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Nina Turner

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Educator. Activist. Former Ohio State Senator & Professor.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · Jan 28

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Founder & President of We Are Somebody. Senior Fellow at The New School Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy. Former Ohio State Senator. Bernie Sanders 2016 National Surrogate, 2020 National...

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 3d

The playbook they are using was written and used on Black Americans first. That does not erase the atrocities of Indigenous people or deny any timeline.

But when you look from chattel slavery to mass incarceration, you will see the pattern develop.

PhynxPhyr @phynxphyr.bsky.social · 4d

The Native Tribes would like a word, otherwise yes. Non-white, diverse people have always been here at the bottom of Colonialism, Capitalism, and abuse/elimination of these sociopathic/psychopathic systems.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 4d

Black Americans aren’t “next,” we were first. From chattel slavery to Black codes to Jim & Jane Crow to redlining to mass incarceration - this isn’t new. The answers to this moment are rooted in the Black liberation struggle.

We have been here before.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 4d

It really does get old, seeing government officials use every single tragedy they can to attack their political opponents.

Americans want affordable lives and the ability to work hard and get ahead.

It’s really that simple.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 4d

It really does get old, seeing government officials use every single tragedy they can to attack their political opponents.

Americans want affordable lives and the ability to work hard and get ahead.

It’s really that simple.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 4d

Black Americans aren’t “next,” we were first. From chattel slavery to Black codes to Jim & Jane Crow to redlining to mass incarceration - this isn’t new. The answers to this moment are rooted in the Black liberation struggle.

We have been here before.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 4d

It really does get old, seeing government officials use every single tragedy they can to attack their political opponents.

Americans want affordable lives and the ability to work hard and get ahead.

It’s really that simple.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 5d

It’s October and we still do not know what the national Democratic Party’s vision is. That’s ridiculous.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 6d

It’s damn near 2026 and the federal minimum wage is STILL $7.25 per hour.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 6d

This government shutdown is what “small government conservatism” looks like in practice.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 6d

This is not a moment to abandon principles and morals.

Human rights are worth fighting for.
Democracy is worth fighting for.

People need housing, healthcare, education, and the ability to live a good life. That’s not controversial.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans want us to believe that the Democrats, who couldn’t even raise the minimum wage when they held the House and Senate, are somehow so powerful that they can shutdown the government when they hold no power?

They’re are getting bullied by Jeffries & Schumer? Please 😂

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 9d

Things still cost too much and people still don’t make enough money.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 12d

"Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."

- Assata Shakur

Rest In Power.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 12d

Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 13d

The Biden administration said the economy was booming.

Now, the Trump administration is saying the economy is booming.

Meanwhile, people can’t afford rent. Working class Americans are being played.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 17d

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting.

People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 16d

Every single person who works full time should be able to afford housing, groceries, bills, with some left over on their paycheck, alone.

That’s common sense and any system that isn’t designed to do so must be addressed.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 17d

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting.

People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 18d

Strikes and boycotts are how working class Americans flex power right now.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 18d

One thing Democratic Party leadership and pundits are failing to fully grasp is just how much trust has been lost in them.

The average Democratic voter feels betrayed that in the face of a second Trump term, the Democratic Party pushed for President Biden to run again, all while funding a genocide.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 18d

People are stressed out about the cost of groceries, the cost of housing, the lack of decent wages.

People who vote Democrat are feeling it.

People who vote Republican are feeling it.

People who vote third party are feeling it.

People who don’t vote are feeling it.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 20d

We can have better.

We can have universal healthcare.
We can have tuition-free college.
We can have universal childcare.
We can have affordable housing.
We can have livable wages.
We can have affordable food.

We have to stick together & demand better for the working class.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 20d

Canceling everything except student and medical debt. Smh.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 21d

Thirteen unhoused people were hurt in Minneapolis.

And America shrugs.

These folks are not invisible. Not disposable. Not less human.

The relative silence on this tragedy is a moral failure.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 22d

Demartravion "Trey" Reed, a 21-year-old Delta State University student, was found hanging from a tree on campus yesterday in Mississippi.

There must be a full and thorough investigation into his death.

Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 23d

Protect the First Amendment 🇺🇸