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Michael Tolbert
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Positive, persistent & patient.
The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time. -Edison #TruthBeBold
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This is turning point usa. If it was a group of people of color, the government would've used counter intelligence to have the group disbanded - yesterday! 🙄
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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While millions scrounge to pay for groceries and medical procedures, FBI Director Kash Patel flies his taxpayer-paid private jet to “date night” with his girlfriend and the “Boondoggle Ranch” (its real name, I kid you not).

House Judiciary Democrats demand reimbursement to the taxpayers.
Democrats begin congressional probe of Kash Patel's use of FBI Gulfstream jet
House Democrats allege Patel has used the FBI's Gulfstream jet for a "date night" in Tennessee and an outing with friends in Texas.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“This is about a restoration of who we are as a country.” The racist governor of Texas has gone full blown Adolf Hitler. #txlege #tpusa
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December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Racism is, effectively, a mental disorder. Most racists understand that their malicious behavior is wrong, but they resolve that those who are not privileged to societal assumptions of equality deserve to be bullied and/or abused. www.huffpost.com/entry/black-...
I'm Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things White People Feel Safe Telling Me.
"Many of these people are educated, and hold jobs or positions that give them some form of power or influence over Black people."
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December 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Niagra Movement Declaration of Principles, 1905 share.google/mQkJROvcsof3...
Declaration of Principles, 1905
The Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles, 1905
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December 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you have chosen to be neutral (or apolitical) in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
We must keep our "Eyes on the Prize"; Interview with William "Bill" O'Neal, #Judas and the Black Messiah share.google/oy5wrKdMJhl4...
Eyes on the Prize; Interview with William O'Neal, Part 1
Interview with William O'Neal conducted by Blackside for "Eyes on the Prize II." O'Neal discusses being recruited to be an informant for the FBI in Chicago, joining the Black Panthers as an informant,...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
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December 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Assata Shakur
www.goodreads.com/quotes/11182...
A quote from Assata
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"I would recommend that some post in the center of the Indian Country should be occupied with all expedition, with a sufficient quantity of provision... do it in the most effectual manner, that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed." #TownDestroyer
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Founders Online: George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779
George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779
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December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Dunn and Wilks' then-leader of their most important political action committee, Defend Texas Liberty, was caught hosting white supremacist and Adolf Hitler admirer Nick Fuentes in October (2023). And, of course, Paxton is part of it. www.texastribune.org/2024/03/18/a...
Police called on Texas GOP chair candidate over family dispute
Abraham George is running to lead the state party with backing from current Chair Matt Rinaldi, who announced last week he will not seek reelection. He was not arrested or charged.
www.texastribune.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Sign this letter demanding action to avoid catastrophic climate change damage to our lives and our home. #JustHaveAThink
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Letter to Sir Keir Starmer and media heads
Read the letter on our website
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November 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Just as Donald Trump demonizes leftist organizers today as domestic terrorists, both federal officials and local police in the South and North condemned civil rights activists as rioters and insurrectionists. interc.pt/4oAs2k8
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"easy to vote and hard to cheat,” said Bryan Hughes. #nexstar / #sinclair talking points
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www.ketk.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Okay, which of you are still using Facebook? www.theverge.com/news/832132/...
Nearly everyone you know is still using Facebook
And Republicans have taken over X.
www.theverge.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“We conclude that the contemporaneous statements of legislators involved in the 2025 redistricting are more indicative of racial motives than partisan ones,” Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote. #txlege www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/t...
Abbott, lawmaker comments helped doom Texas’ new voting map
Judge Jeffrey Brown pointed to comments from the governor and GOP legislators as the basis for his ruling that the new map can’t be used in 2026.
www.texastribune.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Sarah Beckstrom seems like she was a wonderful person who had a bright future ahead of her. Such a tragedy.
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.

She didn't want to deploy to D.C.

"She hated it. She cried about it."

But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.

May she rest in peace.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Donald J. Trump, as West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom drew her last breath. She had been placed in harm’s way only because of his disregard for the law and Constitution.
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The Johnson Amendment protects our democracy from turning churches into dark-money Super PACs. A tiny Christian nationalist faction is trying to blow it up — with help from Trump’s IRS.

We can’t let them gut it in a backroom deal.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Court Case That Could Blow the Roof Off Political Spending
Christian nationalists are teaming up with Donald Trump's administration to argue that churches should be able to spend on political campaigns.
www.rollingstone.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
From #Plessy to #BrownVBoardofEducation, the long arc to achieve equality. #14A
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
YouTube video by American Experience | PBS
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November 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Man Who Fought Against Rules That Protect Miners Applies For Black Lung Benefits. #EatShitBob and burn in hell. : NPR share.google/ovrPCrGToqwn...
Man Who Fought Against Rules That Protect Miners Applies For Black Lung Benefits
Influential coal executive Bob Murray reportedly has black lung disease and has applied for federal benefits. Murray spent years fighting regulations to protect coal miners from black lung.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM