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university of ia ‘23

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨OUTRAGEOUS: Police just arrested an 80-year-old veteran protesting Trump’s parade at the Capitol after he “crossed a barrier.” Police were caught on tape holding his walker instead of letting him use it. He served this country. This is shameful.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

49 years ago today, Martin Luther King’s mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while in church. 6 years after her son was gunned down in Memphis.

Alfred Daniel King, brother to MLK, mysteriously died in a swimming pool, 15 months after his brother’s assassination.

[Jeff Merkley @JeffMerkley]

You know the Supreme Court has a legitimacy problem when they take up fabricated cases just so they can push a political agenda. They never should have taken this case. And they never should have ruled the way they did. Absolutely disgraceful.

[. @abcdleee]

@aaronhaceves it's so funny bc anyone who actually goes to those colleges knows this 😭 & this study shows that 75% of yt Athlete/Legacy/DonorKids would not have been admitted had they not been ALD! https://t.co/iClaqUI4Nq

[Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived) @RepBarbaraLee]

Let's be clear: affirmative action still exists for white people. It's called legacy admissions.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Maybe we shouldn’t be super literal about a nearly 240-year-old document that defined Black people as 3/5 of a person?

[blaire erskine @blaireerskine]

happy fuck the supreme court day to all who celebrate

[Mike Quigley @RepMikeQuigley]

This decision will empower bigots who believe their first amendment right provides them a license to discriminate.

The person who brought this case did so based on a hypothetical. She went out of her way to show prejudice, and in the process, ensured others can do the same.🧵

[virgobaby @maybeeevirgo]

mentally i’m here:

[isabella 🍒 @irosarioc]

also this. kids, man

[Iowa Starting Line @IAStartingLine]

A Davenport West High School senior yelled "Trans rights are human rights" during a scholarship ceremony with Gov. Kim Reynolds today.

Reynolds has signed legislation blocking gender-affirming care for trans youth and a "bathroom bill" this session.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Black history should be taught. That shouldn’t be controversial.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]

[Mia K. @miakhalifa]

Can we stop pretending Chris Brown made a small oopsie one time when he is in fact a serial abuser

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

Republicans think a 10-year-old girl is old enough to be a mom, but too young to learn some people have two moms.

[Pro-Democracy RTs @ProDemocracyRTs]

Rather than trying to read the minds of white, slave-owning men who have been dead for 2 centuries, maybe we should just do the right things for people who are alive today.

[Domo Julio @DapperDomo]

Wealthy white women will have zero trouble getting abortions and/or birth control. It’ll be the poor black and brown women living in red states who will be effected by this the most.

[aj @lvcrimes]

overturning roe v wade in the middle of a housing crisis, a formula shortage and a mass shooting epidemic in a country without free healthcare. it’s not pro-life. it’s not smart. it’s dystopian.