Nakima Levy Armstrong
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people and they don't care if you're an immigrant or you're an American citizen.
Everybody can get the smoke.
That's pretty much what they're saying.
They don't care if you're a child.
I mean, how many Republicans have we seen come on air on any news stations or anywhere denouncing these attacks on little children, not a single one, which I just feel is diabolical.
That baby could have died.
Those other children could have died and they are remaining silent.
That lets you know the level of evil that we are dealing with here.
You know, that's the thing is media is such a powerful tool.
Malcolm X had a quote that the media is so powerful it can make a lie the truth and the truth a lie.
And so I don't think it is accidental.
Absolutely.
And so under this administration, I don't think that it is accidental that we have seen them strategically target the media.
Even here in Minnesota, there has been consistent reports of journalists being tear gassed, being shot at with rubber bullets or different canisters.
And even there was a really strange disinformation campaign
campaign that was launched against the publisher of the biggest newspaper here in the state of Minnesota, where users on X, MAGA supporters, they used AI image generation to unmask the agent who fatally shot Renee Good.
And then they posted the name Steve Grove on with that image, plastered it all over X and told people to go find
Steve Grove, the guy who shot Rene Good.
But that's not who shot Rene Good.
He's actually the publisher of a paper.