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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Dec 19, 2023

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/21/how-america-ends-and-begins-again-sherrilyn-ifill/

How America Ends and Begins Again | Sherrilyn Ifill

I chose this title because I have been driven these days to speaking in more direct terms than I am accustomed to. And I think you may understand and

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Oct 10, 2023

Tomorrow NAACPLDF attorney Leah Aden will argue in the SCOTUS on behalf of Black voters challenging racially gerrymandered congressional districts in Louisiana. https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/10/5/23893286/supreme-court-voting-rights-gerrymandering-race-south-carolina-alexander-naacp

Vox

The high stakes in a new Supreme Court showdown over gerrymandering

The justices may have stepped away from their unrelenting hostility toward voting rights plaintiffs.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Oct 10, 2023

President Biden was working hard yesterday.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/09/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-american-citizens-impacted-in-israel/

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Oct 10, 2023

Excellent piece by Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic on the order-less world that is upon us, ushered in, in no small measure, by the abandonment of adherence to the Geneva Conventions - with blame assessed at nations around the world, including the U.S..

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

The Atlantic

There Are No Rules

States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Oct 05, 2023

Love this young man’s courage. We have to fight for democracy. Rep.@brotherjones_ is setting a powerful example.

https://x.com/thereidout/status/1709720703426023570?s=12&t=zr8OwjRATtdNOqo_RsX0eQ

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Aug 20, 2023

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Jul 22, 2023

@lolcat@digipres.club My follows are open. So I don’t know what that means. Weird.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Jul 22, 2023

@lolcat@digipres.club I didn’t even know I had to approve follows!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Jul 21, 2023

Yes @emptywheel@mastodon.social. Thank you. Now let’s ask why& what the consequences are of the media & expert analysts on cable TV constantly whitewashing Trump’s targeting of Black voters.Below are my tweets from the KKK Act suit the NAACP LDF filed right after the election. It was there in plain sight.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/07/20/trumps-attack-on-black-votes-was-there-the-whole-time-we-just-didnt-call-it-a-crime/

https://twitter.com/sifill_/status/1341420795520831488?s=46&t=zr8OwjRATtdNOqo_RsX0eQ

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 18, 2022

Replying to @shannonrwatts@mstdn.social

@shannonrwatts A1 toot.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 07, 2022

Replying to @jackiegardina@awscommunity.social

@jackiegardina Thank you.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

Replying to @ehattswank@mastodon.sdf.org

@ehattswank Me too!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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Don’t think that all of this wasn’t seen & understood. Don’t minimize the significance of the brutal dismantling of this site. It is of a piece w/the overall attack on the health of our democratic institutions by forces that have no use for or interest in democracy.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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This was significant. Ending the plausible denialibilty of ordinary white ppl who expect the benefits of white supremacy and are prepared to call police when Black ppl do not follow their commands - was a critical contribution to the understanding of how racism works in the U.S.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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The exposure of everyday racism & the willingness of white pol - often women - to call the police on Black people for walking, barbecuing, birdwatching, watering flowers, entering their own homes, shopping, was exposed to the world on Twitter.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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Hard to imagine how we would have made it through COVID - with all of the uncertainty and fear, and with the deliberate disinformation churned out daily by the President - without Twitter. We are in an age of pandemics and will need to ensure we can communicate as robustly.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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Twitter was essential to sustaining a cohort of millions of ordinary people, policy leaders, influencers, activists, lawyers, artists, committed to democracy during the Trump years. It was a main conduit of communication, information sharing, education, & encouragement.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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The Ferguson uprising was the first sustained civil rights protest in the U.S. in which Twitter played a central role. Don’t think they didn’t notice.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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Remember when people kept saying that w/a Black President & AG we no longer needed civil rights activism & lawyering? First images of #MikeBrown’s body, then videos of #WalterScott, #PhilandoCastile & too many others showed what many of us had been saying. There’s another America beyond the DC optics.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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The posting of cell phone videos of brutality and murder by police which challenged “the official story” has forever changed the narrative and created space for reimagining what public safety can and should be. And that is the first step of real transformation.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

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Twitter played a powerful role in sustaining & strengthening the fight for racial justice. The truth about racist and violent policing in America - a truth that Black people have lived with and known for a century - was exposed to the world on Twitter.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @ifilljustice@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2022

This morning I posted on Twitter some thoughts about how seriously we should regard the dismantling of that site. I’m re-posting my thoughts here in what I hope will be a thread (if those exist here!).

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How America Ends and Begins Again | Sherrilyn Ifill

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