trina smith

Bright and bold, with wavy fringes around the edges.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Because the "law enforcement" bureaucracy is set up to enforce only *some* laws against *some* people and acts itself as an undemocratic force to protect wealth aggregations, it is entirely ill-equipped (and uninterested) in being a bulwark against fascism.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Rep AOC calls on the DNC to allow a Palestinian American to speak from the DNC stage. I agree.
RT if you do too.
#LetThemSpeak #DNC2024

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The point of Roberts not telling us what "unofficial" or "official" actually means is that it gives him leeway to make it up later, depending on who wins the next election.

[library militant @imaniems_]

Ok here's a concept: Wife Swap but with municipal budgets.
librarians get cop budgets for a year and we see what can be done

[nik or treat 👻 @ghosttowndownn]

Per usual, I see a lot of people say “free Congo” as an add on to being called out for only caring about one cause at a time, but there’s rarely any information being shared about what’s happening in the DRC. so I will attempt to coherently explain (a 🧵):

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

The jam.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also called out to violently suppress these protests.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA.

There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD.

At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how they brainwash people into believing that state brutality is not only normal, but deserved.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

DEI is not the reason why you presume Black people aren’t qualified. Racism is the reason. And a need to believe a Black person could not possibly do better than you. I know it and you know it, too.

[Cornel West @CornelWest]

(1/2) We must question the moral fitness of any lawmaker, sitting or aspiring, who, whether by willful or abject ignorance, doesn’t name that slavery was the leading cause of the Civil War - especially if they once governed a state that literally named preservation of chattel slavery as their reason for seceding from the Union and leading a traitorous and bloody insurrection.
At the same time, we must be cognizant of the fact that mass incarceration is a modern form of slavery and Joe Biden and the Democrats 1994 Crime Bill ultimately acted as slave catchers that still has a deleterious impact on Black and Brown families 30 years later.  The white “supremacy” ideology that fueled chattel slavery is the same ideology that fuels mass incarceration, and the same ideology that fuels the #duopoly.

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

We are only 21 days into the https://t.co/FGKxlpFn6h go and download the App and post your FAMS best. Film Art Music Sport. But the craziest is emergence of our multi screens & the straight radio connection into The RAPstation Internetwork. Lets Gooooo

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

TOMORROW is #August1stTweetOutDay. Join me, @MzSgtPepper & the WHOLE WORLD in NOT tweeting for 24 hrs. I won't dignify accusations that this is a political statement when it is, in fact, simply an experimental STUNT because I'm bored & wanna see what happens. #TweetlessTuesday

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

@MzSgtPepper Countdown to midnight... LET'S GOOOOOO!

#August1stTweetOutDay

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Please retweet this ad immediately. Twitter has blocked her campaign from promoting this ad due to its support for abortion rights. This is the Democrat running for Lt. Governor of North Carolina. Help her promote it for free by hitting retweet.

[UNICORN RIOT @UR_Ninja]

DeKalb County Judge Anna Watkins Davis, who denied bond to #StopCopCity music festival arrestees charged with Domestic Terrorism without individualized evidence, is married to a Principal attorney at KPMG, a corporate sponsor of the Atlanta Police Foundation, which is building ‘Cop City’.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Texas Republicans are trying to force public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

I told the bill author: “This bill is not only un-constitutional and un-American, it’s deeply un-Christian.” #txlege

[John Amaechi OBE @JohnAmaechi]

I thoughts sports hated me. And worse, I thought you thought I hated sport.

But I don’t.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

New reporting from @propublica says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received free lavish trips for more than two decades from a Republican megadonor.

@js_kaplan helped break the story. https://t.co/FdQiNUYhr6

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

NOW: “I’m about to speak because the people of district 52 sent me here to speak. Speaker Sexton is not my constituent, Speaker Sexton is not a king, Speaker Sexton is not God” - Rep. Justin Jones

(You can watch this happening live below)

https://t.co/DSbvKDj8Rd