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Open your mouth, judge righteously, & plead the cause of the poor and needy. -Proverbs 31:9
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Lol I’m perpetually tickled at people being surprised by Black people taking racism personally. What did the British ever do to you is a wild question, like mfer I’m speaking English to you right now what the hell you think they did lol
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"Imagine if people in the US protested like this" THEY DID! In 2020! The police beat the shit out of us! You all were there!
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Stereos. They used to have big cabinet sized sets with wood paneling and the two speakers that looked like they were stolen from a dance hall. We got an egg that’s recording our conversations for the police.
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Boys can’t name five Tory Lanez songs but decided to be hardcore fans after he shot Meg. Weirdos.
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That shit worked exactly as intended and it’s high time we stop pretending it hasn’t.
BREAKING: new study says 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down
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This is huge, The Tom Joyner Show was the soundtrack for plenty a ride to school. America will *not* be the same with this show off the air.
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Tony Hawk appreciating the hesitation during the race war will always be Tony Hawk's best tweet. I don't make the rules.
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It's wild to watch cause people are acting as if we're not living through the reaction to the Floyd protests. They're passing more laws to continue targeting protesters right now! They're charging protesters with domestic terrorism right now! This is because of those protests!
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People have been sending armed militias to libraries to assault volunteers and families but it’s this stuff that gets all the free speech people weepy
When even Dave Chappelle — maybe the most popular comedian working today — can’t perform at a major venue because not everyone likes his jokes, something has gone wrong. 4/5
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Literally passed laws that made it okay for people to hit protesters with their cars. That was the response.
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The issue is here when things get to burning, Black people are blamed and the specter of Black violence doesn't stir the same revolutionary fervor for the public the way the French protests seem to inspire.
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If you're lamenting the lack of radical action in response to exploitive fiscal policy in the US, maybe we should look at the fact that the police have been given functional impunity for harming protesters with right-wing militias increasingly being deputized as well.
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You can't spend two year saying "actually we can't do anything to address your problems and frankly I'm insulted that you even asked" and expect people to not absorb that message.
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Baptizing a mayor committed to jailing the poor at the facility in which many of them die is the most blasphemous shit I can think of
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But y'all want a radical confrontation with capital while funding the police as if we don't know how that will play out.
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This is what y’all repeatedly insist is *essential* to making you feel safe?!
We can’t even ride bikes now... I’m not surprised. I’m just angry.
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Saw someone respond police need “better training” to avoid repeatedly making false claims about overdosing on fentanyl and I’m not sure if there’s a clearer illustration of how no matter what they’re doing “give them more money” is always the answer.
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We’re going to see one hell of a wave of “my kids don’t talk to me, and I’m lonely” stories in about ten years. Shit is going to be clockwork.
The anti-trans cult LOVES admitting online that they are child abusers who engage in torture of their own children (aka, conversion therapy)
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Literally commenting on the erasure of the Floyd protests without saying anything denigrating French people.
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This type of response only underscores how committed people are to ignoring the Floyd protests, for whatever reason.
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Lol names are literally on the charters for the ships, please stop demanding love
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People with student loans famously unaffected by the pandemic and layoffs.
This should go without saying, but PPP loans aren't the same as college debt. We faced a natural disaster (pandemic) compounded by government shut-down orders that blocked people from working. PPP is better viewed as a form of disaster relief.
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There’s not one person you could ask that question to on the globe who wouldn’t instantly consider kicking you in the chest.
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“If you get violent then we’ll just have to support your oppressors”, says more about the speaker than the subject here.
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Literally not one place on the earth you can get away with that question. Same is true for the United States too. Shit is wild.
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There’s something to the fact that our media quickly and almost universally adopted the term “chain migration” perfectly fine while still agonizing over terms like “racist” and “white supremacy.”
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Lol all summer the police had absolutely no qualms about sending out officers to be the shit out of people protesting for Black lives but now they’re “grappling” with how to deal with militia members menacing people at the polls.
U.S. police chiefs grapple with new Election Day threat: armed men at the polls.
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We’re seeing a concerted effort to make any gathering of people without a white overseer beyond the pale.
Boston mayor under fire for secret no whites Christmas party
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This sentence in the abstract that made my jaw drop, “Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives.”
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There is a reason people so readily accept the idea Black people were enslaved without any skills simply to toil in the field like beasts until they were taught by benevolent white people who happened to be looking to make a profit as well.
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It’s not a “police state” we just want the police to have “omnipresence”, y’know to make you feel safer.
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says the goal is to have “omnipresence” of police in the subways because “people feel as if the system is not safe.”
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Think something to keep an eye out for as we see the affects of punitive immigration policy come to fruition is the use of prison labor contracted out to private companies.
I’m dead ass…. Y’all need to checkout Hispanic TikTok and see all these videos of vacant job sites and ag fields in Florida. In less than a week the workers have vanished!!! Whose gonna finish these jobs?!???
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At this point cable news is just everyone jumping up and down demanding a permanent occupation of Afghanistan.
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This pattern of majority Black cities serving as the object of hate that unifies the state conservative coalition and is the target of punitive policy at the state legislature and county level holds across the US too.
Mississippi capital without drinking water indefinitely after pump failure
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When the interviewer tries to tell her how many "opportunities" she had to learn to read in the 60s and Rosa Lee promptly shuts that down before the academic explanation comes in>>>
Washington, DC (1995). Rosa Lee Cunningham, a mother of 8, explains why she never learned how to read. Her situation is the story of illiteracy in many Black communities throughout the 20th century. She died of AIDS later that year. Please read her story:
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A group of people *just* got nabbed for trying kidnap at least one sitting Governor echoing the grievances of the President.
“What’s the downside of humoring him for this little bit of time? He went golfing this weekend... He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits; those lawsuits will fail; then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen; then he’ll leave.”
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We really don’t have time to send every asshole to Greenland so they can be personally convinced to care about the environment.
For years, Bret Stephens considered himself “an agnostic on the causes of climate change.” A trip to Greenland changed his mind.
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It cannot be emphasized enough that the entire hypothesis of conservative politics right now is that deep down all white people think like this they’re just the people honest enough to say it.
Watters: This is historical fact that slaves did develop skills while they were enslaved and then used those skills as blacksmiths, in agriculture, tailoring, in the shipping business, to benefit themselves and their families..
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"The bill also gives people the ability to justify use of “defensive force” upon an unhoused person in instances of criminal trespass, including “unlawful camping” on the owner’s property."
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Really have to have a conversation about the way regular people are actively punished whenever they try and do any accountability work of elected officials when we talk about civic engagement.
N.J. town sues woman, 82, for ‘voluminous’ and ‘burdensome’ public records requests
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A conception of freedom based on rejecting any obligation for your neighbor and treating the suggestion of a shared obligation as a grievous personal insult.
Parents encouraging kids to burn masks on Idaho Capitol steps
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Young people wanted more Covid protections, and financial support to get through the pandemic, that was "unrealistic" and we got the push back into the office now. Young people want policing addressed, climate change addressed, housing addressed, student loan forgiveness etc
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"The bill, dubbed the “Safer Kentucky Act,” already has received more than 45 Republican co-sponsors and the Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police has committed to testify in support of the legislation when it has a committee hearing."
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“After Floyd’s death, Frey instituted a policy against the use of no-knock warrants in the Minneapolis, but police apparently still use them — though department officials have declined to say how often”
this is how no civilian control or oversight looks
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“People with college degrees don’t deserve student loan relief their rich,” “actually delivering drivers upper middle class,” “it’s not really union organizing cause they work in media” and on and on and on. The reasons we’re assured we shouldn’t care about each other are myriad.
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The entire concept is laughable on its face if you accept the stated intent. Give rich people money and it’ll naturally trickle down to poor people only makes sense if you don’t know any rich people and what they’re like, Reagan and his ilk were very familiar with the wealthy.
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I'm a little baffled by the surprise honestly, did people genuinely believe "fund the police" was going to be popular with the same young people who turned out in record numbers to protest policing?
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The response and messages sent back were "this is unrealistic, why are you being spoiled, that's just the way it is, etc" of course they're not going to be rushing to the polls to support. None of this is a mystery at all.
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“This FBI investigation in Colorado Springs, 70 miles south of Denver, shows that federal law enforcement had embarked on a broad, and until now, secret strategy to spy on racial justice groups and try to entrap activists in crimes.”
The FBI used an undercover cop with pink hair to spy on activists and manufacture crimes by
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She said “I love you big Black guys” like there were a gang of dudes in the room instead of just, y’know, me.
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When people try and tell me I’m racist and I respond “oh, really, tell that to my white son.”
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"I fired these people fair and square and they should now be banished into the nether realm or learn a new skill." - The Freedom Man
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I’d say the ramming of Amy Coney Barrett after the blocking of Merrick Garland is a good argument against focusing on claims of precedent and retribution as a good faith argument
"Republicans won't retaliate against Democrats for stripping Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments" and "Republicans rammed Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court eight days before a presidential election" are statements which describe incommensurable universes.
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“I just know that emotionally, it was hard to maintain restraint, especially when I’m dealing with death in the family, two family members within two days of each other,” Miller said. “I just did the best I could to make sure I didn’t make a bad situation worse” his strength here
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“Hi was just spinning the block and noticed these lovely azaleas!”
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If anything I'm concerned people genuinely believed that they could both make a public point of rejecting progressive policies the youth support to try and pick up older more conservative voters without any change in support from young voters. That's purely wishful thinking.
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People want to be able to just yell it down as "just Twitter" or ignorant radicals who don't "understand" government and that's fine for self-soothing your ego but it's not going to convince people you actually have their best interest at heart. Call them selfish all you want.
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The big backstop here is the fact that the Republican Party is genuinely worse. That's very much true. The issue is people don't feel like the Dems are *significantly* better and you can't keep pushing negative partisanship with an electorate that needs actual material things
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Terribly close to saying the quiet part out loud with the admission they believe some kids need more bars than books.
Imagine jumping on the internet to explain why you think a SCHOOL doesn't need a LIBRARY — and then typing it out and SENDING IT.
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Endlessly repeating “I dealt with/it could be worse” until we’re literally in the lake of fire because that’s the cool and savvy way to be
Remember when the Bay Area was Blade Runner 2049 in 2020? You'll be ok, NY.
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FBI agents out of New York coordinating with the Trump campaign is some straight military junta shit
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What’s got me really tripping through all of this is that Trump is still going to get 50%+ of the white vote. It would *still* be shocking if he didn’t.
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Imagine throwing your sister under the bus because she utilized welfare while you’re having your Mama’s house taking care of, kid’s tuition taken care of, vacations taken care of, *and* your wife was getting brown paper bag money on the side?!
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Using the presence of *any* Black students as proof you’ve been discriminated against whether or not the school uses affirmative action is going to be the next form of their argument once they’ve won at the court.
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I should be used to this I guess because I experienced the same thing when I got to DC but I'm a little disoriented by the fact people in charge actually haven't thought all this out. I disagreed with the choice, but I thought they knew they were making a choice here.
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If I'm being fair I'd guess people assumed young people weren't actually *that* committed to their stated principles and preferred policies. If you think people were just marching for fun because it was the cool thing to do then yeah you can convince yourself it meant nothing.
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Black folks wonder why we have so many shared experiences and it’s not magic. Institutions like the Tom Joyner Morning Show helped to knit our communities together.
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The Biden Administration isn't a tabula rasa upon which everyone is simply projecting their interpretations. He's a moderate, who's been governing as a moderate, with messaging meant to appeal to moderates. Is it working, if not, why not?
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The police created this in response to people protesting for Black lives and backfilled it to have different ostensible meaning and for the most part they’ve been extraordinarily successful in getting people to ignore or pretend to ignore it’s true meaning.
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That's the whole thing, this isn't debate club. People are making active political choices, if they don't work that deserves examination! If moderation isn't making them more politically popular the effects of moderation are not a mystery!
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Very wild to see people immediately turn to gaming out how leaking a draft opinion can be spun into a criminal prosecution. Especially so soon after we saw the Sheriff Villanueva deploy the exact same tactic in response to the LA Times reporting on his coverup.
Some are asking, is it a crime to leak a draft Supreme Court opinion? A few thoughts.
(Thread.)
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@KWintie
@tylrr_tyler
@gaywonk
There’s already a national majority in opposition to this decision, it doesn’t matter, the court is unconcerned about public opinion.
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“Violence is *never* the answer” - y’all
Me:
On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.
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Poll: USPS should be run like a public service, not a business, Americans say 2-to-1
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"Of course you think they'd be better off with youth if they did more things young people asked for", I mean yeah they literally tried the opposite and it didn't work. That's the thing, we're not arguing hypotheticals. They tried an actual political strategy that's not working.
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It’s racism in case you were wondering, it’s the same logic that holds some people are “fit for democracy” while others must acclimate themselves to our way of life. People genuinely believe the rest of the world is under the tutelage of white people.
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Just to be clear, there's no training to help you stop hiring a public comms team that takes body cam footage of someone having a panic attack, edits it, writes press releases, & distributes it to local & national media w/ false claims to create a panic to gain support
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I don’t think people understand how time consuming and fraught an experience it is for people to navigate programs ostensibly designed to “help” poor people in the United States.
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Every day we’re not getting stabbed to death is a miracle fellas.
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When Abby thinks a demographic that comprises less than 5% of the student population "took her spot"
#StayMadAbby
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Alright, I signed the contract and slept on it. You are now rocking with the Senior Political Manager at Color Of Change.
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Yo someone conceptualized the smart condom, wrote a business plan, found funding, wrote a marketing plan, and found a manufacturer...dog.
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I'm going to cap it here, and probably mute, would love some thoughtful pushback cause this all seems obvious but if you're just going to reply "Oh I guess you love Trump" then don't even bother
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@kingcoldinc
How do you become the dude dressed as Bruce Lee kicking a dude as he does squats?
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In all seriousness, I fear for the older generation, considering how they're approaching their youth now. Nursing homes are going to be bursting at the seams.
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An online post to solicit a Mammy is a special kind of "world's colliding" dystopia.
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Reading about Black mothers being denied contraceptives, while also being criminalized for having children, while people are eagerly trying to drag us back to this as the status quo is enraging.
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Pointing out what happened and the deliberate forgetting of it “divisive” though.
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So...the dude alleged to have been moving pounds decided to *volunteer* as a trial witness...against the police.
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And you can see the limits of our political discourse in the fact no one is suggesting we stop giving block grants to states which have gerrymandered their voters into obsolescence and are actively hostile towards the community the money is supposed to help.
While Brett Favre was getting Mississippi to spend over $5 million of federal welfare funds in a new volleyball stadium (and receiving $1.1 million himself), the state approved just 1.42% of the poor people who applied for assistance. |
@MSFreePress
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Not building it’s built, every Ring camera, plate reader, face scanner, gang database, etc. they’ve got the infrastructure in place. They’re doing it right now.
once you understand the levels to 🇮🇱 surveillance- you will never again believe these are not deliberate, targeted attacks on 🇵🇸 civilians.
once you understand that 🇺🇸 is building, investing in and rolling out the same things...you'll never feel safe here again
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Yeah he never stops and thinks "well hell maybe she just wanted some Mexican food."
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