Darlene McDonald
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Darlene McDonald, writer and author. Director of 1Utah Project We must Educate to Eradicate Racism in Utah. #eracism
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Wow. Sen Sheldon Whitehouse just said they are looking into if some Senators deliberately slowed down the counting by objecting to allow time for the mob to reach the Capitol, and THAT was the basis of Trump and Giuliani's calls. Therefore, could've been coordinated. That's news.
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Guys. Lindsey Graham won't be Chairman of the Judiciary Committee!
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@SpencerJCox
For everyone who thought J-Lo and Shakira's outfits were too racy. I give you Adam Levine Super Bowl 2019.
Somebody tell that man to put some clothes on!
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What is the biggest threat to American democracy?
ANTIFA
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@mschultz_12
We have a similar problem! We had a contract employee that we hired 7.5 years ago. We had to let him go after his contract expired and we didn’t renew it due to bad job performance. Turned out he lied about an impending crisis that cost the lives of a few hundred thousand of our
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As a popular Sanders surrogate, I'm very glad
@AOC
said this. We also must keep in mind this primary season, we cannot participate in tactics that would drag eventually nominee so low that a vote for them is unfathomable. What is seen cannot be unseen.
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@JonathanTurley
Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was arrested twice: in 1927 during a Ku Klux Klan riot, and in 1976 over code violations at a building he owned in Maryland. Turns out that the evasion of accountability may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural
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@keithboykin
Don’t stop there:
• Banned books by Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou
• Banned teaching of Black History
• Closed DEI offices
• Said slaves benefited from slavery
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The fact people cannot understand that forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy conceived by rape to term against her will continues the violation of that woman’s body beyond the actual rape is astounding to me. Rape is not about sex. It’s about control. And so is this.
#SCOTUS
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When Jesse Owens returned to the U.S from Berlin after winning 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, President Franklin D Roosevelt wouldn’t invite him nor any Black medal winners to the White House.
86 years later some still think, there’s such a thing as, “the wrong American.”
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"Being president doesn't doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are. And who we vote for reveals who we are." - Former First Lady Michelle Obama
#DemConvention
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Before Colin Kaepernick knelt on a knee, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised a fist. Thank you
@TiffanyDCross
for having Mr. Smith on your show. Fan girl moment for me too.
#Respect
🤜🏾🤛🏾🏃🏾♂️🏃🏾♀️
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The
#WisconsinPrimary
ruling just another example why this election isn't about M4All, GND, Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. IT'S ABOUT THE COURTS.
We lose the courts NONE OF IT MATTERS. A conservative court STRIKES DOWN your progressive agenda. Get it yet?
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For the record, Eric Holder and The Obama Administration did turn over documents. So, as usual. Ted Cruz is lying.
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Dear, White people. Let me introduce you to Jim Crow. Imagine every obstacle to prevent you from voting. What do you do?
You do what Black folks have been doing since the founding of this country, even after 15A & 19A failed to guarantee it. You do whatever is necessary to vote.
I mailed a birthday card with a 1st class stamp at a Post Office on July 28 hoping for delivery on August 1.
It arrived today August 15.
It took 18 days to travel 3 miles.
Last year’s birthday card arrived the day after I mailed it at the same Post Office.
Vote early.
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Every time I see people like Mike Lee and Marjorie Taylor Green talk about cutting Social Security and Medicare, there are seniors 65+ in the room with them cheering. Help me understand this. Do they not realize that they are on Social Security and Medicare?
#utpol
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.
@RepSwalwell
@RepAdamSchiff
@SpeakerPelosi
Who's sending the Trump campaign the bill for using The White House for a campaign event? Who's going to jail for the violations of the Hatch Act for the past 4 days?
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@thedailybeast
Can you also report how he ignored Secret Service direction to turn around. This should not be allowed as he puts the Vice President’s life in danger because it unnecessarily takes secret attention away from the Vice President in order to deal with moron.
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**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
Today, I announced that I'm preparing to launch a campaign to challenge
@RepBurgessOwens
this November in
@UtahDemocrats
@wdcutah
#UT04
#utpol
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@TX_WalkerRanger
@JoeBiden
Let me introduce you to my friend, Darwin. Nice fellow. He has a sister named Karma.
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This is a good read to know what was planted where, and why. Once upon a time, things were done, thoughtfully.
#RoseGardenMassacre
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Mitch McConnell held SCOTUS seat. Rs held nose & voted Trump after Access Hollywood. He nominated Neil Gorsuch 10 days after inauguration. Swing vote Kennedy pushed for Kavanaugh. Coney Barrett rushed, weeks before elections after death of RBG. This was all done for this moment.
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If this moment looked odd to you, it's because you don't have authoritarian tendencies. Compare ceremonial guards swinging open the Kremlin's golden doors to reveal Russian President Putin to Donald Trump's use of Marines in the White House for Naturalization Ceremony.
#RNC2020
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Landed in Philadelphia, hailed a taxi and guess what the driver was listening to? Yup, you've guessed it.
#ImpeachmentTrials
. Senators are making a mistake if they think the American people aren't paying attention to this.
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@marwilliamson
@TulsiGabbard
I'm not the Democratic establishment and I say she's wrong. We have an election to win. A Supreme Court to protect. A democracy to hold. We have 0 time for this bullshit. Not rocket science what's going on here. It's time for lower tier to exit stage left. Not about you or her.
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@keithboykin
We ain’t falling for the okie doke
The fact that they are doing this after the racist comments about Haitian immigrants and after their standard bearers wouldn’t look at V.P. Harris or say her name during the debate is to believe Black people are stupid.
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There's a saying for this. It goes something like this. "No sh*t."
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
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@csmaddox2008
@VoteTrevorLee
Of course it is. He’s an uncurious unintelligent xenophobe….among other things.
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If you want to put George Floyd's addiction on trial, then please explain why police officers are trained to use Noxolone? If Floyd had enough drugs to overdose or suffer a heart attack, why not administer CPR or allow the trained EMT at the scene to do so? Why not take a pulse?
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The Trump Foundation got shut down for self-dealing. Trump, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. are banned for life from serving on the board of any charity in NY.
That is all. Carry on.
Trump is now openly threatening to investigate Obama: "We want to find out what happened with the last Democrat president. Let's look into Obama the way they've looked at me ... they could look into the book deal that President Obama made. Let's subpoena all of his records."
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@Brandon1Sutton
@DidiFrench
@ryanstruyk
@MalcolmNance
@CNN
The audacity to become president, give people healthcare, save the auto industry, save the economy, improve our relationship with our allies, kill Osama bin Laden, not have a bj in the oval, and just being cool af
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We lost our son Marcus when he was 3 years old, 28 years ago. In my mind he's still 3, even though his twin is 31 years old now. You never stop grieving.
Biden should stop grieving his son. Front page. Major "news."
The NYT is broken. It's run by broken people.
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This is literally inviting the guy who broke into your house install your home security system.
Hogan Gidley says Trump and Lavrov will talk about "election security" 👀
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@jelani9
I'm going to admit, this really pisses me off. The whole time Sen Harris was running, all we heard was,
"Kamala Harris is a cop" and "she's got to do a better job explaining her time as prosecutor." She was formidable.
Sometimes, we can't seem to get out of our own damn way.
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@keithboykin
Besides the obvious ones already pointed out (such as Trump growing a brunette ponytail), look at the eyes, these are duplicated images. AI simply smoothed the lines on the photos to make them look like different women. They are not.
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@phil_lyman
Examples of
birthright citizenship 🖍️
naturalized citizenship 💙
and chain migration ⚪️
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@DailyMail
Now is a good time to switch to Uncle Nearest, since the Kentucky-based owners of Jack Daniel’s Distillery never took the time to learned its roots.
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@LizMair
She's the second African American woman to get elected to the Senate in history of this country. No small feat. Was elected state wide TWICE in state that has the 5th largest economy in the world. What do you mean, not ready for prime time?
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"You didn't just erase a photo. You erased a continent."
@vanessa_vash
Greta Thunberg slams Associated Press photo that cropped out Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate
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@ajzeigler
@TheRickWilson
In other words, "I'm going to vote for a man that goes against everything I stand for in life and could probably do me economic harm, because a pundit on Twitter, who I personally don't know and will probably never meet offended me."
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Herschel Walker is an example of the assumption that Black people vote for Black people simply because they're Black.
Herschel Walker is an example of using a Black man against another Black man thinking the only qualification necessary is the color of his skin.
"They decided they were gonna give up all the energy. By him going out, giving up all the energy, now we're not energy independent anymore, which started the whole downfall" -- Herschel Walker's analysis of energy policy doesn't show a grasp of details or really anything at all
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Whatever happened to the Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham election interference investigation in Fulton, County, Georgia?
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@MrGameHunter
@SpencerJCox
and you paused the video and took a still photo. What does that say about you?
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@SikhFeminist
For Donald Trump who will then slaughter all of you. Congratulations. Who’s your next of kin?
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@RafaelAnchia
Sir, I just want to take this opportunity to say, Thank you. Thank you for 1. Doing your homework 2. Speaking Truth to Power 3. Doing the right thing. Your questioning was spot on and powerful. This was a teaching moment and you took it. This brought tears to my eyes. Thank you.
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If anyone tell you that what went down in Cottonwood Heights was caused by protesters, they're lying. Protesters came to exercise their 1A Rights and to dance. To Frankie Beverly no less. CWHPD came determined to shut it down, and came for war. They provoked a fight. And got one.
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@elonmusk
Dude.
1. That’s not Kamala Harris
2. Vladimir is Donald’s best friend
3. Donald wrote love letters to the North Korean dictator
4. Victor Orbán visit Donald.
Care to revise tweet? Yes I said tweet.
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Also, in normal times, Mike Lee would be announcing his resignation from the Senate because his Party made him. Not only does he not win re-election, but he takes the rest of the ticket down with him. Remember
@RepBurgessOwens
and
@RepChrisStewart
went along, too.
#utpol
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Homeownership is tied to personal wealth, which is tied to generational wealth. This is what is looked at when we study generational wealth gap.
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@ChrisCillizza
You do realize that she's running a rapid campaign. In the short time that she has, and the short time that she's been at the top of the ticket, she's managed to put this election back into play for Democrats. That requires strategy and focus.
With democracy on the line, that's
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Yeah. I'm going to comment (as if it matters). Looking at this picture, one understands why Royals had issues. They outshine. No need to get into history of the British Empire and who's really Black and how Black🤮 I'm going to be happy for
#HarryandMeghan
#YouGoGirl
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14 year olds walking around saying ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ get a chuckle from adoring parents. If another kid comes up and says, ‘Black Lives Matter,’ well, now we need to ban books, fire teachers, and pass a bill to prohibit such ‘hate’ speech. People are in need of soul searching.
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"The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust." - Alexander Hamilton -Federalist 65
Next they will argue the shooting on Fifth Ave was not premeditated.
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Mitt Romney was right. Russia is and has always been a geopolitical foe that every U.S President has kept at arm's length. Except one.
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56 years ago it would have been illegal for my husband and I to marry. To do so, we would’ve had to ‘feel out’ a clergy willing to break the law. It was illegal in the pro-family state of Utah, too.
Planning our 2017 wedding, I reached out to a young lady to do the rum cake for
🧵
🎂🏳️🌈 As a bakery owner, I’ve made literally thousands of wedding cakes.
In all those consultations, I’ve never once had a heterosexual couple vaguely refer to their wedding as an “event” or emailed in advance to make sure it was safe for them to come in for a cake tasting.
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Donald Trump mocked a disabled reporter and his supporters cheered and laughed.
Joe Biden elevated a young man with a disability, put him on a national stage and we celebrate him.
Utah, the state with family values as its mantra, which of these men speak for you?
#utpol
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And DeSantis is the great great grandson of Italian immigrants that left that country for the open border country of America in 1904, landed on Ellis Island and walked through to find work.
I wonder how restful the spirit of his ancestors are.
Marco Rubio goes on Fox News to say 'Hey Guys, I'm the other complete asshole politican from Florida and I will happily lie to you about immigration even though my parents fled Cuba'
@SenRubioPress
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Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Burgess Owens, Madison Cawthorn, Lauren Boebert, Devin Nunes, Louis Gohmert, Paul Gosar, and Mo Brooks are just a few people who should not be sitting members of Congress.
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Donald Trump is a fascist.
It's time to face the facts. Donald Trump is a fascist. Use the word.
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@ArthurSchwartz
@seungminkim
Respectful, Rand Paul voted against paid leave for his constituents and Americans. He will now be receiving paid leave as he self-quarantine. The one thing Rand Paul should not be called ever again is Senator.
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President Trump doesn't read his Presidential Daily Briefings. Why on earth would anyone believe he'd read a transcript?
Sorry, I meant to say
#wouldnt
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On February 6 (last night) Utah State Board of Education Member Natalie Cline posted a flyer of a couple of players on the girl’s basketball team at Cottonwood Height’s High School with the heading, ‘Girls’ basketball...’The post was to imply that one the player is not a 'girl'.
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@notcapnamerica
They should do not well any morning they wake up and say I’m voting for the white supremacist for president.
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Country over ego. Country over party. I have so much respect and admiration for Ms. Hill. She was a reluctant witness. She was someone who never wanted to be where she found herself in 1991. She has more guts than most elected officials.
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So, how did your questioning of Merrick Garland during his Confirmation Hearing go?
Oh, wait….
We must prevent the Supreme Court from becoming a political body.
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Mike Lee was one of the Senators Trump called on January 6th.
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@JaymalGreen
Reading is hard, I know. But it says, FIRST TIME HOMEBUYERS. Obama did a similar program after the housing market crash. It’s how bought my home.
Pay attention and stop being anti-black for the sake of white supremacists who don’t give a damn about you.
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@MichaelSteele
You haven’t missed it and no news org has even mentioned if they’d asked and have been rebuffed. Literally, nothing. Nothing.
The only thing Trump has ever said that was true was that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single voter. Every other thing out of
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I went to watch a movie. By the time it was over, 9 people were gunned down in Dayton, Ohio. How many more will be dead by the time I have my morning coffee?
#daytonshooting
#ElPasoShooting
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@SpencerJCox
Governor, this is the man you endorsed for president.
You must start with the man in the mirror
Ask him to change his ways
And no message could've been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change.
#maninthemirror
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There is literally NO evidence that Democrats are bad for Utah. NONE ZERO. ZILCH.
A 🧵
It has been Democrats and environmentally conscious activists that kept sounding the alarm on the Great Salt Lake, Lake Powell, and the Green River that got Utah included in the Inflation
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If you look in the comment section of David Archuleta's post, you will find many current elected officials in
#utah
. Many of these same people are proud members of the Church David left in 2021 (according to People). The comments are insulting, homophobic, bigoted, and berating.
We’ll go to
#HellTogether
… 🤝
My new single “Hell Together” comes out March 28th. Pre-save it now:
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Yes. Yes they can. FINALLY workers are waking up…particularly White workers are realizing that going against Unions was an anti-Black movement that resulted in them voting against their economic best interest.
So let me get this straight: John Deere is projected to make $5.7 billion in profits this year, but the company can’t afford to raise wages and benefits for workers?
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#Utah
. The state where a 15 year old will be forced to continue a pregnancy even its a result of a rape, but can’t use social media because lawmakers feel it might cause them emotional harm.
Make it make sense.
#utleg
#utpol
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I love seeing this. If you haven’t seen Rick Steves ‘The Story of Fascism in Europe,’ you must. If you’ve seen it, then you shouldn’t be surprised by this endorsement.
He knows. Trust him.
As a traveler, I'm both a proud American and a citizen of the world — and I've got a few thoughts on this coming election.
This election is deeper than partisanship. It's far more than Republican versus Democrat. In the future, big challenges like pandemics, refugees, and
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We’re having the wrong conversation. Instead of discussing if 10-year-old victims of rape should be forced to give birth, we should discuss what happens to the body of a 10-year-old that isn’t developed enough to sustain childbirth. Let’s discuss the condition called fistula.
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@ArthurSchwartz
@seungminkim
And after looking at your page, I forgot to add, you racist POS, to my last tweet.
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Donald Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers. That’s the way the Rule of Law is supposed to work. A Banana Republic would be that there’s a separate set of laws for people like Donald Trump that allows him to get away with crimes that others cannot.
#RuleofLaw
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