Today has shown police don’t need de-escalation training, they choose who to escalate on, that’s not a training issue. Police don’t need unconscious bias training, they are conscious of their bias.
Bernie says that our incarcerated brothers and sisters should have dignity and the right to vote.
Biden wrote the 94 Crime Bill that had a major hand in mass incarceration.
This is not difficult.
We had to beg for the life of Julius Jones yesterday meanwhile Kyle Rittenhouse will walk free today. This is not a flaw in the system, this is the design.
Media reports rumors that Trump is concerned about his VP pick, J.D. Vance, due to Vice President Kamala Harris's rising popularity and wants a more popular pick.
Poverty is a policy choice. Decision makers choose to subsidize the wealthy and reward exploitation like they choose to give out $600 to people struggling through a pandemic.
1 in every 3 people killed by a stranger is killed by a police officer. So you might think the biggest threat to your life is some random shooter or gang. But the one organized group that is most likely to shoot and kill you is the police, and it’s not even close.
BREAKING: Activists in South Carolina just took over Biden's speech to call for a ceasefire.
"20,000 dead Palestinians; their blood is on your hands."
Biden was shaken. He's starting to understand the reality: his war on Gaza is horrifically unpopular, and people are fed up.
I would like to see multiple and major news outlets report on Bernie making sure his staff has health care through November vs Bloomberg lying to the general public about paying his staffers through November.
This feels important, no?
Before you write off the entire state of Texas don’t forget there were hundreds of organizers and millions of voters trying to get rid of Abbott. Sending them love tonight.
The white women/white men calls that people are doing for Harris are not “segregationist” or exclusionary. From what I can see they are answering the challenge from Black woman organizers to organize their own communities - which is exactly what they should be doing.
Police do not need body cams, we saw them on TikTok letting white nationalists through a barrier to storm the Capitol.
Police need their funding snatched.
I truly don’t understand why Democrats are trying to message $600 as significant instead of telling people that it’s the only thing they can get past Republican obstruction and naming that it is not nearly enough.
But defund is the problem...
The writer of this bill and the person who will ultimately sign off on it are both white women.
Dismantling patriarchy demands we acknowledge the major roles white women have played in oppression throughout history. It’s not a problem of white men, it’s a problem of whiteness.
While AOC Plus 3 does sound like a mixtape I definitely want to listen to put some respect on the rest of The Squad and call them by their names.
Ayanna Pressley
Ilhan Omar
Rashida Tlaib
He knows their names, they keep him up at night.
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them
40 Republicans voted against
#HR6201
the
#FamiliesFirstBill
We should all remember their names and that they chose greed and cowardice in the face of crisis. Shame on them.
People are not rising up right now because they are eager to vote for the author of the 94 Crime Bill. Please keep your “vote” tweets in drafts and open your purse.
Police have gotten 30 years of free PR from Law & Order and every other cop show
Defund police is a culture shift that challenges every level of thinking. It’s budgetary and it’s moral. We don’t bend because politicians w/o courage or imagination don’t know how to message.
DNC really waited for the Black and Brown candidates to drop out and then changed up the rules so a billionaire could stop and frisk his way to the debate stage.
You expect to see it.
Jaime Harrison was 100% correct in not appearing with Lindsay Graham in a debate after he REFUSED TO TAKE A COVID TEST. Dianne Feinstein hugging Graham was a slap in the face to Harrison and the rest of us who have been taking the pandemic seriously since March.
It is not lost on me how often my dad talked about Nelson Mandela coming to Detroit w/ UAW and what that meant to him. Biden lying about being arrested in South Africa while trying to see him is what I’ll be thinking about as I make GOTV calls for Bernie.
I’m glad AOC is calling out that NBC tweet for what it was. They directed hate and harassment towards her by purposely misrepresenting what happened with the nomination process.
No more quietly accepting fake apologies and not naming the specific and direct harm.
It’s really upsetting to have spent years warning about the climate crisis, being gas lit by the government and corporations to believe it’s not real and then actually looking outside of my window - that I can’t open because of bad air quality- seeing it firsthand
You know the wildest part about this whole Bernie/Warren thing is that Joe Biden wrote the 94 Crime Bill AND at 77-years-old hinted that he would be open to running with a Republican VP
"Refuse hate."
Tyler Perry accepts Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award "I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are Black or white or LBGTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian."
Calling anyone in this race a “policy wonk” who’s name is not Elizabeth Warren is...I don’t have the words for it
(and Mayor Pete does not have the range)
She was not conned. Stop the rebranding attempt. I was in her office every day, she knew what she was doing.
Go back and watch her floor speech announcing her vote.
This moment. This was a meltdown but nobody is questioning his decorum like they did Castro last debate. He straight up yelled at her and took credit for her work.
What is causing me some anxiety about Shelter In Place vs the Stay At Home Order is the idea of enforcement and what that means, especially for Black people.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court literally doesn’t care that my mom will have to risk her life to cast a ballot tomorrow.
An extra slap in the face for a woman from the pre-Civil Rights South who took me on her hip and then by my hand to every election before I was old enough to vote
There is a pattern of siding with police when Black girls and women are murdered by them. I won't forget what folks did to Korryn Gaines and what they are attempting to do to Ma’Khia Bryant.
It took 1 public incident for Will Smith to go from beloved sitcom star and family-friendly rapper to a monster who triggers all of your abuse trauma and can kill a man with his bare hands.
Imagine what happens to non-millionaire Black people.
I had to go make sure this post was real. Motaz - a journalist in his 20s- risked his life for over 100 days to show the story of what was happening to his people and Debra Messing is what…mocking him?
Are these people mad he survived?
Kenosha Department of Corrections is on fire. This is a tactical decision.
Wisconsin has an incarceration rate of 676 per 100,000 people. Never forget that this is the violence.
Joe Biden saying “it doesn't matter what the root causes of crime are” shows me that the mass incarceration that came from the 1994 Crime Bill were not unintended consequences for him - they were very much intended
Today
@js_newswatch
decided that a little Black girl killed in the city should be used as a fun fact.
The level of disrespect and disdain for Black life is on full display here.
I just spoke to Jacob’s cousin
@PaulyG103
in the hospital. He said they need your prayers and not condolences. He is out of surgery and in the ICU. He can make it through this. He is fighting for his life. Please please please pray for Jacob Blake.
#Kenosha
#PrayForJacobBlake
With the filibuster in place, the lack of urgency around HR 1, Joe Manchin being drunk on power and Krysten Sinema being giddy to keep people in poverty...Dems are in for a rough 2022