@SIfill_ Is shamelessness more disturbing or important than that our political system allows a "mob" of tRump, GOP leaders, and Russia to penetrate our country's politics with dark money, money laundering, and assorted criminality and corruption? The mob finds desperate guys like Santos.
@nhannahjones one of America's great stories seldom formulated or told because it is a story in which one of our nation's founding principles was that 1/6 of the nation's people were less than human who lived in one of the most heinous totalitarian systems in world history.
@nhannahjones Alamo and Harpers Ferry were both fought against people, aka "founders", who wanted free land, free labor, and no taxes... by J Brown and Mexico against slavers, where slavery was legal at the time. Tubman and others who knew of HF but did not join are big players in (1/2)
This thread: Maybe Cheney simply couldn't tolerate tRump. Perhaps she grew. Nonetheless, the rest of the thread speaks the truth we can't overlook when all eyes are on tRump. He's capable of very little by himself. And seeds have been planted and watered for some time.
@kylegriffin1 Anyone who has held a sign at a public rally and had to use something barely larger than a popsicle stick because of laws saw immediately what was happening when mob carried metal poles and were not stopped. Let's all stop playing dumb and call out complicit law enforcement.
Earlier this month in a federal court filing the Department of Justice said 563 children deliberately separated from their parents at the border by the Trump administration have been reunited with family members due to the work of the task force created by President Biden.
@jdickerson Great summary. That's why you are among the best... speaking with a fresh, objective truth at a time when doing so might feel like doing the dog paddle in the middle of an ocean. Thank you.
FYI: The Bank Secrecy Act requires banks to keep records of transactions exceeding $10,000 so they can look for money laundering and other suspicious activities. Donald’s NFTs were $99 with a limit of 100 per person. Cool, huh?
The black history of Miami, Florida.
A THREAD!
Bahamians were among the first settlers in Miami. The first name on the city charter in 1896, when the city was incorporated, was a Black man named Silas Austin. Out of 368 men who voted to incorporate Miami,162 of them were Black
@michaelharriot informs them that "color" blindness in America today isn't enough. Things must be viewed through lens of what power structure does & has done to people. Like Moore v Harper, lawyers can say blah blah, but what is happening is attempt by slave power states to control voting 2/2
@michaelharriot How to respond to people who I know aren't bigots who say they are driven to bigoted conservative talking points because they say they feel they are being called bigots. It is because they are "color blind", or attempt to be, that keeps them from learning the history that 1/2
@michaelharriot When looking for multi-purpose cleaner, rather than buy a plastic bottle filled with cleaner each time, use a bottle you have and mix water and 1 tsp of Dr Bronners Sal Suds concentrate. Don't bring more unnecessary plastic into the world if possible.
Remember: For every person a police officer kills, 50-70 ppl are hospitalized during police interactions. ~10% have brain injury. In Chicago, Black men are 6-10x more likely to be injured by cop
& before you say: “but they do be crime-ing”
76% are NEVER charged with a crime
@sbg1@JohnJHarwood My question is, with all the talented writers, many who are great and can't find opportunities to get jobs or be published, what power structure is behind this guy getting such prominent platforms?