Hasan Kwame Jeffries
@ProfJeffries
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Bklyn Morehouse Duke (not bball, PhD) tOSU. Author Bloody Lowndes & Understanding Teaching CvlRght. Podcast-TeachingHardHistory Audible-Great Figures CvlRghtsMv
Columbus, OH
Joined June 2015
There was a reason why this had been scheduled for a week from today. To provide time to reflect and process. And time to figure out, collectively, the best way(s) to move forward, learning from the past, & with a clear understanding of the new present. So let’s talk, WED Nov 13.
REGISTER! Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries is here to help you make sense of the election. Please join him for a free lecture next week: "Where Do We Go From Here? Fighting for Democracy After the 2024 Election.". Register here: #Election2024 #Vote
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It’s always about white women.
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Dear friends, most of you know about my brother Hakeem - (he's the older one, i'm the prettier one). But you don't know about my brother Dave. Dave was born a year after Hakeem and year before me - when my parents brought me home, I met both my brothers at the same time.
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If this is the last thing I tweet on this here bird app, i’m cool with that. Also, for the record, i’m still our mother’s favorite!
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Colleague: CLEARLY your brother should cut a deal with #McCarthy to help him out. Me: CLEARLY you don’t know my brother!. #SpeakerVote.
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Hakeem, Dave, and I in Brooklyn, upstairs. 🙂 Aunt Bea kept us together 🙏🏽
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Today Aunt Bea dances with the ancestors. And today I say thank you. 🙏🏾.
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Wife: “What are you going to miss about 2024?”. 9 yo dau: “Joe Biden being President.”. 🥲
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I keep hearing “Will @RepJeffries endorse @VP #Harris?. Will he?!?!?. Let explain something - his wife is an #AKA, his momma is an AKA, his parents and his brother (their mom’s favorite) are all #HBCU grads. Trust, he understands the assignment.
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Aunt Bea and Dave - inseparable. 🙂 Love them both! 🙏🏽
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Last night, December 17, 2020, Beulah "Aunt Bea" Blaine, born February 2 1934, joined the ancestors, where i'm sure she is already preparing one hell of feast for all those who have gone before her.
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Ours is the last open seat. And eventually, from the rear of the plane, walks a white dude. He looks at the seat. I look at him. The brother in the aisle looks at me. I look back at the white dude “Last seat huh?”.He nods sheepishly. “We’ve been waiting for you!” .🤣.
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Born during segregation, she beat Jim Crow, creating a pathway for herself to live a rich and rewarding life, and for my brothers and I to do the same. Her life was a blessing, and all that she did to keep the three of us together was too.
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She is one of the 300,000, but she will always be so much more than that - mother to my brother Dave, aunt to my Hakeem and I, grandmother, wife, friend to so many.
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Along the way she became a fierce cook. She loved her kitchen, and had a grand one in Jersey, her soaps, and her politics. Many years later, when she cast a ballot for Obama, she would proudly say "hands that picked cotton picked the president.".
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For those who don’t know, allow me to introduce you to @UncleNearest, the preferred Tennessee Whiskey of freedom loving ladies and gentleman with truly discerning palates.
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I couldn’t resist:. Me: Can i sit in your chair?.@Repjeffries: Yeah, sure. Me: This is nice!.Him: 🙂.Me: Can I call Joe?😀.Him: Get up. Me: How about Kamala!?😄.Him: Get up. Me: Come on, just a quick hello.😁.Him: Get. Up. Me: Fine.Him: Thank you.Me: Nancy?😏.Him:Up!.
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To the artist…. thank you, thank you, thank you! 😌🙏🏽.
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Wait, y’all didn’t learn the alphabet this way growing up?. Teacher: ‘A is for Apple’.Hakeem: 🙋🏽♂️ .Teacher: Yes?.Him: A is for American Values over autocracy!.Teacher: 😳.Me: ✊🏽. 😁.
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Bruh, you can stop shucking and jiving now. They don’t want you.
Donalds: Are we now going to demonize people because of an allegation where the DOJ did not bring charges… If you compare a potential AG Gaetz vs the current AG Garland, we do know that Garland weaponized The Justice Department
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Friend: You headed back to Brooklyn?.Me: Nope!.Friend: Why?.Me: To avoid:. @Repjeffries: You know I was nominated for speaker?.Me: I know🙂.Him:And won 11 votes in a row. Me: I said I know.😑.Him:Uninamous. 212 every time!.Me: Mom, he’s doing it again!😖. Me:So it’ll be a while🤷🏽♂️.
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This election is very much about this too. #Harris2024.
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Me: I’ll be in D.C. You trying to do lunch?.@RepJeffries: Yup. Get on my schedule. Me: Dude?!?! I’m not going to “get on your schedule.”.Him: Get on my schedule. Me: I’m not. Him: You are. Me: Hakeem!.Him: Hasan!.Me: .Him: .Me: Fine😒.Him: Thank you😏.
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On the ride home from school. 9 yo dau: “Daddy, I love you. But if you were running for president, I’d still vote for #Kamala, because you won’t get enough votes to win, and I’m not going to waste my vote. I’ve got Big Brains!”. It’s so simple a 9 yo can figure it out! 😁.
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We reminisced as he drove, talking about all the things Aunt Bea had done for him, and so many others, including Hakeem and I. No tears were shed, just hearty laughs. He shared too how proud she was to have voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Hands that picked cotton. .
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Oh how I wish this was true! 😣.
Kevin McCarthy has broken the record for the number of times one person has lost to Hakeem Jeffries.
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How it all began! . And notice who is sitting in their mother’s lap? It ain’t @RepJeffries!. #Favoritefromthestart😁
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I owe a lot to a lot of people,but I owe everything to two people, my mom and dad. Yesterday,my dad, Marland, passed. I was thinking - now I will never know how he made this magic moment happen. He always refused to say. But then I realized I knew all along - . LOVE🥲🙏🏽
20 yrs ago the #Mets made it to the #WorldSeries against the Yankees - the 2000 #SubwaySeries. I was writing my diss in Alabama. Called my brother @RepJeffries - a Yanks fan - and said if you get tickets, holla! All I need is 24hrs -the Mitsubishi Mirage can get me there in 16!.
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I don’t respect the NYPD, and this is why.
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The #BattleofMontgomery should be re-enacted every year on Juneteenth, starting with a swim to the dock and concluding with a white chair ceremony.
In Montgomery, Alabama. These thugs jumped a black men, who was just doing his job. My manager @ampharris sent me this. He added the music. I don’t condone violence, however there are exceptions. I will go do a charity concert for the heroes with legal fees. I stand with us✊🏾
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Riding to the D.C. airport, Uber driver…. Him: Excuse me, are you related to -.Me: Nope. Him: Because you look just like -.Me: Nope. Him: But you even sound just like -.Me: Nope. Him: 😐.Me: 😐. Me: Wait, are you talking about @RepJeffries? 🤔.Him: Yes! 😁.Me: Nope! . 🤭.
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Dave called yesterday in the early evening, much earlier than he ever does. I answered with a bit of hesitation and dread. He was speeding to Orlando. Aunt Bea was in the hospital. She had contracted Covid. "Today is Beulah Blaine's last day," he said.
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As Dave neared Orlando, the calls were coming more frequently, so we signed off. "Thanks, Hasan." Dave said. "You don't know how much i needed this." "That's what brothers do," I said. We said our '"I love you's" and hung up.
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Dave texted about an hour later - "Mom passed." He had made it safely to Orlando, but not in time to see her off.
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She grew up in rural North Carolina, picking cotton as a child. She liked to tell how Aunt May, who i just assumed was her sister, used to pee in the cotton satchel to make it heavier so she could make weight. Her life was an amazing window into the Black experience.
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SCOTUS said that presidents can do whatever the f@ck they want. I hope Joe is just getting warmed up!!!!!.
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We stayed on the phone for an hour plus as Dave raced to Orlando to say goodbye, interrupted by calls from the hospital checking on his distance. He shared that he went up a few weeks ago, just to see her, despite being too busy to do so. "The best decision of my life," he said.
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This would a good thing. 😌.
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“Girls, meet Shirley. Shirley, meet the girls.”. 😁✊🏽
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I got on the schedule! I’m off to see the wizard.😏. And @Repjeffries will probably tell me to stop tweeting. And I’ll tell our mom to tell him to stop bossing me around. And he’ll tell me to stop telling mom. And I’ll tell him to stop telling me what to do. Like ol’ times!😁.
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@robsmithonline It not your job to be the Blackface for white supremacists, and yet. 🤷🏽♂️.
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I think I’m gonna need a larger name plate on my desk. 😐
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When I talked to Dave later, he said Aunt Bea's spirits were lifted by my visit and the "Congressman's call." . Aunt Bea carried on, continuing to live life, enjoying visits with Dave and her grands. Until yesterday.
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Aunt Bea & Uncle Dave also took us with them on their weekend jaunts to Atlantic City-where the three of us spent hours hanging out on the boardwalk & at arcades. This was pre-cell phone, so Aunt Bea just turned us loose with a only a time to come back. Imagine that.
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I sat bedside for about 15 mins, long enough to hold her hand while I answered,"yes, I was still teaching; yes, my girls are all doing great; and yes, Trump is awful." Then left o catch my plane. At the airport, I texted Hakeem, and from DC or NY, he called Aunt Bea.
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If they call us “COLORED” in public, you know what they’re calling us in private. And just tell us how you really feel Brian @kilmeade. I’m sure @foxandfriends won’t mind. And @LawrenceBJones3, the ancestors have questions. And so do we. 😡.
Fox News Alert: @foxandfriends Goes Full Racist. BRIAN: She will not show up for the Prime Minister's joint session of Congress…She'd rather address in the summer a sorority, a COLORED sorority, like she can't get outta that!. @LawrenceBJones3 said nothing. [h/t @SurgTechGirl15]
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She also shared how she would stand in the field and stare at the horizon, wondering what was beyond, and if she would ever get to see what was. Well she did. She joined the exodus to New York city, and worked in Harlem before settling in Brooklyn and Jersey w/ Uncle Dave.
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Dave woke Aunt Bea, whose tv was tuned to MSNBC or maybe it was CNN, and told her she had a surprise guest. When i walked in, Aunt Bea squinted and stared, and then said "Hakeem!?!" 😂 Dave and I cracked up. "No," I said, "it's Hasan, the baby." 😁.
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But Dave's mom, Beulah Blaine, Aunt Bea to us, made sure "her boys" still spent time together. We never missed a birthday together. And during school breaks and summers, she'd drive back to Brooklyn to pick Hakeem and I up so we could spend weekends and weeks in Jersey.
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Those were glorious days. We'd play video and role playing games inside the house (yep, that's how three Black boys from Brooklyn got down in the early 80s) and run around and ride bikes outside on their expansive, wooded corner lot.
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In recent years, Aunt Bea's health began to fade. But when you grow up in the Jim Crow South you know how to fight and survive. And that she did. But last year, the fight was wearing on her.
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Last March, when i spoke at Flagler in St. Aug, Florida, Dave drove up from South Florida just to kick it. He said Aunt Bea, who lived a hour or so North in Orlando with his sister Cynthia and niece Tori wasn't doing well and suggested a visit from me might boost her spirits.
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They had talked then (socially distanced), but they wouldn't get to talk now. Aunt Bea was already no responsive.
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And they say she’s afraid to talk to the press?. GTFOOHWTBS!!!!. She hit them with the ‘I heard you were looking for me? Well here I am. What you got?”. #HarrisForPotus2024.
This was the most BADASS 1 minute and 50 seconds I have ever seen in my life.
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Hakeem majored in political science. I majored in history. And Dave, who eventually finished school back home at Rutgers Newark, majored in both. We now spent less time together, but the time we spent was still rich. It was also during this time that i learned more about Aunt Bea.
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Dave's parents owned the home we all grew up in - 185 Rogers avenue in Brooklyn, a three story, multi-family house in the heart of Crown Heights. For the first 7 or so years of my life, Dave lived on the ground floor, Hakeem & I on the third floor. We played together night & day.
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I was down but I had to catch 6am flight the next day out of Orlando. Dave said we could still pop in; Aunt Bea slept irregularly. So we left St. Aug at 3am, Dave in the lead, me following in my rental, and made it to Aunt Bea a little after 4.
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Wait, so if Dems don't bail #Kevin out, and this procedural vote to vacate passes, and then an actual vote to remove #McCarthy passes, then we're back to #Dems voting unanimously a million times for @RepJeffries for #Speaker while the whole nation watches?!?! I can't again.
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Then college came. Hakeem headed off to Binghamton first. I knew i was going to Morehouse in two years, so i convinced Dave to head there, which he did. I followed him a year later.
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Meanwhile at the post office:. Me:I’d like to buy a sheet of stamps.Black clerk:(Pulls out a sheet of a lady dressed in red).Me: Wait. Is that? Is that Nancy Reagan?😳. Her:😐.Me:😐. Her:Just say no, huh?.Me:Just say hell no!. Her:🤭.Me:🤨. Then…. Us:🤣🤣🤣. (Left w/ John Lewis).
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High school changed nothing. Christmas break, Aunt Bea would drop Dave off to spend a few days at our house, which my parents bought around the corner from Rogers Ave a year or two after Dave moved. Or she'd make the 3 hour round trip to pick us up.
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Then Dave and his parents moved to Englewood Cliffs, NJ; a world away as far as we were concerned. But we stayed in touch, alternating calling each other on weekends, when it was cheaper to talk, but even then we could only talk for 30 minutes before we had to hangup.
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Editor:Now you’re definitely going to have to win a Pulitzer to keep up with your brother😁. Me:Knowing my luck it would be a Pulitzer for Biography!😫. Her: What’s wrong with that?. Me:It would be a biography about him!😖
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There are accidents in politics, but never coincidences. Never.
Feels important to note that the president of the union leading the port strike has a long-standing relationship with Trump and is causing major damage to a roaring economy five weeks before the election.
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Here’s the theory: . White people, ESPECIALLY white men, won’t sit between two Black men unless there is absolutely no other option.
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And this is why I’ve gotten no work done today, nada, zero, zilch, and I’ve enjoyed every minute! . #BattleofMontgomery.#RiverBoatRumble.#BlackAvengers!.
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For those who don’t know, allow me to introduce you to @UncleNearest, the preferred Tennessee Whiskey of freedom loving ladies and gentlemen with truly discerning palates.
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This I can confirm.
Hakeem Jeffries is about to become the Republican Party’s worst nightmare.
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Today I turned half a hundred! 😳 Which just plain sounds crazy. 😁. But in truth it’s just another sign.that God is good. 🙏🏽😌.
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I’m willing to concede that after last night @RepJeffries probably gained some ground on favorite son status. However, in anticipation…. Me:Hi mom!.Mom:Hasan? Where are you?.Me:Chicago!.Mom:You went all that way just to support your brother?.Me: I sure did!.Mom:Ahh🥹. 😏♟️.
I asked Future Speaker Bae Hakeem Jeffries two questions. 1) Tell me about a personal interaction with Vice President Kamala Harris that meant a lot to you . 2) Is Hasan Jeffries your mom’s favorite son? . #ThirstForDemocracy #BaeFest
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WE’LL NEVER FORGET THIS MOMENT 🥹. An all-Black podium graces #OlympicGames gymnastics for the first time ever.
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Mom: This one! This is my favorite. 😌.Me: So your favorite picture is at your favorite son’s graduation. Cool😏.Mom: Hasan!!!.@RepJeffries: 🤦🏽.Me:What? 🤷🏽♂️. Then all of us:🤣🤣🤣🤣. (Thanks everyone for your kind and encouraging words. Humbled and grateful🙏🏽)
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Her: “I don’t think this is common knowledge.” 😳. Every Black person in America: “No shit.” Smh.
A new investigative report reveals that while the federal government did grant land to the formerly enslaved after the Civil War, it also took that land back and returned it to white southerners. @IAmAmnaNawaz speaks to @AlexiaCampbell to learn more.
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You can watch baseball for the rest of your life and never see this again, ever. (Best angle for the steal of home here). smh.
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She’s not going back either. And I’m with her! ✊🏽. #HarrisWalz2024 .#DNCConvention2024 .#Kamala4President2024
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Sometimes, when the world is watching, it’s those #BiggieSmalls bars with impeachment managers from the House floor. But other times, when no one is watching, it’s those #JohnDenver bars with the 6 yo from the parking lot. And if you don’t know, now you know!#CountryRoads😉
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In my 13 yo dau’s entire sports life, she has only known Black QBs at The Ohio State University - CJ Stroud, Justin Fields, Dwayne Haskins. Today, with OSU only up 7-0 in the first half:. Her: “I don’t know about this white quarterback experiment.”😑. 😳🤣.
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And boom, there he is:.Row 5, aisle. Me: Hey brother!.Him: Hey. Me: that window open?.Him: Yep!. I take the seat, and we wait….
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The 7 yo dau was supposed to be asleep, but instead she was in her room learning!😁. And “the book,” I Am Ruby Bridges, you know the one these white people out here banning. But you can’t keep the past from the people. Nope. We won’t let you - the children won’t let you. ✊🏽
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You need read no further than the opening line:. “Lawsuits from white farmers have blocked $4 billion of pandemic aid that was allocated to Black farmers in the American Rescue Plan.”. White farmers, yes white farmers, allege racial discrimination. Please!
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Underestimate teachers at your own peril!.
Harris Walz campaign reveals the profession that made the most donations in last 24 hours: TEACHERS.
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Next time I’m in DC, me and @RepJeffries gonna #BlackMenFrolic down the whole damn National Mall!. Me: Let’s go. Him: You’re crazy.Me: Come on.Him: No.Me: Just this one time. Him: I said no. Me: Bruh?!?. Him:.Me:. Him: Ok, let’s do this!. #staytuned!!!!.
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It’s only a matter of time before:. Me: Hello?. Voice: Please hold for a call from the new leader of the Congressional Democrats, the right honorable congressman from New York, @RepJeffries. Me: Hakeem I know it’s you, we have the same voice!😣.
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Friends, I think we’ve been played. 🧐.
Michael Cohen just testified that his main press contacts in order to get positive stories published about Donald Trump were Katy Tur, Maggie Haberman, and Chris Cuomo
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Team Shuck and Jive still waiting for their DEI assignment.
I'm still waiting on Trump to appoint someone from his Mar-a-Lago kitchen.
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Friend: What’s it like when your brother calls now?😃.Me: Painful!😣. @RepJeffries: Hey, what are you doing?.Me: Nothing. What are you doing?🙂.Him: Saving the Republic!. 😒.
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I just read the @cspan transcript: . @Repjeffries: I pretty sure this makes me our mother’s favorite. @SpeakerPelosi: You would think so. Him: Definitely!.Her: And you would be wrong! The youngest is always the favorite. 😁😁😁.
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Reading my African American history course student evaluations. And waiting for it. And waiting for it. And then BAM!. There it is. Like clockwork. That one student rant about my African American history class being about African American history. #BlackHistoryTax.
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Every morning:. 7 yo dau:Can I sleep for 2 more minutes?.Me: Sure!😄.Also me 30 secs later: Time to wake up!😏.Her: That wasn’t 2 mins.😕.Me: Sure it was. Now let’s go.🙂. This morning:. Her: Can I sleep for 2 more mins?.Me: Sure!😄.Her: “Alexa, set the timer for two minutes.”.😳.
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So this went live today on Why we must confront hard historical truths (Hasan Kwame Jeffries | TEDxOhioStateUniversity) via @TEDTalks.
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Gate agent announces a full flight. I board halfway through (mid B’s for those who know. And as per my custom, I look for the brother sitting alone.
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