They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This photo was taken today in Emancipation Hall as the senate democrats participated in an 8 minute and 46 second moment of silence in honor of George Floyd. Such a solemn moment captured by the @GettyImagespic.twitter.com/qOfUAHPGP5
Thank you for keeping the home fires going, NerdyW. This place to pause and breathe deeply during this time of highest tension is much appreciated. Bless you for your commitment and … for everything!
None of my high school teachers were like Mr. Taylor. This thread has a very important message to share.
Wagner HS English teacher Trevor Taylor gives emotional statements about racism in the criminal justice system at Travis Park Wednesday night. #GeorgeFloyd@TPRNewspic.twitter.com/XXYTqiTW6j
Fuck em. They give cover to the racists and white supremacists in their ranks who brutalize and abuse black people. If Joe Biden has pissed them off that is a good thing. https://t.co/AgD7zUgajk
— Wakandan Establishment Shill (@Kennymack1971) June 4, 2020
Good to see Joe not being afraid to be out in front of this issue. I will admit that I have always felt that he was more about the type of democrats of his father’s time and class who turned into Reagan voters. He and others of his age would really like working class white voters to come back so that they would not have to depend on Black voters to get elected. However, I still intended to vote for him because there is no other choice even if he still feels this way (which I think he does to a certain extent). Black folks are not looking for purity, we are looking at whatever we can get knowing it will not be all that we need or want but this is better than nothing which is what we get from republicans in power. Joe has seen the data that all of us have seen and he knows that Black voters in SC put the wind beneath his wings that set him on the course to victory.
You'd think protests focused on police brutality would lead police to be careful about avoiding police brutality, but they seem determined to double-down on their behavior, even while cameras are rolling. That's not just dumb, it's a reminder of how protected they feel they are.
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) June 4, 2020
I want to be honest right now. I'm a conflicted black publisher who writes books that promote empathy and hope. I want to share my work, but I feel odd doing so with everything happening. But I don't think there's a better time to do so. So here goes, https://t.co/d1gJUOUlmwpic.twitter.com/VlysAgxqCS
An audit of thousands of old case files by Ukrainian prosecutors found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Hunter Biden, the former prosecutor general, who had launched the audit, told Reuters. https://t.co/gZ9hVO9vv3
Real change requires protest to highlight a problem, and politics to implement practical solutions and laws. As I mentioned yesterday in our @MBK_Alliance town hall, there are several steps our mayors and elected officials can take right now:
This thread seems so promising that I’m crossing my fingers, hoping and hoping that it’s mostly true. It would be so great for our collective psyches to see the faux-president start to receive his just desserts!
REVELATION THREAD: How a small group of brave patriots saved democracy
This is the story of the FBI counterintelligence investigation, how it was protected and completed, and how it doomed Donald J. Trump.
Almost. I finish all instruction tomorrow; then next week, although I’m staying home, my students will be coming up to return their textbooks, etc making sure to follow social distancing procedures, etc. Monday and Tuesday is for my 8th graders. I will be putting their final grades into a grading program by Wednesday. I’ve already gone up to clean up my classroom, so technically I’m off for the summer after I get my grades in. So glad. I’m looking forward to being away from my computer and doing other things.
This is a huge win for the voters in #TN BREAKING: Judge strikes down TN limits on absentee voting due to pandemic https://t.co/Q7ROiVdLNO via @tnlookout
This tweet is from the Attorney General of the State of Maryland! Wooowee, they gon’ find that mofo by morning! Love to see it!
If anyone can identify this man, please let me know (410-576-6300) and contact Montgomery County States Attorney John McCarthy. https://t.co/Y2pO51MHJD
Just found my 77 year old mom standing in her room in silence for the 8min 46 second interlude at the first George Floyd memorial today. God, I love this woman❤️ pic.twitter.com/r6J9P3P3Io
A bunch of us 70-something women stood with her today (including my two sisters, in their homes!). We all cried through the entire memorial service. Feels like it’s been a whole lifetime of watching these events – and technically it’s been since the events of the 1960s when most of my generation was first awakened.
I feel the same way as Joy about Murkoski. They all had a chance to vote to impeach that criminal in the White House. Adam Schiff told them exactly what would happen if Trump remained in office. Her words ring hollow to me.
This is coming from a country that has been oppressed/at war & have dealt with the same thing everyday even whilst fighting their own battles they’re standing up for others. THIS IS PALESTINE. pic.twitter.com/lHjmozvrxG
In the midst of the flurry of statements from current and former #military leadership dunking on @RealDonaldTrump, something really important happened for the 2020 election that seems to have been missed:
They told Trump: "if you lose the election, you're leaving office." Thread
We have been exposed to so much insane violence perpetrated on innocent people all over this country, so much pain and authoritarian sadism, it’s so horrifically traumatizing. When I spotted this, I just teared up at the sheer sweetness and normalcy of it, the adorable young boy, his lovely mom and Joe. Just being human and kind.
Morning everyone. Yes, this. It seems to come often and easily. It must stop now!
The sheer number of incidents of police brutality captured on film in the past week ought to have everyone thinking about what they do when they know the cameras are not running.
Yep. I’ve watched one the remixes like 100 times already! Epic!
Miss Lady knows her rights! 💪🏾
I hope she’s okay and somebody bailed her out if they took her to jail!
I was arrested on June 2nd, 2020 with around 100 other protesters in Los Angeles. While I was ziptied and facing the wall, two male officers joked behind me about my gender presentation: "Do you think it's a female? Are you sure?"
They then proceeded to start patting me down—touching my breasts and my front/back pockets, still laughing. Finally, one of them admitted," We shouldn't be doing this." Then they called over a female officer to search me. Their names are Officer Cho and Codilla of the LAPD.
I was not the only gender non conforming protestor to be called "it." There were trans/non-binary protestors divided into the 'male' and 'female' buses and deliberately misgendered. I was also not the only protestor to be sexually harassed or made uncomfortable.
After being held for over 4 hours—with protestors vomiting, fainting, forced to pee in their seats, losing circulation in their bruised wrists/arms—many began to advocate. We demanded access to bathrooms, water, and medical attention. We held them accountable to the law.
The only response was an officer telling us to "stop acting like high school girls." We were held even longer, watching other buses with prisoners being processed and released. When I got off the bus, an officer said, "Now that you're acting reasonable, we let you off the bus."
I didn’t even have to scroll down the thread. I saw the jeans on the ground behind him and knew immediately he was one of the blue thugs who stepped over and walked pass that old man with blood running out of his ears after they knocked him down and heard his head crack on the pavement. Ugh!
[look behind officer Losi's feet in the 2nd pic] Here's a whole article they wrote about the good guy cops.
Protestors gave those cops a photo opportunity that they do not deserve, and the cops' PR department spun it into a feel-good piece in the media. https://t.co/Boy0jQVb3Q
Meet Jade Fuller, Nya Collins, Zee Thomas, Kennedy Green and Emma Rose Smith. These young women, ages 14 through 16, organized this protest which pulled out tens of thousands of people in Nashville. pic.twitter.com/VWDyuvdR2F
Today should have been Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday. But her life was horrifically taken by officers who still have not been charged 84 days later. Keep up the calls for justice. #SayHerName
Trump’s euphoria a/b jobs numbers seems canned & increases the likelihood they’ve been faked. He’s desperate. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, spawn of Antonin & Federalist Society member reports to the WH.
Rule # 1 is they lie about everything. Be skeptical & make them prove it.
“President Obama joined Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder,
President of Color of Change Rashad Robinson,
Minneapolis City Council Representative Phillipe Cunningham, and
MBK Columbus Youth Leader Playon Patrick,
in a conversation moderated by Campaign Zero co-founder Brittany Packnett Cunningham.
Learn more about this issue and how you can take action in your local community from The Leadership Conference Education Fund.
Learn how your community can become an MBK Community.
Mayors: Commit to taking action to address police use of force policies in your city.”
(https://www.obama.org/anguish-and-action/)
LEARN ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE AND ANTIRACISM IN AMERICA.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights—New Era of Public Safety: A Guide to Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing
(https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Policing_Full_Report.pdf)
The recommended reforms in this report, which are intended to create accountability and build better relationships between law enforcement and communities of color, stem from President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. You can read the Task Force’s 2015 report here.
(https://cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/taskforce_finalreport.pdf)
MAYBE THIS SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED TOO!! This is what they do when they KNOW people are watching!!! WTF!!
This is one reason why people are protesting. Imagine if that were you. The police have the person subdued. People of color are typically treated unfairly in all areas of life. pic.twitter.com/duN8JRRuSg
The irony of Bill Barr turning to the Border Patrol and Bureau of Prisons to secure the White House? Those same agencies historically were enlisted during the Civil Rights Movement to *guard* black protesters against white supremacists. https://t.co/FMrEaFY98t
BREAKING: law enforcement officials have seized thousands of cloth masks that were mailed to four different cities to protect Black Lives Matter protesters from COVID-19: https://t.co/EQLpDIk364
A 🌹 has bloomed from the cracked concrete state of nation we’re living in right now! Beautiful thing to see! Congrats Ella Jones!! 🙏🏾💪🏾✊🏾👑. We must continue to keep going now up https://t.co/WCRIXo59S5
We finally did it guys, we finally made the 3rd amendment relevant again! https://t.co/wH82u5N6ut
— 🇯🇲Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹 (@Freeyourmindkid) June 5, 2020
It's literally the 3rd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, right after free speech and the right to bear arms:
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." https://t.co/qzIY77dEEq
It's amazing how many people, especially police, haven't quite worked out that these days, almost EVERYONE is carrying a high-quality video camera, with sound, in their pocket, and they are ready to use them.
Oh, they know they’re being recorded – maybe occasionally they forget. They also know they are protected, so they can act with impunity and literally get away with murder. This is the point of the protests.
Muralists have painted "BLACK LIVES MATTER" on 16th Street just in front of Lafayette Park and the White House at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. Her office says she wanted to make it "abundantly clear that this is DC’s street" and honor Monday's peaceful protesters. https://t.co/FF1GCyj7XE
Teachers, nurses, and paramedics are all hardworking middle class people who are required to have a license to do our jobs. We are required to renew that license and take professional development classes regularly. The police are not. Something to think about.
In 2006 the FBI warned that white supremacists were urging people within their ranks to work in police departments. The problem has only gotten worse and the entitlement of these officers has exploded since Trump took office. https://t.co/CVN9gOjTMV
it would be a shame if the protesters in Missouri destroyed this statue of the confederate war general Sterling Price and it would be a greater shame if they found out I, as his great, great granddaughter, gave them my full permission pic.twitter.com/bsyJTfSQZq
Police departments used LRAD in Portland OR, San Jose, CA, Colorado Springs, CO, Phoenix, AZ, Columbus, OH, Charleston, SC, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and other cities.
–But it is the first I’d ever heard of it.
I am outraged at the deplorable behavior of our President and Defense Secretary Esper, threatening to use American military forces to suppress peaceful demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights. This is a deeply shameful moment for our nation. https://t.co/zO8bEMd0YB
#BreonaTaylor should be celebrating her 27th birthday today. She can't because she was murdered by police in her own home. Yet there is still no accountability. No justice. Nothing to stop it from happening to another Black man or woman.#WeveSeenEnoughpic.twitter.com/5ueCPRNdLf
#WeveSeenEnough – videos of Kyles and Karens doing shitty things to people – videos of abusive cops beating and tasing instead of protect & serve – GOP turning blind eyes to it all
Joe Biden's estimate that 10-15% of Americans are bad people is LOW.
This is my kid. He called me today to tell me he was denied entry to a store by a homegrown militia with AK-47’s because he has brown skin. The stores they are guarding include Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, Dollar Store, Ranch and Home, Burger King….and the police are fine with it pic.twitter.com/0NUQruqd5M
— Cynthiane, First of Her Name (@VerityCyn) June 5, 2020
Please contact your local media and be sure to contact @ACLU
This is unacceptable, illegal and unconstitutional! I wonder how the federal and state govts would like if all of those being oppressed were to stop paying taxes 😡
The Black particle physicists are going to strike, and we’re going to find out too late that they were literally holding the fabric of the universe together. Just watch. https://t.co/sUOkQadwPv
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) June 5, 2020
We are seeing so many videos now, from all across the country, of cops behaving like they’re on PCP: unprovoked brutality, unchecked by their fellow officers. This is a national crisis that needs to be addressed by Congress now.
The Obama Diary 
Where was Senator Tim Scott?
Under Mitch McConnell’s right boot heel as usual.
Blessings to him. May he live long and prosper🖖🏽
Thank you for keeping the home fires going, NerdyW. This place to pause and breathe deeply during this time of highest tension is much appreciated. Bless you for your commitment and … for everything!
Hiya VC 💜
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I wondered why Herman Munster was trending
This is cool. I am old enough to have watched this series when it aired originally.
None of my high school teachers were like Mr. Taylor. This thread has a very important message to share.
Good to see Joe not being afraid to be out in front of this issue. I will admit that I have always felt that he was more about the type of democrats of his father’s time and class who turned into Reagan voters. He and others of his age would really like working class white voters to come back so that they would not have to depend on Black voters to get elected. However, I still intended to vote for him because there is no other choice even if he still feels this way (which I think he does to a certain extent). Black folks are not looking for purity, we are looking at whatever we can get knowing it will not be all that we need or want but this is better than nothing which is what we get from republicans in power. Joe has seen the data that all of us have seen and he knows that Black voters in SC put the wind beneath his wings that set him on the course to victory.
We been trying to tell ya for decades.
Nice, but how will they vote?
Great to see Rep. John Lewis. We can’t afford to lose another moral leader in Congress! Hope your chemo continues to clear you of the dreaded C.
Imagine that
Pass that on to the once so call great Mayor of New York Looney Rudy.
Signing back on.
CEB
Good to know it’s you CEB! 💞
👊🏾
I mean where would we be without cell phone video technology today?
😔
Thread to share
This thread seems so promising that I’m crossing my fingers, hoping and hoping that it’s mostly true. It would be so great for our collective psyches to see the faux-president start to receive his just desserts!
Here’s the thread on Thread Reader:
Here’s hoping!
Me too. I hope he’s right.
Do I ever!!!!!
Hi Betsy, is your year finished yet?
Almost. I finish all instruction tomorrow; then next week, although I’m staying home, my students will be coming up to return their textbooks, etc making sure to follow social distancing procedures, etc. Monday and Tuesday is for my 8th graders. I will be putting their final grades into a grading program by Wednesday. I’ve already gone up to clean up my classroom, so technically I’m off for the summer after I get my grades in. So glad. I’m looking forward to being away from my computer and doing other things.
James Baldwin!
This tweet is from the Attorney General of the State of Maryland! Wooowee, they gon’ find that mofo by morning! Love to see it!
It’s a daily struggle.
Truth. I remember that day and night as though it were yesterday.
A bunch of us 70-something women stood with her today (including my two sisters, in their homes!). We all cried through the entire memorial service. Feels like it’s been a whole lifetime of watching these events – and technically it’s been since the events of the 1960s when most of my generation was first awakened.
Make it stop.
😘😘😘♥️
If you open up the tweet, you can see that the dog at the bottom of the pic stood, too!
Awwww!!
If you aren’t listening to Joy Reid on LOD right now, you missed something special. She was SPOT On!!!
I was. 💯‼️
I feel the same way as Joy about Murkoski. They all had a chance to vote to impeach that criminal in the White House. Adam Schiff told them exactly what would happen if Trump remained in office. Her words ring hollow to me.
I missed it! 😩
She’s on it.
Education is power. It may be in cartoon form here, but this is why they like the uneducated populace. Easier to bullshit you.
Well the racist NFL owners don’t want them to kneel anymore so they have to do what they have to do. Bravo to them.
This thread 👆🏾
These are Republicans speaking truthfully.
Goodnight TOD
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I think we could all use a moment of just some simple sweetness.
Aww! Thank you for this! 😍
We have been exposed to so much insane violence perpetrated on innocent people all over this country, so much pain and authoritarian sadism, it’s so horrifically traumatizing. When I spotted this, I just teared up at the sheer sweetness and normalcy of it, the adorable young boy, his lovely mom and Joe. Just being human and kind.
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Morning everyone. Yes, this. It seems to come often and easily. It must stop now!
Thanks for sharing that.
This was in the replies.
View at Medium.com
Yep. I’ve watched one the remixes like 100 times already! Epic!
Miss Lady knows her rights! 💪🏾
I hope she’s okay and somebody bailed her out if they took her to jail!
This is one more reason why I’ve always side-eyed Cuomo.
Even in his handling of the Coronvairus cases in New York, Black and Brown lives have never been a priority of his.
COPS ARE TRASH. COPS ARE TRASH. COPS ARE TRASH.
THIS IS SEXUAL ASSAULT!!!!
I didn’t even have to scroll down the thread. I saw the jeans on the ground behind him and knew immediately he was one of the blue thugs who stepped over and walked pass that old man with blood running out of his ears after they knocked him down and heard his head crack on the pavement. Ugh!
Good Morning Y’all! The kids are gonna be alright. 🙏🏾
“President Obama joined Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder,
President of Color of Change Rashad Robinson,
Minneapolis City Council Representative Phillipe Cunningham, and
MBK Columbus Youth Leader Playon Patrick,
in a conversation moderated by Campaign Zero co-founder Brittany Packnett Cunningham.
Learn more about this issue and how you can take action in your local community from The Leadership Conference Education Fund.
Learn how your community can become an MBK Community.
Mayors: Commit to taking action to address police use of force policies in your city.”
(https://www.obama.org/anguish-and-action/)
LEARN ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE AND ANTIRACISM IN AMERICA.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights—New Era of Public Safety: A Guide to Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing
(https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Policing_Full_Report.pdf)
The recommended reforms in this report, which are intended to create accountability and build better relationships between law enforcement and communities of color, stem from President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. You can read the Task Force’s 2015 report here.
(https://cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/taskforce_finalreport.pdf)
Equal Justice Initiative—Tragic Death of George Floyd Reveals Continuing Problem of Police Violence
A reflection on the current state of police reform with recommendations for progress.
(https://eji.org/news/tragic-death-of-george-floyd-reveals-continuing-problem-of-police-violence/)
Campaign Zero—Solutions
A look at data- and research-informed policy solutions that communities can put in place to end policeviolence.
((https://www.joincampaignzero.org/solutions#solutionsoverview)
Center for Policing Equity—The Science of Justice: Race, Justice, and Police Use of Force
This detailed report delves into police administrative data to show disparities in the use of force.
(https://policingequity.org/what-we-do/research/the-science-of-justice-race-arrests-and-police-use-of-force)
You can watch the director of the Center, Phillip Atiba Goff, deliver a TED talk on fighting racism and improving policing here.
(https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_phillip_atiba_goff_how_we_can_make_racism_a_solvable_problem_and_improve_policing)
The Opportunity Agenda—Promoting Accountability
Learn how police accountability works, and the four mechanisms—community-based, political, civil, and criminal—for holding law enforcement accountable.
(https://policingequity.org/what-we-do/research/the-science-of-justice-race-arrests-and-police-use-of-force)
The National Museum of African American History and Culture—Talking About Race
On online portal to help families, individuals, and communities talk about racism and commit to being antiracist.
(https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race)
(https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist)
He didn’t come to a complete stop at an intersection…
Say her name…
MAYBE THIS SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED TOO!! This is what they do when they KNOW people are watching!!! WTF!!
Nothing to brag about
Must read
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/06/05/radicalizing-my-daughter/
We’re on the same page:)
All is not well in the City of Angels
Oh, wow.
I can hear Howard scream from here!:)
Go, Jaime, go!!!
LRAD sound cannon is being used on protestors.
Young person in Portland told me
about reports of a sound device being used
and sure enough here it is:
“Genasys Inc. LRAD Systems Deployed by First Responders and Law Enforcement for Critical Crowd Communications”
(https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/12596207-genasys-inc-lrad-systems-deployed-by-first-responders-and-law-enforcement-for-critical-crowd-communications)
Police departments used LRAD in Portland OR, San Jose, CA, Colorado Springs, CO, Phoenix, AZ, Columbus, OH, Charleston, SC, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and other cities.
–But it is the first I’d ever heard of it.
The same young person told me of reports of drones being used to track protestors to the their homes.
WE WILL END THIS.
Trump also claimed there was “no tear gassing” outside of WH when it is all over the media.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/sayhername-breonna-taylor/
Somewhere in Washington State
Nerd Alert! 🚨🤓🚨