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October 27, 2020
So many things wrong with this picture
https://twitter.com/sfpelosi/status/1320915552429174784
October 25, 2020
One way to ensure we get some common sense (and maybe even harsher) gun safety restrictions
An all-Black group is arming itself and demanding change.
Among the crowd was a group of armed Black men and women who call themselves the "Not F**king Around Coalition" or NFAC. The group did not run toward the gunshots or break formation. Instead, they kneeled on the ground amid the confusion, and then walked away after their leader shouted, "fall back! fall back!"
The all-Black, Atlanta-based group has grown in size out of frustration during a summer of protests against questionable policing and the deaths of countless Black people at the hands of police, said their founder John Fitzgerald Johnson.
Their presence has caused a stir in the cities they've visited and the group has drawn some criticism after people accidentally fired a weapon during two of their rallies, including the one in Lafayette.
Started in 2017, the group has marched in Stone Mountain, Georgia, calling for the removal of the nation's largest confederate monument; Brunswick, Georgia, for Ahmaud Arbery; Louisville, Kentucky, demanding more transparency in the Breonna Taylor case; and most recently Lafayette, Louisiana, in the name of Trayford Pellerin.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/25/us/nfac-black-armed-group/index.html
Among the crowd was a group of armed Black men and women who call themselves the "Not F**king Around Coalition" or NFAC. The group did not run toward the gunshots or break formation. Instead, they kneeled on the ground amid the confusion, and then walked away after their leader shouted, "fall back! fall back!"
The all-Black, Atlanta-based group has grown in size out of frustration during a summer of protests against questionable policing and the deaths of countless Black people at the hands of police, said their founder John Fitzgerald Johnson.
Their presence has caused a stir in the cities they've visited and the group has drawn some criticism after people accidentally fired a weapon during two of their rallies, including the one in Lafayette.
Started in 2017, the group has marched in Stone Mountain, Georgia, calling for the removal of the nation's largest confederate monument; Brunswick, Georgia, for Ahmaud Arbery; Louisville, Kentucky, demanding more transparency in the Breonna Taylor case; and most recently Lafayette, Louisiana, in the name of Trayford Pellerin.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/25/us/nfac-black-armed-group/index.html
October 25, 2020
I LOVE my people
We are oppressed, dismissed, threatened, treated like second-class citizens and forced to jump over innumerable hurdles just to exercise basic rights that most other people take for granted, and yet while we wait in hours-long lines to jump those hurdles, we do this ...
https://twitter.com/ResistanceRev/status/1320219587171045381
October 25, 2020
Blapipo to Trump: "You about to lose your job"
https://twitter.com/aliciagarza/status/1320166002798178304
October 17, 2020
If this isn't the best ad of the race ...
Samuel L. Jackson: "Don't vote because I want you to, but because HE doesn't ... Vote, dammit, VOTE!!!"
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1314611834566053889
October 15, 2020
Looks like I'm not the only black woman who noticed Barrett's condescending tone toward Kamala
https://twitter.com/mmodi93/status/1316495386513682433
October 15, 2020
Kamala Harris offered a master class in cross examination today.
We watched a master at the top of her game today.
Do you accept that COVID19 is infectious? Yes
Do you accept that smoking causes cancer? Yes
Do you think that climate change is happening and is threatening the air we breath and the water we drink? Hummuna Hummuna. That's debatable.
Do you accept that smoking causes cancer? Yes
Do you think that climate change is happening and is threatening the air we breath and the water we drink? Hummuna Hummuna. That's debatable.
Kamala Harris offered a master class in cross examination today.
October 12, 2020
SO proud of the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats!
They are unified, on message, on point and are nailing an easy-to follow and explain narrative.
Excellent job!
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