The worst court on Voting Rights since Taney.😠😠
We are fighting against the most concerted state-based effort to undermine Black voting strength since the Civil Rights Mvmt. And in that context, the Supreme Court has again, & w/abandon, shredded a core provision of the Voting Rights Act.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 1, 2021
The test itself is deeply cynical. First, the bait & switch. While the Shelby Court insisted we must not focus on the past, but must take acct of the new voting landscape, the Court in Brnovich suggests a presumption of validity for voting measures that were in place in 1982.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 1, 2021
And then there's the crediting of the "fraud" rationale as a state interest, despite the overwhelming evidence – of which the Court must be well aware – that "voter fraud" is a myth – a rationale employed by state's to restrict voting.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 1, 2021
And of course, the projection. The reference to the dissent as engaged in a "radical project." As though the majority's dismantling piece-by-piece the most important & consequential civil rights statute ever enacted is not an extreme & radical exercise of judicial power.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 1, 2021
Never forget: If Mitch McConnell had not stolen 2 Supreme Court seats for Trump there would be 5-4 progressive majority protecting voting rights instead of 6-3 conservative majority gutting them
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 1, 2021
"Democrats need to be as aggressive in combatting voter suppression as Republicans are in doing voter suppression. We see a lot of asymmetry between the parties because GOP is using all the levers of power they have to make it harder to vote" – @AriBerman w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/y7kawpd4jT
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) July 1, 2021
Stakes raised for 2022 gov elections in MI/WI/PA, where Dem governors are blocking GOP efforts to restrict voting.
"Republicans’ inability to accept Donald Trump’s loss is making (voting) more of a bread-and-butter issue here," says @GovEvers in WI. https://t.co/2zKZenAQuM
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) July 2, 2021
During these dark times, always doing the work👏👏
Stacey Abrams’s New Website Let’s Georgians Know If Their Voter Registration Is About To Be Purged https://t.co/S3Rmj75duL
— Rugged Amethyst (@GrooveSDC) July 2, 2021
I agree with this.
People want to invest in red state Democratic parties but I rarely hear it being about the states that would bank you the most RELIABLE Democratic votes. 🗣Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana are those states because there’s huge populations of POC. pic.twitter.com/kYU8qWz29V
— Miss Aja (@brat2381) July 2, 2021
Heaven forbid that these 2 loathsome, toxic, self-aggrandizing, 2-bit narcissists …one born to recent immigrants from Ghana, the other to a white Czech mother.. and who for cheap clout and clicks have routinely and gratuitously attacked, smeared, and disrespected America’s historic fully-Black FLOTUS directly descended of slaves.. the epitome of role model and authentic Black American womanhood, motherhood…unassuming greatness …the double Ivy League educated wife and life partner of America’s historic President.. the unelected fully-Black wife, mother, woman who has borne and continues to bear the brunt of actual racist hate …and even post White House, continues to be the prime target of continued racial dehumanization and unprecedented death threats.. exceeding that of all living presidents.. The unelected Black wife who now walks around with a permanent target on her back simply for being..
Heaven forbid that Attiah and Hannah-Jones, 2 foul, hollow, rubbish, clout-chasing, basic a-hole opportunistic Johnny-come-latelys, who’ve somehow weaseled themselves into the conversation, and have tried to hijack and exploit entirely for their own aggrandizement…social and professional advancement, self-promotion… the long generational trauma of Black enslaved Americans..
These 2 glaringly superficial, contemptible opportunists who’ve cheapened and trivialized the age-old deep generational traumatic racist wounds of Black America …reducing it to some cheap scam for relevance cosplay ‘persecution’ act.. do not tell or represent Black America’s long generational pain, trauma..
Here’s seriously hoping that black America is so much smarter than this.. And that this Attiah and Hannah-Jones persons…2 grifting, tragically thirsty, disrespectful, garbage interlopers are not allowed to usurp, or for that matter, even marginally, ever be considered worthy to be the ‘voice’ of anything… And especially not the ‘voice’ of ‘Black’ America …or the tellers or reapers of the real and long generational trauma suffered by actual, deeply-rooted, fully-Black Americans like the phenomenal historic Black FLOTUS that these same 2 shameless, clout-chasing, sham purveyors of ‘black girl magic’, have had no qualms disrespecting and thirstily targeting for gratuitous attacks..
Attiah and Hannah-Jones.. 2 hollow, grifting a-holes …with their endlessly puerile social media posturing and pocketbook pseudo ‘journalism’… cheapening, exploiting and leveraging entirely for their own grift and self-promotion, Black America’s long generational pain and trauma..
Incredibly disconcerting that there are those actually buying this brazen gaslighting mess..
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1412417037528338441?s=20
Folks been watching Pool Kings during lockdown… And someone in the inflatable market saw an opening🤔🤔🤔
Hot, Sexy, Ratchet God Warrior (@SoAlmondie) tweeted at 1:29 PM on Tue, Jul 06, 2021:
Me:
Nobody:
Other grandparents:
My mom: I bought a lil pool for the backyard so Ivy can just swim here when she’s home.
The pool: https://t.co/GjA5YpO88v
(https://twitter.com/SoAlmondie/status/1412478944289435649?s=02)
🤔🤔🤔🤔
CNN (@CNN) tweeted at 6:37 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
The FBI has infiltrated a “Bible study” group in Virginia that had members discussing surveilling the US Capitol and their wish for secession from the country after the January 6 riot, according to recently unsealed court records. https://t.co/jlGkSLxhcK
(https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1412737420123070471?s=02)
If it gets shots in arms, I am all for it.
BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) tweeted at 10:34 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
Yes it has come to this…and no I’m not mad about it. We gotta meet folks where they are at 😂😂😂🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 #VaxThatThangUp
https://t.co/zp11dNv8vJ
(https://twitter.com/blackwomenviews/status/1412797222291390472?s=02)
😂😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/MackBeckyComedy/status/1412626460712464387?s=19
Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) tweeted at 8:37 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
New ad from DMFI PAC in #OH11 attacks Nina Turner for past comments about Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden https://t.co/Qrm0SKvFZe
(https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1412767683561635842?s=02)
Los Angeles Times (@latimes) tweeted at 11:34 AM on Tue, Jul 06, 2021:
U.S. Capitol Police announced that the agency is opening regional field offices in California and Florida to investigate threats to members of Congress in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/L3cJ5Hhp8B
(https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1412449805494857737?s=03)
CNN International (@cnni) tweeted at 5:39 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
Former US President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter mark 75 years of marriage on Wednesday, a union that spans decades of public service from rural Georgia to the White House and beyond. https://t.co/BH6BIKsguA
(https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1412722827782934528?s=02)
RIP😢
She was in one of my favorite movies-The Inkwell
The Hillman Files (@thehillmanfiles) tweeted at 2:15 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
Veteran, award winning actress, Suzzanne Douglas played “Rebecca”, Denise’s friend on ‘The Cosby Show’, who was able to talk Denise into going back to college!
https://t.co/LgFpQJoWCF
(https://twitter.com/thehillmanfiles/status/1412671585807372290?s=02)
😳😳😢😢
The Associated Press (@AP) tweeted at 5:19 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
BREAKING: Official: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home, first lady hospitalized amid political instability.
(https://twitter.com/AP/status/1412717875664756741?s=02)
Years ago, I shared with my fam here that as an observer of politics and ‘culture’, that I’d come to learn to suss out a lot of folks based entirely on how they treated/responded to the fully-Black historic FLOTUS.. It was such an unfailingly accurate measure, I’d found… And continues to hold true to this day..
There was no rallying for her.. there were no ‘hive’ or ‘squad’, paid/unpaid ‘influencers’… out there artificially boosting/fluffing her up.. Nor were there any ‘feminists’, ‘black defenders/protectors’, or ‘liberals’, ‘white allies’ fighting battles on her behalf.. Even though some were fighting twitter battles on behalf of her politician hubby…And just as many of them were hoping that his fully-black wife would disappear..
How amusing to watch and listen these days as some of the very same/worst offenders who unprovoked, baselessly and mercilessly attacked, maligned, insulted and poked their fingers in the eye of the unpretentiously great Black woman who became America’s historic FLOTUS, are now the most raucous of self-styled ‘warriors’ for women and the black race ..and ‘women of color’… LOL..
Even as they still resent…and covertly and overtly continue to attack my historic black FLOTUS.. until and except when they need to buoy one of their ‘faves’… and then demand that she immediately show up and allow them to exploit her and her hard-won political capital which they’ve by the way, done their darnedest to chip away at over the past few years.. the briefest of cease-fires only lasting as long as she’s being weaponized to boost some other person.. But very importantly, only for as long as the general public aren’t hankering after her instead of the people she’s being asked to boost..
Someday, soon.. all this ridiculous gaslighting will end, and the full story will be told..
In the meantime, I continue to take my cues from the refreshingly unassuming phenomenal woman that is my historic FLOTUS..
Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) tweeted at 8:43 AM on Tue, Jul 06, 2021:
Miss me with the “Teaching at HBCUs is so important, teaching at black schools is so important” BS!!
If 1619 Klown really felt that way she would’ve tried to work at Howard in the first place.
If Coates hadn’t decided to join her she’d be jiggin and jamming at UNC! https://t.co/nMvyaFVSRK
(https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1412406872221626371?s=03)
Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) tweeted at 8:35 AM on Tue, Jul 06, 2021:
But 1619 and her friends waged a media campaign begging and demanding to teach at the white school, when she could’ve just applied at any HBCU in the first place.
1619 is using HBCU to mule for her & provide emotional labor and it’s not cute:
(https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1412404917793341448?s=03)
Nikole Hannah-Jones: The malevolent, clout-chasing, self-aggrandizing, race-hustling, race hustle-leveraging, daughter of a white Czech mother… who for years, has baselessly and endlessly attacked, smeared, denigrated America’s historic fully-Black First Lady descended of slaves.. is now amusingly, according to some folk, ‘voice and defender’ of blackness.. and ‘black girl magic’.. LOL..
Selective amnesia, even in the face of mass deleted e-mails, will be the undoing of fickle folk..
https://twitter.com/jimat944/status/1111282176543330305?s=20
Kat 4 Obama @Kat4Obama Replying to @nhannahjones:
This is simply a lie and a smear of Michelle Obama by someone who apparently didn’t bother to read the full quote. It serves a racist narrative of protecting the white majority who voted Trump/3rd party or didn’t vote. I’m so sick of deceitful grandstanding and brand-building.
https://twitter.com/Kat4Obama/status/1257740282591735808?s=20
Regster26 @thuddyt Replying to @nhannahjones:
So, you saw a headline and did not click to read the article. In what world has Michelle Obama ever stated that Black people are to blame for voting or not voting? Hasn’t been this world. I wish I could say I was disappointed but that would mean I had high expectations for you.
https://twitter.com/thuddyt/status/1257712634788409345?s=20
Born to Ride: Jessica Springsteen, Bruce’s daughter, named to U.S. Olympic equestrian team https://sports.yahoo.com/jessica-springsteen-bruce-daughter-us-olympic-equestrian-team-224314123.html
Errin Haines 😷🧼🧴💉 (@emarvelous) tweeted at 7:15 AM on Tue, Jul 06, 2021:
BREAKING: @nhannahjones tells @GayleKing she will not teach at UNC after being offered tenure at her alma mater, will take a inaugural journalism position at @HowardU
(https://twitter.com/emarvelous/status/1412384708781088771?s=02)
F**k Hannah Jones or whatever the heck her name is..
Allwftopic @Alllwftopic:
She can’t take being questioned or called out. I turn the channel whenever she comes on, I have no interest on what she has to say. She attacked Michelle Obama off of headline, she’s an educated woman who didn’t read beyond the headline, and she didn’t like getting called out.
https://twitter.com/Alllwftopic/status/1395486380726181889?s=20
Elections matter.
The Hill (@thehill) tweeted at 6:07 AM on Tue, Jul 06, 2021:
The Biden administration is the most diverse in U.S. history. https://t.co/OUCwSoJeF5
(https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1412367476675993601?s=02)
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊