Joseph Hodges

Advocate for Social and Environmental Justice | UF and VLS Alumni

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: It’s OFFICIAL! Congressman Colin Allred, former lineman for the Tennessee Titans, has announced he’ll challenge Ted Cruz for Senate!

There is one BIG reason Colin Allred is going to win:

For Allred, this race is personal.

Colin Allred was one of the House members stuck in the Capitol on January 6 as the violent mob descended.

Not knowing if he’d make it out alive, he sent a text to his wife:

“Whatever happens, I love you.”

Later, he laid blamed on Ted Cruz for participating in an attempt to deny the election.

Allred called the events of January 6 part of “a broader authoritarian movement across the world,” and vowed to protect democracy.

Now he’s running for Senate.

Before Congress Allred played football in the NFL. He then earned his law degree before working for the Obama Administration.

Allred is no stranger to tough races. For a Democrat in the suburbs of Dallas is more than impressive. His shocking victory over popular Republican Pete Sessions shows he has what it takes to win.

I think one thing is safe to say:

Ted Cruz is f*cked.

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

THE COLTS JUST GOT THEIR QB‼️

@GatorsFB's Anthony Richardson is headed to Indy 🐊

[Joseph Hodges @JosephWHodges]

SCOTUS stays the lower court ruling, which allows the abortion drug to be available while the legal battle continues through the appellate courts.

[Robert Barnes @robert_a_barnes]

Supreme Court set to decide by midnight on access to key abortion drug, as appeal proceeds w @amarimow https://t.co/up4JFJUtRG

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Rodney Reed, a death row inmate in Texas whose case has attracted wide attention, in his efforts to obtain DNA testing that he says may help prove his innocence. https://t.co/fUgqO6c0Xr

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Abandonment wounds run deep in our nervous system and the subconscious mind. Being left by someone who promised to stick by us leaves an emotional scar. Every time we're close to someone, the subconscious mind goes into a threat state. This is when we sabotage relationships, or leave before we're left. It takes conscious inner work to learn how to trust someone again. And, a self aware partner who can talk everything through with you and help you to feel safe.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

As Texas Gov Abbot prepares to pardon a white man & convicted murderer for killing a peaceful BLM protestor—Texas sentences a Black man to 70 years in prison for “spitting at police” to “make an example out of him.”😳

Systemic white supremacy is thriving in the GOP. Horrific.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The judge in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit imposed a sanction on Fox News for withholding evidence, and said an investigation was likely. https://t.co/6eneb0T2Z5

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Ukrainian officials opened a war crimes investigation on Wednesday after a video emerged online that appeared to show a Russian soldier beheading a Ukrainian prisoner. President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded world leaders respond. https://t.co/iEEeafC0xR

[Joseph Hodges @JosephWHodges]

I love this post and how the New York Times is broadcasting it lol (NYT v. Sullivan 1964)

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Fox News cannot argue it broadcast false information about Dominion Voting Systems based on newsworthiness, a judge ruled Tuesday, limiting a key line of defense for the network as it faces the beginning of a defamation trial next week. https://t.co/8rbb1piE4w

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The U.S. has gotten no reprieve from its epidemic of mass shootings. There have been at least 145 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. https://t.co/3PZdqputDj

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Nashville lawmakers voted to send Justin Jones back to the state legislature, days after he was one of two young Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by a GOP supermajority for leading a gun control protest on the House floor. https://t.co/WMq3I1E8PV

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The U.S. Navy said Saturday that it had deployed a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, a day after the U.S. 5th Fleet and its partners released a warning for all ships to proceed with caution following escalating tensions between Iran and Israel. https://t.co/kujXE1nf1j

[Joseph Hodges @JosephWHodges]

Art. I: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"From its earliest drafts, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out to distill the UN shared mission to uphold and uplift our common humanity. We must revitalize #UDHR and ensure its full implementation to face the new challenges of today & tomorrow." - @antonioguterres

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

BREAKING: Republicans in Tennessee vote to expel the first of three Democratic lawmakers over protest against gun violence after the Nashville school shooting. https://t.co/RdYLvfum24

[Joseph Hodges @JosephWHodges]

"As tension over Taiwan worsens, war games often predict early and sustained Chinese missile strikes on Guam, and perhaps the use of nuclear weapons against it."

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

China makes no secret that Guam is in its cross-hairs. The DF-26 missile, with a range of 4,000km, is commonly called the “Guam killer” https://t.co/PxJIdLH2lr