BREAKING: Doechii didn’t just accept an award; she dropped a warning.
“Every time we protest, they send troops.”
That’s not democracy. That’s regime behavior dressed in red, white, and blue.
LA isn’t just ground zero for protests. It’s a test of whether dissent still has rights in America.
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest, I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
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.@SpeakerPelosi: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."
America failed women tonight. Trump bullied, assaulted, and stripped reproductive rights away from women all across the country and instead of standing against it, many voted for it. We have failed our daughters, mothers, and sisters.
Countless Americans are endangered now on a scale and intensity almost unheard of in modern America. Our first responsibility is to protect these people and resist these forces.
Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.
As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.
I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.
I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.
I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.
We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.
There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.
I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.
I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.
extremely grateful for the A Long Talk community and my newly formed friendship with Kyle Williams 🖤excited continue to fight the good fight against discrimination of all kinds💪🏻 @ALongTalk2020
Can’t let this weekend get by without sending a special shoutout to @LindseyBateman1 & MJ for reaching out to connect with Kyle during their trip to DC for the Women’s March. The recent A Long Talk “alum” is an avid supporter of social justice. Thank you. ANTI-RACISM IS A VERB!!
economic rights = women's rights
repro rights = women's rights
social justice rights = women's rights
LGBTQ+ rights = women's rights
environmental rights = women's rights