In 2015, nine Black parishioners were murdered during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church—the oldest Black church in the South.
Among them was pastor and Democratic state senator Clementa C. Pinckney.
The killer was a 21-year-old white supremacist.
This is how President Obama responded.
In moments like this, presidents can choose to calm the nation and offer grace... or to inflame divisions and pit Americans against one another.
Don’t let leaders use tragedy to divide us. Don't let them attribute the evil actions of an individual to the entire group.
Not only is that collectivism, it's a tool of manipulation and control.
Reject it.
July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen.
July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than you do with a strong dollar
You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep.
Here they are — being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another.
If anyone is treating our troops disrespectfully, it is you @realDonaldTrump.
JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords.
Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant that he had gang connections. The disposition of this case, based on a judge’s review of the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected legal status, preventing his deportation. Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected; indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld.
🚨 BREAKING: President Biden's term concludes with zero political appointees indicted or convicted, and no cabinet resignations over impropriety—an ethical benchmark rarely seen, especially in contrast to Trump's administration. Well done!
Jeffries: Our position is that it is not acceptable to cut social security, cut medicare, cut medicaid, cut veterans' benefits, or cut nutritional assistance from children and families in order to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations
If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison.
When health insurance companies steal over $68,500,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while letting their customers die or go into debt.
But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.
We’ve entered into a new era of labor in this country. Workers know how much companies are making off their backs, and are banding together to reclaim what’s theirs. This striking Amazon worker says it exactly like it is.
NEW: Our Administration has finalized a rule to curb excessive overdraft fees charged by banks.
This will save the typical family that pays these fees $225 a year – keeping more money in Americans’ pockets.
Not a political statement, nothing against Rep Williams, I’m sure the thought comes from “safety” and good intentions but this might be the softest shit I’ve ever heard 🤦🏾♂️
Lions CB Amik Robertson had more to say about the Packers after the game.
“They try to be competitive, but you can tell they’re not competitive,” he said. “We hunting, we ain’t the hunted. I know the real them. Great team, but I feel like it’s a lot of pretenders.”