elizabeth mancini

Teacher, runner, dog mom

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

56% of all Black Americans live in the South. The Supreme Court is threatening to wipe out Black political representation.

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.

They had kids, too.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I remember how much Muslims were lectured about the importance of a right to offend being part of a right to free speech.

We were told that we must accept offensive and racist remarks about our faith, our Prophet, etc, in the name of free speech and integrating into 'Western civilization'. Voltaire and the rest.

Those same folks who lectured Muslims are now saying to people that they cannot be offensive about a dead conservative influencer - and they will be punished if they do so. Even if being offensive in one's speech is literally what the First Amendment guarantees.

Oh, the hypocrisy. Oh, the gaslighting.

[elizabeth mancini @ManciniCT]

@heymrsbond The Eve Ewing poem about Emmett Till ("I saw Emmett Till...") and Ross Gay's "A Small Needful Act" always gut me.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

May the 20th anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina remind us of the need to transform or discard inhumane systems and the need to transform inhumane hearts that disregard and discriminate against people. So many people should be alive. So many Black human beings were dehumanized. #NeverForget #RacismIsReal

[Brandy Zadrozny @BrandyZadrozny]

New: In just 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, the loss of its most senior and competent leaders���truly the CDC’s backbone—is his most consequential attack yet.

https://t.co/xkrRfLArZl

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

Mariam Dagga, our freelancer who was killed today by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, had bylined this powerful piece on malnourished children in Gaza just last week https://t.co/HdpUiC96fm

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The US government’s own internal assessments say Hamas isn’t stealing the aid, and Israeli military officials have also told the New York Times that Hamas is not stealing the aid.

The US ambassador to Israel is - for want of a better word - lying here.

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

I’m not normally one for semantic battles, but educators probably shouldn’t use the word “cite” when describing students and AI.

We cite ideas. Humans have ideas. Language Models don’t have ideas. They just spit out language.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Horrifying. CBS News reports a Gaza Relief Foundation whistleblower said US contractors shot at Palestinians along with Israel, there was never a day in which aid seekers weren’t shot and he was tasked with collecting the remains of murdered Palestinians on the back of a truck.

[Equality Florida @equalityfl]

In the dead of night, Ron DeSantis ordered the rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial painted over — defacing a sacred space in the heart of Orlando that honors the 49 lives stolen in one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.

[Sheryl Cole @SherylCole1]

While on my morning walk in the Mueller neighborhood, my DPS escort, who was forced upon me to track my every movement, threatened to arrest me. He lost me on the trail, got angry about it, and made a scene in front of my constituents on the trail. #txlege

1/3

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/AXZsOKoAFg

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Who can help with this? @AOC

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished | Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian https://t.co/laC50E699X

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Francesca Albanese: “People continue to say ‘But Hamas, Hamas, Hamas’... I don't think people have any idea what Hamas is. Hamas is a political force that won the 2005 elections—whether we like it or not. Hamas built schools, public facilities, hospitals. It was simply the authority, the de facto authority.”

“So it is critical that you understand, that when you think of Hamas, you should not necessarily think of cut-throats, people armed to the teeth, or fighters. It's not like that.”

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

One of the biggest failings of mainstream journalism--in covering this administration--is their absolute reluctance to call out the racism, the racist ideology and the racist messaging that has long been a staple of the Trump White House.
For example: this image which references a book called Which Way, Western Man by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson.
You all know who I'm talking about.

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

⚠️To Whom It May Concern,
The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza.
For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless bombardment from land, sea, and air.
Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded.

If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.

Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

The IDF demolished a unit of the Palestinian National Seed Bank in Hebron, destroying equipment, research and crops that supported hundreds of farmers working to preserve heirloom seeds central to Palestinian farming heritage
https://t.co/YoXy9FyRJ4