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Black students at the U.S. Air Force Academy Prep School found racist slurs written on their doors.
Their superintendent wasn't having it.
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"Why is it your right to take away my right to choose Planned Parenthood?"
This 16-year-old flawlessly schooled Republican Sen. Jeff Flake:
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Brazil's fascist homophobe president tweets golden shower video
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A Philando Castile memorial fund has wiped out all student lunch debt in St. Paul
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Taiwan reacts after landmark ruling in favor of marriage equality 🏳️🌈🇹🇼😭😍
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Woman allegedly throws ashes of niece who died in police custody at LAPD chief
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"I know you guys are going through the exact same thing. You just don't have the platform. People aren't listening to you."
Parkland students visited a DC high school to speak out for—and with—students of color:
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It's now been 15 minutes and the President still hasn't deleted this tweet. Follow us for continuing live covfefe
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What is the correct pronunciation of
#covfefe
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Cov-FEE-fee
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"Regardless of the color of our skin or where we're from, we're all indigenous to this earth."
@shailenewoodley
on
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
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"We are not going silently into the night. The stakes are too high for the future of this planet."
–Bernie Sanders on the
#NoDAPL
fight
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"I don't know what else to say—I'm nervous!"
American hero
@Simone_Biles
gave the cutest homecoming speech ever:
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John Lewis is not alone. There's a growing list of U.S. representatives refusing to attend Trump's inauguration:
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Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has cancelled his trip to the White House & has a message for Trump on his border wall:
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JUST IN: Hundreds protest in Anaheim after an off-duty LAPD cop grabbed a teenager and fired his weapon during a scuffle on his lawn.
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A K-Pop group beat Justin Bieber at his own game and made history at the Billboard Awards
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"Are you guys authorized to act as immigration police?"
A Minneapolis transit officer was caught questioning a rider's immigration status:
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Undocumented parents arrested at children's hospital while awaiting their infant son's surgery
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It cannot be this difficult to cast 'Aladdin,' you Disney punks
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NOW: Father of 13-year-old boy nearly shot by off-duty cop in
#Anaheim
tells Fusion he is preparing for legal action
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"There goes that relationship."
Trump smirks and scoffs when a BBC reporter takes him to task about torture, abortion and banning Muslims:
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"It's a stunning thing."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi is not mincing words about Trump adviser Steve Bannon:
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"It's not a day of thanks. It's a day of mourning."
These Native Americans reflect on what Thanksgiving means to them:
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Police brutality––not just a U.S. problem.
French Cops allegedly beat and raped a young black man. Now, protesters demand
#JusticeForTheo
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Nathan Phillips would not be intimidated. Hear his response.
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His car stalled. His hands were up. He was shot & killed.
Video shows police shooting of unarmed
#TerenceCrutcher
:
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Dallas mayor says white men with guns scare him more than Syrian refugees:
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Happy 84th birthday to the one and only
@NotoriousRBG
, living legend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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What's the DEAL with lying about Medicare for All??? *bass riff*
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It has now been one hour since the President tweeted this. It is the duty of the press to courageously
#covfefe
this historic new era
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Did you know the nodding meme guy is Robert freakin' Redford???
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"One word says it all. Asian."
This woman says her Airbnb reservation was canceled by a Trump-supporting host because of her race:
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If you're still unsure how Donald Trump feels about powerful women, just watch him refuse to shake Chancellor Angela Merkel's hand:
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Paul Ryan sent security guards to block Planned Parenthood supporters from leaving petitions at his office—and
#PaulRyanSoScared
was born:
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OK seriously though, it's been two hours. Should we be covfefe
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"They babies, man."
These little boys were questioned by cops until a passerby intervened:
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BREAKING: At least 33 House Democrats boycott Donald Trump's inauguration as more members join on
#MLKDay
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"Hope you enjoyed your visit. Back to them dirt floors of your homeland."
DACA recipient says her classmate is trying to get her deported:
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Oklahoma City cops fatally shot a deaf man as neighbors screamed, "He can't hear you!"
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2017 was a bad year for everyone but K-pop boy band BTS, and I'm OK with that
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"If you're a part of this country, you're brothers and sisters with everyone"
This woman shut down Islamophobic harassment and it's pure 🔥:
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Every member of Congress who took money from the NRA and tweeted 'thoughts and prayers' to Las Vegas
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"He's a liar. He cannot be trusted."
Rep.
@MaxineWaters
will say the I-word about Donald Trump if she wants to:
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The guy on the left is ALL of us watching Education Sec. Betsy DeVos refuse to say whether discrimination is allowed under her leadership.
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We're back from Twitter jail and are steadfast in our commitment to tweeting out numbers: 420
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Dick Swett is all over Joe Biden's presidential candidacy
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Jorge Ramos: Donald Trump’s immigration plan is ‘all wrong’ and ‘impossible to achieve’
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JUST IN: President Obama's approval rating hits 60%, with 2/3 of Americans viewing his presidency as a success, according to CNN/ORC poll
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Repealing the Affordable Care Act could leave 13 million American children without health coverage,
@realDonaldTrump
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"I am not going to sit here and let him do that."
Watch how Louisiana's Rep.
@CedricRichmond
shut down Rep. Steve King's white privilege:
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BREAKING: At least 18 members of Congress, including John Lewis, are now boycotting Donald Trump's inauguration
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Massive weenie resigns from Harvard job because he can't stand Chelsea Manning
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"I don't deserve this but I know it came from the President's heart."
–
@VP
Joe Biden on the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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“It’s not fair… I was willing to give my life for this country, and that’s how they repay me?”
This US soldier's father just got deported:
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Trump adviser Stephen Miller argued with CNN's Jim Acosta about the Statue of Liberty and well... just watch what happened.
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Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates just proved you can't escape mansplainers—but you can shut 'em down in front of the U.S. Senate:
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@realDonaldTrump
Remember when you called Kim Jong Un a "pretty smart cookie"? Good times.
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BREAKING: At least two dozen U.S. reps, including John Lewis, will boycott Trump's inauguration. Follow for updates:
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Covfefe scholars: if the President suddenly becomes covfefe then who covfefe
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The Las Vegas tragedy is only the "worst mass shooting in US history" if you ignore the massacres of people of color.
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"No markups, no debate, no public accountability."
@CoryBooker
explains why the GOP's secret healthcare bill is so messed up.
#HoldTheFloor
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BREAKING—New Orleans has taken down a statue of Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard, the 3rd Confederate statue removed in 4 weeks
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"No justice, no peace! Prosecute the police!"
Protesters demand justice following
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If you need any further proof of Donald Trump's thoughts on powerful women, just watch him refuse to shake Chancellor Angela Merkel's hand:
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Appolition is an app that takes users’ spare change to help bail black Americans out of jail.
The app launched a month ago, and has already collected $16,000:
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Activists just put a giant ‘REFUGEES WELCOME’ sign on the Statue of Liberty:
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BREAKING—Chelsea Manning has been freed after 7 yrs in prison. She revealed US abuses of power—and was abused for it
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"The fact that you're telling me I shouldn't do this is the reason why I should."
Chelsea Manning isn't backing down or keeping quiet:
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.
@realDonaldTrump
, a 5-year-old was detained and kept from his mother for hours because of your
#MuslimBan
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Michael Jackson's daughter just used the Grammys to protest the Dakota Access pipeline
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Tashii Farmer was unarmed. Died after being tased, punched, put in a chokehold.
Police said he wouldn't have been charged if he'd survived.
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LGBTQ suicide hotlines report a spike in calls after Trump was elected
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Ilhan Omar has exactly zero time for this lady's nonsense
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WNBA players staged a boycott after being fined for speaking against police brutality
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"It's a dream come true."
As a rising star in pro wrestling, Adeel Alam ditched his bad guy image and decided to become the hero he wanted to see as a kid.
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"If you're losing hope, you're not doing enough."
@MarkRuffalo
is no stranger to activism––and he has some tips on how to effect change:
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"We fought you, we took your land, we signed treaties that we broke."
Vets gave an emotional apology to Native Americans at
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Sally Yates' Wikipedia biography has already been edited to read "She is an American hero."
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This adorable bookworm has read over 1,000 books and was "Librarian for a Day" at the Library of Congress—all at the ripe old age of 4:
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Hey
@TomiLahren
:
Women make 79 cents for every dollar a man makes.
Black women make 63 cents/$.
Latina women make 55 cents/$.
Do better.
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"Please
@SenToomey
, don't kill me."
Protesters were handcuffed and carried out of senate offices after protesting the GOP
#HealthcareBill
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"When I joined the Marines I swore an oath to protect the country."
Dozens of veterans are standing in solidarity w/
#NoDAPL
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#KeithLamontScott
's family says he was just waiting for his son to get home from school.
He’s the 732nd person to be killed by cops in 2016
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Don't be on the wrong side of history 👇🏼
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A black man was killed by Louisiana cops—in front of his girlfriend as she tried to help him.
Now she's being charged for attempted murder:
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"They are working. They're serving in the military. They are...exemplary young people."
@SenSanders
on Trump's misguided
#DACA
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"I will die without coverage."
#IAmAPreexistingCondition
will break your heart — and shows the potential devastation of Trumpcare.
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A transgender boy just won the Texas girls’ state wrestling championship, and people are not happy:
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This officer was filmed kicking a handcuffed man's head, and was also involved—but never charged—in the 2016 shooting death of a black man:
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