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Fur-momma to a pup named Della. Auntie Bea to mini-humans. Dutifully stoic. Lover of sports, sarcasm & single malts. Trying, always. Opinions here are mine.
Denver, COJoined June 2011
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Can someone in the Washington press corps please please please tell the Speaker of The House that the debt limit has nothing to do with a credit card.
Thanks in advance.
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In 2015 Jimmy Carter had brain cancer. In 2019 Jimmy broke his hip. That same year Jimmy fell at home on Sunday, requiring 14 stitches. Jimmy showed up on Monday to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity. Happy 98th birthday, President Carter.
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WHAT TO DO WHEN ASKED FOR YOUR PROOF OF VAX
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Biden, in meeting with bipartisan group of senators on infrastructure, says on searing impeachment trial footage: he thinks “some minds may have been changed”
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rats deserting a sinking ship are still rats
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It’s the fact that we woke up to no consequences. That my peers have faced more consequences for protesting. That Kaepernick lost his career for participating in peaceful discourse. I do not have the intellectual space or emotional space for whiteness today. I just don’t.
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For me, the striking thing about so many of these images of rioters in the Capitol is that what they're doing - all of them - is creating content for social media.
At least in their minds, the true seat of power is not actually in that building. It's online.
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Dear Congress:
You should never have to feel unsafe or need to hide under your desk.
Sincerely,
Every PreK-12 Student and Educator in America
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"I don't feel sorry for congress at all. Oh, I'm sorry, did you have to hide under your desk because of guns? Wah wah wah. I've only had to do that six times since kindergarten. School is terrifying. Maybe now they'll pass gun reform." - one of my 9th grade students, today
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A few short years ago, Capitol Police arrested Rev. Raphael Warnock for praying in the rotunda in protest of GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act hankjohnson.house.gov/media-center/i
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I keep remembering that Mitch McConnell threw Elizabeth Warren out of the Senate for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King.
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We’re not asking you to shoot them like you shoot us, we’re asking you to NOT shoot us like you don’t shoot them...
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So is Kaepernick taking a knee still an inappropriate way to protest?
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And cue the right-wing pivot to "let's just move on." One of the things you do to make sure it doesn't happen again is you publicly blame, shame, and hold fully accountable the people who are responsible for it.
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Rand Paul: "I think rather than blaming people we should say it's an awful thing, and we should do everything we can not to have something like this."
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Yes. This isn’t just the result of spineless folks over the last 4 years — there is a direct line from @senatemajldr in ‘08 to right now.
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Just a reminder that this all started because a black man won the presidency.
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White privilege is violently storming the US Capitol and just...being sent home.
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This 👇🏻 needs to happen immediately.
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Let me say in no uncertain terms @jack @vijaya @kayvz: If you do not suspend Donald Trump’s Twitter account for the next day at least, this mob attack on Congress is also on you. Sorry, but he has incited violence for days, using your tools in large part and you need to act now.
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. summoned me as lawmakers and press arrived at a secure location
“This is what the president has caused today, this insurrection,” he said w fury in his voice.
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Amy Klobuchar just referred to the Senators blocking the shenanigans tomorrow as "The Coup Fighters" and we should all take a break from election twitter to applaud that.
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Thinking Colin Kaepernick is disloyal for kneeling while cheering Hawley’s ripping up of the Constitution is a lack of critical thinking.
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We should definite improve civics education in country. But it’s the elected officials with Harvard, Stanford, & Yale law degrees who are accelerating the system’s backsliding.
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Members of Congress elected on the very same ballots to which they plan to object on Jan 6 should refuse to be sworn-in tomorrow, for if Trump’s defeat isn’t legitimate, how can their victories be legitimate?
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A white guy blew up an entire city block last week and took a major city off the grid and the news talked about it once like a special interest story.
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Fun fact:
Allowing a powerful white person to get away with a crime, while knowing that people of color are rotting in jail for a tenth of the transgression, is a blatant act of racism in perpetuation of white supremacy.
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I love this👇🏻👇🏻so very much.
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If anyone is alone today and feeling lonely, you are invited to my Thanksgiving dinner. I made lemon & rosemary turkey. Tell me your hair & eye color & what you’re bringing, & I’ll draw you in.
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my grandma just told me that she is now in a long-distance relationship with the 79-year-old vol who phone banked her before the election and they talk three times a day so anyways anything can happen when you make calls
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there was a person in the grocery store asking others to respect the six-feet & when people looked at them askew, they replied 'i lost someone recently.' i was too stunned to offer condolences but i'm sitting with how much invisible grief there is, all around us. its deep.
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This is the American criminal justice system in a nutshell.
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Kalief Browder died by suicide after facing traumas in jail as he was held without trial for 3 years for allegedly stealing a backpack. He spent 2 years in solitary confinement.
Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two men and people rallied to help him make a $2 Million dollar bail.
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She accidentally acknowledged that Biden won. Whoopsiedaisies
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For instance, yesterday was the deadline to receive ballots from military and overseas voters. You would want us to count those, right?
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Much like every other state, our office is still counting mail-in ballots. We have until November 17 to certify election results. Just thought you should know! #HarrisVotes
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🚨 The portal to request a mail-in ballot for Georgia’s January 5th runoffs is now online.
If you are in Georgia & if you wish to vote by mail: ballotrequest.sos.ga.gov
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Just leaving a reminder here that every single Republican Senator and Congressman currently in office claimed victory in their most recent campaign after ~the media~ called it for them.
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If McConnell and the Senate GOP stand by and let Trump skip the Senate-approved designated successor for SecDef Esper and just appoint an acting secretary of his own choice -- well, congrats to President Biden for getting to sidestep the Senate with all his Cabinet picks too.
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Can I just say thank you — you stepped forward and told the truth about your family and helped save democracy. Bless you sister, and your words about Black women just now with my friend are so appreciated. One love. ❤️
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