"I urge those Members of Congress who voted against Trade Adjustment Assistance to reconsider." —@POTUS: go.wh.gov/WjHKN3 #LeadOnTrade
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 13, 2015
I don't think many celebrating the #TAA vote yesterday know the bill's purpose and intended beneficiaries.
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Go make! #NationofMakers youtube.com/watch?v=ZVX5wj… http://t.co/v65mfMIJYb
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The White House OSTP (@whitehouseostp) June 12, 2015
AMERICA let's make things with our hands. @POTUS I will teach you to sand.
@JimmyDiResta @NatlMakerFaire
#NationofMakers
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Nick Offerman (@Nick_Offerman) June 13, 2015
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This high school senior has been accepted to 26 universities and offered $3M in scholarships: abcn.ws/1C2Z5jh http://t.co/TljYSq2SEV
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ABC News (@ABC) June 13, 2015
Relationship Goals!😍🙌🏾 http://t.co/T6Xf8dwgsb
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My Black Matters (@MyBlackMatters) June 13, 2015
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“Living life without regrets and 6 other life lessons Beau Biden taught me” by @andyamsler andyamsler/living-life-without-regrets-and-6-other-life-lessons-beau-biden-taught-me-5d9dba4f1eb9?source=tw-lo_8446aa43990e-1433647618889"> medium.com@andyamsler/li…
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Alycee (@jazziz2) June 07, 2015
In the overflow crowd at Beau’s funeral, everyone seemed to have a story to share about the Bidens huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/07/joe…
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Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) June 07, 2015
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"My father served in the @USNavy during World War II... as a signalman in the Pacific." —Dr. Biden http://t.co/m2NiLFFsj9
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Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden) June 13, 2015
"May the USS Gabrielle Giffords & our @USNavy family who are associated with her, forever sail with fair winds & following seas." —Dr. Biden
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Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden) June 13, 2015
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WH posts map showing how many workers receive TAA benefits in each state whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/1…
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Bill Scher (@billscher) June 12, 2015
JUST IN: Consumer sentiment in U.S. climbed more than forecast in June bloom.bg/1MOxVmn
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Bloomberg Business (@business) June 12, 2015
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Remembering our brother--NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers, assassinated today in 1963. bit.ly/1cRslTq http://t.co/XC1fAmviEV
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NAACP (@NAACP) June 13, 2015
There has and is only 1 black President. It is President Barack Hussein Obama!!! Get your facts right!!!!!!!!! twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
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Marilyn Oliver (@MTmarilyn2) June 13, 2015
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I wonder what race Rachel would become if she got stopped by the police? #RachelDolezal
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Terry McMillan (@MsTerryMcMillan) June 12, 2015
Just a friendly reminder that a black person passing as white was once a criminal offense. Enjoy ur day. #RachelDolezal
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Amanda Seales (@amandaseales) June 12, 2015
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When ppl ask if #transracial is a thing, tell them it’s not and send them this: soletstalkabout.com/post/121350496… #RachelDolezal http://t.co/krcAhK7I6b
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 13, 2015
Most ppl trying to make #transracial happen are racists and shit-stirrers. But too many actual progressives think it’s a thing. IT’S NOT.
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 13, 2015
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I truly don’t give a crap about #RachelDolezal. It’s a WTF story that will hopefully fade into the distance after ppl are done clowning her.
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 13, 2015
But this shit is being used to harm or delegitimize trans people. And that’s what I won’t stand for.
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 13, 2015
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Police spent over 4 hours negotiating with a man that placed bombs everywhere and shot at them.
Police shot Tamir Rice dead in 2 seconds.
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BrownBlaze (@brownblaze) June 13, 2015
Waiting for Fox 'News' to blame bad parenting and the music he listens to. #dallaspdshooting http://t.co/jGNlVAv84m
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Jade Helm Commander (@Anomaly100) June 13, 2015
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White man warns cops he intends to attempt mass murder in public place before being set free to attempt mass murder in public place.
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indomandreas rex (@andreagrimes) June 13, 2015
Black child shot for playing with toy gun in a gazebo.
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indomandreas rex (@andreagrimes) June 13, 2015
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Some of these prosecutors really are the worst
Judge finds probable cause to charge 2 Cleveland police officers in Tamir Rice's death nyti.ms/1GxrK58 http://t.co/PZtSLdBrPS
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The New York Times (@nytimes) June 12, 2015
The prosecutor released a statement essentially dismissing the judge's advisory opinion, saying the #TamirRice case will go to a grand jury.
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Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 11, 2015
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Anyone who thinks grand juries best forum for cop shootings isn't serious about prosecuting cop shootings #TamirRice http://t.co/pMwdjXEU0M
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Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) June 11, 2015
#BREAKING: Prosecutors drop all charges against Martese Johnson, a UVa. student whose bloody arrest sparked uproar nbc4dc.com/oOK3SPF
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NBCWashington (@nbcwashington) June 11, 2015
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White man strangles mom, tells neighbors he will shoot up schools and churches, threatens judges online, allowed to go about his business.
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indomandreas rex (@andreagrimes) June 13, 2015
Black man strangled to death by police for selling loose cigarettes.
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indomandreas rex (@andreagrimes) June 13, 2015
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Black man shot by police for cosplaying at a Walmart.
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indomandreas rex (@andreagrimes) June 13, 2015
This is the second time in less than a year that a white man has attempted a major assault on urban TX PD. bit.ly/1BEyEAp
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indomandreas rex (@andreagrimes) June 13, 2015
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Horrific
Stunning Eric Garner news: initial report failed to mention officer's arm around his neck. W/o video we'd never know. http://t.co/BagZT2EY86
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Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) June 13, 2015
"But he was shot!"
Yes, hours later. Hours not afforded to Tamir Rice nor John Crawford. #DallasPDShooting
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 13, 2015
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'Eric Casebolt once jailed an African-American man for a defective headlight' #McKinney
news.yahoo.com/mckinney-pool-… http://t.co/XfPrcfc3qa
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 13, 2015
“Black is not a feeling… It's an existence created for us by racists as a tool to justify ill-treatment and codify oppression into law.”
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 13, 2015
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BOOM
@TheObamaDiary my son bought his first house in 2009 thanks to POTUS.got huge break on energy efficient renovations. gonna have to make list
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Maggy (@Maggyw519) June 13, 2015
.@DragonflyJonez
Hillary: are you ready for Hillary?!
Black Voters: http://t.co/cx01MGGlFE
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Michelle Huxtable (@MichelleHux) June 13, 2015
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What if unions lobbied as hard in favor or raising minimum wage, extending overtime pay, etc as they have against TPP?
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Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) June 12, 2015
Sad thing about TAA is that "worker" groups are working to defeat something that would help their own members to undercut TPA as a whole.
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Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) June 12, 2015
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Scumbag: Russia and China have cracked top-secret cache of files stolen by Edward Snowden
thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_ne… http://t.co/3nuYo23PJL
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 13, 2015
Funny, Snowden despised leakers & those who put spies' lives at risk until *this* President was elected.
Curious. http://t.co/pcpgkOeaRU
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 13, 2015
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What a despicable human being
Her parents told the Washington Post she attended Howard on a full scholarship based on a portfolio of “exclusively African American portraiture,” and that the university “took her for a black woman.”
Eric Guster, a civil rights attorney based in Birmingham, Ala., told AlterNet that if Dolezal did, in fact, earn a scholarship to Howard that was reserved for a black person, she could face a civil lawsuit for fraud from the people who sponsored it. “If it was earmarked for minorities and she utilized those funds and she is not a minority, that would be a problem,” Guster said.
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Here's why #RachelDolezal's deception matters and who it harms. My report: alternet.org/civil-libertie… http://t.co/rWpJVjrdnI
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Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 12, 2015
Rachel Dolezal Told a Student She 'Didn’t Look Hispanic' Enough jezebel.com/rachel-dolezal… I....oh
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) June 13, 2015
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Dolezal has claimed she was a victim of racism in the past. On her staff biography at Eastern Washington University, where she serves as a part-time professor of Africana Studies, Dolezal claims to have been the victim of at least eight hate crimes because of her racial justice work. A recent report from Inlander has questioned some of those claims.
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Boom #RachelDolezal http://t.co/OpoEVjDgtn
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Sam (@samwhiteout) June 12, 2015
People are applauding the work of #RachelDolezal but can't provide examples of said work. What exactly are you applauding?! Tell me.
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Charles Wade (@akacharleswade) June 12, 2015
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James Boulware: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know heavy.com/news/2015/06/j… #DallasPDShooting #MomsDemand #GunSense http://t.co/Brsl627ANJ
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KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) June 13, 2015
@deray SMH at his PD story, shoot up cops, plant bombs but then negotiate but Tamir Rice was gunned down within 3 seconds of cops showing up
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O.A. (@oakpan24) June 13, 2015
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SHE SAID THIS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE (RE: "The Help") I AM CRYING http://t.co/uEiSho4PpW
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Rockets in 9 (@HumbleTeej) June 12, 2015
"Are you African American?"
#RachelDoelzal: http://t.co/HmVStZZzXs
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Strawberry's Bounce (@PettyYoungThot) June 12, 2015
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#RachelDolezal. Receipts. http://t.co/b2OR0J5RDs
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 12, 2015
Reporter: Are you African American?
#RachelDolezal: http://t.co/zDkO1cTMaR
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Newkirk Ave (@MissZindzi) June 12, 2015
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Journalism according to Mark Halperin
Journalist who called Obama a 'dick' to run pilates class with Ann Romney at GOP donor retreat mm4a.org/1JJgwwU http://t.co/O4SHjWfmhy
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Media Matters (@mmfa) June 13, 2015
HUD created a plan to incentivize affordable housing and erase segregation.
Fox's response: mm4a.org/1JJhWrs http://t.co/vYzWuwHDVd
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Media Matters (@mmfa) June 12, 2015
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96% of men won’t take their wife’s last name. Zoe Saldana’s husband just did. bit.ly/1T7I0zm http://t.co/QODMTQICUi
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Mic (@micnews) June 13, 2015
The Iowa straw poll is no more buff.ly/1dB0hEv
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National Journal (@nationaljournal) June 12, 2015
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#Atlanta grand jury clears cop in questionable killing after traffic stop on-ajc.com/1L3HM6G #BlackLivesMatter http://t.co/XGVGkY9EWg
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SteveVisser (@VisserSteve) June 12, 2015
"I am one of the federal employees who just got hacked" fusion.net/story/149831/o…
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Cory Bennett (@Cory_Bennett) June 12, 2015
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#RachelDolezal has a history of claims with police in more than one city being dubious, see the last half spokesman.com/stories/2015/j…
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) June 12, 2015
I need folks to remember that pretending to be Black is the least of #RachelDolezal's hoax. Her faked hate crimes hurt the community
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) June 12, 2015
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There are white people telling Black people what race is & who can and cannot be Black. That is what's happening right now. #RachelDolezal
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April (@ReignOfApril) June 12, 2015
Rachel Dolezal says people who question her ethnicity do not "deserve a platform." krem.com/media/cinemati…
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Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) June 12, 2015
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Investigators estimate federal records hack may impact as many as 14 million people bloom.bg/1Fc8EMx http://t.co/zwfe3GVZgh
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Bloomberg Business (@business) June 12, 2015
Minn. official who helped craft medical marijuana program named CEO of cannabis company trib.in/1IMa5cs http://t.co/BugUat4Q0z
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Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) June 12, 2015
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This girl's face nails America's feelings on Bobby Jindal: nym.ag/1JNJudx http://t.co/02vpvdUOuM
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New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 12, 2015
A 15-year-old boy may be the youngest to have ever discovered a planet bzfd.it/1B6pC4b http://t.co/ZmJ200haIt
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(@BuzzFeed) June 12, 2015
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I knew it wouldn't take but 12 hours before the narrative about #RachelDolezal turned into "Black women on Twitter are so mean." Screw you.
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 12, 2015
This was her goal: to be centered and important in intimate Black space. Smh #RachelDolezal http://t.co/Gq2iDBh7dY
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Charles Wade (@akacharleswade) June 12, 2015
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It is possible for white people to support racial justice and not appropriate blackness as a costume. In fact, it's fundamental.
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Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) June 12, 2015
Blackness is not a costume that white people can put on and "share the struggle." We don't know what it is to be black, and that's okay.
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Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) June 12, 2015
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Because, guess what? Black people can tell us what it's like to be black! And we can believe them!
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Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) June 12, 2015
Interesting that #RachelDolezal and her activism centered around things that supposedly happened to her and that made her newsworthy...
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Blair LM Kelley (@profblmkelley) June 12, 2015
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Some conservatives truly are stupid. This is not only in Texas. A lot of states that people wouldn’t think of, have some form of open and campus carry. Your state just might be one
Open carry & campus carry will be legalized in Texas tomorrow with this pen. #txlege #tcot @NRA #guns http://t.co/SiFDxUqhyv
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Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 12, 2015
No moms, women, police officers at @GovAbbott signing of #txlege #opencarry law #DallasPDShooting #gunsense #Texas http://t.co/exTYBVcsTI
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Shannon (@shannonrwatts) June 13, 2015
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Doesnt matter what color your skin is, when you lie like #RachelDolezal it always catches up with you. Uh "my dad" http://t.co/77hFF6Yx2n
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#TransGenderedVegan (@TheDailyCowman) June 12, 2015
Update: Rachel Dolezal's parents claim she is passing off her two younger adopted black brothers as her own sons. buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner…
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Jim Dalrymple II (@JimDalrympleII) June 12, 2015
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Fuck whoever wrote this headline. And whoever approved it. ht @aliarikan ow.ly/2ZQsMF http://t.co/9ZjEKM3OOR
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Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) June 12, 2015
Erasure is not equality. Replacing actual Black women with white women playing identity dress up is not helping anything.
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) June 12, 2015
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BREAKING: Michigan Governor signs law allowing adoption agencies to reject #LGBT parents. bzfd.it/1S8gOir http://t.co/UngzrALl6s
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NOH8 Campaign (@NOH8Campaign) June 11, 2015
New York city council passes 'Ban the Box' bill restricting use of criminal records in hiring
huff.to/1KZOFWG http://t.co/HNwC8SUf0e
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HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) June 11, 2015
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#OpenCarry law approved despite concerns of #Texas majority star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-co… @MomsDemand #gunsense #txlege http://t.co/TqFRkv4fYq
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Shannon (@shannonrwatts) June 11, 2015
400 PEOPLE have been imprisoned at Riker's Island for AT LEAST TWO YEARS without being convicted dailykos.com/story/2015/06/… via @dailykos
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jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) June 10, 2015
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In what world are both of these accepted? Ours. #McKinney http://t.co/kXAQ5jVoPt
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Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) June 07, 2015
#McKinney is a sad reminder of this. http://t.co/BBPe4GiPiR
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Media Diversified (@WritersofColour) June 07, 2015
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i'm out of nopes. http://t.co/fMF58V4xW6
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Toxic Tweeter (@seelolago) June 12, 2015
news reporter: are you african american?
#RachelDoelzal: http://t.co/nY0eSf812I
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corbin (@steeIbeams) June 12, 2015
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Wal-Mart discovers efficiency wages, as staff turnover declines after raising pay for low-wage workers: reuters.com/article/2015/0…
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 10, 2015
Walmart is already reaping the benefits of raising wages thkpr.gs/3667927 http://t.co/AB1qczoqcQ
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) June 13, 2015
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Syrian Kurds close in on Islamic State stronghold near Turkish border; thousands flee violence apne.ws/1IRQO9s
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The Associated Press (@AP) June 13, 2015
US moves six Yemeni #Guantanamo detainees to Oman u.afp.com/Z4X3
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Agence France-Presse (@AFP) June 13, 2015
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State joins the very few that guarantee workers can take a paid day when they get sick thkpr.gs/3669059 http://t.co/BHDZM2ZgxB
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) June 13, 2015
Budget troubles have haunted Gov. Brownback for years because of deep tax cuts he put in place bit.ly/1Bbvt8c http://t.co/Qw53zyBW9i
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 12, 2015
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Flipping (800K) Job loss to creating +12.6Mil w/out cooperation from congress...
according to some never happened! http://t.co/dI9bGDtKb4
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Kasai™ (@Kahsai) June 13, 2015
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says nuclear deal 'within reach' ahead of deadline nbcnews.to/1BdUZcU http://t.co/cc7JfG2ICN
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NBC News (@NBCNews) June 13, 2015
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LOL
When the teacher is reading Dr Seuss and you realize Seuss was spitting Straight Flames 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😂😂💀 http://t.co/uWmz9k4Qrf
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Justin Scott-Young (@RealThatsRacist) June 12, 2015
extremely optimistic NYT illustration has a guy in a driverless car reading a print-edition newspaper http://t.co/H4qxSACRhx
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Seth D. Michaels (@sethdmichaels) June 11, 2015
TY NW!!
Wanted everyone to see this ….
h/t to Jeanne K!
🙂
tick tock tick tock…. waiting for all the snowden fans to renounce him as a traitor and apologize to the world for being idiots…. tick tock tick…
Whoa!
I see your Whoa! and raise you a Woot! Woot!
Whoa! (I coulda been a contendah!)
What a HERO Ed Snowden is. Allow the U.S. enemies to see valuable information that he stole, but yet in some folks minds he is a hero. Not in mines.
This Rachel Dolezal thing is 10,000 ways of fucked up. And what gets me is that her stans – mostly if not all white – are saying she did nothing wrong. Like black folk should be glad someone tried to “pass” as one of them. Throughout US history, African Americans have been denied their very humanity, and now they should be glad that a white woman passed herself off as one of them, using their struggles for her own ends. Fucking amazing.
“Like black folk should be glad someone tried to “pass” as one of them.”
I’ve seen tweets like that all day, LL, and the ‘progressives’ who wrote them actually didn’t even get what so repulsive about that sentiment. Translation: ‘Calm down black people, you should be honored that a white lady wanted to be one of you!’
I think I’m going to be sick.
Dominant groups can play at being a weaker group, because they can always take off the paint and assume their traditional positions.
Ah Nerdy, this is an even more outstanding collection than usual – I will never, ever, ever get my head around the Rachel Dolezal story, it’s head-wrecking.
But I will laugh forever at the Dr Seuss teacher tweet, it’s magnificent!!!! 😆
Thanks so much, Chiparooooooney! 🙂
Supercalifragislitic……tweets….
and you are right about gun laws…
because i lived in Philadelphia county…open carry was not an issue…
but in other counties…open carry activists have taken advantage of ambiguous gun laws to open carry….and before Corbett left office he and the GOP legislature passed a law that gave standing to the NRA to sue counties that attempted to pass laws regarding gun control…Philadelphia is in court now…
so there are different kinds of crazy…TX crazy and PA Crazy…
thank God that Wolf was elected…dare i say that he was elected because he embraced the President…yes i dare to say it
beebs ‘reporting’ on the dallas terrorist.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33124563
spot the glaring omission.
Good morning amk 🙂
I am not surprised this all came from the Snowden theft. I don’t think he is long for this world.
spot on. jeez.
Thanks for posting this. I am so sick and tired of this President being so disrespected!
Lucky me—tuned in to TOD after a day out, just in time to read all the newsy tweets Nerdy has bestowed on us once again.
Thank you, Nerdy.
Glenn Greenwald, Markos from Daily Kos, Elizabeth Warren, Ed Shultz and HRC started life out as GOP.
Burlington VT has a population of 42, 000 and Bernie Sander’s appearance there drew 5000 people they could count and who knows how many more.
Roosevelt Island where HRC appeared today, has a population of 10,000 and is in between Manhattan and Queens, in the middle of NYC which has a population of 9 Million or so.
5000 people counted and with tickets filled the space where HRC appeared. A spillover space had been prepared but was entirely empty.
NYC weather today was spectacular. warm, breezy, perfect day
That all sounds about right to me, Vicki.
🙂
What is wrong with the House Dems? Who do they think they are fooling?
Because he told them to do their jobs and be honest about it, their feelings got hurt. Big deal, put your grown-up pants on Dems.
I think they are getting a whole lot more push back on their disgusting treatment of the President and abandonment of workers by their no vote than they expected and are now using the ” rubbed us the wrong way ” excuse for cover.
Hope they know that if they continue to say no, the attack ads about abandoning workers will be produced and may matter in many of their congressional races.
I want to let the House Dems know that their vote and disrespect of President Obama rub me the wrong way. And if they even have any thought of keeping the W.H. or gaining control of the Senate again they better be very careful with their disrespect of this President.
amen.
Cry me a river. They are so self-centered.
The biggest problem of President Obama is he overestimates the maturity and integrity of his fellow democrats. All this talk about “oh he just comes to see us when he’s in trouble”. As if congress people needed the president to cajole them all year long. As if they are not RESPONSIBLE enough to debate legislation on the merits, by themselves. As if the desire to serve their fellow americans was, in itself, NOT ENOUGH TO MOTIVATE THEM. But no… they want the president to be friends with them, they want to have cocktails in the White House, they want the president to tell them how important they are, and on and on…
In short, the president makes the mistake of believing that his fellow democrats are like him, that they will put the people before their own egos, and their own interests.
Making a moral argument doesn’t work with people who don’t prioritize morality and integrity. It backfires. I’m not surprised that the president’s intervention “rubbed them the wrong way”. Sigh…
Perfect comment, Lovepolitics. I’d like to get them all in a room and box their little, sensitive, entitled ears.
Michigan is also doing this: http://www.mlive.com/education/index.ssf/2012/09/new_michigan_policy_linking_we.html – cutting welfare benefits based on school attendance. The article says “educators” are in favor of this. I don’t see how they could be. This is instead of investing in schools. “What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.” -Isaiah 3:15
Sure hope we have answers, soon ….
Not like we haven’t been patient ….
BTW, the 11 June tweet was sent in 2013 and the 18 Apr tweet was sent in 2014 ….
And, fact remains that because of their colossal egos Greenwald, Poitras and Gellman all incriminated themselves when they let slip that they had been interacting with Snowden months before Snowden took the Booz Allen job.
bbl …
Chips, NW – please rescue my comment from spam. TY
Done 🙂
{{{Chips}}}
this is what Ellison said about the President re: Iran….yet he was real snarky about the President re: TAA and TPA….hmmmmm
oops wrong tweet….
this is what Ellison said about the President re: Iran….yet he was real snarky about the President re: TAA and TPA….hmmmmm
Forget Keith Ellison.
Okay, Annieb. 🙂 🙂
Excellent reply VC. Happily RT’d! 🙂
TY, Hf. On that positive note I’m heading to bed. Good night and sweet dreams (and don’t you dare mention ‘bite’)! 🙂
G’nite vc. Sleep tite. And don’t you dare let Snowden bite! 🙂 Ooops…my bad!
Yes!!! And I cannot even blame it on amk-ian influence!
boom!!
Well said, vc.
it is astounding the amount of damage these scumbags (snowden, greenwald, poitras (can’t be bothered to get the correct spelling of her name) did to those who put it all on the line doing things I would never be strong enough to do.
as for the media who hypes them, and the loud crowd that hides their O-hatred behind libertarian pronouncements, ….. I have no words that can capture what I think of them.
By the way, after many in the gop expressed an initial reflexive support of these scumbags, I seem to notice that most of them saw the magnitude of their error and they no longer put the document stealers (aka agents of putin and china) on a pedestal
Are there a couple of CIA operatives in Russia getting ready to “kidnap” Snowden and bring him back to face justice? I certainly hope so. He is such scum…….but we here in the village knew that two years ago!
Leave the mofo there. His life is nothing.
Nah. He should stay in Russia, hopefully suffering. He’s not worth their time.
so now some dems want to hide the stupid and cowardly TAA vote behind : “PBO hurt our feelings”;
some of us read the reports of what POTUS said to the Dem caucus.
Based on that these Dem cowards want us to believe that PBO hurt their feelings by challenging them to use their conscience and take the right vote;
do these people stop and ponder how it sounds to us voters when you an elected official says that a challenge for you to do what is right “hurts your feelings and causes you to vote against your constituents”?
heavens let this stupidity stop!
Interesting to look back and read what Bob Cesca wrote a couple years ago about these frauds…
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/snowden-and-greenwald-beginning-to-self-destruct-the-nation-and-mother-jones-raise-questions/
did the bride in the photo above know bobby jindal?
wonder who invited jindal to wedding and made him sit close to the bride – doesn’t seem that she did
Beautiful! Thanks so much for bringing that here, meta. Another couple of brave women, in our midst.
love this!!!
Yeah, PBO’s policies will destroy jobs.
Another offensive and shameless attempt to co-opt a Black person’s hard-earned, hard-fought struggle for freedom for groups who were genuinely oppressed.
Why would anyone ask people to help Snowden? He deserves nothing. He has caused more damage than others who have been convicted as spies.
I have no problem helping him – to a damn jail cell where he belongs.
Help Edward Snowden, sure what can I do? Should I go visit him when he is in prison, or write him when he is in prison? Bake him a cake with a file in it when he is in prison. I’ll be glad to help Snowden, but first he must be put in prison.
it’s offensive. full stop. no one compares to mlk. just sick to death of all the whackos claiming kinship.
p.s. stop calling him a ‘whistleblower’– he’s a traitor who gave secrets he was entrusted with to enemy governments, and put american and allied nations’ agents at risk.
On a previous thread I supported Rachel’s right to choose her racial identity. But after reading some of her comments in public spaces, it seems as though she retained her white privileged framework while donning some of the habiliments of a black body, e.g. kinky curly hair and colored skin. What gives her away as a white woman is this attribution “Rachel Dolezal says people who question her ethnicity do not “deserve a platform.” Also as a black woman, I would have assumed she was white, not by what she told me but by how she treated me. There is a difference. Also, I think was a problem with the vetting. If Rachel has been a AA #lightgirl, then during her job interview she should have reflected on what that journey was like through early, middle and late adolescence. Because it can be a very hard process for both light and dark AA girls. Unfortunately, I believe she must be fired from her NAACP position, part-time teaching positions and from any volunteer position in which her apppropriation of blackness was essential to her hiring or selection.
Hi Idon, after the little bits and pieces about Rachel that I read today I’m shocked but still somewhat confused. I’ve decided I’m simply going to wait for this unbalanced person’s moments of notoriety to fade from the public dialogue.
I think I’m with you, vc. I really won’t loose a lot of sleep worrying about this…that said, she seems to have defrauded deserving people a chance at scholarships SHE benefited from…as a fraud. This is what angers me the most about this whole bizarre story. She needs to repay those scholarships as far as I’m concerned.
Hi Desertf, your planting is all done? I bet you are enjoying each moment of your long-awaited vacay!
In truth, I’m so far not angry about Rachel’s story. I’m going to wait until all the details of her trickery trickle out and see where I’m at. I don’t do righteous anger well. I too find this such a bizarre story, especially the fact it was sustained over such a long period. I saw 20 years mentioned somewhere, and I don’t get why her parents would wait so long to say something. I also don’t get why her black ‘father’ added his weight to her story – was he paid? Now that the story has broken I’m sure time will reveal its nuances.
There seems to be some bad blood between herself and her parents….wondering if this is a piece of the puzzle? Will wait to see what she has to say for herself. I think we’ll be able to tell if she’s blowing smoke or not…
I can’t even begin to imagine what she’ll say! We’ll soon find out, if it goes on as planned.
Probably has a DNA test showing <1% African and will invoke the one drop rule…
Good point. As far as I’m concerned, she’s got nothing to say except “I lied, others were hurt, and I’m going home now. Don’t do what I did.”
.Rachel is a white woman pretending to be black…white folks are something..the level of white privlege is astounding….at a time of voter suppression and police terror…we are debating whether she is legitimate or not….smh
I find it a bit surreal!
Night all:) Hubby’s home so my bed space just got smaller:)
Goodnight, TODville. I’m outta here. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
good night TOD ….
Good morning TOD folks. It was wonderful to be able to sit and read TOD overnight. Thanks to all for their contributions and great discussions.
Are you still drinking Irish malt in Qatar?
😆 So, the Irish malt was good?
Jesus. It was that good?
And, um, how many bottles did you have?
😆 Obviously not you!
Listen you, Ireland has enough problems without having you on its conscience.
Mooooooooorning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/06/14/early-bird-rise-and-shine-67/