Olayemi Olurin
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🇧🇸🇳🇬Movement Lawyer + Political Commentator. subscribe to Olurinatti on YouTube and substack
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Eric Adams not only revived police units that were disbanded in 2020 for their disproportionate abuse against Black and brown New Yorkers, he revived stop and frisk. Since he became mayor, 97% of all stops and searches have been on Black and Latino New Yorkers.
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The first time I ever saw people smoke weed was in boarding school. The most cocaine use I’ve ever seen was in law school by people who are prosecutors now. The privileged recreationally do the things they condemn the poor before. Cut the bullshit.
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My neighbor passed me in the hallway and asked me if everything’s good. I said yea why. She said she heard me screaming at a man this morning for disrespecting me. So I had to explain to her than the large disrespectful man in question is actually a cat named Raheem
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Jacob Blake wasn’t committing any crime. Instead of asking why he didn’t comply, ask why an officer who was called to the scene for 2 white women fighting somehow shifted his attention to this Black man, drew his gun on him, and shot him 7 times in the back.
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If your problem with homeless people on the streets is the fact that you’re seeing them and not that they’re homeless, you need to get right within
Caitlyn Jenner to Hannity: "My friends are leaving California. My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, where are you going? And he says, 'I'm moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can't take it anymore. I can't walk down the streets and see the homeless'"
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I really hate the “no person who works a full time job should live in poverty” discourse because it should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We gotta let go of this idea that we work in exchange for worth. People are innately worthy + deserving of the basics
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I’ve been lawfully in America since 2008. I’ve attended high school, college + law school here. I’ve passed + been admitted to the bar. I’m a public defender defending peoples constitutional rights. I still have no path to citizenship except marriage. Be honest about immigration
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I’ve never been more baffled at a boldfaced lie than the insistence that Ted Bundy was fine. No he was not. And he wasn’t Mr. Bitches either, he used to pretend to be handicap to lure unsuspecting women, stop the madness.
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5 Black officers and 1 white officer brutalized Tyre Nichols to death. The 5 Black officers were fired, charged with murder and had their faces plastered everywhere 3 days after the murder. The white officer wasn't mentioned and was quietly "relieved of duty" yesterday. America
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The Grinch is a story about how a whole prejudice community ostracized a green child, ran him out of town, and then gaslit him into believing he was the problem and his heart needed to grow. He should’ve lit all their presents up but yal not ready for that conversation
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I cannot find the words to really encapsulate how insane, terrifying, and outrageous it is that police could shoot someone 60 times, SIXTY TIMES, over a traffic stop, then the government response is to send out militarized police to beat and arrest anyone who says it was wrong
Akron Police in riot gear outside Justice Center at State and High
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It’s telling how they consider accurate retellings of history anti-white propaganda
This is a scene from a Disney+ kids cartoon called The Proud Family
Blatant anti-white propaganda
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Kendrick didn’t say Drake’s not Black because he’s light skinned or biracial—it’s because he cosplays Blackness from every artist and region he can steal it from—despite never speaking on Black issues while actively being exploitative, and doing mess like calling Rick Ross racist
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The police literally killed another officer by simulating how they respond to civilians. Remember this when I tell you policing is inherently violent, police brutality isn’t an accident
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Those are human beings. Ask yourself why they should be subjected to homelessness. Ask yourself what it’s like to be homeless in the winter, to have to sleep on the train. How’s that fair to them? They need services, they need shelter— prioritize that and you wouldn’t see this
You know why NY’s ‘recovery’ isn’t happening? This photo today on the E Train at 6:45am at 42nd & 8th says it all. Why should working people & tourists be subjected to this? How’s it fair to those who need services? Imagine the cops’ frustration with no support to deal with it!
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Mind you, this is the same woman saying America has never been a racist country and coincidentally not using her real name Nimarata
"I was teased every day for being brown"
Nikki Hayley complains about growing up in the America south.
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Half of America’s homeless population were foster children at some point, think about that
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Last night, an NYPD officer killed a homeless man. He ran a red light, hit the man with the police van, and dragged his body underneath. I’m waiting for the outrage from elected officials, to hear how the police are out of control— yanno, everything they’d say if it weren’t a cop
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I hate how we push “financial literacy” programs on poor people. They’re not financially illiterate, they’re broke, be for real. There’s only so much managing and saving money you can do when you don’t have much
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We seriously should interrogate why Nicki thought slut shaming Meg is a more damning insult than being married to a man who is a rapist and a killer. She heard Megan’s law and said yea ima say her potential consensual sex is much worse, that’s what I’ll go with. She’s crazy
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I wish people knew how damn near impossible “legal immigration” is. I’ve gotten my HS diploma, BA + JD in the US legally. Still had a work visa denied because “my proposed endeavor of being a public defender only benefits the poor + indigent and is not of interest to the nation”
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Today in the Bronx, 18 year old Raymond Chaluisan was playing with a toy water gun, spraying people with water, when NYPD shot and killed him
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I had an Indian roommate in law school who came into my room w/out my permission to insist I help her clean a mess she and her friend made upstairs. When I refused and asked her to leave she called the police on me and told them she was afraid for her life.
This is so fcked up.
Didn't know Indians were that racists.
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30 is not old, not even a little bit. I don’t know when we as a society, decided 30 was the arbitrary deadline on so many arbitrary life goals, but it’s not. Let that go
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Who are you going to call when [insert crime] happens if we abolish the police is not a gotcha. In that hypothetical, the crime already happened, the police neither prevented or stopped it. Abolition is about prevention, its about changing the conditions that lead to crime
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New Yorkers are starting to put up wanted signs for police officers who harass folk and I love to see it
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Having an “if you can’t afford to go you shouldn’t go” mindset towards people pursuing college via student loans really tells me you just don’t believe poor people deserve an education or the opportunity to escape poverty.
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The safest communities don’t have the most police, they have the most resources. Remember that
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Journalists have to stop using passive voice to avoid saying police killed someone. Kansas police killed Cedric Lofton, a 17 year old Black teen. His death was ruled a homicide.
A Black teen died in custody while being restrained facedown. Now the prone position is again under fire.
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THIS IS INSIDE RIKERS. You can see people covered in feces they’ve been left in for 9+ hours, you can see men locked in shower stalls that have been turned to cells. You can see the men carrying an unresponsive man in search of medical attention
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The real tea is he’s not mad at Keke’s outfit, he’s mad about Usher but his insecurity wouldn’t let him say that so he thought’d be manlier to police her outfit and assert he’s the man of the house. Meanwhile, he’s a stay at home dad whose only job is working for HER network.
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Imagine looking like Meg thee stallion, having a college degree and 2 Grammys, and seeing men who have neither headboards, a dollar, or a dream, on twitter talking about how you're an embarrassment because they speculate you've had sex with 3 ppl. The audacity on men is WILD
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Police do not prevent crime. They respond to crime and they only solve a whopping 2% of crime. If police are the answer to crime in NYC, tell us how 36,000 NYPD officers with an 11 billion dollar budget can’t stop it from rising. I’ll wait.
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Police don’t have the right to kill you for not following their instructions or if they believe you’ve broken the law. Stop perpetuating the idea that they do, they don’t. Start valuing the lives of human beings over police feelings. It’s a JOB, they aren’t gods amongst men
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If your citizens can’t afford the $2.75 fare to ride the subway, perhaps you need to invest more money into them instead of police to beat and arrest them for it
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My uncles have been together since before I was born and they’re definitely the happiest people in my family
Do you know any queer people who have been together for 10 years?
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We should all be outraged that ppl sit in jail for years waiting for trial simply because they don’t have the money for bail. Think about what it is to spend 3 years in jail, go to trial + win. You don’t get that time or the life you had back. You don’t even get an apology.
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Defunding the police is radical but defunding education, healthcare, and housing is routine. NYC gives over 10.4 billion to NYPD (which they increased by $200 million recently) but slashed the budgets for education and homeless services by several hundred million each.
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They made Susie a single mom because she’s Black as though The Carmichaels weren’t the most successful nuclear family on the show
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N**** is married to a murderer and sex offender and spends her time attacking younger women in rap and mocking them about abuse they've suffered. It's sadly consistent and it's unfortunate that she's chosen to go this route and her fans will disrespect any1 who notes it
Nicki Minaj shares new music on Instagram live tonight:
“Bad b*tch she like 6 foot, I call her big foot. The b*tch fell off, I said get up on your good foot”
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The hate some of you have for gay people is a truly jaw dropping level of wickedness
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Don’t legitimize state violence and then ask protestors for peace. Stop requiring from the people a level of restraint and docility you won’t ask of from the police beating and tear gassing them in the streets.
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This is the problem with copaganda—it’s TV shows giving people ideas like the police will come have chats with their children. I’ve represented so many young ppl who were arrested because their parents called the police thinking they’d just talk to them like they asked. NO
A foster mother called the police on her Black son to talk with him after he stole e-cigarettes. She is suing them after he was forcibly handcuffed and sedated.
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Does everyone remember The Lovely Bones? Well, turns out the author lied on a Black man and he spent 16 years in prison based on her lie. He’s now being exonerated and she… says she’s sorry
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As someone who’s been in America 14 years and gotten their high school diploma, bachelors, JD, and been admitted to the bar here, but still has no path to citizenship beyond marriage, I am tired of xenophobic people pretending America’s immigration system is a free for all
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Yal know there was also a white officer who tased Tyre Nichols that they’ve just conveniently opted not to mention?
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Eric Adams is already using the Brooklyn subway shooting to call for more cops in the subways when he should be explaining to us why none of the multiple police officers that were in the station were able to prevent the incident, stop the shooter, or even get a proper description
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Meg indirectly said she lives in her mind rent free and Nicki followed it up with 48 hours of cokehead rants and 6 songs about her—point proven
Nicki Minaj says she has 5 extra songs ready if Megan Thee Stallion denies anything said on her new track ‘Big Foot.’
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bell hooks talked about the importance of defining love so you can clearly identify when it is or isn’t present because we have a tendency to see it as an undefinable feeling so we interpret the occasional moments of someone caring for us as love, when they otherwise abuse us
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The government is supposed to provide for and help its citizens. It’s not a favor, it’s not a handout, it’s their job. It is quite literally the point of establishing a government.
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And this is how the parole system is designed to land people back in the prison — by policing and controlling their everyday lives and criminalizing regular behavior. It’s a deliberately vicious cycle that continues to punish people after they’ve done their time
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If I knew when I came to America at 15 that I’d be 28 years old with a work visa capped at 6 years MAX and no path to citizenship despite having gotten an American high school diploma, BA, JD, and being admitted to the New York State Bar, I might not have come here
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Happy 420, especially to the Black and brown people still incarcerated for it while they give white people licenses to sell it and ppl recreationally do it everywhere
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This reminds me of when she dropped Stupid Hoe to diss Lil Kim and everybody called it the trash it was. Stupid Hoe, No Frauds, and Big Foot have now solidified that Nicki has no idea what she’s doing in rap beef. Now get her to a rehab asap
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If shooting a man 7 times in the back and paralyzing him doesn’t get you fired, perhaps it’s time to reckon with the fact that violence is apart of policing, the brutality is not an accident. It’s not an accident, it’s not a bad Apple, it’s the job.
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Identifying as a barb in 2024 really gotta be a mental illness combined with a shocking level of ignorance because (1) Tina Snow is a play on Pimp C’s alter ego Tony Snow, and (2) your Queen’s alter ego Roman is literally based on Roman Polanski, a pedophile.
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We often laugh these things off because it’s so obviously staged but it’s important for the public to really look at things like this and internalize that the police straight up lie—and the media helps them do it—just so they can further criminalize, police + incarcerate ppl
Desperate NYC addict leaves items for possible meth cooking attempt all over subway
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STOP BEING SO QUICK TO ACCEPT RIGHT WING COPAGANDA AS TRUTH. Stop saying it doesn’t matter whether Keenan Anderson had cocaine in his system and instead ask how tf are they asserting he had cocaine in his system when there hasn’t even been an autopsy yet!! THEY ARE LYING.
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And THIS is how transphobia harms everyone, including cis women! THIS is why we have every reason to stand up against transphobia and stop thinking what happens to our neighbor doesn’t impact us.
This is a picture of f Michelle Dionne Peacock, a 59-year-old Black woman. She was murdered at the hands of a white supremacist who was convinced she was transgendered. (she was not).
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This is how NYPD conducts arrests and treat Black, brown and poor New Yorkers each and every single day. Yet there are somehow people assuming migrants attacked them out of thin air and vilifying all migrants.
The NYPD's favorite way to protect and serve: beating the shit out of people for no reason.
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Yal swear women gonna regret wearing sexy outfits and what not when we’re old but I’ve never in my life heard an old woman lamenting about how she wish she wasn’t a baddie in her youth. Not never. In fact, the opposite, old women be hype to tell you how poppin they were
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I mean… they used to hang people… that they’d enslaved… so yea
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There’s no world in which a white person could be murdered on video as they beg for their life and we’d expect white commentators to sit politely across from Black people who justjfy it as they smirk and make faces watching the video. But that’s always what’s expected of me
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Rikers is a PRETRIAL detention center that was declared a human rights crisis when 16 people died last year—18 people have already died in Rikers this year. Despite what the copaganda tells you, Rikers is not understaffed—there are about 7000 officers to 5000 incarcerated people.
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Before they use the Brooklyn subway shooting to insist we need more police presence, I want to remind everyone that there are already 3,500 police in NYC subways at all times. Clearly there’s a disconnect between police presence and public safety
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Everyone’s heard of Rikers but everyone doesn’t realize 85% of the people incarcerated there haven’t been convicted or anything. They’re there because they either can’t afford bail or they were remanded. NY gives 860 million to Rikers every year, this is what we’re funding.
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You didn’t need to type em out, I promise it didn’t go over our heads, it’s just ass.
Your flow is such a bore
Drinkin a bottle of henny through a straw.
Bitch you better stop dat dialogue
Before I hit Carl & buy your catalog
Sigh
How you fuck your mother man when she die?
How you go on GAYLE KING and can’t cry?
Chile….Bye
Big foot, but you still a small fry…
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They told this man his son murdered 5 gay people and his response was I’m just glad he’s not gay. Speechless
The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting... And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (
@CBS8
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I don’t know what kind of democracy strips its citizens of their rights and then sends police into the streets to beat and arrest them for protesting it. That sounds like a police state to me
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Explain to me why elected officials get on twitter and pretend to be just as helpless as you and I. We don’t all have the power to change the system, that’s frustrating. What’s more frustrating is watching the people we gave the power to change the system pretending they can’t
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The official whitest thing Drake has ever done is tell his white mom Rick Ross is being racist against him 🤦🏾♀️
Drake responds to Rick Ross’s claim he got a nose job in his diss: “I would have got us a 2 for 1 deal if I went ma”
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Does everyone remember the Black man who was initially attacked by the white people in the Montgomery Brawl before other Black folk jumped in to help? Well the police are now charging HIM with assault of the white folk we watched attack him first.
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I’m going to say this as plainly as humanly possible: America is a racist country with racist leaders, institutions + media. Jordan Neely is dead because a white man wanted to kill a Black man and that white man is free because white America is glad he did it. That’s the truth.
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Last night, a man called for help because his son was having a mental health crisis and holding a knife. 2 NYPD officers arrived on the scene and shot his son within 28 seconds. This is why we need mental health responders and not to keep funding legally sanctioned killers.
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I don’t know how many mass shootings need to happen before we accept that the American government simply has no desire to stop them. America doesn’t value human life—much less value it over guns or money—and they have told us that every way they can.
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If NYPD is openly harassing a media professional and attorney simply because I outperformed the mayor in an interview, one can only imagine how they treat everyday citizens who critique them. It’s no wonder we paid $121 million on police misconduct settlements last year.
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This is your reminder that NYC is a police state. NYPD gets more money than any police force in the country, more ppl have died in Rikers under Eric Adams than ever before, they brought back stop and frisk, they’re using drones to spy on Black neighborhoods & now this
TODAY: New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces the state has started conducting special media "surveillance efforts" to monitor "hate speech."
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It can’t get any clearer that his goal is to stop the spread of real information while using this app to spread misinformation. And right before the election
X is planning to remove the headline from news articles shared to the platform, according to Fortune.
Links will reportedly only display an article’s lead image.
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Do not call Elliot Page or any other trans person by their dead names. It doesn’t cost us anything to simply respect peoples personhoods and call them the name they tell us to.
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NYC is one of the most expensive places to live on earth. The median rent has risen to $4000 in Manhattan. Homeless services and the education budget was slashed by over $200 million. Meanwhile, NYPD gets over 10.4 billion and Eric Adams is wondering why there’s crime
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You can’t think innocent until proven guilty is a real thing in a country that puts you in jail pretrial
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There’s no high like making a successful hail mary argument. A prosecutor once asked for bail on my client because he had like 63 convictions and I was like judge… 63 convictions sounds like a man who showed up to court at least 63 times. And the judge was like… yea you right
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I see a lot of people saying Club Shay Shay messy because of Katt Williams and Mo’Nique’s interviews but I think we should actually stop calling people speaking up and speaking out against professional mistreatment they’ve faced messy. It’s not messy, it’s necessary.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but white women have benefited more from affirmative action policies than any other demographic. The problem with always trying to hurt Black people is that you inevitably end up hurting yourselves.
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education.
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800 cops patrolling yet the shooting still happened and it was civilians who caught the shooter. Yet, we're going to see calls for more police despite more proof they don't stop crime.
Even though 800 cops were patrolling the Kansas City Superbowl parade, a few assholes with guns were able to spoil the whole thing.
It's the guns. It's definitely the guns.
22 people injured, 1 deceased, 3 suspects in custody
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@bahamahoopyogi
What have me weak is how he bite you and stay right dere to watch you get mad 😂😂😂
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This you?
Lol! The meltdowns over wanting be referred to as a woman rather than a “birthing person” is pretty wild. I’ll never apologize for that, especially as biological woman who has had a fucking lifetime of being told I’m less than. I’m a woman. No apologies.
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Kanye West losing deals because ppl don’t want to work with a man spewing antisemitism and bigotry of all kinds, is not being cancelled—it’s business—and the consequences of his own actions. None of us are above losing opportunities because we’re acting a fool, remember that
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AOC shouted me out, said she’s a fan of my work, and encouraged others to follow me 🥹
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The way Black peoples creativity gets undervalued and then blatantly stolen is infuriating.
Ziwe reacts to Netflix India and Aishwarya Mohanraj copying her cancelled talk show.
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This is 22 year old AMIR LOCKE. He was killed 2 days ago by Minneapolis police who entered his home and shot him to death. They were executing a search warrant that he was not named in, entered without knocking, and claimed it was because he had a gun— which he legally owned.
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A prosecutor asked for $2500 bail on my client for “menacingly waving a broom” at someone in his own home. She argued that the person suffered emotional harm by having a broom waved at them. The client was released but you need to know what they want to send ppl to Rikers for
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