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The SAVE Act is a show your papers crackdown pretending to be “integrity.” It is engineered to slam people who cannot magically produce passports or birth certificates, especially Black and low income voters. Call your senators ＆ keep SAVE dead for good.

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#SaveActTaxesYourVote

What We Forget About Covid Will Shape the Next Pandemic As the pandemic recedes, our collective memory is softening the fear and chaos. That shift could determine how we handle the next crisis.

Refrigerated trucks. Mass graves. ICUs beyond capacity.

Six years on, some call it exaggerated — even as transmission, #LongCovid and system strain persist.

What we forget about #Covid will shape the next pandemic.

My latest for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition via 🎁🔗⬇️
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If you're still on Twitter, I am not, follow Alma Hernandez.
She is always spot on with her posts.

“Iran Says School Massacre” and the Media Repeats: How a Regime Claim Became a Viral Headline | HonestReporting Media reported an Israeli strike targeted a school in Iran, citing regime-affiliated sources and omitting the school was in an IRGC complex.

The New York Times was sure Israel committed a war crime bombing Gaza City's al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, too -- only it was biased, sloppy, false reporting.

This NYT article is filled with guesses and hedges.

I'm not leaping to outrage over NYT clickbait.

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And the IRGC slaughter of 30,000 Iranians (including children) just weeks ago?

Please be sure to make the rage inclusive.

The New York Times also made a "compelling" case that Israel destroyed al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza -- only it was 100% wrong.

Here too, there's evidence that the NYT reporting is at best incomplete. This article is filled with hedges and variables.

There's no compelling case here, only NYT bias.

The Shah was guilty of a repressive government.

That doesn't mean the IRGC -- which just slaughtered 30,000+ Iranians in the space of a week, and exported terrorism to the world -- deserves to survive.

As I read on this very app yesterday, the horseshoe is circle of white grievance populism.

(Bring a whole new dimension to the meaning of a "circle jerk"..)

They are going after specifically Black Democrats.

And to think, the DNC took this scorpion into its bosom.

Walz and Swalwell missed the mark by endorsing him as Vice Chair. When will the party learn that bringing a mortal enemy into the "Big Tent" doesn't make them a friend.

This is why they hate us so much.
Our support for HRC & Biden cost their dear leader the nomination & they think we're not intelligent enough to vote our interest & only vote for whoever Black Democrats like Clyburn endorse.
But of course when they win a primary, it's "blue no matter who."

This is the 1st time in history when there have been 2 Black women in the Senate at the same time & more Black Reps in the House than in previous Congresses & they're trying to go after them in the primaries.
They think they can win without our support so they can just dismiss us.

Not to mention the fact that the Tea Party was born of racism and white supremacy. He's literally advertising that he wants the same--a racist insurgency---just from 'the left.'😒

"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.

As a boomer, I’m shocked by gen Z’s attitude towards women – something has gone very wrong | Joan Smith New research suggests older people have more progressive views on women’s rights than younger generations. This direction of travel is deeply concerning, says Joan Smith, former co-chair of the Mayor ...

As a boomer, I’m shocked by gen Z’s attitude towards women – something has gone very wrong | Joan Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As a *doublechecks* about to turn 34 this weekend, these Gen z “men” are fucking losers.

This video affirms your original point, @kristinmreid.bsky.social.

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You don’t see Free Palestine standing up for Free Iran.

It’s because FP isn’t about freedom. It’s about replacing a liberal democracy with an Islamist state.

Free Iran, on the other hand, is about replacing an Islamist state with a liberal democracy.

Like an army decimated on the battlefield, the vanquished Republican operatives allied with Jeb Bush have shed their uniforms, collected as much ammo as they could carry and taken to the hills to wage bitter guerrilla war against Donald Trump. Tim Miller, who started off the 2016 cycle running an anti-Hillary Clinton opposition research shop, was enlisted by Bush to be his communications director in part because the former Florida governor wanted an ace Clinton hunter at his side in a general election he will now, alas, watch with a bowl of buttered popcorn. When the Bush campaign went belly up in late February, Miller — a quick-witted moderate conservative who believes his party’s future depends on attracting minority voters — immediately signed on with the main anti-Trump group, Our Principles PAC.

Tim Miller has such an interesting history of working to sink Democrats.

www.politico.com/story/2016/0...

This republican who says he’s a democrat says Dems should support Nazi grayham planter in Maine.

He and his husband also adopted a Black daughter.

Republican Tim Miller should forever be ignored. And that Black girl needs protection.

"Risky" doesn't begin to describe the dangers Bernard LaFayette faced for his voter registration campaign in Alabama.

#RestInPower

I had the privilege of photographing him at various events — including in Selma with John Lewis and other legendary civil rights leaders. Heartbreaking 💔 Rest in power, kind sir.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

May his memory be a blessing. 🙏🏼

Rashida Tlaib’s framing of the fall of a brutal autocrat as nothing more than a “violent fantasy” of the “elite” chooses to ignore decades of state-sponsored terror.Ali Khamenei spent his life “preventing democracy” and “oppressing his own people”. Using political slogans to shield a regime from accountability doesn’t promote peace, it erases the blood on the dictator’s hands and insults the tens of thousands of Iranians who died by his hand while protesting for their freedom.

Israelophobe Rashida Tlaib helped install a fascist president ostensibly out of concern for an "unarmed" people. Yet here she is unconcerned about the unarmed, oppressed people of Iran.

Hmm, what's missing.

That’s only part of the picture, though.

Missiles parked in underground garages have proved vulnerable.

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Shot and chaser

We're building a portion of the left that's becoming as wildly antisemitic as the far right.

Horrifying history — awful to tell, but demands to be read.

Black Boys Burning. The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School By Grif Stockley

7. Grif Stockley wrote a book about the tragedy in 2021.

Grif Stockley, who has written several books about forgotten Black history im Arkansas. Including a Daisy Bates biography and the 1919 Elaine Arkansas massacre.

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A plaque for the 21 boys lost in the 1959 fire at the Boys school in Wrightsville Arkansas

6. 14 of the 21 boys were wrapped in newspaper and thrown into an unmarked mass grave.

Finally in 2018, a plaque was donated to the site.

In 2019, a memorial was put there