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Chet Powell 🌊🍑⚖️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Chet Powell 🌊🍑⚖️🇺🇸
@ChetPowell
Retired criminal investigator, wildlife rescuer & creator of @BullyingBugsMe. Author of FITZGERALD & coming soon; C.J.'s Boy. I #FactCheck & #Verify!
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Aug 2, 2019 • 113 tweets • 76 min read
HERE WE GO AGAIN🤦🏽‍♂️With #RacistInChief, #RacistTrump & #RacistGOP all still trending, MAGAts are dragging out the tired old "Democrats are the party of slavery and Republicans freed them" line. They do it every time.

Here's why it doesn't work👇 [THREAD] Go to any "racial" topic that trended over the last few weeks; Sweden, Reparations, Barack Obama Blvd, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Dinesh, etc, and scroll through the tweets and you'll find dozens & dozens, maybe even hundreds with a variation of 'DEMs are the party of slavery!' 2/
Jul 16, 2019 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
PLEASE🙏🏽...take a moment for a short thread👇🏽

Talia Joy Castellano died six years ago today.

I had been following this remarkable young lady after seeing her on @TheEllenShow. Talia was a 13 year-old who was wise beyond her years, perhaps because she would have so few of them. @COVERGIRL made Talia an honorary Cover Girl after seeing her makeup tip videos on @YouTube. Talia was naturally beautiful, but her inner beauty surpassed even her physical appearance. There is no way of knowing just how many children (and adults) that Talia helped. 2/
Mar 11, 2019 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
FIVE YEARS AGO I posted on Facebook about the misogyny coming from @FoxNews. With the news about Tucker Carlson's comments & alleged jokes about a 13-year-old being molested, here's a thread of that post. Keep in mind, this was BEFORE Roger Ailes & O'Reilly were ousted. THREAD👇🏽1 Okay, I’ve just GOT to ask this question even though I may very well lose some friends or get pelted with rotten fruit because of it. My question is simply; WHY? If you have daughters or granddaughters, WHY would you keep watching FOX News? I am not joking. I'm being serious. 2/
Feb 8, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
When I learned that I would be attending a conference in Detroit in 2012, I reached out to Zell Miller to see if he could arrange for me to meet a genuine American hero, @JohnDingell. He did, & it was even better than I had hoped. We lost the man today, but the legend lives on.🇺🇸
Jan 19, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I'm old enough to remember when Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward made a factual error in one of their stories during their Watergate reports & were so disparaged that they considered resigning, but Ben Bradlee said, "We stand by our story." Remember how that turned out? #Journalism While the movie is factual, I would highly recommend👉🏽READING the BOOK, "All The President's Men," by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward. It goes into more detail on this & other incidents. I also suggest "Watergate’s Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse,” by Jon Marshall.
Jan 16, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
HAPPENING NOW: We interrupt the regular bullshit on your Twitter feed to bring you ... PUPPIES!!!!!! This is the first one. It's WAY smaller than it looks in the video. They're Chiweenies (some call'em Chiwees) which are a mix between a Chihuahua (dad) and a Dachshund (mom).
Dec 31, 2018 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🔥👉🏽PLEASE RETWEET THIS!👈🏽🔥Police in Houston, Texas are searching for a white man who pulled alongside a black family’s car and opened fire, MURDERING A 7 YEAR-OLD GIRL. #LEO #Alert abc13.com/search-for-clu… PLEASE RT: @HCSOTexas investigators ask residents in Wallisville Rd/E Sam Houston Pwky area to review security video from the morning of 12/30 for a red 4-door pickup involved in the fatal shooting of 7 year-old Jazmine Barnes. Call 713-274-9100 or @CrimeStopHOU at 713-222-TIPS.
Dec 14, 2018 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
AS YOU WATCH THIS👇🏽video of a Border Patrol agent pouring out water that was left for migrants, know that the body of a 7 year-old girl is lying on a table right now. SHE NEEDED WHAT HE POURED OUT. Her death is a direct result of the hateful policies of Donald Trump & the @GOP. For folks informing me that the video is from 2013: Look at #FactCheck & #Verify in my profile. I purposely included the time stamp but used the video because it was used in a story from THIS YEAR because the practice continues. Not only that; the BP arrests those who leave water
Oct 28, 2018 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
ONE LOCKED DOOR. This week was a trifecta of domestic terrorism, but the media isn't saying so because of a locked door. On Wednesday Gregory Bush (L) tried unsuccessfully to get into a predominantly black Baptist church. So he went instead to the Kroger supermarket down the- 1/X street. He walked into the store, passed white employees at the registers and at least 3 white customers (Drew Butler, Eric Deacon & Kathy Mayhall) before coming up behind the 1st black person he saw, Maurice Stallard, who was there with his 12-year-old grandson to get some- 2/5
Oct 26, 2018 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
For MAGAts spouting "most domestic terrorists are liberals" bullshit: I'm gonna hit you with some #FACTS. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) includes systematic data on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2017. It includes domestic, transnational and... 1/7 international terrorist incidents. The GTD is →THE MOST← comprehensive unclassified database on terrorist attacks in the world, covering more than 180,000 cases. It includes the date & incident location, weapons used, nature of the target, number of casualties, and when... 2/7
Oct 23, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I'm quoted in this AJC article about Stacey Abrams involvement in burning a Ga flag when she was a college student. The quote is accurate, but it was edited for space. @bluestein's question was "Do you think it fires up her supporters more?" My full... 1/2
ajc.com/news/state--re… response: "Honestly, it's likely to fire up both sides to a point, but I also think it's mostly a dead issue now. Remember, at the time the state flag issue was big - from Zell in the 80s thru the 90s - was when a LOT of politicians were shuffling between parties & many of- " 2/3
Oct 18, 2018 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
The discussion going on right now on @MSNBC, between @NicolleDWallace, @SteveSchmidtSES, @Rosie O'Donnell & @Eugene_Robinson, should be 'required viewing' for every American. It's intelligent, informed, rational, TRUTH.
Well done, people! 👏🏽🇺🇸 Here's one small segment👇🏼As I said, it went for the better part of an hour, so please feel free to post more if you see any.
Sep 17, 2018 • 42 tweets • 32 min read
I'm posting a thread of tweets from women who were victims of sexual assault who are bravely speaking out in support of Christine Blasey Ford. #PostponeTheVote #NoKavanaughVote #MeToo #PostponeTheVote #NoKavanaughVote #MeToo
Thread 2/

Sep 7, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🔥URGENT - HAPPENING NOW🔥 Nick Warnell👇🏽JUST shot a Colquitt County deputy sheriff (A close friend of mine) He is in the area between Berlin and Ellenton, Georgia. (Cannon & Tillman rd area) He is ARMED and DANGEROUS. More info as it is available. I'm at the scene now. This is a VERY rural area. Lots of woods & fields. They've got a perimeter set up & have more help coming. We're hoping that he's still on foot & hasn't stolen a vehicle or caught a ride.
Aug 27, 2018 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
This is Glenn Harris. Today is his birthday. Glenn died on May 27, 1974. He was 17 years old. He would have graduated from Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia on the following Saturday. Glenn was swimming at Reed Bingham State Park that day, when one of the... 1/? girls, who could NOT swim, waded into a restricted area of the lake where the shallow water suddenly dropped to a depth of 15 feet. Without hesitation and with no regard for his own safety, Glenn jumped in to help. The girl, acting purely out of fear, grabbed Glenn, pinning- 2/?
Jul 17, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Lots of folks are joking about #Wouldnt trending, but we should instead use it as a litmus test for true PATRIOTISM in politicians & journalists. It may sound silly, but I’m serious. After the tidal wave of condemnation from Trump's pathetic surrender to Putin, it's obvious...1/5 that his staff searched for anything they could find to spin their way out of the hellhole Trump created and apparently, “wouldn’t” was the best they could do. Of course, anyone who watches the video can tell that it was NOT a mistake. Trump said EXACTLY what he meant. 2/5
Jul 1, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
THIS IS TERRIBLE. It's something I've warned people about who carry weapons, whether concealed or open. While trying to BREAK UP a fight, Navy vet Jason Washington's gun fell from the holster & when he tried to pick it up he was fatally shot by police. Most of the time police are dispatched to fight calls, but it's not unusual for cops to happen upon a fight if they're patrolling an area where there are clubs. Its happened to me & every cop I know. These cops had no idea who was who when the gun came out oregonlive.com/portland/index…
May 31, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Hey @PressSec Sanders, You asked "Where are the apologies to Trump?" America wants to know; where are the apologies 👉🏽FROM👈🏽 Trump to NFL players for calling them unpatriotic & sons of bitches; to Gold-Star parents, Khizr & Ghazala Khan for implying that Mrs. Khan was not- 1/ allowed to speak because of their religion, that Mr. Khan's speech was written by someone else, & even worse, that Trump's "sacrifices" of "hard work" was somehow comparable to their son's death; to the leaders & citizens of African nations after he called them "shithole... 2/
Apr 19, 2018 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Bald eagle rescue in progress. Stand by for video. This *juvenile bald eagle, too weak to fly, was discovered at a landfill in South Georgia. It was dehydrated & underweight. I’ll post updates here.

*They don’t get the white head until their 4th or 5th year.
Feb 18, 2018 • 35 tweets • 20 min read
TRUMP CHANGED HIS HEADER PHOTO… again. It may sound silly to mention it, but it IS important. Here’s why… (Thread)

We focus on his tweets – which is reasonable, considering how they could affect the entire frig'n planet – but when it comes to his header photos, we should 1/16 remember the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Trump spends an inordinate amount of time obsessing over his header photo. He’s like an adolescent teen, sometimes changing it twice in a week. His choices are telling. Let’s start at the beginning, for his first 2/16
Jan 13, 2018 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
AMERICA, WE ARE AT THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE.

Yesterday, as Trump was ranting about “shithole countries,” I was in a county courthouse in Georgia looking at a death certificate for a black man who died in 1930. I watched the courthouse employees’ faces... 1/ closely as they read the cause of death “Unlawful act.” Their confused looks confirmed what I suspected; they had never seen such a vague description listed as a cause of death. They clearly did not know about the incident that occurred there 88 years before, even though it 2/