Jen Cole

Prior military, nurse, big fan of human rights, avid hater of all things Trump/Trump adjacent

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@RepBeatty Ms. Beatty, I want to thank you so much for standing up to the incompetent bully, @realDonaldTrump we have in the White House! Your spunk and tenacity is what we need more of, especially right now! I appreciate you taking on such a task and also for putting him in his place! 💚

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@DOWResponse Is this from recently….or a few weeks ago…months ago?? Who is letting this senile old man continue to spout the same lies over and over! 🙄

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@THOTHtheWiseOne @JoelFloresPBC @PBCYSD YES, YES, and YES!!!

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@forsythhomes @mehdirhasan @TheTNHoller From a guy who supports the likes of Paxton and Hegseth, YOUR opinion isn’t wanted!

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@tdTonyd32 @JamieBonkiewicz We just posting random shit, Tony!?! That’s what we’re doing when we don’t have a legitimate or factual response? Classic

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@MikeRogersForMI You’re an idiot, Mike! You wanna use some little band-aid instead of addressing what the issue is!! That’s why Michigan doesn’t want you!!

#El-Sayed #BlueWave

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@jace_etra @xTartanforeverx @realpatriotrod You are comparing. You’re an idiot, Bob, if you’re trying to equate those things with Islam/Muslim faith. Ya’ll know Dr. Oz is Muslim, right? Just a bunch of narrow minded bigots!

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

For nearly twenty years, Chicago police ran a torture operation out of two station houses on the South Side.

Electric shock. Suffocation with plastic bags. Radiator burns. Guns put in men's mouths. Over a hundred Black men. This is not the 1930s. This ran from 1972 to 1991.

Commander Jon Burge and the detectives under him used a hand-cranked electrical device that the men who survived it called "the box." Confessions came out. Several men went to death row on them.

Burge was fired in 1993. He was never tried for torture — the statute of limitations had run. He was finally convicted in 2010 for LYING about it, served four and a half years, and kept his police pension.

And then Chicago did something no American city had done: in 2015 it passed a reparations ordinance for the survivors. A fund. Counseling. Free college for them and their families. And a requirement that the torture be taught in Chicago public schools.

For nearly two decades, more than 100 Black men endured torture at the hands of police—and the full truth took years to come out.

This is one of the cases documented in our book —a collection of buried histories, state violence, and injustices that demanded accountability long after the crimes occurred.

Get yours: https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@VoteYeson84 No thanks! We already have secure elections!

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@GeriKay301 @chaplinlives @SusanCarver19 Bigots lack intellect!

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Montgomery's bus boycott ran for 381 days. It needed cars, gas, insurance and drivers — and money that could not be traced to anyone who could be fired for giving it.

A cook solved that problem with pound cake. Georgia Gilmore. She had testified in court about being thrown off a bus, and lost her job for it. Dr. King helped her set up a kitchen in her own house.

Then she organized women across Montgomery into a fundraising operation she deliberately named the Club From Nowhere — so that when the money arrived at mass meetings, nobody could be identified, targeted, or sacked.

They sold sweet potato pies, fried fish and pound cake at beauty shops and on street corners, week after week, for over a year.

Her kitchen fed the movement and funded the carpools. King ate at her table. Kennedy ate at her table.

The boycott is remembered as speeches and lawsuits. It ran on pie money from women nobody was writing down.

Georgia Gilmore’s story is one of the many stories in black history that is never spoken about. Black history is not only about the famous names. It’s also about the people whose courage, sacrifice, and stories were nearly forgotten.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

She was seventeen years old. A mob of about a dozen men took her out of a jail cell and hanged her in the street. Marie Scott. Wagoner, Oklahoma, 1914.

Accounts of what happened are consistent on the core: a white man had forced his way into her home and attacked her, and her brother killed him defending her. Her brother escaped.

So they took the girl instead. She is one of the very few documented lynching of a Black woman in Oklahoma, and one of the youngest women in the national record.
Seventeen. Held in a cell, taken from a cell, and killed for surviving an assault that her attacker did not survive.

Nobody was charged. Say her name — most people have never heard it once.

Marie Scott was seventeen. Her story is one of up to 150 cases documented in our book.

Most people have never heard her name. That’s exactly why we documented it. Get yours https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@JamieBonkiewicz She’s trying out for a job there!!

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@VoteSaraBaxter @PahokeeFootball The treatment of this military veteran(and all your other constituents there) was disgraceful! You all should be ashamed!!

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@SungaiNyalo @JoelFloresPBC @PBCYSD Fuck you for being so disrespectful to a fellow veteran! As an army vet myself, I think you’re a disgrace!!

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Hands Around the Kennedy Center
Friday, September 18, 2026 @ 6:30 PM EST
The Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
RSVP: https://t.co/7PN4qjDRha

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Immigration officers and police came to her flat at dawn to deport her. Her five-year-old son was in the room.

They restrained her with a body belt and wrapped thirteen feet of adhesive tape around her head.
Joy Gardner. London, July 1993. She was 40.

She went into cardiac arrest during the restraint and never regained consciousness. She died four days later. Three officers were charged with manslaughter. All three were acquitted in 1995.

Thirteen feet of tape. Somebody unrolled it, in a home, around a woman's head, with a child watching.

Britain quietly changed its deportation restraint practices afterward — which is the same admission every country makes, in the same silent way: by fixing the thing it insists was never broken.

Joy Gardner’s story is one of the cases documented in our book. Some cases made headlines. Many were buried.

We went looking for the ones history left behind. Get yours: https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF

[Jen Cole @coletkda]

@SoCal_Bobby @SonnyVermont Love it! Except I’d switch Ossoff to Pres and AOC to veep. I love Pete but, I agree, he is better placed as Sec of State. I feel like that’s a bigger role than Veep.

But yes, the icing on the cake is Mark Kelly as Sec of Def!!! Haha! Glorious!!!

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

A sickening reminder that hateful rhetoric will never be just rhetoric.

Words that attack or belittle people over the color of their skin can also incite the most brutal attacks, especially when they are given official sanction.

What an absolute, unmitigated travesty.