It don’t work like that no more…

NOW Interim Chief of Campaigns @colorofchange 🙃

[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

There’s something missing about these new recruits just sworn in to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Can you help me out?

[someeshmo❤️‍🔥🕳️🛸❤️‍🔥 @ZombieDish]

this is such fucking bullshit

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

An audit of all 1.11 million ballots cast in Georgia’s runoff elections found just 23 “discrepancies.” Every one of them involved hand-marked paper ballots. #gapol
https://t.co/EsJ7fSNzzb

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Trump fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms https://t.co/YNJjsNJsnE

[Georgia DOT @GADeptofTrans]

Could passenger rail connect Atlanta and Savannah? Georgia DOT is studying the potential, and your input can help shape the conversation.

Learn and take the survey by Aug. 6: https://t.co/4cmIfyWXGV

#GDOT #PassengerRail

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

On July 4, 1776, while white America celebrated its declaration of independence, approximately 500,000 enslaved Africans and their descendants remained in chains in the thirteen colonies. They made up roughly 20% of the colonial population of 2.5 million people, human beings denied the very liberty proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.

📹Press play and let the song speak truth.

For my ancestors, there was no freedom to celebrate. There was no liberty. There was no justice. There was no equality. They were bought, sold, raped, whipped, branded, exploited, and treated as property while a nation declared that “all men are created equal.”

Today, there is a determined effort to sanitize that history, to pretend slavery was merely an unfortunate chapter, that enslavers were simply “men of their time,” and that the brutality of chattel slavery should be viewed through a softer lens. No. There is nothing ordinary about owning another human being. There is nothing admirable about building wealth and a nation on stolen labor, stolen lives, and stolen futures.

We do not celebrate July 4 because we were not free. Independence Day was not independence for Black people. Our ancestors remained enslaved for nearly another century. Then came Black Codes, Jim Crow, racial terror lynchings, legalized segregation, disenfranchisement, redlining, mass incarceration, and the ongoing struggle to be recognized as fully human. Our fight for freedom did not end in 1776, or even in 1865. In many ways, it continues today.

That is why Frederick Douglass asked, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” His question still confronts America’s conscience.

So today I ask another question:

What to Black people today is the Fourth of July?

Until liberty, justice, and equality are more than promises on paper, it remains a day that reminds us not only of America’s stated founding ideals, but of America’s unfinished work to actualize them 250 years later.

#IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #America250

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

“I, Too” by Langston Hughes, 1926

https://t.co/X2ON5OoIh5

📸 “The American Flag: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture”

[CSPAN @cspan]

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses AI and the future of America: "The fact that we have convinced ourselves that our future and our children's future isn't in our own hands is an abomination."

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.

This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

[Woodz 🇺🇸 @Nibiru1000]

Wow. They were able to track down the slaves who built the White House. Y’all can never make me hate what our Ancestors Built.

Happy 4th, Black America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

MAGAs had to seek refuge in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

There's a message there.

[It don’t work like that no more… @AmandaHoll]

Whew!

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Seth Taylor @SethTaylor1991]

Rick Jackson can pose for photos on Buford Highway, but he can’t pose his way out of the campaign he chose to run.

He embraced Trump, scapegoated immigrants, and ran “Muslim or Mongolian…deported or departed” ads. Georgia deserves leadership that respects every community, not a general-election costume change.

I’m all in for @KeishaForGA for governor.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Governor Wes Moore just announced that he is calling for a special session to redistrict Maryland to make more Democratic seats in Congress. This is amazing.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The Supreme Court's decision in the TPS case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous.
Me in @thenation
https://t.co/4AF4qeNrbu

[Your Next Best Friend @IamKingWilliams]

Two property tax stories that you should keep your eye on: Brookhaven and Hall County

Two different stories, but with the same ethos… Areas that grew in part because of decades of White flight and conservative leadership.

But now are feeling the consequences of their actions

[Andrea R. Flores @Arosaflores]

This decision could impact 1.3 million people on TPS, some who have been here since the early 90s. This is a devastating loss for millions of American families, and countless employers will soon be losing workers. This is the biggest de-legalization moment in modern history.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

AJC: Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) challenges Rick Jackson (R) to trio of televised debates in Georgia governor’s race

https://t.co/J3ibI23CQB

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Faizon Love said he wasn’t gonna vote for Kamala Harris unless she abolished child support.

Now he’s in jail for being $250,000 behind in supporting his children — UNDER DONALD TRUMP.

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