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RT @aayoub: Reminder: Colin Kaepernick is still not in the league. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LailaAlarian: Imagine being a journalist in 2021 and your claim to fame tough interview is holding two ice cream company owners to acco… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdamSoltani: Honored to be a part of the Morning Keynote panel for @CAIRMN's 4th Annual Challenging Islamophobia Conference alongside… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewAmericanLd: Follow our panelists to learn more about their work and experiences: 1️⃣ @KianaAbbady 2️⃣ @ZahraBilloo 3️⃣ @PapaDiaALG… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ibnabitareq: Friends, I mean this advice with the utmost gentleness and care: If you decide to share good news or to talk about your bl… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewAmericanLd: And we’re live at @Netroots_Nation! Tune in now to hear from @ZahraBilloo, @PapaDiaALG, @Gomez_Alex07, @l4nguyen, and @… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 23/ To get more @ProPublica stories like this, sign up for our newsletter: https://t.co/PsXpTWfMqI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 22/ @meribah and I want to thank the children and parents who shared their stories with us. You can can read the full… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 21/ To report this story, we filed 56 public records requests, got 38 hours of audiotaped interviews from an internal p… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 20/ Check out this promotional video, narrated by Judge Davenport over saxophone music and B-roll of children in black-… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 19/ When forced to stop jailing so many of its own children, Rutherford County ramped up its pitch to detain kids from… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 18/ The county’s illegal jailing of kids came to a stop only when a federal judge ordered an end to the filter system.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 17/ Judge Davenport declined to talk to us for this story. So did Duke and Templeton. So did the Department of Children… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 16/ The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services licenses juvenile jails. It inspected Rutherford County’s jail ever… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 15/ Of the 11 kids arrested in this case, four wound up being jailed under the “filter system.” The filter system was… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 14/ One commissioner, who used to work in a post office, came up with the charge of “criminal responsibility for conduc… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 13/ To arrive at a charge, Templeton met with two judicial commissioners. In Rutherford County, these commissioners w… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 12/ The police officer who investigated this fight was Chrystal Templeton. She wanted to charge every kid who watched.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 11/ Duke reports monthly to county commissioners, who liken the jail to a business and ask often about the number of be… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 10/ In a videotaped deposition, Duke was asked when the filter system applied. “Depends on the situation,” she said rep… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 9/ Lynn Duke, appointed by Davenport, is the county’s head jailer. Tennessee narrowly limits when kids can be locked… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 8/ Under Davenport, Rutherford County locked up a staggering 48% of children whose cases were referred to juvenile cour… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 7/ She says children must have consequences. She encourages parents to use drug-testing kits on their kids. “Don’t buy… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 6/ Davenport describes her work as a calling. “I’m here on a mission. It’s God’s mission,” she once told a newspaper. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 5/ In this deposition, a lawyer asks Davenport about taking the bar exam. It took her nine years and five attempts to… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 4/ Donna Scott Davenport is the only elected juvenile court judge the county has ever had. She oversees the courts.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 3/ These arrests took place in Rutherford County, which had been illegally jailing kids for years, all under the watch… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: 2/ The police wound up arresting 11 kids in total, using a charge called “criminal responsibility.” The arrests creat… — PolitiTweet.org

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Unconscionable. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bykenarmstrong: Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls. One girl fell to her k… — PolitiTweet.org