A Tweet Or Two

Check out the photos from @POTUS's trip to the frontlines of climate change → http://t.co/qNLETT73iy #ActOnClimate pic.twitter.com/TvXmsXxwJL

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) September 4, 2015

.@POTUS just became the first president to travel above the Arctic Circle → http://t.co/Xs7VFnbDeM pic.twitter.com/JGYVY4sFD5

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) September 3, 2015

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Our economy has now added 8 million jobs over the past 3 years, a pace that hasn't been exceeded since 2000. pic.twitter.com/WZldmUzzX1

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) September 4, 2015

RT to share the good news: The unemployment rate ↓ to the lowest level in more than 7 years → http://t.co/EA4m4Ykvu7 pic.twitter.com/LiF6g1JFx9

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) September 4, 2015

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Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) announces support for #Iran deal. http://t.co/j6X8NMAvpF Like recent yes Sen. Casey, from Scranton, PA. #fixed

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) September 4, 2015

Shame on @SenatorCardin for siding w/Cheney, Trump & Cruz in trying to scuttle diplomacy. #NoWarWithIran pic.twitter.com/tJ4T8lPNzc

— MoveOn (@MoveOn) September 4, 2015

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Happy birthday to the one and only, Queen 🐝! Thank you for being a role model for young girls around the world, @Beyonce. -mo

— First Lady- Archived (@FLOTUS44) September 4, 2015

34 times @Beyonce stole ALL the headlines #happybirthdaybeyonce http://t.co/oC1Qq83eKj pic.twitter.com/62l5FBkNeo

— USA TODAY Life (@usatodaylife) September 4, 2015

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BOOM

What the President has done in spite of obstruction from the GOP and too often tepid support from Dems is amazing...

— Hope Restored In DFW (@Kennymack1971) September 4, 2015

Payrolls Rose 173,000 in August as Jobless Rate Drops to 5.1%, a level the Fed considers full employment http://t.co/sMcEMbEzAd #ThanksObama

— Bruce P. Knight (@brucepknight) September 4, 2015

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Saudi Arabia welcomes Iran nuclear deal after Obama meeting: foreign minister http://t.co/gCAkPOrCGL

— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) September 4, 2015

BREAKING: Colorado Senator @SenBennetCO supports #IranDeal.http://t.co/ncp9yYFfDS pic.twitter.com/kgMVhT1jIU

— Negar Mortazavi نگار مرتضوی (@NegarMortazavi) September 4, 2015

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JUST IN: Judge declines to halt Obama's controversial water rule nationwide http://t.co/EVcUd3ngPx pic.twitter.com/td7wXcJOod

— The Hill (@thehill) September 4, 2015

https://twitter.com/DavidAWeinberg/status/639920539822354432

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Missy Elliott = A+++++++. Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger = OH. HELL. YEAH

The next hip-hop biopic should be about Missy Elliott http://t.co/Bhuk5u0lYL pic.twitter.com/Lqsbjo6Ild

— Mic (@mic) September 4, 2015

Johnny Depp talks transforming into Whitey Bulger in 'Black Mass' (and his dogs): http://t.co/8SUTDpFZA2 pic.twitter.com/KvNaZPUAwu

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 4, 2015

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Obama's second term on pace to see the second most job creation ever recorded JUST LIKE MITT ROMNEY WARNED US. https://t.co/oEQMApOWji

— L O L G O P (@LOLGOP) September 4, 2015

Gas prices predicted to dip below $2.50 for Labor Day http://t.co/zk5L6SlNWO

— (((TheRReport))) 🌻 (@TheRReport) September 4, 2015

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WTF?!

The @metpoliceuk are willing to use threats to get black families to comply with their demands http://t.co/hLsWCrldfv pic.twitter.com/yIcP844BrI

— end police violence (@LCAPSV) September 4, 2015

"How Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Became My Hero." http://t.co/GtVZm116qV @slb79 pic.twitter.com/cyoG1FGKW2

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 4, 2015

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Police investigate cross burned into lawn of New York mosque http://t.co/1gNJTdNukQ pic.twitter.com/ZOogEEdnGF

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 4, 2015

Arson investigators looking into fire at Pullman Planned Parenthood http://t.co/YQikZcuZ5u #FireNews #WA pic.twitter.com/kmapoKgYvX

— WA Fire News (@WAFireNews) September 4, 2015

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Even in liberal California, women’s rights can be denied. The fight never ends

I Was Denied A Common Procedure Because My Hospital Says It's "Evil" http://t.co/wVlDuDskKW

— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) September 4, 2015

Huge, wonderful news: HHS Unveils Civil Rights Protections For Transgender Patients’ Health Services http://t.co/93kiMjemLP via @khnews

— Amy Lynn Smith (@alswrite) September 4, 2015

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Minn. teen with autism suffered a seizure after police slammed him to the ground. http://t.co/5Tk617ld79 pic.twitter.com/9PhDOVO6qC

— The Root (@TheRoot) September 4, 2015

Had he not been able to post $500k #bail,he wouldve spent past 5 mos jailed for charge he eventually got probation on http://t.co/rpZyM7M7GO

— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) September 4, 2015

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It’s 2015 and some refuse to get it into their DUMB brains that blackface is racist

Same airport. Same hover boards. Different responses. Because white. pic.twitter.com/kzfqN0C1u3

— zellie (@zellieimani) September 2, 2015

This is Whitworth's Women's Soccer team.
They will still be allowed to be in tomorrow's game. http://t.co/JvngSOGdl6 pic.twitter.com/sm1903PuhL

— zellie (@zellieimani) September 4, 2015

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Secretary of State John Kerry suggested on Thursday that the United States would play a greater role in alleviating the increasingly high-profile Syrian refugee crisis, which the United Nations believes to be the worst refugee dilemma in 25 years. “We could do a lot more to protect those people,” Kerry told The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein. Speaking from the State Department, Kerry acknowledged that while America has donated over $4 billion in humanitarian assistance to help Syrians, the situation in their war-ravaged country and in neighboring states remains dire for millions. Kerry did not suggest that the U.S. should be taking in more refugees. Rather, he indicated that any increased American effort would focus on working with existing refugee camps in other countries.

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Douglass Redux: What, to Women, is the 4th of July?

Douglass Redux: What, to Women, is the 4th of July?

 

by @zizii2

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On that sweltering July 5th 1852, exactly 162 years ago today, Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”, a speech uncensored in its brutal rebuke of the hypocrisy of America celebrating independence, while its black population remained shackled in slavery. I wonder what he would say today if he were here in our time. No doubt the brutality of slavery in his time can never be compared to anything going on today.

Yet in view of the determined aggression of America’s conservative forces in our time, to derail every single gain made in the last century to advance Democracy and make this country “a more perfect union,” one wonders what he’d say. In the lifework of Frederick Douglass in which he combined his abolitionist cause with the fight for Women’s Rights, he always saw the struggles of enslaved African Americans as intertwined with the struggles of ALL disenfranchised Americans.

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