Portia ♍️ McGonagal Same On 🐳
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@SiegelBonnie
We're not perfect and we continue to improve but I've stuck with this since high school:
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Ten years old. Testifying about the racism he’s experienced at school as well as racism against Black people in general.
But white children who commit acts of racism against classmates are too fragile to learn about America’s history. Even AP students.
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Oooh Harrison just reminded everyone that Linds has only passed 3 of his own sponsored bills in his 25 years in Congress.
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@repmorgan
Sweetie, you might think you claimed her as a friend. She never claimed you. There was something she read in you that said she couldn't actually have a real conversation with you about race. Know how I know? Been Black in predominantly white spaces all my life. We know you.
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So Jason Aldean put into song the stochastic terrorism that has been used by white people to warn everyone not white and Christian to stay out of small towns, and is upset at the pushback? Sundown towns existed and this rhetoric, now set to music, has been used to threaten 1/
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Who. Did. She. Vote. For.
Alabama woman with frozen embryos: My rage knows no bounds. I just want to be a mom and it’s wild to me that the state that I’ve called home has more say over that than I do right now
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Let's dissect. Paul McCartney not only wrote the song, but has been explicit, for years, about its inspiration and tribute. I'll guarantee you with 99.9% certainty that this person is white. A whitesplainer has come to correct him. Sir. Paul. McCartney. 1/
Someone just explained Blackbird to Paul McCartney 👍
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"They're stealing our jobs!"
Well, get busy then.
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Now imagine you're a Black customer shopping there. Imagine you are legitimately looking for what is a joke to them. I don't have to imagine the anger, insult, and rage I'd feel, that not only was this girl not raised to be a decent human, but that her mother stood 1/
Dear
@Sephora
,
You have an amazing employee who stepped in when a group of teenagers and their mothers walked in and used your samples to do blackface while recording themselves making animal noises.
I hope this goes viral so this young woman gets a raise instead of fired for…
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I'm cracking up that
#CNN
is devoting a whole special to...Mike Pence. Was dry toast not available? Cream of Wheat?
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Hoped, yet didn't dare to dream that this was possible in my lifetime. 💙🙏🏿
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And this is what it has always boiled down to. Too many white people do not see ending Slavery as something that was done because it was wrong to begin with. They demand Black gratitude. 1/
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@ParhamGhobadi
Lagarde's expression says it all. "Why are you here and why are you talking"
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Black people, and Black women specifically, have voted pragmatically since we've been able to vote. We have more often than not, had to vote based on risk mitigation and harm reduction. "Who will hurt us the least?". So before you fix your fingers to demand that we 1/
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A story about bandaids and how easy it is for even the most aware of us to internalize racism. My white husband and I were at Target. I remembered we were out of bandaids. Reflexively, I reached for the ones that have been out forever..."flesh colored". My husband 1/
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I have no doubt that Fred Rogers would have loved Mychal.
Happy birthday, Fred Rogers!
IThank you for teaching us that kindness is a superpower. Thank you for being our neighbor!
Thank you for being our friend, Mister Rogers 💛
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More parents need to do exactly this.
"You can choose between Patriot Front and your family,’" she said, "and he’s like, ‘Well, I can’t quit Patriot Front.’ I’m like, ‘Well, then you've just chosen. So pack your stuff and get out of my house."
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"You should be grateful you married into this family".
No, this wasn't Phillip or Charles to Meghan Markle. It was my white father in law to me, shortly after I'd married his white son.
A thread. 1/
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"African-Americans were the only people in the United States ever explicitly forbidden to become literate — a consequence of the dehumanizing cruelties of slavery."
Book banning hits especially hard.
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what can happen without consciously even thinking about it. Imagine how that same kind of internalized racism can take root about things bigger than bandaids and how hard we sometimes have to fight within ourselves to unlearn what we didn't choose to learn in the 1st place?4/4
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You were 49, would have then been a high risk pregnancy with no guarantee of conception in 2020, despite ovulating.
Apparently, you can neither read a calendar (Donald Trump was President) nor do math since you’d be 54 this year.
Lie better.
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@keithboykin
And they made him sit there and endure her stunt-pology while she patted him like a pet.
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No. And people like you have annoyed me trying to eat a meal I chose to have ALONE. Too many extroverts need everyone to be like them.
I'm more than fine being alone with my thoughts and company. I'm secure and confident. Why aren't you?
I dunno why, but seeing people eating by themselves in public makes me sad.
Anyone else?
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@AP
Because going to his home or that of his family members traveling a distance of what, 80 miles, is problematic, but following the former guy to golf courses from NJ to Florida EVERY weekend, while grifting the Secret Service was no biggie. This is ridiculous.
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We took their schoolyard taunt and turned it against them and now they’re mad. 🤣
Fox News is freaking out about Biden’s newest video where he sips from a Dark Brandon mug: “That’s actually a really dark joke at the expense of the American public! Brandon is not a compliment!”
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We love day trips but my white husband had to learn early on that if his Black wife, me, said “We’re not stopping” to trust my instincts. The messages in that song are nothing Black people haven’t heard before which is how and why we know exactly what it means.4/4
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NOT being included or considered and I immediately went to thinking it would be "weird" for my white husband to be wearing a Black toned bandaid! He said "So what? You've been wearing the other ones all your life. Who cares" and of course he was right. But that's 3/
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We hear endlessly about out-of-wedlock pregnancies in urban Black communities. Meanwhile...
"Boebert's grandchild will be the third generation of out-of-wedlock births in her family." 1/
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Piers Morgan, Sharon Osborne and Meghan McCain can host a talk show called The Whine. White of course.
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Black, brown, Jewish and Muslim people to know their place whether in the South our outside of it. This song could have been playing when Emmett Till was lynched or 30+ years later when James Byrd was dragged behind that car. 2/
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If a BLACK, Democratic, or especially Black Democratic Congresswoman was captured on video in the same way Lauren Boebert has been seen, there would be 75 different committees in the House convened to begin to censure or remove her.
Kevin McCarthy is a feckless puppet.
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Thoughts on this. Consistent with how way too many white people view racism, it is something that non-white and specifically Black people are expected to endure, not something white people are expected to stop doing. I find that telling. 1/
RFK Jr. said “you can make kids resilient against” racism with good education and Black business role models and then the racism will “bounce off” Black children like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it.”
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“His words were: ‘Why did he shoot me? What did I do?’
...
"...the officer is Greg Capers, who was named the department’s “best officer.”
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I'm not going to say much about this
#kellyanneconway
mishigas except that
1.) if she wasn't white, she'd be in custody for abuse and child pornography and
2.) she should be in custody for abuse and child pornography.
Finis.
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What’s a sundown town? A town where white people proudly let non-white and especially Black people know they’d be risking their lives if they stayed after sundown. And no, they weren’t just in the South. 3/
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Stop infantilizing her and taking away her agency. She wasn't forced into a marriage like a child bride. She made a choice as an adult woman. Actions, consequences.
Melania looks like she’s in a hostage video tonight. Blink twice if you need help.
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Capitol police have secured every major modern event in DC. Yesterday's failure was not accidental.
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And on cue...weaponized white women's tears. 1/
"My heart is broken," she added. "Not just for myself, but for my children, your children and the ENTIRE next generation of Americans.
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Something that's not lost on me during these midterms: the synergy of the wrongness of the pundits, and I mean almost all of them, and the attempts at erasure of VP Harris. She crisscrossed the country relentlessly, meeting w/ Dems on their turf, carrying the Admin's 1/
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The Jezebelization of Fani Willis 🧵
Because that's what yesterday was. People advocating for a man and his co-defendants...a man who has been found legally liable for sexual assault and who has another trial for covering up his payment to a porn star...can't 1/
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looked at them, then at me, and picked up the box with the ones designed for non-white skin that come in a range of skin tones and said "Why not these". And I paused and actually said "But what if you need one" because as Black people, we've been acclimated so long to 2/
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I’m not holding Sandra Bullock responsible for
#LeighAnneTuohy
‘s treachery. She just lost her longtime partner to ALS. Hold the Tuohy’s accountable. Drag them up one side and down the other.
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Raise your hand if you knew he was never going.
After all the crying about not being able to attend Barron’s graduation, he’s not even going.
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Only a mediocre white man could claim victory after 14 losses.
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And that’s the difference ‘tween us and the 53% club.
“A man is not a plan”. Know who taught me that? My father. My married to my mother, present in the home,white-collar, giving less than 110% is unacceptable, father. Because let me head off some stereotyped replies.
Willis: Let’s go on and have a conversation. I don't need anything from a man. A man is not a plan. A man is a companion. I don't need anybody to foot my bills. The only man who has foot my bills completely is my daddy.
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She's been found SAFE!!
Maryland!! Please see below! Let’s all try to be on the outlook for this missing 11 year old child!!
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not voice frustration and anger when our voices continue to be disregarded, mocked and erased; when you demand solidarity that is never reciprocated; when you "remind" us what's at stake, remember that we are the ones who've always known and voted accordingly. 2/
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there, condoning it. Confirming to her child that this was OK. And who will feed her bruised ego, enhance her now victim status because they got caught. Angry that "this is being blown out of proportion" because it was "just a joke". She will have her white friends 2/
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Maybe spend your time on schooling WW who consistently put Republicans over the top. I'm so sick of providing data that shows that. Google is free. Same applies to the
#LGBTQ
community which has voted based on similar self-preservation and survival realities. Stop 3/
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As a Black woman of Black parents who was raised in very white spaces, this is a recipe for disaster. It makes white adoptive parents, and some biological ones too, feel good, and those kids exposed to realities they're unprepared to face. Ask the Duck Dynasty people. 1/
"I'm not raising black children. I'm raising children." UFC fighter Michael Chandler speaks about his approach to parenting his two black adopted sons and admits there have been tough questions about skin color.
(🎥The Shawn Ryan Show/YouTube)
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@GeraldoRivera
I have never forgotten the assault that happened to me over 30 years ago in HS. I'll guarantee you that the boy who tried to rape me, has. It may be "distant" for the perpetrator. I guarantee you it's not for the victim.
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@JDVance1
Which part of his La Jolla Country Day School, Swiss Boarding school (expelled), St. George's prep school and Trinity College education makes him not elite exactly? Or is it the heiress stepmom? This is as obnoxious as your "Elegy".
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This is a fundamental difference between the majority of Black voters and those from marginalized communities and white liberals. We have always had to mitigate risk and identify harm reduction. Too many white liberals need a gift-wrapped unicorn. Also progress, not perfection.
“Liking” Biden is irrelevant. I don’t need to “like” a politician to vote for him or her. It’s about execution, saving the democracy, and harm reduction. Too many people want to feel inspired by a politician and I’m not entirely sure that’s their job. All the “inspire” you should…
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@laurenluvsveg
So let me guess. You were more concerned about how
#AmyCooper
was holding her dog than you were about the potential police lynching she could have called down on
#ChristianCooper
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@SteveSchmidtSES
It's predictable that you'd take this position while ignoring the reality that Mitch McConnell would simply have blocked two nominations.
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What does it say about white people that a memorial to a black child who was murdered for simply existing now has to be made bulletproof because white people continue to shoot at it? What BS excuse will some come up with?
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that he is wrong about what he created.
Now, dear readers, consider that Black people are told this whenever we post about our own history and lived experiences. Every single day. By the same people.
Ask yourselves, why?
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"A white Florida teen has just been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Black girl as she walked with her friends from a movie theater. A police spokesperson said the crime was not a random act of violence."
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I remember a dark day when you pissed on Planned Parenthood and called them the establishment and were dismissive of women's issues and women's reproductive health because it didn't sit w/ your class warfare message. Forcing girls and women into birth is and always was warfare.
This is a dark day in the state of Georgia. This is why the fight for abortion rights is not just about protecting Roe v. Wade. It is about ending the non-stop, extremist attacks on women's rights at the state and local level.
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paternalistically condescending to us like we don't know what's at stake. It's all we've ever known. Where have too many of you been? 4/4
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This is well covered in the Netflix series High on the Hog which reveals how much of American cuisine comes from Black chefs and cooks.
James Hemings, brother to Sally Hemings was the first American to train as a chef in France. He was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at 8.
The Chef de cuisine is the reason macaroni and cheese made it to America.
A THREAD!
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"From Stephen A. Smith to Chris Rock, Black celebs are sadly using conservative rhetoric and platforms in order to gain clout and favor from the right."
Overwhelmingly, men. We have a problem, fam. Also, this is a Black people convo.
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@repmorgan
The insincerity of faux friendships exudes from your pores. I guarantee you've said things in her presence or to her face that she decided not to call you out on because she knew how it would go and the WW as victim tear spigot would turn on. You may have been work colleagues 2/
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And people don't believe me when I tell them I was once approached in a restroom by a lady who'd seen my white husband and I holding hands and asked how she should explain that to her kids. 1/
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Happy Friday!
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@nytimes
"Dr. Prior is a research professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a columnist at the Religion News Service."
Tells me all I need to know which is that the argument is rooted in her religious beliefs which is not what we use to make laws in this country.
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And guess what? I'm going to ask who they voted for.
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Val Demings is neck and neck with Rubio. Let's send a VERY qualified Black woman to the Senate where there are none and Marco can then go quote bible verses in the seminary!
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Do I even want to know why boycott Target is trending? What are the howler monkeys screeching about now? Is Target selling history books or something?
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White women and Black men need to look at this picture and understand that this is what voting for Republicans ensures.
This is who counts. That's it. Not you.
Meet the Missouri 1776 PAC.
Their Vision:
“We seek to ensure the great state of Missouri not only remains a RED STATE, but also takes its place alongside states like Florida and Texas, as beacons of Liberty and Freedom for the rest of America to follow.”
What do you notice?
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Friends 4years.Engaged 1year. Married for 32 years.
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Aw poor little Amy. Meanwhile, Christian Cooper has a NatGeo show coming up on birding which is what he was doing in the park.
#CentralParkKaren
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And on the scale that
#MeghanandHarryonOprah
are dealing with so many very visceral and familiar issues, I firmly believed they saved their lives by leaving. 20/20
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"there, there" her, and confirm her poutrage, and not sit her down and say "You were wrong and I have no sympathy for whatever consequences follow". They will not tell her their friendship is over. Their daughters will still be friends and the junior Jr. Leaguers 3/
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And this is why she's awesome. 1/
Ketanji Brown Jackson smacks down Samuel Alito's 'scientific knowledge' of abortion drugs
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I live much closer to the border than Stephen Miller ever will, and every time I leave the house, I look for all of this chaos and danger that the GOP keeps pushing. Can't seem to find it other than in their minds and fearmongering ads.
If you love our country, if it breaks your heart to see our border erased and our sovereignty annihilated, the single best thing you can do is help Blake Masters defeat Mark Kelly.
No lawmaker in all of America bears more blame for the border catastrophe than Mark Kelly. No one.
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Well now I just walked in to yet another fully stocked grocery store , picked up a turkey from the whole pile of them just sitting there. To hear the right tell it, we're living in the former USSR. Didn't even have to bribe anyone. Imagine that!
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Y'all know those "He Gets Us" ads that are intentionally designed to look all-inclusive and hip, are the Hobby Lobby people, right?
This Evangelical Billionaire Family Wants to Convert You on Super Bowl Sunday
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I want to address "the apology". For too long in our history, Black people have had no choice not to show grace and accept apologies for heinous things after the fact. For equally as long, white people issuing these have perceived them as "all good". 1/
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So you can see that EVEN Sir Paul McCartney is told that what he said isn't what he meant or that what he said inspired him, HIS lived experience witnessing things with his own eyes, is dismissed because someone has decided they don't like it. He has been told
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@KevinCate
@GovRonDeSantis
Expect nothing, and you won't be disappointed. If anyone's expecting decency from DeSantis, they may as well wait for leadership from Trump.
I mean it's not like John Lewis was from his neighboring state and DeSantis served in Congress WITH him or anything.
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@thehill
What is it with the media? Your business is words. Use the right one. He raped a child. Raped. there is no "sex with" a minor who cannot give consent. It's rape. Call. A. Thing. A. Thing.
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Nothing has gotten into them
@AmandaMarcotte
. They are who they've always been. Centered, selfish, wanting to be on top of the female food chain, and adjacent to white male power. Same as it ever was.
"What has gotten into Republican women?"
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Well, well.
Katie Britt finally admits sex-trafficking story isn't linked to Joe Biden: report - Raw Story
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@jennybethm
Didn't you try this yesterday? No matter, we can tell you again. Adopting, having, being related to, or waving hi to non-white, and specifically Black people across the street, does not make you anti-racist. Your white savior fantasy is just that. I do sincerely hope 1/
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Last day of my 5th decade! Senior woman on the loose.
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@RepHalRogers
@RepBeatty
No, you went with your gut. And your gut told you, a white Southern man, that you were within your rights to speak to and lay hands on a leader within the House of Representatives of the United States of America, because she is a Black woman. 1/
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Another example of how racism is expensive. Enjoy prison, Suzanne.
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Look, unless L. Ron Hubbard came back to tell Tom Cruise while eating at a Cracker Barrel that Scientology was all a hoax , I don't want to know why either of them are trending.
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@KenCuccinelli
@TedDavisSAV
@MeghanMcCain
You are exactly the problem that was discussed today. I disagree with Meghan McCain politically but as a daughter who had to eulogize my father, a man who also stood for duty and honor and expected me to stand strong, I stand w/ her today. On a day when you have to 1/2
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OK, this is my wheelhouse. Not a 🧵but a STFU rant I wasn't planning on going on today. 1/
First of all, if you're going to flex, proofread. Been there. Or learn to spell.
Now, as a Black woman who's been married to a white man for over 3 decades, HA!
RFK Jr staffer Angela Stanton King continues to critique interracial relationships
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92% of those using IVF to conceive are white. The majority of white women vote Republican and have for 60 years. Increased for Trump 2016-2020. Keep bringing the consequences of your actions on yourselves.
NEW: Nikki Haley tells me that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization “are babies,” siding with a recent AL decision that raised concerns among doctors and patients worried about the future of the procedure. w/
@Rhoades31
@NBCNews
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will model their mom's behavior all the way to the voting booth where they will continue their demographic's voting pattern to vote in the majority for Republicans. And there will be other WW who find this thread for the sole purpose of seeking validation and cookies that 4/
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