Better and First

[Infern0 Thee Ant 🍋 🔜 DreamCon @InFeRn0AnT]

Even if you don’t live in NYC, please retweet this and get the word out so that the ppl in YOUR city also learn that they too can have politicians who get things done if they mobilize and vote socialist in other elections! 🗣️

[Better and First @DatBDiamond]

@SixBrownChicks Your lucky she hasn’t harmed you. You don’t deserve another friend ever. Leave that lady alone! Your life was down bad because you were already out doing wrong and instead of talking to your friend about how to improve you slept with her man 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

The worst kind of white supremacist is the white supremacist who isn't even white.

So, on behalf of Black mothers, Black sisters, Black fathers, and Black sisters everywhere:

FUCK YOU! Lil bytch ass.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Pride is joy. Pride is courage. Pride is a celebration. And Pride is the ongoing fight to ensure every person can live as their authentic self.

This month and every month, we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and all those continuing the fight for equality.

Happy Pride!

[Drew Comments @sjs856]

Black People voting Dem got us:

1. The Civil Rights Act
2. 40% increase in high school grads
3. Twice as likely to have college degree
4. 6x greater wealth
5. 23% decrease in infant mortality
6. 11.5 year life expectancy increase
7. The Community Reinvestment Act

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 DAMN.

Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:

“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”

She was SIX.

And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.

Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.

Just because of the color of her skin.

A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

President Trump says those prosecuted for Jan. 6 should get money from the federal government. That means giving cash to people who violently assaulted police at the U.S. Capitol. Here's a few possible recipients from what Trump called 'A Day of Love'

[Acyn @Acyn]

Maddow: So in January, Trump buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Nvidia. Then a week later, his commerce department approves the sale of Nvidia chips to China. 

Also in January, Trump buys between 50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD. One week after he buys it, his commerce department approves AMD doing business in China as well. 

The following month, in February, Trump buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer. 

Then in March, Judd Legum at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit and praises the company.

That same day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim cook for praise. Apple a great company.

Then after that, Trump buys Micron stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox News channel and tells them Micron is one of the hottest companies.

CNBC reporting Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on truth social and praises Palantir.

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

Florida spent $600m of our own money on this, with no real prospect of refund by feds

For comparison, it’s almost 3x what state allocated to affordable housing last year.

It’s also the annual cost of extending our free PreK to all day (instead of only 3hr/day)

[I’m named after El Debarge @hydrothemc]

If only there were signs.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon Musk called Hitler a socialist then Grok correctly debunks him by pointing out Hitler rejected Marxism and ran a fascist system that prioritized nationalism and private enterprise. Grok then explains socialism is class equality and worker ownership!

Never deleting this app.

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chaıned to other human bodięs for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women rapęd by ruthless sIave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil Wąr to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KƘK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hųng on trees...

Fought in World Wąrs as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...

and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?

How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know, survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!

[Fernand R. Amandi @AmandiOnAir]

Florida now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation and is one of the most unaffordable states period.

Republicans control the federal government and Republicans have had TOTAL CONTROL of Florida State Government for nearly 30 consecutive years.

Remember in November.

[Better and First @DatBDiamond]

@TsMadisonatl1 Congratulations 💕

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

Elon Musk is really in court arguing that being forced to treat Black people fairly is an attack on his “freedom.”

His company xAI is suing the state of Colorado because a law said “hey maybe your AI shouldn’t discriminate against Black people in jobs, loans, insurance,

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Dr. King was there supporting an economic protest by Black sanitation workers.
https://t.co/zaMrwHJubj

[Nikki Fried @NikkiFried]

Why is Florida so unaffordable, Rick?

You all have been in charge for 30 years! The people are done with the corruption and corporate greed.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

“If people do not know their history, they are liable to repeat it." Bryan Stevenson on the importance of facing our past honestly, the power of hope, and the opportunities that emerge when you stand with condemned and disfavored people. @EdwardGLuce @ftweekend

https://t.co/DwBm5MG3mj

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020” https://t.co/BDf3Yeueaf

[Rep. Stacey Plaskett @StaceyPlaskett]

Celebrating an educator born to formerly enslaved parents who built a university and advised presidents.

Education was her weapon, empowerment her mission. #WomensHistoryMonth