Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿

Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake, but is 100% true.

1. I've met Bishop Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton and Steve Balmer in my line of work

2. I've written, performed, recorded and produced music internationally (not my line of work).

3. I am the oldest of 12.

THIS THREAD. I was one of those young idiots who fell for Nader (because I wanted LaDuke as VP), but I quickly learned how our govt works and what harm reduction was and I vowed to never make that mistake again and warn generations after me not to make the same mistake. Berners refuse to do this.

They are going after specifically Black Democrats.

"Democratic Tea Party"🤦🏾‍♀️
In the middle of the worst presidency in history, this MFer would rather knock off incumbent Dems than Republicans.
How anyone can take him seriously after celebrating Peltola's loss is beyond me, but makes Rep Foushee's victory in the NC-4 primary that much more gratifying.

Susan Sarandon, who is now crying because she's not finding work anymore and is thus irrelevant (as she should be):

#ThomasMassie

Thank you! Ahistorical tripe timelines annoys the f out of me. Clinton (male) ran as republiklan lite and moved the party right, while giving Black voters saxophone notes. He didn't actively nor publicly hate us like Reagan but recognizing our existence started the white grievance, Limbaugh train.

No. Because they know what they would do if the roles were reversed.

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

It's amazing how they say they asked God for forgiveness and "HE" forgave them. How do they know this? It's amazing how their "god" always does what they want.

Jesus Christ.

Thank you for the articles you linked in the thread! Thank you for backing me up.

THE IMPACT OF JESSE JACKSON (Published 1984)

Amazing thread! Here’s a NYT article from 1984 that talks about the campaign. Definitely gives a flavor of the tone at the time.

JESSE JACKSON AIMS FOR THE MAINSTREAM (Published 1987)

Here’s a 1987 NYT article about the upcoming campaign. Words like “strident” and “moderating tone” are used. Another “flavor of the time” article that is pretty much the same flavor as 1984.

I'm not sure why it's dong that either.

Thank you for this.

JACKSON TO FORGO PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN '92, ADVISER SAYS (Published 1991)

Here’s the last bit of NYT torture. “Rev. Jackson’s decision” not to run in 1992. Because “we really need to win this one.” Dang—it’s almost like I heard that about 24 hours ago. But I’m sure everything will get fixed this time.

The anti-blackness from the "Blue Resistor Crew" always rises to the top.

I never met Michael Jordan, but I met his then wife. That was cool.

That's really cool.

Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined.

Over half goes to private defense contractors.

This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.

The Administration is urging Americans in the Middle East to depart immediately when many embassies, airports, and airspaces are already closed.

That’s unacceptable — we need a plan.

I met Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Queen Mother Moore, Nikki Giovani, Jesse Jackson on numerous occasions to name a few.

Beyoncé is my 2nd cousin, and our fathers grew up together.

a woman in a leather jacket is dancing in a room while a man in a red coat stands behind her . ALT: a woman in a leather jacket is dancing in a room while a man in a red coat stands behind her .

Jasmine Crockett is cool again now that she's fighting Kristi Noem.

Very true!

They were so mad.

And he died in a plane crash.

I don't know how many times we need to be told, but we (wp) need to stop disrespecting the base of our party and LISTEN.

White supremacy is not limited to the GOP.