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Again thanks for the conversation.

When I tell you what I'm doing I don't assume you or anyone else they're not. And I'm 66 years old I'm too old to win anything these days. If someone isn't doing it, I'm glad they are.

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FIN/Thanks to SCOTUS, the Voting Rights Act was gutted by the infamous Shelby v. Holder decision and is about to get eviscerated again in Louisiana v. Callais. John Lewis had more voting rights when he got his skull fractured in 1965 than when he died in 2020 at 80. 11/11

The televised beating of these brave, courageous people spurred President Johnson to tell Congress to pass the VRA. At the end of the third march, as Viola Liuzzo was driving marchers home, the KKK shotgunned her to death in her car, the only white woman to die during the civil rights era. 10/11

Fowler claimed he shot Jackson in self-defense. A few weeks later, on March 7, 1965, the first of three Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches took place. Know as “Bloody Sunday” this march was led by Rev. Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton and John Lewis. 9/11

Welp racism it's been winning since 1523 it took TWO WHOLE HOURS before Jackson was taken to a hospital. He died eight days later. 45 years later trooper James Bonard Fowler pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of second-degree manslaughter and served 6 months BECAUSE YOU ALREADY KNOW WHY. 8/11

Troopers began trashing the cafe with their clubs and beating people. Jackson saw a trooper strike his mother, and he lunged for the man. He was clubbed across the face and slammed him into a cigarette machine. Another trooper pulled his pistol and shot Jackson in the stomach. 7/11

The marchers, panicked, ran for safety. Jackson and his mother huddled for safety in a café. When Jackson’s grandfather entered the café bloodied and beaten, the young man tried to take him to a hospital. But they were quickly shoved back by a crowd of club-swinging troopers and terrified marchers.

They didn't get a block before state troopers and the police chief ordered them to leave. Suddenly all the street lights went out, a minister knelt to pray and was beaten in the head by a trooper so OF COURSE other troopers started swinging their clubs and beating the non-violent protesters. 5/11

Jackson, born in Marion, AL tried to register to vote FOUR TIMES but when he saw the disrespect his 80-year-old grandfather received trying to do the same, he turned his anger into action, joining the civil rights movement. He was among more than 200 people participating in a night march in Marion.

But there was a price to pay. Medgar Evers, Vernon Dahmer, Viola Liuzzo, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman paid the ultimate price for the right to register and vote.

The vote is the most revolutionary, non-violent change agent we have. Full stop. 3/11

If it wasn't a literacy test, poll tax, grand father clause or just good old violence, Black people were disenfranchised from the vote despite the passages of the 15th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution. For all intents and purposes, this did not happen until the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 2/11

THREAD🧵#OTD February 18, 1965 deacon and voting rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered during a non-violent protest in Marion, AL. His death sparked the famous "Bloody Sunday" march to Selma, AL.

Don't know about Jimmie Lee Jackson?

Glad you asked. 1/11

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FIN/As my grand dad taught me, "sometimes you gotta put it where the goats can get it."

Please register yourself, your family and friends to vote. Learn your ballot, teach others and take friends to the polls. Volunteer to be a poll judge.

Thanks for the discussion.

Why did Trump win? "Working-class whites are complicit, or at least passive instruments, in their own political and economic disenfranchisement. They forfeited real power and material well-being in return for the psychological wages associated with being white." That's WEB DuBois

Why did Trump won? Trump learned this lesson from LBJ. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on, and he'll give his money to you."

Trump won because racism has been winning since 1526; sexism has been winning since 1919; homophobia has been winning since 1932 and nativism has been winning since 1625. There was very little Harris, who ran a great campaign and did all she could, to overcome that.

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FIN/Biden and my Democratic Party make mistakes but they are working to make my, your, our lives better. Republicans are literally killing us in the streets.

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Trump proposed to cut NIH, CDC, NCI 40%, the elimination of childhood cancer treatment and research and military cancer research? Didn't happen. There were some reductions but no where close to what Trump proposed. Take a look at Public Law 119-75.

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Politics is the art of the possible. President propose, Congress disposes. In the fight for a whole loaf of bread if you can only win half, you take that half and fight for the rest. LBJ got big things done but he had a 295–140 seat advantage in the House and a 68–32 majority in the Senate.

Former COS to Rep. John Lewis and 20 years on the Hill. Biden did a hell of a lot with the smallest voting margin in the minority. Full stop. He only had 5 votes to work with and had a GOP majority for most of that. I don't read minds so I have no idea what you're talking about "what they didnt do."

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO) is formally demanding federal records in the death of Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

Some stunning takeaways from the Les Wexner Epstein deposition today:
-He claims the DOJ & FBI never contacted him, even though a co-conspirator
-He claims he was not close to Epstein even though Epstein‘s wealth was built on his relationship
-Not a single Republican showed up for the deposition.

Basically every military and veterans group I've seen on social media, even the conservative-leaning ones, is melting down about this right now.

For the visual learners…

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Pushed Congress to increase the federal minimum wage. Largest repayment of federal student loans in history. Largest grants to HBCUs in history. Lowest unemployment rate since WWII. Ended the longest war in history. Expanded health care for veterans. Infrastructure reform.