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1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief." Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts. See the heated exchange👇

REP. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “This isn't coincidental or accidental. We're seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.” (H/T @motherjones.com ) #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

If a small group of government employees can overturn the will of the people as expressed in a referendum, I am not sure that you can still call it a democracy. Nothing more fundamentally anti-democratic than that.

Thirty football players join the suit against Ohio State involving the sexual abuse by Dr. Strauss, and Jim Jordan, former assistant wrestling coach said he knew nothing of the abuse. Hmmm. Methinks Jordan knew.

Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

😕🇺🇸 Yeah @marenmorris.bsky.social gets it

The @pressfreedomtracker.us has recorded nearly 200 LAPD press freedom violations involving journalists. On May Day, reporters were handcuffed and struck with batons. With the World Cup coming to LA, FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social challenged LAPD to prevent an international incident. Watch ⬇️

Dear Tennessee legislators: Your slave-holding predecessors stole their hopes, dreams and freedoms. Now you've gone and effectively stolen their votes. You haven't evolved or learned a damn thing since the 1600s. Our corrupt SCOTUS no better. Shame on you all.

Wrote an article for Truthout about how the recent SCOTUS decision and how it and this administration has sought to impose Jim Crow through "colorblind" means smh

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

You in danger, Kash.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

SENATOR LAMAR: “Racism does not become less racist because it’s called ‘PARTISAN’ — This is how democracy dies.”😕🇺🇸

The word “genocide” is a precise legal term. And what has happened in Gaza matches the definition laid out in the 1948 Genocide Convention: “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such.” - Omer Bartov, Israeli historian

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

He means white people.

Wow, and they lied to us?? Who would have thought.

Just so we understand.

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15.

Louisiana v. Callais will “probably go down in the history book as one of three of the worst Supreme Court decisions in the history of this nation,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. From @jonshorman.bsky.social.

Researchers in Hong Kong developed a nasal spray for rapid stroke intervention. The system uses nanotechnology to deliver neuroprotective drugs directly to the brain and reduce neuronal damage during the emergency stage.

He’s revealed US to be a paper tiger on a global stage. A bully who picks unnecessary fights he can’t win, begs others for help & when denied, is sour grapes w “WE DON’T NEED YOU ANYWAY!” He has destroyed our status in the world & respect for US is at a historic low. Shameful.

I’ve heard a number of democratic representatives indicate they understand that new safeguards must be put in place.

Never Forget as We Americans and other nationalities die.

We’re deeply grateful to all of the Tennessee Indivisibles and everyone else across the state who showed up in defense of democracy. We the People — especially Black and Brown Americans — have opposed tyranny in the past. The road may be longer than we hoped, but we will win. Again.

How the fuck does the GOP explain this? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kamala Harris: When you look at this war in Iran, which the American people do not want, which was not authorized by congress. Even if it was, it should not have been initiated. He talked about obliterated. It's all just bullshit.

More than a dozen former NFL players join sex-abuse lawsuits against Ohio State University - NBC News

american government mysteriously only able to pass legislation quickly when it’s to disenfranchise voters

Question: Why would the Super Bowl ever come to a Jim Crow state that intentionally strips representation from Black people? cc: NFL

And the Supreme Court cries foul..fuck them all

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

Remember in today's elections there are some parties who would jail this pensioner for being right 1. Antisemitism is real & revolting; 2. To march against a UK government that supports genocide is to march *against* hate; 3. There is nothing 'Jewish' about Netanyahu's crimes; #SolidarityPalestine

"72% of the white population is put into one district. 75% of the Black population is carved into two,” Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville said. “We are being asked to believe that it’s just the luck of the draw, just happenstance.” Within hours of a new congressional map passing, the NAACP filed suit.

Salary needed to buy the median priced home: $458,500 San Jose CA $321,500 San Francisco CA $235,300 San Diego CA $224,200 Los Angeles CA $200,300 New York NY $190,900 Boston MA $188,200 Seattle WA $161,500 Washington DC $157,000 Miami FL $155,000 Denver CO I’m sure everything is fine.

I could not have said it better!!!❤️💯

You wouldn’t marry someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t do business with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t work for someone who lied to u like this. You’d want nothing to do with someone who lied to u like this.

"Let me see . . . should I listen to my child's pediatrician or the former heroin addict who cuts the penises off roadkill to take home? Yeah, the dude with the racoon penis, not the dude with an MD. Boy, that was an easy decision, y'all!"

Our government is lying to us.

👇🏼 Release the trumpstein files

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

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Zelenskyy broke Russia Putin broke USA

Mayor Karen Bass

Let that sink in…🤔 #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles #Epsteinvictims #justice #womensrights