Short thread to stop panicking and going insane like the thread explaining Biden would likely bomb his first debate because that is what incumbents do.

Trump will likely get a small RNC bounce. After the RNC, is the Summer Olympics & Preseason NFL games before the DNC late in August, Trump will likely lead polling the next 6 weeks, the DNC will take place and then Labor Day.

What makes an American household - working class, middle class or thriving?

A 🧵🧵🧵 inspired by tweets by h/t @bluesteeldc & @iamchanteezy I saw today.

https://x.com/bluesteeldc/status/1729900009196282132?s=46&t=J1CIwAJsl3CesZWXgqYWWQ

@BlueSteelDC @iamchanteezy h/t @iam_wakandan

Income alone is a poor indicators of being middle class. It doesn't qualify because income doesn't consider the cost of housing, transportation, disposable income etc.

Comparing $70k in San Francisco to $70k in Hot Springs, AR is asinine.

.@VP Kamala Harris will steward an imperative trip to Ghana, Tanzania & Zambia from Mar 26 - Apr 1.

.@TonyMoonbeam illustrated the national security + economic issues in the South China Sea that compelled that trip.

A 🧵 animating the urgent issues with our African allies: .@VP Harris & her staff will visit Ghana (3/26 -3/29), Tanzania (3/29 -3/31) & conclude in Zambia (3/31 – 4/1).

In discussing this trip, I'll note the myriad of threats & the requisite investment our allies need & how it makes our nation safer.

"And the one who searches hearts knows what is the intention of the Spirit, because it intercedes for the holy ones according to God’s will." - Romans 8:27 RNAB Version.

Getting from 2008 until here was a struggle, a celebration and a needed discovery. - a short 🧵🧵🧵 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… I moved from DC to New York in the summer of 2006 for a job at my current employer, it meant moving to New York City & working for my twin until the position one of my current bosses was creating.

It meant leaving someone I truly loved & who helped craft me into who I am.

This week, the Democrats defeated 30 media narratives & a micro-trend from the fascist GOP, a media that longs for the increased ratings of GOP incompetence, the communist left, apathetic contrarians,
& a wide array of HOTEPS. 1. Doing student loan forgiveness, using existing law, targeting only the student of working/middle-class families or graduates who now are working/middle-class adults would outrage non-college grads

Why does this kewn sound like Rebecca from Sunnybrook Farms?

Is Chicago producing Karens?

Real talk. His kids do not deserve the target this sperm donor just put on their heads. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… I love it!

This is the third policy move by the Biden-Harris administration that would have been a weakness for a Harris presidential run that has been taken off the table.

Where I think Afghanistan was a real issue, I am glad this fake issue will go away. Only 88 out of 24.5k federal drug conviction in 2000 were for marijuana possession. 84 were from DC & all 84 included another felony. Local municipalities and state governments prosecute these cases.

Thank you @tomricks1 for this book.

I am a huge fan of the data driven, history obsessed and super organizers of the civil rights movement. Fred Shuttlesworrh. A. Philip Rudolph, Bayard Rustin. Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer & Amsey Moore.

https://twitter.com/morning_joe/status/1577304616496205825

Despite failing health, the late Mr. Moses frequently spoke to students at South Florida colleges & former MDC College President Padron had him attend quarterly lunches with all the math tutors.

This is a bald face fucking lie.

Kareem, Wilt and Russell were punished by a predominately white conservative media for speaking up. They weren't respected. They got death threats.

Instead, ya'll praised Magic and Jordan for saying & doing nothing.

https://twitter.com/BrandonPOMara1/status/1577011065052725248

Awards were literally taken from Kareem and Hakeem and given to Magic, Bird and Jordan because they were acceptable to white American

Mondaire & all other Democrats are doing the best they can with the map that a GOP appointed chaos agent had drawn by a special master.

The SPM / Hochulmander protected all sitting Dems and complied with Black, Latino & Asian racially required districts.

https://twitter.com/MondaireJones/status/1528815586989457410

@MondaireJones did the right thing by placing the entire blame on this judge. @AOC & others that are not knowledgeable about redistricting, are crying foul over someone the courts did to pair 5 incumbents vying for 4 seats.

This is demagoguery and @AttorneyCrump knows that.

He knows the James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Bill was passed in 2009.

He knows that work ends when Republicans run the Executive Branch. Instead of telling ya'll Bush 43 & Trump are the issue...he is picking an imaginary foe.

https://twitter.com/attorneycrump/status/1527808644858798080

He knows we have a federalist system and the ability to protect those that live under GOP rule is much harder because we cannot overcome the lack of public safety laws in these locations.

Let's tell the truth and shame the devil.

60 years ago, in 1962, this nation was a different nation - by laws, demographics and distribution of wealth.

There are people that are speaking in this space that are lying to you & I won't! Black poverty in 1962 was 68.4%.

In 2021, under the monthly child tax credit, Black poverty dropped to 19.9% and was lower than white, Latino & Indigenous American poverty.

50 Republicans and 1 Democrat from a 93.5% white state killed it.