A Few Truths

they only use the "it's your city" toward black people when we're pissed. Any other time they're trying to "take their country back"

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Nubyjas Wilborn (@nwilborn19) April 27, 2015

Y'all criticize the spark while refusing to acknowledge the fuel. This did not start today. Or this month. Or this century. You will deal.

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Elle Elle Cool Bae. (@spokenELLE) April 27, 2015

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Worth posting again. Because: WELP. http://t.co/uGXSP4emt5

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Awesomely Luvvie (@Luvvie) April 27, 2015

This. ALL OF THIS. #BlackLivesMatter http://t.co/Yk93zQpg08

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Awesomely Luvvie (@Luvvie) April 28, 2015

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In a moment like this you're at home worrying abt some fucking televisions, and I'm praying my two Black sons never get killed by the cops.

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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) April 28, 2015

Sleepless over damaged cars? No Sleepless worrying if our black kids make it home alive? Yes #Baltimore #America http://t.co/7L0QzIPWp1

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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) April 28, 2015

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Police used tear gas on a group of high schoolers outside my building today. Unarmed high schoolers. Carrying textbooks & wearing backpacks.

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Vaidehi Joshi (@vaidehijoshi) April 27, 2015

Folks wringing their hands abt burned property in #Baltimore who didn't give a damn abt citizens killed by police can STFU #BlackLivesMatter

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britni danielle (@BritniDWrites) April 27, 2015

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White folks trying to tell The black community that "Violence is not the answer" Has to be one the most hypocritical things ever

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Negest (@AwakendLioness) April 27, 2015

JESUS CHRIST BALTIMORE HAVE YOU NO DECEN...shit this is University of Kentucky http://t.co/kxQVDWsM7l

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FriendlyBlackHottie (@HollyGoNightly1) April 27, 2015

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Why aren't we talking about this looting or property damage? Oh right, it's over a game & not a dead Black person. http://t.co/iwB9DKEPxC

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Dante Barry (@dantebarry) April 26, 2015

Respectability Rage Righteousness Ratchetness Code of laws Code of the streets It doesn't matter. You will kill us and justify our murder.

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Rahiel Tesfamariam (@RahielT) April 27, 2015

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#FreddieGray is getting lost in all of this. Folks are not protesting in #Baltimore for no reason. His death was the spark.

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April (@ReignOfApril) April 28, 2015

When will justice reign down and break the proverbial spines of the THUGS on the police force who killed #FreddieGray? Are they on curfew?

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Aisha C Moodie-Mills (@AishaMoodMills) April 28, 2015

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and then you call breaking a window “violence,” but when police KILL PEOPLE you say “unfortunate incidents.”

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Mychal Denzel Smith (@mychalsmith) April 27, 2015

if breaking a man’s spine, or shooting a woman standing in a crowd can be justified, pretty much any police act can/will be.

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Mychal Denzel Smith (@mychalsmith) April 28, 2015

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History

President Obama meets with new U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the Oval Office

The Power Of ObamaCare: Millions Happy With Their Health Coverage

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Steve Benen: ACA Scores Big On Customer Satisfaction

When the Affordable Care Act’s Republican critics were making all kinds of dire predictions about the inevitable “failures” of “Obamacare,” one of the charges was that American consumers will end up hating the coverage they receive through the reform law. And for those ACA detractors looking for something, anything, to bolster their contempt for the law, I’m afraid I have more bad news: Americans who received coverage through Obamacare tend to be quite pleased with the results.

Obamacare customers nationally also tended to be more satisfied with their plans bought in 2014 than people who primarily have traditional job-based health coverage – the majority of those with insurance – the study by the J.D. Power market research company found. Politico reported back in November: “A majority of Americans give good reviews for insurance they recently acquired through government exchanges within the past year, a new poll shows. With the second round of Obamacare enrollment set to begin on Saturday, 71 percent said their coverage through the exchanges was good or excellent, according to a Gallup poll released Friday.

More here

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Did I tell y'all my eye surgery only cost me $35? That's what having health insurance means. So fuck all y'all conservatives!

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Laffn@u (@KimShoeCrzy) March 31, 2015

ACA scores big on customer satisfaction: on.msnbc.com/1HAfPUi (Getty) http://t.co/1yGVMP2Skb

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Loretta Lynch: The First African-American Female Attorney General

Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by Loretta Lynch’s father Lorenzo Lynch, second from left, and Loretta Lynch’s husband Stephen Hargrove, second from right, administers the oath of office to Loretta Lynch as the 83rd Attorney General of the U.S. during a ceremony at the Justice Department

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Full video of the swearing in ceremony here

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After a five-month stall, Loretta Lynch was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week and sworn in today

Loretta Lynch speaks after being sworn in as Attorney General under a portrait of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the Justice Department

Rise and Shine: The Week Ahead

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Today

The President will attend meetings at the White House.

11:0 EDT: Vice President Joe Biden swears in Loretta Lynch as attorney general

C-Span

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Tuesday

The President will host Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan for an official visit.

The President and First Lady will officially welcome Prime Minister Abe with an arrival ceremony, after which the Presidents will have a bilateral meeting and press conference.

That evening, the President and First Lady will host a State Dinner for Prime Minister Abe.

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Wednesday

The President will honor the 2015 National Teacher of the Year and finalists at the White House.

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Thursday and Friday

The President will attend meetings at the White House.

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Early Bird Chat

On This Day: President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama appear with Oprah Winfrey during a taping of her television show at Harpo Studios in Chicago, April 27, 2011

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MoooOOOooorning!