Cate 🎵🕊

Flapping my wings with introspective piano-based music for the soul.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Eleven years ago today, nine Black worshippers were murdered during Bible study at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston.

Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney. Cynthia Hurd. Susie Jackson. Ethel Lance. Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor. Tywanza Sanders. Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr. Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton. Myra Thompson.

We say their names and remember the sacredness of their lives.

This was not only a mass shooting. It was a heinous act of white supremacy carried out in a house of worship. We must tell the truth about that hatred, grieve what it stole, and remain committed to dismantling the violence of racism in every form.

#MotherEmanuel #SayTheirNames

[NBA @NBA]

It's even better in slow motion 😏

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I ran across these words Tamika Palmer shared about her daughter, Breonna Taylor, and they broke my heart, especially these words: “She did everything right.”

That truth stays with me. Breonna should be celebrating her 33rd birthday today. Instead, her mother is carrying the weight of an unimaginable loss and the injustice of a life taken without accountability.

We are still grieving a life stolen and confronting a system that remains broken. Breonna deserved to live. She deserved to grow older. She deserved justice.

#BreonnaTaylor #TamikaPalmer

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1893, 1,500 white people lynched Sam Bush on the courthouse lawn in Decatur, IL. The mob distributed pieces of rope used to hang him as “souvenirs.”
https://t.co/XupqvdIrjA

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

SCOOP: Trump admin is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf.

The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects
https://t.co/iCgnL1sFon

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1930, the U.S. Department of War forced the grieving families of Black veterans killed abroad to travel separately from white families to visit their loved ones’ graves.
https://t.co/FocDInOytp

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.
https://t.co/6eRXgJIOMA

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing Indigenous people who had lived in the southeastern U.S. for centuries to migrate west in brutal and dangerous conditions.
https://t.co/jmxsbO2zup

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1961, a white mob in Montgomery, Alabama, ambushed the Freedom Riders after the city's Public Safety Commissioner offered the Ku Klux Klan time to attack the group without police interference.
https://t.co/Y8VnsRUFnY

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1961, 21-year-old John Lewis and two other civil rights activists were severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound bus terminal while protesting segregation.
https://t.co/gQ58mabPOh

[Justice Democrats @justicedems]

Everyone needs to watch @Justinjpearson's floor speech from the TN State House.

"Today, you will take the only Black-majority district from us. But I want you to know: No matter what you do, no matter how much you try to break us & make us bend & quit — we will still be here."

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

He was sentenced to ten years. Republicans let him out after 6 months. Disgusting.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Since the "ceasefire" the Netanyahu govt has steadily taken control of more territory in Gaza, squeezing civilians into tighter areas, pushing them toward the sea. 

Where the hell is the Trump Admin & its so-called “Board of Peace” amidst this land grab?

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1955, the Rev. George Lee, the first Black man to register to vote in Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot and killed.
https://t.co/pKxqb3dNfY

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza, enabled by the US, was a moral outrage. And now, as the @nytimes reports, Israel is applying the Gaza model in Lebanon -- and once again we Americans are enabling this moral catastrophe. https://t.co/1xkN7hECMu

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is not a detainment camp in World War II, nor a prison in the Holocaust, this is Gaza. A chilling reminder that history repeats.

A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

As Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. CNN Producer Abeer Salman reports from Umm al-Khair, where razor wire has blocked Palestinian children from going to school.

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

My @Morning_Joe Chart.