#  @MerrittForTexas Lee Merritt Lee Merritt posts on X about in the, murder, shot, this is the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1415386915/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -27% - [--] Month [---------] -71% - [--] Year [----------] +6,443,943% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1415386915/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] no change - [--] Month [--] +7% - [--] Year [---] +17,100% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1415386915/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.15% - [--] Month [------] +0.86% - [--] Year [------] +0.92% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1415386915/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [formula 1](/list/formula-1) [musicians](/list/musicians) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the), [murder](/topic/murder), [shot](/topic/shot), [this is](/topic/this-is), [police](/topic/police), [white](/topic/white), [black](/topic/black), [history](/topic/history), [lee](/topic/lee) #698, [crime](/topic/crime) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Fox News trying to figure out how to spin the racist homophobic attack by MAGA supporters on @JussieSmollett a member of the @FOXTV Family" [X Link](https://x.com/MerrittForTexas/status/1090398988422004737) 2019-01-29T23:59Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements "Amber Guyger is guilty of murder" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1179060480888979456) 2019-10-01T15:48Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Joshua Brown was shot in his mouth & chest. He was exiting his car at his apt when he was ambushed & shot at close range. His mother asked my office to help find out who murdered her son. She suspects foul play. He had no known enemies. He worked for a living. We need answers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1180629761443483648) 2019-10-05T23:44Z 74.5K followers, 197.6K engagements "Deandre Arnold and his family should file for immediate injunctive relief in the nearest federal court and have the courts force the hands of the district. This beautiful young brother should walk with his classmates. https://x.com/i/events/1220390873529085952 https://x.com/i/events/1220390873529085952" [X Link](https://x.com/MerrittForTexas/status/1220555963498926082) 2020-01-24T03:56Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "https://time.com/5850623/malcolm-x-human-rights/amp=true https://time.com/5850623/malcolm-x-human-rights/amp=true" [X Link](https://x.com/MerrittForTexas/status/1279078073409966081) 2020-07-03T15:42Z 78.4K followers, [---] engagements "This is the mugshot of disgraced District Attorney Jackie Johnson who was just arrested today for her role in the coverup of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1435691861746855937) 2021-09-08T19:49Z 74.5K followers, 47.5K engagements "Such a painful day in court yesterday. Ahmauds arm was torn nearly completely off by a shotgun blast just below his armpit. His torso was ripped open by a buckshot leveled off at point blank range. This was a lynching. Calling it anything else is a sin. There must be atonement" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1456977908459835397) 2021-11-06T13:32Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Our brother @Shaunking is suffering. Yesterday he posted an appeal for help that rubbed me the wrong way because I knew what people would say. That was a mistake. Help if you can. Thanks👇🏾 ➡CashApp: @ShaunKingFamily ➡Venmo: @ShaunKingFamily ➡Zelle: shaunking@gmail.com" [X Link](https://x.com/MerrittForTexas/status/1661396328948146176) 2023-06-30T00:35Z 83.4K followers, 23.4K engagements "Ralph Yarl Update Virtual Press Conference TODAY 3PM CST" [X Link](https://x.com/MerrittForTexas/status/1664354430110642178) 2023-06-01T19:33Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "Jean Wilson Brutus a 41-year-old Haitian man died less than [--] hours after entering ICE custody at Newarks Delaney Hall. ICE took a week to acknowledge it. The public deserves answers. Say his name" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009317184225644739) 2026-01-08T17:32Z 74.5K followers, 1.8M engagements "Omar targeting me for harassment as usual. I know signs dont vote but people love signs🤷🏾♂ @OmarVillafranca #TxPrimaryDay Spotted this morning in Houston at a Montrose area polling location: Dem Attorney General Candidate @MerrittForTexas putting up some last minute signs . https://t.co/urpbBFUPhL #TxPrimaryDay Spotted this morning in Houston at a Montrose area polling location: Dem Attorney General Candidate @MerrittForTexas putting up some last minute signs . https://t.co/urpbBFUPhL" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1498703887838162952) 2022-03-01T16:57Z 71.2K followers, [--] engagements "While one cannot defame the dead the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanyes false statements about the manner of his death. Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd familys fight" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1581738514978250752) 2022-10-16T20:07Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Black Power" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1985371565882531886) 2025-11-03T15:40Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements "I was born extremely premature 3.5lbs attached to an incubatorfighting for my life. Been fighting ever since. #itsonus #usc @_uscbasslab From classrooms to courtrooms to coffinsthis is why we vote Lets flex our power. Vote by Nov [--]. Yes on Prop 50" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1985527004196634708) 2025-11-04T01:58Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Fresh off his Great Gatsby costume gala President Trump traded champagne for chaosannouncing on Truth Social his plan to defy the courts and block SNAP benefits. The circus never ends it just changes outfits" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1985780305223926164) 2025-11-04T18:44Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements "Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani a true peoples win Your victory is a powerful reminder of what grassroots vision + bold hope can achieve. 🎉 The movement youve built has set the stage for real change in New York City and Im honored to stand in solidarity" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1985919736547319954) 2025-11-05T03:58Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements "Government shutdown hits home: Trump admin cuts flights at [--] airports. Its more than inconvenienceits a civil rights issue hurting working families and everyday folks. We need justice transparency and leadership that centers people over politics" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1986463412314902734) 2025-11-06T15:59Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements "Supreme Court pauses SNAP payments. Millions of families now face food uncertainty" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1987186850927391210) 2025-11-08T15:54Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements "Systemic injustice thrives on silence. Today a man providing for his family was detained despite having valid documents. This is about dignity and justice for all. We stand with every worker and demand accountability" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1987606071553249688) 2025-11-09T19:39Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements "What youre seeing here is a powerful Air Force graduation tradition. The new Airman stands at attention and they cant move until their family finally touches them. That single touch sets them free to celebrate. Happy Veterans Day" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1988317767158972561) 2025-11-11T18:47Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "On the anniversary of Brandon Durhams tragic killing we remember that Brandon called [---] for help and instead lost his life in his own homeour fight continues for answers accountability and true justice for Brandons family and the Las Vegas community" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1988811877217103897) 2025-11-13T03:31Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements "Justice prevails: Ahmaud Arberys killers denied appeal sentenced to life with no parole.✊🏾" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989835216450720166) 2025-11-15T23:17Z 74.5K followers, 3.2M engagements "He forgot he was at a gameproof of a culture where police intimidate instead of protect" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1989847990551679341) 2025-11-16T00:08Z 71K followers, [----] engagements "Happy Founders Day to the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. As champions of manhood scholarship perseverance and uplift we stand proudly in the footsteps of civil rights leaders who paved the way" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1990505741221089737) 2025-11-17T19:42Z 71.2K followers, [----] engagements "Merritt Law is fighting for Mercedes Wells familyjustice for Black mothers denied care" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1990996221142466912) 2025-11-19T04:11Z 71.3K followers, 34.8K engagements "Silencing students for using their native language isnt discipline its discrimination. Every child deserves the right to speak and learn without fear. Stand with us as we protect the fundamental rights of our Spanish-speaking youth because justice means every voice matters" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1991213446864515083) 2025-11-19T18:34Z 71K followers, [----] engagements "Real justice starts when we demand accountability even in the Oval Office. Challenging power with facts isnt disrespect its necessary for a free society. Stand with reporters who refuse to let murder go unanswered" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1991249572534874144) 2025-11-19T20:57Z 71K followers, [----] engagements "Dear racist: please consider leaving brown people alone as well" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1991572299968049666) 2025-11-20T18:20Z 71.2K followers, 142K engagements "I am offering this caution because it is time for our community to become particularly vigilant and to protect ourselves by any and all means necessary and available" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1991944291682525365) 2025-11-21T18:58Z 71K followers, [---] engagements "Bus driver stepped up for kids in Belhaven Estates Charlotte NC on November [--] [----]. When rumors spread about ICE targeting the neighborhood the driver released children to waiting parents. No child should ever have to experience this fear just getting home from school" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1992326548473737285) 2025-11-22T20:17Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Morehouse triple major wins Rhodes Scholarship. Sixth in school history. This is our legacy" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1992712382846836747) 2025-11-23T21:50Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements "This happened the same year I graduated law school. While I was stepping into this work Jordans family was stepping into unimaginable grief. We remember and recommit to justice" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1992782995527463137) 2025-11-24T02:31Z 71.4K followers, 491.1K engagements "Senator Villa confronted masked ICE agents targeting her West Chicago community. This is courage" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1993024840056672367) 2025-11-24T18:32Z 71.2K followers, [----] engagements "Former prosecutor confirms: Black clients face harsher sentences. The system must change" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1993076567241900516) 2025-11-24T21:57Z 71.4K followers, 59.7K engagements "RIP Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin known as H Rap Brown. He passed November [--] [----] at [--] in federal prison. Former SNCC chairman and Black Panther minister who inspired generations fighting for Black liberation. His legacy is resistance. We honor his memory and continue his fight. ✊🏾" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1993156608038519004) 2025-11-25T03:15Z 71.3K followers, 12.3K engagements "Mother Viola Fletcher [---] survived Tulsas massacre. Fought for justice until the end. Rest in power" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1993156710475743275) 2025-11-25T03:16Z 71.3K followers, [----] engagements "Her instincts saved her. We have a right to verify whos pulling us over and to hold them accountable" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1993335422945313093) 2025-11-25T15:06Z 71.3K followers, 27.7K engagements "On November [--] [----] federal agents entered Jennifer Diazs home in East Elmhurst Queens pointing guns at her and her children as they demanded answers. This traumatizing raid reminds us all: No family should ever be forced to face violence and terror inside their own home" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1993807830051328097) 2025-11-26T22:23Z 71.3K followers, [----] engagements "Two young National Guard members were tragically ambushed and killed in DC todaydeepest condolences to their families and communities. This violence shows the urgent need to end troop deployments in American cities" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1993854924954980590) 2025-11-27T01:30Z 71.2K followers, [---] engagements "While many celebrate Native communities mourn genocide and stolen land. Truth and accountability arent negotiable" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1994082639184089358) 2025-11-27T16:35Z 71.5K followers, 136.8K engagements "Mother Fletcher survived Tulsa at [--]. Died at [---] without justice. I live through the massacre every day" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1994423108858483068) 2025-11-28T15:08Z 74.1K followers, 1.4M engagements "Her National Guard sons werent about to let her face that alone. They wore the uniform they earned serving America to protect the woman who gave them everything. This is the choice were forcing on families: serve your country or protect your mother. They chose both" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1994632312089448502) 2025-11-29T04:59Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements "Carolers protesting ICE raids at Home Depot. This is how we take a stand. @ResistanceRev" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1994827798612246857) 2025-11-29T17:56Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements "We aint buying it @TamikaDMallory" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1994890583731568712) 2025-11-29T22:05Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements "Congresswoman Waters stood firm. When leadership fails the people resistance isnt optional its necessary" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1995173699813789807) 2025-11-30T16:50Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements "Congresswoman Robin Kelly introduced the WELLS Act after Mercedes Wells was sent home in active labor & gave birth in her car minutes later. This legislation demands hospitals justify discharges assess travel safety and train staff on racial bias. Protection isnt optional" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1995306498784674193) 2025-12-01T01:38Z 71.5K followers, 77.4K engagements "Steve Perkins was killed in his yard by police. They murdered him over an SUV payment. Officer Marquette was charged and the trial is set for Jan [----]. We will fight until justice is served" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1995561292774678768) 2025-12-01T18:31Z 71.5K followers, 79.1K engagements "Michael Dean was a loving father whose life was stolen in an instant. Shot in the head unarmed during a traffic stop while buying a birthday cake for his daughters sixth birthday. We honor him by demanding real accountability for him & every family who deserves justice" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1995886763886477555) 2025-12-02T16:04Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements "Communities across this country refuse to forget his name. This is what were up against. A system that calls executions accidents. A system that lets killers wear badges and go home to their families while ours are left grieving. Rest in power brother. Justice is coming" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1996024527160222183) 2025-12-03T01:11Z 71.5K followers, 38K engagements "Six years ago today Cameron Lamb was murdered by cop Eric DeValkenaere who was convicted then freed by the governor. Justice stolen. The fight continues" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1996252818131280246) 2025-12-03T16:18Z 71.5K followers, 18.2K engagements "Accountability starts from within. 18-year SAPD officer Paul Fencik drunk on duty in his patrol car. No teams no excuses. Everyone must be held accountable especially those who wear a badge and serve our community" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1996296933246185730) 2025-12-03T19:14Z 71.5K followers, 153.9K engagements "ICE rolls into LA neighborhoods for raids parks illegally and rushes in. Tow truck drivers are rolling up too towing those SUVs like anyone else. Same streets same laws same accountability" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1996959993275322561) 2025-12-05T15:08Z 71.5K followers, 428.8K engagements "Texas could gain [--] more Republican seats by making Black and Brown votes count for less. To win full citizenship Black and Brown Texans must free the vote and stand united against voter suppression" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1997063199477178430) 2025-12-05T21:59Z 71.5K followers, [---] engagements "Trump's attacks on Minnesota's Somali community are baseless and rooted in xenophobia. The far right will translate his words into violence. We stand with our Somali neighbors and denounce these threats. #repost @democracynow" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1997335751227256916) 2025-12-06T16:02Z 71.5K followers, [---] engagements "This is what happens when racism is rewarded instead of prosecuted. This is what white supremacy looks like in [----]. We must do better" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1998156557557846436) 2025-12-08T22:23Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements "Were stepping up for Texas. U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is running for the U.S. Senate and Im proud to endorse her. Jasmine and I have been in this fight for over a decade and this is our moment to restore and free the vote in Texas. Its on us Let make it happen" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1998209832948842999) 2025-12-09T01:55Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements "The people pushing back against police overreach. I cant tell you why that officer was on the edge but its clear who did the real shoving: karma" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1998419378787037502) 2025-12-09T15:48Z 71.5K followers, 85.3K engagements "Ahmaud Arbery: murdered for jogging while Black in [----]. Justice was served but On 12/9/2025 a young Black man in San Francisco faced the same racist harassment. We fight on. Wanda Cooper-Jones wants to meet him. Help us find this victim. Walking while black is not a crime" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1998841927173615821) 2025-12-10T19:47Z 71.7K followers, 14K engagements "Jingle Bells debuted at a racist minstrel show in [----]. Enslaved people wore jingle bells on iron collars to prevent escape. Knowing the truth doesnt ruin Christmas. It gives us the power to choose what we celebrate and what we pass down. #themoreyouknow" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2000314462046494857) 2025-12-14T21:18Z 72.5K followers, 165.8K engagements "This isnt civic engagement. Its emboldened racism. Time and again some white women attempt to weaponize police and immigration enforcement to act out personal grievance and racial paranoia. Credit to the officers who handled the situation professionally and kept the peace" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2000590860342194325) 2025-12-15T15:36Z 71.5K followers, 39.1K engagements "This isnt legal analysisits a warning. At airports now TSA shares your name flight and photo with ICE before you reach the gate. Families are being torn apart in security lines. This is what a police state looks like. #repost @real.talk.us :IG" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2000977505390362818) 2025-12-16T17:13Z 74.2K followers, 184.5K engagements "They left with a traffic ticket. Let that sink in. If this level of organized white supremacy can parade through Little Rock unchecked every community in America is vulnerable. This demands accountability. Not just from the neo-Nazis but from every official who allowed it" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2001028308780376501) 2025-12-16T20:35Z 74.1K followers, 42.8K engagements "This is the kind of history that actually matters. Barbara Rose Johns was [--] when she led a [----] walkout that sparked Brown v. Board. Her statue now replaces Robert E. Lees in the Capitol. We honor fighters for justice not defenders of oppression. 🎥: @pbsnews" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2001346451272798437) 2025-12-17T17:39Z 72.4K followers, 34.9K engagements "They held up a Hispanic woman at a Trump rally as proof they werent anti-immigrantthen pushed policies that put her community in danger. Thats not confusion. Thats exploitation. #repost @landpalstine" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2001398597116395576) 2025-12-17T21:06Z 71.7K followers, 30.3K engagements "White supremacists in Tennessee are training to fight themselvestheir exact words. They believe modern men are soft & need brutal combat to prepare for the race war theyre building toward. CNN just exposed their 124-acre hidden compound where this is happening. Pay attention" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2001428881652248961) 2025-12-17T23:06Z 72.5K followers, 394K engagements "This clip is bigger than comics. Its about how power fear and policing really work. XMen is a parable for how this country treats Black and marginalized people as too dangerous the moment we step into our full power. 🎥: @godfreycomic" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2001673992545984985) 2025-12-18T15:20Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements "Steve Biko taught that freedom begins in the mind. On what would have been his 79th birthday we honor his Black Consciousness legacy and keep fighting systems that endanger Black life" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2001852294548328581) 2025-12-19T03:09Z 73.1K followers, [----] engagements "On July [--] ICE and the National Guard stormed MacArthur Park shutting down a kids camp in an immigrant neighborhood. When Crips say stand up or die thats an indictment of ICE not our people. #Repost @hoodlosangeles" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2002042960620474697) 2025-12-19T15:46Z 72.4K followers, 26K engagements "The military admits they made a mistake brutally arresting my client Kareem Ela Black former Marine captain targeted. We dont accept mistake as closure. We demand full accountability policy changes to prevent this from happening to another innocent person. @washingtonpost" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2002090329433149716) 2025-12-19T18:55Z 72.5K followers, 764.1K engagements "DeSantis and Abbott labeled CAIR Americas largest Muslim civil rights organization a terrorist group even though the federal government never did. This is not security. It is targeting Muslims who organize. CAIR is taking them to court" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2002171285204500809) 2025-12-20T00:16Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "On December [--] [----] Officer Durden tased a student on a Langston Hughes High School bus in South Fulton Georgia. He was placed on leave but excessive force in schools must stop. Our children deserve to learn safely not face brutality from those meant to protect them" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2002413463641944510) 2025-12-20T16:19Z 72.5K followers, 32.5K engagements "Wifey surprised me: Front-row seats to see Dave Chappelle last night: unfiltered uncomfortable hilarious. Gods message via Chappelle: Trumps doing a terrible job and he probably blew Bill Clinton. P.S. If you think Charlie Kirk is a major historical figure youre not well" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2002525119517016574) 2025-12-20T23:42Z 72.4K followers, 65.8K engagements "Whether you agree with Fugelsangs assessment or not the question stands: can you point to policies that align with what Jesus actually said Thats worth examining regardless of where you stand politically. @TheDailyShow @JohnFugelsang" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2002776586819715133) 2025-12-21T16:22Z 72.4K followers, 25.7K engagements "They claim its about criminals. The truth: [-----] arrested by ICE had zero record. This is state sanctioned kidnapping disguised as policy. We must fight this system because its working exactly as designed. 🎥: @NBCNewsNow" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2003122002371248310) 2025-12-22T15:14Z 72.4K followers, [----] engagements "Deputy Huizar entered Adele Shireys home without a warrant told her I own your house right now and arrested her. Charges dropped. Now shes suing. This is how we demand accountability" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2003235215259632040) 2025-12-22T22:44Z 73.4K followers, 660.9K engagements "A Texas School Resource Officer slammed a teen into a school wall while in handcuffs on December [--] [----] at Horn High School in Mesquite Texas. This is not classroom management or keeping order. This is violent state-sanctioned assault on a child" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2003496812494356675) 2025-12-23T16:03Z 73.9K followers, 886.5K engagements "UPDATE: Attorney Harry Daniels revealed Lanier Johnson-Hunts burn marks from Officer Durden tasing choking and slapping him. Lanier was on the correct bus riding home to his autistic brother. This officer must be held accountable" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2003884737694482700) 2025-12-24T17:45Z 73.4K followers, 180.2K engagements "Barbara Rose Johns: At [--] she organized [---] students to walk out demanding equal education. Her protest helped end school segregation in America. Now her statue stands at the Capitol asking us: Are we going to just accept conditions or are we going to do something about it" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2003936278468038855) 2025-12-24T21:10Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "Merry Christmas We have an announcement: Douglas (Bullmastiff) and Dallas (husky) had puppies. We are now outnumbered. Send help. And treats. Mostly treats. From our chaotic fur-filled home to yours much love this holiday season. 🎄🐾" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2004265618879779234) 2025-12-25T18:58Z 72.4K followers, [----] engagements "This is state-sponsored cruelty tearing apart vulnerable families our neighbors and loved ones during the holidays. This suffering cannot be normalized. 🎥: @flowerinspanish ✊🏾" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2004290122305737193) 2025-12-25T20:36Z 73.4K followers, 75.8K engagements "On Christmas night in [----] terrorists bombed Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore in their bedroom because Harry was Floridas NAACP President fighting racial terror and police violence. No one was ever prosecuted or held accountable. Thats not historythats a debt unpaid" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2004348791819042947) 2025-12-26T00:29Z 73.2K followers, 61.6K engagements "Happy Kwanzaa. Today we begin a seven-day journey through the Nguzo Sabaseven principles that have anchored our peoples fight for liberation across generations. Day 1: Umoja (Unity)the foundation for all that follows. Unity isnt symbolic its operational. Its how we win" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2004702163034112015) 2025-12-26T23:53Z 73.4K followers, 22.5K engagements "Honoring Marcus Garvey founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Associationthe largest mass movement in Black history. He gave us the red black and green flag. We stand on his shoulders" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2004754608821002543) 2025-12-27T03:21Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "Day [--] of Kwanzaa: KujichaguliaSelf-Determination. We define ourselves. We name ourselves. We create for ourselves. We speak for ourselves. Today we celebrate the freedom to tell our own stories. Today we honor the strength it takes to stand firm in who we are. Happy Kwanzaa" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2004941721080348893) 2025-12-27T15:45Z 73.4K followers, 12.8K engagements "Day [--] of Kwanzaa : Kujichagulia (Self-Determination). Its what we teach our children every single day. This is how we build the next generation of leaders and how we ensure our children grow up knowing their power their purpose and their right to determine their own destiny" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2004979349741830386) 2025-12-27T18:15Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "He rejected his slave name and chose Xrefusing to be defined by his oppressor. Later he became El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He didnt ask permission or wait for validation. He named himself. Malcolm X understood what they fear most: Black people who define their own destiny. ✊🏾" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2005042860958318845) 2025-12-27T22:27Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "Day [--] of Kwanzaa: UjimaCollective Work and Responsibility. Your fight is my fight. Your struggle is our struggle. We rise together or we dont rise at all. Thats Ujima" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2005333437713203407) 2025-12-28T17:42Z 73.4K followers, 12.1K engagements "Trump banned Head Start from using words like Black women and mental healthtotaling [---] words. Programs legally required to use these words now face impossible choices. This isnt policyits targeted destruction" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2005435935824269372) 2025-12-29T00:29Z 73.4K followers, 118.1K engagements "Day [--] of Kwanzaa: Ujamaa. Support Black businesses. Build Black wealth. Keep dollars in our community. Leimert Park lives these principles all week. If youre in the LA area check it out. Experience what real community feels like. IG 🎥: @blkeventsla" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2005659799082688624) 2025-12-29T15:18Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "Day 4: Ujamaa. Maggie Lena Walker chartered the first Black-owned bank in [----] because she knew: economic power is freedom. St. Luke Penny Savings Bank turned our dollars into liberation" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2005717716766982618) 2025-12-29T19:09Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "Darvet Brown pointed a gun at her friends 3-year-old grandson during a mental health crisis. Officers saved the child but killed her. Im grateful that this childs life was saved but this tragedy shows that we need crisis teams trained to protect everyone involved" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2005800143090786732) 2025-12-30T00:36Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements "Day [--] of Kwanzaa: Nia Purpose. This principle is what drives my work and why we fight to restore dignity rebuild communities and ensure every generation stands taller. Thats purpose" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2006025595856007393) 2025-12-30T15:32Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "A mothers instinct is unmatched. This could have ended in tragedy. Im grateful this mother & child survived but cruise lines must be held accountable for passenger safety at every point of the journey especially at their private destinations where families should feel secure" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2006074807629275139) 2025-12-30T18:47Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "A mother flew from Cameroon to save her 6-year-old sons life. Instead of protection she was jailed gravely injured in ICE custody and separated from her child. This is cruelty not safety. This case should outrage every single one of us. 🎥 TT: @nataliemaehall" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2006427461014429901) 2025-12-31T18:09Z 73.9K followers, 56.5K engagements "Day 6: Kuumba. Gordon Parks turned a camera into a weapon for our people forcing America to face racism it denied and proving Black creativity is a tool of resistance and liberation. That is creativity. That is Kuumba" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2006478853464895945) 2025-12-31T21:33Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Day [--] of Kwanzaa: Imani Faith. The seventh and final principle Imani is unwavering faith in our power our people and our righteous struggle. It is the foundation; without it nothing stands. Faith keeps us moving forward. Faith keeps us fighting. Thats Imani" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2006753376223350874) 2026-01-01T15:44Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Zohran Mamdanis inauguration marks a new day for New York City. One rooted in justice equity and real accountability. Today this city chose leadership that listens to the streets honors the working class and isnt afraid to confront power on behalf of the people" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2006919703219023921) 2026-01-02T02:45Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Russia bombed Odesa on Dec [--] injuring [--] including a 7-month-old baby. Four apartment buildings hit while families slept. This is a war crimecalculated strikes to terrorize civilians. Silence is complicity" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2007194370106405159) 2026-01-02T20:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Violations of International law Constitutional Law & War Crimes Oh my lions tigers and bears" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2007534697606475804) 2026-01-03T19:29Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements "Trump kidnapped Venezuelas president and now threatens his successor: Shes going to pay a very big price. No UN approval. No law. Just imperialism dressed as justice. Venezuela has sovereignty" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2007975576410497033) 2026-01-05T00:40Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements "Mali and Burkina Faso banned U.S. citizens Dec [--] in response to Trumps Dec [--] travel ban. Both cited reciprocity. When immigration policy becomes a weapon families suffer. Borders shouldnt be battlegrounds" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2008208398681043286) 2026-01-05T16:06Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements "Officer shot FBI agent [--] times in botched raid mistook him for suspect. When training fails this catastrophically with law enforcement it reveals why civilians face the same fatal errors daily" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2008659517777867039) 2026-01-06T21:58Z 73.9K followers, 38.4K engagements "ICE agents shot and killed a woman legal observer in Minneapolis during a massive federal raid. Witnesses say she tried to flee. Feds claim she weaponized her vehicle. Unacceptable use of force" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009026847976091983) 2026-01-07T22:18Z 73.7K followers, [----] engagements "Renee Nicole Good [--] was a mother in love. Not a target. Not a protester. Just terrified. A federal agent shot her in the face during an ICE raid. The President praised his agents for their actions" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009138721476759772) 2026-01-08T05:42Z 73.8K followers, [----] engagements "Keith Porter Jr. [--] was killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Years Eve in Northridge. The agents name remains hidden. No interview. No charges. Justice delayed is justice denied" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009367773919457783) 2026-01-08T20:53Z 74.2K followers, 958.5K engagements "This happened here. Minnesota owns this. The answer isnt jurisdictional gymnasticsits justice through Minnesotas courts applying Minnesota law in the open. Anything less is a failure of responsibility" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009636448774095156) 2026-01-09T14:40Z 73.8K followers, [----] engagements "One year ago the Eaton Fire took everything from my Morehouse brother Stephan Taylor and his family. They lost their Altadena home but not their purpose. Recovery isnt measured in rebuildingits in reclaiming safety and home" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009667010536579456) 2026-01-09T16:42Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "ICE Agent Jonathan Ross killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan [--]. DHS hid his namereporters found it in court records. This pattern demands a criminal indictment. Silence isnt justice" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009768636739735606) 2026-01-09T23:25Z 74K followers, [----] engagements "F**king bitch. Thats what ICE agent Jonathan Ross was caught saying on his own video right after he shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in the face killing her while she was trying to drive away. This statement reveals what was in his heart & should matter in a murder trial" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2009768951031447914) 2026-01-09T23:27Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements "In [----] Devon Fowler surprised his 12-year-old son Braheim with a baseball bat before his gameboth broke down in tears. Over [---] million kids have incarcerated parents. Now [---] immigrant children sit in federal shelters. Every child deserves a father present. Thats justice. 🖤" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2010451936617885822) 2026-01-11T20:41Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is what impunity looks like. After fatally shooting Renee Good in Minneapolis ICE agents are back on the streets threatening residents: Have yall not learned from the past couple of days Theyre using her death as a warning. We demand accountability" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2010757778923512150) 2026-01-12T16:56Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements "Trump pardoned Jan. [--] rioters who beat cops on camera. Jake Tapper asked the right question: If Trump pardoned them how is it justiceDHS Secretary Noem had no answer. This is the hypocrisy were up against. Law & order only applies when its convenient. We see you. 🎥:@CNN" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2011098468060971364) 2026-01-13T15:30Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements "Aniyah Porter lost her father Keith Porter Jr. on New Years Eveshot by an off-duty ICE agent. He left behind daughters ages [--] & [--]. Their grandmother set up a GoFundMe. Justice is owed to this family. Support: 🎥 TT: @uhhnya https://gofund.me/e7fffe5b5 https://gofund.me/e7fffe5b5" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2011193497747853389) 2026-01-13T21:47Z 74.2K followers, 39.7K engagements "On Jan [--] ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good in the face killing her. Jan [--] Six federal prosecutors resigned rather than help Trumps DOJ criminalize her grieving widow instead of investigating the shooter. Justice for Renee Nicole Good" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2011454420152946965) 2026-01-14T15:04Z 74.2K followers, [---] engagements "Minnesota is taking a stand. On Monday the AG filed suit to stop Trumps ICE surge a campaign of fear that led to Renee Nicole Goods fatal shooting. This isnt law and order. Its unconstitutional violence" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2011572551147987215) 2026-01-14T22:54Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "Rep. Robin Kelly & 70+ House Democrats filed [--] impeachment articles against DHS Sec. Noem for obstruction violating public trust & self dealing: defying subpoenas targeting vulnerable communities & awarding a $200M contract to an associate. No one is above the law.🎥:@NewsHour" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2011904801161003169) 2026-01-15T20:54Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements "Federal agents smashed the window & forcibly removed an autistic woman from her car while she was attempting to reach medical careThis is state sanctioned violence against a disabled woman who posed no threat" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2011967024075772152) 2026-01-16T01:01Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Jackson family was driving home when ICE deployed tear gas on their car with [--] kids inside. A 6-month-old stopped breathing. This isnt law enforcement. This is terror. ICE must be held accountable. 🎥: @SkyNews @kare11" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2012317298388815945) 2026-01-17T00:13Z 74.2K followers, 17.8K engagements "Navy swimmer Jeremy Way & others dove into [--] water broke windows & saved a woman in crisis as her SUV sank. She needed help not harm. Too many die when responders escalate instead of save. If you are ever experiencing a mental health crisis please call [---] for 24/7 help" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2012678458468393038) 2026-01-18T00:08Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "VP JD Vance mocked Rep. Jasmine Crockett saying her street girl persona is as real as her nails. She fired back on The View calling it racism. We need leaders like her in the Senate. Im proud to endorse her. 🎥:@JasmineForUS via @TheView" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2012926942266208628) 2026-01-18T16:35Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements "Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by guards at Camp East Montana ICE facility. Medical examiner ruled it homicide. ICE claims suicide. Evidence says otherwise. We need accountability. Justice for Geraldo. 🎥: @AaronParnas" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2013000966384046586) 2026-01-18T21:30Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "Anti-ICE activists stormed Cities Church in St. Paul to confront pastor David Easterwoodwho also runs ICE operations across [--] states. When officials hold spiritual & enforcement power communities have a right to demand answers. Can you lead raids Mon-Sat then preach Sunday" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2013369512666554830) 2026-01-19T21:54Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements "This year for the first time since Ronald Reagan established Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday in [----] Donald Trump has chosen not to recognize it. In doing so he breaks not only his own previous practice but also a tradition upheld by every U.S. President across parties in the modern era. This choice signals an intentional shift towards open white nationalism. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013761643080024460 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013761643080024460" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2013761643080024460) 2026-01-20T23:52Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements "Tomorrow marks six years since Darius Tarver was taken from us. A 23-year-old UNT student studying criminal justice a young man who wanted to protect and serve his community was killed by the very system he hoped to reform. Darius was in crisis. He needed help. Instead he was met with deadly force. On January 21st we gather to remember Darius honor his family and recommit ourselves to the fight for justice. This vigil is about more than memory. Its about action. We will speak truth about what happened that night uplift families who continue to survive police violence and educate our community" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2013774900620603754) 2026-01-21T00:45Z 74.1K followers, [---] engagements "Senator Ted Cruz photographed on a California-bound flight January [--] as Texas prepares for a dangerous ice storm. At least [---] Texans died in 2021s Winter Storm Uri while Cruz was in Cancun. Leadership means being present when your community faces crisis not fleeing before it arrives. 📸: @shea_jordan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014115307997028391 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014115307997028391" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2014115307997028391) 2026-01-21T23:18Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is what happens when cruelty becomes policy. On Tuesday ICE agents waited outside a Columbia Heights Minnesota home for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father to return from preschool. They detained both in their driveway. Then agents did something unconscionable: they pulled this child from the vehicle and made him knock on his own door using him as bait to see if other family members were inside. When his terrified mother answered pleading to take her son agents refused. They took both father and son to Texas. The family has a pending asylum case. No deportation order. Just a" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2014488948526002210) 2026-01-23T00:02Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "Im a historian. I started my career teaching early American history here in Philadelphia. This week the National Park Service removed slavery exhibits at the Presidents House following a Trump administration directive. Signs and displays telling the stories of nine enslaved people owned by George Washington were taken down. Thats erasure. You dont honor America by hiding its sins. You honor it by confronting them. Liberty was built on the backs of enslaved people and pretending otherwise doesnt change history. Philadelphia is suing to restore the exhibits and theyre right. History doesnt" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2014743863580069920) 2026-01-23T16:55Z 74.2K followers, 10K engagements "Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong was arrested by federal agents this week for organizing a protest at a Minnesota church. The target: a pastor who also serves as acting director of the local ICE field office. Federal agents from the FBI and Homeland Security arrested her with family members reporting approximately [--] agents were involved. She attempted to turn herself in voluntarily through her attorney but federal authorities wanted her in handcuffs. She was charged under the FACE Act for allegedly conspiring to obstruct a place of worship. A federal magistrate judge ordered her" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2014801429387485414) 2026-01-23T20:44Z 74.2K followers, 11.7K engagements "Minneapolis sent a clear message today: we will not be silent while ICE tears families apart. From the streets to the statehouse thousands of people risked arrest and economic retaliation to demand an end to brutal immigration raids and the politics of fear. This is what solidarity looks like in below-zero weather: workers clergy students and entire communities shutting it all down until human rights mean something for everyone not just a few. Repost: @jedayal https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014886393932054736 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014886393932054736" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2014886393932054736) 2026-01-24T02:22Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "Federal Border Patrol agents just shot a man at point blank range in the streets of Minneapolis. This is not border security it is state violence. We need witnesses video and identification of every officer on that scene. Accountability is not optional" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2015122908306190556) 2026-01-24T18:01Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Say his name. A 37-year-old ICU nurse. A veterans advocate who spent his days saving lives at the Department of Veterans Affairs. A Minneapolis resident with nothing more than traffic violations on his record and a valid permit to carry. On January [--] [----] Alex was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in his own neighborhood. Federal officials claim he posed a threat but video evidence tells a different story: no gun visible in his hands just another life cut short by unchecked federal power. This is the third fatal federal officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2015218548713345495) 2026-01-25T00:21Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "This is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Hours after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti a 37-year-old ICU nurse who served our veterans at the Minneapolis VA Attorney General Pam Bondi sent this letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with a chilling ultimatum: hand over your voter rolls welfare data and dismantle your sanctuary policies or ICE stays. Lets be clear: This isnt about immigration enforcement. This isnt about public safety. This is about control. The Trump administration is using federal agents as leverage to force a swing state to surrender its most" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2015493158675910698) 2026-01-25T18:33Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements "The House passed Trumps SAVE America Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) on February 11th requiring a passport or birth certificate to vote in federal elections. The bill has not passed the Senate yet. If it does [--] million Americans will be at risk of losing their voting rights. Only [--] in [--] Black Americans have a valid passport. Nearly half of Black Americans under [--] dont have a drivers license with their current name and address. Millions of women whose names changed after marriage dont have matching documents. This isnt about election security. Noncitizen voting is already" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2022749917752558074) 2026-02-14T19:08Z 74.5K followers, 40.6K engagements "Any patriotic American would have jumped in his truck and participated in the hunt of #AhmaudArbery Defense counsel argument for William Bryan" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/1268637974754975744) 2020-06-04T20:17Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "CBS News investigated & exposed the truth: MAGA influencer lied about Somali daycares being empty. State inspectors had visited all active locations within [--] months & there was zero recorded evidence of fraud. His racist hoax still triggered nationwide funding cuts. 🎥: @wcco" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2007160682937266678) 2026-01-02T18:42Z 74.5K followers, 214.4K engagements "Silverio Villegas Gonzlez killed by ICE Sept. [--] [----]. ICE claims self-defense; autopsy shows shot through back of neck at close range. Agents bodycam: injuries nothing major. No name released" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2010053830461751409) 2026-01-10T18:19Z 74.5K followers, 377.2K engagements "After ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good the Black Panther Party showed up armed at an anti-ICE protest in Philly. This is what community defense looks like. 📹:Chairman Paul Birdsong via @Wevitalize_ (IG) #AllPowerToThePeople #JusticeForReneeGood" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2012194465545666763) 2026-01-16T16:05Z 74.4K followers, 299.9K engagements "Former NICU nurse Erin Strotman pleaded no contest to breaking bones of [--] premature babies at a Virginia hospital. She was caught on camera. Released on just $25K bond. Sentencing June [--]. Justice delayed" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2012565154022445226) 2026-01-17T16:38Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "Dr. King wasnt just a student at Morehouse. He was a prodigy mentored by Dr. Benjamin Mays. The civil rights movements fire transformed his faith from intellectual to prophetic. Thats the King legacy I hope to pass on" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2013271708585636197) 2026-01-19T15:25Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "Six years ago today Darius Tarver was killed by police during a mental health crisis in front of his Denton apartment. He was [--]. A UNT student studying criminal justice. A young man who dreamed of protecting his community. His life was cut short by the very system he wanted to reform. Darius deserved help. He deserved compassion. He deserved to live. Today we remember him. We say his name. We honor his familys relentless fight for justice. And we recommit ourselves to building a world where mental health crises are met with care not violence. Where Black lives are protected not policed to" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2013989516797726879) 2026-01-21T14:58Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "On January 11th ICE agents detained Adonay Mancia Rodrguez in Morristown New Jersey while he stepped outside his apartment building to pick up dinner for his six-year-old daughter. Before they took him he told agents he needed to get back to his daughter waiting upstairs. They detained him anyway and left her alone. A neighbor later found her wandering the street crying asking Wheres Papi Adonay has no criminal record beyond two traffic violations and has lived in New Jersey since [----]. ICE carried out this raid without notifying local officials and eleven people were detained. When federal" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2014457203583844677) 2026-01-22T21:56Z 74.3K followers, 75.1K engagements "We need to get better at treating this like a business. Like Amazon Prime but with human beings. These are the actual words of ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons at a private prison industry convention in Phoenix last April. This isnt hyperbole. This is policy. The deportation industrial complex generates billions by treating human lives as inventory. Private corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic hold 80% of detained immigrants collecting $165 per day per detainee. ICE recently posted contracts worth up to $45 billion for detention facilities. Theyre planning to convert industrial warehouses" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2014851188387094877) 2026-01-24T00:02Z 74.5K followers, 22.8K engagements "ICE pepper sprayed a 15-year-old girl. Thats it. Thats the headline. Federal agents deployed chemical weapons against a child. A 15-year-old girl posed such a threat to grown armed men that they needed pepper spray to subdue her. This is what American immigration enforcement looks like in [----]. Armed federal agents attacking children with chemical weapons. Not protecting borders. Not enforcing laws. Brutalizing kids. Every parent in America should be terrified. Every community should be outraged. Every elected official should be demanding answers. When did we decide this was acceptable When" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2015524041717645429) 2026-01-25T20:35Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "Actually its not illegal to carry concealed at a protest under the United States Constitution. Yet when I served as a legal observer during a demonstration for Marvin Scott III in McKinney TX in [----] a member of our community who died in custody I was arrested anyway. I was there legally armed protecting protestors. Like Alex Pretti I was doing my job as a legal observer. The trained police officers barely noticed my firearm during the arrest. When they did discover it they properly disarmed me. I wasnt murdered. I wasnt brutalized. I shouldnt have been arrested in the first place. But if an" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2015845189596701141) 2026-01-26T17:52Z 74.4K followers, 21.6K engagements "This is exactly the kind of political violence we warned about. A 55-year-old man walked into a town hall meeting and sprayed Rep. Ilhan Omar with a chemical substance while she was speaking. He planned it in advance. Told his neighbor he might get arrested. Then showed up and attacked a sitting member of Congress. Anthony Kazmierczak is now in custody charged with third-degree assault. But heres what matters: the environment that emboldens people to think this violence is acceptable. The rhetoric that dehumanizes public servants. The conspiracy theories that paint elected officials as" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2016528465789423753) 2026-01-28T15:07Z 74.4K followers, [---] engagements "An ICE agent in Minneapolis just told a civilian: If you raise your voice Ill erase your voice. This is America in [----]. Federal agents threatening to silence citizens for speaking up. Two Americans have been killed by federal agents this month during immigration operations. A 5-year-old was detained coming home from school. Protesters are being met with violence for exercising their First Amendment rights. This has to stop. We need accountability and we need it now. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016563101919740076 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016563101919740076" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2016563101919740076) 2026-01-28T17:24Z 74.4K followers, 51.5K engagements "Allowed a toast among my colleagues mentors and fellow honorees I offered these words from the Haitian Revolutionary tradition: To liberty or death. To the ancestors who chose fire over chains who proved that the enslaved could become authors of history. May our unity remain our weapon and may freedom never again be negotiated. Thank you @upwards06 @gentlemenstoast @morehousedfw for this honor" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2016633602629320921) 2026-01-28T22:04Z 74.3K followers, [---] engagements "Uncovered footage shows ICE and police throwing tear gas near a preschool in Minneapolis. Another incident during Operation Metro Surge involved a 6-month-old infant who stopped breathing after federal agents deployed tear gas around the familys vehicle requiring CPR. Children are being endangered families terrorized and communities militarized under the guise of immigration enforcement. This is state-sanctioned violence against our most vulnerable. When federal agents use weapons of war near schools and against families with babies theyre not protecting anyonetheyre terrorizing entire" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2016663348398428216) 2026-01-29T00:03Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "A federal judge just issued a temporary restraining order stopping ICE from deporting 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias. This comes after their arrest in Minnesota on January 20th sparked national outrage when images showed little Liam in his Spider-Man backpack and bunny hat being detained by ICE agents after preschool. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ruled that ICE cannot deport or transfer them from Texas while their legal case is pending. The family entered the U.S. legally in [----] using the CBP One app to seek asylum attended all court hearings and" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2016675324621197349) 2026-01-29T00:50Z 74.3K followers, 15.9K engagements "Two federal agents (one Border Patrol agent and one CBP officer) have been placed on administrative leave after firing at least [--] rounds at Alex Pretti. Their identities remain hidden from the public. Heres where this gets deeply troubling: The Department of Justice has REFUSED to open a civil rights investigation claiming theres no basis for one. Instead theyve handed the investigation to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) a division of ICE that doesnt typically investigate officer-involved shootings. Let that sink in: the agency investigating is part of the same department as the" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2016942514876420204) 2026-01-29T18:32Z 74.3K followers, [---] engagements "@donlemonofficial was arrested by federal agents last night in Los Angeles while covering the Grammy Awards. He faces federal charges under the FACE Act and the KKK Act for allegedly interfering with religious freedom at a Minnesota church on January [--] when anti-ICE protesters disrupted a Sunday service. Don has been a journalist for [--] years doing constitutionally protected work. His attorney Abbe Lowell calls this an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment. Don maintains he was there solely as a journalist covering the protest. The chief federal judge in Minneapolis already rejected" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2017244147686519059) 2026-01-30T14:30Z 74.4K followers, 12.1K engagements "Journalist @ByGeorgiaFort was arrested this morning at her home by federal agents in connection with filming a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul Minnesota on January [--]. Fort livestreamed her own arrest on Facebook at 6:30 AM. She and former CNN anchor Don Lemon who was arrested in Los Angeles the night before both face charges related to documenting the anti-ICE demonstration inside the church. This is tyranny. When journalists are arrested for doing their jobs for bearing witness to protests and holding power accountable we are watching the First Amendment die in real time. The federal" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2017277546727874697) 2026-01-30T16:43Z 74.4K followers, [----] engagements "Don Lemon has been released from federal custody after being arrested in the middle of the night by federal agents. His crime Covering a protest. Something hes done for [--] years as a journalist. After his release he declared: I will not be silenced. This is political retaliation. This is what authoritarianism looks like. When the government arrests journalists for documenting protests we are no longer a free nation. We stand with Don Lemon and every member of the press being targeted for telling the truth. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017415699010826440" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2017415699010826440) 2026-01-31T01:52Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "UPDATE: Georgia Fort was released from federal custody after livestreaming her own arrest this morning. Federal agents came to her door for doing journalism. After her release she asked: Do we have a constitution She vowed to keep covering the peoples fight until their questions are answered. When independent journalists are arrested for documenting their own communities this is an attack on all of us. We stand with Georgia Fort. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017440654087877036 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017440654087877036" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2017440654087877036) 2026-01-31T03:31Z 74.4K followers, [----] engagements "Congresswoman @jasmineforus is doing exactly what we elected her to do: standing up for those who cant stand up for themselves. A 5-year-old child doesnt belong in a detention center. Period. This isnt about politics. This is about basic human decency and protecting our children. We need more leaders willing to fight like this. 🎥: @repjasmine" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2017668248196485323) 2026-01-31T18:36Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "VICTORY. 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father have been ordered RELEASED from ICE detention. After [--] days locked up at Dilley Detention Center a federal judge said ENOUGH. This is what people power looks like. When the government tried to break this family the people rose up. Nationwide shutdowns. Congressional visits. Relentless pressure. And now Liam gets to go home to his mother. But Liam isnt the only one. There are countless other children and families still detained right now. Still separated. Still traumatized by a system designed to break them. This victory proves whats possible when" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2017724601732645212) 2026-01-31T22:20Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements "Im sure these images hit different now. Black communities have been warning about this for years. Non-violent people being attacked and murdered by law enforcement. Unjustly. Trayvon Martin. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery. Alex Pretti. Renee Good. And so many others. Whether they were holding Skittles a phone playing a video game peacefully protesting for your rights or just going for a walk in their neighborhood they were unjustifiably killed while posing no violent threat to law enforcement. What weve been fighting against for decades is now happening across" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2018743978150031416) 2026-02-03T17:50Z 74.4K followers, [---] engagements "Im sure these images hit different now. Black communities have been warning about this for years. Non-violent people being attacked and murdered by law enforcement. Unjustly. Trayvon Martin. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery. Keith Porter. Silverio Villegas Gonzlez . Alex Pretti. Renee Good. And so many others. Whether they were holding Skittles a phone playing a video game peacefully protesting for your rights or just going for a walk in their neighborhood they were unjustifiably killed while posing no violent threat to law enforcement. What weve been fighting" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2018750551954206823) 2026-02-03T18:16Z 74.5K followers, 74.2K engagements "No minor should have to defend themselves from an adult because of their political beliefs. These students walked out to peacefully protest ICE operations in Kyle Texas when a MAGA supporter attacked a high school girl. Other students jumped in to protect her. Our children have the right to exercise their constitutional freedoms without fear of violence. This man should be arrested and charged with Assault on a Minor which in Texas is a felony offense when an adult intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a child. I stand with these children." [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2018793413726941327) 2026-02-03T21:07Z 74.5K followers, 54.2K engagements "UPDATE: The man who assaulted a high school student at an ICE protest in Buda Texas has been identified as Chad Michael Watts [--] from Kyle Texas. On February [--] [----] students from Hays CISD walked out of class to peacefully protest ICE operations near the intersection of RM [---] and FM [----] in Buda. Video shows Watts getting out of his truck and physically attacking a teenage girl who was protesting. Multiple students had to intervene to pull him off her. Buda Police arrested Watts on February [--] and charged him with two counts of assault causing bodily injury. He has been identified as the" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2019085986890735875) 2026-02-04T16:29Z 74.5K followers, 20.5K engagements "Today would have been Trayvon Martins 31st birthday. I was in my last year of law school when Trayvon was killed. I was trying my first cases when a jury in Sanford acquitted George Zimmerman. To do that they had to decide that a teenager with Skittles and an Arizona tea was a deadly threat. That the child he pursued became the aggressor. That even the ground beneath Trayvons feet could be imagined as a weapon in his hands. And that Zimmerman had the right to defend himself from that imagined threat with a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun. That verdict didnt feel new. It felt familiar. Like the" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2019502766415114698) 2026-02-05T20:05Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Some people need more evidence that Donald Trump is a racist and the MAGA movement is about restoring white supremacy. Cool. It didnt take Trump reposting images of the first Black president and First Lady depicted as monkeys for me but for those of you still asking wheres the proof Ill just leave this right here. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019859110879990246 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019859110879990246" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2019859110879990246) 2026-02-06T19:41Z 74.5K followers, 20.9K engagements "Today NYPD Sergeant Erik Duran was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for throwing a cooler at Eric Duprey a 30-year-old father of three and delivery worker causing him to crash his scooter and die. This happened in August [----] during a botched drug bust in the Bronx. This conviction is rare. Its historic. And it matters. Eric Duprey was trying to survive delivering food supporting his family navigating a city that made life hard for him. Sergeant Duran decided to weaponize a cooler and end his life over a low-level narcotics investigation. For two and a half years Erics family waited" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2019896495869145094) 2026-02-06T22:10Z 74.5K followers, 112.5K engagements "Brown v. Board of Education ended school segregation in [----] when the Supreme Court ruled separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Thurgood Marshalls victory didnt just integrate classrooms it dismantled the legal foundation of Jim Crow. It proved what Black families always knew: separate is never equal. This case changed America forever. Although schools are no longer legally segregated Black and brown communities continue facing discrimination and unequal treatment in [----]. Children are literally being kidnapped out of their schools because of the color of their skin. Were" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020174040808223121) 2026-02-07T16:33Z 74.5K followers, [---] engagements "Brown v. Board of Education ended school segregation in [----] when the Supreme Court ruled separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Thurgood Marshalls victory didnt just integrate classrooms it dismantled the legal foundation of Jim Crow. It proved what Black families always knew: separate is never equal. This case changed America forever. Although schools are no longer legally segregated Black and brown communities continue facing discrimination and unequal treatment in [----]. Students are literally being kidnapped during their commute to and from school by law enforcement" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020175837849338040) 2026-02-07T16:40Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "This is what happens when people whove never experienced real oppression claim victimhood. The Civil Rights Act didnt hurt white people; it simply stopped guaranteeing them every advantage. Trump calling equality reverse discrimination is a dangerous distortion of history and an insult to everyone who fought and died for basic human rights. The same protections hes attacking are the ones that ensure ALL people regardless of race have equal opportunity. This isnt about merit; its about power. And theyll say anything to keep it. 🎥: @TheView" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020214374145659207) 2026-02-07T19:13Z 74.5K followers, 20.3K engagements "They told him Thank you for your service then deported him to a country he left [--] years ago. On February 6th Godfrey Wade was deported to Jamaica after serving this country honorably in the U.S. Army. He built a life here as a father of six and grandfather of three. But after a traffic stop in Georgia last September ICE detained him for five months and just deported him based on a [----] removal order he never knew existed. Court records show the hearing notices were sent to the wrong address and returned undeliverable. He was never given a fair chance to fight his case. Now his children and" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020283206809866510) 2026-02-07T23:47Z 74.5K followers, 66.7K engagements "Today Sandra Bland would have been [--] years old. Sandra was a civil rights activist who used her platform Sandy Speaks to speak truth about police violence and systemic injustice. She had just been hired as a community outreach coordinator at Prairie View A&M University ready to serve her community and make a difference. On July [--] [----] Sandra was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in Prairie View Texas. During that traffic stop Texas state trooper Brian Encinia escalated the encounter forcibly removed her from her vehicle and arrested her. He claimed she assaulted him. She was charged" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020302910928683016) 2026-02-08T01:05Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "THEYRE TRYING TO DEPORT A 5-YEAR-OLD CHILD. The Trump administration just filed to EXPEDITE the deportation of little Liam Conejo Ramos and his father bypassing a full asylum hearing altogether. This child was detained with his father in Texas torn from his mother and community and now they want to fast-track deporting him without due process. This is what cruelty looks like. This is what happens when an administration weaponizes immigration policy against the most vulnerable among us. Liams family sought asylum. They have no criminal record. They followed the rules. And still DHS filed a" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020551336039694696) 2026-02-08T17:32Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Bad Bunny just showed the world what resistance looks like on the biggest stage in America. While families like Liam Ramoss are being torn apart by ICE and Black and Brown communities are being told they dont belong Bad Bunny stood in that stadium and declared: Were still here. And love will always be more powerful than hate. This wasnt entertainment. This was a refusal to be erased. A celebration of culture when the stakes are highest. Liam Ramos is five years old. He was detained by ICE. His story represents all of the young children that are currently detained by ICE. Bad Bunny didnt have" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2021043899939127603) 2026-02-10T02:09Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Coco Jones brought it home. Honoring Whitney Houstons legendary Super Bowl moment while performing Lift Every Voice and Sing with a live orchestra. Black History Month excellence. This is how you pay respect to the culture. 🖤 🎥: @cocojones" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2021044097822458263) 2026-02-10T02:10Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "A new investigation by Al Jazeera Arabic reveals that Civil Defense teams in Gaza have documented [----] Palestinians who have evaporated since the genocide began in October [----] leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh. According to the investigation experts and witnesses attribute this phenomenon to Israels systematic use of thermal and thermobaric weapons often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs capable of generating temperatures exceeding [----] degrees Fahrenheit. The investigation identified specific U.S.-manufactured munitions used in Gaza that are" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2021312315597951192) 2026-02-10T19:56Z 74.5K followers, [---] engagements "THIS IS WHAT ACCOUNTABILITY LOOKS LIKE. A federal grand jury everyday Americans just blocked Trumps attempt to criminally prosecute [--] veteran lawmakers for doing their constitutional duty. Their crime Reminding our troops that they swore an oath to the Constitution not to any president. That they MUST refuse illegal orders. Trump called for their EXECUTION. His Justice Department tried to charge them with sedition. And [--] anonymous citizens said absolutely not. This is the system working. This is people power. This is what happens when we refuse to let authoritarianism take root. Mark Kelly." [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2021705188893958240) 2026-02-11T21:57Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Whats happening in Texas is dangerous and absurd. Governor Abbott has designated CAIR the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a terrorist organization. Calling CAIR a terrorist org is like calling the Ronald McDonald House charity a terrorist cell. Heres the real consequence: every single person who has ever volunteered with CAIR donated to their programs or supported their work is now potentially labeled a terrorist under Texas law. Were talking about teachers doctors community organizers and everyday people who simply wanted to support civil rights work. Abbott has absolutely no legal" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020892043086602310) 2026-02-09T16:06Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "When Haiti rose up against slavery they rewrote the rules of empire and changed the map of the world. At the turn of the 19th century Haiti (then Saint-Domingue) was the richest colony in the world. When its formerly enslaved population won their freedom Europe panicked. Napoleon sent one of the largest armadas of the era to re-enslave the island. It failed. Despite superior weapons and numbers formerly enslaved Haitians destroyed a European superpower attempting to put them back in chains. Napoleons defeat forced him to abandon his New World empire and sell the Louisiana Territory to the" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2021610092353802570) 2026-02-11T15:39Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "New year same mission: close the wealth gap. If you can find money for brunch you can fund ownership. One investment check works while you sleep. Not get-rich-quickget-free-slow. Stay consistent. 🎥: @smartmoneybrand" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2006849217529262139) 2026-01-01T22:05Z 74.5K followers, 540K engagements "Philly police brutalized a minor on camera. The community called a modern Black Panther group led by Paul Birdsong inspired by the original Party to demand accountability. When systems fail communities organize" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2010415045612847104) 2026-01-11T18:14Z 74.5K followers, 330.1K engagements "Rest in power to Dr. Gladys West the mathematician whose groundbreaking work laid the foundation for GPSa barrier-breaking Black woman in STEM who truly changed the world" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2013718829017297023) 2026-01-20T21:02Z 74.5K followers, 23.1K engagements "On August [--] [----] Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago visiting family in Money Mississippi. He walked into Bryants Grocery and bought two cents worth of bubble gum. What happened next would change America forever. Carolyn Bryant a 21-year-old white woman accused him of whistling at her. For this alleged offense violating the Jim Crow Souths unwritten codes two white men decided a child deserved to die. In the early morning hours of August 28th Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam armed themselves dragged Emmett from his great-uncles home at gunpoint and drove him to a barn. They beat" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2020608557368873109) 2026-02-08T21:19Z 74.5K followers, 23.7K engagements "Another day. Another threat. Another Black child terrorized by those sworn to protect. [--] year old Trevion Taylor was leaving an anti ICE protest when Indianapolis police pulled him over. What happened next was captured on video: I will f***ing kill you. Do you understand me This wasnt policing. This was intimidation. This was a threat of state sanctioned violence against a child exercising his First Amendment rights. IMPD claims they were justified because someone in the car had a firearm. But threatening to KILL a teenager is never justified. This is the culture were fighting to change" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2021241306039599175) 2026-02-10T15:14Z 74.5K followers, 170.5K engagements "Christian Diaz Rendon was protecting his family. On January 26th an armed intruder shot up his Laveen home and broke in shooting his 19-year-old stepson in the ankle. Christian disarmed the gunman and pinned him down in a chokehold. His wife Mariana Gonzalez told the responding officer that Christian was her husband and that he was holding down the intruder. A Phoenix Police officer with five years on the force fired anyway killing Christian with a single shot. Phoenix Police have confirmed that the man that was fatally shot had disarmed the individual who had fired shots at the home and" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2022354281035190480) 2026-02-13T16:56Z 74.5K followers, 13.1K engagements "During her Little Miss Drama tour stop in California on February [--] [----] Cardi B joked with her audience saying If ICE comes in here were gonna jump they a****playfully protecting her fans. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded on social media by mocking her past referencing when she used to drug and rob people stating As long as she doesnt drug and rob our agents well consider that an improvement over her past behavior. Cardi B then fired back on X (Twitter) redirecting the conversation: If we talking about drugs lets talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2022383885967847479) 2026-02-13T18:54Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Elementary school children running in fear from federal agents at a bus stop in Lindenwold New Jersey. These babies were just trying to get to school. Ring camera footage shows ICE descending on the Woodland Village Apartments sending fourth and fifth graders scattering through parking lots screaming warnings to each other. The bus driver had to circle the complex to find students who fled. Many arrived at school traumatized requiring counseling. Now our government is terrorizing children at bus stops. Kids cant wait for school buses without fear of raids in their neighborhoods afraid their" [X Link](https://x.com/LeeMerrittesq/status/2023145502125015054) 2026-02-15T21:20Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Joshua Brown was shot in his mouth & chest. He was exiting his car at his apt when he was ambushed & shot at close range. His mother asked my office to help find out who murdered her son. She suspects foul play. He had no known enemies. He worked for a living. We need answers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1180629761443483648) 2019-10-05T23:44Z 74.5K followers, 197.6K engagements "Ralph Yarl is home and recovering How the bullet in his head did not cause more extensive damage is truly a miracle. To God be the glory" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1648707056159866880) 2023-04-19T15:16Z 74.5K followers, 3.6M engagements "Justice prevails: Ahmaud Arberys killers denied appeal sentenced to life with no parole.✊🏾" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989835216450720166) 2025-11-15T23:17Z 74.5K followers, 3.2M engagements "This is the mugshot of disgraced District Attorney Jackie Johnson who was just arrested today for her role in the coverup of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1435691861746855937) 2021-09-08T19:49Z 74.5K followers, 47.5K engagements "I just spoke with Joshua Browns mother. She is devastated. We all are. Joshua Brown was key witness in the murder of Botham Jean that helped put Amber Guyger away. We need answers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1180604548596916224) 2019-10-05T22:03Z 74.5K followers, 65.3K engagements "🚨BREAKING🚨 Defendant Travis McMichael declared Fucking Nigger as he stood over the body of #AhmaudArbery according to testimony of defendant William Bryan and video recording" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1268554702607835138) 2020-06-04T14:46Z 74.5K followers, 49.1K engagements "This is #DaunteWright and his son Duante Wright Jr. Earlier today Duante Sr. was shot to death during a traffic stop reportedly about an air freshener obstructing a mirror. He was [--] years old and killed by a Brooklyn Center Police Officer in MN. He was unarmed" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1381432005414518786) 2021-04-12T02:20Z 74.5K followers, 33.1K engagements "NEW VIDEO shows there were frequent visitors on the construction site where Ahmaud was seen leaving on the day he was killed both day & night. Ahmaud Arbery seems to be the only one who was presumed to be a criminal and ultimately the only one murdered based on that presumption" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1261340440332103680) 2020-05-15T16:59Z 74.5K followers, 26.8K engagements "This probably wont make the news outside of Dallas TX but a white man just shot up the federal court house where I handle most of my cases. We need a specific national strategy designed to address the ongoing threat represented by White Male Domestic Terrorism IMMEDIATELY" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1140679878733434880) 2019-06-17T17:57Z 74.5K followers, 15.4K engagements "🚨BREAKING🚨 Magistrate Judge bonds over all charges against all defendants. All four men will remain in custody" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1268640819633938432) 2020-06-04T20:28Z 74.5K followers, 11.1K engagements "Justice demands that arrests be made immediately for the murder of #AhmaudArbery. #IrunwithMaud" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1257767854985936897) 2020-05-05T20:23Z 74.5K followers, 12.2K engagements "A Pennsylvania jury just concluded shooting an unarmed black child in the back as he ran away is not Murder its not even criminal. I will never be able to make peace with that. Everything has to change" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1109268421101928449) 2019-03-23T01:39Z 74.5K followers, 11.6K engagements "#AhmaudArberys mom consoles the sister of #BothamJean during the #GeorgeFloyd funeral . so much pain" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1270445536584359939) 2020-06-09T19:59Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Texas looks a lot bluer when you strip away the gerrymandering and intense voter suppression" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1494371723260669957) 2022-02-17T18:02Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "Im Lee Merritt a civil rights attorney and community organizer. Im running against Ken Paxton to be the next Attorney General of Texas. Are you ready to bring justice to Texas Chip in here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/merritt-social-202107 https://secure.actblue.com/donate/merritt-social-202107" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1414933333402963969) 2021-07-13T13:02Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "This is my grandma. She turned [--] today. I moved in with her when I was [--]. I had been expelled from school. If it wasnt for her I was going to jail. She saved my life. Help me celebrate her" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1231391033440604160) 2020-02-23T01:31Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "His name is #RalphYarl a [--] y/o who went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. He was shot in the head by a white man who didnt want him on his property. He shot him a 2nd time for emphasis. Ralph is fighting for his life. This man must be arrested. We are on our way" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1647598730453950464) 2023-04-16T13:52Z 74.5K followers, 744.3K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Fox News trying to figure out how to spin the racist homophobic attack by MAGA supporters on @JussieSmollett a member of the @FOXTV Family"
X Link 2019-01-29T23:59Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Amber Guyger is guilty of murder"
X Link 2019-10-01T15:48Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Joshua Brown was shot in his mouth & chest. He was exiting his car at his apt when he was ambushed & shot at close range. His mother asked my office to help find out who murdered her son. She suspects foul play. He had no known enemies. He worked for a living. We need answers"
X Link 2019-10-05T23:44Z 74.5K followers, 197.6K engagements
"Deandre Arnold and his family should file for immediate injunctive relief in the nearest federal court and have the courts force the hands of the district. This beautiful young brother should walk with his classmates. https://x.com/i/events/1220390873529085952 https://x.com/i/events/1220390873529085952"
X Link 2020-01-24T03:56Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"https://time.com/5850623/malcolm-x-human-rights/amp=true https://time.com/5850623/malcolm-x-human-rights/amp=true"
X Link 2020-07-03T15:42Z 78.4K followers, [---] engagements
"This is the mugshot of disgraced District Attorney Jackie Johnson who was just arrested today for her role in the coverup of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery"
X Link 2021-09-08T19:49Z 74.5K followers, 47.5K engagements
"Such a painful day in court yesterday. Ahmauds arm was torn nearly completely off by a shotgun blast just below his armpit. His torso was ripped open by a buckshot leveled off at point blank range. This was a lynching. Calling it anything else is a sin. There must be atonement"
X Link 2021-11-06T13:32Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Our brother @Shaunking is suffering. Yesterday he posted an appeal for help that rubbed me the wrong way because I knew what people would say. That was a mistake. Help if you can. Thanks👇🏾 ➡CashApp: @ShaunKingFamily ➡Venmo: @ShaunKingFamily ➡Zelle: shaunking@gmail.com"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:35Z 83.4K followers, 23.4K engagements
"Ralph Yarl Update Virtual Press Conference TODAY 3PM CST"
X Link 2023-06-01T19:33Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Jean Wilson Brutus a 41-year-old Haitian man died less than [--] hours after entering ICE custody at Newarks Delaney Hall. ICE took a week to acknowledge it. The public deserves answers. Say his name"
X Link 2026-01-08T17:32Z 74.5K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Omar targeting me for harassment as usual. I know signs dont vote but people love signs🤷🏾♂ @OmarVillafranca #TxPrimaryDay Spotted this morning in Houston at a Montrose area polling location: Dem Attorney General Candidate @MerrittForTexas putting up some last minute signs . https://t.co/urpbBFUPhL #TxPrimaryDay Spotted this morning in Houston at a Montrose area polling location: Dem Attorney General Candidate @MerrittForTexas putting up some last minute signs . https://t.co/urpbBFUPhL"
X Link 2022-03-01T16:57Z 71.2K followers, [--] engagements
"While one cannot defame the dead the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanyes false statements about the manner of his death. Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd familys fight"
X Link 2022-10-16T20:07Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Black Power"
X Link 2025-11-03T15:40Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I was born extremely premature 3.5lbs attached to an incubatorfighting for my life. Been fighting ever since. #itsonus #usc @_uscbasslab From classrooms to courtrooms to coffinsthis is why we vote Lets flex our power. Vote by Nov [--]. Yes on Prop 50"
X Link 2025-11-04T01:58Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Fresh off his Great Gatsby costume gala President Trump traded champagne for chaosannouncing on Truth Social his plan to defy the courts and block SNAP benefits. The circus never ends it just changes outfits"
X Link 2025-11-04T18:44Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani a true peoples win Your victory is a powerful reminder of what grassroots vision + bold hope can achieve. 🎉 The movement youve built has set the stage for real change in New York City and Im honored to stand in solidarity"
X Link 2025-11-05T03:58Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Government shutdown hits home: Trump admin cuts flights at [--] airports. Its more than inconvenienceits a civil rights issue hurting working families and everyday folks. We need justice transparency and leadership that centers people over politics"
X Link 2025-11-06T15:59Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Supreme Court pauses SNAP payments. Millions of families now face food uncertainty"
X Link 2025-11-08T15:54Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Systemic injustice thrives on silence. Today a man providing for his family was detained despite having valid documents. This is about dignity and justice for all. We stand with every worker and demand accountability"
X Link 2025-11-09T19:39Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements
"What youre seeing here is a powerful Air Force graduation tradition. The new Airman stands at attention and they cant move until their family finally touches them. That single touch sets them free to celebrate. Happy Veterans Day"
X Link 2025-11-11T18:47Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"On the anniversary of Brandon Durhams tragic killing we remember that Brandon called [---] for help and instead lost his life in his own homeour fight continues for answers accountability and true justice for Brandons family and the Las Vegas community"
X Link 2025-11-13T03:31Z 70.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Justice prevails: Ahmaud Arberys killers denied appeal sentenced to life with no parole.✊🏾"
X Link 2025-11-15T23:17Z 74.5K followers, 3.2M engagements
"He forgot he was at a gameproof of a culture where police intimidate instead of protect"
X Link 2025-11-16T00:08Z 71K followers, [----] engagements
"Happy Founders Day to the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. As champions of manhood scholarship perseverance and uplift we stand proudly in the footsteps of civil rights leaders who paved the way"
X Link 2025-11-17T19:42Z 71.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Merritt Law is fighting for Mercedes Wells familyjustice for Black mothers denied care"
X Link 2025-11-19T04:11Z 71.3K followers, 34.8K engagements
"Silencing students for using their native language isnt discipline its discrimination. Every child deserves the right to speak and learn without fear. Stand with us as we protect the fundamental rights of our Spanish-speaking youth because justice means every voice matters"
X Link 2025-11-19T18:34Z 71K followers, [----] engagements
"Real justice starts when we demand accountability even in the Oval Office. Challenging power with facts isnt disrespect its necessary for a free society. Stand with reporters who refuse to let murder go unanswered"
X Link 2025-11-19T20:57Z 71K followers, [----] engagements
"Dear racist: please consider leaving brown people alone as well"
X Link 2025-11-20T18:20Z 71.2K followers, 142K engagements
"I am offering this caution because it is time for our community to become particularly vigilant and to protect ourselves by any and all means necessary and available"
X Link 2025-11-21T18:58Z 71K followers, [---] engagements
"Bus driver stepped up for kids in Belhaven Estates Charlotte NC on November [--] [----]. When rumors spread about ICE targeting the neighborhood the driver released children to waiting parents. No child should ever have to experience this fear just getting home from school"
X Link 2025-11-22T20:17Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Morehouse triple major wins Rhodes Scholarship. Sixth in school history. This is our legacy"
X Link 2025-11-23T21:50Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This happened the same year I graduated law school. While I was stepping into this work Jordans family was stepping into unimaginable grief. We remember and recommit to justice"
X Link 2025-11-24T02:31Z 71.4K followers, 491.1K engagements
"Senator Villa confronted masked ICE agents targeting her West Chicago community. This is courage"
X Link 2025-11-24T18:32Z 71.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Former prosecutor confirms: Black clients face harsher sentences. The system must change"
X Link 2025-11-24T21:57Z 71.4K followers, 59.7K engagements
"RIP Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin known as H Rap Brown. He passed November [--] [----] at [--] in federal prison. Former SNCC chairman and Black Panther minister who inspired generations fighting for Black liberation. His legacy is resistance. We honor his memory and continue his fight. ✊🏾"
X Link 2025-11-25T03:15Z 71.3K followers, 12.3K engagements
"Mother Viola Fletcher [---] survived Tulsas massacre. Fought for justice until the end. Rest in power"
X Link 2025-11-25T03:16Z 71.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Her instincts saved her. We have a right to verify whos pulling us over and to hold them accountable"
X Link 2025-11-25T15:06Z 71.3K followers, 27.7K engagements
"On November [--] [----] federal agents entered Jennifer Diazs home in East Elmhurst Queens pointing guns at her and her children as they demanded answers. This traumatizing raid reminds us all: No family should ever be forced to face violence and terror inside their own home"
X Link 2025-11-26T22:23Z 71.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Two young National Guard members were tragically ambushed and killed in DC todaydeepest condolences to their families and communities. This violence shows the urgent need to end troop deployments in American cities"
X Link 2025-11-27T01:30Z 71.2K followers, [---] engagements
"While many celebrate Native communities mourn genocide and stolen land. Truth and accountability arent negotiable"
X Link 2025-11-27T16:35Z 71.5K followers, 136.8K engagements
"Mother Fletcher survived Tulsa at [--]. Died at [---] without justice. I live through the massacre every day"
X Link 2025-11-28T15:08Z 74.1K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Her National Guard sons werent about to let her face that alone. They wore the uniform they earned serving America to protect the woman who gave them everything. This is the choice were forcing on families: serve your country or protect your mother. They chose both"
X Link 2025-11-29T04:59Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Carolers protesting ICE raids at Home Depot. This is how we take a stand. @ResistanceRev"
X Link 2025-11-29T17:56Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements
"We aint buying it @TamikaDMallory"
X Link 2025-11-29T22:05Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Congresswoman Waters stood firm. When leadership fails the people resistance isnt optional its necessary"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:50Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Congresswoman Robin Kelly introduced the WELLS Act after Mercedes Wells was sent home in active labor & gave birth in her car minutes later. This legislation demands hospitals justify discharges assess travel safety and train staff on racial bias. Protection isnt optional"
X Link 2025-12-01T01:38Z 71.5K followers, 77.4K engagements
"Steve Perkins was killed in his yard by police. They murdered him over an SUV payment. Officer Marquette was charged and the trial is set for Jan [----]. We will fight until justice is served"
X Link 2025-12-01T18:31Z 71.5K followers, 79.1K engagements
"Michael Dean was a loving father whose life was stolen in an instant. Shot in the head unarmed during a traffic stop while buying a birthday cake for his daughters sixth birthday. We honor him by demanding real accountability for him & every family who deserves justice"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:04Z 71.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Communities across this country refuse to forget his name. This is what were up against. A system that calls executions accidents. A system that lets killers wear badges and go home to their families while ours are left grieving. Rest in power brother. Justice is coming"
X Link 2025-12-03T01:11Z 71.5K followers, 38K engagements
"Six years ago today Cameron Lamb was murdered by cop Eric DeValkenaere who was convicted then freed by the governor. Justice stolen. The fight continues"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:18Z 71.5K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Accountability starts from within. 18-year SAPD officer Paul Fencik drunk on duty in his patrol car. No teams no excuses. Everyone must be held accountable especially those who wear a badge and serve our community"
X Link 2025-12-03T19:14Z 71.5K followers, 153.9K engagements
"ICE rolls into LA neighborhoods for raids parks illegally and rushes in. Tow truck drivers are rolling up too towing those SUVs like anyone else. Same streets same laws same accountability"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:08Z 71.5K followers, 428.8K engagements
"Texas could gain [--] more Republican seats by making Black and Brown votes count for less. To win full citizenship Black and Brown Texans must free the vote and stand united against voter suppression"
X Link 2025-12-05T21:59Z 71.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Trump's attacks on Minnesota's Somali community are baseless and rooted in xenophobia. The far right will translate his words into violence. We stand with our Somali neighbors and denounce these threats. #repost @democracynow"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:02Z 71.5K followers, [---] engagements
"This is what happens when racism is rewarded instead of prosecuted. This is what white supremacy looks like in [----]. We must do better"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:23Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Were stepping up for Texas. U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is running for the U.S. Senate and Im proud to endorse her. Jasmine and I have been in this fight for over a decade and this is our moment to restore and free the vote in Texas. Its on us Let make it happen"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:55Z 71.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The people pushing back against police overreach. I cant tell you why that officer was on the edge but its clear who did the real shoving: karma"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:48Z 71.5K followers, 85.3K engagements
"Ahmaud Arbery: murdered for jogging while Black in [----]. Justice was served but On 12/9/2025 a young Black man in San Francisco faced the same racist harassment. We fight on. Wanda Cooper-Jones wants to meet him. Help us find this victim. Walking while black is not a crime"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:47Z 71.7K followers, 14K engagements
"Jingle Bells debuted at a racist minstrel show in [----]. Enslaved people wore jingle bells on iron collars to prevent escape. Knowing the truth doesnt ruin Christmas. It gives us the power to choose what we celebrate and what we pass down. #themoreyouknow"
X Link 2025-12-14T21:18Z 72.5K followers, 165.8K engagements
"This isnt civic engagement. Its emboldened racism. Time and again some white women attempt to weaponize police and immigration enforcement to act out personal grievance and racial paranoia. Credit to the officers who handled the situation professionally and kept the peace"
X Link 2025-12-15T15:36Z 71.5K followers, 39.1K engagements
"This isnt legal analysisits a warning. At airports now TSA shares your name flight and photo with ICE before you reach the gate. Families are being torn apart in security lines. This is what a police state looks like. #repost @real.talk.us :IG"
X Link 2025-12-16T17:13Z 74.2K followers, 184.5K engagements
"They left with a traffic ticket. Let that sink in. If this level of organized white supremacy can parade through Little Rock unchecked every community in America is vulnerable. This demands accountability. Not just from the neo-Nazis but from every official who allowed it"
X Link 2025-12-16T20:35Z 74.1K followers, 42.8K engagements
"This is the kind of history that actually matters. Barbara Rose Johns was [--] when she led a [----] walkout that sparked Brown v. Board. Her statue now replaces Robert E. Lees in the Capitol. We honor fighters for justice not defenders of oppression. 🎥: @pbsnews"
X Link 2025-12-17T17:39Z 72.4K followers, 34.9K engagements
"They held up a Hispanic woman at a Trump rally as proof they werent anti-immigrantthen pushed policies that put her community in danger. Thats not confusion. Thats exploitation. #repost @landpalstine"
X Link 2025-12-17T21:06Z 71.7K followers, 30.3K engagements
"White supremacists in Tennessee are training to fight themselvestheir exact words. They believe modern men are soft & need brutal combat to prepare for the race war theyre building toward. CNN just exposed their 124-acre hidden compound where this is happening. Pay attention"
X Link 2025-12-17T23:06Z 72.5K followers, 394K engagements
"This clip is bigger than comics. Its about how power fear and policing really work. XMen is a parable for how this country treats Black and marginalized people as too dangerous the moment we step into our full power. 🎥: @godfreycomic"
X Link 2025-12-18T15:20Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Steve Biko taught that freedom begins in the mind. On what would have been his 79th birthday we honor his Black Consciousness legacy and keep fighting systems that endanger Black life"
X Link 2025-12-19T03:09Z 73.1K followers, [----] engagements
"On July [--] ICE and the National Guard stormed MacArthur Park shutting down a kids camp in an immigrant neighborhood. When Crips say stand up or die thats an indictment of ICE not our people. #Repost @hoodlosangeles"
X Link 2025-12-19T15:46Z 72.4K followers, 26K engagements
"The military admits they made a mistake brutally arresting my client Kareem Ela Black former Marine captain targeted. We dont accept mistake as closure. We demand full accountability policy changes to prevent this from happening to another innocent person. @washingtonpost"
X Link 2025-12-19T18:55Z 72.5K followers, 764.1K engagements
"DeSantis and Abbott labeled CAIR Americas largest Muslim civil rights organization a terrorist group even though the federal government never did. This is not security. It is targeting Muslims who organize. CAIR is taking them to court"
X Link 2025-12-20T00:16Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"On December [--] [----] Officer Durden tased a student on a Langston Hughes High School bus in South Fulton Georgia. He was placed on leave but excessive force in schools must stop. Our children deserve to learn safely not face brutality from those meant to protect them"
X Link 2025-12-20T16:19Z 72.5K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Wifey surprised me: Front-row seats to see Dave Chappelle last night: unfiltered uncomfortable hilarious. Gods message via Chappelle: Trumps doing a terrible job and he probably blew Bill Clinton. P.S. If you think Charlie Kirk is a major historical figure youre not well"
X Link 2025-12-20T23:42Z 72.4K followers, 65.8K engagements
"Whether you agree with Fugelsangs assessment or not the question stands: can you point to policies that align with what Jesus actually said Thats worth examining regardless of where you stand politically. @TheDailyShow @JohnFugelsang"
X Link 2025-12-21T16:22Z 72.4K followers, 25.7K engagements
"They claim its about criminals. The truth: [-----] arrested by ICE had zero record. This is state sanctioned kidnapping disguised as policy. We must fight this system because its working exactly as designed. 🎥: @NBCNewsNow"
X Link 2025-12-22T15:14Z 72.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Deputy Huizar entered Adele Shireys home without a warrant told her I own your house right now and arrested her. Charges dropped. Now shes suing. This is how we demand accountability"
X Link 2025-12-22T22:44Z 73.4K followers, 660.9K engagements
"A Texas School Resource Officer slammed a teen into a school wall while in handcuffs on December [--] [----] at Horn High School in Mesquite Texas. This is not classroom management or keeping order. This is violent state-sanctioned assault on a child"
X Link 2025-12-23T16:03Z 73.9K followers, 886.5K engagements
"UPDATE: Attorney Harry Daniels revealed Lanier Johnson-Hunts burn marks from Officer Durden tasing choking and slapping him. Lanier was on the correct bus riding home to his autistic brother. This officer must be held accountable"
X Link 2025-12-24T17:45Z 73.4K followers, 180.2K engagements
"Barbara Rose Johns: At [--] she organized [---] students to walk out demanding equal education. Her protest helped end school segregation in America. Now her statue stands at the Capitol asking us: Are we going to just accept conditions or are we going to do something about it"
X Link 2025-12-24T21:10Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Merry Christmas We have an announcement: Douglas (Bullmastiff) and Dallas (husky) had puppies. We are now outnumbered. Send help. And treats. Mostly treats. From our chaotic fur-filled home to yours much love this holiday season. 🎄🐾"
X Link 2025-12-25T18:58Z 72.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This is state-sponsored cruelty tearing apart vulnerable families our neighbors and loved ones during the holidays. This suffering cannot be normalized. 🎥: @flowerinspanish ✊🏾"
X Link 2025-12-25T20:36Z 73.4K followers, 75.8K engagements
"On Christmas night in [----] terrorists bombed Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore in their bedroom because Harry was Floridas NAACP President fighting racial terror and police violence. No one was ever prosecuted or held accountable. Thats not historythats a debt unpaid"
X Link 2025-12-26T00:29Z 73.2K followers, 61.6K engagements
"Happy Kwanzaa. Today we begin a seven-day journey through the Nguzo Sabaseven principles that have anchored our peoples fight for liberation across generations. Day 1: Umoja (Unity)the foundation for all that follows. Unity isnt symbolic its operational. Its how we win"
X Link 2025-12-26T23:53Z 73.4K followers, 22.5K engagements
"Honoring Marcus Garvey founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Associationthe largest mass movement in Black history. He gave us the red black and green flag. We stand on his shoulders"
X Link 2025-12-27T03:21Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--] of Kwanzaa: KujichaguliaSelf-Determination. We define ourselves. We name ourselves. We create for ourselves. We speak for ourselves. Today we celebrate the freedom to tell our own stories. Today we honor the strength it takes to stand firm in who we are. Happy Kwanzaa"
X Link 2025-12-27T15:45Z 73.4K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Day [--] of Kwanzaa : Kujichagulia (Self-Determination). Its what we teach our children every single day. This is how we build the next generation of leaders and how we ensure our children grow up knowing their power their purpose and their right to determine their own destiny"
X Link 2025-12-27T18:15Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"He rejected his slave name and chose Xrefusing to be defined by his oppressor. Later he became El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He didnt ask permission or wait for validation. He named himself. Malcolm X understood what they fear most: Black people who define their own destiny. ✊🏾"
X Link 2025-12-27T22:27Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--] of Kwanzaa: UjimaCollective Work and Responsibility. Your fight is my fight. Your struggle is our struggle. We rise together or we dont rise at all. Thats Ujima"
X Link 2025-12-28T17:42Z 73.4K followers, 12.1K engagements
"Trump banned Head Start from using words like Black women and mental healthtotaling [---] words. Programs legally required to use these words now face impossible choices. This isnt policyits targeted destruction"
X Link 2025-12-29T00:29Z 73.4K followers, 118.1K engagements
"Day [--] of Kwanzaa: Ujamaa. Support Black businesses. Build Black wealth. Keep dollars in our community. Leimert Park lives these principles all week. If youre in the LA area check it out. Experience what real community feels like. IG 🎥: @blkeventsla"
X Link 2025-12-29T15:18Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Day 4: Ujamaa. Maggie Lena Walker chartered the first Black-owned bank in [----] because she knew: economic power is freedom. St. Luke Penny Savings Bank turned our dollars into liberation"
X Link 2025-12-29T19:09Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Darvet Brown pointed a gun at her friends 3-year-old grandson during a mental health crisis. Officers saved the child but killed her. Im grateful that this childs life was saved but this tragedy shows that we need crisis teams trained to protect everyone involved"
X Link 2025-12-30T00:36Z 72.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--] of Kwanzaa: Nia Purpose. This principle is what drives my work and why we fight to restore dignity rebuild communities and ensure every generation stands taller. Thats purpose"
X Link 2025-12-30T15:32Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"A mothers instinct is unmatched. This could have ended in tragedy. Im grateful this mother & child survived but cruise lines must be held accountable for passenger safety at every point of the journey especially at their private destinations where families should feel secure"
X Link 2025-12-30T18:47Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"A mother flew from Cameroon to save her 6-year-old sons life. Instead of protection she was jailed gravely injured in ICE custody and separated from her child. This is cruelty not safety. This case should outrage every single one of us. 🎥 TT: @nataliemaehall"
X Link 2025-12-31T18:09Z 73.9K followers, 56.5K engagements
"Day 6: Kuumba. Gordon Parks turned a camera into a weapon for our people forcing America to face racism it denied and proving Black creativity is a tool of resistance and liberation. That is creativity. That is Kuumba"
X Link 2025-12-31T21:33Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--] of Kwanzaa: Imani Faith. The seventh and final principle Imani is unwavering faith in our power our people and our righteous struggle. It is the foundation; without it nothing stands. Faith keeps us moving forward. Faith keeps us fighting. Thats Imani"
X Link 2026-01-01T15:44Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Zohran Mamdanis inauguration marks a new day for New York City. One rooted in justice equity and real accountability. Today this city chose leadership that listens to the streets honors the working class and isnt afraid to confront power on behalf of the people"
X Link 2026-01-02T02:45Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Russia bombed Odesa on Dec [--] injuring [--] including a 7-month-old baby. Four apartment buildings hit while families slept. This is a war crimecalculated strikes to terrorize civilians. Silence is complicity"
X Link 2026-01-02T20:56Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Violations of International law Constitutional Law & War Crimes Oh my lions tigers and bears"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:29Z 73.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump kidnapped Venezuelas president and now threatens his successor: Shes going to pay a very big price. No UN approval. No law. Just imperialism dressed as justice. Venezuela has sovereignty"
X Link 2026-01-05T00:40Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Mali and Burkina Faso banned U.S. citizens Dec [--] in response to Trumps Dec [--] travel ban. Both cited reciprocity. When immigration policy becomes a weapon families suffer. Borders shouldnt be battlegrounds"
X Link 2026-01-05T16:06Z 73.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Officer shot FBI agent [--] times in botched raid mistook him for suspect. When training fails this catastrophically with law enforcement it reveals why civilians face the same fatal errors daily"
X Link 2026-01-06T21:58Z 73.9K followers, 38.4K engagements
"ICE agents shot and killed a woman legal observer in Minneapolis during a massive federal raid. Witnesses say she tried to flee. Feds claim she weaponized her vehicle. Unacceptable use of force"
X Link 2026-01-07T22:18Z 73.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Renee Nicole Good [--] was a mother in love. Not a target. Not a protester. Just terrified. A federal agent shot her in the face during an ICE raid. The President praised his agents for their actions"
X Link 2026-01-08T05:42Z 73.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Keith Porter Jr. [--] was killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Years Eve in Northridge. The agents name remains hidden. No interview. No charges. Justice delayed is justice denied"
X Link 2026-01-08T20:53Z 74.2K followers, 958.5K engagements
"This happened here. Minnesota owns this. The answer isnt jurisdictional gymnasticsits justice through Minnesotas courts applying Minnesota law in the open. Anything less is a failure of responsibility"
X Link 2026-01-09T14:40Z 73.8K followers, [----] engagements
"One year ago the Eaton Fire took everything from my Morehouse brother Stephan Taylor and his family. They lost their Altadena home but not their purpose. Recovery isnt measured in rebuildingits in reclaiming safety and home"
X Link 2026-01-09T16:42Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"ICE Agent Jonathan Ross killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan [--]. DHS hid his namereporters found it in court records. This pattern demands a criminal indictment. Silence isnt justice"
X Link 2026-01-09T23:25Z 74K followers, [----] engagements
"F**king bitch. Thats what ICE agent Jonathan Ross was caught saying on his own video right after he shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in the face killing her while she was trying to drive away. This statement reveals what was in his heart & should matter in a murder trial"
X Link 2026-01-09T23:27Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In [----] Devon Fowler surprised his 12-year-old son Braheim with a baseball bat before his gameboth broke down in tears. Over [---] million kids have incarcerated parents. Now [---] immigrant children sit in federal shelters. Every child deserves a father present. Thats justice. 🖤"
X Link 2026-01-11T20:41Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is what impunity looks like. After fatally shooting Renee Good in Minneapolis ICE agents are back on the streets threatening residents: Have yall not learned from the past couple of days Theyre using her death as a warning. We demand accountability"
X Link 2026-01-12T16:56Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump pardoned Jan. [--] rioters who beat cops on camera. Jake Tapper asked the right question: If Trump pardoned them how is it justiceDHS Secretary Noem had no answer. This is the hypocrisy were up against. Law & order only applies when its convenient. We see you. 🎥:@CNN"
X Link 2026-01-13T15:30Z 73.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Aniyah Porter lost her father Keith Porter Jr. on New Years Eveshot by an off-duty ICE agent. He left behind daughters ages [--] & [--]. Their grandmother set up a GoFundMe. Justice is owed to this family. Support: 🎥 TT: @uhhnya https://gofund.me/e7fffe5b5 https://gofund.me/e7fffe5b5"
X Link 2026-01-13T21:47Z 74.2K followers, 39.7K engagements
"On Jan [--] ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good in the face killing her. Jan [--] Six federal prosecutors resigned rather than help Trumps DOJ criminalize her grieving widow instead of investigating the shooter. Justice for Renee Nicole Good"
X Link 2026-01-14T15:04Z 74.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Minnesota is taking a stand. On Monday the AG filed suit to stop Trumps ICE surge a campaign of fear that led to Renee Nicole Goods fatal shooting. This isnt law and order. Its unconstitutional violence"
X Link 2026-01-14T22:54Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Rep. Robin Kelly & 70+ House Democrats filed [--] impeachment articles against DHS Sec. Noem for obstruction violating public trust & self dealing: defying subpoenas targeting vulnerable communities & awarding a $200M contract to an associate. No one is above the law.🎥:@NewsHour"
X Link 2026-01-15T20:54Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Federal agents smashed the window & forcibly removed an autistic woman from her car while she was attempting to reach medical careThis is state sanctioned violence against a disabled woman who posed no threat"
X Link 2026-01-16T01:01Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Jackson family was driving home when ICE deployed tear gas on their car with [--] kids inside. A 6-month-old stopped breathing. This isnt law enforcement. This is terror. ICE must be held accountable. 🎥: @SkyNews @kare11"
X Link 2026-01-17T00:13Z 74.2K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Navy swimmer Jeremy Way & others dove into [--] water broke windows & saved a woman in crisis as her SUV sank. She needed help not harm. Too many die when responders escalate instead of save. If you are ever experiencing a mental health crisis please call [---] for 24/7 help"
X Link 2026-01-18T00:08Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"VP JD Vance mocked Rep. Jasmine Crockett saying her street girl persona is as real as her nails. She fired back on The View calling it racism. We need leaders like her in the Senate. Im proud to endorse her. 🎥:@JasmineForUS via @TheView"
X Link 2026-01-18T16:35Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by guards at Camp East Montana ICE facility. Medical examiner ruled it homicide. ICE claims suicide. Evidence says otherwise. We need accountability. Justice for Geraldo. 🎥: @AaronParnas"
X Link 2026-01-18T21:30Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Anti-ICE activists stormed Cities Church in St. Paul to confront pastor David Easterwoodwho also runs ICE operations across [--] states. When officials hold spiritual & enforcement power communities have a right to demand answers. Can you lead raids Mon-Sat then preach Sunday"
X Link 2026-01-19T21:54Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This year for the first time since Ronald Reagan established Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday in [----] Donald Trump has chosen not to recognize it. In doing so he breaks not only his own previous practice but also a tradition upheld by every U.S. President across parties in the modern era. This choice signals an intentional shift towards open white nationalism. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013761643080024460 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013761643080024460"
X Link 2026-01-20T23:52Z 74.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Tomorrow marks six years since Darius Tarver was taken from us. A 23-year-old UNT student studying criminal justice a young man who wanted to protect and serve his community was killed by the very system he hoped to reform. Darius was in crisis. He needed help. Instead he was met with deadly force. On January 21st we gather to remember Darius honor his family and recommit ourselves to the fight for justice. This vigil is about more than memory. Its about action. We will speak truth about what happened that night uplift families who continue to survive police violence and educate our community"
X Link 2026-01-21T00:45Z 74.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Senator Ted Cruz photographed on a California-bound flight January [--] as Texas prepares for a dangerous ice storm. At least [---] Texans died in 2021s Winter Storm Uri while Cruz was in Cancun. Leadership means being present when your community faces crisis not fleeing before it arrives. 📸: @shea_jordan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014115307997028391 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014115307997028391"
X Link 2026-01-21T23:18Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is what happens when cruelty becomes policy. On Tuesday ICE agents waited outside a Columbia Heights Minnesota home for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father to return from preschool. They detained both in their driveway. Then agents did something unconscionable: they pulled this child from the vehicle and made him knock on his own door using him as bait to see if other family members were inside. When his terrified mother answered pleading to take her son agents refused. They took both father and son to Texas. The family has a pending asylum case. No deportation order. Just a"
X Link 2026-01-23T00:02Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Im a historian. I started my career teaching early American history here in Philadelphia. This week the National Park Service removed slavery exhibits at the Presidents House following a Trump administration directive. Signs and displays telling the stories of nine enslaved people owned by George Washington were taken down. Thats erasure. You dont honor America by hiding its sins. You honor it by confronting them. Liberty was built on the backs of enslaved people and pretending otherwise doesnt change history. Philadelphia is suing to restore the exhibits and theyre right. History doesnt"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:55Z 74.2K followers, 10K engagements
"Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong was arrested by federal agents this week for organizing a protest at a Minnesota church. The target: a pastor who also serves as acting director of the local ICE field office. Federal agents from the FBI and Homeland Security arrested her with family members reporting approximately [--] agents were involved. She attempted to turn herself in voluntarily through her attorney but federal authorities wanted her in handcuffs. She was charged under the FACE Act for allegedly conspiring to obstruct a place of worship. A federal magistrate judge ordered her"
X Link 2026-01-23T20:44Z 74.2K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Minneapolis sent a clear message today: we will not be silent while ICE tears families apart. From the streets to the statehouse thousands of people risked arrest and economic retaliation to demand an end to brutal immigration raids and the politics of fear. This is what solidarity looks like in below-zero weather: workers clergy students and entire communities shutting it all down until human rights mean something for everyone not just a few. Repost: @jedayal https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014886393932054736 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014886393932054736"
X Link 2026-01-24T02:22Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Federal Border Patrol agents just shot a man at point blank range in the streets of Minneapolis. This is not border security it is state violence. We need witnesses video and identification of every officer on that scene. Accountability is not optional"
X Link 2026-01-24T18:01Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Say his name. A 37-year-old ICU nurse. A veterans advocate who spent his days saving lives at the Department of Veterans Affairs. A Minneapolis resident with nothing more than traffic violations on his record and a valid permit to carry. On January [--] [----] Alex was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in his own neighborhood. Federal officials claim he posed a threat but video evidence tells a different story: no gun visible in his hands just another life cut short by unchecked federal power. This is the third fatal federal officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis"
X Link 2026-01-25T00:21Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Hours after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti a 37-year-old ICU nurse who served our veterans at the Minneapolis VA Attorney General Pam Bondi sent this letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with a chilling ultimatum: hand over your voter rolls welfare data and dismantle your sanctuary policies or ICE stays. Lets be clear: This isnt about immigration enforcement. This isnt about public safety. This is about control. The Trump administration is using federal agents as leverage to force a swing state to surrender its most"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:33Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The House passed Trumps SAVE America Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) on February 11th requiring a passport or birth certificate to vote in federal elections. The bill has not passed the Senate yet. If it does [--] million Americans will be at risk of losing their voting rights. Only [--] in [--] Black Americans have a valid passport. Nearly half of Black Americans under [--] dont have a drivers license with their current name and address. Millions of women whose names changed after marriage dont have matching documents. This isnt about election security. Noncitizen voting is already"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:08Z 74.5K followers, 40.6K engagements
"Any patriotic American would have jumped in his truck and participated in the hunt of #AhmaudArbery Defense counsel argument for William Bryan"
X Link 2020-06-04T20:17Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"CBS News investigated & exposed the truth: MAGA influencer lied about Somali daycares being empty. State inspectors had visited all active locations within [--] months & there was zero recorded evidence of fraud. His racist hoax still triggered nationwide funding cuts. 🎥: @wcco"
X Link 2026-01-02T18:42Z 74.5K followers, 214.4K engagements
"Silverio Villegas Gonzlez killed by ICE Sept. [--] [----]. ICE claims self-defense; autopsy shows shot through back of neck at close range. Agents bodycam: injuries nothing major. No name released"
X Link 2026-01-10T18:19Z 74.5K followers, 377.2K engagements
"After ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good the Black Panther Party showed up armed at an anti-ICE protest in Philly. This is what community defense looks like. 📹:Chairman Paul Birdsong via @Wevitalize_ (IG) #AllPowerToThePeople #JusticeForReneeGood"
X Link 2026-01-16T16:05Z 74.4K followers, 299.9K engagements
"Former NICU nurse Erin Strotman pleaded no contest to breaking bones of [--] premature babies at a Virginia hospital. She was caught on camera. Released on just $25K bond. Sentencing June [--]. Justice delayed"
X Link 2026-01-17T16:38Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Dr. King wasnt just a student at Morehouse. He was a prodigy mentored by Dr. Benjamin Mays. The civil rights movements fire transformed his faith from intellectual to prophetic. Thats the King legacy I hope to pass on"
X Link 2026-01-19T15:25Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Six years ago today Darius Tarver was killed by police during a mental health crisis in front of his Denton apartment. He was [--]. A UNT student studying criminal justice. A young man who dreamed of protecting his community. His life was cut short by the very system he wanted to reform. Darius deserved help. He deserved compassion. He deserved to live. Today we remember him. We say his name. We honor his familys relentless fight for justice. And we recommit ourselves to building a world where mental health crises are met with care not violence. Where Black lives are protected not policed to"
X Link 2026-01-21T14:58Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"On January 11th ICE agents detained Adonay Mancia Rodrguez in Morristown New Jersey while he stepped outside his apartment building to pick up dinner for his six-year-old daughter. Before they took him he told agents he needed to get back to his daughter waiting upstairs. They detained him anyway and left her alone. A neighbor later found her wandering the street crying asking Wheres Papi Adonay has no criminal record beyond two traffic violations and has lived in New Jersey since [----]. ICE carried out this raid without notifying local officials and eleven people were detained. When federal"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:56Z 74.3K followers, 75.1K engagements
"We need to get better at treating this like a business. Like Amazon Prime but with human beings. These are the actual words of ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons at a private prison industry convention in Phoenix last April. This isnt hyperbole. This is policy. The deportation industrial complex generates billions by treating human lives as inventory. Private corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic hold 80% of detained immigrants collecting $165 per day per detainee. ICE recently posted contracts worth up to $45 billion for detention facilities. Theyre planning to convert industrial warehouses"
X Link 2026-01-24T00:02Z 74.5K followers, 22.8K engagements
"ICE pepper sprayed a 15-year-old girl. Thats it. Thats the headline. Federal agents deployed chemical weapons against a child. A 15-year-old girl posed such a threat to grown armed men that they needed pepper spray to subdue her. This is what American immigration enforcement looks like in [----]. Armed federal agents attacking children with chemical weapons. Not protecting borders. Not enforcing laws. Brutalizing kids. Every parent in America should be terrified. Every community should be outraged. Every elected official should be demanding answers. When did we decide this was acceptable When"
X Link 2026-01-25T20:35Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Actually its not illegal to carry concealed at a protest under the United States Constitution. Yet when I served as a legal observer during a demonstration for Marvin Scott III in McKinney TX in [----] a member of our community who died in custody I was arrested anyway. I was there legally armed protecting protestors. Like Alex Pretti I was doing my job as a legal observer. The trained police officers barely noticed my firearm during the arrest. When they did discover it they properly disarmed me. I wasnt murdered. I wasnt brutalized. I shouldnt have been arrested in the first place. But if an"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:52Z 74.4K followers, 21.6K engagements
"This is exactly the kind of political violence we warned about. A 55-year-old man walked into a town hall meeting and sprayed Rep. Ilhan Omar with a chemical substance while she was speaking. He planned it in advance. Told his neighbor he might get arrested. Then showed up and attacked a sitting member of Congress. Anthony Kazmierczak is now in custody charged with third-degree assault. But heres what matters: the environment that emboldens people to think this violence is acceptable. The rhetoric that dehumanizes public servants. The conspiracy theories that paint elected officials as"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:07Z 74.4K followers, [---] engagements
"An ICE agent in Minneapolis just told a civilian: If you raise your voice Ill erase your voice. This is America in [----]. Federal agents threatening to silence citizens for speaking up. Two Americans have been killed by federal agents this month during immigration operations. A 5-year-old was detained coming home from school. Protesters are being met with violence for exercising their First Amendment rights. This has to stop. We need accountability and we need it now. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016563101919740076 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016563101919740076"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:24Z 74.4K followers, 51.5K engagements
"Allowed a toast among my colleagues mentors and fellow honorees I offered these words from the Haitian Revolutionary tradition: To liberty or death. To the ancestors who chose fire over chains who proved that the enslaved could become authors of history. May our unity remain our weapon and may freedom never again be negotiated. Thank you @upwards06 @gentlemenstoast @morehousedfw for this honor"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:04Z 74.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Uncovered footage shows ICE and police throwing tear gas near a preschool in Minneapolis. Another incident during Operation Metro Surge involved a 6-month-old infant who stopped breathing after federal agents deployed tear gas around the familys vehicle requiring CPR. Children are being endangered families terrorized and communities militarized under the guise of immigration enforcement. This is state-sanctioned violence against our most vulnerable. When federal agents use weapons of war near schools and against families with babies theyre not protecting anyonetheyre terrorizing entire"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:03Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A federal judge just issued a temporary restraining order stopping ICE from deporting 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias. This comes after their arrest in Minnesota on January 20th sparked national outrage when images showed little Liam in his Spider-Man backpack and bunny hat being detained by ICE agents after preschool. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ruled that ICE cannot deport or transfer them from Texas while their legal case is pending. The family entered the U.S. legally in [----] using the CBP One app to seek asylum attended all court hearings and"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:50Z 74.3K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Two federal agents (one Border Patrol agent and one CBP officer) have been placed on administrative leave after firing at least [--] rounds at Alex Pretti. Their identities remain hidden from the public. Heres where this gets deeply troubling: The Department of Justice has REFUSED to open a civil rights investigation claiming theres no basis for one. Instead theyve handed the investigation to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) a division of ICE that doesnt typically investigate officer-involved shootings. Let that sink in: the agency investigating is part of the same department as the"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:32Z 74.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@donlemonofficial was arrested by federal agents last night in Los Angeles while covering the Grammy Awards. He faces federal charges under the FACE Act and the KKK Act for allegedly interfering with religious freedom at a Minnesota church on January [--] when anti-ICE protesters disrupted a Sunday service. Don has been a journalist for [--] years doing constitutionally protected work. His attorney Abbe Lowell calls this an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment. Don maintains he was there solely as a journalist covering the protest. The chief federal judge in Minneapolis already rejected"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:30Z 74.4K followers, 12.1K engagements
"Journalist @ByGeorgiaFort was arrested this morning at her home by federal agents in connection with filming a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul Minnesota on January [--]. Fort livestreamed her own arrest on Facebook at 6:30 AM. She and former CNN anchor Don Lemon who was arrested in Los Angeles the night before both face charges related to documenting the anti-ICE demonstration inside the church. This is tyranny. When journalists are arrested for doing their jobs for bearing witness to protests and holding power accountable we are watching the First Amendment die in real time. The federal"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:43Z 74.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Don Lemon has been released from federal custody after being arrested in the middle of the night by federal agents. His crime Covering a protest. Something hes done for [--] years as a journalist. After his release he declared: I will not be silenced. This is political retaliation. This is what authoritarianism looks like. When the government arrests journalists for documenting protests we are no longer a free nation. We stand with Don Lemon and every member of the press being targeted for telling the truth. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017415699010826440"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:52Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"UPDATE: Georgia Fort was released from federal custody after livestreaming her own arrest this morning. Federal agents came to her door for doing journalism. After her release she asked: Do we have a constitution She vowed to keep covering the peoples fight until their questions are answered. When independent journalists are arrested for documenting their own communities this is an attack on all of us. We stand with Georgia Fort. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017440654087877036 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017440654087877036"
X Link 2026-01-31T03:31Z 74.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Congresswoman @jasmineforus is doing exactly what we elected her to do: standing up for those who cant stand up for themselves. A 5-year-old child doesnt belong in a detention center. Period. This isnt about politics. This is about basic human decency and protecting our children. We need more leaders willing to fight like this. 🎥: @repjasmine"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:36Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"VICTORY. 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father have been ordered RELEASED from ICE detention. After [--] days locked up at Dilley Detention Center a federal judge said ENOUGH. This is what people power looks like. When the government tried to break this family the people rose up. Nationwide shutdowns. Congressional visits. Relentless pressure. And now Liam gets to go home to his mother. But Liam isnt the only one. There are countless other children and families still detained right now. Still separated. Still traumatized by a system designed to break them. This victory proves whats possible when"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:20Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Im sure these images hit different now. Black communities have been warning about this for years. Non-violent people being attacked and murdered by law enforcement. Unjustly. Trayvon Martin. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery. Alex Pretti. Renee Good. And so many others. Whether they were holding Skittles a phone playing a video game peacefully protesting for your rights or just going for a walk in their neighborhood they were unjustifiably killed while posing no violent threat to law enforcement. What weve been fighting against for decades is now happening across"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:50Z 74.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Im sure these images hit different now. Black communities have been warning about this for years. Non-violent people being attacked and murdered by law enforcement. Unjustly. Trayvon Martin. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery. Keith Porter. Silverio Villegas Gonzlez . Alex Pretti. Renee Good. And so many others. Whether they were holding Skittles a phone playing a video game peacefully protesting for your rights or just going for a walk in their neighborhood they were unjustifiably killed while posing no violent threat to law enforcement. What weve been fighting"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:16Z 74.5K followers, 74.2K engagements
"No minor should have to defend themselves from an adult because of their political beliefs. These students walked out to peacefully protest ICE operations in Kyle Texas when a MAGA supporter attacked a high school girl. Other students jumped in to protect her. Our children have the right to exercise their constitutional freedoms without fear of violence. This man should be arrested and charged with Assault on a Minor which in Texas is a felony offense when an adult intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a child. I stand with these children."
X Link 2026-02-03T21:07Z 74.5K followers, 54.2K engagements
"UPDATE: The man who assaulted a high school student at an ICE protest in Buda Texas has been identified as Chad Michael Watts [--] from Kyle Texas. On February [--] [----] students from Hays CISD walked out of class to peacefully protest ICE operations near the intersection of RM [---] and FM [----] in Buda. Video shows Watts getting out of his truck and physically attacking a teenage girl who was protesting. Multiple students had to intervene to pull him off her. Buda Police arrested Watts on February [--] and charged him with two counts of assault causing bodily injury. He has been identified as the"
X Link 2026-02-04T16:29Z 74.5K followers, 20.5K engagements
"Today would have been Trayvon Martins 31st birthday. I was in my last year of law school when Trayvon was killed. I was trying my first cases when a jury in Sanford acquitted George Zimmerman. To do that they had to decide that a teenager with Skittles and an Arizona tea was a deadly threat. That the child he pursued became the aggressor. That even the ground beneath Trayvons feet could be imagined as a weapon in his hands. And that Zimmerman had the right to defend himself from that imagined threat with a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun. That verdict didnt feel new. It felt familiar. Like the"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:05Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Some people need more evidence that Donald Trump is a racist and the MAGA movement is about restoring white supremacy. Cool. It didnt take Trump reposting images of the first Black president and First Lady depicted as monkeys for me but for those of you still asking wheres the proof Ill just leave this right here. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019859110879990246 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019859110879990246"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:41Z 74.5K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Today NYPD Sergeant Erik Duran was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for throwing a cooler at Eric Duprey a 30-year-old father of three and delivery worker causing him to crash his scooter and die. This happened in August [----] during a botched drug bust in the Bronx. This conviction is rare. Its historic. And it matters. Eric Duprey was trying to survive delivering food supporting his family navigating a city that made life hard for him. Sergeant Duran decided to weaponize a cooler and end his life over a low-level narcotics investigation. For two and a half years Erics family waited"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:10Z 74.5K followers, 112.5K engagements
"Brown v. Board of Education ended school segregation in [----] when the Supreme Court ruled separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Thurgood Marshalls victory didnt just integrate classrooms it dismantled the legal foundation of Jim Crow. It proved what Black families always knew: separate is never equal. This case changed America forever. Although schools are no longer legally segregated Black and brown communities continue facing discrimination and unequal treatment in [----]. Children are literally being kidnapped out of their schools because of the color of their skin. Were"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:33Z 74.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Brown v. Board of Education ended school segregation in [----] when the Supreme Court ruled separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Thurgood Marshalls victory didnt just integrate classrooms it dismantled the legal foundation of Jim Crow. It proved what Black families always knew: separate is never equal. This case changed America forever. Although schools are no longer legally segregated Black and brown communities continue facing discrimination and unequal treatment in [----]. Students are literally being kidnapped during their commute to and from school by law enforcement"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:40Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This is what happens when people whove never experienced real oppression claim victimhood. The Civil Rights Act didnt hurt white people; it simply stopped guaranteeing them every advantage. Trump calling equality reverse discrimination is a dangerous distortion of history and an insult to everyone who fought and died for basic human rights. The same protections hes attacking are the ones that ensure ALL people regardless of race have equal opportunity. This isnt about merit; its about power. And theyll say anything to keep it. 🎥: @TheView"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:13Z 74.5K followers, 20.3K engagements
"They told him Thank you for your service then deported him to a country he left [--] years ago. On February 6th Godfrey Wade was deported to Jamaica after serving this country honorably in the U.S. Army. He built a life here as a father of six and grandfather of three. But after a traffic stop in Georgia last September ICE detained him for five months and just deported him based on a [----] removal order he never knew existed. Court records show the hearing notices were sent to the wrong address and returned undeliverable. He was never given a fair chance to fight his case. Now his children and"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:47Z 74.5K followers, 66.7K engagements
"Today Sandra Bland would have been [--] years old. Sandra was a civil rights activist who used her platform Sandy Speaks to speak truth about police violence and systemic injustice. She had just been hired as a community outreach coordinator at Prairie View A&M University ready to serve her community and make a difference. On July [--] [----] Sandra was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in Prairie View Texas. During that traffic stop Texas state trooper Brian Encinia escalated the encounter forcibly removed her from her vehicle and arrested her. He claimed she assaulted him. She was charged"
X Link 2026-02-08T01:05Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"THEYRE TRYING TO DEPORT A 5-YEAR-OLD CHILD. The Trump administration just filed to EXPEDITE the deportation of little Liam Conejo Ramos and his father bypassing a full asylum hearing altogether. This child was detained with his father in Texas torn from his mother and community and now they want to fast-track deporting him without due process. This is what cruelty looks like. This is what happens when an administration weaponizes immigration policy against the most vulnerable among us. Liams family sought asylum. They have no criminal record. They followed the rules. And still DHS filed a"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:32Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Bad Bunny just showed the world what resistance looks like on the biggest stage in America. While families like Liam Ramoss are being torn apart by ICE and Black and Brown communities are being told they dont belong Bad Bunny stood in that stadium and declared: Were still here. And love will always be more powerful than hate. This wasnt entertainment. This was a refusal to be erased. A celebration of culture when the stakes are highest. Liam Ramos is five years old. He was detained by ICE. His story represents all of the young children that are currently detained by ICE. Bad Bunny didnt have"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:09Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Coco Jones brought it home. Honoring Whitney Houstons legendary Super Bowl moment while performing Lift Every Voice and Sing with a live orchestra. Black History Month excellence. This is how you pay respect to the culture. 🖤 🎥: @cocojones"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:10Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A new investigation by Al Jazeera Arabic reveals that Civil Defense teams in Gaza have documented [----] Palestinians who have evaporated since the genocide began in October [----] leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh. According to the investigation experts and witnesses attribute this phenomenon to Israels systematic use of thermal and thermobaric weapons often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs capable of generating temperatures exceeding [----] degrees Fahrenheit. The investigation identified specific U.S.-manufactured munitions used in Gaza that are"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:56Z 74.5K followers, [---] engagements
"THIS IS WHAT ACCOUNTABILITY LOOKS LIKE. A federal grand jury everyday Americans just blocked Trumps attempt to criminally prosecute [--] veteran lawmakers for doing their constitutional duty. Their crime Reminding our troops that they swore an oath to the Constitution not to any president. That they MUST refuse illegal orders. Trump called for their EXECUTION. His Justice Department tried to charge them with sedition. And [--] anonymous citizens said absolutely not. This is the system working. This is people power. This is what happens when we refuse to let authoritarianism take root. Mark Kelly."
X Link 2026-02-11T21:57Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Whats happening in Texas is dangerous and absurd. Governor Abbott has designated CAIR the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a terrorist organization. Calling CAIR a terrorist org is like calling the Ronald McDonald House charity a terrorist cell. Heres the real consequence: every single person who has ever volunteered with CAIR donated to their programs or supported their work is now potentially labeled a terrorist under Texas law. Were talking about teachers doctors community organizers and everyday people who simply wanted to support civil rights work. Abbott has absolutely no legal"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:06Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When Haiti rose up against slavery they rewrote the rules of empire and changed the map of the world. At the turn of the 19th century Haiti (then Saint-Domingue) was the richest colony in the world. When its formerly enslaved population won their freedom Europe panicked. Napoleon sent one of the largest armadas of the era to re-enslave the island. It failed. Despite superior weapons and numbers formerly enslaved Haitians destroyed a European superpower attempting to put them back in chains. Napoleons defeat forced him to abandon his New World empire and sell the Louisiana Territory to the"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:39Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"New year same mission: close the wealth gap. If you can find money for brunch you can fund ownership. One investment check works while you sleep. Not get-rich-quickget-free-slow. Stay consistent. 🎥: @smartmoneybrand"
X Link 2026-01-01T22:05Z 74.5K followers, 540K engagements
"Philly police brutalized a minor on camera. The community called a modern Black Panther group led by Paul Birdsong inspired by the original Party to demand accountability. When systems fail communities organize"
X Link 2026-01-11T18:14Z 74.5K followers, 330.1K engagements
"Rest in power to Dr. Gladys West the mathematician whose groundbreaking work laid the foundation for GPSa barrier-breaking Black woman in STEM who truly changed the world"
X Link 2026-01-20T21:02Z 74.5K followers, 23.1K engagements
"On August [--] [----] Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago visiting family in Money Mississippi. He walked into Bryants Grocery and bought two cents worth of bubble gum. What happened next would change America forever. Carolyn Bryant a 21-year-old white woman accused him of whistling at her. For this alleged offense violating the Jim Crow Souths unwritten codes two white men decided a child deserved to die. In the early morning hours of August 28th Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam armed themselves dragged Emmett from his great-uncles home at gunpoint and drove him to a barn. They beat"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:19Z 74.5K followers, 23.7K engagements
"Another day. Another threat. Another Black child terrorized by those sworn to protect. [--] year old Trevion Taylor was leaving an anti ICE protest when Indianapolis police pulled him over. What happened next was captured on video: I will f***ing kill you. Do you understand me This wasnt policing. This was intimidation. This was a threat of state sanctioned violence against a child exercising his First Amendment rights. IMPD claims they were justified because someone in the car had a firearm. But threatening to KILL a teenager is never justified. This is the culture were fighting to change"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:14Z 74.5K followers, 170.5K engagements
"Christian Diaz Rendon was protecting his family. On January 26th an armed intruder shot up his Laveen home and broke in shooting his 19-year-old stepson in the ankle. Christian disarmed the gunman and pinned him down in a chokehold. His wife Mariana Gonzalez told the responding officer that Christian was her husband and that he was holding down the intruder. A Phoenix Police officer with five years on the force fired anyway killing Christian with a single shot. Phoenix Police have confirmed that the man that was fatally shot had disarmed the individual who had fired shots at the home and"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:56Z 74.5K followers, 13.1K engagements
"During her Little Miss Drama tour stop in California on February [--] [----] Cardi B joked with her audience saying If ICE comes in here were gonna jump they a****playfully protecting her fans. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded on social media by mocking her past referencing when she used to drug and rob people stating As long as she doesnt drug and rob our agents well consider that an improvement over her past behavior. Cardi B then fired back on X (Twitter) redirecting the conversation: If we talking about drugs lets talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:54Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Elementary school children running in fear from federal agents at a bus stop in Lindenwold New Jersey. These babies were just trying to get to school. Ring camera footage shows ICE descending on the Woodland Village Apartments sending fourth and fifth graders scattering through parking lots screaming warnings to each other. The bus driver had to circle the complex to find students who fled. Many arrived at school traumatized requiring counseling. Now our government is terrorizing children at bus stops. Kids cant wait for school buses without fear of raids in their neighborhoods afraid their"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:20Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Joshua Brown was shot in his mouth & chest. He was exiting his car at his apt when he was ambushed & shot at close range. His mother asked my office to help find out who murdered her son. She suspects foul play. He had no known enemies. He worked for a living. We need answers"
X Link 2019-10-05T23:44Z 74.5K followers, 197.6K engagements
"Ralph Yarl is home and recovering How the bullet in his head did not cause more extensive damage is truly a miracle. To God be the glory"
X Link 2023-04-19T15:16Z 74.5K followers, 3.6M engagements
"Justice prevails: Ahmaud Arberys killers denied appeal sentenced to life with no parole.✊🏾"
X Link 2025-11-15T23:17Z 74.5K followers, 3.2M engagements
"This is the mugshot of disgraced District Attorney Jackie Johnson who was just arrested today for her role in the coverup of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery"
X Link 2021-09-08T19:49Z 74.5K followers, 47.5K engagements
"I just spoke with Joshua Browns mother. She is devastated. We all are. Joshua Brown was key witness in the murder of Botham Jean that helped put Amber Guyger away. We need answers"
X Link 2019-10-05T22:03Z 74.5K followers, 65.3K engagements
"🚨BREAKING🚨 Defendant Travis McMichael declared Fucking Nigger as he stood over the body of #AhmaudArbery according to testimony of defendant William Bryan and video recording"
X Link 2020-06-04T14:46Z 74.5K followers, 49.1K engagements
"This is #DaunteWright and his son Duante Wright Jr. Earlier today Duante Sr. was shot to death during a traffic stop reportedly about an air freshener obstructing a mirror. He was [--] years old and killed by a Brooklyn Center Police Officer in MN. He was unarmed"
X Link 2021-04-12T02:20Z 74.5K followers, 33.1K engagements
"NEW VIDEO shows there were frequent visitors on the construction site where Ahmaud was seen leaving on the day he was killed both day & night. Ahmaud Arbery seems to be the only one who was presumed to be a criminal and ultimately the only one murdered based on that presumption"
X Link 2020-05-15T16:59Z 74.5K followers, 26.8K engagements
"This probably wont make the news outside of Dallas TX but a white man just shot up the federal court house where I handle most of my cases. We need a specific national strategy designed to address the ongoing threat represented by White Male Domestic Terrorism IMMEDIATELY"
X Link 2019-06-17T17:57Z 74.5K followers, 15.4K engagements
"🚨BREAKING🚨 Magistrate Judge bonds over all charges against all defendants. All four men will remain in custody"
X Link 2020-06-04T20:28Z 74.5K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Justice demands that arrests be made immediately for the murder of #AhmaudArbery. #IrunwithMaud"
X Link 2020-05-05T20:23Z 74.5K followers, 12.2K engagements
"A Pennsylvania jury just concluded shooting an unarmed black child in the back as he ran away is not Murder its not even criminal. I will never be able to make peace with that. Everything has to change"
X Link 2019-03-23T01:39Z 74.5K followers, 11.6K engagements
"#AhmaudArberys mom consoles the sister of #BothamJean during the #GeorgeFloyd funeral . so much pain"
X Link 2020-06-09T19:59Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Texas looks a lot bluer when you strip away the gerrymandering and intense voter suppression"
X Link 2022-02-17T18:02Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Im Lee Merritt a civil rights attorney and community organizer. Im running against Ken Paxton to be the next Attorney General of Texas. Are you ready to bring justice to Texas Chip in here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/merritt-social-202107 https://secure.actblue.com/donate/merritt-social-202107"
X Link 2021-07-13T13:02Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This is my grandma. She turned [--] today. I moved in with her when I was [--]. I had been expelled from school. If it wasnt for her I was going to jail. She saved my life. Help me celebrate her"
X Link 2020-02-23T01:31Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"His name is #RalphYarl a [--] y/o who went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. He was shot in the head by a white man who didnt want him on his property. He shot him a 2nd time for emphasis. Ralph is fighting for his life. This man must be arrested. We are on our way"
X Link 2023-04-16T13:52Z 74.5K followers, 744.3K engagements
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