“Honestly if I were in her shoes I don’t know what I’d do… at some point we need a different kind of politics.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates to @Timodc on Dems who won’t break with 🇮🇱 (like all Republicans) asking for the votes of folks who lost family in 🇵🇸
Full: https://t.co/sMAQRlVGbU
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
Today, we recognize the Nakba never ended. The genocide in Gaza and horrific erasure of communities across Palestine & Lebanon must end now.
In Congress, I will join @RashidaTlaib@IlhanMN on a resolution to recognize the Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.
Not enough people are talking about that at Trump's directive, TN Republicans are starting a special session today to gerrymander the state's only Black majority district — Memphis — out of existence.
#TN09 was on track to elect @Justinjpearson in August
Way more Dems than Golden want to continue this war. But they know it's politically toxic to vote for this war.
So Dem leadership gets Golden to be the one vote to make sure this fails. He's not running for re-election, so he has nothing to lose. That's how this works.
Sudan is currently experiencing the world's largest and fastest-growing displacement crisis. More than nine million people remain displaced in Sudan, while nearly 29 million face acute hunger. A humanitarian disaster.