Watch Helen Gym use this in her mayoral campaign ads in 2023.

Save this tweet, remember it, because the pandering is going to reach all heights at this point.

She would rather pose as an activist than do more in City Council.
Of course white progressive Philly and Gym's paid staffers would flood my thread. I said what I said.

Gym got arrested and then turned around and chilled at Pork & Fork in Harrisburg right after.

Go chase headlines, not my tweets.
If you're an "urbanist" in Philly and you spend more time trying to out-woke Black people who are critical of your favorite progressives...you've failed the assignment and have turned into the very problem last summer's uprisings should have taught your white savior asses.
Helen Gym's team immediately put out fucking fundraising emails after she was detained today...like don't tell me this isn't another attention-seeking political stunt trying to bolster mayoral buzz.

As one who has been on the frontlines, I know a politician from an activist.
Less than 24 hours later, Helen Gym has already used her arrest as an instant fundraising plug...like a true politician. Hell, even POWER hasn't marketed as a donor appeal and they are a nonprofit.

Like I said before, this is what stunt queens do.

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23 Jun
THREAD: Here's the definitive list of over 40 names you can call Shaun King that are spot on.

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23 Jun
Shaun King's Real Justice PAC's momentum in trying to flip D.A. seats across the country is fading.

Their backing of Tahanie Aboushi did more harm than good as she's expected to lose big.

It's important to note that King tried act as though they got Krasner in Philly elected.
As I had tried to note in May, Krasner was going to win without the Real Justice PAC. Shaun King's behavior during the campaign has now gotten them both tied up in a lawsuit that has exposed questionable campaign spending.

King has tried to capitalize off of Krasner's win.
Shaun King spent time days after Krasner's campaign harassing journalists on social media trying to guilt trip them into shouting out Real Justice PAC.

He would later delete several of those tweets and many of them on his page as the lawsuit would be made public.
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22 May
ATTN: Y'all, Shaun King and his Real Justice PAC is now being sued and the receipts from this lawsuit are wild.

Some of these names look very familiar and some of these tactics do to. 👀
The part of this lawsuit that took me out was when it says that Krasner's campaign paid $91,000 to a Real Justice PAC co-founder's company called The Social Practice, LLC -- which operates from the SAME ADDRESS as Real Justice PAC.

The money was literally going in circles.
BASED ON THESE RECEIPTS: Krasner's campaign was paying EVERYBODY through the Real Justice PAC: Co-founder Becky Bond, political director Brandon Evans, Philly elected officials who endorsed him -- this shit is crazy!
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17 Mar
FYI: The fetishization & eroticization of people of color is ANOTHER FORM OF RACISM.

Some of y'all are watching porn so much that you have normalized this shit.

From BBC and Black bucks, to docile Asians and muy caliente Latinos -- the oversexualization is killing US.
When they try to say that this white man isn't racist -- but was driven by a sex addiction -- his sex addiction to Asian women was a fetishization. That sex and racism can't go hand-in-hand is ignorance.
As a Black queer man, I know what it's like to be fetishized for presumed sexual attributes that I don't personally invite to be violated.

But I have also heard Asians be erroticized in certain ways as well. It has and continues to be a form of racism society let's slide.
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17 Mar
THREAD: It's important for people to understand that these concerns around Tamika Mallory aren't new or unwarranted.

There's one particular incident during the Breonna Taylor protests in Louisville, Kentucky that a lot of people aren't talking about enough that raised red flags.
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She brought several of her celebrity reality TV star friends along the way.
Their plan was to stage a protest outside Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's home.

During the protest, which featured outside camera crews and lots of social media traction that would later be used on reality TV shows like RHOA and Love & Hip Hop, it was a vanity fair.
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I'm not going to fall for the Grammy's fake diversity trap, nope.

They do this like every year. Get all of the tribal category wins out there untelevised so Black folks can get hype to watch the show -- only to then give mostly white winners awards on air. #GRAMMYs
Notice how most of the pop categories haven't been called on air yet, but most of the Rap/R&B ones are already done?
An opportunity to give airtime to Black and brown artists by default is systematically reduced to give more on-air time to mostly white artists in predominantly white music categories.
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