Every day is #LoveYourPetDay. http://t.co/yxrIDz3gU6
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 20, 2025Puppy love. #LoveYourPetDay http://t.co/cFBJ3m1agn
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) February 20, 2025****
Best buds. #LoveYourPetDay http://t.co/BvD1WTW8Y8
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 20, 2025The U.S. economy has grown faster when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican. princeton.edu/~mwatson/paper…
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(@LOLGOP) February 20, 2025****
VP Biden strongly condemns the offensive by Russia-backed separatists in the Ukrainian town of Debaltseve. whitehouse.gov/the-press-offi…
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Vice President Biden (@VP) February 20, 2025Portland raises minimum wage for city workers to $15 thkpr.gs/3625092
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) February 20, 2025****
Our education continues :)
#BlackHistoryMonth: Ruby Bridges was the 1st black child to attend an all-white public elementary school in the South http://t.co/JZg6CYqk2U
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Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) February 18, 2025#BlackHistoryMonth: Madam Walker invented hair-straightening formula & the hot comb, and was the 1st self-made female millionaire in America
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Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) February 20, 2025****
whoever decided to have a photo booth at essence's 2015 black women in hollywood event is such a kind, generous human http://t.co/KF7f4VYgaS
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Hannah Giorgis (@ethiopienne) February 20, 2025Jerry Lawson, a self-taught engineer, gave us video game cartridges engt.co/1zU62Ap http://t.co/mMgYcr6fto
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Engadget (@engadget) February 20, 2025****
Honoring the strength and power of Black women everywhere #BlackHistoryMonth huff.to/187F571 http://t.co/sSctXcqRZV
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HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) February 20, 2025Nelson Mandela spent how many years behind bars resisting apartheid in South Africa? #BlackHistoryMonth #AfAmEdChat http://t.co/3zzyZJ87BS
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White House Af-Am Ed (@AfAmEducation) February 20, 2025****
Pres. Obama to host town hall on #immigration on Feb. 25 with @jdbalart. on.msnbc.com/1zTfvb5 #ObamaTownHall http://t.co/DbSQ6U98J1
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Voto Latino (@votolatino) February 20, 2025White House extending 2015 Obamacare enrollment for those who owe penalty for being uninsured in 2014. cnnmon.ie/1DArPon
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CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) February 20, 2025****
This is the horror that occurs when you don’t view people as human beings because of the color of their skin
James Jameson once bought a 10-year-old slave girl for six handkerchiefs so he could sketch cannibals eating her. modernnotion.com/james-jameson-…
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Saeed Jones (@theferocity) February 16, 2025****
James Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey company, once bought a 10-year-old slave girl for six handkerchiefs because he wanted to sketch the event as cannibals killed, mutilated, and finally, ate her According to a report from The New York Times, Jameson had a fascination with cannibalism and wanted to experience the act firsthand. Jameson was on a trip in Africa in 1890 when an opportunity to fulfill his sick fantasy presented itself because he and his translator happened upon a cannibalistic tribe. Jameson consulted the tribe’s chiefs who told him if he wanted to witness the event, he’d have to buy a slave girl to be killed. Jameson returned a few minutes later with a 10-year-old girl he bought from a nearby slave trader for six handkerchiefs. The translator then approached the chiefs and said, “This is a present from a white man who desires to see her eaten.” According to an eye witness report of the scene, the cannibals tied the girl to a tree and stabbed her twice in the belly. The natives then cut pieces off of her body as Jameson sat sketching in his notebook. Jameson and his translator then made their way to chief’s hut where Jameson finished his sketches in watercolor.
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The same holds true once again
America's Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas thebea.st/1FRPXAC http://t.co/iGbncGnahV
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The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 16, 2025****
In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead. The visits began in the fall of 1918, just as World War I ended. At his office in Little Rock, Arkansas, attorney Ulysses S. Bratton listened as African American sharecroppers from the Delta told stories of theft, exploitation, and endless debt. A man named Carter had tended 90 acres of cotton, only to have his landlord seize the entire crop and his possessions. From the town of Ratio, in Phillips County, Arkansas, a black farmer reported that a plantation manager refused to give sharecroppers an itemized account for their crop. Another sharecropper told of a landlord trying “to starve the people into selling the cotton at his own price. They ain’t allowing us down there room to move our feet except to go to the field.” No one could know it at the time, but within a year these inauspicious meetings would lead to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. Initiated by whites, the violence—by any measure, a massacre—claimed the lives of 237 African Americans, according to a just released report from the Equal Justice Initiative. The death toll was unusually high, but the use of racial violence to subjugate blacks during this time was not uncommon. As the Equal Justice Initiative observes, “Racial terror lynching was a tool used to enforce Jim Crow laws and racial segregation—a tactic for maintaining racial control by victimizing the entire African American community, not merely punishment of an alleged perpetrator for a crime.” This was certainly true of the massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas.
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Justice Department to seek emergency stay to allow immigration action reut.rs/1Eep37b
Reuters Top News (@Reuters) February 20, 2025
An arrest has been made in last month's Colorado NAACP bombing. thebea.st/1EdQ4b1 http://t.co/F7n9o2j0Mp
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 20, 2025
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World Health Organization approves 15-minute test for detecting Ebola bit.ly/1AYNTqB
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 20, 2025UN team investigates Saudi surge in cases of deadly MERS virus reut.rs/1Gd36Vk
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Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) February 20, 2025****
My column today on guns and "reasonable-person" tests, two terrible ideas for addressing rape on college campuses. on.tnr.com/1BqyTD0
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 20, 2025Bills to legalize recreational marijuana introduced in House: ow.ly/JpJJk http://t.co/GI4ZWUl2AN
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The Hill (@thehill) February 20, 2025****
#BREAKING Dow, S&P 500 hit records after Greece earns bailout extension
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Agence France-Presse (@AFP) February 20, 2025Moody's downgrades Russia sovereign debt to junk » cnb.cx/1Ln2iQC http://t.co/XCkcyLqNKr
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(@CNBC) February 20, 2025****
.@AlfreWoodard hosts Oscar's sistahs soiree variety.com/2015/scene/awa… http://t.co/uMjdAFK2vV
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(@Variety) February 20, 2025Teaching Ferguson: How colleges are incorporating race cases in the classroom wapo.st/1vl7gZY
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 20, 2025****
Rudy during meltdown: "This isn’t racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.” nyti.ms/1FAuUFs
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Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 20, 2025The most EPIC take down of Rudy. EVER. m.nydailynews.com/wayne-barrett-…
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Goldie Taylor © (@goldietaylor) February 20, 2025****
Read @jbouie's fascinating look at the assertion by Rudy Giuliani that President Obama doesn't love America. slate.me/1BvcgNM
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 20, 2025White House spokesman: "I feel sorry for Rudy Giuliani" huff.to/188FlSY http://t.co/1W13r1Tf2P
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HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) February 20, 2025****
Our first-ever Chief Data Scientist wrote a memo to Americans on unleashing the power of data. Read it on @Medium → WhiteHouse/unleashing-the-power-of-data-to-serve-the-american-people-198534d009a2"> medium.com@WhiteHouse/un…
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Kori Schulman (@ks44) February 20, 2025If you’ve recently bought a Lenovo Windows laptop, READ THIS. Preferably, on a different computer. slate.com/articles/techn…
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Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 20, 2025****
Amidst all the noise, a very smart take from Fareed Zakaria washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-l…
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Ben Rhodes (@rhodes44) February 20, 2025Legal move limits AG Ken Paxton's options to void Travis County same-sex marriage: statesman.com/news/news/lega… #ssm #gaymarriage
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Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) February 20, 2025****
“American Sniper” is not a war movie: It’s a revisionist western about "frontier masculinity" slnm.us/XwbZPeC
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Salon.com (@Salon) February 20, 2025Britain says Libya needs unity government before arms embargo change reut.rs/1EbHysT
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Reuters Top News (@Reuters) February 20, 2025****
That no Republican of any stature feels compelled or feels the need to forcefully condemn Giuliani is disgraceful. wapo.st/1w5EGN2
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Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) February 20, 2025How can America tolerate Rudy Giuliani when he says moronic and offensive things like this? politico.com/story/2015/02/… http://t.co/8JYMpNxf6O
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Jim Roberts (@nycjim) February 19, 2025****
Obama’s Economic Report Focuses on Income Inequality nyti.ms/1Ebrrvz
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NYT First Draft (@nytpolitics) February 20, 2025Bill O'Reilly's Falkland Island war story is being called into question: mm4a.org/1BrVAHd http://t.co/BTKeKHdkUD
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Media Matters (@mmfa) February 19, 2025****
*GROWL* Comic books come to life
There is only one true King. #unitetheseven http://t.co/RDFG8jbuI6
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(@ZackSnyder) February 20, 2025I hope you enjoy my new book "Rudy Giuliani is an Asshole and Other Things We've Known For 20 Years"
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billy eichner (@billyeichner) February 20, 2025****
Never change, Canada
Canadian politician says tight, cheap underwear caused him to miss anti-terror vote: apne.ws/1GcFtfA
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The Associated Press (@AP) February 20, 2025Fifty shades of grey is romantic only because the guy is a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer it would be a Criminal minds episode.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@IostinheII) February 20, 2025****
Relationship status: I shout "PIZZA'S HERE" so the delivery guy doesn't think I'm eating two pizzas by myself.
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Slightly funny Jew (@Dani_Feld) August 29, 2025put a wig on the dog and frightened the crap out of the postman. http://t.co/CkReJX0jfU
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Steve Joy (@AnnoyedWasp) February 16, 2025
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