Thoughts for people living in safe blue cities and states: Alabama is the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. People bled and died for our right to vote. #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth 🧵

‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

TODAY: ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH. Republican lawmakers across the South are carving up maps to dilute Black voting power and protect their own power because fair maps would threaten their grip. They knew the voters didn’t support this, so they went around them. 1/2

📌The Jim Crow South has returned, and I just don’t think most people outside of the Black community understand how maddening and truly terrifying this is. We all must rally to their defense RIGHT NOW, and stand with this nation’s most dependable patriots. My God, we owe them at least that …

SHADY AF‼️ A man running for CA governor should damn well know better. And if you think this was just one influencer being paid without disclosure, you probably also believe everything else Tom Steyer has been selling.

The Trump administration is lying again. They’re already drilling and moving forward on Trump’s giant gold “Independence Arch” before Congress even approved it, just like they tore down the East Wing for Trump’s gilded ballroom project. That’s the MO: do it first, lie, deflect. 1/2

📌Watching Spanberger and so-called Democratic leadership in Virginia cave and go meekly into the night is breaking my heart, it really is. What the hell is it they stand for? The will of an obviously corrupt court, or the people? Grab the bully pulpit, governor. Shake it. INSPIRE

Trump: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.” There it is. The entire administration summed up in one sentence. #WeCantAffordTrump

📌A lying convicted felon has taken over OUR Justice Department. Read that again.

✅ Just got my NC driver license and am now registered to vote Carolina Blue to help flip this Senate seat, baby!

Marco Rubio running defense for Trump’s completely out-of-touch comments is not going to work. Americans can’t afford groceries, rent or a full tank of gas, and Trump basically said he doesn’t care. They’re all in on it together. #WeCantAffordTrump

📌Trump this morning to a press gaggle on AF1: “I had a total military victory (in Iran).” In just six words he summed up perfectly what a dangerous totalitarian leader sounds like. This will barely get a mention in our press, which has normalized the extreme danger we are in.

📌Your monthly reminder that DEI isn't about favoritism, it's about fairness. We can never forget this or it is yet another step toward losing our humanity.

PRESIDENTIAL GRIFT ON AN EPIC SCALE Trump’s “presidential library” sounds less like a library and more like an oligarch theme park. Florida handed him prime oceanfront land for $10. The “library” will include a for-profit luxury hotel.

THIS SATURDAY: ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH. The racist gerrymandering happening across the South was pushed by politicians protecting power, not by the people. Boost the posts. Share the livestreams. Make noise. Link in 🧵 for additional event locations nationwide.

📌The sickly Trump goes to China with approvals in the mid-30s, a dumpster fire for an economy, consumer prices going through the roof, and stuck in an unpopular war with Iran. He might be the weakest president ever and has NO bargaining power. Is there ANY doubt Xi is eating his (and our) lunch?

My grandmother, Darnella Cavaness, lived the reality of segregation, poll taxes, and voter suppression - and she taught me, as so many others taught their grandchildren, nieces, nephews, students - how to do the work. We walk with the wisdom and power of all those who came before us.

BREAKING: Ka$h Patel lied under oath yesterday. Actually, not really breaking news. We all knew that already, didn’t we?

SEE HOW EASILY HE LIES The reflecting pool sounds like a disaster: holes and bubbling pain. Trump first bragged that he sent in a contractor he personally used before, a guy who “does pools.” Now suddenly it’s: “I did not know the contractor,” and the folks at Interior made the pick.

📌Stop calling John Fetterman a Democrat, and start calling him a crook.

Bird flu spreading, hantavirus popping up, measles spreading, public health systems gutted, and Trump appoints Don Jr.’s turkey-hunting buddy to oversee the FDA. What could possibly go wrong?

📌“The American dream has gone off to die on the patio of Mar-a-Lago, where billionaires muster their pompous asses to pick away at shrimp cocktail and the bones of the people they are eating alive, while kissing the ample ass of the man who is making all of it possible …”

This is so bad. Who else is sick and tired of Donald Trump’s waste, fraud, and abuse? He doesn’t give a shit about anybody except himself and his rich buddies. The federal budget and our tax dollars are just his personal burn pile.

📌Fact is, most everything Mamdani is doing in NYC would benefit rural America, and the bought-off propagandists at Fox will do everything possible to make sure they never know it.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen asked Kash Patel if he would take the same test used in the military to determine whether someone has a drinking problem. 💥 “I’ll take any test you’re willing to” Ka$h Patel We all know Patel isn’t passing that test. Even he knows that.

$13,000,000 for what’s going to end up being a bright green swamp. Way to go, Donald Trump. And of course, no explanation for the cost overrun.

I cannot emphasize this enough: everything we are seeing right now with voting rights, and especially the racist gerrymandering we’re seeing in the South, makes complete sense if you remember it was all in Project 2025. This was part of the plan. It’s white supremacy and too many ignored it.

📌BREAKING: Inflation rose at the fastest rate since May 2023. Groceries, fuel, travel … everything is steaming higher, as this orange maniac, and his racist Jim Crow party of hate continue their assault on Americans at behest of their billionaire overlords.

MAGA is melting down after buyers got an email confirming they will never get their Trump Phones, or even get their deposits back. An estimated 590,000 people reportedly paid a $100 deposit each. Trump knows his base is full of suckers, and they keep proving him right.

“Cotton-picking hands” aimed at a Black man in 2026, and Republicans still have the nerve to ask why Black voters want nothing to do with the party of bigots. 📌 A host referred to Hakeem Jeffries as having “cotton-picking hands,” and Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans responded: “Yes to that.”

📌We are but one serious virus away from a catastrophe, and not near enough is being made about the fact that a former heroin addict and anti-vaxxer, who has ZERO training in medicine, academia, or scientific research would be leading the response. IT IS ABSURD.

When Trump was asked about auditing Fort Knox: “We wanted to go and knock on their door.” My god, this man has no idea what’s going on.

During his campaign, when Trump said “Make America Great Again,” a lot of Black folks heard “Make America White Again.” That’s why so many of us warned people, and WE WERE RIGHT. 🧵

💐 Happy Mother’s Day. My mom was an artist, a liberal and the smartest person I’ve ever known. Early-onset robbed her of her mind before tearing her away from us for good. I miss her, but am thankful she never witnessed the sheer madness and hate that followed the devil down that escalator in 2015.

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

📌Imagine the five-alarm fire in the MSM if Biden had posted something as insane as this.

Never forget Trump started this fight. Based on a lie. “I got the highest vote in the history of Texas … We are entitled to five more seats.” Trump Democrats need to start breaking some rules around here and fight back.

📌Trump's GOP would rather incinerate a healthcare program that insures millions of Americans with no viable alternative in place, than to continue anything with Obama’s name on it ... or enter an unwinnable war just to wreck the peace he brokered in our planet’s most volatile region. Deplorable.

They’re against diversity. And they want Black people grouped together in one part of town, until it comes to our voting power. We see you.

📌Sam Alito is provably a bought-off bigot and enemy of this country.

There are some hard truths here, and every Democrat needs to watch this segment. African Americans are being targeted because we are the most consistent Democratic voting bloc. The GOP knows this. Every Democrat must start speaking with one voice about court reform. 🧵

📌I have been a vocal supporter of Va. Gov. Abigail Spanberger, but her feeble response to her state's corrupt SC ruling that went against the will of the voters was sickening capitulation, and everything that is wrong with Big D Democrats, who have made surrender an art. Where are the fighters???

Can someone stop Trump from destroying historic DC? The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is famous for its gray granite facade, and he wants to paint it white, costing taxpayers at least $7.5 million. NEWSFLASH: this isn’t going to lower gas or grocery prices or open the Strait of Hormuz.

📌The Republican Party has become so brazen in their odious efforts to erase Black people, they no longer feel the need to wear hoods while they pile high barriers to voting booths, and leadership positions in our government, universities, and places of influence. This is a national emergency.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

Trump keeps threatening to attack Cuba. He makes it sound quick and easy, but don’t fall for it. Let me paint a picture of what’s likely to happen: 📌Massive refugee crisis 90 miles from FL 📌Russia and China immediately move in with intelligence, cyber operations, weapons support, and propaganda 🧵

📌David Attenborough: "Imagine the frail, morbidly obese screaming orange hyena, thumping about the White House on swollen ankles, his wretched tiny claws clenched in anger as he seeks out an unsuspecting female to tackle to the ground but is forced to accost the delighted Stephen Miller instead ..."

If you thought gas prices were outrageous in California now, they’re about to get even higher. The LAST Middle East oil tanker is arriving in California. #TrumpsGasFailure

30-40% fatality rate‼️ Just me, or does it feel like people downplaying the danger of the hantavirus are really missing the mark? A few days ago, we were told this was transmitted by rodents, and the Andes strain was rare and highly unlikely. We don’t know what the f*ck we are dealing with yet.

📌Today marks 81 years since the Nazis surrendered. 📌I believe this anniversary takes on more relevance today, because after 16 months of lawlessness in our authoritarian WH, and murders and caging of our people, NOBODY in America can now say they don't understand how Nazi Germany came into being.