Defund The Police: Fund Communities

If you watch one thing online today that should actually stay in your head forever, watch this. twitter.com/kingbach/statu…

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Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 11, 2020

https://t.co/Sj2sVP7Gdt

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King Bach (@KingBach) July 09, 2020

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@ava I agree, so I put captions on it. This is Yusuf Abdul-Qadir, director of the local chapter of the New York Civ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Maya Contreras (@mayatcontreras) July 12, 2020

WATCH: NYCLU Central NY Chapter Director @YusufAQ on what it means to defund the police: “We are funding for other… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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I did not fully appreciate the issue with "most cops don't live in the neighborhood they police" until seeing this twitter.com/KingBach/statu…

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Asher Vollmer (@AsherVo) July 10, 2020

@AsherVo “Black communities fund the suburbs.” Excellent point. I hadn’t thought about it in this context.

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Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) July 11, 2020

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@Drmlp55 @AsherVo They become literal invaders. They invade our communities from the outside and treat the ppl ther… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Justin is tired! (@ThatGuyYus) July 11, 2020

@ava Very well said: “We are funding the suburbs” - reminder that “defund the police” means reallocate the money. K… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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jp (@jpetrie_canada) July 11, 2020

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@ava They constantly trot out rhetoric about how they serve communities but refuse to live among the people who the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Sofia Quintero (@sofiaquintero) July 11, 2020

@sofiaquintero @ava I've said this for 40 yrs. I am from and live in Houston. Our police department has been moni… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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The World is My Piñata (@Embroiderista) July 11, 2020

This and That

@petesouza: Pres Obama pokes his head through a hole where visitors pose as the President at the Women’s Rights Park

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In 2010 President Obama greeted Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where Remsburg was recovering from severe injuries sustained in Afghanistan

NYT: President and Soldier: 3 Meetings, And a Lesson in Resilience

Three times, mainly by chance and in very different circumstances, Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg has met President Obama.

They were introduced near Omaha Beach in France in 2009, when Sergeant Remsburg was part of a select Army Ranger group chosen to re-enact a parachute drop for celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II.

The second meeting came less than a year later at a military hospital outside Washington, where Mr. Obama was stunned to see among the wounded troops from Afghanistan a familiar young man — now brain-damaged, a track of fresh stitches across his skull, and partly paralyzed.

The third time was two weeks ago in a private visit in Phoenix, where Sergeant Remsburg did something that neither Mr. Obama nor military doctors would once have predicted: he stood up and saluted his commander in chief.

More here

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The University of Buffalo:

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Henninger High School, Syracuse:

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RT if you agree: Every kid in America should be able to afford a higher education. #MakeCollegeAffordable, pic.twitter.com/oHdoYQbpTN

— The White House (@whitehouse) August 23, 2013

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Let’s make sure every kid in America has a shot at a great education. #MakeCollegeAffordable #ThrowbackThursday, pic.twitter.com/LnSdZnpqcn

— FLOTUS (@FLOTUS) August 23, 2013

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@petesouza: Pres Obama at the Women’s Rights Natl Historical Park in Seneca Falls

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This is how the President deals with a heckler…..pure class:

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WH.gov

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Lovely:

President Obama called, thanked Antoinette Tuff who persuaded the gunman in the Georgia school to lay down his guns

— Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) August 22, 2013

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More in the morning

Heads Up: President Obama in Syracuse

President Obama takes the stage to remarks on college affordability at Henninger High School in Syracuse, New York on August 22

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5:55 ET: President Obama delivers remarks at Henninger High School, Syracuse

White House Live * C-Span * CBS * 9wsyr

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Live on YouTube:

A whole bunch of weirdness going on with this live video link, if it doesn’t work, try here

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President Obama hands a copy of the speech that he gave before signing his first bill as President on January 29, 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, to women representing the National Park Service, during his visit to the Women’s Rights National Historical Park visitors center in Seneca Falls, New York