Lecturer Political Science @GSUPoliSci. Political behavior, race, democracy, and more. Love reading, music, and the comedic rule of three.🇧🇧🇺🇸🌎
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Neil Williams retweeted
Talarico and Hinojosa were laser-focused on anti-oligarch, anti-corruption populism, and they won America’s biggest red state after Corporate Dems had lost the state to Republicans for generations.
Nobody should ever again listen to Corporate Dems’ “electability” arguments.
Neil Williams retweeted
The South is not a "lost cause". It's underorganized, underfunded, and relentlessly suppressed & gerrymandered. And despite it all, Black Southern voters have shown up anyway to be the conscience of this country throughout our history. I hope people realize that.
Neil Williams retweeted
It’s past midnight so back to my regular scheduled programming!
Identity reductionism isn’t gonna get us anywhere. These people still need to be held accountable as our leaders, regardless of if they were the first Black, first Latina, first woman first anything!
Neil Williams retweeted
If you know me, I’ve probably ranted to you about how close Mississippi is to electing a Democrat statewide. And you probably thought I was delusional. LOL.
For over a decade, I have been studying the South and observing these shifts. My research also reflects this. So, I’m not surprised to see Scott Colom performing well.
The South got something to say...
Neil Williams retweeted
A statement from DNC Black Caucus Chair Virgie Rollins: “Michigan Democrats are proud to stand behind Abdul El-Sayed as our nominee for U.S. Senate and in two days we will elect him to serve us in Washington.
We are dismayed that Haley Stevens has revealed herself to be a sellout who used Black Michiganders for a political stunt.”
Neil Williams retweeted
With great joy, I congratulate my dear brother President Lula @LulaOficial on his historic fourth presidential election victory and the renewed trust of the Brazilian people.
We share a simple but profound conviction. Politics must improve people’s lives, uphold their dignity and bring hope to those too often left behind. That commitment to social justice remains at the heart of our work.
I look forward to strengthening the friendship between Barbados and Brazil as we continue building a fairer, more inclusive and peaceful world.
May God continue to guide and strengthen you, dear brother. There is much work ahead, and much good still to be done!
Neil Williams retweeted
they cannot trick me… i know carter bryant is a 6yo who made a wish to get BIGged like tom hanks in the movie
Neil Williams retweeted
I wrote a story about this! Many of ATL’s historically redlined neighborhoods are hotter and more likely to flood bc of a decimated tree canopy.
Neil Williams retweeted
Colman Domingo spoke to Men's Health about his experience coming out as gay to his family in the 1990s. The first person he told was his older brother:
"I told him that I was gay. He looked at me and was just like, 'What?' He just couldn’t believe it. Eventually, he said, 'I don’t care, man. I love you anyway.' And he just hugged me. Then he said, 'Have you told anyone else?' I said, no. He said, 'Alright, this stays between you and me.”’
Her sister found out two days later:
"She was pissed off. I said, 'Look, yes, it was really hard for me to tell him.' She said, 'No, no, no. Why didn’t you tell me first?' She was pissed off because she didn’t get the information first.’
Some time later, he told his mother—who accepted it calmly. Twenty minutes later, the phone rings and she says:
“I talked to your stepfather.” She puts him on and he says, in his blue-collar masculine way, “You’re a good boy and there’s nothing you can tell me that would make me stop loving you.”’
🔗menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a7…
Neil Williams retweeted
5 men used all their body weight to restraint one black man. As he was faced down, one continuously pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing.
Happened in Dublin, Ireland. They’re under every post laughing and calling it the Irish George Floyd. Rest in Peace Yves Sakila.
Neil Williams retweeted
The Nakba never ended. The Israeli apartheid regime is still committing genocide in Gaza and violently erasing entire communities across Palestine and Lebanon. I'm leading a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.
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Okay , I am in the story , let us go to court even in Israel . You will find hundreds of cases .
I am ready to testify and bring many many victims with me .
Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
Neil Williams retweeted
Interesting how the world often treats the French Revolution as the only great symbol of freedom and rights, while the Haitian Revolution is treated like a footnote. Yet, Haiti did what many abolitionists elsewhere only preached, i.e., enslaved people rising up and defeating an empire, abolishing slavery, and claiming freedom by force. Haiti’s history deserves equal, and maybe greater, reverence.
Brilliant documentary by @AJEnglish 👌🏽
The sugar industry’s bitter legacy, built on slavery, exploitation and environmental damage, is still resonating today.
Watch the film, Blood, Sweat and Sugar: aje.news/sugar
Neil Williams retweeted
Ms. Rachel is fighting to close an ICE facility in Texas that's detaining children. She wants to "make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong."
"I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border," she told NBC News.
Ms. Rachel recently had a video call with nine-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. The boy told her he "wants to leave and go to the spelling bee."
"It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together."
variety.com/2026/tv/news/ms-…
Neil Williams retweeted
so happy for my papasito benito but i really need well-intentioned liberals to understand that his story is not about immigration and the american dream. it’s about success DESPITE american colonization. it’s about making it big, and still being able to call puerto rico home.
Neil Williams retweeted
They're not really talking about looking for a lost pet. They're talking about making every house a surveillance outpost and neighbours informants spying on eachother.
They're talking about the same technology ICE and DHS are using to triangulate neighborhoods to find people.
Neil Williams retweeted
According to the white men at the IOC, the picture of the Haitian Revolution's leader is apparently a "banned political symbol."
This would be like making George Washington's picture a "banned symbol."
Once again, the minute you peel back the façade half an inch, the world and your African place in it have not moved an inch from 1700. Always remember that and never get lost in the sauce.
Haiti Team Forced To Remove Image Of Revolutionary Leader From Uniform Design By Olympics Committee
When Haiti’s Winter Olympics team takes the stage this year in Italy, it will be doing so in style… but not quite the style it intended. The Caribbean nation was forced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to remove an image of Toussaint Louverture, one of its founding fathers, from its team's uniform design. The IOC cited the image’s “political symbolism” as the reason for the ban, but the regulatory body’s claimed “political neutrality” has drawn criticism, with many pointing out inconsistencies, double standards and a clear Western bias.
Toussaint Louverture led the Haitian Revolution from its insurgence in 1791 until its victory in 1804. Waged by enslaved Africans in what was then the French colony of Saint-Domingue, and inspired by African spirituality, the Revolution ended with Haiti’s independence from French colonial rule, and the birth of the modern world’s first black republic.
But France never got over its defeat, and two decades later, armed with superior gunships, imposed a crippling financial debt on Haiti under the pain of annihilation. It would take Haiti 140 years to pay off this debt, and the country has limped from one Western-imposed crisis to another ever since.
