deal and transformative energy policy.
This is a good time to note that the electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized, and removed from interconnected networks to avoid federal regulation and increase profits to a small number of wealthy individuals.
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Good morning.
If some are concerned about the wealthy getting relief payments they don’t “need,” let’s raise the taxes on the rich after we pass $2,000 monthly survival checks.
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The fact that a sitting Member of Congress is toying with the idea of a civil war 8 days before January 6 should alarm everyone.
We expelled 14 Members in 1861 for supporting the confederacy. Why does Marjorie Taylor Greene still have her seat?
She must be expelled.
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This morning,
@AOC
and I called for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation. You can read our full statement below:
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Brandon Bernard.
Heartbroken and fatigued from mourning but we cannot stop raising our voices and organizing for justice.
4/5 of the remaining federal executions this year will be Black men.
@JoeBiden
we need an end to federal executions. We must abolish the death penalty.
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I thought y’all said policing was about public safety?
The overall NYPD vaccination rate between police officers and professional support staff is about 43%, the department said in a statement Wednesday.
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Wow
@Sen_JoeManchin
, with all due respect, when you say you’re a no on Build Back Better - is it you? Or is it the special interest 💰💸 that powers you?
I’m inviting you to my district to see just how badly we need this bill. Will you tell my community “No” to our face?
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Meghan Markle and I agree: everyone needs a union.
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There’s no justification for killing someone over expired plates.
There’s no justification to mention damage to property before the damage police killings inflict on Black America.
Biden: “Was it an accident or was it intentional? That remains to be determined ...”
“In the meantime, I want to make it clear again: There is absolutely no justification, none, for looting ... Peaceful protest? Understandable.”
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All this backlash to "Defund The Police?" How fast are people gonna fold when we get serious about reparations?
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The idea that we need Republican permission to legislate while we have the Presidency, the Senate, and the House is absurd.
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We need
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
to condemn the armed militias that killed two people in Kenosha yesterday while working in tandem with local police.
These militias are domestic terrorists looking to incite a race war. “Protecting private property” is cover for their agenda.
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“It’s much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee an income to get rid of poverty for negroes and all people.”
On this MLK Day, let us push for more than just decency by recommitting to the struggle for genuine economic, social, and political equality.
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He should tell that to kids across the country who have to walk through them to get into public schools.
Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) just told the cops at the door he believes the magnetometers are unconstitutional.
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There was no CBO score needed. No concern about the deficit. No mention of inflation.
$770 Billion to the Pentagon just easily passed the house 363-70.
I voted No.
It is astounding how quickly Congress moves weapons but we can’t ensure housing, care, and justice for our veterans, nor invest in robust jobs programs for districts like mine.
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Why isn’t the media making a bigger deal about this amazing news?
The White House has just canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
If the media won’t do it, let us get this everywhere. ⬇️
Drilling in the ANWR pollutes the…
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Unionize Tesla.
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Georgia Republicans are banning passing out water bottles in voting lines before they ban possession of AR-15s.
They work harder to stop the Black vote than mass shootings.
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A very important lesson for my fellow Democrats.
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Let's go. I'm in.
Articles of Impeachment for introduction, so proud of everyone co-leading this effort with us.
We need to move quickly to remove this President from office.
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HEY NOW:
Colin Kaepernick just sent a letter asking to join my NFL New York Jets, to help out after the Aaron Rodgers injury.
Who else thinks Kaepernick deserves a chance?🖐️🏿
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To the Honorable Representative from Colorado,
Your salary is paid from tax dollars! If you’d like to save everyone money, how about resigning?
In the meantime I’m going to educate you on the reasons your tweet is factually incorrect, (thanks to my taxpayer funded schooling):…
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I see Republicans saying the president isn’t receiving “due process.”
Kalief Browder, Breonna Taylor, Ramarley Graham, and countless others didn’t get their due process.
Trump can get his due process in the Senate. We are moving forward with impeaching the president NOW.
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Want to know what's at stake this election? If we lose the Senate, socialist Bernie Sanders will become Budget Committee Chairman. If we hold the Senate, and I am re-elected, I will be Budget Committee Chairman.
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If Congress is going to force rail workers to only have 3 scheduled unpaid sick days per year, I think every congressperson should start the 118th Congress with 3 unpaid sick days that have to scheduled 30 days in advance.
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Dear Senators Manchin and Sinema,
Shame on both of you.
Frankly, you're not doing your fucking jobs.
You’re cowards who have betrayed the most vulnerable people in our country.
I look at the essential progress you're putting at a stand still, and I have to ask: What the hell…
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Congratulations
@coribush
, looking forward to making good trouble with you in DC next year.
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The next time someone tells you we can’t afford to cancel student debt, show them this video.
Watch the U.S. Navy use a 40,000-pound explosive on its new aircraft carrier, to ensure the ship is hardened to withstand battle conditions.
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Melissa and I are en route to DC for my swearing in tomorrow and the official beginning of my new job. Such a blessing!
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To the Honorable Gentle Lady from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene:
You want to impeach criminal politicians? GREAT!
Start by looking in the mirror. Here' a list of YOUR crimes:
• Incitement to violence: You have repeatedly made statements that incite violence against your…
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Holy cow. All HELL is breaking loose on the floor of the House.
Matt Gaetz is threatening to launch a “mutiny” against Kevin McCarthy and oust him from power.
To the Speaker of the House:
This is what you created: ⬇️
You are the worst kind of coward and now you reap what you…
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I hate hearing news outlets say DMX had a “drug problem.”
DMX, like millions, struggled with addiction – a public health crisis, as is the trauma that children go through.
Don’t make him or anyone seem weak or inferior because they struggle with addiction due to their trauma.
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I am sick to my stomach to hear about the stabbing death of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll.
She was only 40 years old.
Woll led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022 and was very involved in Democrat politics.
According to the news outlet, Woll…
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Tax the rich.
Feed the hungry.
House the unhoused.
Empower the oppressed.
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Dear fellow Democrats:
Go to “the hood,” and grow the base. There are millions waiting to be authentically engaged. This will guarantee victory. Go to Milwaukee to win Wisconsin. Philly and Pittsburgh to win Pennsylvania, and Detroit to win Michigan.
You get the idea.
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I’m a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project.
That story doesn’t usually end in Congress.
But today, that 11-year old boy who was beaten by police is about to be your next Representative.
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Who me?
This Black Democrat is urging Biden to do the opposite.
We need less Wall Street in the next administration and more working class representation.
Black Democrats are urging Joe Biden to resist growing pressure from the left to impose an anti-Wall Street purity test on his hiring decisions if elected, warning that it threatens the party’s desire to boost diversity in powerful executive branch posts
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Black women save this democracy over and over. Thank you
@staceyabrams
.
It’s reported that Stacey Abrams worked relentlessly to register over 800,000 new voters across Georgia who were affected by voter suppression in time for the U.S elections.
That is some impact 👏🏾🇺🇸
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If Joe Manchin wants to say he’s a “no” on the child tax credit, affordable housing, & protecting our climate, then let him vote no on the Senate floor--not on Fox News. Enough is enough.
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An “accidental discharge” that kills someone has another name: manslaughter.
We don’t need police with lethal weapons carrying out routine traffic stops.
Re-allocate police funding to unarmed traffic forces to remove even the possibility of state-sanctioned manslaughter.
'Accidental discharge': The police chief in a Minneapolis suburb where a Black man was fatally shot during a traffic stop said Monday that he believes the officer who fired intended to use a Taser, not a handgun.
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We've got to stop corporate America from looting our communities.
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This is infuriating.
Cancelling student debt will shrink the Black-White wealth gap by 25 points.
It will allow many young people to become home owners.
It will boost college graduation rates.
People need relief from economic oppression especially during a pandemic.
BREAKING:
@JoeBiden
says he is unlikely to use executive action to
#cancelstudentdebt
despite unprecedented support from lawmakers, experts, and the public.
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To Representative Greene of the Confederacy,
I have a news flash Marjorie, seceding didn't go so well for y’all last time.
You would know that if your side READ books instead of banning them.
Section 3 says levying war against the U.S. is treason.
Let me educate you: ⬇️
As…
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Ahahahahahaha
Are you kidding me?
Lauren Boebert just blamed the fact her date was a Democrat for her antics at the Beetlejuice show.
Lauren, your date didn’t force you to vape in a show with children around you, even after a pregnant woman asked you to stop.
Your date…
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After 20 years dedicated to educating children, I am honored to serve on the United States House Committee on Education and Labor.
We are taking the fight for early childhood education, children, college students, and workers to a national level.
You have a champion in me.
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White supremacists like Marjorie Taylor Greene use racist dogs whistles to characterize outspoken, passionate Black men like me as threatening. But I won't stop speaking truth to power.
Join us so I can keep standing up against right-wing extremists:
Marjorie Taylor Greene says that when people like Jamaal Bowman call her a white supremacist it's "like calling a person a color the n-word"
"His physical mannerisms are aggressive ... I feel threatened by him," Greene adds of Bowman
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We celebrate this movement — a movement designed to push back against a system that’s literally killing us.
It’s killing Black and brown bodies disproportionately — but it’s killing all of us: mentally, psychologically, and spiritually.
#NY16
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What the hell happened on January 6th?
Why were terrorists able to get into the Capitol?
Why were they able to walk out free?
Why wasn’t Congress more prepared for this attack?
We need answers. I’m introducing a bill this week to demand a 9/11 style commission to investigate.
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We got Georgia y'all! We got the Senate! Down goes Mitch!
Huge shout out to all of the organizers, and to everyone who helped in any way. This is what happens when we come together!
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A brother jumps turnstile on his way to work and spends time in Rikers Island cause he can’t afford bail, but the president incites an act of war against his own country and gets away scott-free?
We must bring articles of impeachment immediately immediately.
As President
@realDonaldTrump
stated last night, it is time to heal and move on.
If Speaker Pelosi pushes impeachm ent in the last days of the Trump presidency it will do more harm than good.I’m hopeful President-elect Biden sees the damage that would be done from such action.
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Too many police in our country are more concerned with protecting white supremacy than serving the communities that pay their salaries.
Atlanta area officials say the suspect claimed the massage parlor shootings were not racially motivated but that he wanted to ‘eliminate’ locations he saw as ‘temptations’ for his sex addiction
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I guess this endorsement makes sense. Neither of them know how to play defense.
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FYI, my office also did not have panic buttons during the insurrection.
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