I sincerely apologize to Oprah and Gayle. Y’all legends didn’t deserve that wretched ignorant live.
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The City spent $$ making the Council chambers compatible with hybrid hearings - let's not waste that $$ by barring virtual testimony now.
It would be undemocratic if a committee chair decided their hearings wouldn't be recorded, & this is no different.
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U.S. Park Police officers used unnecessary force in a confrontation with two Australian journalists three years ago during the George Floyd protests near the White House, an internal investigation has concluded.
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Under The Sea is actually the most important song in the whole movie. #THELITTLEMERMAID
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Curfews don’t work and just are another pathway to criminalizing young people.
The Baltimore Police will be rounding up whoever they think is “youth” and we already know how that will go.
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I am honored to announce that WE are a finalist for the Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Prize! They recognize a handful of places and groups leading the nation in health equity.
Healing City Baltimore is being acknowledged for our pioneering work on Trauma Responsive Care.
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I find it interesting that many of us have learned to prioritize things that certain Christian traditions have prioritized that Jesus did not. I heard someone say: “if God didn’t send Jesus into the world to condemn it, what makes you think God is sending you?”
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I thought it’d be different
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Rory told Joe to stop doing press runs and talking about him .. only to do a press run for his new album talking about Joe
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Do you have any idea how corrupt a cis-het white Republican man in Texas has to be to have all of the Republicans in the State House vote to impeach him? If only they throw out his anti-trans policies with him. 
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Nah we not gonna let blockbuster rebrand as the wholesome throwback. They were a predatory loan company that had VHS tapes inside.
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A friendly reminder that when you used to rent videos from us. We didn’t care who you shared it with… As long as you returned it on time. @netflix
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally? twitter.com/mo_rease/statu…
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That “Outshallah” in the comments got me giggly uncontrollably
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Netflix Documentary Exposes the Criminalization of Sexual Assault Victims
Victim/Suspect reveals the extent to which women are vulnerable to pressures to take the blame, and even serve time, for their own violent rapes.
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Wisconsin's finest Glenn Grothman is on the House floor right now complaining that Biden isn't nominating enough straight "white guys" as judges
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In the 2010s, Dr. Carl Hart of Columbia Med took 50, “heavy crack users” and set up an experiment.
Using medical grade pure crack cocaine, he set up 45m intervals. At the start of each interval the user was offered a hit of drugs, or a $ amount that increased each interval.
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Honored to testify at the 1st hearing of the Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction & Overdose Prevention chaired by . My message was clear. Don't repeat the mistakes of the past. We need more programs & treatment not punishment & incarceration. #CareNotCages
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BREAKING: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has vetoed a bill to give rideshare drivers minimum pay rates after Uber threatened to withdraw from most of the state if the bill was signed into law.
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Twenty-four hours after appearing with Elon Musk to announce his campaign for president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a bill into law that will shield Musk's SpaceX and other private space companies from negligence lawsuits after an explosion or a crash.
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Body cam footage shows that former police officers indicted by a Mississippi grand jury joked about a man who died in their custody, with one of them questioning whether to call an ambulance for the man immediately.
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The Department of Homeland Security has added #StopCopCity protesters to its list of terrorism threats facing the U.S.
And our senators & have said nothing. We’re your constituents, and they’re calling us terrorists. dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/
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SCOOP: After asking researchers to fork out $42,000 a month for API access Twitter is now saying those who don't pay have to delete any data they've already accessed under prior agreements - which one researcher compares to "book burning". (tip )
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Y’all what 😭
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NEW: Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé accused of anti-Italian bias: ‘Reprehensible and disgusting’
Italian-American pols are livid over remarks by Ossé, accusing him of anti-Italian bias — an accusation he denies. He heads Council’s Cultural Affairs Committee
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Read Kagan’s concurrence/dissent and in six pages you’ll understand the whole case. As she puts it, the majority has unleashed the clear statement rule against legislation they view as too ambitious—which includes all climate legislation b/c ofc we dont need bold climate action🤦🏽♂️
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The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court has struck a major blow to the Clean Water Act.
Initial analysis of today’s opinion from our member @Earthjustice 
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Shaun King is reportedly hospitalized with a back injury and is soliciting donations to pay for surgery. Mind you, he has ignored doctors’ warnings for years, even attempting to go mountain climbing. Which, of course, was also funded via donations. Sorrows. Sorrows. Prayers.
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Replying to @ReignOfApril
Oh no. What is he doing now, April?
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Companies need to understand what's happening right now. You cannot mollify bigots whose primary desire is to be angry. You've already lost them. They're gone. If you cave to them, you're sacrificing the loyalty of other consumers for a sad, small group that will never like you.
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This also means a lot of hate is going to be taught. We need an inoculation program.
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The DeSantis super PAC is planning an extraordinary $100 million organizing program.
2,600 staffers by Labor Day with plans to knock on the door of every possible DeSantis voter in NH, SC and NV door 4X and 5X in IA.
@jonathanvswan @maggieNYT and me
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3.4k donations over 122k raised ….
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She jumped on a bike in possession of a Black man despite there being plenty of other bikes available.
She claims to have receipts that prove the bike was hers.
The real truth w/more receipts emerges after people send her $120,000+. The bike wasn't hers.
Racism is profitable.
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THREAD. One of the most bizarre and troubling, but largely anonymous, government officials I have come across is Lucian Chalfen, the spokesperson for the New York Courts.
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When you have been on Twitter as long as I have you have seen every recycled post. They used to be creative and try to switch up the words and now they don't even do that
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