1. Millions of Americans love MAGA more than they love democracy. There should be zero doubt, Trump is just a mirror of America - a populist candidate. This is not new, minorities have called out these issues-we got dismissed & told to look at Obama. We saw the ignorance. We knew
Me: do you have probable cause?
Cop: I need you to cooperate. Do you have any weapons?
Me: *shows badge* yes.
Cop: sorry, sir, just being vigilant; you're free to go.
I searched, we have not had a vehicle theft in over a year. I have a meeting with the Police Chief tomorrow🤬
I was pulled over for driving a nice car, again.
Cop: is this your car?
Me: yes
Cop: what do you do?
Me: why?
Cop: we've had a few car thefts lately
Me: what about my car said stolen? the Purple Heart license plate?
Cop: do you mind if I search the vehicle?
Continued...
This era demands we speak the truth.
Facts:
Donald Trump is a pedophile who raped 12 AND 13 year old's - Jeffrey Epstein was the pimp.
How did then POTUS-elect Trump's circle get it dropped? Death AND Bomb threats.
READ IT FOR YOURSELF (share widely):
Deployed. See you soon. Currently, we won't defend Ukraine.
My heart hurts for the people of Ukraine. A beautiful, independent, and free nation about to experience radically unnecessary suffering.
Remember: Trump suspended military aide to Ukraine and capitulated to Putin.
Anthony Borges, the then 15-year-old boy who used his body to shield his classmates during the Parkland School Shooting, shows his scars. He was shot 5 times.
@gmarie55
I let it go the last time - not this time. Especially after I went looking to verify his claim, and he lied to me. I can only assume I was racially profiled.
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited... But the highest rung of what’s possible is far beyond the world you can see.”
~ Trevor Noah, "Born A Crime"
My last 24hrs on here:
Been called Nigger
Called racist against White folks
Raising my kid to hate White folks
A killer
Destroying the U.S.
Answer to Black violence is Jim Crow
I need to **die**
Be deported to Africa 🤨
Unlovable 😭
Shoutout to Elon for free speech, tho 😵💫
@AnnaMcLaine
🙏🏽
His "what do you do" was triggering and prompted me to verify his claim. Once it was clear he lied to me, I scheduled to meet with the Police Chief tomorrow.
I respect Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for honoring their oath.
Cheney voted with Trump 93% of time
Kinzinger voted with Trump 90% of time
Both are ANTI-CHOICE
Both voted against condemning Trump's racist rhetoric
Both voted against the Equality Act
They are NOT our allies.
Dear Kamala Harris,
You should try to reach across the aisle with your cabinet picks. If you announce that you are appointing Liz Cheney as your AG, I believe you would get a lot of swing voters. In addition she would take care of Trump and his enablers in an expedient manner.
Folks: there is now a Delta Plus. It is thought to be more transmissible than the Delta variant.
Vaccines will lose efficacy as the virus mutates. You want to be a real "Patriot" - please get vaccinated, if able, to help protect lives.
South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that it had recorded at least two cases of the new coronavirus delta plus variant, which some experts believe to be more transmissible than the original delta variant.
Texas "Show Your Papers" law
10-year minimum mandatory sentence for having an undocumented person in your car; even if a relative.
Reduced to 5 yrs if you cooperate w/investigations.
Note: Germans who aided Jewish people were prosecuted.
Stats in link:
SB4 will give you a 10-year minimum mandatory sentence for having an undocumented person in your car. Even if it is a relative, a coworker, or a neighbor.
#txlege
Mar-a-Lago
What you need to know:
- The FBI Director is a Trump appointee
- A federal judge signed off on the search warrant
- This is not a fishing expedition
- Someone near Trump flipped; provided credible intel
This is an historical event.
@realDonaldTrump
WARNING: this is called stochastic terrorism. You are openly flirting with treason, sedition, and stochastic terrorism - in the last two months alone. This is not what patriotism or love for country looks like. I would know - I fought and bled for this country.
@LINNEA13moons
Sadly, only caught on video the last couple years. My first time experiencing this exact situation was in 2005.
In 1997, stopped at a gas station with a Subway, late night, only customer. 20 mins later, 5 squad cars, I leave, and get escorted to County lines. I was a college kid
I'm not anti-cop. I'm anti-qualified immunity for cops.
As a gun owner, I'm not anti-gun. I'm for stricter gun laws.
I am against cops being allowed to join hate groups.
Note: I don't believe anyone should have immunity - it perpetuates corruption and public distrust.
Why do I feel, as I watch the DNC, that I am watching a hall full of automatons or ghosts? What is it giving me chills, as I listen to Pres Clinton? Why do these people in the audience look so weighed down?
Host: You keep mispronouncing "Kamala"
Nancy Mace: I'll say her name any way I want
Host: That's the legacy of White disregard for Black's
Mace: Disgusting thing to say
Host: Disgusting is your disrespect
*Feeling entitled to call Black's what you want is peak white-supremacy*
The entire West Virginia State Police department is under sexual misconduct investigation after multiple lawsuits filed from dozens of women, including minors.
Trump legitimized hate, racism, bullying, & misogyny becoming mainstream. The saddest part? some people became numb to it, others were willing to tolerate it, while others leveraged it for ratings. The result? democracy pushed to the brink. Hate destroys, especially if unchecked.
DOJ, ATF, and FBI are law enforcement agencies.
@SpeakerJohnson
is, in fact, explicitly stating:
"The GOP intends to defund federal law enforcement agencies and DOJ's ability to prosecute criminals."
Representing an addition to the explicitly stated agenda of Project 2025.
🚨Afghanistan Thread:
So much talk from people who never stepped foot in Afghanistan, have no idea what they are talking about, or just lying.
Who never trained their forces.
Who never engaged in talks with village Elders.
I've done *all* of this.
It needs to be repeated: Joe Biden has been wrong in every foreign policy position he has taken in a 40-year career. Before it didn’t matter when he bloviated nonsense. As President this has dire consequences. I hope your distaste for Trump’s tweets is worth this & the next 3 yrs
I didn't ask to be pulled over, pulled out of my car, and asked to explain...
"Is this your car?" "what do you do for a living?", etc.
Not b/c I broke the law (I wasn't ticketed) - it was simply for being a Black guy driving an expensive car.
But, insular folks can't get this.
I believe it’s possible to live your life in such a way that the police are not a threat to you.
It’s called having agency and making reasonable life choices.
Trump during his NY rally:
"Africans, Asians, Haitians, Middle Easterners, Asian (added emphasis) illegals are replacing our children. They're ruining our country. I'll send them all back within 3 months..."
In summary: BIPOC is bad.
This is about creating a white ethnostate.
During the Holocaust, the USA had at least 35 concentration camps in California and Hawaii alone - containing over 125k Asian-Americans.
SCOTUS legalized it via Korematsu v. US.
Slavery was a thing. No rights' for Black folks until mid-1960s.
You sound stupid
@NikkiHaley
6. I did it during the rise of MAGA and deepening racial divides. I was/am still willing to die for people who detest my existence - why? b/c we are ALL Americans. I have one question for the millions of Trump supporters - when will I be completely accepted as American?
#Love
7. We can't ignore racism. We just can't. No one wants to believe systemic racism is real. And because people refuse to believe this and examine their own inherent biases, we aren't making the progress we should. We are stuck in place & paint pics of change instead of changing.
2. that we needed fellow Americans, in their safe spaces, to repudiate any form of discrimination and hate, as soon as it appears, no matter how uncomfortable. It takes BOLD action to dismantle the legacy of colonialism, racism, misogyny, & bigotry.
🚨Request for
@TG22110
According to Missouri State Prosecutors, Kevin Strickland has been imprisoned for 43 years for crimes he did *not* commit.
The Gov still refuses to release Kevin.
I think
#FreeKevinStrickland
is worth trending - can you help?
@SBTroublemaker
@GINGERKING711
Today was not even the scariest story. Remind me to tell you about my driving home during spring break from college. That was truly frightening.
Tonight
#WinWithBlackMen
surpassed $1.3Million to turn Madam Vice President into Madam President.
The ground is rumbling in America. The Black community is electric - like the spirit of our ancestors is present.
We will deliver The White House. You must deliver a Dem Congress.
I'm triple vaxxed & still double masked.
Why, for you anti-vaxxers?
- I care about my grandparents
- I care about my neighbor's kid w/leukemia
- I care about the immunocompromised
- I'm a Patriot
Note: my neighbor may have spray painted N****r on my garage doors - I still care.
5. I was/am willing to sacrifice my life, for every person in this country, and in that moment I felt 'less-than', somehow less American, acutely aware of my skin color. Yet, I served 6 more tours of combat, even after injuries.
4. Every one of my men were greeted with handshakes from all in the airport, on American soil, except me. I was the only minority in my combat unit. I was greeted with middle fingers & hands withdrawn from some. Not all, some. Imagine how I felt in that moment...
So...two Black men singing the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, is enough to get you arrested.
But, if thousands of domestic terrorists assault the U.S. Capitol - they were free to go home.
Question: what is it this country *really* wants?
It seems pretty clear to me😔
🚨Ahmaud Arbery Trial
This is a fact:
A Black person will never run towards a truck - with a visible Confederate flag vanity plate, carrying three armed White men - and attempt to disarm them.
I can't believe this was used as a defense.
3. Quick story: In the early stages of the war in Afghan, I was deployed to lead men in combat (all male unit). Every single one of us came home exhausted and bruised, but alive with limbs intact. We arrived to cheers from the citizens we fought for...
1. Unfiltered:
Black people understand how *little* White Americans value us, our story, and our shared history.
Our children see your hypocrisy. They see how you devalue them with your outrage over learning Black history.
We teach them what you want to whitewash & ignore.
🚨Serious Question
Do German kids feel bad when they learn about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust?
"Learning about history doesn't make you feel bad about yourself, it makes you committed to do better."
~ Elie Mystal
I call this: "American Fragility"
🚨People don't know the ENTIRE Anthem
"Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave; and the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave"
~National Anthem, Third Stanza
About Trump's bond:
The Trump and Kushner family financier, Don Hankey, was under SEC investigation - until 2017, when Trump had it closed.
What was the investigation about? “Money laundering”
Foreign/GOP oligarchs are ready to implement Project 2025.
Know who Trump's indebted to:
A billionaire Trump supporter who has ties to one of Trump's banks arranged his $175 million civil fraud appeal bond.
Don Hankey is one of the largest shareholders in Axos bank, which loaned Trump $100 million to refinance Trump Tower and loaned
🚨President, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
Who is he?
- Leader of the Taliban - now President.
- Released from prison at the *request* of the Trump Administration, in 2018.
- In 2020, Trump negotiated with him, instead of the Afghan government.
🚨Reminder
Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin, led the Real Estate division of Deutsche Bank.
Justice Kennedy abruptly retires.
Leads to Kavanaugh being appointed, after someone paid his debts.
Justice Thomas's wife helped with logistics of January 6th.
SCOTUS *is* compromised.
New: Trump hid over $73 million in losses on his D.C. hotel, a new House committee report alleges.
Report also reveals Deutsche Bank USA modified Trump's loan in the middle of his presidency, allowing him to defer principal payments for 6 years.
@MuellerSheWrote
Trump also said to Stormy Daniels:
"You remind me of my daughter, Ivanka - blonde, smart, and beautiful".
Before sexually coercing Stormy - which is sexual assault (consent not freely given).
🤬
@DailyLoud
Nah - this is sus.
Inhaled during high winds: implies the bag wasn't sealed - meaning the driver, passengers, etc., are dead.
Cops don't let you keep the drugs - so anyone that handled it, in order to seal it, also OD'd.
Folks that OD aren't *asking* for Narcan b4 passing out.
@Out5p0ken
@marcorubio
We're missing the main point: a Republican Senator implied a woman is too emotional to be Vice President of the United States. In 2020. Let that sink in.
I'm calling it -
@GOP
is not salvageable. Period. Pence lowered the coffin, Rubio set it ablaze, Trump nuked it.
@LINNEA13moons
Ah, I see. This was expected, I call it the "Trump Effect". He emboldened them and created "Blue Lives Matter" - to support the new militant stance.
Flaws to your thesis:
Kanye is not advocating for African-Americans.
He IS anti-Semitic.
He has been, for years, anti-Black and a slavery denier.
He just purchased 'Parler', so he is marketing himself to his new base of income.
Supporting him is supporting anti-Semitism.
Questions - Could, I:
6'3" Black male, who aces the most rigorous physical fitness tests on the planet, walk by cops w/an assault rifle, shoot three people, killing two, walk back by the police, still armed, w/o incident?
Would a jury then acquit me, on grounds of self defense?
🚨Those Attacking Rep. Waters🚨
She was born in 1938, meaning:
- Jim Crow was literally alive & well
- Segregation
- Lived over 30yrs w/state sanctioned terrorism
- Was 27 on Bloody Sunday
- 17 when KKK lynched Emmitt Till
- 30 when MLK was murdered
- 53 when Rodney King beaten
Active military, disabled veterans, and retirees, collect a “government check“.
You,
@JDVance1
- like
@GenFlynn
- are a disgrace to our oath and the uniform we wear. 🖕🏾
I promise you this: you will not hold office in The White House.
Tim Walz:
Rank: Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army - Retired.
Job: "Heavy Artillery".
Deployment: Operation Enduring Freedom.
Awards: "Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year".
You are a disgrace
@JDVance
- Devoid of integrity and morals.
🚨Finally, addressing Biden being blamed:
- Our Regional Commands were already down to skeleton crew *before* Jan 2021.
Why?
Trump initiated the rapid exit. Which, by the way, had media pundits praising the move. But, I digress.
🚨The amount of harm Trump caused to our national security is understated.
You only see a fraction of it now.
Ex: Trump, withdrew from the Iran Nuclear deal.
Today, Iran has around 4,500kg of enriched uranium. Meaning: Iran's nuclear breakout time went from 1 year to 3 months.
I thought the reason for the bullying/constant vitriol aimed at Meghan Markle was common knowledge:
"How dare a woman of color rise above her station and marry a Prince from *the* royal family (colonizers). Since she forgot her place, the system must remind her."
A news reporter asked Michael Jordan if he thought the ’90s Bulls could beat LeBron’s Lakers.
MJ: Yes.
Reporter: By how much?
MJ: Two or three points.
Reporter: Why so close?
MJ: Most of us are almost 60 now.
Justice Jackson is right.
Why? context matters.
Murthy v. Missouri, in a nutshell, argues social media platforms can promote disinformation harmful to public health & national security.
You falsely scream "bomb" in an airport, what happens?
GOP argues free speech (it's not).
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:
“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”
🚨Context on 46 Democrats who voted **NO**
They said they would vote "NO" if it was clear the bill would pass.
Their reason for voting "NO"?
They wanted **no** preconditions on raising the debt ceiling - the same standard under Republican administrations.
It's okay to hate Hamas and Netanyahu...
We really can want liberation for Palestinians and safety for Jews.
We can want liberation and safety for Ukrainians.
We can want liberation and peace around the World.
PSA:
Anti-vaxxers,
Don't start a "GoFundMe" to cover your COVID hospital bills.
The vaccine was *FREE*.
You screwed yourself.
Note: The GOP officials you love to elect - denied you affordable healthcare.
Thoughts and prayers.
Men:
We are the solution to ending sexual assault.
Looking for women to stop sexual assault, is like asking a child to end child abuse.
We are complicit in our inaction - complicit in our silence.
"Man up". Be accountable. Join me in ending sexual violence.
#SilentNoMore
🚨Be Informed
Those documents were NOT classified.
Those documents were taken to a federal facility - under legal ownership of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Will eventually be placed in The Obama Presidential Library.
Source:
Baier: You have President Obama who took a ton of documents and said he was going to put them online. They’re not online yet. You can’t search them yet but no one was breaking down a door. Was it a National Security issue at that level? We don’t know.
Attention, anti-maskers, anti-science, and anti-vaxxers:
Sit out conversations about Afghanistan. About what is morally right. What is decent and just. About humanity.
You don't care about any of that, if you did, you would protect Americans and wear a f'n *mask*.
🚨The Significance:
- Trump legitimized Baradar, while delegitimizing the Afghan government.
- You can't expect the Afghan Army to fight for a government, delegitimized by the U.S,, in favor of the Taliban.
I mean, seriously, would you?
@MittRomney
FALSE
The Facts:
The Trump admin negotiated w/the Taliban, not the *government* of Afghan.
Trump enabled, empowered, & legitimized the latest resurgence of the Taliban.
Trump owns the genocide that *will* occur.
You're intentionally lying
@MittRomney
It’s pouring in DC but
@CoriBush
remains outside the Capitol. The congresswoman has been sleeping on the steps since Friday.
“Our unhoused friends, where do they go when it’s raining?”
Years ago, my daughter and I negotiated a deal, that I admittedly forgot about...
If she maintained a 4.0GPA, I would buy her a *new* car for senior year.
She produced the contract we signed & said "your move, dad" 💀
IDK if I should be proud or cry for my wallet. Maybe, both.
I don't care if school shooters are:
Religious or atheist
White or BIPOC
Cishet or LGBTQ+
Republican, Democrat, or Independent
Immigrant or natural-born citizen
Use of adjectives in this case is a distraction. Suggesting we profile folks is discriminatory.
Talk about the guns.
🚨Iowa
The State stopped paying for:
- Sexual assault exams
- Rape victims' morning-after pills or any other intervention prescribed by a Dr
- Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases
- Emergency abortions
U.S. has contempt for women.
🚨LISTEN UP🚨
@HawleyMO
The origins of COVID are *not* the primary concern.
The primary concern: what did the previous Admin do to protect Americans when COVID reached our shores.
Stop trying to distract from the real issue
@HawleyMO
The public deserves to know if persons within the US govt tried to stop a full investigation into
#COVID
origins, as recently reported. And Congress must also find out to what extent Fauci’s NIAID was involved in financing research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
🚨Dear White Parents
No one wants kids to feel bad about themselves.
Here's the thing, you don't take our experiences into consideration.
Your open embrace of racist symbols (confederate symbols/flag) forces us to explain racism to our kids.
Outrage over CRT is pure hypocrisy
Omg. Pete didn’t mince words destroying Trump this morning.
“Trump just gave a press conference where he told 160 lies. That frankly is impressive in terms of being able to physically do that. It's like the Olympics of lying.”
These are fellow Americans you are talking about - spilling American blood is a joke to you, chucklefuck?
My oath includes domestic enemies, Gunther - that would be you.
F*ck around and find out, at your own peril. I detest you f*ckers.
Years ago, my daughter and I negotiated a deal, that I admittedly forgot about...
If she maintained a 4.0GPA, I would buy her a *new* car for senior year.
She produced the contract we signed & said "your move, dad" 💀
IDK if I should be proud or cry for my wallet. Maybe, both.
🚨Mississippi
This is **apartheid**. Jim Crow.
S.B 1020: creates an all White, *unelected*, justice system, in Jackson MS.
80% of Jackson's residents are Black - strips their right to vote.
It will pass the senate.
OMG, the GOP has done it 😔
Care to explain?
@RepScottPerry
Donald Trump received $20 Billion from Saudi
Jared Kushner received $2 Billion from Saudi
Trump's Treasury Secretary $1 Billion from Saudi
Ivanka Trump $100 Million (in 2017) from Saudi
"If you can't see that! If you are that blind!" -- Rep. Scott Perry gets very mad at a reporter who asks him what actual evidence Republicans have against Biden (he never cites evidence!)
Bigot:
"Want refugees from Gaza here, open your home"
Me:
I will open my home, break bread w/them, and provide a place to sleep.
I reject, in the strongest possible terms, that "all Palestinians are terrorists".
Muslims are not my enemy. I am my brother/sisters keeper. Humans.