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[elections have consequences @orighu]

"The worse mistake you can make is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking through the lens of your prejudices.
- Alfred Kroeber Anthropologist

[Melech. @MelechThomas]

You’re right. Howard is not Harvard. Howard is better. Because even though Harvard had a 231 year headstart, centuries of free slave labor, and billions of dollars in endowment, my Howard degree still gets in the same room as Harvard grads.

[elections have consequences @orighu]

I guess they found something to do since they couldn’t get inside 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

Trumpers celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day by trashing the street in front of the MLK Library in DC.

📸: @NicolaeButler

[elections have consequences @orighu]

@LemonSturgis he was a Black man that reminded people he was a Black man

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I see Congressional Dems on Twitter coming out to condemn Biden on Hunter.

I get it but this is why Republicans win in our asymmetric politics.

[elections have consequences @orighu]

say it loud for the folks in the back!!!

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

The Democrats mad about Hunter Biden are exactly why we lost the election. They keep trying to play by rules that don’t exist.

[Eric Holder @EricHolder]

Hunter
Here’s the reality.

No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear.

Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination.

Pardon warranted.

Ask yourself a vastly more important question. Do you really think Kash Patel is qualified to lead the world’s preeminent law enforcement investigative organization? Obvious answer: hell no.

[elections have consequences @orighu]

@willystaley zoomer???

[elections have consequences @orighu]

is there a reason I’m seeing more performances a less floats??? #MacysParade #Thanksgiving #nbc

[elections have consequences @orighu]

when racism and sexism are genuine parts of the conversation then you aren’t interested in genuinely exploring what went wrong in 2024 - but what do I know 🙄🙄🙄

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think people need to decide if they're genuinely interested in finding out what went wrong in 2024 so Dems can win again, or if they're just going to reject any data or information that doesn't confirm all their political beliefs.

I wish there wasn't so much nuance and uncertainty in politics - but that's the world we live in.

[elections have consequences @orighu]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣���🤣 laughed way too long and loud 😂😂😂😂😂

[k a r y. @itsKARY_]

A lawsuit in a rap battle?!

Are they suing their mamas in Toronto?!

[Lavora Barnes @LavoraBarnes]

I'm not trying to sugarcoat a difficult election. I am heartbroken that @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz won't be in the White House. But as the final ballots are tallied across Michigan, it’s clearer and clearer that the work you did mattered 🧵

[ACLU @ACLU]

BREAKING: A federal court blocked a Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, ruling the law is unconstitutional.

This is a victory for religious freedom.

[elections have consequences @orighu]

these facts don’t matter when all you want is a one time check 🤬

[Naima Cochrane @naima]

Dems have an image problem, but I need everybody on the left to finally have a come to Jesus moment:

THIS WAS A VOTE FOR WHITE SUPREMACY & PATRIARCHY.

Y'all doing a whole lot of "wake up" talk while keeping blinders on about the clearest, most key fact in all of this.

[elections have consequences @orighu]

@BlackKnight10k because of racism and sexism, mostly racism tho

[Rod @rodimusprime]

I think what will be most annoying to me is the scrambling to find some other reason than racism and misogyny to explain this. I’m as astute as anyone and I refuse to allow that to be glossed over. I will stand on this for the rest of my life.

[elections have consequences @orighu]

Amy home state made me proud!

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

On a night when the vast majority of American counties swung toward Trump from their 2020 returns, a majority (34 of 64) Colorado counties swung in the other direction. #copolitics

[elections have consequences @orighu]

in the emotional space that I’m currently in it’s this reframing that helps to intellectually reset, knowing better and feeling good are not the same things - this ain’t new and the path forward continues to be hard - I’m just tired 😞

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women -- have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the "legitimate" rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.

[April is in Chicago @ReignOfApril]

I wrote this because I had a bad feeling. Desperately wanted to be proven wrong. But here we are.

It’s not JUST that we can’t trust white women. We can’t even BELIEVE them. And I’m ten toes down on that from here on out.

[Maya Wiley @mayawiley]

As we start to hear the finger pointing punditry, let’s not be confused. The deep roots of racism, sexism and xenophobia is what happened here. America has always been an idea and white supremacy remains the original sin and the enemy of our ideals. Capitulation isn’t an option!