Seann Lewis

I tweet about whatever interests me. Politics, games, VR, etc.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. Imagine if I had said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated, that you will not be allowed into government buildings. We will punish you economically for dissenting from the Affordable Care Act or the Iran deal. We will ferret out students who protest against my policies.

It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING: SpaceX's Starship EXPLODES, causing FAA to halt flights at 4 major airports

The previous Starship also exploded, in January

THIS is why FAA probed SpaceX for safety

And THIS is why Musk has been trying to kill FAA - and why he should NOT get any more govt contracts

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to pay millions of dollars to multiple nonprofit groups after determining the administration violated the terms of a temporary restraining order regarding freezing foreign aid. https://t.co/3Dpwg50lC6

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

My God, Kamala Harris warned us about the exact thing that’s now happening with Chinese technology.

She was 100% right.

[(☝◞‸◟)☞ 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚆𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝙳𝚘𝚗𝚎 @Blu_Alexia_]

Shaun King was the one who convinced Abraham Lincoln to Free the Slaves #ShaunKingSuccessStories

[Seann Lewis @omni646]

More than likely she and the enslaved woman did the whole damn thing.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Grace Wisher, an enslaved black girl at just 13 years old, helped create the American flag which inspired the national anthem. She is often overlooked in the storytelling of the nation’s most prominent visual emblem.

Two hundred years ago, an African American girl made history—literally. She was an indentured servant named Grace Wisher in the household of Mary Pickersgill. Helen Yuen and Ms. Asantewa Boakyewa of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum share her story.

The likeness of Grace Wisher is unknown. However, the Star Spangled Banner Flag House is home to a portrait with her figure traced in, to recognize her contribution. Detail of "Placing the Stars on the Flag that Inspired Francis Scott Key to Write Our National Anthem" by Robert McGill Mackall, ca. 1962.

Mary Pickersgill is often credited with sewing the Star-Spangled Banner which flew over Fort McHenry in Maryland and inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem. Less known is that Grace Wisher, an African American girl at just 13 years old, also helped make the flag. It's another testament to the deeply rooted, yet oft unmentioned, contributions of African Americans to the very core of this country.

Indenture was a waning practice in early 19th century Baltimore, although Maryland law did allow for courts to take away children of African Americans who were considered "lazy, indolent, and worthless free negroes" to bind the youngsters into apprenticeship. Orphans usually met a similar fate.
The size of the Star-Spangled Banner and its six-week timeline for completion would have necessitated many people working on the flag, including Mary Pickersgill's three nieces and Grace Wisher. The household also had an enslaved person, whose name we do not know.

The home where Pickersgill and Wisher lived is now a museum called the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. It holds a 1962 painting by famed Baltimore artist Robert McGill Mackall. The portrait features the Pickersgill household and the three men who commissioned the garrison and storm flags for Fort McHenry: Commodore Joshua Barney, General John Stricker, and Colonel George Armistead. As a tribute to Wisher, the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House drew in a ghost figure into the painting that represents the young girl. Due to our uncertainty of what she looked like, the placeholder is a traced line, but the recognition is tangible.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The State of Georgia has just told Judge Scott McAfee that they will be calling 150 witnesses and that the trial will last approximately
4 months without jury selection in the Trump election interference case.

The trial date has not been set but it seems very likely this will be a massive trial that will be televised in its entirety before the 2024 election.

Are you planning to watch the trials?

[QuoteDigger @QuoteDigging]

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

— Frank Lautenberg

[QuoteDigger @QuoteDigging]

BREAKING NEWS: FOX News reports Ca. Gov. Gavin Newsom is the first Governor to say Donald Trump is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California's State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trumps name on any future ballots.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Kalief Browder was FALSELY accused of stealing a backpack. He spent three years in Rikers Island, one of the worst prisons in the world, awaiting trial, mostly in solitary confinement.

He committed suicide.

Donald Trump has 78 federal and state criminal charges. He goes home every night.

He’s running for president.

#WhitePrivilege

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Nashville Democrat Justin Jones, who was one of the ‘Tennessee Three’ just won back the state House seat that he formerly held.

This is after Republican lawmakers expelled him for protesting for gun control.

Are you happy for him are are you upset?

Is this Democracy in action?

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Patrice Lumumba Last Letter.

He was the first legally elected prime minister of D.R Congo and was assassinated in 1961 following a military coup supported by U.S.A & Belgian imperialism which was admitted by the State Dept in 2013.

My dear wife,

I am writing these words to you, not knowing whether they will ever reach you, or whether I shall be alive when you read them.
Throughout my struggle for the independence of our country I have never doubted the victory of our sacred cause, to which I and my comrades have dedicated all our lives.
But the only thing which we wanted for our country is the right to a worthy life, to dignity without pretence, to independence without restrictions.
This was never the desire of the Belgian colonialists and their Western allies, who received, direct or indirect, open or concealed, support from some highly placed officials of the United Nations, the body upon which we placed all our hope when we appealed to it for help.
They seduced some of our compatriots, bought others and did everything to distort the truth and smear our independence.
What I can say is this—alive or dead, free or in jail—it is not a question of me personally.
The main thing is the Congo, our unhappy people, whose independence is being trampled upon.
That is why they have shut us away in prison and why they keep us far away from the people. But my faith remains indestructible.
I know and feel deep in my heart that sooner or later my people will rid themselves of their internal and external enemies, that they will rise up as one in order to say 'No' to colonialism, to brazen, dying colonialism, in order to win their dignity in a clean land.
We are not alone. Africa, Asia, the free peoples and the peoples fighting for their freedom in all corners of the world will always be side by side with the millions of Congolese who will not give up the struggle while there is even one colonialist or colonialist mercenary in our country.
To my sons, whom I am leaving and whom, perhaps, I shall not see again, I want to say that the future of the Congo is splendid and that I expect from them, as from every Congolese, the fulfilment of the sacred task of restoring our independence and our sovereignty.
Without dignity there is no freedom, without justice there is no dignity and without independence there are no free men.
Cruelty, insults and torture can never force me to ask for mercy, because I prefer to die with head high, with indestructible faith and profound belief in the destiny of our country than to live in humility and renounce the principles which are sacred to me.
The day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history which will be taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations.
It will be the history which will be taught in the countries which have won freedom from colonialism and its puppets.
Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.
Do not weep for me. I know that my tormented country will be able to defend its freedom and its independence.
Long live the Congo!
Long live Africa!
Thysville prison
Patrice LUMUMBA

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Workers at a South Carolina Waffle House went on strike this week, calling out the chain for skimping on safety and wages. They say the appalling conditions have become intolerable.

[NWS Detroit @NWSDetroit]

Multiple rounds of strong to severe storms are possible Friday and Friday night.. #miwx

[John Hope Bryant @johnhopebryant]

America needed Blacks. They tried to destroy the spirit and not the body.

Thank you to @blackenterprise for this #Juneteenth conversation.

[John Hope Bryant @johnhopebryant]

- Black slaves worked for free for 270+ years
- Black slaves were worth 2x more than railroads, which was arguably the most valuable asset
- Black slaves were agricultural genius – no one understood land like Blacks

[John Hope Bryant @johnhopebryant]

Slavery Facts

- The largest economy in the world was built by Black slaves
- The first millionaire in America came from financing cotton
- 1 out of 5 people in the world in the 1800s were involved or connected to the cotton industry which came from Black slaves

[FOX 2 Detroit @FOX2News]

The outage is planned for 10 pm and is expected to last 8 hours. https://t.co/P5fvLqtLAc

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

The Supreme Court’s disappointing decision in Sackett v. EPA will take our country backwards – placing our Nation’s wetlands, and the rivers, lakes, and ponds connected to them, at risk of pollution and destruction.

My team will work with the Department of Justice and relevant agencies to review this decision and use every legal authority we have to protect our nation’s waters for the people and communities that depend on them.

Our fight for clean water for all must go on, and it will.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I was too young to remember Jim Brown’s playing days, but I knew his legacy. One of the greatest football players ever, he was also an actor and activist – speaking out on civil rights, and pushing other Black athletes to do the same. Our thoughts are with Jim’s wife Monique, his children, and everyone who knew and admired him.