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24 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Defund the police? Republicans at this stage refuse to DEFEND the police who fought the insurrectionists in hand-to-hand combat, and they want to defund the FBI and the military over a made-up, twisted version of an 80s legal theory, because they hate the idea of anti-racism.
And their media is hiding these facts from their captive audience…
“Defund the military” is literally the Trumpist right’s new thing. And they’re using this fake but ugly war against anti-racism as their cudgel. Take that in for a moment. Fight anti-racism by defunding our troops! politico.com/news/2021/06/2…
And for what offense?? For trying to root out white nationalism in our fighting forces, which seems wise, given the number of veterans, so-called “oath keepers” and “3 percenters” who showed up at the insurrection…
And what passes for thought leaders in the @GOP are already putting out the messaging… Defund The Military (unless they agree to stand down on white nationalism, and also on sexism and anti-trans stuff too)…
With their total embrace of Trump, the MAGA party’s new Enemies of the State are THE MILITARY, for the Thought Crime of fighting racism, teachers for daring to try anti-racism, and any police who stand in the way of a racist insurrection (stick to stop, frisk and beat, coppers!);
the FBI, for investigating insurrection and collusion with Russia and our intelligence services for the same Crimes Against The MAGA Dear Leader. This party has gone from a tax cuts party to a support group for white nationalism, insurrection, and crushing nonwhite voters.
And the soulless, bland so-called leaders of this party — Kevin and Mitch — will quietly go along and coddle accused child sex traffickers, Qanon loons and insurrection sympathizers, due to their sheer, unquenchable thirst for absolute power. God help us, if they ever get it.

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
21 Jun
Seems like one reason Republicans are so eager to build a wall around the American history memory hole is to quash the next generation’s ability to connect their drive to crush nonwhite voting and the confederacy and its progeny’s war against black multiracial democracy.
And of course, they’d love to drive a wedge through the heart of the Justice for George Floyd coalition, while amping up Trump voters ahead of 2022. As usual, it’s all about power.
And miss me please with the “but it was the Democrats who done it!” No shite, Sherlock. Black people know that. And we deeply feel the irony that the party most Blacks joined after the civil war totally rebranded itself, the same way they’re now rebranding critical race theory.
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21 Jun
This wasn't centuries ago. It was 16 years before Ronald Reagan was elected president (after launching his campaign, quite decisively, in Philadelphia, Mississippi). teenvogue.com/story/mississi… via @TeenVogue
And what were these murders -- which were three of many, many more lynchings in Mississippi, mainly of Black activists that summer -- about? Stopping Black Americans from voting and thus being full citizens... This has been a theme of American history from day one. ImageImage
The sheer savagery of it puts the lie to the notion that America has never been, a racist country. Misuse, abuse and hatred of Black people, and anyone else who would stand with Black and other nonwhite people in favor of equality and justice has run deep in the soil since 1619. ImageImage
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20 Jun
Are any of y’all watching Black Summer?? 👀👀
I think the summary of all of these apocalyptic series is that humans are terrible, living or dead. Only a few will maintain their humanity when the shite goes down and civilization falls. It’s sad how realistic that feels…
That said the plot exposition is really solid. I love the way they go back and explain what you already saw happen in layers.
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19 Jun
It feels like someone should let folks know: Marxism is a theory that divisions in a capitalist society will inevitably lead to the collapse of the class structure. Communism is the achievement of Marxism via revolution. And critical race theory has nothing to do with either one.
I post this in the face of the latest idiot branding exercise on the right, performed to exquisite stupidity by usual suspects @tedcruz (R-Cancun) and @marcorubio (R-Twitter Bible Verse) in which they smugly pretend to know what CRT is by defining it as Marxism in another name.
They’re doing that, because
A) whoever provided them with the idiot branding knows that the word MARXISM works on the amygdalas of everyday conservatives
B) they know everyday conservatives have know idea what Marxism is, or how irrelevant it is. They just know it’s bad.
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
16 Jun
What the CRT hysterics are essentially saying — literally without knowing what Critical Race Theory is — is that teachers must not ask whether we have arrived, via slavery and its aftermath, at an unequal society. And even if we have, it’s only fair that we freeze it there.
Apparently these people want teachers to teach that the founders of this country were racial innocents, who despite all but seven of them owning slaves had a secret, hundred-year plan to end the practice that enriched them and their families even after their deaths, using a WAR.
They want storytime not history; despite the fact that thanks to Confederate socialites, American students since the civil war were taught a “lost cause” perversion of history that excused the insurrection, buried the truth about massacres and left people ignorant about our past.
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15 Jun
So let me get this straight ... this man goes into a store and is told he has to wear a mask due to covid. He shoots at the store clerk, goes home, unassailed, gets AK-47 and shoots at SEVEN cops, whose response is to shoot him in the BUTT and the FOOT and THIS IS THE HEADLINE???
He "just wasn't handling the pandemic well" is the excuse that not just his lawyer uses: IT'S THE LEDE IN THE NEWS STORY! Where are the "just comply" people now? What happened to police training to shoot at the head or the center mass? And folks claim there's no white privilege.
And it was this paragraph that just ... just floored me. Read this and tell me it doesn't sound like a story about policing in someplace other than America...
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