white people need to stop this. There have been too many reports of them being saboteurs this weekend at various marches and protests.
Your work as an ally is not to make problems worse for us. Black people are already dealing with a lot of shit and are suffering deadly consequences.
Your job as an ally is to listen, do the work that is asked of you, educate yourself with the plentiful resources readily available from people who do anti-racist work, put yourselves on the front line, donate to organizations, spread awareness and speak up online and your day to day real world.
This is not some goddamn festival, parade, or a fun time where you leave your suburban existence and wreak havoc for shits and giggles. This is life and death for Black people.
In this video, a black woman picks up a brick and returns it to a car with white people and admonishes them not to give bricks to black people to throw so that black people will get in trouble with the police. https://t.co/ZFzAF8gye5
A group of Black men in Minneapolis attempt to prevent a group of White men from further vandalizing a building, and demands that they apologize for making Black people look bad. pic.twitter.com/ZlPv9JOuEa
— 🇯🇲Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹 (@Freeyourmindkid) May 31, 2020
Those images of cops kneeling with protesters is such performative nonsense. We don’t need you kneeling with us. We need you to stop murdering Black people.
The same cops kneeling today are the same ones who have killed us in the past and will kill us tomorrow.
Stop with your ridiculous kneeling and marching and surrender your weapons of war. Work with local and city councils to rein your obscene budget that does nothing to help protect communities and only empowers you to act with impunity. Call out your police unions for being nothing more than the KKK with different hoods. Hold your fellow killer cops accountable and stop taking taxpayer money to support their killings. Let the funds come from their large pension pool.
Work with local, city, and state law makers to create trained, fully budgeted, expert and community organized alternative teams and departments that the cops have no involvement with. There should be no reason why when social, health, and mental health services are needed, the cops show up, escalate the situation, and it becomes deadly.
Cops should never be equipped with military vehicles, military gear, and military weapons. They’re cops. They’re not in a bloody active war zone.
This and so many more policies need to be enacted. Until then, you can miss me with your bullshit.
I am here for John Boyega letting people know that he is not the one and you better come correct.
Don’t waste time tweeting "you need to talk about police brutality against white people" go for one of your celeb coons for that. That Star Wars movie got you lot all the way fucked up. I am staying on topic. We are addressing a specific issue.
Barack Obama: "The bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both. We have to mobilize to raise awareness, and we have to organize and cast our ballots." https://t.co/ppiwtlEt5Q
'You're going to look like a bunch of jerks': Trump tells governors 'most of you are weak' and urges them to 'dominate' as protests consume the nation https://t.co/VJVAlanIcg
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 1, 2020
Jane Fonda used to lend her home to Black Panthers hiding from the FBI. She even adopted one of their daughters when the parents got arrested. She has ALWAYS been down.
That happens to me. I’m not really sure why. I don’t have a twitter account. I get media can’t be played. You have to click on the tweet, and it will take you to their twitter account and you can watch it there.
I have never seen this in my entire life. I lived in DC and worked at a restaurant two blocks from here and rode my bike by the White House every night at around 2am. The lights were always on. This absolutely sums up this administration. Nobody’s home. https://t.co/Uk2rhxE1Wjpic.twitter.com/ACjZtaaRPR
Trump, who is completely and unequivocally under the thumb of his handler, Vladimir Putin, crawling out of his lights out bunker to accuse others of being weak? Really?
FBI Agent of South Sudan heritage … being Racially Profiled … See What happened after his arrest & what they did after they found out who he his …👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/ZVxNQ7phqd
<thread> Great piece (by @DaniSchulkin) identifying a severe problem within law enforcement agencies.
Also serves as important corrective to National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien's most regrettable response to @jaketapper on Sunday.https://t.co/YsWHehErtc
Maybe ok to say something personal sometimes…daughter’s ballet career with top ballet company ended with a torn meniscus from doing this leap in a different style than usual, unprepared during a warm-up. (Shifted to a politics degree while running the Obama campaign at that university…change happens!)
…am in awe of all children.
For decades making others take the risks and do the work. Only if it works out does he attach his name.
Absolute demonic diabolical worst kind of leader. Worst profile of corrupt individual with powers over sensitive national information. Killing spree duly noted and into the garbage can of history with the likes o’ him!
#Resign.
More than 50 years after Stonewall, #PrideMonth is celebrated as a testament to the progress we’ve achieved in the fight against bigotry & discrimination — and stands as a reminder of the work that remains to achieve full equality for LGBTQ people and all Americans. pic.twitter.com/W4Q1tk6c2f
House Democrats are leading voices in the fight for progress nationwide. We are committed to fighting injustice wherever it arises, whether in law enforcement or in America’s response to COVID-19. #ThisWeekpic.twitter.com/aAJwiNjrhv
As the president* taunted him and his beloved Baltimore, Rep Cummings knew that 45 was weaponizing racism to usurp democracy – and he begged us with every last breath to fight back. I miss this great man every day. #ThisIsOurWatch#BLMhttps://t.co/H4etAAPSkU
.@JoeBiden isn’t waiting to give the country the leadership they want & need. He’s stepping up now. These mayors have had to deal with so much over the last few weeks & months. As President, Joe Biden will be a true partner in the White House for mayors across the country. https://t.co/mGLev0wXtb
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) June 1, 2020
“Those officers should be in jail.”
“We all know there were four of them involved and we want to see all four of them held accountable for their actions.”
“When something as agregious…something as blatant…something as obvious, and something as
well-documented as Mr. Floyd’s death…this has been happening for generations…this anger is boiling over…going to be hard for any American Mayor single-handedly to stop it outside of us figuring out as a nation not just the how people are protesting, but the why people are protesting as well.”
(Mayor Carter)
After another night of unrest in America, I’m hosting a virtual roundtable with mayors from across the country to discuss where we go from here. Tune in: https://t.co/qyXzbDdSBq
MILESTONE: More Georgia Democrats have now requested ballots – with 12 days to go before Election Day – than the TOTAL number of Georgia Democrats who voted in the 2016 presidential primary.
🚨ATTN GA: If you have requested but not received your absentee ballot, we want to hear from you! Please call the Voter Protection Hotline at 888-730-5816 to get help, and then fill out this form to tell us your story: https://t.co/6RWxhzcyQFpic.twitter.com/jclMSHRoQT
Frustration. Exhaustion. Confusion. The Black community is fed up. Tomorrow at 7PM EDT, hear our speakers on Undercounted: Black Men Speak discuss the reality of Black men in the U.S and address civic participation in the Black community RSVP below👇https://t.co/947uAHUf7Kpic.twitter.com/2ooSqqiviC
LBJ on the riots of 68: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for 300 years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
Mr. President, there are 104,000 dead Americans and 41 million unemployed from a pandemic you fucked up and your violent racist rants are fanning the flames burning the US. Would you like to talk to the American people?
No, get me Putin.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) June 1, 2020
New reporting: After Putin gave Trump a pep talk about how strongmen don’t hide in their houses with the lights off, he sang an acapella version of George Michael’s Father Figure while Trump wept softly and sucked his thumb. https://t.co/7ALO4ojfQs
One of the Atlanta Police Department officers fired Sunday for forcibly arresting two college students had previous complaints of excessive force. More: https://t.co/fZZvivjwirpic.twitter.com/XQIvy90Ucy
“A stronger GDP won’t help Americans if they’re dead”
““America is now engaged in a vast, dangerous experiment.”
“The push for reopening rests on a foundation of willful ignorance”
“Never mind GDP: the most fundamental job of any leader is to keep his people alive.
Unfortunately, that’s a job Trump doesn’t seem interested in doing.” (Krugman)
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/paul-krugman-a-stronger-gdp-wont-help-americans-if-theyre-dead/)
#GeorgeFloyd’s brother just arrived and broke down in front of the Mural for George Floyd near where he died. When he kneeled everyone else kneeled to pray. My God. pic.twitter.com/KAc1eQ841l
I hope you all got a chance to hear VP Biden speak with the mayors because it was really uplifting and productive. These people are real leaders crying out for change, to be heard, to move out of this horrible morass.
Angela Conley to Rachel Maddow:
Hennepin County Health and Human Services Committee Chair, Heading Home Hennepin Co-Chair,
Hennepin County Housing and Redevelopment Authority Vice-Chair.
She is tirst black woman ever elected to the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners.
Representing George Floyd’s neighborhood, Ms. Conley lives 5 blocks from where he was killed.
CONLEY:
“What we don’t need is hundreds of people being arrested, being shot at, because of the force that we see out there…the national guard and state patrol. What I am also concerned about is at the corner of
38th and Chicago…where George Floyd was murdered we have people who have been holding that space as a sacred space right now. Have been holding that intersection down.
These are people who are peaceful, who are there to pray, who are there to contribute to his memorial and to sing, and to meet people who come by. So there’s a lot of community building that is happening throughout the state, aside from what we’re seeing right now that I want to see protected.
Overnight all week, 24 hours, people have been protecting the space on 38th and Chicago and I don’t want that to be disrupted either. I don’t want to see those people face a police presence. Because so far there hasn’t been a police presence on that corner. And that corner is very significant to our community right now. And we want to keep it safe. We want to keep it that way.”
This is a very, very bad idea. Bureau of Prisons riot teams are trained to deal with disturbances created by convicted criminals in prison facilities, not with protesters on the streets of our cities. These are worlds apart. https://t.co/1i7xxO6qpt
this teenage girl did not hesitate one bit. look at how she’s standing in between and did not budge to keep him protected. THIS IS HOW YOU USE YOUR WHITE PRIVILEGE. if you’re white and you’re protesting, protect black people and fight for them pic.twitter.com/97nrCZ4Fud
BREAKING: Independent autopsy finds that George Floyd's death "was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain."
Adam Server (Atlantic, as received awards from the NABJ) talking to Chris Hayes:
Reminded us that when Trump told police hey, don’t bother treating your suspects nicely. And when Barr threatened us saying: Communities who protest police, risk losing protection. At the same time others are permitted to cross the line, while others dare not. Unequal treatment.
You have long guns at the WI state capital where unmasked hoodlums yell 6 inches from the faces of masked police, and these officers don’t make a peep. At the Bundy event protestors were on the hillside, snipers
with AK-15s aimed right at federal agents – the agents silently withdrew. Kaepernick’s protest was a thing of beauty. What we’ve learned is that violent or non-violent, no protest is acceptable.
2019: “Barr Says Communities That Protest the Police Risk Losing Protection”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/barr-police.html)
Police brutality was not invented by Trump but he has explicitly encouraged it.
–And HE is to blame for the fallout.
Anyone who cares about the future of this country and the planet…
Should show what clearly has been hidden thus far ‘to protect the nation’.
The evidence of Trump treason, conspiracy, and debt to Putin is under lock and key.
Let Us See It Now.
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, I’ve heard many ask how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change.
BREAKING: Independent autopsy finds that George Floyd's death "was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain."
BREAKING: Independent autopsy ordered by George Floyd's family found he was killed by "homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain," according to early findings.https://t.co/dslAVpTIxqpic.twitter.com/2YQ6wD1cGe
FLOYD INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY FINDINGS RELEASED: Attorneys for the family of George Floyd hold a news conference on the preliminary findings of an independent autopsy of Floyd’s body. https://t.co/jsFZa4UxB7
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, I’ve heard many ask how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change.
Outraged neighbors are beginning to gather in the Russell neighborhood of Louisville after waking up to news that David "Yaya" McAtee was murdered by the LMPD and National Guard last night outside of his beloved BBQ stand.#DavidMcAteehttps://t.co/eNjpdK4SyOpic.twitter.com/Pnq4tQ6Iwv
— Midwest People's History (@MPHProject) June 1, 2020
This is an example of how big this moment is: My 78-year-old mother is on her way to a protest in rural Louisiana. She’s never been to a protest in her life. As she said to me, “This has really hit home with me. This could have been Tahj.” Tahj is my oldest son.
“Any push by Donald Trump to readmit Russia to the G7 gathering of economically advanced nations would be vetoed by the U.K., Boris Johnson's official spokesperson said Monday.” https://t.co/fYY1WCQHcv
Trump wants to be a “Strongman” in the vein of a Putin or any other brutal dictator that has dotted the world’s history. But to be a strongman you must possess that one undeniable trait that all strongmen have, and that is, you must be strong. At best Trump is a weak fool, at his worst he is a weak fool with power.
More horrible news: Law enforcement dispatched to clear a crowd this a.m. in Louisville shot & killed the owner of a nearby BBQ restaurant, David McAtee.
Police say they were shot at 1st; an investigation is underway.
BREAKING: @louisvillemayor fires @LMPD chief Conrad after it is learned that police body cameras were not activated during last night's shooting of David McAtee in the west end.
No American is above the law. Every officer involved in the murder of George Floyd must be brought to justice. But that is not enough.
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) June 1, 2020
Here’s a start of what Congress can do to address the epidemic of police brutality: • Create a national database of officers who've used excessive force and ban their hiring • Stop giving military weapons to police departments • Require transparency in police records & budgets
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) June 1, 2020
I’m backing a resolution by @RepPressley, @Ilhan, @RepKarenBass, & @RepBarbaraLee to condemn police brutality and call for reforms. We cannot tolerate officers’ continued failure to keep people safe in their custody or police in ways that reinforce racial injustices.
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) June 1, 2020
What about professional insurance? Break down the “blue wall.” If they mess up their rates go up. If their rates are too high, they become uninsurable and poof! No job.
UPDATE: The last three days — Saturday, Sunday, today through 4 p.m. — have been the busiest three days on ActBlue in 2020, now topping the post South Carolina/pre Super Tuesday rush.
Each June I find myself thinking of Edie Windsor, who fought a long battle to have her marriage to Thea Spyer recognized. She refused to give up on the promise of America, and she refused to shrink any part of herself in order to fit into the America she dreamed of. Happy Pride. pic.twitter.com/v9Y87kDBHU
Houston Police Chief @ArtAcevedo: “Let me just say this to the President of the United States, on behalf of the police chiefs of this country: please, if you don’t have something constructive to say, keep your mouth shut.” pic.twitter.com/z5AJpOO0RO
June is Black Music Month. Celebrate by listening to music by composers and performers of African descent; hire more Black musicians; learn & teach an inclusive canon; program & perform music by and with African American musicians
Today is the start of June, Black Music Month! It’s the 41st anniversary. https://t.co/hSbyN4mcjn Kudos to cofounders @mrkennygamble broadcasters Ed Wright & @DyanaWilliams members of the Black Music Association Black music is America’s indigenous artform & multi billion $ export
"At 5pm ET, a number of our networks, including our Entertainment & Youth Brands, BET, CBS Sports Network and Nickelodeon will go dark across platforms for 8 mins and 46 secs to honor George Floyd and pay tribute to other victims of racial violence."-ViacomCBS Pres/CEO Bob Bakish
After being known to feed the police for free, they killed him, and left his body in the street. For 12 hours. I dont want to hear shit about property damage. If you don't have the same energy for Black PEOPLE… whew https://t.co/wrfGCw1vb5
The Obama Diary 
white people need to stop this. There have been too many reports of them being saboteurs this weekend at various marches and protests.
Your work as an ally is not to make problems worse for us. Black people are already dealing with a lot of shit and are suffering deadly consequences.
Your job as an ally is to listen, do the work that is asked of you, educate yourself with the plentiful resources readily available from people who do anti-racist work, put yourselves on the front line, donate to organizations, spread awareness and speak up online and your day to day real world.
This is not some goddamn festival, parade, or a fun time where you leave your suburban existence and wreak havoc for shits and giggles. This is life and death for Black people.
They are all stupid idiot racist punks.
Those images of cops kneeling with protesters is such performative nonsense. We don’t need you kneeling with us. We need you to stop murdering Black people.
The same cops kneeling today are the same ones who have killed us in the past and will kill us tomorrow.
Stop with your ridiculous kneeling and marching and surrender your weapons of war. Work with local and city councils to rein your obscene budget that does nothing to help protect communities and only empowers you to act with impunity. Call out your police unions for being nothing more than the KKK with different hoods. Hold your fellow killer cops accountable and stop taking taxpayer money to support their killings. Let the funds come from their large pension pool.
Work with local, city, and state law makers to create trained, fully budgeted, expert and community organized alternative teams and departments that the cops have no involvement with. There should be no reason why when social, health, and mental health services are needed, the cops show up, escalate the situation, and it becomes deadly.
Cops should never be equipped with military vehicles, military gear, and military weapons. They’re cops. They’re not in a bloody active war zone.
This and so many more policies need to be enacted. Until then, you can miss me with your bullshit.
I am here for John Boyega letting people know that he is not the one and you better come correct.
View at Medium.com
Practice what we preach
https://www.obama.org/anguish-and-action/
Excellent resource to put this pain into constructive action for change
Chase the filthy racist dicktraitor from the people’s house.
For real
None of the videos provided could be played. Why?
That happens to me. I’m not really sure why. I don’t have a twitter account. I get media can’t be played. You have to click on the tweet, and it will take you to their twitter account and you can watch it there.
Been happening to me too.
The ads write themselves
Time for Trump and Pence to resign.
Trump tells governors “If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time.”
Meanwhile he is wee-ing his pants with the lights off.
Bunker Bitch. Perfect name.
JHC
Yes….
Palate cleanser
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAn0Fa4neEk/?igshid=m1ybjy6r2zzv
My God … you trying to make us cry Dudette?
Nah. Just think of brighter days.
😊
Beauty break
Also incredible is how hard it is to do this on a regular floor…risky and dangerous.
Maybe ok to say something personal sometimes…daughter’s ballet career with top ballet company ended with a torn meniscus from doing this leap in a different style than usual, unprepared during a warm-up. (Shifted to a politics degree while running the Obama campaign at that university…change happens!)
…am in awe of all children.
meniscus had to be removed. Ballet dancers will go on performing usually after the most severe injuries.
For decades making others take the risks and do the work. Only if it works out does he attach his name.
Absolute demonic diabolical worst kind of leader. Worst profile of corrupt individual with powers over sensitive national information. Killing spree duly noted and into the garbage can of history with the likes o’ him!
#Resign.
I miss him!
“Mayor Melvin Carter of St. Paul, Minnesota,
talks with Rachel Maddow about hopes that the arrest and charges against the officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck, killing him, will ease some of the anger of protesters in the street,
and how the episode has set back efforts to build trust in police.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/george-floyd-killing-set-back-covenant-of-trust-in-police-years-st-paul-mayor-84116549744)
“Those officers should be in jail.”
“We all know there were four of them involved and we want to see all four of them held accountable for their actions.”
“When something as agregious…something as blatant…something as obvious, and something as
well-documented as Mr. Floyd’s death…this has been happening for generations…this anger is boiling over…going to be hard for any American Mayor single-handedly to stop it outside of us figuring out as a nation not just the how people are protesting, but the why people are protesting as well.”
(Mayor Carter)
Cops are TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH
At this point, I’d just go get it.
Mailing my ballot today.
Here to listen. Thanks, Nerdy!
Sad news😶
“A stronger GDP won’t help Americans if they’re dead”
““America is now engaged in a vast, dangerous experiment.”
“The push for reopening rests on a foundation of willful ignorance”
“Never mind GDP: the most fundamental job of any leader is to keep his people alive.
Unfortunately, that’s a job Trump doesn’t seem interested in doing.” (Krugman)
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/paul-krugman-a-stronger-gdp-wont-help-americans-if-theyre-dead/)
Incalculable sadness and grief.
I hope you all got a chance to hear VP Biden speak with the mayors because it was really uplifting and productive. These people are real leaders crying out for change, to be heard, to move out of this horrible morass.
Angela Conley to Rachel Maddow:
Hennepin County Health and Human Services Committee Chair, Heading Home Hennepin Co-Chair,
Hennepin County Housing and Redevelopment Authority Vice-Chair.
She is tirst black woman ever elected to the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners.
Representing George Floyd’s neighborhood, Ms. Conley lives 5 blocks from where he was killed.
CONLEY:
“What we don’t need is hundreds of people being arrested, being shot at, because of the force that we see out there…the national guard and state patrol. What I am also concerned about is at the corner of
38th and Chicago…where George Floyd was murdered we have people who have been holding that space as a sacred space right now. Have been holding that intersection down.
These are people who are peaceful, who are there to pray, who are there to contribute to his memorial and to sing, and to meet people who come by. So there’s a lot of community building that is happening throughout the state, aside from what we’re seeing right now that I want to see protected.
Overnight all week, 24 hours, people have been protecting the space on 38th and Chicago and I don’t want that to be disrupted either. I don’t want to see those people face a police presence. Because so far there hasn’t been a police presence on that corner. And that corner is very significant to our community right now. And we want to keep it safe. We want to keep it that way.”
There is no bottom.
REMOVING THE MIDDLE MAN – JUST STRAIGHT TO PRISON.
OH
Adam Server (Atlantic, as received awards from the NABJ) talking to Chris Hayes:
Reminded us that when Trump told police hey, don’t bother treating your suspects nicely. And when Barr threatened us saying: Communities who protest police, risk losing protection. At the same time others are permitted to cross the line, while others dare not. Unequal treatment.
You have long guns at the WI state capital where unmasked hoodlums yell 6 inches from the faces of masked police, and these officers don’t make a peep. At the Bundy event protestors were on the hillside, snipers
with AK-15s aimed right at federal agents – the agents silently withdrew. Kaepernick’s protest was a thing of beauty. What we’ve learned is that violent or non-violent, no protest is acceptable.
2019: “Barr Says Communities That Protest the Police Risk Losing Protection”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/barr-police.html)
Police brutality was not invented by Trump but he has explicitly encouraged it.
–And HE is to blame for the fallout.
Anyone who cares about the future of this country and the planet…
Should show what clearly has been hidden thus far ‘to protect the nation’.
The evidence of Trump treason, conspiracy, and debt to Putin is under lock and key.
Let Us See It Now.
LIVE NOW:
NOW: Attorney Ben Crump holds news conference to announce findings of independent autopsy of George Floyd – https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-07
Thread from PBO!
There ya go!
POTUS has written a long thread, starting here:
“constitutes premeditation and warrants a first degree murder charge.”
Even dogs know BLM
Woof! 🐶
Thank You, NW for your hard work for TODville community.🙏💪💜❤💙🤗😍💪🙏
Thank you.
I wonder if Boris is seeing the writing on the wall.
Trump wants to be a “Strongman” in the vein of a Putin or any other brutal dictator that has dotted the world’s history. But to be a strongman you must possess that one undeniable trait that all strongmen have, and that is, you must be strong. At best Trump is a weak fool, at his worst he is a weak fool with power.
Did I tell you I love Katie Porter?
Another great idea!
Young voters – not immune.
Newsom: We are pruning. We are not rooting out the cause.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/the-brink-of-explosion/
Interesting.
Dear God!
Why was this man’s body left there for 12 hours? I don’t understand that. What were they waiting on? This is inhumane.
Don’t lock for racial hatred to make sense. It won’t.
It sends a message “We will kill you and leave you in the street, like the dogs you are.”