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Todd O ✊ 🛹 🥀
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About all things Whisk(e)y 🥃 Resist👊 A simple Volunteer for Democracy #BetoRoadWarrior 🗣 #PRU. #Believe #Betocrat #VotingRights #BLM
Get involved Beto for Texas 👉betoorourke.comJoined February 2010
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these mfers killed SIX birds with 1 stone
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Update in the death of Tyre Nichols in police custody: All five MPD officers have been indicted, & booked with 1 count murder 2, aggravated assault-acting in concert, 2 counts aggravated kidnapping, 2 counts official misconduct & 1 count official oppression No bodycam footage yet
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Blue Future
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I don't know about you but we know the struggle of Ticketmaster's monopoly all too well😔🧣...
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The New York Times
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Live Nation Entertainment, which owns Ticketmaster, came under attack during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday, with committee members from both parties calling the company a monopoly that hinders competition and harms consumers. nyti.ms/3XXwht8
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Adam Schiff
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BREAKING NEWS: Kevin McCarthy just kicked me off the House Intelligence Committee. And here’s why: I fought him and Donald Trump when they tried to tear down our democracy. If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out differently.
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98% of the people of Atlanta oppose Cop City. And yet the
@atlcouncil
plans to bulldoze the city’s last large green space to build a $90-million "training" compound for cops… After already *increasing* the police budget in response to 2020 protests.
theintercept.com
Atlanta Poised to Approve Massive Police Training Facility Despite Public Opposition
The city has given little room for public input ahead of a vote to approve the $90 million center that activists have dubbed “Cop City.”
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Stacy Pinkston 🌱🏳️‍⚧️🌻🛹🌎
@stateoflynn
In 2017 in 108 degrees I had the opportunity to meet and march alongside ⁦
@RubenGallego
⁩ at the protest in downtownPHX when DJT pardoned arpaio before we peaceful protestors were tear-gassed and run off. Ruben will be a great Senator for us - for #az secure.actblue.com/donate/ruben-a
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Fewer than 2% of killings by cops result in them ever being charged. The Memphis PD firing the cops who killed Tyre Nichols — before we’ve seen the video — is all you need to know about the brutality they inflicted mappingpoliceviolence.us huffpost.com/entry/tyre-nic #TyreNichols
A graphic from mappingpoliceviolence.us showing that 98.1% of killings by police from 2013-2022 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime
A screenshot of the Memphis PD tweet containing its statement on the firing of five officers for the brutal beating and murder of Tyre Nichols, plus a photo of each of the five (Black) cops responsible
philip lewis and Samuel Sinyangwe
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Derek Chauvin was involved in 5 police killings before suffocating George Floyd to death But Chauvin's far from the only cop to get away with murder. In fact, those who *are* fired just get hired somewhere else. It's endemic. Why #DefundThePolice then #AbolishThePolice? 🧵
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Blue Future
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A noble action from such an accomplished female leader with so many liberal successes in the past 5 years.💙 Giving up power for the sake of political and national betterment... if only Trump and MAGA leaders had a shred of this integrity.🤔
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NPR
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said yesterday that "it's time" for her to move on. The announcement was a shock that has rocked the country's political landscape. n.pr/3XCfY4E
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“The more we have ownership, the more we’ll be safe, because our community will take care of it” Days after George Floyd was murdered, 2 Minneapolis groups called meetings: an SEIU union of mostly Black security guards a network of longtime community de-escalators 🧵
Screenshot of title and subtitle of Next City article by Emily Nonko: “Our Community Will Take Care Of It”: In the wake of the George Floyd uprisings, a union of Black security workers and long-time community de-escalators in Minneapolis re-envisioned community safety through an apprenticeship. They’re already saving lives.
A congested crowd holding many protest signs at a 2020 BLM demonstration/march; part of the Minneapolis Uprising photo series by Chad Davis
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Americans For Tax Fairness
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🚨 ALERT: New House GOP bill would abolish the IRS and replace federal income tax with a sales tax. The fake Fair Tax Act will get a floor vote as a concession to holdouts during House Speaker negotiations. The bill is a tax cut for the wealthy and a tax hike on working people.
Bill text of the "Fair Tax Act of 2023"
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Americans For Tax Fairness
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Rep. Buddy Carter gave a speech four days ago praising law enforcement, but he draws the line at enforcing tax laws for the wealthiest among us. The hypocrisy is so loud.
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Sarah Ferris
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New: Rep. Buddy Carter confirms to me that his Fair Tax Act will get its first-ever floor vote as part of speaker talks. Bill abolishes IRS, eliminates tax code, replacing income taxes with consumption tax - rolling back pieces of GOP tax law It was a demand of the 20 holdouts
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Transgender porn viewing grew 75% in 2022, becoming the 3rd most popular category in the US At the same time as the introduction of 300+ anti-Trans bills nationwide. In fact, the states where Trans porn is most searched are those with anti-Trans bills instagram.com/p/Cmu5oAnJ1pu/
A list of the top 20 states for Trans porn consumption, half placed on either side of the top of the capital building, colored purples and blues: Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, and Pennsylvania
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ICYMI: 3 cops shot a Black trans woman 16 times The DA said it was “justified” And the cops kept their jobs. Sound white? them.us/story/police-s
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The US has the *highest* poverty rate among the world's most developed nations The US has the 2nd highest childhood poverty rate, with more than 1 in 3 Black and Indigenous kids and 1 in 4 Hispanic kids living in poverty 54 million of us will experience food insecurity in 2023.
A color-coded map of the US poverty line
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They call you a slave. And as it was at the plantation, you better not talk. These are people, not chattel — and yet this sure feels a lot like modern-day slavery, *codified* by the US Constitution washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01 (paywall) history.com/news/13th-amen
Clint Smith tweet: Jonathan Archille, an incarcerated man in Louisiana, works for no pay in the state capital. He tells a reporter he’s been called a slave by prison staff. Prison denies it. A few days later he’s placed on lockdown as punishment for talking to a journalist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/01/louisiana-prison-labor-ballot-slavery/
History article screenshot: “What we see after the passage of the 13th Amendment is a couple of different things converging,” says Andrea Armstrong, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. “First, the 13th Amendment text allows for involuntary servitude where convicted of a crime.” At the same time, “black codes” in the south created “new types of offenses, especially attitudinal offenses—not showing proper respect, those types of things.” https://www.history.com/news/13th-amendment-slavery-loophole-jim-crow-prisons
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Alyssa Milano
@Alyssa_Milano
“As I embark on my journey to the NFL, I will never forget where I come from and I am committed to using my platform to positively impact the community that raised me.” ~Damar Hamlin Please donate to Dakar’s toy drive fund below. #damar #damarhamlin #prayForDamar twitter.com/k_kathleen09/s
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Virginia rapper
@BUGZIETHEDON
was just sentenced to 6 months in a cage for posing for his album cover on a law enforcement vehicle on January 6. Steve Bannon, who advised Donald Trump *in inciting an attempted coup* on January 6, got 2 months less — for contempt, not terrorism.
The album cover for THE CAPITAL by rapper Bugzie The Don, taken during the J6 insurrection, costing him 6 months in prison (on bullshit charges)
Article screenshot: Jan. 6 committee formally accuses Donald Trump of 4 crimes, by Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu, Politico, 12/19/22: At the heart of the committee’s story is evidence that Trump began planning to overturn the election months before voters went to the polls. Trump would follow the advice of allies like Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and Roger Stone to declare victory on election night, despite signs that Biden was leading or likely to take the lead in several key swing states.
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Henrietta Lacks was a poor Black mother of five. In 1951, her cancer cells were taken without her consent and used for medical research. Roanoke, Virginia, was the site of the Riot of 1893, and the racism and murder that preceded it.
“A Statue of Henrietta Lacks Will Replace a Monument to Robert E. Lee: The statue, scheduled to be erected next fall in Roanoke, Va., is part of a local project to recognize Black history in community spaces”
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Three years and 11 months ago, Nazis stormed Charlottesville, and murdered Heather Heyer Today the city announced they’ll remove its statue of Robert E. Lee, the racist Confederate general awkword.bandcamp.com/track/heather-
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“The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a ‘multi-part conspiracy’ to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol” apnews.com/article/2b406a #J6
Committee to Investigate January 6th Attack on United States Capital: Introductory Material to Final Report of Select Committee
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There are Black people in prison on max sentences for stealing a slice of pizza or pack of diapers. 14,000 BLM protesters were arrested in 2020 alone. Yet, federal judges have gone BELOW the government’s sentencing recommendations in two thirds of ‘Capital rioter’ cases so far.
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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
Don’t overlook this part included in the bill. It closes loopholes that Trump & his coconspirators tried to exploit on Jan 6 making it harder for presidential candidates to steal future elections. It also grants extra funds to the DOJ for J6 prosecutions.
nbcnews.com
Senate passes $1.7 trillion government funding bill that would overhaul U.S. election law
The bill now goes to the House before it can head to Biden's desk for his signature. The legislation must be enacted by Saturday to avoid a government shutdown.
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