Women of Color Within Time’s Up Join #MuteRKelly Protest
Time’s Up
Today 8:00am
To Our Fellow Women of Color:
We see you. We hear you. Because we are you.
For too long, our community has ignored our pain. The pain we bear is a burden that too many women of color have had to bear for centuries. The wounds run deep.
As women of color within Time’s Up, we recognize that we have a responsibility to help right this wrong. We intend to shine a bright light on our WOC sisters in need. It is our hope that we will never feel ignored or silenced ever again.
The recent court decision against Bill Cosby is one step toward addressing these ills, but it is just a start. We call on people everywhere to join with us to insist on a world in which women of all kinds can pursue their dreams free from sexual assault, abuse and predatory behavior.
To this end, today we join an existing online campaign called #MuteRKelly.
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Together, we call on the following corporations and venues with ties to R. Kelly to join us and insist on safety and dignity for women of all kinds:
RCA Records: the venerable music label currently produces and distributes R. Kelly’s music;
Ticketmaster: the popular ticketing system is currently issuing tickets for R. Kelly’s show May 11;
Spotify and Apple Music: the popular streaming platforms currently monetizing R. Kelly’s music;
Greensboro Coliseum Complex: the North Carolina venue is currently hosting an R. Kelly concert May 11.
It’s about time.
IT’S ABOUT TIME.
This man has preyed on Black Girls for at least the past 20 years.
And, if his choice of victims hadn’t of been BLACK GIRLS, he would have been IN JAIL.
He knew which victims to choose.
And, for all who went along and helped him cover it up, and smooth it over during the past 20 years….
You will get yours for being complicit in that evil.
I’m very interested in why now is the time to #MuteRKelly. I’m all for it. It should have bene done a long time ago. He preys on young women. But what’s the call to action is it the fact that we’re just doing a clean out of toxic men in general?
Ivanka can’t be questioned because she’s a woman?😕😕
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/991869274959630336?s=19
https://twitter.com/AFarray/status/991449151719096320?s=19
https://twitter.com/RepRaulGrijalva/status/991800791332777990
https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs/status/991759230872031232
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgiIcd_zBTQ
SHYT.JUST.GOT.REAL.
It appears China has stopped buying soybeans from the US altogether because of trade fight https://t.co/9ts7ylrTvj
— CNBC (@CNBC) May 2, 2018
21 out of the top 25 districts which will be hit by China shutting down buying U.S. soybeans have Republican MoC’s. Imagine that. https://t.co/fxv8UDU0mj
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) May 2, 2018
The question now is whether the farmers that threw their support behind Trump will still support him as their soybeans died in their fields? They’re about to lose millions and some may lose their farms because of the Talking Yam’s insane, unnecessary aluminum and steel trade tariffs.
All fun and games until the money goes funny 😒
https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/991783507700563968
https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/991717041924116482
LOL
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/991719107178500097
https://twitter.com/McClatchyDC/status/991777818638987264
Don’t forget….
He is ‘Presidential Timber’
The Curve for Unqualified White Men is REAL
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BREAKING: Missouri legislative report indicates Gov. Eric Greitens’ campaign lied about how it got charity donor list.
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 2, 2018
Talented Teen Trumpeter Just Got Into Juilliard, but His Family Needs Help Covering the $71,000 Price Tag
Anne Branigin
Today 9:50am
Top 10 Ways Black People Keep Racism Alive, According to Wypipo
Michael Harriot
Today 9:45am
https://twitter.com/AP/status/991776690136387585
That headline‼️
https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/991768682685755392
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/991770049068154880
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/991763335044632577
Where Can We Be Black? https://t.co/YBFtOpDkeg via @RollingStone
— Pretty Foot (@PrettyFootWoman) May 2, 2018
DA PHUQ???
How Redskins Used Cheerleaders: Topless Photo Shoots and an Uneasy Night Out
By Juliet Macur
May 2, 2018
From Forever FLOTUS:
“They will doubt you today and they will doubt you for the rest of your life. When you hit those roadblocks you have to ask for help. No one gets through college on their own. Never be isolated. Everyone struggles. You.Are.Not.Alone.” -First Lady #CollegeSigningDay #ClassOf2018
— DaniDemocrat (@DaniDemocrat) May 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/991751467760607232
Offices????
How about closing out all their computers & destroying the hard drives, HMMM?
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/991752334190538752
https://twitter.com/theGrio/status/991754273166905346
This muthaphucka HERE!
Mulvaney’s CFPB Considers Moving Staff to the Basement, or Dallas
May 1, 2018, 3:00 AM CDT Updated on May 1, 2018, 2:42 PM CDT
https://twitter.com/shomaristone/status/991733272446230529
APNEWSALERT: Black men arrested at Starbucks settle with Philadelphia for $1 each and a city pledge of $200K for young entrepreneurs.
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) May 2, 2018
3 Black Girls Competing to Win Trip to NASA Reportedly Hacked by Racists
Angela Helm
Today 11:20am
Although it has been reported that NASA shut down voting after a team of three black girls was handily winning a contest it sponsored, it appears that what happened was that someone hacked the system to take votes away from the girls, and that’s why the contest was shut down before the stated official voting window had closed.
Bria Snell, India Skinner and Mikayla Sharrieff, three students at Benjamin A. Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C. (full disclosure: my alma mater, Class of ’90), entered NASA Goddard’s Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge to win a trip to the esteemed national space program in Greenbelt, Md.
The three, who volunteer at the Inclusive Innovation Incubator program in D.C., sought to create a technology that would purify public schools’ water systems through filtration jars that filter water while detecting pH imbalances.
After making it to the semifinal round, the young women were in the lead with 78 percent of the vote (which someone was kind enough to take a screenshot of) when NASA closed voting a day early to “protect the integrity of the vote.”
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NASA released a statement, which read in part:
Ty Cobb is OUT.
Trump is scared AF. He’s going down. Mueller is going to topple his ass and send him to prison. We’re probably going to be stunned when his crimes are revealed.
Agreed, he is sooooooo delusional!
So it turns out that @docusearch has been impersonating people in an effort to illegally obtain their bank acct information, including bank balances. This is criminal conduct and also subjects them to huge civil liability. If you have info, please share.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 2, 2018
Trump’s Direct Assault on Native American Tribal Sovereignty
by Nancy LeTourneau
April 24, 201
Much has been made of Donald Trump’s history of racist statements about African Americans and Latinos. We’ve heard a lot less about his overt racism against Native Americans. But that was a key issue back in the 1990s when Trump used racist tactics against Native American casinos.
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And yet the most alarming thing we’ve seen from the Trump administration might still be in its infancy stages. Recently HHS has approved the right of states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. Native Americans have traditionally been exempted from those kinds of requirements. Now the Trump administration has suggested that they will no longer allow that to continue. It is their reasoning on that decision that is monumental.
In other words, the Trump administration could be moving in the direction of overturning this country’s treaties with Native American tribes that have existed from our founding as a country. While it is true that the federal government has a horrible track record of abiding by those treaties, no president has ever established policy in direct contradiction to tribal sovereignty.
The Status Anxiety of White Evangelicals
by Nancy LeTourneau
April 24, 2018
White evangelical support for Donald Trump is at an all-time high and perhaps no one expresses the attraction better than Douglas MacKinnon in an victim-drenched article titled, “How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?
Recognizing that, Olga Khazan wrote that “status anxiety” is what drove the election of Donald Trump.
What are we to make of this when, as MacKinnon himself acknowledged, Christians are still a majority in this country? Here’s how Mutz described what is happening:
Both Parties Didn’t Give Us Trump
Blaming Trump’s rise on partisan gridlock masks just how ruthlessly the GOP set the stage for his demagoguery.
by Gilad Edelman
April 26, 2018
It may be a dark time for liberal democracy, but it has been a banner year for books about liberal democracy—and the peril it’s in. In our new issue, Rick Valelly reviews books by Yascha Mounk (The People vs. Democracy) and Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (How Democracies Die), each of which sounds an ominous warning about the trajectory of the American experiment.
In Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy, Bill Galston strikes a slightly less panicked tone. “Liberal democracy is fragile, constantly threatened, and always in need of repair,” he writes. “But liberal democracy is also strong, because, to a greater extent than any other political form, it harbors the power of self-correction.” This admonition doubles as a useful reminder of why we should care about liberal democracy in the first place.
Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is also helpfully clear on what populism is. (The right-wing kind, anyway. He doesn’t address the tradition of American progressive populism.) Following the work of Jan-Werner Müller, Galston rejects the idea that the word is merely a label for whatever elites don’t like. Rather, he writes, it “is a form of politics that reflects distinctive theoretical commitments and generates its own political practice.” Populist leaders insist that they alone speak for a mythically homogeneous and morally pure group known as “the people,” whose interests are defined in opposition to some group of “enemies of the people”—typically political or economic elites and immigrants or ethnic minorities. Populism is thus fundamentally illiberal, because it takes aim at the liberties and institutions—courts, the free press, minority protections—that serve as a check against pure majority domination.
Sound familiar? Galston gives over a chapter of the book to the rise of populism in Europe, but the focus of his analysis is on the conditions that made the Donald Trump disaster possible and how better federal policy can get us out of it. The rise of Trump, he argues, stems primarily from a mix of economic concerns and resentment toward immigrants and cultural elites. The solution, then, is for elites to stop being such snobs, and to adopt economic policy that spreads growth more equitably and immigration reforms that acknowledge white Americans’ understandable (in Galston’s view) concern over cultural displacement and national identity.
House Freedom Caucus Writes Articles of Impeachment Against Rosenstein
by Nancy LeTourneau
May 1, 2018
For a while now I have been suggesting that the initial step Trump will likely take in an attempt to shut down the Mueller investigation is to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosesnstein, who is the Justice Department official overseeing the probe after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself.
House Republicans like Rep. Devin Nunes, who chairs the intelligence committee, have been hounding Rosenstein to release documents related to the investigation and threatening to impeach him if they are not produced. In each instance, the deputy attorney general has found a way to eventually comply.
None of that seems to matter to the members of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC).
Ukraine Stopped Cooperating With the Mueller Investigation to Appease Trump
by Nancy LeTourneau
May 2, 2018
A theme that keeps cropping up lately is the way that people who have to deal with Donald Trump—be they foreign governments, congressional Republicans or White House staff—have to deal with his narcissism. To recap, Richard Greene wrote that they have one of two bad choices.
That is what comes to mind when I read this bit of a bombshell from Andrew Kramer:
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/991687214097666049
These mofos all need to go to the pokie
.@MichelleObama will be joined by 8,000 students, and celebrities including Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, @RebelWilson, @JussieSmollett, @jessetyler, @KELLYROWLAND, @Zendaya, and @jameernelson at Temple University today https://t.co/a1CzSNavY8 #CollegeSigningDay pic.twitter.com/7TaPTwEs6t
— Action News on 6abc (@6abc) May 2, 2018
Trump Lawyers Lack Security Clearances
May 2, 2018 at 9:41 am EDT
President Trump’s current team of lawyers lacks the security clearances needed to discuss sensitive issues related to a possible presidential interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump’s former lead lawyer John Dowd had been the only member of the president’s personal legal team with a security clearance… When Dowd quit in March over disagreements with Trump on legal strategy, Jay Sekulow became the lead lawyer on the investigation and is still waiting for his clearance.
You go and attack a man in a Wheelchair who was minding his own business, and they died….
You are described as a ‘ Decorated Marine Sniper’.
Uh huh
Uh huh
Look how they buried the CRIME in the story. Why isn’t the CRIME the lead of this story?
WHITE PRIVILEGE, that’s why.
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Chesterfield man charged in fatal assault of elderly Richmond man was decorated Marine sniper
By MARK BOWES AND ALI ROCKETT Richmond Times-Dispatch
A Chesterfield County man charged with attacking two senior citizens in Richmond, killing one of them, was a decorated Marine and scout sniper who testified last year during his sentencing in a firearm case that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and physical injuries that have left him disabled.
Michael Kevin McReynolds, 43, who police say assaulted the two South Richmond men without any apparent provocation, served in the 1990s and was “highly recommended for re-enlistment” after he was honorably discharged as a sergeant, according to military records in one of his court files in Chesterfield Circuit Court.
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Police said that after first knocking 62-year-old Melton Leon Tucker unconscious, McReynolds found Johnny Battle, an 80-year-old in a wheelchair, in the backyard of his nearby home in the 3100 block of Decatur Street.
Battle was knocked out of his wheelchair and beaten severely, a law enforcement source said, and he died Monday. Two witnesses said the assailant yelled racial epithets and tried to escape in Battle’s car, but it wouldn’t start.
“He just cold-cocked [Tucker] for no reason,” said Raymond Hudson, a neighbor who witnessed the assault on the first victim. “He drew back and sucker-punched him while Tucker was looking away.”
IYM A REAL POTUS
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/991288417978896384
According to @MemPeaceJustice, more than 4,000 black men, women and children were hung/lynched between 1877 and 1950. @kanyewest + @rkelly are using their heinous murders in tweets and press statements. Using our ancestors’ pain as punchlines. pic.twitter.com/DHlwIF5kLc
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 2, 2018
#BREAKING:@DNC MUST INQUIRE from.@TXsecofstate as to why Texas’ UNVERIFIABLE E-Voting Machines ARE PACKED IN DEM STRONGHOLDS#TheResistanceVotes #unhackthevote #DNC #CNN #MSNBC #FoxNews #bbcnewshttps://t.co/3MwUktkl2R
— Emoluments Clause (@Emolclause) May 1, 2018
You can watch the #CollegeSigningDay livestream LIVE at 11:16AM ET at https://t.co/RCeENWIhcm. Follow us now on Facebook to get ready for tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/oanVcBPZmT
— Better Make Room 🎓 (@BetterMakeRoom) May 1, 2018
https://twitter.com/baratunde/status/991671441929199616
Messages for Manafort, ex-Trump lawyer seen in Trump questions
Rachel Maddow takes another look at the questions the New York Times published on Monday that reportedly reflect what Robert Mueller wants to know from Donald Trump, and considers who would benefit from the insights available from the leak of those questions.
https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/status/991672045867028481
Rosenstein unintimidated by threats from Congress to remove him
Rachel Maddow shares video of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s dismissive treatment of a threat by Republicans in Congress to impeach him, and notes that the case those members of Congress are making hinges on the dubious merits of Carter Page.
Vance: Mueller subpoena talk unlikely without Rosenstein blessing
Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about news from the Washington Post that Robert Mueller suggested the possibility of issuing a subpoena for Donald Trump to appear before a grand jury, and points out that Mueller wouldn’t have presented that option without first having cleared with with Rod Rosenstein.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/991669900304404480
Mueller floated possibility of issuing subpoena to Trump: WaPo
Carol Leonnig, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Robert Mueller threatened the possibility of using a subpoena to get answers from Donald Trump if Trump would not submit for an interview voluntarily.
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/991668990287208448
Congratulations, Jasmine!
The nerve of this sister getting accepted to 113 colleges and raking in $4.5 million in scholarhips
SNARK/////////
Bravo, Young Lady.
BRAVO!!
https://twitter.com/MCU_Tweets/status/991379223590780929
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/991514417358622720
Point proven here: white folks use the po po as modern day slave-catchers.
It’s interesting how you look at her picture and there is nothing unusual. But underneath that highlighted hair lurks an evil, wretched, racist bitch. Once identified, they should have to wear a sign.
https://twitter.com/EVRYBODYvsTRUMP/status/991345825153503233?s=19
https://twitter.com/Deoliver47/status/991641071682772992?s=19
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/991473197475336193
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/991448021169852417
https://twitter.com/Minne_miraaa/status/991148715330195456?s=19
No lie told
https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/991506240021909504?s=19
Yep, and I can’t wait for this nut to go down with the sinking ship, right along with 45 & company.
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/991643493511696384?s=19
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/991646558021177344?s=19
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/991660547908292609
They support TREASON
So, no…any outrage from them should be discarded
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/991514751187472384?s=19
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/991510887889547264?s=19
https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/991006364863483904?s=19
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/991272802786344960?s=19
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/991393952506044421?s=19
https://twitter.com/normative/status/991375366563467270?s=19
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/991272296101892096?s=19
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/991479440432656389?s=19
Jail time for this MOFO
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/991520428148568064?s=19
https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/991628995593756672?s=19
Good Morning Everyone 😄😄😄
Happy HUMP Day, Rikyrah & 3Chics Family!
R Kelly’s going to get his just desserts, and it is about TIME.