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Sep 23, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Why do people expect black people to be magic? Black people are as susceptible to cultural messaging of white supremacy as anybody else. We just have a little more reason to resist and more friends willing to help us.
But we shouldn’t be surprised when a guy like Daniel Cameron buys into and supports the system of white violence against black bodies. He learned it from the same places white people learned it. And, like lots of whites, wasn’t strong enough to resist.
Cameron is not, to my mind, a “sellout.” He’s just a tool. A tool of the White supremacist system unable or unwilling to oppose it. He didn’t betray anybody because ain’t nobody who knows what he’s about counted on him to be any better than he is.
Treating black people as so valueless that their murder warrants no charges is *learned* behavior. Black people are capable of learning that as well as anybody.

There’s nothing White people can do that Black people can’t do: that includes helping cops get away with murder.

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Mar 26
Okay folks. I'm back for today's SCOTUS arguments about mifepristone. To set the stage, Forced-birthers are trying to prohibit medical abortion based on junk science and the idea that James Ho likes looking at other people's babies.
All the lawyers arguing today will be women. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar for the FDA.
For the group of doctors and dentists who didn't prescribe the abortion pill but want to take it away anyway, it's Erin Hawley, wife of Sen. Josh Hawley
And lastly Jessica Ellsworth representing Danco Labs which makes mifepristone and will argue "DO YOU WANT TO LET THESE ASSHOLES CHALLENGE EVERY DRUG ON THE FREAKING MARKET???"... or something. :)
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Mar 18
I’m in a waiting room and there are a bunch of old people here and at least three of them are listening to content on their devices with no headphones… LOUDLY.
What the SHIT is this?? Is this normal? It’s like they’re sitting here with boom boxes.
One guy is just playing an ALBUM. Another lady keeps watching clips from, I assume, her baby granddaughter that somebody sent her. Another person appears to be trying to learn RUSSIAN.

I’m am legit going insane.
I finally broke and, as politely as I could, motioned to my ear and mouthed “headphones” the guy playing the album (he was closest to me).
He said, loudly, “The phone don’t have a jack no more.”
… AS IF THAT SOLVED MY PROBLEM!!!
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Feb 28
Hey, remember when a 64yo unloaded 1,000 rounds at a Las Vegas music festival and killed 60 people? Remember how the *Trump* administration thought that was too much death and banned bump stocks?
Yeah, ammosexuals are still pissed about that. Today they're at SCOTUS.
Let's find out if Republican justices are even more committed to blood and death and the idea that the Constitution is a murder-suicide pact than the NRA-bought Republican presidents who put them there.
Gorsuch is worried that people who own bump stocks are now felons, and that they could lose their gun rights and "other civil rights, including the right to vote."
... To recap: Gorsuch is very concerned about ammosexuals losing their voting rights, no one else though.
Read 25 tweets
Feb 8
Here we go. Trump v. Anderson live tweet thread:

Jonathan Mitchell out here making the claim that the President is not an officer of the united states.
Thomas wants to talk about whether S-3 is "self executing." The conservative argument here is that Congress has to pass a law implementing section 3, as opposed to it just being a thing.
Mitchell is saying that Trump should be able to run even if he can't hold the office, because Congress can remove the insurrectionists disability (by 2/3rds of a vote) after he wins if they want to.
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Feb 8
All right, let's set up what to watch for in today's SCOTUS Trump ballot access argument.
The justices I'll be paying the most attention to are Neil Gorsuch and Elena Kagan.
The Court is likely to keep Trump on the ballot. But...
Neil is the guy who is most willing to carry his logic through to the bitter end, to hell with the consequences. And Neil's logic *should* exclude Trump. He once wrote an opinion that kicked other people off the ballot, b/c they failed a textual test in the constitution.
Course, that guy was Arab and Trump is white and, unless you're a white man or Native American, Neil isn't sure you get to exist in this country so there's that.
Still, I can't count to 5 unless Gorsuch is on board, so I'll be listening for hope.
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Feb 7
I would like all the people who spent 2017-2020 telling us that we should impeach Trump for his crimes because “Republicans will just make it political” to look at the House debacle and apologize to the rest of us for counseling cowardice.
Just because the GOP will act in bad faith doesn’t mean they’ll succeed. And even if they do, it doesn’t mean we should not act in good faith to hold people accountable.
In lieu of an actual apology, I will be satisfied if these people would just STOP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN, by saying we shouldn’t prosecute Trump because “Republicans will prosecute Democrats.”
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