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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
this is a different kind of movement, y'all.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Notice what the police are doing…
@LukeCleary
Luke Cleary
2 years
Alleged Proud Boys members attempt to get into The Mojo in Woodland, CA and are met with pepper spray. The bar had planned an all ages Drag Show tonight, which was postponed due to security concerns
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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If you don’t care about MLK’s democratic socialist politics, his anti-imperialist politics or his condemnation of US hypocrisy then no one gives a damn about your thoughts concerning his philosophy on nonviolence.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
for every fool who has asked "how will you pay for it", please shutup forever.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
This guy is an emergency room doctor as well as a state senator in Ohio. This is why this revolt is not only about police abuse and racism. It’s about all of it.
@thehill
The Hill
4 years
Ohio lawmaker asks if "colored population" is hit hard by coronavirus because they don't wash their hands as well'
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@KeeangaYamahtta
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Unpopular post...Only in America could anyone think that a prison sentence for more than twenty years is not harsh enough. If you know anything about prison, its utterly life destroying. I hope that we can move beyond the relentless desire for punishment. We need so much more.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
get off your fucking knees and change the damn policies, redistribute the funds, and stop the evictions and foreclosures.
@PoliticusSarah
Sarah Reese Jones
4 years
House and Senate Democrats kneel for an 8 minute and 46 second moment of silence for George Floyd.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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When people say that the Trump policy of separating children from their parents at the border is "un-American", they forget or do not know that the practice is deeply American and has a history.
@marthasjones_
Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD
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Forcibly separating parents from children has a history; it is our history.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Just a note: Mayor Rahm Emanuel has literally never said this much abt a single documented case of police brutality during his reign of terror. Chicago has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle cases of police abuse & murder while this coward hides behind his desk.
@thehill
The Hill
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Chicago mayor slams Jussie Smollett after charges dropped: "Whitewash of justice"
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there is literally nothing left to write about police abuse and violence. Abolish the police.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
You can't evict if you can't reach the court room.
@KCTenants
KC Tenants
3 years
BREAKING: KC Tenants has blockaded the court entrance. 6 people have chained the doors. The people have closed court for today. Every eviction is an act of violence. #endevictions
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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ok. The lack of movement in the arrest of Breona Taylor's murderers just got a whole lot of clarity.
@CNN
CNN
4 years
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron slams Joe Biden in his remarks during #RNC2020 : "Mr. Vice President, look at me. I am Black. We are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains. My mind is my own. And you can't tell me how to vote because of the color of my skin."
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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These millionaires never ask where the money will come from when it comes to their fucking wars and occupations. They never ask how we will pay for prisons and police. But let it be housing, healthcare or college, they sneer and berate. Poor Hillary
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
The police embrace their brutality. They are proud of themselves.
@AndrewMannix
Andy Mannix
3 years
Brooklyn center police are flying a blue line flag outside the station right now
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
What Obama always fails to grasp is that people did it his way. they sat at his big table & listened. & then we all sat there & watched that cop snuff the life out of George Floyd. So he no longer gets to advise this movement on how to achieve its goals of ending police terror.
@thehill
The Hill
3 years
Obama: You lose people with "snappy" slogans like "defund the police"
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
Resign.
@thehill
The Hill
3 years
Chicago mayor urges calm amid release of video of fatal shooting of 13-year-old
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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They don’t have a “feed the hungry” unit or a “heat the cold” unit, or a “house the homeless” unit, but of course they have an “anti-looting” unit. Property is always priority.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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It’s a coup in their minds but not in real life. The United States government cannot be sacked by a mob of angry white dudes. If the police or the military wanted to flex and end this right now, they could. They’ve decided to let them blow off steam
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
Where is the rest of the labor mov’t? We need a general strike against racism & injustice. We need the labor mov’t to act. We don’t have time for bills that never arrive & reforms that never work. In Kenosha the racists are the police & they collaborate w the militias. Enough
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Let the words wash over you. Because if this is the public statement, the reality for the two million civilians, half of whom are children, that live in the prison that is Gaza is one million times worse.
@TheCradleMedia
The Cradle
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Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Millions of young ppl flooded the streets in 2020 to end racism & police brutality: not much has changed. Biden pledges to give cops $32mil; no movt on student loans & debt; no mov't on decriminalizing weed; no mov't on climate; upholding the status quo..
@zackbeauchamp
Zack Beauchamp
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Biden's collapse with young voters is kind of mysterious. I've heard a lot of theories, but I'm not sure any one of them is all that convincing.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
The real coup
@AriBerman
Ari Berman
3 years
It’s truly stunning how a president who was impeached twice and lost popular vote twice appointed a third of Supreme Court & a fourth of federal judiciary
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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the whole damn thing.
@theRadicleLeft
成都外围-重庆外围-苏州外围-厦门外围
4 years
that's right
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Many have rightfully pointed out that poor and working class women of color and trans people who can become pregnant will be the most impacted by the criminalization of abortion.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Watching the slow immolation of the Democratic Party to cover up the war crimes of Israel. Truly and profoundly pathetic.
@prem_thakker
Prem Thakker
5 months
Hakeem Jeffries yesterday: I’ll “reserve judgment” on refugee camp attack. “Israel is making every effort to continue to conduct this necessary war following the international rules of warfare, and I would expect that it will continue to do that." Israel bombed it again today.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Are we just going to keep pretending that universal healthcare is not the solution to this utter madness?
@NYTNational
NYT National News
4 years
U.S. health insurance premiums could increase as much as 40% next year if the coronavirus pandemic results in millions of Americans needing hospital stays, a new analysis warns
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Us too…
@nypost
New York Post
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Survey says more than half NYPD wishes they never joined the force
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Rahm Emanuel covered up the police murder of Laquan McDonald...sixteen shots into a seventeen year old body. Emanuel’s political career needs to be over, not revived.
@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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We must govern with integrity and accountability. Laquan McDonald’s life mattered.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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The eviction apocalypse is here. This is the richest country on earth and watch it destroy people’s lives over a lack of money.
@anarchotrash
t.s. 🏴 ☭
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a man being evicted is asked by the judge if he has evidentiary issues with the argument that he owes rent. tenant says he doesn’t know what that means but his wife died and he hasn’t gotten his covid payments. judge asks again if he has evidentiary concerns, grants the eviction.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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who gives a fuck?
@jsolomonReports
John Solomon
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BREAKING: Wisconsin authorities say there was knife in Jacob Blake’s vehicle | Just The News
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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cancel the fucking debt!
@thehill
The Hill
4 years
JUST IN: Senate Democrats propose suspending student loan payments during coronavirus outbreak
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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There are literally five of them.
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
4 years
Opinion: America’s black billionaires have no place in a Bernie Sanders world, @kingc_i writes
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Breathtaking racism on display here. The double standards applied where antisemitism is rightly condemned but Islamophobia and just strident anti-Arab racism is coddled & defended is maddening.
@HarvardPSC
Harvard for Palestine
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🧵 THREAD: Harvard Rabbi Zarchi preaches anti-Palestinian racism. In a speech to the community on Nov 4, he made a distinction between humans and “four-legged animals.” Apparently, calling for a #CeasefireNow and an end to the occupation makes us “below animals,” even…
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When you create a war under false pretenses—lies—and then are awarded for working with the soldiers maimed by your policies. This is why the phrase “historical amnesia” never quite fits. The forgetting is organized and strategic.
@WHYYNews
WHYY News
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George W. and Laura Bush honored for their work with returning veterans
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Is this Biden’s re-election strategy? These folks are utterly delusional.
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
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The White House just compared “anti-Israel protesters” — the phrase used by the Fox News reporter in his question — to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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“Wanton endangerment”, the perpetual condition of Black people in the U.S.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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It’s not just “poverty” that makes Black people predisposed to the worst effects of COVID...it’s also the way Black patients are less likely to be believed, are seen as uncooperative & whose pain is not taken seriously. The cumulative consequences of being seen as undeserving.
@kat__stafford
Kat Stafford
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What's so disturbing is this man went to the hospital twice & was sent home, even though he was clearly ill, according to his wife: "I said, “Well, what about the oxygen?” His fingertips were blue. They said that there was no reason to do anything."
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Growing up in the projects does not make you self-made, it makes you the recipient of public aid.
@MSNBC
MSNBC
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: "I've also been criticized for being a billionaire. Let's talk about that: I'm self-made. I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, New York. I thought that was the American dream. The aspiration of America."
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Symbolic firsts are no substitute for substantive gains. We have been celebrating firsts for fifty years but the gains for the few almost never translate into a better life for the many. Check out Lightfoot in Chicago. These celebrations are old and our people are dying. Enough.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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I couldn’t get my four year old to nap but my book Race for Profit was nominated as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in history....and I’m completely gobsmacked!
@nationalbook
National Book Foundation
4 years
Huge congratulations to all the winners and finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes @PulitzerPrizes , including @jerichobrown @GregGrandin @colsonwhitehead @KeeangaYamahtta Mary Ruefle and Albert J. Woodfox #Pulitzer
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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All of capitalism is built on exploitation.
@thehill
The Hill
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President Biden: "Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism. It's exploitation."
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Why,lord, is it so damn hard to apply this idea to all testing, all illness, all prescriptions and all healthcare?
@KamalaHarris
Kamala Harris
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Testing for coronavirus AND treatment needs to be free. Period.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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the US is so uncivilized...can any of you imagine a single scenario where this would happen???
@MailOnline
Daily Mail Online
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Italy suspends MORTGAGE payments in the wake of coronavirus outbreak's economic impact on families and small businesses
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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This is a disgusting display of the abuse of identity politics. bell hooks spent almost the entirety of her adult life fighting capitalism & to invoke her work, just months after her death when she can no longer command you to stop, in yr efforts to break this strike, is gross.
@davidhuyssen
David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social
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UPDATE ON THE NEW SCHOOL STRIKE The Provost who only 5 days ago wrote the whole university implicitly threatening undergraduates with academic punishment and signaling an intention to hire scab graders is now invoking bell hooks on the paradise of learning.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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“ The fluidity with which rights can be bequeathed and taken away, in fact, reduces rights to privileges. In a truly democratic society, civil rights should not be contingent on a fortuitous combination of Supreme Court Justices.”
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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For those who ask "how can we afford Sanders's programs", the better question is "how can we not afford them?" The decades of starving the public sector is going to come back to bite poor & working class people the hardest; but many of us will pay the price.
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Analysts say Europe's social programs and protective labor rules could serve as a powerful counter against the coronavirus's feared economic toll
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The slaughter of Palestinians is bought, paid for and excused at the highest levels by the U.S.
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — US vetoes UN resolution backed by vast majority of Security Council demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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No one *has* to be a landlord; it is not a moral calling. But everyone needs somewhere to live; it is essential to human life. someone’s right to live is not mitigated by yr right to own property & potentially profit. those invested in capital embrace risk until it becomes risky.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Look at this guy walking right into Trump’s trap...like a rat to peanut butter, helping Trump change the subject by changing the subject.
@CNN
CNN
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“I want to make it absolutely clear … Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. Setting fires is not protesting. None of this is protesting — it’s lawlessness. Plain and simple. And those who do it should be prosecuted,” Joe Biden says.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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There is no good US capitalism. The so called golden age of capitalism relied on shackling women to the home, bolting LGBT people in the closet, restricting immigration to Europeans, & segregating Black people into resource starved enclaves. Capitalism has always been the problem
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Isn’t this exactly how this situation began?
@Yamiche
Yamiche Alcindor
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President Biden to those who carried out the Kabul attacks today: “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.”
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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What a mouthful. Extraordinary racism and ethnocentrism on the mainstream news. It’s not just the “civilized” bit, but the notion that in Iraq and Afghanistan war is just a normal part of life and not a vicious imposition from places like the so-called civilized West.
@QasimRashid
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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“This isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan. [Kyiv] is a relatively civilized city where you wouldn’t expect this to happen.” This isn’t even OANN or Fox. This overt white supremacy is on CBS. Absolutely disgusting dehumanization of people of color.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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The average wealth of a US Senator is over 3 million dollars. They sneer at the American working class and tell them to eat cake. With the last unemployment check received, these workers should go buy a pitchfork.
@politico
POLITICO
4 years
It happened. The Senate left town knowing that failed negotiations would ensure the expiration of enhanced jobless benefits for millions of Americans laid off and furloughed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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An illegal gathering of thousands!
@YourAnonOne
Anonymous
5 months
BREAKING: Large anti-Israel protest in Berlin this evening.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
A stunning screed where the concerns and fears of Black parents merit not a single mention. It is a pattern in these scorched earth hate screeds against teachers: they ignore that most Black parents don’t want to return their children to antiquated schools in a
@nytdavidbrooks
David Brooks
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Readers, many of us got involved in the Black Lives Matter marches last summer. Do Black lives matter to you only when they serve your political purpose? Shouldn’t we be marching to get Black and brown children back safely into schools right now?
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Whatever happens w this verdict, nothing has changed the underlying conditions allowing for the murder of Floyd in the first place. The killing of Wright & Toledo within the last month assure that without the annihilation of the criminal punishment system, we will be here again.
@ReutersLegal
Reuters Legal
3 years
The jury said it has reached a verdict on its second day of deliberations in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter after kneeling on the neck of a dying George Floyd
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Democrats want it both ways...they want to curry favor with the mov’t by decrying “systemic racism” while Biden claims no one is racist and Harris says the US is not a racist country...someone smarter than me please explain how all of this can be true???
@thehill
The Hill
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Biden: "I don't think the American people are racist"
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Why should we pay for any healthcare? Why should you be charged money to treat asthma, diabetes, cancer or any of the underlying conditions that make COVID-19 deadly? How can anyone at this moment in human history suggest paying for healthcare as a rational or just?
@JoeBiden
Joe Biden
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Let me be clear: No one should have to pay for coronavirus testing or treatment.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
just what you want to see in the midst of a public health crisis.
@LebaneseJokerYT
Eddie
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Biden says he would veto Medicare for All if the bill ever reached his desk
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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I'm so confused. Its the most important election of our lifetime because fascism is on the ticket...and here is your Democratic candidate offering to invite fascists into his cabinet? Or is it that Trump is a fascist alone but the GOP is just fine? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE???
@politico
POLITICO
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Joe Biden’s transition team is vetting a handful of Republicans for potential Cabinet positions — despite doubts it will win him new support from the right and the risk it will enrage the left
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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If this is the “normal” everyone wants to get back to, you can have it. The cynicism of the millionaire class’s low expectations and their embrace of the status quo got us into this mess. We don’t want “purity”; we want to seize the chance to remake the world for the better.
@thehill
The Hill
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Fmr. President Barack Obama: "This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke, and all that stuff -- you should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Obviously there is a market for this kind of stuff, but the notion that we will end racism one workshop at a time, one white person at a time really undermines what structural racism really is. Racism in real estate, housing, employment and beyond isn't because
@NewYorker
The New Yorker
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In an interview with @IChotiner , Robin DiAngelo discusses systemic racism, and what it feels like to have her work at the center of so many conversations about it.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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No person is "qualified" for a lifetime appointment to make decisions affecting the lives of millions with absolutely no accountability to the public. The SCOTUS is an affront to democracy & we shouldn't forget that, no matter how awful the GOP behaves.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Does the punditry ever have to explain what they mean by “wokeness” or are they just allowed to dribble it out as an informed talking point that they never have to define even as they claim it is unraveling the Democratic Party??
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
This is the United States. Wow.
@benphillips76
Ben Phillips
4 years
OMG now the mothers’ group are singing “hands up please don’t shoot me” in the style of a lullaby. Impossible to watch and not cry.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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These politicians all over television acting like concerned citizens and not powerful figures who control the resources, dictate public policy, but rarely use these powers when it comes to controlling or disciplining the police. They can do something about this but they don’t.
@NYGovCuomo
Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo
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Rodney King. Abner Louima. Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. Oscar Grant. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Laquan McDonald. Freddie Gray. Antwon Rose Jr. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. Say Their Names.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Unbelievable. Millions falling into poverty, millions on the edge of eviction, millions going hungry, millions losing their healthcare & this megalomaniac dime store dictator puts his knee of the neck of a nation. We need more than an election; we need a revolution.
@YahooNews
Yahoo News
3 years
Trump pulls plug on coronavirus stimulus talks until after election
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
My first day officially as a full professor of African American Studies at Princeton. Grateful for inspiring friends & colleagues & excited for new projects. Also very happy to have seen my dad for the first time since before the panini. Lol, I shall now board the plane!
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
But why are they calling the public “consumers”?
@SenSherrodBrown
Sherrod Brown
4 years
. @SenWarren and I have a message for Congress: $1,200 isn't enough to keep Americans afloat. We need comprehensive relief for consumers in the next coronavirus stimulus package. You can read our six proposals here👇
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
Does this weird logic apply to anything else? don‘t raise the minimum wage, what will those who worked for low wages before think? Don’t end child labor, what abt all the children before who toiled? no to affordable housing, think of all who have paid for unaffordable housing
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
Why is it so fucking hard to say that every human being DESERVES healthcare. You don't need to be old or young to have good healthcare, you just need to be alive. Healthcare should be a RIGHT!
@JoeBiden
Joe Biden
4 years
We have to do more to ease the economic burden on working people. So today, I'm adopting two new policies to help deliver relief. As president, I will: - Lower Medicare eligibility to age 60 - Forgive student debt for low-income and middle class families
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
8 months
It is hard to describe what it was like to stumble upon Sinead O’Connor as a queer high school student in the height of AIDS hysteria and the casual and violent homophobia of the late 1980s. Of course I was in the closet, as we all were...
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
The dude with the zip tie cuffs who came to kidnap and kill...gets sent home with a promise to be good. This is truly astounding. Try to overthrow the government on Wednesday back at home by for the long King weekend by Friday. The most racist country on earth.
@Newsweek
Newsweek
3 years
Larry Rendall Brock Jr., Capitol rioter seen with zip ties, freed by judge
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
Thank god we have police that can stop people from stealing books from the “free” little libraries…whose entire purpose is to provide free books to the public.
@BPD_MN
Bloomington Police
3 years
After some thefts from little libraries in our city, officers and staff came together to donate a bunch of books to the libraries. Now people can use and enjoy them again! 📚📖
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
It turns out Judge Barrett does have opinions!
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
This the normal they are racing to return to??
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
I decided to make The New Yorker ( @NewYorker ) my writing home. I hope you keep reading. I will keep writing.
@michaelluo
Michael Luo
4 years
Some writer additions @newyorker . Thrilled that @KeeangaYamahtta is coming aboard as a contributing writer, and Sheldon Pearce, formerly of Pitchfork, will be the music writer and editor for Goings On About Town. Memo from Remnick.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
2 years
The SCOTUS has effectively created a new tier of citizenship and belonging to which it has consigned nearly half of the population. Without the right to control one's reproduction, the social, economic and political status of women will change
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
omfg. this cannot be happening.
@BillyCorben
Billy Corben
3 years
The "warrant" on #DaunteWright was over unpaid fines for 2 minor misdemeanors — one a marijuana case — totaling $346. He pled guilty, filed for deferred payment and they were sent to collections DURING A PANDEMIC. Then he was pulled over for car air fresheners and killed over it.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
6 months
Israel holds nuclear weapons and is one of the world’s most powerful military. What a ludicrous statement from the U.S.
@spectatorindex
The Spectator Index
6 months
BREAKING: The US Defense Secretary says the Pentagon will ensure that Israel 'has what it needs to defend itself'
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
Imagine defending “private insurance” in the midst of a deadly pandemic with 25 million people on unemployment.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
2 years
I spent four months working on this story about India Walton's improbable run for mayor of Buffalo, the city I was born & where my dad still lives. A labor of love that I hope gives some insights into what's at stake not just there but across the country.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
This is just a sophisticated version of Trump”s “Chinese virus”. Whipping up anti-Chinese racism doesn’t tell us anything about the US’s homegrown incompetence in mitigating or suppressing this virus. This is the real issue to be discussed...not this tripe.
@JoeNBC
Joe Scarborough
4 years
This is the most devastating political ad I’ve seen in years. It reveals the truth about Trump and China, and that truth is ugly.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
Right. But questioning Biden’s agenda does not mean one supports Trump. Biden authored the 94 Crime Bill, he trumpeted racist “welfare reform” legislation, he led the attack on Anita Hill. We have a right to ask questions and not be dismissed as Trumpers for doing so.
@Toure
Touré
4 years
Trump is super racist. His campaign & his appeal is built on the perpetuation of white supremacy & white privilege. He stokes white fragility. When a Black person supports him I question their relationship to their Blackness and the community. This is what Biden was alluding to.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
5 years
What kind of demented place do we live in that would prevent kids from graduating because of a lunchroom tab? What kind of demented place do we live in that charges kids to eat food in the first place? What the hell??
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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Philando Castile’s mom donates $8,000 to settle lunch debt preventing high school seniors from graduating
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
Reality is endorsing Bernie Sanders... @NaomiAKlein
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
4 years
The hospital in Philly that Sanders and other progressives rallied to prevent from closing last summer might now be reopened. Austerity not looking so good in the midst of a public health crisis.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
The leadership of the Democratic Party is much more interested in ‘healing’ its rift with the GOP than its progressive flank that helped mobilize the vote. And to be sure, they are going in hard to discipline it’s left, using the CBC in the most cynical way to do it.
@GuardianUS
Guardian US
3 years
James Clyburn: ‘defund the police’ slogan may have hurt Democrats at polls
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
may we see the same level of hysteria around this looting as we did around the fires and trashed Targets. And they wonder why so many want to burn it all down. Unbelievable, audacious corruption in plain sight.
@Public_Citizen
Public Citizen
4 years
BREAKING: Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds, claiming the info is "confidential" 4.5 MILLION businesses received government funds. Zero transparency. Unconscionable, jaw-dropping corruption.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
5 years
Let’s get real, the reason why @IlhanMN is under attack begins with a hijab, ends w Omar and rhymes with “uslim”.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
7 months
Please don’t glorify Fani Willis just because she is prosecuting the states case against Trump. She also continues to send poor Black people to the deplorable Fulton County Jail where conditions defy your worst nightmares and justice is a cruel joke.
@PatrickQuinnTV
Patrick Quinn
7 months
UPDATE: Now 8 people have been found dead at the Fulton County Jail since January. Samuel Lawrence, 34, sent this 12-page, handwritten letter to federal officials begging for help. It was received on August 22. Lawrence was found dead on August 26. Autopsy results still pending.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
Is this a threat?
@JoeBiden
Joe Biden
3 years
America is back.
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
Inspired by my comrade Naomi Klein’s insistence that our wretched reality was explaining, in real time, why so many were drawn to Sanders. With our world unraveling, we need real alternatives and we need them now
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
5 months
Why is the Democratic Party allergic to calling for a ceasefire along with millions of other people in the world? What is the point of a pause in the midst of this illegal slaughter of Palestinian civilians? To then begin the killing again after feeding and treating people?
@SenWarren
Elizabeth Warren
5 months
Civilians in Gaza desperately need food, water, electricity, and medicine. Israel has an obligation to follow international law and protect civilian lives. I’m calling for humanitarian pauses to accelerate aid for Palestinians and unconditional hostage releases.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
It is a shocking display of double standards, the rot of the GOP, and the utter racism of American police and those who direct them. This is desperation, not an actual plan to take power. it’s frightening and appalling, but I don’t think the US govt is abt to collapse.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3 years
In case anyone was wondering why people are so utterly cynical about the Democratic Party...
@sahilkapur
Sahil Kapur
3 years
As Republicans wrap up the Amy Coney Barrett hearing with plans to vote, Dianne Feinstein praises Lindsey Graham: "I just want to thank you. This has been one of the best set of hearings that I've participated in," she tells him. "Thank you so much for your leadership."
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@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
There is no such thing as "just policing". There is not a single period in time in the US where the police were not a force of racist repression, violence and abuse. They do not stop crime; they do not protect communities. They continue to be a source of oppression and violence.
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