The ignorance coming from Kanye is RIDICULOUS. No more excuses for him. It’s done. OVER.
https://twitter.com/travislylesnews/status/991360143240593411
I miss Harriet and her gun.
Well……
You know Black Twitter had a response to Kanye and his ignorance..
#IfSlaveryWasAChoice
https://twitter.com/morilloval/status/991501908463452160
https://twitter.com/Shahemofficial/status/991495664248000514
“Aye you coming to the field to pick cotton”
“Who all there?” pic.twitter.com/EtrCpHvual
— 🎈 (@joseph__amiel) May 2, 2018
Wendell Pierce came for Kanye and gave a righteous smackdown.
You glorify those that murdered our mothers & fathers,raped our women, & swelled our numbers with bastards. You @kanyewest embrace those who inhumanly experimented on our bodies to watch the ravage of death for decades in Tuskegee.
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) May 2, 2018
You @kanyewest need to visit the new memorial of the lynching victims, Whitney Plantation of Louisiana, Goreé Island, the Slavery museum of Liverpool and learn about the suffering of this nightmare of human history.
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) May 2, 2018
Apologize to his spirit and the souls of all our ancestors who were denied the life of privilege you lead. When that is done, I pray the world chooses to forget you and the trite, monotony you call music.
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) May 2, 2018
And, Black Twitter was not done with him. Not by a long shot.
https://twitter.com/kimblackproud/status/991511060078383105
When masa tries to send you back to the field but Harriet shows up #IfSlaveryWasAChoice pic.twitter.com/W8YwKThDfW
— PowerStarLive (@PowerStarLive) May 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/connichameleon/status/991511235043774464
https://twitter.com/iDreamOfCece/status/991417964313350149
When you a freshman at Slave University and you get assigned to the house #IfSlaveryWasAChoice pic.twitter.com/nACNQdW4e6
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) May 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/Janice_Resist/status/991508596461658112
https://twitter.com/FredTJoseph/status/991500132217708544
HILARIOUS
A guy named CHAD gets it with regards to Kanye.
CHAD!
https://twitter.com/i/moments/991804141495205890
And, Kanye, this is for us ALL who aren’t ‘ free thinkers’
Every. Single. Word. Of. This. @VanLathan, what you said to Kayne may have entered into one ear and out the other with him, but to everyone who heard it, thank you for this powerful truth. Can’t believe I’m just hearing this.pic.twitter.com/d4d5AsaoZO
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) May 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/992204281074905089
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/992204506644582401
S. Lee Merritt, Esq.
@MeritLaw
Of course it’s not.
– It would have been just for law enforcement to prevent the avoidable assault …
– And for DeAndre (the victim) never to have been charged
– And to charge men at a hate rally, launching violent hateful attacks, while using hate speech…
with A HATE CRIME!
@MeritLaw
It’s not justice … but it’s pretty damn close.
@MeritLaw
Throw in it would have been just for these criminals to be hunted down by our sophisticated criminal justice system (used mostly to monitor the activities of POC) instead of @ShaunKing & a handful of Internet sleuths.
@MeritLaw
But if its a shock to us, imagine what it’s like for the racist 🤯! They’re using all the arguments.
‘He was a big scary black guy’
‘We feared for our lives’
It just isn’t working.
https://twitter.com/problemwthat/status/991446837272854528?s=19
Ha ha, that would be my border collie…
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/992008583117201413
https://twitter.com/amjoyshow/status/992196861493624832?s=20
I got some more dewberries………………
They look delicious 😋😋😋
https://mobile.twitter.com/Variety/status/991803267897266176/video/1
https://twitter.com/ChinaDailyUSA/status/991954261859680256?s=20
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/992031701638492160?s=20
https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/992076845557407750?s=19
https://twitter.com/bydre__/status/991703885394923521?s=19
https://twitter.com/Kaha_Hersi/status/991788185800847362?s=19
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/992108993723162624?s=19
Uh huh
Uh huh 😒😒
https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/991798616967663616?s=19
https://twitter.com/harpersbazaarus/status/991786977002512390?s=19
Love this.
I am so proud to be able to interact with you ladies. You keep me on my toes and keep me hip and happening! I am so much smarter because of you guys and also cooler.
Hi vitamin 🙌
Hi there, rikyrah!
The House Chaplain’s letter to Speaker Ryan retracting and rescinding his resignation https://t.co/oUgGtpwS1V pic.twitter.com/4759Xq5XW9— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/992145044953096192
Baltimore student accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools makes his decision
Talia Richman
The Baltimore student who was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools has made his decision.
“Harvard College Class of 2022!!” Mekhi Johnson posted to Facebook on May 1, college decision day.
Johnson, a senior at the Gilman School, is one of just a handful of students across the nation to be accepted into all eight of the elite institutions. He’s been working toward that accomplishment since he was 6 years old, when he first heard a story on the radio about a boy who had gotten in to all of the Ivies.
“Even at 6, he was pretty serious and goal-oriented,” his mother, Tawana Thomas Johnson, previously said. “He kept this idea in front of him through all those years.”
Johnson said he found out about his slew of acceptances while out to dinner with his mother at Red Lobster.
He checked his admissions status at each school in quick succession: Yale, in. Columbia, in. Cornell, in. And then finally, Harvard.
“As soon as I saw I got into Harvard, my mom started screaming,” the 17-year-old Baltimore student told The Baltimore Sun in March. “She started yelling, ‘My son just got into Harvard,’ and everyone in the restaurant started clapping.”
House chaplain rescinds resignation after furor over his ouster by Ryan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-chaplain-rescinds-resignation-after-furor-over-his-ouster-by-ryan/2018/05/03/b770de7c-4f07-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?utm_term=.288a803ca850
https://twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/992130946953564160
70?
70????
SEVENTY????
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/992131926218694656
To get a warrant to wiretap Michael Cohen’s phone conversations, the FBI had to comply with highly stringent rules and standards laid down by SCOTUS in Katz v. US, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), in an opinion I helped Justice Stewart draft for the Court as his law clerk.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 3, 2018
Giuliani claims that Trump had a right to be notified if and when the wiretap on Cohen picked up a conversation with Trump. That’s wrong. Such notification would have been wrong — and potentially a criminal obstruction of justice insofar as it would have blown the FBI’s cover.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 3, 2018
so….Sweden did the Cultural Appropriation thing…LOL
DA PHUQ?
Well, like I said, the people surrounding Trump will be worse than their predecessors.
What kind of person would sign on with Trump at this point?
NEW: Special counsel Robert Mueller focusing sharply on links between Trump confidant Roger Stone and former campaign official Rick Gates https://t.co/KCrAOhXPeJ
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 3, 2018
Wiretaps are difficult to get. Applications require multiple layers of review, including by career lawyers in Washington, plus approval by a district court judge (not magistrate). Also they signify proof of an ongoing crime. And you don’t tap a President’s attorney lightly. https://t.co/FfVh8mA9ku— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) May 3, 2018
AWE….they’ve been together, well, forever….
The Cars’ Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova ‘peacefully separated’
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Updated 9:45 AM ET, Thu May 3, 2018
The 28-year-old marriage between Cars’ frontman Ric Ocasek and former supermodel Paulina Porizkova has broken down.
Using lots of car imagery, Porizkova announced on social media Wednesday that she and her husband have been “peacefully separated for the past year.”
“Our family always has been — and still is — a well-built car,” Porizkova wrote in a photo posted on Instagram. “When the four of us are together, we can go wherever the road takes us. But as a bicycle, my husband and I no longer pedal in unison. So, we’re ditching the bicycle.”
#BREAKING: Federal investigators wiretapped Michael Cohen’s phone before the raid on his properties, and intercepted at least one phone call between Cohen & the WH, per @NBCNews.
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/992089553795084288
Rudy Giuliani married his cousin. Trump wants to date his daughter. Pence calls his wife “Mother”. This is the shittiest episode of Game of Thrones I’ve ever seen.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/992062563683848193
https://twitter.com/MikeDorning/status/992060533313548290
Damn sure better happen.
Paul Ryan Warns of Subpoenas, Gridlock With Democratic Majority
By Anna Edgerton and Lisa Lee
May 2, 2018, 12:14 PM CDT
OOP! There it is!
How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their Lane
As the entirety of the internet seems to be discussing Kanye West’s most recent asshattery and all of black twitter seems to be heartily enjoying #IfSlaveryWasAChoice shenanegans, you, a concerned non-black person may be wondering…how do I join in this discussion?
https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/how-non-black-people-can-talk-about-kanye-while-staying-in-their-lane-cb34b05fc84e
LOL@ this gif
Lips pursed.
Condoleezza Rice defends Kanye West
05/02/2018, 07:04pm
USA TODAY Network
Former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stood up for Kanye West’s right to express himself amid a backlash against the musician’s recent comments in support of President Trump and a controversial statement that implied African-Americans made a “choice” to suffer 400 years of slavery.
Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo asked Rice what she thought, “as a successful woman of color,” of the pushback against West’s remarks in an interview Wednesday.
“First of all, I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it,” Rice told the Mornings with Maria host. “But I can say, people ought to be able to express their views. Not all of us have to think politically the same way. I’ve said to people sometimes, ‘You know, I’ve been black all my life. You don’t have to tell me how to be black.’”
Because our current Governor took an axe to Chicago State and did all that he could to try and destroy the college – which services a majority Black population. What Rauner did to Chicago State is but one of the many reasons THAT HE MUST BE DEFEATED IN NOVEMBER.
Chicago State announces 3 finalists for president
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago State University has narrowed its search for a new president to three finalists.
University officials say the finalists are Zaldwaynaka Scott, a former federal prosecutor; Patricia Ramsey, provost at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania; and Heidi Anderson, special assistant to the president at Texas A & M in Kingsville were chosen from among about 50 applicants. The final choice would be the fifth president or interim president since December 2015.
Board of trustees’ vice chairman Nicholas Gowen says the goal is for the new president to start July 1. Interim President Rachel Lindsey, who took over in April 2017, had her one-year contract extended until June 30.
In addition to uncertain leadership, the 151-year-old university is battling fiscal issues and enrollment that’s declined from 7,362 students in 2010 to 3,101 last fall.
So called Gov. Rauner needs to BEGONE, like yesterday
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 5/2/18
Giuliani: ‘president can’t be subpoenaed’
Attorneys Jill Wine-Banks and Joyce Vance say there is no legal justification for the claim a president can’t be subpoenaed except for in Rudy Giuliani’s mind. Lawrence also discusses Giuliani’s view on what would happen if Mueller subpoenaed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
Giuliani sheds new light on Trump’s decision to fire James Comey
05/03/18 08:40 AM—UPDATED 05/03/18 10:16 AM
By Steve Benen
One of the most important decisions Donald Trump has made as president was firing James Comey as the director of the FBI a year ago this week. It was the first domino in a series of developments that has put the Republican’s presidency in jeopardy.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who’s now a member of Trump’s legal team, told Fox News last night why the president made this decision.
As a rule, when a group of people, in the midst of a scandal, repeatedly change their story about basic details, something is amiss.
https://twitter.com/OKCFOX/status/992053667657207808
Trump, Cohen keep lawyers in dark on contents of seized documents: NYT
Michael Schmidt, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Emmet Flood replacing Ty Cobb as presidential lawyer, and challenges facing the Trump legal team.
Continued Trump admin turnover forces expansion of departure wall
Rachel Maddow adds yet more names to the list of high-level Donald Trump administration departures, requiring the addition of a second wall to display them all legibly.
Key Mueller witness runs to Russia as Ukraine courts Trump favor
Ken Vogel, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Paul Manafort’s former colleague Konstantin Kilimnik and how a lack of cooperation from Ukraine has put him out of reach of Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Ukraine stops helping Mueller to avoid upsetting Trump: NYT
Rachel Maddow reminds viewers of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s history in Ukraine, and reports on the suspension of Ukrainian investigations into Manafort as they dovetail with the Mueller investigation because they don’t want to risk upsetting Donald Trump when weapons deals are on the line.
https://twitter.com/BethGoldHux/status/992027625433587714
Found at another blog:
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/992049559181422594
So, last week, Dolt45 told F&F that Cohen was a businessman. Today, he’s getting a 35k/month retainer?
Uh huh
Uh huh
Media Alert:
The new issue of Vanity Fair is all Harry and Meghan…yeah, I’m gonna buy it :)
https://twitter.com/Only4RM/status/991896139304701952?s=19
https://twitter.com/Only4RM/status/991878840011165697?s=19
Dolt45 is up with another series of tweets this morning, lying that the money used to pay Cohen didn’t come from the campaign.
trying to cover up the awful performance of Rudy last night.
That, and the twitter warriors who came up with the payment schedule – FROM THE CAMPAIGN – that came to 130k, within like a dollar….
It’s in the comments of the latest post over at The People’s View
So yeah….they paid him with campaign funds.
https://twitter.com/PrestonMitchum/status/991544992626769920?s=19
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/991696246736850949?s=19
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/991679485702496257?s=19
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/991822881976979456?s=19
https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/991490162885525506?s=19
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/991858724364083201?s=19
😄😄😄
https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/992012811365683200?s=19
https://twitter.com/LMcCrystal/status/992001978564784128?s=19
https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/991858481820037120?s=19
Tell it, Keith
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/991762529864036353?s=19
Uh huh
Uh huh 😒😕
https://twitter.com/Alex__Katz/status/991726011157958656?s=19
Damn skippy…
She’s my Forever FLOTUS 😍😍
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/991788207598686209?s=19
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/991889551433129984?s=19
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/991868699228258304?s=19
https://twitter.com/FirstGentleman/status/991465290650157056?s=19
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/991883505033342977?s=19
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/991899351118036992?s=19
https://twitter.com/TheViewFromLL2/status/973202894207021056?s=19
https://twitter.com/JWGOP/status/991668195080769538?s=19
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/991882157961474048?s=19
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/991859084977635329?s=19
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/991870822812913666?s=19
https://twitter.com/CNNTonight/status/991880083102097408?s=19
https://twitter.com/MemPeaceJustice/status/991806884221997056?s=19
Good Morning Everyone 😄😄😄