Hey my daughter wrote the question about Gen Z yesterday. Thanks for your response! Really good hearing from you at #GetFree2023
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brittany, mph, rn
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dissident obstetric nurse. organizer. researcher. and plenty more than this. ☭
St. Louis, MO Joined October 2010
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I don’t think some people over 40 understand how fed up millennials & gen z truly are. There is no future for us. We have been used as political bargaining chips our entire lives while getting nothing in return. There is historical precedent to where this will eventually lead.
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finished my PhD coursework this month and confirmed my committee for comprehensive exams today. no more coursework. wow wow wow.
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Sometimes we just love people. I just hold that feeling. No need to try to figure it out.
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My grandma LOVED Tina Turner. She loved her courage, her strength, and the lyrics to her songs. She used to say Tina had the best legs in the game! I hope they meet on the ancestral plane.
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Not a page out the white supremacists handbook… this is wild. Future generations will never see Black liberation if we aligning with white nationalism.
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Jobs requiring you to be bilingual should be illegal in the USA. This is an English speaking country.
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Let the orcas sinking these ships be a sign to give their waters a rest… not to harm them.
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So. I watched a movie called ‘soft and quiet’ on Netflix about neo-nazii white karens and I need to unpack that.
The first City Council meeting on the proposal to allocate up to $33.5 MILLION taxpayer dollars to the Atlanta Police Foundation to build Cop City is happening today.
The line to give public comment wraps around the building, and people are chanting in opposition.
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The point of publicly insulting women who question or stand up to men is not only to silence them, but also to send a signal to all other women. It is saying, "Don't question men. And stay out of public life. Or the same or worse will happen to you."
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“You’re a nasty person, I'll tell ya.”
— Donald Trump snaps at CNN’s @kaitlancollins after she presses him on why he held onto classified documents
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A Black Abolitionist View on Cop City with Angela Davis
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ILLINOIS is 1st STATE to BAN BOOK BANS! Per HB 2789, state funding ($62 millions) will not be awarded to public or school libraries that remove books from circulation and do not “adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights.” #bookban
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They in fact do want us all to accept as our fate, to kill or be killed, to accept unspeakable violence as inevitable.This makes it easy to manipulate and to sedate us into believing that a world of peace is not possible.
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Fox News's advice for life in America: "Have a plan to kill everyone you meet"
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Outlet mall gets shot up and multiple people dead… and it’s not trending on EM’s Twitter.
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It’s truly mental gymnastics to position yourself as a victim of the unhoused simply because you have to see unhoused people on your commute. Poor you, having to acknowledge that poverty exists and we’re not meeting the needs of the most vulnerable
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Since Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul won’t say it, we will: Jordan Neely’s murder was a public lynching.
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i sometimes get angry calling people mentally ill, not because mental illness doesn’t exist, but because how ridiculous it is for someone to be hungry and homeless in NYC, in this country, on this planet. we have no proof of life in the universe and we have starving people here
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non-black people of color have privilege in not being black. they just don't have white privilege. a lot of them will step on black people, even while wearing the same shade of fenty, just to sniff access to whiteness. THAT is why POC solidarity is fictional.
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“We cannot forget that forced pregnancy was also a feature of American slavery.”
“When abortion becomes criminalized in this country…it was around the time of the Civil War…[and] the concern about the browning of the United States.”
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New: When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment. Ambulances and fire trucks can’t get through. The problem has existed for decades. But it’s getting worse.
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Don Lemon was right. As an Indian American, I was profoundly embarrassed by Vivek lecturing a Black man about Black history. The truth is that the Black civil rights movement paved the way for the 1965 immigration act so that Vivek’s family or mine could come to America. We owe a… Show more
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according to the NYT this interview that Don Lemon conducted last week with Vivek Ramaswamy played a role in his firing. Note co-host Poppy Harlow sitting silently while Lemon goes after Vivek.
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🧵Honestly, I don't think a lot of Democrats see the big picture with public education. The GOP wants it to fail. They want to choke the life out of it. They see that it has created a generation that has completely turned on them. They are furious. This is retribution.
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lost your blue check? never had one? add a 🐺 to your name instead. it's cooler.
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multiple officers from multiple police departments murdered Tortugita — who was camping on public land, seated in their closed tent, hands in the air — and then framed Tortugita. we know their body had 57 bullet wounds, but we don’t know even one of the killers’ names.
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This is such bizarre framing and an out of touch thing to post.
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16-year-old Ralph Yarl is now a multimillionaire. The GoFundMe campaign sent up for him topped $3 million.
LOVE ALWAYS WINS.
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Saying that these people are crazy is inaccurate & such a downplay of what’s actually happening here. These folks are not crazy, they are quite smart—enough to move a strategy to reach their goals which is scary and unfortunate for us. This is extremely serious, what we gone do?
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Exclusive: A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters, according to a copy of her… Show more
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Tortugita's birthday is this Earth Day weekend. They would be 27. Georgia State Patrol murdered Tort for defending the forest and covered it up. Across the US, people are organizing in honor of Tort.
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Right Wing Moral Panic: “The Crisis of Masculinity” - IB
Patrons get access to this IB where Adnan and Breht discuss the current moral panic on the political right around issues of masculinity, dropping T levels, & family formation 👉 patreon.com/posts/81421989
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On the 27th night of Ramadan, over a quarter million Palestinian worshippers are staying all night at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque to observe Laylatul-Qadr, defying Israel's restrictions and creating a remarkable scene.
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these are the DEI champions many many many institutions prop up to legitimize their work— meanwhile, the way these leaders exploit the labor of working people for their own riches is often minimized as that’s just the way it is. gross.
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zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Andi Owen received $1.29 million in bonuses in 2022 and $1.12 million in 2021. Furthermore, the fiscal year for her company isn’t over yet and bonuses have not been determined or handed out yet, including hers.
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Is there any national mainstream reporting on Missouri effectively banning health care for trans people of all ages?
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"The Memphis Police Department is introducing an eight-officer unit that will arrest unaccompanied minors that sell food, play loud music, are 'inappropriately dressed' or dancing in the street in Downtown Memphis" @LucasFinton
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Fact #2: “Tanks” are popularly understood to be armed vehicles designed as mechanized weapons of war. While Atlanta might not own an M1 Abrams “tank”, Atlanta SWAT & GA police already own armored personnel carriers like these used in recent forest raids. #StopCopCity
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Fact #2: The City of Atlanta does not own tanks. There are no plans for training that involves tanks at the Public Safety Training Center.
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Further proof that the Right has never and will never actually legislate because they care about consent—for fetuses, or trans youth needing gender affirming care, or children learning real american history—no matter how they frame it. It’s always about control.
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Missouri State Senator Mike Moon suggested children as young as 12 should have the right to marry with parental permission
"Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They're still married”
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With el_0n Twitter, I’m not confident tweets with words like ab0r_ti0n are actually seen.
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I can’t take the passivity of the “we are a nation of rules & laws” liberals. We can’t legislate our way out of the far right extremist judges’ rulings. They’ve stacked the courts. The FDA should ignore the ruling on mifepristone & we should be in the streets applying pressure.
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If y’all ain’t paying for the 2FA, you better connect a password authenticator to your profile because people will hack your shit and nobody at Twitter will help you.
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all that hootin and hollerin
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What are y’all starting to dislike more & more the older you get?
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