MEL SMITH

“This Type of Certainty, Comes Once in a Lifetime”

[James @jameslineky]

And Scott Colom did it by beating a senator who:

> went to a segregation academy, then sent her daughter to one
> has in-law relatives who murdered a Black civil rights activist in broad daylight and were let off for it
> put on Confederate gear at Jeff Davis’s home and called it “the best of Mississippi history”
> “joked” about lynchings and making it harder to vote

[Bender @Benderxxx7]

At 16, Brian Banks was one of the best high school linebackers in America. USC had offered him a full scholarship. Pete Carroll personally called him.

One afternoon at school he made out with a classmate. Consensual. By the end of the day he was in jail, charged with kidnapping and rape.

She said he dragged her into a stairwell. It never happened.

The DNA came back negative. His mother sold her house and her car to pay for a lawyer.

He couldn’t make bail. He spent a year behind bars waiting for trial.

His lawyer told him: plead no contest, or risk 41 years in prison. He was 17. He took the deal.

He did 5 years in prison. Then 5 more on parole. Registered sex offender. GPS monitor on his ankle. Couldn’t go near schools or parks. No one would hire him.

Meanwhile, the girl and her mother sued the school district for not keeping her safe. They won $1.5 million.

In 2011, a Facebook friend request popped up on his screen.

It was her.

She wanted to “let bygones be bygones.”

Brian went to a private investigator. They hid cameras in the office and invited her to talk. She came by bus.

On tape, she admitted it. He never raped her. He never kidnapped her.

Then she said she still wouldn’t tell prosecutors the truth. Because she’d have to give back the money.

In May 2012, a judge cleared his name. The hearing took less than a minute.

10 years of his life. Gone in one lie. Erased in 60 seconds.

A few days later his phone rang. “I’m looking for a linebacker. You know where I can find one?”

It was Pete Carroll. The same coach who recruited him 10 years earlier.

He finally signed with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. At 27. The dream he had at 16.

She was ordered to pay $2.6 million back.

What should happen to someone who steals 10 years of your life with one lie?

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

One evening, President Obama
and his wife Michelle decide
to break the routine and have dinner in an ordinary, not luxurious, restaurant.

Once seated, the restaurant owner asked the President's Secret Service for permission to speak to the First Lady.

In private. They agreed and Michelle had a conversation with him.

Following the conversation,
The President asks Michelle why he wanted to talk to her. She replies that when she was a teenager, he was madly in love with her.

The President then said

"So if you had married him,
"You would be the owner of this charming restaurant today,"

to which she replies:

"No, if I had married him, he would be President."

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Democrats are planning to investigate if Barron Trump Actively helped the Tate brothers obstruct or interfere with a federal investigation or extradition process (possible obstruction of justice).

Barron Trump could face 20 years in prison

[Sérgio Santos @ZAMENZA]

A estudante da Universidade do Mississipi, Jakiyra Metcalf, postou um vídeo da câmera do seu interfone onde três estudantes vizinhas fazem gestos e sons imitando um macaco. As três foram identificadas como Lauren Mayfield, Sara Whitehead e Alaina Kunes.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Scott Colum is leading in the Mississippi Senate race against the bigot Cindy Hyde-Smith by about 3,000 votes. On election night she had the nerve to declare victory and now look. I can’t wait to see her face when Scott Colum wins after all the evil crap she’s done to him.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

That’s true…..

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

It took 10 years, but Lindsey Graham’s GOP prophecy has finally come true. I just can’t believe it took this long.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Greg Abbott continued to get elected by fomenting fear that Mexicans and immigrants were going to take our jobs and destroy our way of life.

That he actually had his job taken by a Mexican woman is a level of poetic justice worthy of a Dickens novel.

[Certified Lover gurl @_ThatzSOraven]

Lmao you’re in a cult 😭😭 ate her ass up

[Reilly Belle Air 💙🚺🌈💪 🌊 💙 @ReillyBelle57]

This guy has the MAGA people pegged perfectly..

[Lynnez 🌊♥️🇺🇸 Rib Gone Rogue @RibGoneRogue]

Oh Canada! BFF4EVA!

[CHINO⚜️🎭 @chino191085]

Stacy Abram’s take a damn bow, each time you unashamedly ran putting cracks in that glass ceiling for Keisha to break thru this win is for you

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Reposting this for no particular reason

Liz Cheney: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

[p @bey4kh]

AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK WOMAN GOVERNOR KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS🇺🇸🍑👩🏾💙 #HERSTORY

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

“Pretend I’m on the ballot.”

Mission accomplished.

[Emily @TigerTownDream]

Relevant tonight.

Liz Cheney: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

[S.E. Cupp @secupp]

Gravity is real and it’s spectacular.

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

For the first time in US history, a gay man, a Black woman, a Muslim, Native American woman, Palestinian, and Latina have won their respective midterm elections.