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30 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Democrats only want to remove white supremacist statues from the US Capitol to hide their history of "supporting slavery, pushing Jim Crow laws & the KKK.”

120 Republicans voted to keep the statues today. mississippifreepress.org/13398/two-miss…
Rep. Kevin McCarthy: "Let me state a simple fact: All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.”

218 Dems voted to remove the white supremacist statues, joined by 67 Republicans.

All 120 votes to keep the statues came from Rs. mississippifreepress.org/13398/two-miss…
In Kevin McCarthy’s statement today, he claimed that Democrats want to “double down” on their racist history by “replacing the racism of the past” with “critical race theory.” (What he described was not actual critical race theory). mississippifreepress.org/13398/two-miss…
Kevin McCarthy also said that Democrats are using anti-racist ideas to replace "past discrimination" with "present discrimination," presumably against quite people. (But that's not how anti-racism works. At all).
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"If we need to get it by request or by subpoena, I’m not reluctant to do either," the Mississippi Democrat told @mkraju. mississippifreepress.org/13455/jan-6-co…
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Then he told a right-wing radio host that he did so hoping it'd show Pelosi is at fault for the attack. He now opposes a Jan. 6 committee.mississippifreepress.org/13455/jan-6-co…
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"Kavanaugh would help kill the Voting Rights Act and uphold voter suppression laws that make it harder for voters of color to cast ballots."
—Hillary Clinton, Sept. 6, 2018
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30 Jun
For 90 years, the most famous insurrectionist in U.S. history, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, has stood in a place of honor in the U.S. Capitol statuary.

Mississippi put him there. And the state's white congressmen just voted against removing him. mississippifreepress.org/13398/two-miss…
The only member of the Mississippi congressional delegation to vote to remove Jefferson Davis and other Confederates from the Capitol?

Rep. @BennieGThompson, the long Democrat and sole Black representative from Mississippi.
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"Statues of those who served in the Confederacy or supported slavery or segregation should not have a place of honor in the U.S. Capitol—that’s why I voted to #RemoveHate today,” said Rep. @BennieGThompson.
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30 Jun
NEW: Two white Mississippi Republicans voted to keep statues of white supremacists on display in the U.S. Capitol, including Mississippi's statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Jim Crow architect J.Z. George.

Both were slave owners. #HR3005 mississippifreepress.org/13398/two-miss…
“Statues of those who served in the Confederacy or supported slavery or segregation should not have a place of honor in the Capitol—that’s why I voted to #RemoveHate today."
—Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the only Mississippi member to vote for #HR3005 mississippifreepress.org/13398/two-miss…
Republican U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed today that Democrats were trying to "hide their shameful history" of southern Democrats supporting slavery with #HR3005 which all Democrats voted for and most Republicans voted against. mississippifreepress.org/13398/two-miss…
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29 Jun
NEW: No single person can claim credit for retiring the old Mississippi state flag a year ago today.

It was driven by decades of work by Black Mississippi activists and leaders. Here's the first in a series on the people who made it happen. mississippifreepress.org/13375/black-mi…
National & state media gave much credit to the SEC & NCAA threatening boycotts unless the flag changed.

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Sen. Frazier: “When the young people had the big rally in the City of Jackson peacefully asking for change, that kind of forced all of us as legislators to come together. … They don’t want to leave the state; they want to stay here and make it better." mississippifreepress.org/13375/black-mi…
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But when evidence came out that she was the one repeatedly assaulting him, including by severing his finger (pic)...she keeps her role on Aquaman?
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She mocked him for always "running away" even when there's no "hitting" or "throwing things"...!
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Amber Heard: "No we don't."

Depp: "We have to be apart from one another. ... There can be no physical violence."

Heard: "...I can't promise you I won't get physical again."
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