Keith Boykin
@keithboykin
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Author, WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE ABOUT RACE? Dartmouth College. Harvard Law. Former White House aide. National Black Justice Coalition co-founder.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2009
Goodbye Twitter! I joined this site 15 years ago in 2009, and the journey has now come to an end. Thanks for the debates, the memories, the follows, and the friendships. You can find me on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Spill, Spoutible, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube.
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Two privileged white guys joking about killing a Black woman.
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In Trump's World:.Obama: Kenyan.LeBron James: dumb.Don Lemon: dumb.Maxine Waters: low IQ.black countries: shitholes.black athletes: SOBs.Black tenants: unwelcome.Black workers: lazy.Central Park 5: guilty.Mexicans: rapists.Muslims: terrorists.Indians: fake.Nazis: very fine people.
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While Trump had you focused.on a caravan of immigrants. an American.killed 12 people in a a bar. an American.killed 11 people in a synagogue. an American.sent pipe bombs to other Americans. an American.tried to shoot up a black church. an American.killed black people at a Kroger.
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600 shot in Las Vegas.40 dead in Cali. wildfires.4 Americans killed in Niger.86% of Puerto Rico without power. And he's tweeting about this.
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Wen did you know Trump was racist?.1. Housing discrimination.2. Central Park 5 lie.3. Birtherism.4. Called Mexicans drug dealers.5. Ban on Muslims.6. Pardoned Joe Arpaio.7. Nazis are “very fine people”.8. Endorsed slave-supporter Roy Moore.9. Called black countries “shitholes”.
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This is how the Secret Service reacted in 1981 when Ronald Reagan was shot.
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Nathan Clark — the father of 11-year-old Aiden Clark, who was killed in a car accident in Springfield, Ohio — tells JD Vance and Donald Trump to stop using his son’s name and the city of Springfield to demonize Haitian immigrants. “This needs to stop now!”
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Remember, if local authorities in Georgia had their way, no one would have ever been charged for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. It took weeks of protest before charges were even brought in the case, 74 days after Arbery was shot and killed in February 2020.
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Anthony Weiner is in prison. Bill Clinton was impeached. Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey & Mark Halperin were fired. Al Franken and Charlie Rose apologized. Glenn Thrush was suspended. Louis C.K. was canceled. When will Donald Trump be held accountable?.
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#ThisIsAmerica.Childish Gambino. Mesmerizing. Disturbing. Violent. Beautiful. Tragic. Materialistic. Melodic. Chaotic.
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A white guy with an AR-15 killed 4 blacks at a Waffle House. Trump never said a word about it. And the media let him slide. A comedian told some jokes at a dinner, and the media are outraged.
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If Obama had spent 5 years lying about George Bush’s birth certificate, had 5 kids from 3 women, and his third wife was an immigrant who worked illegally in the US and posed nude in a magazine, he never would have made it through the first primary.
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Trump hosted Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed Black Lives Matter protesters. Greg Abbott wants to pardon Daniel Perry, who murdered a Black Lives Matter protester. Ron DeSantis is fundraising for Daniel Penny, who killed a Black man on a subway. This is the Republican Party.
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So Kushner was essentially working for Israel, Michael Flynn was working for Turkey, Paul Manafort was working for Ukraine, and Trump was working for Russia. But, hey, America First, right?.
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Who Trump Has Called Racist on Twitter:.Barack Obama.Bryant Gumbel.Tavis Smiley.Toure.Blackish.Django Unchained. Who He Hasn't:.Racists.
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So, as I understand the Supreme Court, the government can arrest and jail you without Miranda rights, execute you even if your lawyer screws up, force you to have a baby, and use tax dollars to support religion. But it can't protect your right to vote or keep you safe from guns.
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If you are:.🔲 Black.🔲 Latino.🔲 Native American.🔲 Asian American.🔲 Muslim.🔲 A woman.🔲 A college student.🔲 Lesbian.🔲 Gay.🔲 Bisexual.🔲 Transgender.🔲 Queer.🔲 Non-European immigrant.🔲 Not rich.🔲 Not a Trump family member. Trump doesn't really care about you.
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So here’s what happened today. The NYPD arrested me at 96th Street and West Side Highway while I was taking photos and video to post to Twitter. I told the police I was with the Press, they walked by me and then turned around and arrested me.
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Judge Kathleen Ryan of Oakland County, Michigan (in the Detroit area) has been removed from the bench for racist comments caught on tape. “If you’re an American Black person, you’re a f***ing lazy piece of s***.”. “I’m not systematically racist. I’m a new racist.”
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Somebody please inform Donald Trump that black unemployment was cut in half under President Obama, that Trump lied about it and denied it when it happened, and then inherited Obama’s economy and took credit for it.
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"If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is white people have a very, very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they can do about it.” . Rest In Power Toni Morrison.
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One day they’re in Madison Square Garden “joking” about Puerto Ricans as garbage and Black people eating watermelons. The next day they’re on CNN “joking” about Muslims being blown up by beepers. Every day we normalize Trump’s crimes and misbehavior, his followers grow bolder.
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Dwyane Wade, who played 15 seasons in Miami and delivered three championships to South Florida, says he has left Florida because his family would not be accepted there.
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Texas Doctor: I got 10 calls yesterday for young people who will die if they don’t get ICU support, but I only have three beds left.
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Voters today chose.-2 new Democratic governors.-2 black lieutenant governors.-2 transgender officials.-A Black Lives Matter lawyer as DA in Philly.-A Sikh mayor in Hoboken.-A socialist in Virginia.-To oust GOP mayor in Atlantic City.-And to expand Medicaid in Maine.#280characters.
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An elementary school. A high school. A college. A church. A synagogue. A grocery store. A post office. A business. A restaurant. A movie theater. A dance studio. A bar. A nightclub. A concert. A military base. A farm. A bank.
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Pete Buttigieg is a 37-year-old mayor of the fourth largest city in Indiana with no federal or state government experience. He was elected with 8,515 votes. Kamala Harris is a 55-year-old US senator from California. She was elected with 7.5 million votes.
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General Mark Milley apologizes for taking part in Trump’s Bible photo op outside the White House: “I should not have been there. It was a mistake.”
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Trump announces reparations for white people. He says he will ask the Justice Department to penalize colleges that consider diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and fine them so he can pay “restitution” to white people who he considers the real victims of racial discrimination.
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A white kid calling black athletes "nigger jocks" may very well be a "youthful mistake," as conservatives are arguing on Twitter, but mistakes have consequences. This is 2019, not 1819. Harvard has every right to rescind that student's admission.
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States Passing Abortion Bans.1. Alabama.2. Arkansas.3. Georgia.4. Kentucky.5. Louisiana.6. Mississippi.7. Missouri.8. Ohio.9. Utah. States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates.1. Mississippi.2. Arkansas.5. Alabama.8. Georgia.9. Ohio.10. Louisiana.15. Kentucky.18. Missouri.26. Utah.
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Obama: I’ve noticed that some men seem to think that Trump's behavior of bullying and putting people down is a sign of strength. That is not real strength. Real strength is working hard, taking responsibility, telling the truth, helping people in need, and standing up for others.
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Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless.
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If a Black man crossed state lines with an illegal AR-15, violated a local curfew in a city where he didn’t belong, carried his gun to a Tea Party protest where he was not welcome, murdered two people and injured a third, and then fled from police, Trump would not defend him.
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If your faith allows you to believe that Donald Trump is a God-fearing Christian and Barack Obama wasn't, your faith is white supremacy.
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Just finished Kanye West’s new album. What does Christianity mean if you support a man who locks kids in cages, grabs women by the pussy, calls racists “very fine people,” lies about a black man’s birth certificate and won’t apologize to the wrongly accused Central Park Five?.
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The husband of a Democrat has an impromptu meeting on a plane with an attorney general and Republicans go apoplectic. A Republican president fires the Attorney General, the FBI Director, the U.S. Attorney and five Inspectors General investigating him and Republicans do nothing.
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1. Trump calls CNN "the enemy of the people.".Cesar Sayoc sends pipe bombs to CNN. 2. Trump tweets about "anarchists and agitators.".Kyle Rittenhouse kills two people in Kenosha. 3. Trump tweets "LIBERATE MICHIGAN.".Six men try to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.
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Chris Cuomo: "You tell me how a president in the middle of a pandemic has got time for this bullshit. On your dime, in the middle of a pandemic, they're selling beans.".
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Six kids from Burundi have disappeared in the nation's capital. This is disturbing.
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Cardi B: Donald Trump is a hustler who is trying to hustle women out of their rights and hustle Americans out of their money. But he’s selling more than watches and sneakers. He’s selling bigotry, misogyny, division, chaos, and confusion.
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Imagine being Black Republican Senator Tim Scott voting against the historic nomination of the first Black woman to the Supreme Court while three of your white Republican colleagues vote for her. 😏.
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Thirty-four years after Donald Trump led a lynch mob to execute him and four other wrongly accused young Black and brown men, Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five has declared victory in the New York City Council race to represent Harlem.
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Members of the exonerated Central Park Five help paint #BlackLivesMatter on the street in front of Trump Tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
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“Today I am announcing that New Zealand will ban all military-style semi-automatic weapons.” - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden.
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Black guy killed by police: “He was no angel. He was arrested for jaywalking when he was 16.”. White guy murders five people: “He was having a rough week.”.
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I knew it. Kyle Rittenhouse is proof that white people can still break the law, carry illegal weapons, shoot and kill people, and get away with it in America by shedding tears and claiming self-defense.
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Elon Musk paid Black people to campaign for Trump in Michigan and then fired them and left them stranded in the streets when they complained about unsafe working conditions for being shipped around in the back of a U-Haul without seats or seatbelts.
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Trump speaks on:.Al Sharpton: conman.Elijah Cummings: racist.Ilhan Omar: racist.Maxine Waters: low IQ.John Lewis: all talk.Obama: Kenyan.black countries: shitholes.black athletes: SOBs.Black tenants: unwelcome.Black workers: lazy.Central Park 5: guilty.Nazis: very fine people.
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Former aide alleges Giuliani:.• Made her work naked.• Made her perform oral sex.• Drank all day and night.• Made racist remarks.• Made sexist remarks.• Made antisemitic remarks.• Didn’t pay his bills.• Sold Trump pardons for $2 million.
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A few reasons people called the cops on black people:.• waiting in @Starbucks.• napping in a @Yale dorm.• renting an @AirBnB.• golfing at @GrandviewGC.• shopping at @NordstromRack.• buying a belt at @BarneysNY .• BB gun shopping at @Walmart.• wearing a hoodie in the rain.
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This is 🔥 🔥 🔥. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) drags Utah’s new Trump-supporting Black Republican (@BurgessOwens) for coming in on his first day and lecturing Democrats about patriotism when Owens voted to overturn the November election even after the Capitol insurrection.
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Trump is gone and going on trial tomorrow. Netanyahu is on trial today. Mitch McConnell is no longer Senate majority leader. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been banned from House committees. Fox News has canceled Lou Dobbs. And people are getting vaccinated. Not bad, 2021.
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“I’m weary. There’s only so many times you can walk in the room and tell someone they’re not coming home tomorrow…I would simply ask you to do something. Because doing nothing, which is what we have been doing, is not working.”. – Louisville, Kentucky Dr. Jason Smith
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George Zimmerman has been arrested like a zillion times, but unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was the “thug.”
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One Diversity Visa entry in 27 years commits a crime and we must change our laws swiftly, but 33,000 gun deaths each year and we do nothing.
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Donald Trump's 16 Accusers:.Kristin Anderson.Lisa Boyne.Rachel Crooks.Tasha Dixon.Jessica Drake.Jill Harth.Cathy Heller.Samantha Holvey.Ninni Laaksonen.Jessica Leeds.Mindy McGillivray.Cassandra Searles.Natasha Stoynoff.Temple Taggart.Karena Virginia.Summer Zervos.
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A Twitter user posted the entire “Super Mario Bros.” movie and got 9 million views before Twitter’s understaffed content moderators finally realized what was going on and took it down more than seven hours later.
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Black players are 70% of the NFL. We have the power to defend Colin Kaepernick and Jemele Hill from the forces that would silence them.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX): “The only reason we’re having this hearing is because somebody got their feelings hurt in a debate.”. “This election is the best example of why y’all are so afraid of [DEI] because then you can’t have a simple-minded, underqualified white man…You’ve
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Wow! Culinary Workers Union local 226 has assembled “the largest canvassing team in Nevada” to knock on doors for Kamala Harris for president.
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The other three officers involved in the killing of George Floyd are scheduled to go on trial on August 23.
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Clarence Thomas has reported between $50,000 and $100,000 in annual income from a real estate company in recent years. There’s just one problem. The company went out of business in 2006. 🧐
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• Indicted on criminal charges. • Ordered to pay $5 million for sexual abuse/defamation. • Ordered to pay a $25 million fraud settlement. • Facing possible charges from Georgia and the DOJ. • Impeached twice. • And he’s the Republicans’ leading candidate for President.
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If Madonna's F-bomb offends you, I just hope you were also offended when Trump bragged about "p***y grabbing."
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Watch what happens when a contractor with a Confederate flag on his truck pulls up at a black family’s home to do some work.
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Sen. Al Franken discovers Trump Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos doesn't know the difference between proficiency and growth.
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(CNN) — A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to turn over all his valuable possessions and his Manhattan penthouse to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers he defamed and to whom he now owes $150 million.
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Trump hates Obama so much he just canceled a program to help people in struggling communities get public works jobs.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson received more votes (53-47) for her Supreme Court confirmation than Amy Coney Barrett (52-48), Brett Kavanaugh (50-48) or Clarence Thomas (52-48).
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Trump thinks homelessness started two years ago. Eric thinks Obama was president in 2008. Don Jr. thinks Kamala Harris can't be black because her father's Jamaican. Ivanka thinks she belongs at the G20 summit. Melania thinks she's the most bullied person in the world.
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Donald Trump wanted us dead. He has never changed and he never will. – Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Central Park Five.
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First thing I see when I arrive in Philadelphia for tonight’s debate.
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Heckler yells at Howard Schultz: “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire asshole!”
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Trump refused to release:.His health care plan.His medical records.His tax returns.His White House visitor logs.His infrastructure plan.A list of foreign visitors to his hotel.Classified docs stolen from the White House. But MAGA demands Kamala produce:.Her 1980s McDonald's W-2.
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Daniel Perry murdered 28-year-old Air Force veteran Garrett Foster. A jury convicted him on Friday. But Texas’s Republican Governor Greg Abbott plans to pardon him because he killed a Black Lives Matter protester. “Law and order” is a lie. It’s open season for racism in America.
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Andrew Lester told police he heard the doorbell ring, picked up his .32 caliber revolver, opened the interior door, “saw a black male,” was “scared to death,” and shot twice within seconds. He was released less than two hours later.
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Mississippi has had:.• Republicans senators for 30 years.• Republican governors for 14 years. And yet Mississippi has the:.• highest poverty rate.• highest infant mortality rate.• 3rd highest unemployment rate.• 3rd highest incarceration rate.• 5th highest uninsured rate
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Eminem will appear at a rally for Kamala Harris tonight in Detroit. Was not expecting that.
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“We don’t have the 10 Commandments posted in our classrooms, but we have free breakfast and lunch.” – Tim Walz, speaking in June
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Name: Ralph Yarl.Age: 16.Race: Black.Location: Missouri.Year: 2023.Action: Rang wrong doorbell.Result: Shot by white man in home. Name: Renisha McBride.Age: 19.Race: Black.Location: Michigan.Year: 2013.Action: Knocked on a door.Result: Shot and killed by white man in home
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Kamala Harris to CNN’s Dana Bash: The true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up, not who you beat down.
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The Republican Party today made it clear as day that a peaceful Black man with a megaphone is more threatening to them than a thousand violent white men with deadly weapons.
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Thousands of protesters in New York’s Times Square chant “Trump is not above the law.”.
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Audience: We love you Usher!. Usher: I love you more, but I love Kamala Harris even more.
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You’ve legalized recreational marijuana, passed universal background checks for guns, expanded LGBTQ protections, tuition-free college for low incomes, free school breakfast and lunch. Tim Walz: What a monster! Kids have full bellies so they can learn.
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Senator Cory Booker: "The president of the United States is a subject of an ongoing criminal investigation. that could end up before the Supreme Court," so any Trump SCOTUS nomination should be "delayed until the Mueller investigation is concluded."
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A Texas judge has ruled that a school district can force Darryl George to cut his natural locs, despite the state’s CROWN Act that prohibits hairstyle discrimination. This is anti-Blackness in a country that they keep telling us has never been racist.
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A group of friends pulled into a driveway to turn around when 65-year-old Kevin Monahan came out of a house and shot at the car, killing 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis. America has more guns than people, and our sick, obsessive gun culture is killing us.
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Imagine sitting in your apartment, lawfully minding your own business, when a police officer illegally breaks in and shoots you. Then the cop blames you for your own death because you ignored her orders in your own house.
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If police officers are willing to assault a uniformed Army lieutenant like Caron Nazario while they’re being recorded on camera, imagine what they’re doing to ordinary civilians when they’re not on camera (and often even when they are being filmed).
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While Texas is busy kicking Black kids out of school with locs, NASA is hiring skilled Black engineers with locs. 🚀.
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Trump says if he’s elected, he would fire Special Counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds.” His first order of business is not the economy, health care, or the border. His primary goal is to protect himself after being indicted twice. That’s why he’s running for president.
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Remember all those smash-and-grab videos of store theft? Now meet the suburban housewife and her husband behind an $8 million nationwide shoplifting ring. 😏
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So George Floyd was so big and strong that he had to be restrained for 9 minutes with a knee on his neck even as he lay on the ground unconscious and handcuffed. But George Floyd was so weak, unhealthy, and fragile that he died from a totally routine police use of force.
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Reporter @EmmaVigeland: Do you think Joe Biden is a socialist?. Trump supporter: Yes. Reporter: How would you define socialism?. Trump supporter: I define socialism as when you bring down your own country, your own race, because he’s not black. 🎥@TheYoungTurks
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