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🚨A lawsuit filed against NC House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland County) accuses him of having an affair with another man's wife and engaging in group sex with people seeking political favor.

Moore denies the allegations. #ncpol

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1/10 🧵Experts in the study of democracy hold that the United States has only been a full-fledged democracy since the 1968 election.

❓Why? Image
2/10 Why 1968?

It was the first time African-Americans could vote without traditional legal barriers.

Before then, voting while Black often meant navigating a gauntlet of literacy tests, poll taxes, and outright intimidation. Image
3/10 The landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 began dismantling these barriers.

It targeted racial discrimination in voting, ending practices that silenced many African-Americans.

But change wasn’t immediate. Image
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1/10: This #Juneteenth, we confront a horrific but essential part of American history:

The brutal exploitation of enslaved Africans, whose unpaid labor fueled the rise of the United States as an economic powerhouse. #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory Image
2/10: From the early 1600s, millions of African people were forcibly brought to the U.S. and exploited for their labor.

They were the engine that powered America’s rise as an agrarian economy, particularly in the South. #slavery Image
3/10: Enslaved Africans were integral to lucrative industries such as tobacco, indigo, and rice in the 17th & 18th centuries.

However, it was the cotton industry in the 19th century that turned the U.S. into an economic colossus. #EconomicHistory Image
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Jun 19
There is more than enough public information to confidently assess Governor Ron Desantis's character, intentions, and his approach to governance.

The press is treating him like an ordinary candidate, when he is anything but.

DeSantis is a small, thin-skinned demagogue… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
DeSantis regularly lies about science and vaccinations. His demagoguery related to a virus likely contributed to the deaths of thousands of Floridians. ImageImage
Christina Pushaw, Ron DeSantis’s political adviser, failed to register as a foreign agent.

Like Trump, he is oddly deferential to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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Jun 19
1/10: Black history is not a separate entity.

It is a vital part of the very fabric of American history and it continues to play a role in shaping our country’s future.

This thread will help illustrate that point by diving into an important piece of history – the arrival of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImageImage
2/10: In August 1619, about a year before the Mayflower’s voyage, a ship arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia carrying the first enslaved Africans to English North America.

They were captured from Angola, in present-day West Africa. #1619Project #Juneteenth2023 ImageImage
3/10: The “20 and odd” Africans, as historical documents refer to them, arrived on the “White Lion,” a ship that had captured them from a Portuguese slaver.

They were sold in exchange for food and some were transported to Jamestown, the first permanent English colony.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
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Jun 19
America’s democracy problem is also a literacy problem:

“More than half (54%) of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level, according to a piece published in 2022 by APM Research Lab.” @snopes.

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The quality of our democracy is directly proportional to the quality of our participation in it. If someone can’t read, they are at the mercy of those who can.
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Jun 19
"Both The Washington Post and The Associated Press obtained evidence that Barrett, who has refused to discuss the subject publicly, served as a “handmaid” for the People of Praise." @Forbes

*Published Oct 7, 2020

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@Forbes "The term "handmaid,” a nod to Jesus’s mother Mary who in the Bible is described as “the handmaid of the Lord,” was originally awarded to female leaders within each of the organization’s branches—including Barrett, per a 2010 directory." @Forbes

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"The organization recently changed the title to "woman leader,” due to negative associations with "The Handmaid's Tale," the popular television show based on the 1985 novel by @MargaretAtwood, @Forbes.

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