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Jan 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Aside from coming to greatness through historically black colleges and universities and decades of hard work at the grassroots, Thurgood Marshall appears to be the last (and perhaps only) member of SCOTUS to have attended public colleges and universities.
It's no wonder the court almost never works for the regular folks because most don't have blue blood pedigree, or the greed and pretentiousness to strive for it.

What must be acknowledged is that Justice Sotomayor has humble roots, and she continuously makes the people proud.
What's also clear is all of the ivy league credentials on the court right now do nothing for their quality, integrity, humanity or, what they're actually there for, judgment. Maybe it's time for a regular Joe (or Jane) to sit on the court and represent the people.
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Jan 28
Reagan promised to nominate a woman to SCOTUS. Obama was determined to nominate a Latina. Even Trump promised to nominate a woman, even though his choice is a dollar store brand, low brow, misogynistic, unprepared ideologue.
But the biggest worry people conservative Americans have is every that Biden candidate is far intellectually superior to their potential conservative colleagues already on the court.

That puts a serious dent in the notion of "white supremacy."
Consequently, republicans will nut up completely, and do their best to character assassinate and destroy the candidate no matter who she is.
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Imagine being stalked. Then imagine being tired of the stalker so you say "I'm just over it," and the stalker simply goes away.

That'd never happen because, short of police intervention, the stalker has a say, too.

Folks who are just "over" #COVID19 are in the same position.
It doesn't matter if your political orientation leans left or right, being "over" a pandemic that remains in progress is juvenile, self-destructive, narcissistic and dumb. The pandemic is a pain for everyone. But it is an equal opportunity destroyer.

Actually, that's not true.
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Jan 25
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When was RFK ever a progressive?

RFK, Jr.'s Anne Frank comment was indefensible and reprehensible.
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It's not even clear what JFK Jr.'s political base is. His antivax ideas appear to have no ideological borders. Whereas far right radicalism and extremism actually represents a significant ideological wing is a political party.
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Jan 21
I deeply appreciate @NicolleDWallace's segment with Col. Vindman and Amb. McFaul concerning the potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, it was bone chilling.

No, it was frightening.
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Jan 21
No matter how good people say the economy is, some people still don't feel it. No matter how much improved conditions are with the pandemic, it's still here. No matter how much gets done, big major important stuff is still getting blocked.
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Really?
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...yet folks carry racist slavers around in their pocketbooks and wallets every day of their lives and never give it a second thought, there is a problem. There's a serious disconnect between the fight we think we're fighting, and what many of us truly understand the fight to be.
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