And I know you’ll do the same tomorrow night, @KamalaHarris. You’ve got this. So many people will be doing everything we can to get you and @JoeBiden elected this fall. We can’t waste a moment. We’ve got to vote early—and show up in numbers that can’t be ignored.
I’ll miss the pinky promises, selfies, and person to person connections we look forward to during these moments.
But even though we can't be together in person, I’m so looking forward to addressing the #DemConvention tomorrow—and I hope you'll tune in!
Unmarked federal agents in combat gear are pulling protesters off the street and jailing them without charge. That is what a police state is all about. Now is the time to defend our Constitution. Now is the time to come together and defeat Trump's authoritarian policies.
My friend @SMeieran — a Portland ER doctor and County Commissioner — was tear gassed by Donald Trump’s occupying army for peacefully protesting. If you’re not terrified by what’s happening in Portland right now, you’re not paying attention.
Omg. Black woman officer in Buffalo was one year short of her pension. Got fired because she stopped a white officer from choking someone while making an arrest — and they fired her because that supposedly “put the other officer at risk” https://t.co/Wd85cCmbrR
It's so heartbreaking to think of the thousands of lives and jobs that would have been saved if we had a clear bipartisan message for universal mask wearing. And it's even more gut wrenching to think that we are on our way to screwing that up again. Please wear your mask.
So I was talking with my mom about #DefundThePolice. And she asked me a question: how could what happened to Rayshard Brooks happen, at this moment, in this uprising? How could police keep...doing this?
So this is what I said.
An unknown number of people died during the 1921 Tulsa massacre. Six thousand newly homeless African American survivors – whose houses were destroyed in the massacre – were forced into internment camps and released weeks later. https://t.co/p85l7KxZ4q
In Opinion
"The world is fighting the most serious pandemic in a century, and the United States is in the process of withdrawing from the only international organization equipped to lead that effort," the editorial board writes https://t.co/GGFofPhyxI
Remember: Steve Mnuchin is refusing to disclose which companies received more than $500 billion in taxpayer funds. Americans deserve to know whether this administration is serving working families, or just enriching corporate execs and wealthy friends.
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