freeborn Black woman first of her name
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mom, writer, retired attorney and curator of conversations.
Atlanta, GA
Joined February 2011
They don’t care about alternatives to this site, they want us scattered across the multiverse of social platforms and to break up the community etc we’ve built.
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Two Black Members of Congress were assaulted this week and this is the President’s response to political violence. An absolute disgrace. Not surprising but still infuriating. I’m relieved Rep. @Ilhan and @RepMaxwellFrost are both doing okay.
Just spoke to Pres. Trump. I asked him if he had seen the video of Rep. Omar being attacked and sprayed by a substance. “No. I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud. I really don't think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her,” the president said. I
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The Trump regime has blood on their hands- ICE shooting citizens dead on the street, using children as bait and trampling our constitutional rights. So what's the FBI up to today? Harassing the elections workers of Fulton county
reuters.com
The FBI searched an election office in Georgia's Fulton County outside Atlanta on Wednesday, pursuing U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of...
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Economic blackout day planned in Minnesota to protest ICE surge Unions, faith groups and local leaders urge residents not to work, shop or go to school after killing of Renee Good https://t.co/mSZqhyYHDi
theguardian.com
Unions, faith groups and local leaders urge residents not to work, shop or go to school after killing of Renee Good
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In a nation in which 1 in 10 Black children are separated from their parents by the Child Welfare System, and more than half will be investigated by Child Protective Services, abolition the only viable strategy for insuring Black families remain intact. https://t.co/qYfFVG9bJ1
scalawagmagazine.org
Black children deserve to grow up with their families – free from the fear of arbitrary separation.
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NEW: A bill in Massachusetts would give a pathway out of prison to people, often women, who are in prison due to a crime they committed against their abuser. Several states adopted a version of this very recently: OK, NY, GA. Can Massachuetts be next? https://t.co/myjTCO719k
boltsmag.org
The Massachusetts Survivors Act emulates recent resentencing reforms across the country that allow for reduced sentences for people with convictions related to their abuse.
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A state judge just struck down New York's 11th district, which is a GOP-heavy seat in Brooklyn & Staten Island. Plaintiffs aligned with Democrats had sued to get the seat struck down for disenfranchising Black and Latino voters. Background:
nytimes.com
A court dispute over the lines of the 11th Congressional District represents one of Democrats’ few hopes of drawing maps in their favor for the 2026 midterms.
#BREAKING: Justice Pearlman has ruled that New York’s 11th Congressional District is unconstitutional under the New York constitution. He orders the NY Redistricting Commission to reconvene and draw a new congressional map by Feb. 6, 2026.
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Oh no! Are you comparing me to a young and energetic executive office holder who already fulfilled multiple campaign promises in just the first 3 weeks? What will I ever do? 🫢 Anyway, your anti-immigrant bullshit doesn’t work when ICE is murdering people.
Georgia’s Mamdani? Meet The Muslim Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Pushing Jon Ossoff’s Radical, Open-Borders Coalition In Georgia @ruwaromman @ossoff @SenateDems
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ICE is arresting children as young as 5 in their driveway after they get home from school and shipping them to detention centers in Texas. This is objectively depraved and it’s insane Dem leadership refuses to support reducing ICE’s budget (which was TRIPLED this year) at all
CBS Minnesota: ICE has arrested four children in same Minnesota school district
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The Trump censorship agenda is chilling & relentless. I count 200+ attempts in 2025 to muzzle press, protesters, public servants, judges, law firms, universities, corporations. But resistance has blunted this & we must fiercely defend free speech:
nytimes.com
The next three years will require a vigilant defense of free speech and open debate.
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Many people in America cannot afford groceries, and millions are losing access to healthcare. Yet the President, without congressional approval, launched a military strike on Venezuela—after recently claiming the country was withholding oil and land that “belongs” to the United
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We know rising healthcare costs will be a disaster for all of us across our country. We have a duty to speak out. Share your stories and your thoughts:
act.seiu.org
Costs keep rising. Next up: spiking healthcare premiums. So we're sharing our stories, sounding the alarm to extend the ACA tax credits.
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We tell voters to hold elected officials accountable at the ballot box. Part of doing so is by making them defend their records and earn the votes. That only happens when challenged.
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People who are afraid of primaries and running real campaigns are a problem. Ballot line access doesn't make folks a single party with a single interest.
Dems irked at surge of far-left challengers, seeing it as an expensive headache that distracts from the party’s goal of taking House. Rep. Vargas: “We will have spent this energy and money fighting amongst ourselves. And it’s really dumb.” @sarahnferris
https://t.co/1u4fujEaJP
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Hi @DHSgov, We’re the folks who reported the facts you’re now dismissing. So just a reminder: We found 170+ cases of immigration agents detaining U.S. citizens this year. In dozens of cases, charges have never been filed or the cases were dismissed. Among the detained: nearly
propublica.org
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
Stop fear-mongering. ICE does NOT arrest or deport U.S. citizens. If a U.S. citizen is arrested, it is because they have obstructed or assaulted law enforcement. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is if they are illegally in the U.S.—NOT their skin color,
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One full-time job should always be enough. PERIOD.
Translation: more and more people need to work multiple jobs to get by.
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No she wasn't doing what she "needed to do." That would be Brandon Johnson. People in DC have been constantly explaining how she has betrayed them and gone against the people. She absolutely capitulated. Mamdani isn't the mayor yet and gave up nothing.
You know…DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was lionized and proverbially dragged from the rooter to the tooter about Trump and how she engaged with the administration. She was doing what she needed to do as a Mayor, but the headlines suggested she was a capitulator and a coward. Meanwhile
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If Mamdani applauds the deployment of federal agents and urges city cops to work with ICE then yes I will be as critical
You know…DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was lionized and proverbially dragged from the rooter to the tooter about Trump and how she engaged with the administration. She was doing what she needed to do as a Mayor, but the headlines suggested she was a capitulator and a coward. Meanwhile
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Marriage, divorce, adoption, and changing jobs are considered qualifying life events that trigger a special enrollment period for your health care. Becoming pregnant is not considered a qualifying event. The Healthy MOM Act - which I just introduced today - would change that.
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They want to make an example of David Huerta to scare organizers, immigrants, workers, and politicians into silence. But the example he sets is courage and we stand united in solidarity for #JusticeForDavid
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"To my knowledge, I’m the first formerly incarcerated Black man in U.S. history to earn tenure at a medical school," says Dr. Stanley Andrisse
thedig.howard.edu
Once incarcerated in Missouri, Dr. Stanley Andrisse is now a tenured professor at Howard University. His story proves the power of research excellence, educational access, and second chances at the...
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