Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the U.N. meeting of world leaders, a day after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a grim warning that “we are on the edge of an abyss.” https://t.co/t6Dw3n0rv4
Today was my mother’s birthday. We both loved the special connection to Valentine’s Day. When I was a little girl, I bought some heart-shaped pans at the dime store. It became a tradition: every year, I baked her a heart-shaped cake. And I still do today. https://t.co/o7A0tiheEr
Four years ago tonight, Mitch McConnell silenced me on the Senate floor because I tried to read a letter from Coretta Scott King.
He was trying to tell an entire movement to sit down and shut up.
Nevertheless, we persisted.
And now, he doesn’t get to call the shots anymore.
Let’s get 10K RTs on this: Joe Biden has launched @PresElectBiden in advance of the inauguration because twitter is playing games and they want to make sure these followers transition to his presidential account. Retweet, follow his account and let’s get him 1,000,000 in 24 hrs.
This was sedition. This was an insurrection. But these acts of domestic terrorism, incited by Donald and 147 elected republicans, were fueled by white supremacy enabled by the corrosive toxicity of white privilege. It's in our bones and we fail to grapple with that at our peril.
I know this week has been extremely troubling and many of us are justifiably pissed off at every one of the arsonists who tried to set our democracy on fire, I just want to take a moment to remember and celebrate the amazing work Georgians did to fight for a more perfect union.