Em Bennett

Educator of Humans

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse.
https://t.co/NZuFGFdFhy

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

Leaving this here, in case anyone is wondering why we have screwworm in the US for the first time since the 1960s.

The DOGE stupidity from Trump and Rollins will end up COSTING taxpayers money.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

From the Texas Tribune:

After Mexican officials confirmed case of screwworm in Nov. 2024, USDA, under Joe Biden, closed southern ports of entry to live cattle imports to prevent spread of screwworm into U.S. Move also strained supply of cattle in Texas....
USDA reversed course in Feb 2025, after Trump took office, announcing opening of ports"

[Tennessee Softball @Vol_Softball]

The top staff in the @NFCAorg Mid-Atlantic Region!

📰 https://t.co/4RPXQEmQHM

[Breezy @_Breezy_Briii]

Whoever called for the WNBA all star uniforms to have the USA 250 patch should have thought that through considering no WNBA players would have been free 250 years ago. The majority wouldn’t even have their freedom 100 years ago

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NAME FROM KENNEDY CENTER BUILDING - ORDER

[Em Bennett @14bennett]

@unlearn16tweet Lucas himself has said he wrote the Empire in the image of the US empire, and the rebellion was more closely linked, to him, to the Vietcong. In its first form, Star Wars was a Vietnam War protest to Lucas.

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

This AOC campaign launch video turns 8 years old May 30th.

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

“by all means drive off that cliff” is a pretty solid response to people who tell you that you’re going to be “left behind” if you don’t embrace AI.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

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[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “I should tell you, in Tennessee, a big slice of Black residents in Memphis will now have their votes folded into a White county called Williamson County. Williamson County literally STILL HAS a confederate flag on their county seal, but they’ll have just the right size of a slice of Black voters from Memphis to make sure they can never, with their other Memphis residents, elect a member of Congress of their choosing. There’s a reason why people are calling this Jim Crow 2.0. This REALLY IS plainly an effort to drag us back to the the post reconstruction era after the civil war…”😳

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

All the states now drawing new congressional maps to eliminate Black districts were slave states that had joined the Confederacy, waged war on the USA and then imposed Jim Crow laws. That MUST be included in all media coverage for context!

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Tennessee lawmakers have passed a new congressional map, breaking up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district:

State Rep. Justin Pearson: 'These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the behest of the most powerful white supremacist, Donald J. Trump'

[Max Burns @themaxburns]

It took Marsha Blackburn less than an hour to propose a racial gerrymander that explains exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act in the first place.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

The public's ignorance of black history made it easy for them to bring back Jim Crow.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's physically painful to watch society get less and less intelligent, more evil, weird, and devoid of empathy every single day.