🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.
Spare me the complaints about Virginia's new districts. This is my new district in Texas. Unlike VA, I wasn't able to vote on it.
The blue area is a very diverse part of the Dallas suburbs that was carved out & threw in with a bunch of rural (red) voters as far as 180 miles away!
We hope this list offers a moment to remember the names and stories of the victims. For each one, we’ve included the backstory we were able to gather alongside the official account from government agencies.
The full register, updated continuously: https://t.co/5fNqm9UqUJ
By @el_tragon_de_LA, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Odessa Hairapetian
@MissSassbox With resources like this, you'd think he could just fly a single larger drone to pick up his order and fly it home himself. Like, taco delivery drone, when!? 👀
Trump can only be removed under the 25th Amendment with the actions of this Republican vice president, this Republican cabinet, and this Republican-controlled Congress.
So, if you're asking what Democrats are doing today, I'm not sure you understand how this all works.
Do ppl not remember his 1st term when D*ms had control of The House & Impeached him? Twice. And the R*pub controlled Senate *refused* to convict him, WHICH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED HIM FROM RUNNING AGAIN. Do we just not remember that 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Something people seem to keep forgetting:
When you are in the majority, it is your duty, your responsibility, to govern.
If your majority can’t produce the votes necessary to get something done, it is your job to compromise and bring over members of the minority to support your effort.
If you can’t do that, you are to blame.
They are the minority, they don’t owe you support in your quest as the majority.
This practice of blaming members of the minority party for the majority’s inability to govern is bullshit.
Republicans control the White House, the House, and the Senate. It is their duty to govern.
If you are waiting in a TSA line, call Republicans in Congress. They’re in charge.
In my darkest moments, I fear that this is how democracy dies. Not with a secret conspiracy conducted in the middle of the night. But with a brazen confession made public in the light of day. https://t.co/jAtLIeunRJ
The next time someone in the media repeats the GOP talking points about the SAVE Act just being a voter ID bill, show them this. https://t.co/8BWmfVii1o