I grew up in Chesapeake, VA - You never want to hear "mass shooting" and you never want to hear so close to a holiday. Then for it to happen in a place that's been home... A lot of emotions, none of them good.
BREAKING: Trump took nuclear weapons documents to Mar-a-Lago.
This was not a drill. He did not take a few innocent items for memorabilia. He took the Crown Jewels of classified government documents to his home in Florida.
I have been ashamed to hear members of my party attacking the integrity of the FBI agents involved with the recent Mar-a-Lago search. These are sickening comments that put the lives of patriotic public servants at risk.
This is a pivotal moment for all of us. Who do we want to be as a society? When we see womenโs rights repealed so egregiously, we know that this slate of SCOTUS justices will not be satisfied to stop there. We must assert that we, the governed, are only governed by our consent.
They found a Black person (Clarence Thomas) to gut the Voting Rights Act.
And they found a woman (Amy Coney Barrett) to take away womenโs rights.
This is how Republicans play identity politics โ by weaponizing handpicked women and people of color against their own communities.