Kimberly Patton

Landscape Architect, gardener, boy mom, proud GA Democrat, Flag Day Baby! 🇺🇸 I love pie! 🥧 she/her/m’am 💙🗳️🇺🇸#VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. It's unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money on both sides. Donald Trump's rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "Mike Collins is a bigot and antisemite under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars, widely known as a man of poor character who lacks the judgment and integrity to serve in the Senate."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: I never want to hear these two pretend they give a damn about working people again.
Because while hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose their health care, Mike Collins builds Trump a ballroom. They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever did lowering your grocery bill.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "Last week, when they gathered in Atlanta to remove Black elected officials from office not by defeating them at the polls, but by manipulating maps to dilute minority power, they saw you mobilize, Savannah, and they backed down in fear of your power. A wave is building ... let's make sure they hear it down at Mar-a-Lago, that Georgia will bow to no king!"

[Keisha For Georgia @KeishaForGA]

Here are 3 things you should know about Rick Jackson.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.

3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.

The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

[Scott English @iamscottenglish]

Happy Mark Sanford Returns from the Appalachian Trail Day to all who celebrate.

[Rep. LaMonica McIver @RepLaMonica]

Tomorrow, I will be in court for the case that could put me in prison for 17 years. I am fighting these charges because I dared to show up to an ICE detention center and demand answers for New Jerseyans. I was doing my job, conducting oversight. This administration thinks they should be allowed to abuse people behind closed doors. I am facing criminal charges because I won’t let them.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!

RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @ossoff: We see a faithless President, self dealing while he depicts himself as Christ. While he depicts the Obamas as apes. While he plunges the nation recklessly into war, plunders our healthcare, and sends prices soaring. While people pay more than ever, he builds a monument to himself. While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: “The election deniers, they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission.

And you may have seen that one of those election deniers now asks to represent Georgia in the Senate. [Mike Collins], who supports war and cutting your health care and openly associates himself with bigotry and antisemitism, who defends the violent mob that sacked the Capitol on the morning of January 6th, 2021…

To this day, this man makes excuses for those who carried out an attack to throw out your votes and install a defeated President.”

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

On June 19, 1865, African American communities in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their freedom from slavery — two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect.

For 161 years, Juneteenth has been a day of remembrance for the freedom that was delayed. It is also a celebration of the joy and resilience that flourished despite that delay.

The contributions of African Americans, whose struggle for freedom shaped our nation, are immeasurable. Yet too many Black families continue to bear the brunt of an affordability crisis that has pushed them out of the neighborhoods and communities they've built.

True freedom has a tangible impact on daily life: the ability to afford housing, earn a living wage, put food on the table, support a family, and create a future for generations to come.

As we celebrate today, we must recommit ourselves to ensuring this freedom is fully realized.

Happy Juneteenth, New York City.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Every year for Juneteenth, I think about my late mentor, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.

She worked for years to make Juneteenth a federal holiday so that, in the face of constant attacks to erase history, future generations would always be reminded of the true freedom day of enslaved Americans.

So that when kids get a day off, or anyone gets a break from work, they’d stop for a second and ask themselves, “What is Juneteenth?”

So that they’d learn that even after the Emancipation Proclamation, people remained enslaved for years afterward. It’s a reminder that the road to justice is long and delayed, but the sweet taste of victory and freedom is still worth fighting for.

Now, because of the Congresswoman, Opal Lee, and countless others, the enemies of progress will have to watch America celebrate Freedom Day for generations to come.

I remember how proud the Congresswoman was when President Biden signed it into law. I remember how much she loved the pen he signed it with. And while she’s not here to celebrate with us, I know she’s giving an ORATION upstairs for all to see.

Happy Juneteenth, everyone 🇺🇸

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Juneteenth marks the celebration of America's second independence day.

Like the people in this photo—celebrating the day in 1900—we know that progress hasn't made our union perfect. But we can recommit to reaching toward that more perfect union together.

Happy Juneteenth.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

I, Too
BY LANGSTON HUGHES

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Happy Juneteenth! 161 years ago today, the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were finally freed. Let us celebrate our ancestors’ strength and resilience, and remind ourselves of the work we still have to do to create the future they dreamed of.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Five years ago, thanks to the advocacy of Opal Lee, Juneteenth became a federal holiday.

Today, we reflect on our nation’s journey toward freedom—and commit ourselves to the fight for true equality and justice for all.

[Kimberly Patton @Kimberly_Patton]

@OneNerdyOpinion Enjoy your day off with the kiddos!
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