I just visited #MOCO Amsterdam and wanted to share some of my experience. If you like modern art, have a 👀 — maybe over morning coffee or an afternoon glass of wine.
Trump has no core beliefs. He wanted LGBTQ votes when running for President the 1st time and talked a good game but turned his back on the LGBTQ+ community when it mattered. #PrideMonth
The real story isn’t the lawsuit being filed by the victims but how this extreme civil rights violation occurred in the first place & is being shielded by Mississippi authorities.
No one’s civil rights are safe in Mississippi. #SaveMississippi
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On the night of Jan. 24, six white Rankin County deputies came into the home of Jenkins & Parker - proceeded to handcuff & beat them, tased them repeatedly over 90 minutes, forced them to lie on their backs as the deputies poured milk over their faces.
The struggle for democracy is real in Mississippi‼️
Mississippi had only 32% voter turnout in the 2022 midterms — the lowest in the nation. If we’re going to #SaveMississippi we need more folks to vote. But there’s a lot to overcome.
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Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents in the country at 39%. Meanwhile White Republicans have had total control over state government due to voter suppression policies dating back to Reconstruction. #SaveMississippi 2/4 nytimes.com/1964/06/28/arc…
Mississippi has one of the most extreme felony voter disenfranchisement laws in the country. #SaveMississippi
Voting rights are permanently taken away without recourse. That leaves over 10% of adults in the state, the highest rate in the country, impacted as of 2020.
That… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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If the LAFD was late to your 911 emergency fire call it could have been because a firefighter made off with a LAFD cellphone, used it to solicit a prostitute while on duty, then abandoned his dispatch, drove to a hotel near LAX & had sex with her before returning to work.
Or maybe it was that time an L.A. firefighter drove with a blood alcohol level nearly 2½ times the legal limit, resisted arrest and committed battery on a cop.
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Or maybe it was when an LAFD captain was busy kicking a homeless man in the head with his steel-toe boot while the man was lying motionless.
All true incidents and none of them resulting in termination. In fact, disciplinary procedures dragged on for so long that some… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🧵Election season is coming so let’s chat about candidate donations. The ones we’re led to believe are for the candidates.
I’ll use @Disrupt_Corrupt as an example. Check out this post (screenshot). At first glance, it looks as though if you donate money it will go back to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Disrupt pumps out tons of Tweets for different candidates. The Tweets state something compelling about the candidate and an ask for a contribution. If you go to the FEC filing (more on that in the 🧵), you’ll see that none or little of that money goes to the candidate. If you’re… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If you hit the ActBlue link on their tweets, you can see donations go to Disrupt (left), not the candidate (right) from the candidate’s Twitter profile ActBlue link). 3.