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🎶 You won't break my soul...🎶 I used to teach the children. Part of the 92% I read a lot and write a little. 🩷💚 1908

After Georgia Dems flipped the House and Governor’s mansion, Senate Dems held a press conference on Wednesday and were asked: “how are Democrats planning to work with Republicans?” I responded, you’re asking the wrong question. The question now is: how are Republicans planning to work with us?

I live in the red part of a blue state. Our local news went to the reddest part yesterday to interview reds about their feelings. 🙄 I mean, they have yard signs declaring it "trump country" We know how they're feeling 😂😂😂

'In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville. His value was placed at $1,400. More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of Georgia.'

Keisha Lance Bottoms and the long road from Crawfordville to Governor’s Mansion

More than 160 years after her ancestors were enslaved in Georgia, the former Atlanta mayor has made history as the first Black woman elected governor.

ajc.com