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Founder @TheNorthStar & @RealJusticePAC & @FlipTheSenate & @TheActionPAC. Host of @TheBreakdown Podcast. Voice of Social Justice @TJMShow. Husband. Father of 5.

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    1. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 23 Jun 2017
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      California has banned all state-sponsored travel to: Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky Mississippi, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, & TX

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      Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 23 Jun 2017
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      Why California's government will no longer fund any travel to 8 different American states.http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/us/california-travel-ban/index.html …

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        2. Jamie Kizzee‏ @EduChildren 23 Jun 2017
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          Wow, Californians take discrimination seriously...signed Proud Californian

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        3. Plutoburns‏ @Plutoburns 23 Jun 2017
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          As a Carolina resident, don't spend any of your tax dollars traveling here until we get our shit together

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        4. Suzanne Trimel 🌊 🇺🇸‏ @STrimel 23 Jun 2017
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          Thanks for supporting this. I know there are good people everywhere. I won't visit NC until it stops state-sanctioned bigotry.

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        2. Naomi Nagata‏ @vegan_mum 23 Jun 2017
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          Putin must be cackling with glee, seeing states within the United States turn against each other. A sad day for democracy.

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        3.  🌊 Linda Bres.....  🌊‏ @JustMyLittleBit 23 Jun 2017
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          State gov't are 1 thing, but when states turn against their taxpayers, that makes it a sad day 4 democracy. Taxation w/o representation.

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        2. james t‏ @TJames516 23 Jun 2017
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          This is silly. Are the also banning travel to Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, etc?

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        3. Catherine Pikus‏ @Cat_MarqueeLV 23 Jun 2017
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          We don't get to write the rules in other countries. We DO get to write the rules in America. And they aren't "banning"

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        4. Catherine Pikus‏ @Cat_MarqueeLV 23 Jun 2017
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          travel, they just aren't subsidizing it. Pretty positive the state of California already doesn't pay for travel to

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        5. Catherine Pikus‏ @Cat_MarqueeLV 23 Jun 2017
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          Saudi Arabia, et. al. So you're literally arguing nothing. Thanks for demonstrating your ignorance though ; )

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        6. james t‏ @TJames516 23 Jun 2017
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          Let's not resort to insults. I abhor discrimination in all of its forms. Sadly this ban is another wedge between us and them

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        7. Catherine Pikus‏ @Cat_MarqueeLV 23 Jun 2017
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          What are u talking about? I gave factual reason ur statement was meaningless. It's a standard right-wing talking point

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        2. tapsman2013‏ @tapsman2013 23 Jun 2017
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          California better make the same stands against police brutality against blkpp

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        3. IamTrueHate ™️‏ @_IamTrueHate 23 Jun 2017
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          If you did a travel ban to all the places that hurt black people you would have to stay in yoir house.

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        2. People Died to be Educated‏ @NoTimeBeYou 23 Jun 2017
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          Live in CA. 75% of Black boys can't read grade level. In SF Black unemployment is 53%. But they got the nerve to call states discriminatory

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        1. HI_McDonaugh‏ @HI_McDonaugh 23 Jun 2017
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          Kudos to Cali. Why provide profits to states who refuse to provide equal rights to all humans.

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        1. Natalie Gray‏ @coralteach 23 Jun 2017
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          Proud of California today!

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        1. Cub Carson‏ @CubCarson 23 Jun 2017
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          But I thought you weren't supposed to mess with Texas? They were pretty explicit about it.

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