50 Responses to Weekend Open Thread

1. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:31 pm

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   Downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota

   This racist white man repeatedly called these black teens the N-Word and threatened to shoot them with a gun. Then went on a xenophobic, racist tirade about Africa.

   THIS IS SO DISGUSTING!

   Who is he?! pic.twitter.com/YrNCphfvR1

   — StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) September 4, 2019

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2. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:30 pm

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   This is a poll of WISCONSIN – a state Trump won by a point.

   Settle down, everybody.

   — The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 4, 2019

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3. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:29 pm

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   Boris Johnson has become the first U.K. prime minister ever to lose his first three Parliament votes in a row. https://t.co/mosWTqiMgi

   — Axios (@axios) September 4, 2019

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4. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:29 pm

   😂😂🙄🙄

   And 👏🏾 just 👏🏾 like 👏🏾that — I'm a hockey fan. 🧐 pic.twitter.com/J3nE8Xtt5w

   — chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 4, 2019

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5. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:28 pm

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   He personally altered it? Himself?

   "After facing ridicule for suggesting over the weekend that Hurricane Dorian might strike Alabama, Donald Trump showed reporters a map on Wednesday that he personally altered to help prove his point."https://t.co/NQmyVsw173

   — Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 4, 2019

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6. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:27 pm

   Lawd have mercy 😪😪

   Amber Garrison met up with a guy she'd been talking to on POF (Plenty of Fish) — he then kidnapped her for six weeks and took her cross-country in his semi-truck where she was repeatedly assaulted.https://t.co/0UnOeLA5ts

   — chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 4, 2019

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7. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:26 pm

   Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) Tweeted:
   I don’t think head-to-head polls between the various D candidates and Trump really mean much/anything at this point, but it’s sorta interesting that Biden’s head-to-head number against Trump has held up pretty well even as he’s undergone a lot of scrutiny from D’s and the press. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1169331941906296834?s=17

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8. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:25 pm

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   Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) Tweeted:
   White lady at ORL airport asked me about my hat. It said “TRUTH” on it. She asked me if god was the truth. I said, for some. She then told me who I have to worship. I told her I don’t have to do anything. She said I was rude and called police. I shit you not. This just happened. https://twitter.com/TalibKweli/status/1169374483427147776?s=17

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9. rikyrah says:

   September 8, 2019 at 5:25 pm

   One reason the Electoral College defenses are such obvious post-hoc rationalizations is that it would be absurd to suddenly start applying it to statewide elections. I somehow doubt @DanCrenshawTX thinks an Electoral College is needed to protect Texas' rural voters in state races https://t.co/pfwrZcedgw

   — Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) September 4, 2019

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10. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    This should be a bigger scandal. I think that it’s outrageous 😠😠😠

    Congress Promised Student Borrowers A Break — Then Ed Dept. Rejected 99% Of Them https://t.co/IkAgdhJa7W

    — GStuedler🇺🇸🇧🇧🌊🌴 (@gstuedler) September 5, 2019

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11. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    Sam Stein (@samstein) Tweeted:
    BREAKING — The influential progressive news site ThinkProgess is being shut down today. Twelve remaining staffers are losing their jobs

    https://t.co/qhpDBh5Yol https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1170023170767761413?s=17

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12. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    Robert Reich (@RBReich) Tweeted:
    Horrifying report: Trump isn’t just soliciting Ukraine’s help with 2020 presidential campaign. He’s using U.S. military aid that Ukraine desperately needs to force Ukraine to launch an investigation of Joe Biden. #ImpeachTrump

    https://t.co/Y3uJRVX42d https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1170012646344515584?s=17

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13. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    Angela Rockford (@angie_goodwood) Tweeted:
    Meghan Markle and her half black ass really came in and stole mid 30s British white womens dreams and they been upset ever since https://twitter.com/angie_goodwood/status/1169358021614374912?s=17

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14. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:20 pm

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    Just a reminder that Prince Andrew is accused of raping a trafficked teen and used a goddamn puppet to paw at a woman’s breasts, both supplied by his friend who was a known, convicted pedophile. https://t.co/pCQiXPmacj

    — Amy Gray (@_AmyGray_) September 5, 2019

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15. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:19 pm

    Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) Tweeted:
    Do you know what the current White House press secretary looks like without googling?

    But Stephanie has time to place op Ed’s and lecture WaPo.

    Press briefings are over?

    Ok. https://twitter.com/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/1170068868246773772?s=17

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16. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) Tweeted:
    Very disappointed to hear of the pay disparity between the writers of the sequel to Crazy Rich Asians, who collaborated on the original. The white male writer was offered 9x what the Asian female writer was offered. NINE. She walked off the project. FIX THIS, or face a boycott. https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1169946036628013056?s=17

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17. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:18 pm

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    Absolutely…when y'all can start producing a history of black folks stringing white folks from trees while calling us crackers, or enslaving us while calling us that, or denying us loans and homes and jobs while calling us that, I'll listen. Until then. Take all the seats. https://t.co/n6zmp2RS5x

    — Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) September 6, 2019

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18. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:17 pm

    😂😂😂

    If Meghan has flown to the US to support her friend then good for her. The press will be livid, l bet they thought she would be grounded to the Uk after the baby shower incident! I just wish she’d flown by private jet! I’ve not flown since 2006 so she can gladly have my carbon 👣

    — David (@Davidls6) September 6, 2019

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19. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:16 pm

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    Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) Tweeted:
    The Trump admin will issue a permit to a Michigan trophy hunter to import the skin, skull and horns of a rare black rhinoceros he shot in Africa after applying for a permit required by the Fish and Wildlife Service to import endangered species.
    https://t.co/LAMq1HZbaQ https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1170046533691150337?s=17

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20. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:16 pm

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    Our DoJ is investigating four automakers for conspiring to make our air cleaner. I'm not kidding.https://t.co/SucqriNZOp

    — Mark Elliott (@markmobility) September 6, 2019

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21. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:15 pm

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    Exclusive: Here are the Hofeller files. https://t.co/3te50gPrzU

    — David Daley (@davedaley3) September 6, 2019

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22. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    .@Essence poll: Most important issues for black women #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/Lj4M6aKejZ

    — AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) September 8, 2019

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23. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 4:49 pm

    Little Susie has TO GO😠😠😠

    There it is. An open admission that she will do the bidding of #MoscowMitch. Time to #SendSusanHome.

    Elect #SaraGideonME who will stand up to him. https://t.co/PMg7hJnnOw

    — Portia McGonagal of Winterfell (@PortiaMcGonagal) September 6, 2019

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24. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 4:47 pm

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    I don't care if the young man "did it on his own." He's not the only one whose dreadlocks she has cut off.

    HER NARRATIVE is that cutting off dreds is "SYMBOLIC OF CHANGE AND THEIR DESIRE FOR A BETTER LIFE" as if stripping away Black culture and Blackness affords a better life. https://t.co/ws9HwlZIdA

    — Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) September 6, 2019

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25. rikyrah says:

    September 8, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    Am I reading this correctly? Pete Buttigieg actually has less support from black women than Donald Trump? https://t.co/NFJMH5IRN5

    — chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 8, 2019

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26. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    Inherited wealth, legacy elite school admissions, fraternity connections, predominant control of corporations and hiring decision etc. etc. , this "meritocracy" BS is the biggest con perpetrated on the US.

    — Portia McGonagal of Winterfell (@PortiaMcGonagal) September 7, 2019

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27. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:51 pm

    As the primary holders of wealth in this country, they (and their wives) continue to invest in themselves, their sons, their daughters, their friends, thereby ensuring wealth stays in their tiny white pot.

    Meritocracy is a euphemism for COLONIZER.

    — saira rao (@sairasameerarao) September 7, 2019

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28. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    Black people dont give a fuck if white people think we should stop saying Nigga.

    None of us.

    Some of us will participate in it's usage and some of us will abstain from it.

    It's our word now. White people's feelings about our usage of it are automatically pic.twitter.com/rwAlo4OS1I

    — Amene (@Ange_Amene) September 7, 2019

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29. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:18 pm

    I'm happy for #BiancaAndreescu but there will never be another athlete for me that that exemplifies the excellence, sacrifice, pain, struggle, and joy of her people better than #SerenaWilliams pic.twitter.com/xogQJ9WKsm

    — Tulsi Didn't Qualify 🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) September 7, 2019

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30. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    A lot of white English women are angry that Harry didn’t choose a white woman to marry. They thought they had a shot at him, only to discover he preferred a darker skin tone. Her hatred of Meghan is pure jealousy.

    — Not Just Here For The Comments (@NotJustHereFor1) September 8, 2019

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31. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    Look at that “diminished popularity”. 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/vyNQuUWrf0

    — Truth hurts (@Jasamgurlie) September 7, 2019

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32. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    This is an entire mood 😂😂😂

    idk what the cat is going through but same pic.twitter.com/tHSaLGrFnF

    — Wajed Ahmed (@borderlineyikes) September 7, 2019

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33. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:08 pm

    Frank, I'm not your sister or sista.

    You're not accustomed to Black people, esp Black Women telling white people what their boundaries are.

    This is called being fragile or white fragility.

    What you're doing is trying to assert your white supremacist assertions onto me. https://t.co/9GLJrZ2qlE

    — Amene (@Ange_Amene) September 7, 2019

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34. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:03 pm

    Isaiah Washington out here tweeting like black folks care about him getting on the Trump Train.

    Negro get your MAGA ass on somewhere. We good.

    — Wakandan War Dog (@Kennymack1971) September 7, 2019

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35. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    Bernie's campaign defends the use of Nigger.

    Short version:

    *Critiquing racism is not racism so it's ok to use the word Nigger if you're white.*

    I think the fuck not Barbara. https://t.co/XCCJrEtZQB

    — Amene (@Ange_Amene) September 7, 2019

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36. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 11:00 pm

    Since when is the Prince of Wales called in to mediate a dispute between senior royals and staff? Who do they think they're fooling? It's only going to get worse before it gets better, Andrew.

    — Bodak Red 🌺🌼🌺 (@AFarray) September 7, 2019

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37. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:57 pm

    Vaping is just the same cigarette companies with a fake mustache and a hat, skirting tobacco laws. They needed harsh regulation yesterday. These companies are going to get kids really sick. Unfortunate how big of a fad its become. The kids dont know any better

    — Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) September 7, 2019

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38. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    😒😒😒

    BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    You keep on waiting, dummies. The rest of us will move on. https://t.co/m1C8vb3Jif

    — chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 8, 2019

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39. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:51 pm

    At all. People look at me sideways when I say I don't care about suburbia's opioid epidemic. Not until every black and brown person who's been locked up and have a felony record for a drug addiction are clean and cleared, I have no fucks to give.

    — Bernie's Magical Yelling (I Asked 1st) (@Jenaine77) September 8, 2019

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40. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    Also, HBCUs produce black professionals in prodigious numbers. Research the percentage of black doctors, dentists, engineers, architects, pharmacists and business people who are HBCU grads. America, writ large, needs HBCUs as much as black America needs HBCUs.

    — stan verrett (@stanverrett) September 7, 2019

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41. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    Why bother prosecuting these people if you're just going to genuflect to their privilege in the end. https://t.co/HqH4Mwp6Wa

    — Tulsi Didn't Qualify 🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) September 8, 2019

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42. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:36 pm

    And also while I'm at it.

    White people stop offering bad advice to other white people about using the word NIGGER.

    The only appropriate advice is DONT EVER SAY IT.

    IN ANY SITUATION OR CONTEXT.

    — Amene (@Ange_Amene) September 7, 2019

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43. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    Ok, I stand corrected. But literally in the subhed and throughout the story, I wrote PREDOMINANTLY several times, also known as PWIs (Predominantly White Institutions).

    Again: White people attend HBCUs.

    Why don’t you learn more about HBCUs? It’s not that hard. https://t.co/Qz15llKYWK

    — Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 6, 2019

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44. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    A. encouraging black people to rebuild their communities is literally the opposite of racism, but OK.

    B. Zion could have played on the moon and been the no 1 pick. The real shame is that he had to go to college in the first place, but I digress …

    C. The point. You missed it. https://t.co/K1Onxr5bAM

    — Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 6, 2019

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45. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    Lloyd Gaines Disappeared After Winning Groundbreaking Case Which Ordered His Admittance To All White University of Missouri Law School

    So many heroes gave their lives for the next generations #blackhistory #blacklawyersmatter #LloydGaines #AlbertaJones https://t.co/eLRmBUykFQ

    — Tre (@sister_tre) September 8, 2019

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46. Liza says:

    September 7, 2019 at 5:16 pm

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47. Liza says:

    September 7, 2019 at 9:06 am

    This right here is a damn good question.

    Will he make it to Nov 2020 before he’s completely incapacitated? 50/50 https://t.co/QiAG6G6zH6

    — Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) September 7, 2019

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48. Liza says:

    September 7, 2019 at 9:05 am

    The first day of school can make many kids very nervous.

    Thank goodness for this little boy a group of fathers were there to celebrate him and cheer him up! pic.twitter.com/fSaQM5gcCE

    — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 6, 2019

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49. Liza says:

    September 7, 2019 at 8:59 am

    This…

    I really hope their dreams come true and in the future they are on stage winning some big award and they pull out this picture and say this is where it all began #BlackBoyMagic pic.twitter.com/vw61DBUZdj

    — Etan Thomas (@etanthomas36) September 7, 2019

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50. rikyrah says:

    September 7, 2019 at 8:26 am

    Good Morning, Everyone 😊😊😊

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