#Keith Ellison

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

"Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender."

-- Keith Ellison

Register to vote:

#signal boost #boost the signal #Vote #Keith Ellison

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Out Representative-elect Robert Garcia (D-CA) may not have been able to get sworn in yesterday due to Republicans’ inability to elect a Speaker of the House, but he has plans for when he finally can be sworn in.

When he takes his oath of office, he’ll swear on a copy of the Constitution, and, beneath that, an original Superman #1 comic from 1939, a photo of his parents, and a copy of his citizenship certificate.

Garcia came to the U.S. from Peru with his family when he was five-years-old and has said that naturalization was “his proudest moment” and the reason he started a career in politics. His parents died in 2020 of COVID-19.

He was the youngest and first out LGBTQ+ person elected as mayor of Long Beach, California (a position he served in from 2014 to 2022). During his time as mayor, he worked with businesses to reduce their environmental impacts, filled vacancies on citizen commissions with diverse and female members, and worked to improve local infrastructure as well as financial opportunities for local artists and home-based business owners.

He’s also an avid comic book fan.

In November, he tweeted a photo of the Superman #1 comic along with Amazing Fantasy #15, in which Spider-Man first appeared, saying he didn’t know which one he would first check out from the Library of Congress.

While many members of Congress will be sworn in on Bibles, they are not legally required to do so. Former Rep. – and current Minnesota attorney general – Keith Ellison (D-MN), who was the first Muslim person elected to Congress in 2007, was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t sworn in with any object after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. And in 2014 Suzi LeVine was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein on a Kindle with a copy of the Constitution open.

“I wanted to use a copy that is from the twenty-first century and that reflects my passion for technology and my hope for the future,” she said at the time.

New members of the House can’t be sworn in until a speaker is elected. Yesterday, after three votes, no candidate for Speaker was able to get a majority of votes because of a faction of Republicans voting against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The Democrats’ candidate – Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) – got the most votes in each round of voting, and around 20 Republicans – including anti-LGBTQ+ Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Bob Good (R-VA), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) – voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

Jordan himself nominated and voted for McCarthy.

The House adjourned without a new Speaker elected.

#us politics #news #2023 #twitter #tweet #Democrats #lgbtq nation #robert garcia #us house of representatives #118th congress #detective comics #us constitution #library of congress #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqia+ representation #lgbtqia+ pride #us history #President Theodore Roosevelt #Suzi LeVine #Keith Ellison #superman #California

[chaddavisphotography]

A flyer posted by the Anti-War Committee at the corner of Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis.

#Anti War Committee #Apartheid #Flyer #Keith Ellison #Palestine #Protest #Wanted

[thekeypa]

“The two-state solution needs action, not lip service.”

#keith ellison #free palestine #palestine #politics #world news #israel #news #human rights #jerusalem #west bank #gaza #two state solution

[kp777]

#keith ellison #minnesota #george floyd #2022 elections

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The truth is that Obama, Kerry and the Democratic Party team of Israel haters that included Hillary Clinton simply want to demonize the Jewish State — as a way to demonize Jews.

For years, the U.S. Presbyterian Church owned a piece of land in the West Bank where it ran a tuberculosis hospital and then a hostel on the site. Obama didn’t care when it was owned by Presbyterians. But when the land was legally purchased in 2009 by Dr. Irving and Cherna Moskowitz, the Obama administration objected to the fact that Jews were going to live in those buildings.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, run at the time by Long Island Democratic Rep. Steve Israel, published a petition supporting Occupy Wall which had already been proven to be anti-Semitic with signs and speeches blaming “Wall Street Jews” and “Jewish billionaires for the world’s economic problems.

From its first day, the 2016 Democratic Nominating convention was an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate fest. Beginning on the first day when Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) a Hillary Clinton super-delegate, took time away from his party’s nominating event to speak at an anti-Israel meeting sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an organization trying to unite the anti-Semitic BDS organizations against Israel.

According to the Washington Free Beacon Johnson, who once warned that too many Marines on Guam may tip the Island over, said among other things that Jews who lived in the disputed territories were termites.

In January 2018 a Senate committee was evaluating the nomination of Ken Marcus for the position assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education. Mr. Marcus was subjected to an aggressive slander campaign by leading anti-Israel groups seeking to kill his nomination because he has worked to combat the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses and is the founder of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a pro-Israel group.

When meeting with Marcus supporters a senior policy adviser to Democratic Senator Patty Murray said her office in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) does “not care about anti-Semitism,” according to two people who attended the meeting.

#democrats #democratic party #keith ellison #louis farrakhan #barack obama #black caucus

[gwydionmisha]

#Minnesota #Keith Ellison #Jim Schultz #Election #News

[africanamericanreports]

#keith ellison #minnesota #african american #election 2022

[minnesotafollower]

Tou Thao, ex-MPD Officer, Convicted for Aiding and Abetting Second-Degree Manslaughter of George Floyd

On May 1, 2023, Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill, after a trial on stipulated evidence, issued the Verdict that Tou Thao, a former MPD officer, “committed and is GUILTY of the offense of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in violation of Minn. Stat. [section] 609.05, Subd. 1, 609.205(1) in connection with the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 . . . and is hereby…

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#Derek Chauvin #George Floyd #Hennepin County District Court (Minnesota) #J. Alexander Kueng #Judge Peter Cahill #Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison #Robert Paule #Thomas Lane #Tou Thao

[mourning-again-in-america]

"they don't call it the White House because of the paint job" -- House, s1e17, aired 2005

#tbc this was probably a more reasonable claim when the top contenders were jesse jackson and keith ellison #...did keith ellison actually matter before obama?

[zvaigzdelasas]

According to a source in the State Department, hours before a meeting between Biden and a group of Muslim Americans, several activists had urged a group of advocates to boycott the meeting to make it clear that the Muslim community was not going to accept the administration’s excuses for its unflinching support of what experts are saying is a genocide of Palestinians. “There was no purpose for this meeting,” the source, who asked to remain anonymous, told MEE. “The Biden Administration also refused to speak to anyone that publicly disagreed or criticised them,” the source said. According to the Wall Street Journal, the group that met Biden included Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison; Wa’el Alzayat, of the Muslim political advocacy group Emgage; Imam Mohamed Magid, executive religious director of All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center in Virginia; Rami Nashashibi, a Palestinian-American and director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network; and Suzanne Barakat, a professor of family medicine at the University of California.

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[1americanconservative]

Keith Ellison the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee has escaped expulsion from Congress for beating up his girlfriend. Where are the women rights groups?

[transmutationisms]

yo interested in the reading recs on the body fascism thing 👀

ok disclaimer that i have various problemsissues with almost all of these & would love for somebody to theorise this better some day

on exercise, sport, and physical activity:

sport and physical culture in occupied france: authoritarianism, agency, and everyday life, by keith rathbone

body fascism: salvation in the technology of physical fitness, by brian pronger

'against exercise', by mark greif

the sculpture machine: physical culture and body politics in the age of empire, by michael anton budd

the expressiveness of the body and the divergence of greek and chinese medicine, by shigehisa kuriyama

empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in german body culture, 1910–1935, by karl toepfer

ideals of the body: architecture, urbanism, and hygiene in postrevolutionary paris, by sun-young park

on fatness and weight stigma:

fearing the black body: the racial origins of fat phobia, by sabrina strings

being fat: women, weight, and feminist activism in canada, by jenny ellison

seeking the straight and narrow: weight loss and sexual reorientation in evangelical america, by lynne gerber

on food and dietetics:

eating right in america: the cultural politics of food and health, by charlotte biltekoff

modern food, moral food: self-control, science, and the rise of modern american eating in the early twentieth century, by helen zoe veit

diet and the disease of civilization, by adrienne rose bitar

eating nature in modern germany: food, agriculture, and environment, c. 1870 to 2000, by corinna treitel

#body fascism

[lizardsfromspace]

Those months in 2015/2016 where a lot of the media treated Trump's campaign as a massive joke doomed to fail and gave everything he said credulous coverage were terrible. Good thing everyone involved looked back and took stock of-oh wait, they all immediately pivoted to being members of #TheResistance and pretended they never treated him as anything less than a serious threat

Thinking about that one clip where Keith Ellison said Trump could win the nomination and all the Serious Pundits on the panel with him laughed in his face at the idea. Looked it up to confirmed it happened and all of them now claim "no, I was laughing at the absurdity of a party nominating someone like Trump!" which. Sure you were

#uspol #politics

[rapeculturerealities]

Minnesota, seen as abortion haven, still funds ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ | MPR News

Since 2005, Minnesota has given over $3 million in taxpayer money every grant cycle to 25 of these centers under the “positive alternatives grant,” a program created by former Gov. Tim Pawlenty to discourage abortion.

Now with a DFL hold on the state, Walz says he’s ready to end the program, citing misinformation.

“I think that there’s a lot of misinformation that came out of that … I think women deserve better than that, I think they deserve to have the whole picture,” he told MPR News in January.

This comes after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison issued a consumer alert in August against “crisis pregnancy centers” based on a 2021 study of nine states including Minnesota. He defined them as “private organizations that seek to prevent people from accessing abortion care as well as contraceptives.”

“CPC is a term used to refer to certain facilities that represent themselves as legitimate reproductive health care clinics providing care for pregnant people but actually aim to dissuade people from accessing certain types of reproductive health care, including abortion care and even contraceptive options,” the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says.

#Cpcs #crisis pregnancy centers #minnesota #Abortion #reproductive rights #reproductive health

[kp777]

#minnesota #keith ellison #2022 elections #minnesota attorney general