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Sherrilyn Ifill Profile picture
@SIfill_
Sep 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
This man takes no resoonsibility for his failures. His tweets, his welcome & embrace of extremists, his capricious decisionmaking, juvenile stunts, disparagement of news sources ( NPR, NYT) and contempt for those who brought value to the brand, has “strangled” Twitter. NOT ADL. Image
Now Musk is threatening to sue ADL for fighting to keep anti-Semitic speech ofc the platform. Is it just a matter of time before civil rights groups fighting against anti-Black racism & voter misinfornation on the platform are in this man’s crosshairs? Image
He’s calling for a boycott of a major law firm that is partnering with the ACLU in a suit representing homeless ppl in San Francisco. sfstandard.com/2023/08/28/elo…
In short, he’s gotten a taste of being a despot, and he likes it. I don’t think it will stop here.

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Aug 27
It’s time to say it: white supremacist violence is a national emergency. We need President Biden, the DOJ & DHS to treat it as such. cnn.com/2023/08/27/us/…
Black people are victims of mass murder or the threat of mass murder in the Dollar Store, the grocery store, the Waffle House, bible study, college, walking on the street, driving, simply BECAUSE they are Black. These are conditions that existed during post-Reconstruction.
We have documented examples of violent white supremacists serving in law enforcement and in the military. The terms of the Reconstruction Amendmentsto the Constitution rest on a recognition of the danger of white supremacy to the integrity of our democracy.
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Aug 10
We are so damaged & divided that we are tolerating grave threats to our democracy. - Justice Thomas’ excesses, Trump abuse of the legal system, his explicit racism towards publuc officials, DeSantis’ thuggish attacks on democracy. It’s time to stand up & draw the line.
We cannot allow this to continue. Perhaps we failed to act before. Perhaps acting now will produce a backlash. Yes, it will be called partisan. But we are facing an existential crisis that without a firm response will only further embolden this growing band of authoritarians.
Gov. Abbott deploying buoys with blades against migrants? Shakespeare barred from Florida schools, comically grotesque PragerU “curriculum” permitted?
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Aug 7
Irrelevant. WOW. “This team built its brand on winning.” Yes.That gives you the obligation to demand payment in accordance w/your worth. Which was their central “stance.” But that’s not what you mean is it?Since you were a professional American athlete, let me try to educate you.
If by “stance” you mean support for LGBTQ rights, let’s go there. Their captain is gay. We may not have long for it, but in 2015 the US Supreme Court upheld the right of gay ppl to marry on the grounds that Constitution entitles them to “equal dignity before the law.”
Even today, THAT is the law of the land. The USWNT support for a world that recognizes the dignity of its captain & other members of the team AND MUCH OF ITS FAN BASE is not some fringe position. It is in keeping with the law of the land as affirned by the SCOTUS.
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Jul 9
THREAD. And so it continues. Suppress the full truth about a racial program for nearly 100 years, then deny the ability of survivors to demand accountability & recovery. What a blow for these survivors & for this community. Again.
There are many ways to suppress history. Book bans & censorship, of course. But this too. Lawyers have for 20 years attempted to litigate on behalf of survivors. They have been met w/every possible basis for dismissal. As the years go by, & survivors age.
In short, Black ppl in Tulsa are being told this a wrong for which there is no recourse. A moral crime & a civil wrong for which there can be no accountability. This is what corrodes our country from within.
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Jun 25
Standing outside the Supreme Court after the announcement of the Shelby County v. Holder decision, which destroyed the most consequential protection in the Voting Rights Act - Section 5 preclearance. I said then that this ruling was catastrophic. I was not wrong. But even then….
…even then I did not predict how removing the protections for Black, Latino, Asian American & Native American voters in those places that had been covered by Section 5, would encourage Republicans to turn voter suppression into part of its national policy.
I did not then predict that the most bipartisan civil rights statute in our history would be shunned by the Republicans in Congress - denied a hearing, denied debate. That every entreaty of Rep. John Lewis, even as he battled death would be ignored.
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Jun 25
A THREAD. This woman was born in 1972. Two years later the President of the United States was compelled to resign from office after revelations about his abuse of power and corruption. His VP resigned b/c of unrelated illegal conduct.
In the year she was born, white supremacists burned the Springfiekd Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, the site of many civil rights meetings and gatherings.
In 1979 when NikkiHaley was 7, the poverty rate in South Carolina was 20%. Yes, 20%! The U.S. poverty rate that year was 11.6%.

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