Republicans won't dedicate laws to women of color.
LAKEN RILEY'S DEATH BECOMES A WHITE SUPREMACIST FEVER DREAM.
Breona Taylor was killed by the American police. The #SayHerName hashtag was devoted to a EMS worker shot and killed by the Louisville Metro Police while sleeping.
Republicans are making Laken Riley a campaign talking point. Riley, a 22-year-old American nursing student at Augusta University, was abducted and killed - allegedly by José Antonio Ibarra - while she was jogging at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. Her body was found in Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick; her death was caused by blunt force trauma. He was a Venezuelan who had entered the United States illegally in September 2022, crossing the US’s southern border with Mexico near El Paso, Texas. He will face a possible death sentence if convicted.
Riley's murder became a "national political case" during what Forbes' Sara Dorn called a "historic surge in border crossings during Biden's tenure". It was highly publicized by the national media and the press.
Her family says they plan to establish a foundation in her honor. Her stepfather said: "She will be missed every day, but we promise to honor her life moving forward in a very big way".
Former president Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: "Border INVASION is destroying our country and killing our citizens! The horrible murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley at the University of Georgia should have NEVER happened!" He later met with Riley's mother and stepfather before his campaign rally in Rome, Georgia on March 9, 2024.
So if Republicans are done exploiting the name of Laken Riley, how about they refocus their outrage on the Wisconsin woman who was murdered and dismembered?
Her killer is an American white man who grew up in a privileged society.
No outrage from Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) or Fox.
Sade Robinson is just a shade darker and the suspect isn't a Black man, a Brown man, an immigrant or a Muslim. If Sade was white and the suspect was not white, Fox and the Republicans would push for harsher laws and blame President Joe Biden for the actions of that suspect.
The predator sexually assaulted and dismembered Sade Robinson.
As many including myself are turning to social media to find relationships. Although I am a lot less interested in finding the right woman, I am just patient for now.
People on dating profiles aren't what they said to be. So thus, I rather be single.
Sade meet Maxwell Anderson through those dating apps. They went on a date and somehow she never made it home. Anderson, a bartender who previously worked for his father's insurance companies, appeared in court Friday after allegedly butchering 19-year-old Sade Robinson on April 1.
The long-haired accused murderer, who owns a criminal history including convictions for battery and domestic abuse, had taken Robinson - 14 years his junior - on a date at a seafood restaurant where he reportedly worked for a time.
Anderson, of Milwaukee, was arrested April 4, two days after the leg was found by a passersby down a bluff at Warnimont Park along Lake Michigan in Cudahy. The leg had been severed just below the hip.
Robinson had been reported missing April 2 by a friend. An employee of the building where Robinson lived told police that Robinson was excited about a date she had planned for April 1, according to the complaint.
Surveillance video from a restaurant showed Robinson and Anderson sitting together at the bar on the evening of April 1. Her burned car was found the next morning.
Additional human remains were found April 5 and April 6. Those remains have not positively been identified as belonging to Robinson, police said.
“At this point in time, we don’t believe there are any other victims out there,” Milwaukee County Sheriff Denita Ball told reporters Friday.
Anderson was ordered held on a $5 million bond. A preliminary examination was set for April 22.
The Associated Press left a voicemail Friday seeking comment from an attorney listed as representing Maxwell.
The day after she disappeared, the Milwaukee Fire Department also responded to a vehicle fire, with investigators finding that it was Robinson's Honda Civic that had been set ablaze.
Investigators were able to find pieces of Robinson's ripped jeans and white shirt that she was wearing, alongside the singed remains of her phone.
That same day, cops were called to the discovery of a human leg at Warnimont Park, which was noted as having been 'sawn off' just below the hip.
The leg was ruled to have belonged to a black female, with pink nail polish still on the toes, and a DNA test found that it belonged to the 19-year-old.
More remains were found days later on April 5 and 7 around the city of Milwaukee, including a human foot and 'what appeared to be human flesh', cops said.
Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of tough on crime measures, mainly on the right, that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed. In addition to race and class, factors such as supposed attractiveness, body size and youthfulness function as unfair criteria in the determination of newsworthiness in coverage of missing women. News coverage of missing black women were more likely to focus on the victim's problems, such as abusive boyfriends or a troubled past, while coverage of white women often tend to focus on their roles as mothers or daughters.
Black women and indigenous women are missing far more and yet they never get the attention that white women get. Think about Gabby Petito, Natalee Holloway, JonBenet Ramsey and Lacy Peterson. Think about the amount of attention they gotten and their killers got.
Sade was studying for criminal justice. Her life was taken too early.
If the suspect is Black, Muslim or immigrant, the white extremists would often troll Black blogs and social media to throw inappropriate discussions about how white women should avoid relationships with people of color. They would use racial slurs, coded language and concern trolling as an excuse to justify their hatred.
How many women of color are killed by white men?
Do white men often troll social media with "thoughts and prayers" to women of color?
It is an easy answer......!
The suspect is likely to get LIFE in the iron college if convicted on murder and sexual assault alone. Kidnapping, arson, depriving a corpse and mutilation are likely going to he added to his list of offenses.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Former kidnapping victim and victim's right advocate Elizabeth Smart has pressed the junk food media to give attention to all people missing (especially woman of color). She voiced frustration over missing Black and indigenous woman who rarely get coverage.
Smart's case attracted major media attention and led to the arrest of two predators. She stated that the junk food media needs to do better when it comes to covering missing people and rape victims.
For all the lies and misinformation, Smartmatic System's reputation was slandered. Many of the most controversial figures in the far right grift lied to the American voters.
One America News Network (OANN) reached a settlement with Smartmatic. The company settled with an undisclosed amount.
They spinned lies about former president Donald J. Trump being denied a victory because of illegal immigrants voting, urban voters voting twice, voting systems changing votes from Trump to Biden, social media shielding the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and other conspiracy theories.
Fox, Newsmax, Mike Lindell, America's Real Voice, OANN, Breitbart, Salem Radio and X promoted the lies and misinformation. They are currently engaged in this as Trump is expected to be in court and campaigning.
The settlement between Florida-based Smartmatic and OANN is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in wild conspiracy theories falsely claiming they had flipped votes and cost former Trump reelection.
In a statement, the company said it had “resolved its litigation with OANN through a confidential settlement.” The dismissal of its lawsuit was filed in federal court in the District of Columbia. Chip Babcock, a Houston-based attorney representing the news outlet, confirmed the case had been resolved but said he was unable to disclose any of the settlement terms.
Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Smartmatic was an odd target for the conspiracy theorists because use of its voting technology and software was so limited. It was used only in Los Angeles County, a Democratic stronghold in a state that was not a presidential battleground and where Trump did not contest his loss.
But the company has for years also provided voting services in Venezuela, and that created a springboard for phony claims that a foreign company was involved in a vast conspiracy to flip the election from Trump to Democrat Joe Biden. Smartmatic also has active lawsuits against Fox and the conservative outlet Newsmax over similar complaints.
Fox has said it had a First Amendment right to air claims about an election that were being promoted by prominent figures.
Last year, on the eve of a trial, Fox agreed to pay $787 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a much larger voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, which claimed the network and its hosts spread false claims that its equipment helped rig the election against Trump. Dominion has other defamation lawsuits that remain active, including one against One America News Network.
The conspiracy theories relating to voting equipment and software are among the lies about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election won by Biden. Numerous reviews, audits and recounts in the presidential swing states where Trump contested his loss have affirmed Biden’s victory, and there has been no evidence of widespread fraud. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is facing federal and state charges related to his attempts to overturn the results.
NPR fires back against the noise. They put a conspiracy theorist on ice.
When Uri Berlinger went to the far right network Newsnation to complain about NPR "losing its trust" because it didn't cover conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden, the Israel-Hamas conflict, questioning vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic, criticism of rights for trans Americans and issues involving former president Donald J. Trump.
Public radio doesn't play favorites despite the far right's claims of liberal bias.
NPR relies on facts, well resourced journalists and of course the listeners.
Also, there is a dial where you have the freedom to listen to NPR, country, classic rock, hip-hop, rhythmic urban, gospel, talk radio, classical, mainstream rock, top 40 or sports talk.
Berlinger found put that NPR had enough of his bullshit. They placed him in the freezer and they are debating on whether to fire him out the cannon.
Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.
Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press. It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network's coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including Trump.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR's new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the network. Among others, those posts include a 2020 tweet that called Trump racist and another that appeared to minimize rioting during social justice protests that year. Maher took the job at NPR last month — her first at a news organization.
In a statement Monday about the messages she had posted, Maher praised the integrity of NPR's journalists and underscored the independence of their reporting.
NPR is considering placing conspiracy theorist in the firing cannon.
"In America everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen," she said. "What matters is NPR's work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public. NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests."
The network noted that "the CEO is not involved in editorial decisions."
In an interview with me later on Monday, Berliner said the social media posts demonstrated Maher was all but incapable of being the person best poised to direct the organization.
"We're looking for a leader right now who's going to be unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about," Berliner said. "And this seems to be the opposite of that."
He said that he tried repeatedly to make his concerns over NPR's coverage known to news leaders and to Maher's predecessor as chief executive before publishing his essay.
Berliner has singled out coverage of several issues dominating the 2020s for criticism, including trans rights, the Israel-Hamas war and COVID. Berliner says he sees the same problems at other news organizations, but argues NPR, as a mission-driven institution, has a greater obligation to fairness.
"I love NPR and feel it's a national trust," Berliner says. "We have great journalists here. If they shed their opinions and did the great journalism they're capable of, this would be a much more interesting and fulfilling organization for our listeners."
NPR editor-in-chief Edith Chapin quickly pushed back against Berliner’s characterization of the outlet, telling staff in a memo that network management “strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes.”
“We believe that inclusion — among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage — is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world,” she added.
Other NPR staffers publicly rejected Berliner’s assessment in social media posts.
Americans who support Israel are bloodthirsty.Reading the comments on X, Instagram and YouTube, you think the folks protesting against the genocide in Gaza were the terrorists.
Have you ever gotten a comment from someone who says that the other would do something horrific if you are backing them?
If you wanted "Death to America," remind yourself that Trump supporters tried to violently overturn a peaceful transfer of power. They violently broke into the U.S. Capitol and tried to kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence. Republicans refuse to hold former president Donald J. Trump accountable for his actions. They are more upset over protected speech than a foreign country committing war crimes and an active genocide.
Fuck the hypocrisy of Donald J. Trump, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Republicans, the far right, Zionists, President Joe Biden, Democrats, Israel and the junk food media.
Israel and its propaganda is not working this time around. Too many folks around the world see how this country operates and they want it to stop. The U.S. is the only country still backing this evil regime.
Pro-Palestinian activists are swamped by the far right, pro Israel, pro Trump, pro Kennedy and pro Biden trolls. These trolls are calling people traitors, calling for matters to be taken in their own hands, calling jailing and demanding they leave their country.
America's iron clad support for Israel will drive us into another war.
Israel has illegally invaded Syria and Lebanon. They illegally struck a consulate in Iran.
Do you actually believe that Israel should attack another sovereignty without repercussions?
Israel’s military chief said Monday that his country will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but he did not elaborate on when and how as world leaders urged against retaliation, trying to avoid a spiral of violence in the Middle East.
The Iranian attack on Saturday came in response to a suspected Israeli strike two weeks earlier on an Iranian consular building in the Syrian capital of Damascus that killed two Iranian generals. It marked the first time Iran has launched a direct military assault on Israel despite decades of enmity dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles at Israel in the attack. The Israeli military said that 99% of the drones and missiles were intercepted, by Israel’s own air defenses and warplanes and in coordination with a U.S.-led coalition of partners.
Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Monday that Israel is considering its next steps but that the Iranian strike “will be met with a response."
Halevi gave no details. The army’s spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Israel will respond “at the time that we choose.”
Both men spoke at the Nevatim air base in southern Israel, which Hagari said suffered only light damage in the Iranian attack.
This evil man will meet his maker.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been huddling with top officials to discuss a possible response. For a second straight day, the government made no announcements on any decisions.
In a conversation with U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Netanyahu said that “Israel will do whatever is required to defend itself,” the prime minister’s office announced.
While Israeli leaders have hinted at retaliation, the government is under heavy international pressure not to further escalate the conflict — especially after the Iranian strike caused such little damage.
The U.S. has urged Israel to show restraint as it seeks to build a broad diplomatic response.
While Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said any response is up to Israel to decide, he added: “We don’t want to see escalation, but we obviously will take necessary measures to protect our forces in the region.”
Pressed at a briefing about whether such a response would jeopardize stability in the region, Ryder said the U.S. will “stay in close consultation with our Israeli partners, as we have done throughout the weekend. Again, we don’t seek wider regional conflict.”
The U.S. also has been working in recent years to strengthen ties between Israel and moderate Arab states in an alliance to counter Iran.
Much of that cooperation has been under the umbrella of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East. Centcom works closely with militaries across the region, including Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.
The U.S., Britain and Jordan — a key American ally in the region — have all said their air forces helped intercept the Iranian missiles and drones. Halevi said France and “other partners” were involved, and he noted that “Iran’s attack has created new opportunities for cooperation in the Middle East.”
The Iranian weapons also flew through Saudi skies, according to a map released by the Israeli military. Israel says most of the interceptions took place outside of Israeli airspace, indicating at least tacit cooperation with the Saudis.
A unilateral Israeli strike could strain these behind-the-scenes contacts, particularly with countries like Saudi Arabia that do not have official diplomatic relations with Israel. It also could risk opening a new front with Iran at a time when Israel is bogged down in a six-month war inside Gaza against Hamas militants.
Israel and Iran have been on a collision course throughout the Gaza war. The war erupted after Hamas and Islamic Jihad, two militant groups backed by Iran, carried out a devastating cross-border attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped 250 others.
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed over 33,700 Palestinians, according to local health officials, and caused widespread devastation.
Throughout the war, Israel has traded fire across its northern border with Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, while Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Yemen have also attacked Israel. The friction has kept up fears of a potentially destructive all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, or a broader direct confrontation between Israel and Iran.
World leaders pressed Israel not to strike Iran.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said “all sides must show restraint” to avoid a rising spiral of violence in the Middle East. French President Emmanuel Macron said Paris will try to “convince Israel that we must not respond by escalating.”
In Washington, U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to say Monday whether the U.S. had been or expects to be briefed on any Israeli response plans. “We will let the Israelis speak to that,” he said.
“We are not involved in their decision-making process about a potential response,” Kirby said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. doesn’t seek escalation but said it would continue to support Israel’s security. He pledged to step up the diplomatic efforts against Iran.
“Strength and wisdom need to be different sides of the same coin,” he said.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress pledge their loyalties to the U.S. and Israel.
If you criticize this, you're a traitor.
The more shit the Democrats do, the less I am backing their bid to win. I mean they want to save democracy while defending a fascist foreign country that rules on an apartheid and religious theocracy.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald J. Trump, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Congress, Republicans and Democrats are sucking the cock of Israel.
They are all insufferable and it is a damn shame that Americans are living paycheck to paycheck while these folks are little to no work as elected leaders. We are watching our taxpayer dollars go to foreign countries like Israel.
Congress refuses to pass meaningful legislation that helps Americans. They are too busy trying to strip freedoms, outlaw speech and drumbeat our country into another quagmire with the Middle East.
Iran is not my enemy.
Russia is not my enemy.
China is not my enemy.
Israel is not my enemy.
Republican Anthony D'Esposito of New York trying to criminalize free speech.
They are just distractions and members of Congress, the White House and the junk food media are still stuck on stupid. I meant the status quo of politics.
Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY), Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) are planning on drafting a resolution to conflate "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free" as antisemitic.
This is truly a waste of time and a shameful attempt to stifle free speech on behalf of Israel and its operatives the Anti-Defamation League and AIPAC.
Like TikTok, members of Congress would rather ban things than pass legislation that helps Americans. I mean giving billions of our tax dollars for the security of Israel is now unpopular with Americans.
We may think its China Russia and Iran interfering in our elections but in reality it's actually one. Israel is definitely involved in this. They are meddling in our elections too.
Just to make sure you don't forget. Donald J. Trump supports Israel, global wars and TikTok bans too. It was because of TikTok mocking him, Israel and the coronavirus challenges like licking a toilet seat.
From theRiver to the Sea, Palestine will be Free! 🇵🇸 🍉
Cry more!
Israel for way too long has manipulated me with this endless victimhood. All the while pushing for an ethno-nationalist state, Israeli government leaders [both left and right] have called for the eradication of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
The operatives have operated with shell agencies like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. These organizations operated at the behest of Israel.
Jared Moskowitz (Papa Smurf) is an insufferable Democrat from Florida.
Israel has fanned outrage over octopuses, buttons, protests at synagogues, protests at Holocaust museums, blocking roads, blocking bridges, boycotting companies and calling for international sanctions. Now it about regime change and it comes from the biggest U.S. Zionist in the Senate.
Israel keeps calling it an attack on Jewish people and it amounts to antisemitic propaganda.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
Keep pressure on them with Israel.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.
Israeli propaganda turns Josh Gottheimer and Debbie Wasserman Schultz into bigots.
They are feeling it. Democrats know the risk of supporters being turned off by their policies. They know that Biden is under extreme pressure to do something. Arab Americans, Muslim and young voters have vowed to never back Biden putting his reelection chances in danger.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. Let them know that bans on TikTok are bans on free speech. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism. We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.
If anyone trolls you about condemning Hamas for Oct. 7, 2023, kindly ignore them or respectfully tell them that Israel has committed an illegal occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights and the West Bank. They shoot innocent civilians and indiscriminately bomb heavily populated areas in Gaza and the West Bank.
Will you condemn the actions of Israel if I have to condemn Hamas?
After numerous attempts to delay his criminal trial, former president Donald J. Trump will appear in Manhattan Superior Court. The jury selection is today and many of the prospective jurors must be impartial and able to serve six to eight weeks.
Judge Juan M. Merchan has issued a gag order barring Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial, citing the former president’s history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” remarks about people involved in his legal cases.
He continues to violate the gag order.
This criminal trial is based on election and campaign finance violations in which the former president ordered his former lawyer to issue payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal through shadow payments by AMI Media.
Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen and AMI Media's David Pecker will be witnesses as well as Daniels and McDougal.
This a hush money case is going to be a challenge for Alvin Bragg, the county district attorney. Bragg must prove that Trump deliberately wanted to pay women who he had affairs with to not tell their stories. In order to stifle an embarrassment, he ordered illegal payments to be conducted through shadow payments.
This is a historical first.
A former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee is being criminally charged.
Trump is very definition of white privilege.
It’s the first criminal trial of any former U.S. commander-in-chief and the first of Trump’s four indictments to go to trial.
Because he is also the presumptive nominee for this year’s Republican ticket, the trial will produce the head-spinning split-screen of a presidential candidate spending his days in court and, he has said, “campaigning during the night.”
The photo spreaded through the far right shows a Trump activist being hugged.
A Black conservative activist arranaged for the former president to make an appearance at the Atlanta Chick-fil-A. The whole thing was staged and it was ampilified by the bullshit peddlers of the far-right.
Benny Johnson, Scott Presler, Laura Loomer, Dom Lucre are the notorious far-right bastards who fester on the X platform. Elon Musk boosts their propaganda to millions and their impact is clearly to help Donald J. Trump win a second term.
President Joe Biden would rather ban TikTok.
Man, if Biden had some sense he should take a look at how a South African/American billionaire who made a profit off grifting managed to buy X with shares from Telsa and SpaceX! Or the fact that X is platforming propaganda from Israel, Russia, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, Great Britain and Russia.
Although Russia has banned X from its platforms, the Russian intelligence agencies, Tara Reade and Maria Butina are crafting an online troll campaign to disrupt the election.
X should be banned for the fact that it promotes pornography, racism, disinformation and slander.
Musk is already under fire for his postings and is being sued for libel.
Anyway, Michaelah Montgomery, a former associate of Candace Owens was responsible for the photo op at the Chick-fil-A. She admitted that her team waited six hours for Trump's arrival. Many of the workerrs were caught off gaurd but were happy to meet a former president.
Michaelah Montgomery cooning for fried chicken and Trump.
Trump who was there for a donors gathering at the far-right gay bigot Bill White's Buckhead Movement pavillion. White, a notorious panderer of racism is spearheading a separation of the upscale Buckhead community from the city of Atlanta. He is urging Republicans (who don't even live in the city) to back the bid.
Those widely shared moments were days in the making, an alliance between the Trump campaign, local activists, and students at some of the nation’s most iconic historically Black colleges.
Trump and his allies have argued he can win greater Black support due to his messages on the economy and immigration, a notion President Joe Biden’s campaign rejects. Some of his outreach to African Americans has played on racial stereotypes — promoting $399 branded sneakers or suggesting that Black people would empathize with his dozens of felony charges — and has offended longtime critics and some potential allies.
But the campaign considered Wednesday’s photo opportunity at Chick-fil-A, a stop he made on the way to a fundraiser in Atlanta, a win that produced viral videos shared by his allies and widely discussed by supporters and opponents alike.
“People find it so hard to believe that there are young Black people who would have loved the opportunity to meet Trump,” said Michaelah Montgomery, a conservative activist and founder of Conserve the Culture, which recruits and educates college students and young alumni at Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities.
Montgomery, a former Georgia Republican Party staffer who regularly coordinates events for HBCU students open to conservative ideas to meet with politicians and activists, said she was notified earlier in the week that Trump would visit Atlanta’s Vine City neighborhood during his trip to host a high-dollar fundraiser in the city. She notified a private group chat of students she uses to coordinate events and job opportunities about the president’s visit. She received immediate interest in appearing alongside him from around a dozen students.
This is what Trump actually thinks about people touching him.
“Everybody got together at around 9:30 in the morning and walked on over to the Chick-fil-A and then we sat there and waited until the president showed up,” said Montgomery, who can be seen embracing the former president in multiple viral videos. “It’s really disheartening to see that the media makes it seem like we just stumbled into a Chick-fil-A and he bought us milkshakes.”
Morehouse and Spelman Colleges are some of the foremost historically Black colleges in the nation, with long legacies of influential Black alumni in politics, business, religion and medicine. Martin Luther King Jr. and Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who pastors King’s former church, are both Morehouse alumni. Stacey Abrams, the influential Georgia Democrat, attended Spelman. Alongside neighboring Clark Atlanta University and Morris Brown College, the academic collective on Atlanta’s West Side has served as a bastion of African American politics and culture since before the Civil Rights movement.
Trump’s overture to students at the iconic Black institutions both underscored his eagerness to show any potential inroads with Black voters as well as the campaign’s strategy of partnering with local conservative groups to marshal a crowd in communities outside the GOP base, a common political tactic with a slight twist.
“The location was beautifully selected and I think it had an incredible impact,” said Bill White, a businessman and longtime friend of the former president who organized the high-dollar luncheon for the Trump campaign in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood the same day. “I just thought the day was a resounding success for him and for the people in Georgia who loved him and wanted to come out and show their support.”
White added that Donald Trump “is very relatable to anyone, really. Atlantans got a chance to see that and show their love back” and he anticipates Trump will make major inroads with Black voters in Atlanta and across the country due to events like his Wednesday visit.
Jasmine Harris, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, criticized the visit.
“Thinking Black voters relate to Donald Trump because he spent twenty minutes handing out freebies at a fast food restaurant is yet another insult to our intelligence – and perfect example of just how disingenuous Trump’s outreach to Black voters continues to be,” Harris said in a statement.
In March, 55 percent of Black Americans said they approved of Biden’s handling his job as president while 45 percent disapproved, according to a poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Research. But a February poll found only a 25 percent favorability rating for Trump among Black Americans.
The visit was not met with fanfare by some on campus or the local community. Montgomery denounced the criticism some students who appeared in the viral videos alongside Trump have received both on campus and online.
“They are claiming that the students made a mockery of their institutions and saying that they are disrespecting their ancestors. It is really, really bad,” said Montgomery.
Vice President Kamala Harris is a member of a sorority and an alumni of the Historically Black College and Univerities. She is also grew up watching the NBC sitcom, "A Different World." Harris graduated from Howard University and is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She is the first African American, first Asian American and first woman to be the Vice President of the United States.
Assured, the far right, the Black extremists [Black Isreaelites and Foundational Black Americans] would question her Blackness.
Harris identifies as a Black woman. She and Barack Obama are the first African Americans to hold titles as Vice President of the United States and President of the United States.
The far right and Black extremists refuse to acknowledge their Blackness.
Harris invites Jasmine Guy, Chernele Brown, Kadeem Hardison, Cree Summer, Dawnn Lewis, Daryl M. Bell and Glynn Thuman to the White House. Debbie Allen and Susan Fales were also in attendance.
The sitcom, a spin off of The Cosby Show starred Lisa Bonet, Marisa Tomei, Jasmine Guy, Dawnn Lewis and Kadeem Hardison. The show was executive produced by Bill Cosby and Debbie Allen. The first season featured cameos from several of The Cosby Show cast. A spin-off of The Cosby Show, A Different World initially follows second eldest Huxtable child Denise (Lisa Bonet) after she leaves home to attend Hillman College, a fictional historically Black university in Virginia. There she meets an eclectic group of schoolmates.
Wannabe white supremacist Dean Cain’s recent anti-black vomiting has caused this 1992 scene from ‘A Different World’, where he played himself, a racist, to pop up again. Notice how white supremacist society has been recycling the same BS anti-black arguments, like “quotas” & DEI. https://t.co/xrVF3dHAxOpic.twitter.com/KE3uzfBiTW
Hillman Day at Howard University. The cast of A Different World stopped in DC for their HBCU Tour and the impact is still there 🎥TVone pic.twitter.com/yltj9fQxxg
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Wannabe white supremacist Dean Cain’s recent anti-black vomiting has caused this 1992 scene from ‘A Different World’, where he played himself, a racist, to pop up again. Notice how white supremacist society has been recycling the same BS anti-black arguments, like “quotas” & DEI. https://t.co/xrVF3dHAxOpic.twitter.com/KE3uzfBiTW
In a revamp, the show fired Bonet after Cosby got angry over her pregnancy with Zoe Kravitz while married Lenny Kravitz.
Tomei was written out of the show.
Bonet would reappear on The Cosby Show for the remaining seasons on recurring status.
A Different World added Sinbad, Glynn Thurman, Cree Summer, Mary Alice, Lou Myers, Chernele Brown, Daryl M. Bell to the cast and it became a smash hit. The show lasted six seasons on NBC.
The series featured appearances from Cosby, Phylcia Rashad, Tempest Bledsoe, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Keshia Knight Pullum, Raven-Symone, Debbie Allen, Patti LaBelle, Tupac Shakur, Karen Malina White, Jada Pinkett Smith, Loretta Devine, Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Dean Cain, Tisha Campbell, Whoopi Goldberg, En Vogue, Gilbert Gottfried, Jenifer Lewis, Bumper Robinson, T.K. Carter, Halle Berry, Rosalind Cash, David Allan Grier, Kenan Ivory Wayans, Kim Wayans, Robert Guillaume, Billy Dee Williams, Diahann Carroll, Harold Sylvester and so many others.
Harris, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and members of the Biden Administration greet the cast and share memories of their experiences on the show.
The Grio’s April Ryan shared a snippet of their White House visit on Instagram, which included Jean-Pierre leading the cast in a sing-along of the show’s iconic theme. While the show featured three different arrangements of the song across its six season run — with Phoebe Snow performing it in the first season and Boyz II Men stepping in for the final — the group opted for the version featured throughout the majority of the sitcom’s run, sung by the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin.
Cree Summer is a prominent voice actress who appeared on numerous animated shows and sitcoms. She is the daughter of Canadian American actor Don Francks.
Former president Donald J. Trump is trying to make a play for Black voters. He staged a visit at a Chick-fil-A and was greeted by Black Republicans. The Black vote has been at best 13% for Trump because Black men are swinging towards him.
Biden and Harris have to make more inroads to win the Black vote.
Israel must fall. The aggression by this country has gone too far.
Armchair generals in Washington, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Moscow and London. All of them want to drum up a war with Iran.
So according to Republicans, Democrats, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former president Donald J. Trump and the Zionists, the state of Israel can strike the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and the consulate of Iran without consequences. So I guess these countries are just going to allow a foreign country attack their sovereignty without any repercussions. If they respond to the aggression, then the U.S. must defend its ally. It's an "ironclad" support.
The U.S. gives billions to Israel.
Republicans balk at the idea of giving Americans loan forgiveness but cheer for our taxpayer money to go to a country that ignores the rules, enforces a religious based government and treats indigenous people as the enemy.
They label them as terrorists and have no compassion for the deaths of innocents.
They work on passing bills to strip Americans of their freedoms to speak out against Israel. They want to classify breathing air as antisemitic. Mike Johnson, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Mitch McConnell and 95% of Congress are paid by AIPAC, a foreign lobbying group that push for American influence in Israel's ongoing chaos.
Biden will not hold Israel accountable for its actions and it will certainly hurt his reelection chances. Now he is battling whether the U.S. engage in conflict on behalf of the racist apartheid ethnostate of Israel.
Israel conducted an illegal airstrike in Syria. It struck an Iranian consulate killing 20.
Netanyahu and his war cabinet won't stop and the world is tired of them not being held accountable.
Iran’s attack is a retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike that killed an Iranian military commander, Major-General Mohammad Reza Zahed, in Damascus on April 1. He was killed along with six other Iranian nationals, including another general. At least six Syrian citizens were also killed. Iran vows retaliation.
Iran and Syria condemned the attack.
The U.S. and Israel managed to intercept the drones and prevented them from destroying targets at best.
Biden warned Benjamin Netanyahu to not strike Iran. The evil regime leader refused to concede and is vowing to strike Iran's nuclear plants and it could trigger a regional conflict that may lead us into World War III.
Biden and Trump are all in for Israel.
Israeli war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which the Israel Defense Forces, the military branch of the state of Israel, has been accused of committing since the founding of Israel in 1948. These have included murder, intentional targeting of civilians, killing prisoners of war and surrendered combatants, indiscriminate attacks, collective punishment, starvation, the use of human shields, sexual violence and rape, torture, pillage, forced transfer, breach of medical neutrality, targeting journalists, attacking civilian and protected objects, wanton destruction, incitement to genocide, and genocide.
And yet, the American lawmakers still refer to it as a Jewish state.
All these armchair generals are calling Biden "weak" because he doesn't want to get involved and of course Republicans seized upon the idea that attacking Israel should merit an American response.
Iran warned Israel of any response. The Iranian armed forces chief of staff, Major-General Mohammad Bagheri, told state TV that if Israel retaliates, Iran’s response would be “much larger” than the overnight bombardment, according to a Reuters report.
Iran also warned Washington that backing Israeli retaliation would lead to the targeting of U.S. bases.
Election integrity was the latest bullshit coming from former president Donald J. Trump and the Republicans. The very same lies that led to Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol. The same lies that allowed Republicans to pass gerrymandered congressional maps. The same lies that led toa sharp decline in election workers. The same lies that lead to Republicans passing controversial voter ID laws.
Newsflash, most Americans vote once.
Not all Americans can leave work to go vote.
Not all Americans vote early or cast mail in votes. Not all Americans cast absante ballots.
Most Americans want Election Day to be a national holiday.
Yet, Republicans refuse to support it. They do not support statehood for the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico. They do not support U.S. citizens living in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico the opportunity to vote for president. They don't support American Samoa the opportunity to allow U.S. citizenship and the opportunity to vote for president.
They post their phony support for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision for a better America while trying to strip away freedoms and endorsing racism.
Elections matter.
As President Joe Biden said it best, "You can't love your country only when you win" an election. Trump and Republicans show us that there is no ground floor when it comes to hypocrisy.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is fearing his time as Speaker is coming to an end.
Insufferable lawmaker, Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is dangling a motion to vacate as the Republican majority dwindles down from abrupt resignations.
Killer Mike said Hip-Hop producer Rico Wade passed away
Organized Noize is a set of rap producers who contributed to Future, Outkast, Goodie Mob, Killer Mike, Bubba Sparxxx, Ludacris, Janelle Monáe and numerous others.
The collective included singer Sleepy Brown, Ray Brown and Rico Wade.
They are members of the Dungeon Family. The Dungeon Family is a supergroup of the aforementioned rappers and the production.
It was announced on social media that Rico Wade had passed away. He was the cousin of Future. The rapper and Metro Boomin released their second album "We Still Don't Trust You" which aimed at Lil Wayne, Drake and 21 Savage.
Rico Wade was 52 years old.
Rico Wade co-founded the Dungeon Family collective alongside Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown in the early ’90s. Members included Big Boi, André 3000, CeeLo Green, Khujo, Big Gipp, Big Rube and later, a young Future (Wade’s cousin). Wade, who set up a makeshift studio in his mother’s basement called The Dungeon, helped craft the Atlanta Hip-Hop sound with albums such as Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik by Outkast (1994) and Cell Therapy by Goodie Mob (1995).
Organized Noize found insurmountable success outside of the Dungeon Family as well. In 1995, they produced “Waterfalls” by TLC, which went on to spend seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also was nominated for two Grammy at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
Rico Wade, Future and L.A. Reid.
Future was then known as Meathead. He was part of a group call Da Connect. Before he became a multi-platinum rapper and producer, he got his start in the Dungeon.
The rapper has nine children. Disclosure, one of my cousins has a child with the rapper as well as pop singer Ciara who is married to NFL star Russell Wilson.
Killer Mike took three Grammy awards for his album "Michael."
Killer Mike also confirmed his death on IG with a poignant post:
“I don’t have the words to express my deep and profound sense of loss. I am Praying for your wife and Children. I am praying for the Wade family. I am praying for us all. I deeply appreciate your acceptance into The Dungeon Family, mentorship, Friendship and Brotherhood. Idk where I would be without ya’ll. This is a part of the journey. You told me “It ain’t been hard throughout the journey, it’s been a Journey” . The journey ain’t gonna be the Same Journey with U. Like U say tho Umma “Stay Down on it”……we all are. Love and Respect”
The suspect can't claim self-defense when the camera is rolling.
An Uber driver is shot and killed after she drove to a home of an elderly man who believed he was being robbed by the driver. It was apparently a scam call and a case of mistaken identity.
The incident happened in Springfield, Ohio.
This is a perfect example of why Congress failed America!
The Republicans seriously believe the Second Amendment is more important than the lives of the Americans who value safety, tranquility and shelter.
Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States.
Lo-letha Hall was just doing her job trying to deliver food and pick up riders. She didn't expect her life would be in danger by some crank.
The suspect is 81 years old.
The victim was a Black woman. The suspect was a white man.
The Clark County Communications Center received a 911 call around 11 a.m. on March 25, in which the caller, William Brock, 81, reported he shot a subject on his property who was attempting a robbery.
Deputies and medics responded to the 7000 block of South Charleston-Clifton Road. Upon arrival, authorities found a female subject, Lo-letha Hall, on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. They also found Brock, who had injuries to his head.
Investigation showed Brock had been subject to a scam call concerning an incarcerated relative, which turned into threats and demands for money.
Ohio deputies investigating the vehicle and saw the suspect shoot the victim multiple times as she tried to leave.
Hall was an Uber driver who was unfamiliar with the circumstances of the scams and threats, and arrived at Brock’s residence to pick up a package as part of her job. When she showed up, Hall was unarmed and made no threats or demands, other than requesting the package from Brock.
Upon Hall arriving, Brock produced a gun and held her at gunpoint, demanding to know the identity of the scammers who had spoke with him on the phone. Hall had no such knowledge other than the delivery request made through the Uber application.
Brock took possession of Hall’s phone and refused to allow her to leave. Police noted that during this encounter, Brock did not make any attempt to call 911 for assistance.
Hall reportedly attempted to get into her vehicle and leave the property, at which point she was shot by Brock. Brock was also injured in the reported “scuffle” at the door of Hall’s vehicle.
Police say Brock shot Hall again during the altercation, twice more. Only after she was shot multiple times did Brock call 911.
Hall died from her gunshot wounds.
No remorse.
Because Hall was unarmed and presented no active threat, along with the fact that Brock failed to contact authorities while brandishing a firearm, he was arrested and charged with murder, a first degree felony. The sheriff’s office says more charges could be forthcoming as evidence is reviewed.
The original scam call to Brock by a male subject and the placing of a package delivery order through the Uber app which initiated this shooting is still under investigation by the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The suspect faces 15 years to LIFE if convicted.
These murderers don't have mental illness. They are calculated and prepared. It happened to be a moment where they have the opportunity to take out lives. There's no sickness in the head. Most mass shooters legally obtain their assault rifles without little background checks. They have likely no criminal history and they are willing to use the assault weapon in the only thing it's good for: Killing numerous lives.
I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns. Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases.
Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is lawmakers not willing to stop gun violence.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white. They say a white person should "protect" from protesters and use of firearms are justified. They say if a shooter is active military or a veteran who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens, the far right automatically assume the gunmen are Black.
The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and they force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican lawmakers who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms. The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.
Columbus woman was just doing her job and this white extremist killed her.
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Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.
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