Today in 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.
After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.
This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #FreshVotesBlue #BlackHistoryWithLana
Please, someone help me understand, the police is doing bathroom sweeps and underwear checks and arresting people? HOOOOWWWWWW will you know a manufactured hooch from a born hooch?? Police officers are you getting specialized hooch training???
If someone accuses you of being trans, you can be arrested and once arrested, subjected to genital examination.
Florida is set to arrest people in restrooms regardless of legal gender status in sweeping bill https://t.co/sAgFeHxePi
Kevin McCarthy had no problem raising the debt ceiling under trump.
In fact, he did it THREE times.
But now, with Biden at the helm, he’s threatening to cut programs which help feed millions of low income families who are already food insecure.
He’s holding the government hostage unless we hurt the Americans who are most in need.
Make no mistake - this is who Republicans are and this is a crisis of their own making.
#RepublicanDefaultCrisis
One more time:
1. It wasn’t a “hoax.” Russia did interfere in the 2016 election to try to help elect Trump.
2. The Trump campaign did welcome & encourage the interference.
3. There WAS collusion. Don Jr took that meeting. Manafort gave the Russians campaign secrets. The Trump campaign had an unusual # of Russian connections. Mueller couldn’t prove a conspiracy.
4. Trump did obstruct the Mueller investigation. Repeatedly.
5. And btw, our FBI was right to launch an investigation. The DOJ IG agreed, Senate Republicans agreed. Even Durham today said the FBI had cause to open a preliminary investigation.
6. Did the FBI make mistakes? Sure, but their intentions were noble: To protect this country.
@RonFilipkowski The next generation of #Floridians will be the dumbest generation ever🤦🏻♂️ But apparently he is doing it for purpose, it’s easy to rule dumb people🤷🏻♂️
So the goal is to make sure HIGHER education is not taught in Florida Colleges?? Make it make effing sense!!! "The Basics" are taught in freaking high school. Truly the only country, wait STATE, that discourages education.
Desantis today says if students want to study “niche majors” they can go to schools like Berkeley, but FL colleges are now going to solely focus on “the basics.”
A lot of this is personal for him but so much of it is the way Republicans think in Florida. The true colors of those smiling in your face are showing.
Ron DeSantis just signed a Republican-backed bill into law that will bar the state's colleges and universities from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and limit how race can be discussed in many courses.
As a parent I’m not worried that my 9 and 13 year olds are going to be “indoctrinated” with “wokeness” at school.
I’m not worried that they’re going to ‘feel guilty about their whiteness’ because they’re learning accurate history.
I’m not worried that they’re going to be “groomed” to become furries and to make their pees pees in litter boxes.
Those things aren’t real.
Wanna know what is real?
My worry that they’re going to get shot. That someone with an AR-15 is going to go into their school and shoot them.
So, while the same gun fetishizing, AR-15 lapel pin wearing, locked and loaded family Christmas card posing Republicans fear monger & manufacture crises under the guise of “parents rights”, I say this:
It is my right as a parent to send my kids to school without worrying that they will get shot.
It ain’t the drag queens, the African American history, the books with two moms or two seahorse dads which threaten our kids.
It’s the fucking guns.
A 6 year old can carry a gun in public in the state of Missouri.
In Texas, an 18 year old can buy two AR-15s and 1,600 bullets in the span of two days.
In the state of Florida, you can carry concealed weapons and firearms without a background check, training or a license.
But a woman seeking a safe medication abortion cannot buy mifepristone.
@Victorshi2020 Justin Pearson’s future isn’t so settled. It’s rumored the legislature is threatening to w/hold 350 mil in Lee’s budget for a Memphis Grizzlies arena reno if the council sends Pearson back. The TNGQP punished N’ville severely when its council wouldn’t ok hosting the GQP Nat Conv.