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May 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This video is good and everyone should watch it. But I wonder if everyone knows where the original report on Jamie Foxx came from in the first place?
(small thread)
this is the tweet that you likely saw first, as it has 12 million impressions. it caused what I like to call an "aggregation avalanche," which I'll explain in the next tweet
Apr 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Clay County prosecutor announces he's filed two felony counts against Andrew Lester in the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl
Assault in the first degree
Armed criminal action
A warrant has been issued for Lester's arrest
"There was a racial component to the case," Clay County prosecutor says
Apr 6, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Wow: Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, one of the Dems that the GOP is trying to expel from state legislature to protesting gun violence, calls out his colleagues on the floor
‘For years, one of your colleagues, an admitted child molester, sat in this chamber – no expulsion’
NOW: “I’m about to speak because the people of district 52 sent me here to speak. Speaker Sexton is not my constituent, Speaker Sexton is not a king, Speaker Sexton is not God” - Rep. Justin Jones
huffpost.com/entry/tech-jou…
A message on the accounts simply says they have been suspended for violating Twitter’s rules.
Aaron Rupar told NBC’s @oneunderscore__ he had “no idea” why the suspension happened
Jun 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas police commander says officers could have stopped the gunman in Uvalde school shooting within three minutes.
Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw says the Uvalde “on-scene commander chose to put the lives of officers before the lives of children.”
“The officers had weapons, the children had none.”
Jun 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
New: Dave Chappelle announced that he will not have his name on the Duke Ellington School of Arts
Instead, the theater will be called The Theater for Artistic Freedom & Expression. He made the decision on Friday
Chappelle, who is an alum of the school, said hearing the backlash from students about his special The Closer “sincerely hurt me.”
“If you have more talent than me, display it. That is what our genre is about …”
Jun 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Dozens of masked members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front were arrested as they prepared to stage a riot near a Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho thedailybeast.com/white-supremac…
Authorities just gave an update on the 31 people arrested inside a U-haul in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — At least 8 killed in mass shooting at Buffalo, New York, supermarket, law enforcement officials tell AP.
Ten people were killed by a gunman dressed in body armor and armed with a high powered rifle, while three others were wounded – two of them critically – at a Buffalo supermarket buffalonews.com/news/local/ten…
Jul 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Rachel Nichols said Maria Taylor earned the job to host 2020 NBA finals coverage because ESPN was “feeling pressure” on diversity. nytimes.com/2021/07/04/spo…
Rachel Nichols: “If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else.”
Mar 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
An announcer at a girls high school basketball game in Oklahoma was caught on a hot mic calling the team “fucking niggers” for kneeling during the national anthem
Norman Public Schools said it will no longer rely on the network to broadcast its games and that it supports its student-athletes' freedom of expression. normantranscript.com/sports/high_sc…
Dec 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Bow Wow is having a very open convo right now.
He talked about his addiction to lean, him being star struck when Jay-Z came to see him perform, Michael Jordan throwing away his Reeboks, that the Face Off album was suppose to be with him and B2K, and his beef with Soulja Boy.
Bow Wow says a #Verzuz between him and Soulja Boy would be fun
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is speaking now about the #BreonnaTaylor case, calling it a tragedy: “This was a gut-wrenching and emotional case ... My job as special prosecutor was to put emotions aside and investigate the facts...”
Cameron continues: "The success of our legal system is predicated upon the principle that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, despite passions, opinions and desire for every detail to be known ... the rule of law must apply.
Justice must be done.”
Sep 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Andrew Gillum on @TamronHallShow, just now: “You didn’t ask the question but I don’t identify as gay. I identify as bisexual. I’ve never shared that publicly before.”
R. Jai Gillum, his wife, says that “so many people just don’t understand bisexuality.”
“I just believe that love and sexuality exists on a spectrum. All I care about is what’s between us and what agreement we make.”
Sep 12, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This guy in Cleveland has been telling people he’s an Alpha from my chapter.
A few calls exposed him pretty quickly but that’s not the wild part:
He’s getting married to a Zeta and he asked Alphas in Cleveland if they could be in his wedding.
So apparently he’s been lying to his fiancée about being Greek
Aug 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Not sharing the video, but a Black man was shot several times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin by police
The man was reportedly trying to break up a fight and neighbors said the shooting occurred in front of his children. His condition is unknown kenoshanews.com/news/local/wat…
Jul 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Kanye West at his “campaign rally” in South Carolina: “Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves, she just had them work for other white people.”
Loud groans from the audience, “come on man” can be heard
Oh my God, what is happening
Jun 22, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Protestors are outside of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s Alexandria townhouse, playing audio of the detained children. She appears to be still be home.
Protestors are chanting “NO JUSTICE NO SLEEP!” and “FREE THE KIDS!”
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