Tim Jellison

Strategy | Operations | Equity | Organizing│Fresh Look Strategies, Groundwater Institute, California Anti-Racism Alliance│BSME, MSE, UC Davis; MBA, Stanford.

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

CARA’s first in-person workshop hosted in Greater Los Angeles: Racial Equity Institute (REI) Phase I Workshop in Inglewood July 20-21. Two days analyzing power to resolve inequities at their root cause. https://t.co/K163obA6f8 #Inglewood #Organize #training

[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

When the Supreme Court repeatedly attacks voting rights and bends over backwards to a wannabe king, we should call it what it is.

This Court is racist, corrupt….and the American people deserve better.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Last night, the Roberts Court once again handed Republicans another shocking gerrymandering win in Alabama.

For the second time in three weeks, the Court’s Republican-appointed majority green-lit an Alabama congressional map that a lower court has repeatedly found intentionally discriminates against Black voters.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

Some good news today.

South Carolina has chosen NOT to move forward with gerrymandering for the time being.

AND a court has blocked Alabama’s gerrymander.

The fight continues. But these small victories are important.

Keep the faith.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American education system does not teach empire.

This is not an accident.

It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning.

It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler.

It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of.

It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations.

It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil.

It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present.

It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention.

The ignorance is load-bearing.

Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable.

They know this.

The curriculum is not an oversight.

The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it.

The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier.

It is the history class.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The Atlantic slave trade is not singled out because other slavery didn't exist.

It is singled out because it built the world we currently live in.

The financial institutions.
The insurance markets.
The shipping routes.
The racial categories.
The colonial borders.
The wealth distribution between continents that still defines the global economy today.

The Atlantic slave trade is not studied with particular intensity because historians are biased.

It is studied with particular intensity because its consequences are not historical.

They are present.

You don't single it out to assign ancient blame.

You examine it to understand current reality.

The reason your argument wants to dissolve that specificity into universal human wickedness is precisely because universal human wickedness requires nothing from anyone today.

Specific, traceable, present consequences do.

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

Meanwhile, look what’s happening in NYC! Democratic socialism, you say? A future that strikes fear in Republicans and traditional Democrats, too! And for damn good reason. Maybe try governing with the people in mind and you can be part of the future. Nah, nvm. 🧐❤️

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Pretty impressive run for Mamdani here

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

Spot on. Other rights to follow.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Make no mistake. Louisiana MAGA Governor Landry discarding 45,000 votes and cancelling the election until further notice is not a random act. It is a deliberate move to shift the Overton window to normalize this fascism.

This is being done at Trump's behest to get people used to the idea when Trump cancels elections either these Midterms or for the 2028 election.

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

When people say Jim Crow 2.0, this is what they mean. ⬇️

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

Power grab in White supremacy’s last years. The organized lie we’ve been led to believe has created huge advantages for White men at the top, but guess what? While harming Black and Brown people disproportionately, White people suffer in far bigger numbers! We all lose.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

BREAKING: Notice has just been given to Democrats in the Tennessee House that all members of the Democrat Caucus are being removed from all standing committees and subcommittees as a result of their behavior in the statehouse during the redistricting debates last week, which included setting fires inside the Capitol and attacking law enforcement.

In the state of Tennessee, political terrorism will not be tolerated. National Republicans take note that this is how you exercise power.

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

What are we demanding to change? Our time is now. Only the people can save the people. DM or reply with your ideas. #Organize #Coalitions #Indivisible #PowerConcedesNothingWithoutADemand #Power #Unity #Justice #Nonviolent #CivilDisobedience

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

This is beyond fucked

[Semitic Jew @semitic_jew]

People keep trying to rewrite history, but the documents are public.

The Confederacy officially consisted of 11 states that seceded from the Union:

• South Carolina
• Mississippi
• Florida
• Alabama
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• Texas
• Virginia
• Arkansas
• North Carolina
• Tennessee

The Confederacy also CLAIMED Kentucky and Missouri.

West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil War because many people in the western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to secede from the Union in 1861.

And let’s be very clear: many of these states plainly stated WHY they were leaving the Union.

Mississippi said:
“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery...”

Texas defended “the servitude of the African race.”

Georgia, South Carolina, and others complained about abolitionists, Black freedom, and threats to slavery.

This wasn’t hidden. It wasn’t subtle. It was written down in their own declarations. The Civil War never ended.

And many of these same states later:
• created Black Codes
• enforced Jim Crow
• fought school integration
• resisted the Voting Rights Act
• used terror, media, politics, and violence to suppress Black political power

History leaves patterns.

That’s why studying history matters — because some of the same states still struggle with the same racial tensions and political battles today.

Read the documents for yourself. Don’t let people sanitize history to make themselves comfortable.

https://t.co/YNFaOg0u4G

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you". Wise words that still ring true today spoken by an upstanding Texan, LBJ in 1964… let it sink in that it’s now 2026.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP)
No vote in Florida (+4 GOP)
No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP)
No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP)
No vote in Texas (+5 GOP)

Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out.

MAGA has rigged the system.

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

The new Jim Crow will be defeated like the old Jim Crow.

We were tired then, but not defeated.
We are tired now, but we will not be defeated.

Weeping may endure for a night, but the morning is coming.

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

So the GOP/Supreme Court say that Voting Rights Act protections are no longer necessary, because racism is no longer a problem, then the GOP uses the ruling to eliminate as many Black members of congress as possible. But again, racism is no longer a problem.

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

Must watch @Justinjpearson phenomenal speech today. STILL AND ALWAYS HERE. ❤️✊🏻🙏🏻

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

My speech on the Tennessee House Floor today as our state voted to eliminate Memphis's only majority Black congressional district.

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

Proving why the Voting Rights Act was so needed. White supremacy dies hard. Hard facts: We are all losing because of it and the lies we’ve been told, 400+ years and going strong. Shameful. 😡

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

99% white Tennessee House Republicans just passed a map stripping majority-Black Memphis of congressional representation.

State Rep. Justin Pearson on the floor:

“These maps are racist tools of white supremacy.”

Louisiana cancelled a live election to do it.

Florida signed new maps to flip 4 seats.

Tennessee just erased Memphis.

Three states. Same week. Same playbook.

[Tim Jellison @TimJellison]

This! Spot on. Thanks, @nxt888 🙏🏻

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Let me show you what "cultural" erases.

1934: Federal Housing Administration introduces redlining. Black neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage access for three decades.

1944: GI Bill passes. Administered in ways that systematically exclude Black veterans from the same benefits white veterans received.

1968: Fair Housing Act passes. By this point, the wealth gap produced by thirty years of exclusion is structural and self-perpetuating.

1971: Nixon declares War on Drugs. His own policy chief later admits on record it was designed to target Black communities.

1986: Crack sentenced 100 times more harshly than powder cocaine. Same drug. Different community. Different sentence.

2026: The neighborhood built by these policies is still poor.

You look at the neighborhood and say: culture.

I look at the list and say: policy.

One of us is reading the history.