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https://twitter.com/dustin_temple10/status/743307143609126912
Liza, where u b?
https://twitter.com/Parker9_/status/743296314125881344
https://twitter.com/Bernie4People/status/743229785120313344
“…Use specific hits to muddy the waters around ethics, transparency and campaign finance attacks on Hillary…”
Yup.
That they’ve done and so much more…and all completely aided and protected by a very complicit, corrupt and agenda-driven media…
Eliihass, LIZA
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/743288820997644288
Can’t wait..
A bit behind on stuff SG…finishing a project that’s due …should be free and back on top of stuff by the weekend hopefully…I’ve got quite a bit to share …
Liza, what’s this about?
Why the DNC Won’t Call Hillary Clinton the Nominee
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-dnc-won-t-call-hillary-clinton-nominee-n593046
The Democratic nominating contests are over and Hillary Clinton claimed victory a week ago. Most of the country has moved on to what is gearing up to be her epic confrontation with Donald Trump.
But Bernie Sanders has also refused to concede the race and the Democratic National Committee has yet to acknowledge Clinton as the party’s nominee — unlike its counterpart on the other side of the aisle.
“We congratulate both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for finishing strong today in the District of Columbia,” DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in statement Tuesday night after Clinton won the final primary of the year in Washington, D.C.
“Now that our 2016 primaries are officially at their end, Democrats are ready to unify and take on both Trump and the Republican Party that he represents. At our convention in July, we’re going to nominate a qualified, capable candidate who will build on the hard-won progress of the last seven years,” she added.
Not included anywhere in Wasserman Schultz’s statement: Who that nominee will be.
Asked by NBC News’ Chuck Todd Tuesday if the party considered Clinton their presumptive nominee, Wasserman Schultz replied, “we are not presuming anything.”
They think they’re slick..
They’re sitting on the lid of a pot that’s starting to boil over…but they hope that if they can plant this idea of history being made in as many people’s heads…and get buy-in from as many …and it all becomes ‘sentimental’…LOL
They’re hoping that folks will pooh-pooh any eventual revelations about Hillary that come out…
They’re hoping folks are so stupid and so easily manipulated and worked over …that between their non-stop coverage and bombarding them with how ‘evil’ and ‘dangerous’ their dear, dear former buddy Trump is …and the whole Hillary/woman president long over due, and oh how historic and historic and sentimental it all is…*eye-roll**..
They’re counting on folks to dismiss any eventual bombshells, exposés about Hillary..no matter how much worse they are than any of their be afraid narratives about Trump…
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/743218698039795713
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/743253666698772480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/MsElectLadyKim/status/743082025700229120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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uh huh
uh huh
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Black Aesthetic, White Supremacy: Steve Perry’s Tweet Needs Cutting More Than Black Boys’ Hair
The notion that traditionally black hairstyles are synonymous with being unsuccessful speaks directly to the pathologizing of blackness that this country is known to do—and our “leaders” are too often the ones elevated to do it.
BY: ANDRE PERRY PH.D.
Posted: June 15, 2016
Furious responses to educator Steve Perry’s tweet last week regarding Steve Harvey’s National Mentoring Camp for Young Men is a healthy sign that black people won’t accept self-loathing as a viable solution for underachievement.
https://twitter.com/DrStevePerry/status/741840217120727040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Perry, who founded the all-male Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Conn., recently announced a partnership with hip-hip mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs to open a new charter school in Harlem.
If you follow Perry, his tweet didn’t surprise you. Perry built a career on “fixing” black boys. As the title of one of his books, Man Up! Nobody Is Coming to Save Us, suggests, Perry asserts that black folks’ salvation is primarily an internal matter. Accordingly, schools (and boot camps) provide close quarters for Perry to recondition youths to have the skills, values and mindsets necessary not to join gangs, leave school early or stay on their mama’s couch.
According to Perry’s pull-your-pants-up logic, white achievement should be credited to things that black people “fail” in doing.
Let’s be clear: Belt wearing isn’t the reason white children are educated in wealthier schools. Haircuts and etiquette classes don’t lead to the technological innovations of Silicon Valley. Lower incarceration rates aren’t because whites use drugs less often. The wage gap isn’t caused by white men’s hard work ethic.
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/743085724388458500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I just went to Amazon to order a copy.
https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/743087588941037570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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In Whitewashing The Pulse Shooting, We Dehumanize The Victim
Best FLOTUS ever! I just love her.
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Michelle Obama Reveals That Yes, President Obama Has Always Been ‘Swagalicious’
….Another thing the first lady also hasn’t gotten over is the president’s frequent walk back to the White House from Marine One.
“Good lord. Watching my husband walk off of Marine One and go to the Oval Office, it’s like, mmm, mmm, mmm,” she said. “And you know he’s got that walk, right?”
The exchange prompted Winfrey to ask whether or not President Obama has always had so much swag or whether he’s gotten “swaggier.”
“No, he was very swagalicious,” the first lady said. “Look, I told people this from the very start, when I — started running — Barack Obama is exactly who he says he is. We both are. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell people. Ain’t no surprises. We’re telling you who we are, and no tricks up our sleeves.”
Education Department Wants To Shut Down The Accreditor That Legitimized For-Profit Colleges
For-profit college watchdog under federal scrutiny
June 14, 2016
BOSTON —Federal education officials are deciding whether to shut down the nation’s biggest accreditor of for-profit colleges over allegations that it overlooked deception by some of its schools.
The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools is meant to be a watchdog for hundreds of for-profit schools, wielding the stamp of approval that colleges need to receive federal money. It’s one of many accreditors authorized by the U.S. Education Department to ensure the quality of schools. But the nonprofit is being accused of employing lax standards and failing to stop schools from preying on students.
Institutions that have operated under the group’s certification include the Corinthian College chain, which closed in 2015 amid fraud allegations, and the ITT Technical Institute chain, which now faces federal charges of fraud. Even after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began investigating both in 2013, the council found no major problems during its own reviews. In 2014, it included two Corinthian schools on its annual “honor roll.
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And it’ gorgeous.
Hackers Just Released What Appears To Be The DNC’s Opposition Research On Donald Trump. Read The Full Document.
This Couple Killed in the Orlando Shooting Hoped to Get Married. Now They Will Have a Joint Funeral
A couple who was deeply in love when they were killed during a gunman’s shooting rampage inside an Orlando nightclub will have a joint funeral service, their families said Monday.
Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22, and his 32-year-old boyfriend, Christopher “Drew” Leinonen, were among the 49 people who lost their lives Sunday in the worst mass shooting in American history. Services still need to be planned by the reeling families, but they want the two to be side-by-side when loved ones bid farewell, said Guerrero’s father, who has the same name as his son.
“I think my son wanted to do that. That’s why,” the elder Juan Ramon Guerrero, 61, said through tears. “I don’t care what the people think. I don’t care.”
The younger Guerrero and his boyfriend lived together and had been dating for nearly two years, family members said. Guerrero’s family was “really loving and accepting” when he came out as gay to them about three years ago, Aryam Guerrero, the victim’s 24-year-old sister, told TIME.
“They were honestly so in love. They were soul mates. You can tell by how they looked at each other,” she said. “It’s a little comforting that they died together.”
“If it’s not a funeral, they were going to have a wedding together,” she added.
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Donald Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theory That Obama Supports ISIS
Jun 15, 2016, 1:36 PM ET
excerpt:
Conspirator-in-Chief
Trump is no stranger to pushing conspiracy theories. He practically gave birth to the “birther” movement, which aimed to prove President Obama was not a U.S.-born citizen. That saga ended in dramatic fashion after the president produced his birth certificate to the public. Trump also has a history questioning Obama’s Christian faith, once claiming that this birth certificate may list him a Muslim.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/743134539577462788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
too cool
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https://twitter.com/BlackInformant/status/743163810312294404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/743169169839972352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I love them :)
https://youtu.be/AkDGyu3UMTw
let the haterz’ tears flow.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/743181646963179521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/pkcapitol/status/742959639487229952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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FYI
Linda Johnson Rice will be on the morning show on WVON radio 1690AM tomorrow. The show is from 6 am -9 am . Don’t know what time she will be on.
http://www.wvon.com
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This is from a soldier who handled money in Iraq
Just looking at the news reports about the Orlando shooting….Americas politicians are an embarrassment. Either way….are there any interviews with the people swat says they saved. Just curious….now it’s coming out that police may have shot some of the club goers. Wondering how far they will go to cover up how many the cops In Fact, killed.
How Did I Get an Abortion in Texas? I Didn’t.
By VALERIE PETERSON
JUNE 15, 2016
Austin, Tex. — ANY day now, the Supreme Court is going to decide whether women everywhere have full access to the right to an abortion, or just those who live in the right ZIP code — and whether any other woman in Texas, where I live, will have to go through what I did last fall.
The abortion restrictions that the court is currently considering, which were passed in 2013 under the pretext of protecting women’s health and safety, are really nothing more than unnecessary obstacles. In my life, they made a devastating situation much worse.
Nearly six months after my abortion I still carry the scars of the experience — not of the procedure itself, which was a blessing I will never regret, but of how hard it was to get the care I needed in the state where I live.
I’m already a mother of two. And after years of being told I couldn’t have any more children, I was shocked when my doctor told me last summer that I was pregnant. I wanted another child, and I immediately began prenatal care.
Because of high blood pressure, mine was considered a high-risk pregnancy and I had to have ultrasound scans every two weeks. At my 12-week scan, I was told that there was a possible anomaly in the baby’s brain, but more testing was needed. For the next several weeks, I went in for additional tests. I barely slept.
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The sonogram clearly showed my son’s brain hadn’t developed into two halves, and there was a hole between the brain and the spinal cord. My doctor confirmed the diagnosis: Alobar holoprosencephaly. My doctor gave me two options: I could try to carry the pregnancy to term, which would most likely end in either miscarriage or the delivery of a stillborn baby. At best, the doctors said the baby might live a couple of minutes. Or I could terminate the pregnancy.
I was devastated by the diagnosis and these two terrible options. I knew immediately, though. Once I saw the pictures of his brain, I knew that continuing to carry this pregnancy would have traumatic emotional and physical consequences. And not just for me but also for my two children, who were excited about having another sibling.
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Through a friend, I was connected to a clinic in Florida that caters to women who are terminating for medical reasons, and I spoke to the doctor and nurse there. The doctor explained that Florida didn’t have a 24-hour waiting period, and they could get me in the next day.
I booked the first plane ticket I found. I got a hotel room and rental car. I flew to Florida on Friday, and my procedure was over by Saturday afternoon. Including the cost of the procedure, I had to spend close to $5,000.
I remember thinking: What happens to women in my situation who don’t have the ability to do what I just did? My heart aches for those women.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm
Contrast between Obama and Trump, really the best the country has versus the worst. Hard to imagine a more extreme contrast.
Good Morning 😊, Everyone 😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone.
Inner City Blues;;;;::: Make me Wanna Holler.
Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have nots
Money, we make it
Fore we see it you take it
Oh, make you wanna holler
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
This ain’t livin’, this ain’t livin’……