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Ellyon Bell retweeted
[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.
1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
Ellyon Bell retweeted
In the train stations here in Kyiv, children first, women second, white men third, then the remaining is occupied by Africans. This means that we have waited for many hours for trains here & couldn’t enter because of this.
Majority of Africans are still waiting to get to Lviv.
Ellyon Bell retweeted
Worst of all, right wing nationalists in Congress wasted no time aligning themselves with a hateful dictator currently threatening the life of one of few Jewish ✡️ heads of state outside of Israel, President @ZelenskyyUa.
This is not something anyone can ignore.
"We will not lay down the weapons, we will defend our state."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will stay in Kyiv as he appeared in a video filmed outside his office in the capital city.
Latest as heavy fighting and blasts hit Kyiv: trib.al/c5CbiSK
Ellyon Bell retweeted
The UN Security Council rotates it’s president position monthly btwn its 15 mbrs. That country shapes the agenda. This month is Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzias’s chaired the emergency UNSC meeting in NYC Wed night as Putin announced his assault on Ukraine
theguardian.com/world/2022/f…
Ellyon Bell retweeted
As @terrelljstarr reminded me, Putin dehumanizes ethnic Ukrainians, talks about them as “white trash” disposable to his supremacist whims.
Putin 🇷🇺
Trump 🇺🇸
Bolsinaro 🇧🇷
Duterte 🇵🇭
All bigoted, misogynistic abusers who punch down on their own people to enrich themselves💰🛢💣
Ellyon Bell retweeted
Maybe you don’t know.
Why is “Jim Crow 2.0” an apt description for the new voting laws?
A thread
In all my Florida years 🤬
A Florida bill that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval Tuesday.
apne.ws/3a6xyCh
Ellyon Bell retweeted
Many conservative parents today would rather give their kids COVID than a book written by a Black author that talks about racism.
Tell me who's the snowflake?
Ellyon Bell retweeted
this tweet is designed to get conservatives moralizing about crime so it conveniently leaves out that 301 of those officers died of COVID.
458 US officers died in the line of duty in 2021, highest since 1930 myfox28columbus.com/news/nat…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is true, but the Tweet and headline leaves out important context: Over 300 of those deaths were from COVID-19. They count as "in the line of duty" in cases where it is believed that the officers contracted COVID-19 as a result of their job.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l…
Ellyon Bell retweeted
Between 1999-2019 in the U.S., Black people were killed in “accidental” residential fires at more than twice the rate of white people. Their deaths are not accidents but the direct result of infrastructural negligence.
@MurielBowser @MayorBowser @wmata This is what happens when you limit metrobus to Saturday schedule during a weekend....this will address the Omicron spike by INCREASING transmission for those of us who still need to use Metrobus
Ellyon Bell retweeted
In the coming days, students, teachers, nurses and workers will be striking to demand safer working conditions.
Do not gaslight them. Do not blame them. Do not cross the picket line.
This is the time to show our support and solidarity.
No one is safe until everyone is safe.
Ellyon Bell retweeted
I didn't stretch before the first take and I felt that leg lift for WEEKS after... but a bitch still got it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #InsecureHBO
Ellyon Bell retweeted
#BREAKING: Georgia now has one of the highest voter registration rates in the nation, with 95% of citizens over 18 years old signed up to vote, according to federal election data released this week #gapol ajc.com/politics/almost-all-…
Ellyon Bell retweeted
Every year, I help Ben LeClere, John Lowe & Charles Howell Logan update the Google results for this pic of them posing in front of the sign where Emmett Till’s body was found
2 yrs later, no one has punished them, but I bet they’d love a RT to remind Google of this joyous night
Facts 🤣🤣🤣
“Can you please hold your applause until all the graduates names have been called?”
Black people:
xitter.cf/Laughs_4_All/status/13…
Ellyon Bell retweeted
Today, I’m excited to share that we at @KaepernickPub will be releasing our first title, ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: THE MOVEMENT FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT POLICING & PRISONS, on 10/12/21. This anthology builds on decades of organizing and writing against policing & prisons…
