Tito Crafts 🌹

Curious naif, joyful butterfly, post-carbon socialist.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

The right to seek asylum is not just legally protected. It is a foundational universal human right.

We should not abandon our values and rights to far right white nationalists.

[Timothy Burke @bubbaprog]

Simone Biles, in extreme slow motion.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Roberto shared this video from Bakersfield CA. Picking watermelons is already hard work but on this day it was the start of an expected weeklong heat wave where the temps would exceed 100 degrees every day. Remember to stay hydrated and rest as needed Roberto. #WeFeedYou

[Andrew Lawrence @ndrew_lawrence]

after watching this 1000 times i have come to the conclusions this is the worst play in the history of baseball

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

the function of racism is to naturalize the expropriation and exploitation of the designated “racial” other

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Wow. Just... wow. @RepKatiePorter is so unbelievably good at this.

[Joshua Clark Davis @JoshClarkDavis]

60 years ago today, eighteen Freedom Riders left for New Orleans from Washington, D.C. to desegregate the South's Jim Crow interstate buses.

Here are some of those who were arrested.

Hank Thomas, Washington, D.C., 19

[Tito Crafts 🌹 @TitoCrafts]

28 + 40, then add 7

[Tito Crafts 🌹 @TitoCrafts]

@abefromanohio Our system is the absolute best in the world at its designed purpose: maximizing volume of care and revenue generated. We need a fundamental rethink of healthcare in the US.

[Tito Crafts 🌹 @TitoCrafts]

This is one of the most ignorant things ever said by someone with this large of a profile.

[Jason S. Campbell @JasonSCampbell]

CNN's Rick Santorum: "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Bill Gates could pay the entire $25 billion needed to vaccinate low- and middle-income countries globally and he would still be $31.5 billion richer than he was before the pandemic. Greed is a terrible addiction that must be cured by taxing the rich and ending drug monopolies.

[Western States Center @WStatesCenter]

“If philanthropy really wants to see bridges built over the current ruptures, it’s time to stop wasting time, pinching pennies, and thinking one can avoid taking a side.” - Eric K. Ward (@BulldogShadow) in his latest for @CEPData

https://t.co/eRIv4cJCbj

[THE KID MERO 🇩🇴 @THEKIDMERO]

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

[Benjamin Perry @FaithfullyBP]

“I’m so damn tired of living in a country that treats Black grief as a threat and white rage as a sacrament.” - @RevJacquiLewis #RevLove21

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

White supremacy is not an “extremist ideology” in America. It is the mainstream ideology today just as it was at the height of the slave trade & Jim Crow-era segregation. If it were truly extreme, it wouldn’t be so pervasive as to be at issue in every institution & policy.

[Megan Lubin @msarahl]

This expectation that people are gonna sit and watch a young Black father killed for a dangling air freshener, and then protest that event 100% peacefully - this is absoultely bonkers to me.

[Tito Crafts 🌹 @TitoCrafts]

Because whatever PR firm the Winklevii have on retainer has gotten *very clear instructions* about what they want the world to know about them

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Why does this exact same story get written every few months?

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

“If you aren’t making news, you aren’t governing" (Matt Gaetz said that) is not as telling as ""I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation" (Madison Cawthorn) but it's close.

Less a political party than a media platform that prospers by "unbuilding" institutions.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Just mind blowing hypocrisy from the crowd that fought for years to make corporations “citizens” so they could make First Amendment protected unlimited political contributions.

Republicans LOOOOVE corporate free speech so long as the corporations agree with Republicans.

[Neil King @NKingofDC]

Am off to walk to NY today. A slow stroll, I like to say, through the fast corridor. DC to Manhattan. Off to take in a founding slice of America. Talk to her. Wonder at her. Maybe make a little sense of her. Will paddle across New York Harbor before the end of April.