TCD

"a more perfect Union" (Mad Creek Books) 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize & "Haint" 2017 Ohioana Poetry Book Award. Poet, wife, mom-she/her

[TCD @cross_davis]

COVER REVEAL! My second collection (Feb. 2021) has a cover. Thanks to photographer @MigDooley and Angela Moody for the design. Pre-orders available now. Excited to share poems of Prince, Goddesses, and revolution with you. @ohiostatepress https://t.co/AIu3Y7xVt1

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

Absolutely essential telling of what is unfolding across the South and the nation by @MaraGay for @nytimes.

https://t.co/w6ky5iNvAW

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care.

Republicans blocked it.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @AOC to @MacFarlaneNews: “People think these things are almost like a joke, but this is THEFT of OUR money. Your money is being stolen to pay for Trump’s vanity projects.”

[6MileRome @UnholyRome6]

The reason why The US hasn’t apologized or given reparations for the genocide of Black Americans, is because you can’t apologize for something you’re actively doing.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

A picture of Trayvon Martin at space camp. He posthumously received an aviation honorary degree.

[Darlyndear🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 @Darlyn215]

Daniel Smith, Believed to Be the Last Child of Enslaved People, Dies at 90 https://t.co/IwjZ5d0pOi

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

33 You should be celebrating 33 years on earth today. We remember you. #BreonnaTaylor #TheKingCenter 🖤

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Yes I sold paintings. About $225,000 a year over four years. The whole of my business while my father was President. Congress investigated it.

If you’re outraged about that, where is all your outrage now?

Kushner's Affinity Partners holds roughly $5 to $6 billion. Close to 99% of it comes from foreign sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Arabia. The UAE. Qatar. Over $90M in fees annually.

[RNB RADAR @rnbradar]

Happy 76th Birthday to Deniece Williams 🎈

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

“Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.”

— Ida B. Wells

[Ten Thutty @thenotoryousone]

Foster Sylvers
Ronald LaPread
Dexter Wansel
Peabo Bryson

All gone in the past week. Rough start for Black Music Month.

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

this man's legacy is so much more than Disney. SO much.
Show and Tell. Closer than Close. Can You Stop the Rain. If Ever You're in my Arms Again. Feel the Fire. I Wish You Love.

A whole quiet storm LEGEND.

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[StrongBlackBerries 🫐 🍓 @BerriesStrong]

"Paid In Full" Eric B. & Rakim (1987) Written & produced by Eric Barrier & Rakim Allah, released as the 5th single the debut album of the same name & went on to serves as the movie soundtrack 4 the acclaimed 2002 movie "Paid in Full" #hiphop