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Chiffres du @washingtonpost têtus et précis: 53% des candidats républicains investis pour les élections fédérales (Sénat, Chambre) et locales (gouverneurs, procureurs généraux, secrétaires d'Etat) nient la victoire de #Biden et la défaite de #Trump en 2020.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…
2. 174 des 299 "négateurs" de la victoire de #Biden, même si certains ont pu faire des amendements tactiques (cf. le général en retraite Bolduc au New Hampshire), se présentent pour des postes sûrs d'être gagnés. Que devient la démocratie US 1 fois ces négateurs élus?
3. On le chronique en détail dans @Lesjoursfr pour notre 3e saison de #ThisisAmerica mais ces #midterms n'ont rien de commun avec les précédentes puisque confrontant 2 partis dont l'1 ne reconnaît pas en majorité le résultat de la présidentielle précédente.lesjours.fr/obsessions/thi…
I didn't see this before. I apologize. here is a database that anyone can use to see where some continue to exist justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/…
From the same basic mapping but clearer with the legends. justice.tougaloo.edu/map/
I'm just going to show you a few comments of butthurt WP that their precious town is on the list and we are just making all of it up to be divisive. No benefit of the doubt granted here is there. It's just simply NOT possible. #ThisIsAmerica #VilliansInThisAmericanHorrorStory 
We were at the Mall of America.
My entire family, plus our oldest’s partner and my nibling.
Sitting on the top floor enjoying some tacos.
Then screams, and a rush of people running toward us.
There were gunshots fired nearby.
Everyone running toward us.
My entire family, plus our oldest’s partner and my nibling.
Sitting on the top floor enjoying some tacos.
Then screams, and a rush of people running toward us.
There were gunshots fired nearby.
Everyone running toward us.
I live in North Mpls which means I have seen and heard some shit.
So believe me when I tell you:
I have never — NEVER — experienced such terror or chaos.
You cannot be ready for that.
You cannot active-shooter-drill your way to preparedness.
So believe me when I tell you:
I have never — NEVER — experienced such terror or chaos.
You cannot be ready for that.
You cannot active-shooter-drill your way to preparedness.
I got Eli (11) and Max (21) down two flights of escalators (why aren’t those immediately deactivated in an event like that???), and immediately searched for Matt & Leah (who were nearby).
Then all of us wondered where Paul (spouse) was — he was still inside, nearing the exit.
Then all of us wondered where Paul (spouse) was — he was still inside, nearing the exit.
Just walking home from the park with my two kids (13 & 5) and this lady followed me to my house and #raciallyprofiled me and #harrassed me. Outside of my own house! #thisisamerica
@Change_HC this is the type of people you employ? Cool!
@rabovitz How are we going to @fundblacktech and we can’t even walk to our own homes. This was last night for me
Here's anti-racism activist Jane Elliott explaining in 2017 (?) why White Republicans wanted Roe Vs Wade overturned ASAP
"The Birth Dearth"
#RoeVWade #RoeVsWade
"The Birth Dearth"
#RoeVWade #RoeVsWade
White women are under-represented in American abortion statistics, as they generally have better access to family planning education & methods than other ethnic groups
Clarence Thomas signalled the right to contraception is next after RoeVsWade
npr.org/2022/05/11/109…
Clarence Thomas signalled the right to contraception is next after RoeVsWade
npr.org/2022/05/11/109…
Payton Gendron is an *American problem*. Stop pretending these White domestic terrorists have to look outside our borders for inspiration/marching orders when all they have to do is watch Fox “news” & follow Republicans on social media. #ThisIsAmerikkka #WhereWereTheyRadicalized
This train is NEVER late. 😒 #Buffalo
“The author calls himself a white supremacist, fascist and antisemite... The author also mentions Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshipers in an attack on a Black church in Charleston in 2015.” | via @washingtonpost (🎁 link) #WhereWereTheyRadicalized wapo.st/3PqwJg2
Your experiences are simply not the same. You are experiencing prejudices. Pre judgements. Racism includes the actions below that are based on actions below. Laws put place to target your identity! Your right to exist!!
So many of you want to be victims so bad while literally denying the level and existence of the racism we face every single day. In a country that wants to dictate where we can move our bodies, determine who's acceptable for us to vote for or when we can get access to our money.
None of these are the same in impact. And even when we have accomplished all the things that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" means we are then met with constant resentment. And actions to put us in "our place" #ThisIsAmerica #VilliansInThisAmericanHorrorStory
Evénement majuscule chez nous, @Lesjoursfr.
Les derniers mystères du #Grêlé éclairés par @Patourancheau demain soir à 19h.
#justice #crime #coldcase
(Si ça ne vaut pas un abonnement à partir de 4.90 euros par mois, ça...😉)
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Les derniers mystères du #Grêlé éclairés par @Patourancheau demain soir à 19h.
#justice #crime #coldcase
(Si ça ne vaut pas un abonnement à partir de 4.90 euros par mois, ça...😉)
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2. Et pour le même modique abonnement mensuel à @Lesjoursfr, vous pourriez déguster ce soir, outre notre délicieuse indépendance garantie 100% sans pub ni actionnaire, le nouvel épisode des @Garriberts sur l'Empire Bolloré... lesjours.fr/obsessions/l-e…
3...découvrir ET la nouvelle série d'@AuroreGorius sur la présidentielle française avec ses meetings "illusoires" ET la BD tirée de ses précédentes enquêtes sur les coulisses du pouvoir politique pour @Lesjoursfr...
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The GOP & NRA also have a pretty good idea that plenty of aimless White #MAGAYouth (and adults) are considering school/workplace/mall shootings, vigilante killings and domestic terror attacks but they don’t give a shit b/c the blood money keeps flowing. #WhereWereTheyRadicalized
Michigan school massacre suspect’s mother wrote open letter to Trump praising his support for gun rights | via @MSN h/t @shannonrwatts #AmericanSociopath #MAGAMom #StochasticTerrorism #MAGAYouth #WhereWhereTheyRadicalized a.msn.com/01/en-gb/AARmM…
IOW, the #OxfordHighSchool shooting is yet another example of the stochastic terrorism borne of the Trump era and the ongoing radicalization of MAGA Youth at the behest of the GOP & NRA. The insurrection rages on and it doesn’t stop at the school doors either.
Southlake, Texas — where white parents go to the mat to prevent their kids learning anti-racism, to the point of book-banning; but are apparently cool with their kids chanting the n-word. #ThisIsAmerica #bookbanners #apartheidtexas nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
This is truly dystopian stuff…
“Separate IS equal… Toni Morrison: bad (she wasn’t neutral enough about racism, you see…) and white children must not ever read about mean white people in history… in a country white people have always run and where they had… slaves.”—the American Right (probably)
I dated this DC woman who is director of a big peace institute. This expert was out there spreading the racist lie to her friends that Haitians committed massacre against white Dominicans. Only I didn’t know.
She did her masters at mostly white & elitist university in most liberal racist city in US. I was pro Chavez & her racist #whitepassing elitist friends from #Venezuela hated my black 🍑. They would have convo about intdev around me, & couldn’t care less about what I had to say.
Once I invited her & her best friend, a staffer for a white liberal congresswoman to discover Haiti. They had great time, & few days after returning her friend said she got bedbugs from Haiti in her bed in spite of fact she paid expert to get rid of it 2 weeks before Haiti trip.
ANOTHER DAY
wonder how long youtube will leave this up
It's everywhere
(1) We've had about a month since Hurricane #Elsa with quiet seas out in the Atlantic. That is about to change, as we approach peak season in late August/early Sept.
Some systems forming: nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin…
Plus some E. Pacific storms.
#HWStormWatch🌀
Some systems forming: nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin…
Plus some E. Pacific storms.
#HWStormWatch🌀
(2) Now is not the time for states like FL to be tormented by partisan political division & the rejection of life-saving steps like #GetVaccinated & #MaskUp.
It's never the time, but especially not in peak hurricane season.
#NoPoliticsOnTheBoat #ThisIsAmerica #RightMatters
It's never the time, but especially not in peak hurricane season.
#NoPoliticsOnTheBoat #ThisIsAmerica #RightMatters
(3) That Facebook post was written by a woman in Houston, TX affected by one of the worst US hurricanes on record, #Harvey in 2017.
How I wish the level of partisan division in 2021 was lower, like it was 4 years ago.
How I wish the level of partisan division in 2021 was lower, like it was 4 years ago.
I'm going to talk about sundown towns in this thread today. I've been in several rooms on CRT and other aspects of the way we look at laws but also "the rules are the rules" framing that continues to go around. For most of us the rules and laws are for some.
Now. I've said this many times. Sundown towns still exist. Signs are still posted and Sirens go off. Yet I'm told over and over sundown towns are illegal. Asking for you so why are the signs and sirens still existing?
"The rules of a sundown town were simple: Black people were allowed to pass through during the day or go in to shop or work, but they had to be gone by nightfall. Anyone breaking the rules could risk arrest, a beating or worse." apnews.com/article/virus-…
The #maga #trumptreason terrorists planned to overturn the electoral vote confirmation, plotted to kill Speaker Pelosi and Mike Pence , they stormed the Capitol and destroyed government property in a failed coup attempt, they killed a Capitol Police officer,
they brought confederate flags to the Capitol among many other abhorrent acts. This is pure domestic terrorism led and encouraged by #trump and people like @joshhawleymo & @sentedcruz & people like @repralphnorman in the House of Representatives.
#republicans #treason #thisisamerica
There will be no talks of healing until they all acknowledge Joe Biden won the election, denounce white supremacy and all of the terrorists and their enablers are charged accordingly. The confederate flag is no better than a swastika.
There will be no talks of healing until they all acknowledge Joe Biden won the election, denounce white supremacy and all of the terrorists and their enablers are charged accordingly. The confederate flag is no better than a swastika.
Some of will never understand the anger I harbor. Anger that lived in my soul when I was 19 and I left my home behind in part because of this man that took out ads to get 5 innocent boys in Harlem killed for something they did not do. The army of blue came to Harlem & never left.
To leave all I knew behind including dear friends to end up here. Fighting battles I was not prepared for but did it anyway. Eventually debates on the hill and with a WH that at least listened. And yet my country voted in a white supremacist, the very one I thought I left.
To my warnings along with other amazing BW that identified a problem that the platforms, nor media wanted to hear from us. Women who like me had enough of a history to know what could happen. Some of it passed down. Whispers our elders shared.
The attempted Coup on America today was an INSIDE JOB. An act of sedition inspired and encouraged by the sitting President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. But Trump did not act alone.
I fear that todays attack may have been aided by sitting Republican lawmakers, supported with intelligence (including maps, soft targets, and Capitol Hill security intel) supplied by federal employees acting as partisans through their involvement.
This investigation must reach into the knowledge and actions of high level Cabinet Members, Senior Administration Officials, and even Congressional Members themselves.
this man just pointed a gun directly at me.
he then got out & threatened the group of 30+/- ppl near the ICE building in #Portland
he said that "all lives matter" & that he was military
the vehicle is a dark Land Rover with no plates
#pdx #portlandprotests #thisisamerica
he then got out & threatened the group of 30+/- ppl near the ICE building in #Portland
he said that "all lives matter" & that he was military
the vehicle is a dark Land Rover with no plates
#pdx #portlandprotests #thisisamerica
This is some of the altercation that followed.
I know I’m fortunate it took until 33 to have a gun pointed at me but damn. That was rough.
This man needs to be held accountable.
Period.
#portland #pdx #portlandprotest #thisisamerica
I know I’m fortunate it took until 33 to have a gun pointed at me but damn. That was rough.
This man needs to be held accountable.
Period.
#portland #pdx #portlandprotest #thisisamerica
@RedheadNomad was on scene & to captured clear images of both men involved (man in green sweatshirt helped to de-escalate; he is not w/ them).
I’m near certain we’ve confirmed their names & places of work.
Dear Internet: What would you do?
#portland #PortlandProtests #pdx
I’m near certain we’ve confirmed their names & places of work.
Dear Internet: What would you do?
#portland #PortlandProtests #pdx
Vous aurez déjà tout lu ça et la sur l'avant-débat #Trump/#Biden, juste quelques remarques historiques- on est là pour ça après tout-avant d'aller dormir, en m'excusant par avance si ça a déjà été dit par d'autres... 👇#Debates2020
2) Sur les PREMIERS débats présidentiels US impliquant 1 président sortant, rappeler qu'il a lui a toujours été défavorable (Bush Sr'92, Bush Jr'04), voire catastrophique (Reagan'84, Obama'12), et même irrémédiable (Carter'80). Seul #Clinton'96 a parfaitement maîtrisé.
3) Cette tendance incontestable souligne la difficulté pour 1 président en exercice à se plier au jeu du débat contradictoire après avoir pendant des années décidé et ordonné. Et la plus grande aisance théorique d'1 rival frotté aux durs débats des primaires paraît logique...
With the 19th anniversary of 9/11 earlier this month, @fatimafarha_ shares her reflections on growing up Muslim in the post-9/11 era. bit.ly/3mOsQTy #ThisIsAmerica
USA TODAY is launching #ThisIsAmerica, its first newsletter centered on race, identity and the ways they shape every part of our lives. bit.ly/3mM0nOj
Sign up for the newsletter here: bit.ly/305xgvL
Each week, we'll feature a rotating panel of USA TODAY journalists with diverse backgrounds to spark crucial conversations and build bridges between Black, Indigenous people, people of color and their allies.
Each week, we'll feature a rotating panel of USA TODAY journalists with diverse backgrounds to spark crucial conversations and build bridges between Black, Indigenous people, people of color and their allies.
#WhereYouWorkAt?
There is an economic war being prosecuted against American workers through global wage arbitrage. The U.S. economy was hijacked & by globalists when Reagan ascended to power and broke the backs of organized labor. Successive administrations have proceeded apace.
There is an economic war being prosecuted against American workers through global wage arbitrage. The U.S. economy was hijacked & by globalists when Reagan ascended to power and broke the backs of organized labor. Successive administrations have proceeded apace.
It was executed by the BOTH corporate (they're corporations) political parties reaching peak treachery under Clinton. His administration unshackled monopoly finance through t/repeal of Glass-Steagall, ended limits on foreign & consolidated media (control the narrative) & telecom.
He did the mass immigration version of tariff reductions, stripping U.S industry ass-naked b4 putting it on the pole for de-industrialization & "global competition" (WTO); which was really the ownership class divesting of U.S. industrial preeminence for cheap Asian labor.
1) Et histoire de vous donner envie de vous abonner à @Lesjoursfr, au creux de l'été, à l'occasion de mon article sur #KamalaHarris et #JoeBiden, 1 enfilade/récit sur l'anecdote la plus dingue quant à la sélection d'1 #veep... que je n'ai pas pu replacer dans le papier😉...👇
2) Donc, voilà, on est mi-juin 2004 et John Kerry, alors sénateur du Massachusetts doit choisir son colistier pour affronter le sortant W. Bush...Comme #Biden cette année, il a nommé dès avril 1 commission de sélection ad hoc confiée à son ami financier James A. Johnson...
dear @donaldglover, hey, I got shot in the head last night by a riot control grenade shot by the federal agents at the portland battlements, and this song was playing, and i thought of you. #PortlandProtests #ThisIsAmerica
Since this is blowing up:
Help keep BIPOC trans people alive and out of jail. And go to portlandpresscorps.com to support the folks who’re covering The Shit as it Goes Down.
Help keep BIPOC trans people alive and out of jail. And go to portlandpresscorps.com to support the folks who’re covering The Shit as it Goes Down.
For the sake of journalistic honesty: that night was kinda low key, compared to some of what's been going on in portland in the last few weeks.
Pour toutes celles/ tous ceux qui viennent d'arriver sur ce profil Twitter, RDV AUSSI sur
@Lesjoursfr pour mon obsession #ThisisAmerica qui chronique en série l'Amérique de #Trump en cette année présidentielle. Déjà onze épisodes à découvrir ici:
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@Lesjoursfr pour mon obsession #ThisisAmerica qui chronique en série l'Amérique de #Trump en cette année présidentielle. Déjà onze épisodes à découvrir ici:
lesjours.fr/obsessions/eta…
2) Alors, oui, pour @Lesjoursfr , il faut s'abonner (à prix tout doux) mais ça vaut la peine pour une presse indépendante, sans pub ni subvention. Témoignage ci-dessous...
3) Et samedi, 12e episode de l'obsession #ThisisAmerica dans @Lesjoursfr sur les Etats-Unis après la mort de #GeorgeFloyd. Venez, on fera tout pour que vous ne le regrettiez jamais! ☺️ (et promis, on fait le max pour le remboursement Sécu!!)
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