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All Souls Catholic School in Englewood has fired a teacher for being in a same-sex relationship. Teacher never talked about it, but school found out and canned her. Archdiocese says "same-sex attraction isn't cause for termination." Just don't act on it.
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I think it’s important for everyone to understand that attacks on the gender marginalized and racialized are not mere “distractions” but are in fact intentional moves to fortify patriarchy and white supremacy, both of which are fundamental pillars of capitalism and the State.
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On a mayoral panel tonight a candidate proposed involuntary commitments for unhoused people. Another would "compassionately" force them into shelters. One wants more police & sweeps. This is why we need an educator/service provider as mayor. The alternatives are frightening.
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"As your Councilwoman, the part I play is sometimes to stand apart from my colleagues in order to present an alternative perspective and vision that reflects what I have heard from YOU" I think Candi CdeBaca is great and if you live in D9 you should vote 4 her!
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I think we should all talk about salaries because it benefits everyone to do so, especially for women, POC and other historically underpaid groups. I make $60,000 in my current job, started my previous job (first out of journalism school) at $35,000 and ended at about $41,000.
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Recently, one of my college students asked me what my salary was. I laughed. She was serious.
She said many younger people are sharing their salary w/ colleagues. Transparency = pay equality.
So would you share your salary with a co-worker? Have you?
*BTW, I didn't tell her.
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Political neutrality is a tool of white supremacy.
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January broke the previous record of evictions filed in Denver.
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It is a blessing to have a transgender child because it is a blessing to have a child strong enough to tell the truth when the whole world wants them to tell a lie.
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Supporting sweeps while asking for them to be audited is performative. We already know that sweeps waste taxpayer money and make it harder to connect those in need with resources. I support housing-first solutions to homelessness because it works, saves lives and money.
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We need to audit our existing spending on the homelessness crisis, and redirect those funds – a transformative amount of money, if we spend it correctly – to proven solutions for both the housed and the unhoused.
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When we asked how to create more affordable housing, we contacted ; D10 city councilman didn't respond. Candi informed us of Denver's low linkage fees & barriers at municipal & state level. Then she got to work. Leadership is when policy mirrors values. #VOTECANDI
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NEW: My office has received several concerned calls & emails from residents who received anonymous postcards about my voting record.
My D9 newsletter just dropped where I discuss these in depth. Get the link below >>
Here's a few quick thoughts in a thread 
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absolutely unhinged when people who know me irl send me my tweets or ask me about them in person. i have no idea what you're talking about. whatever i said was between me and my 250k followers in that specific moment. keep it moving
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NEW: My office has received several concerned calls & emails from residents who received anonymous postcards about my voting record.
My D9 newsletter just dropped where I discuss these in depth. Get the link below >>
Here's a few quick thoughts in a thread 🧵
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This week's D9 newsletter is out, with my response setting the record straight on those anonymous mailers 
: bit.ly/jan31d9. Click through to read it, and as always, get info on City Council meetings, opportunities for action and resources for workers and residents!
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Fundraising numbers are up, and we are on track to raise over $165,000 from our scaled-up January fundraising push! On top of that, based on December filings, we have the LOWEST average donation and highest % of Denver donors -- we are a campaign of the people and BY the people.
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One of the primary features of polite transphobia is the weaponization of uncertainty.
The obvious reason more kids identify as trans is that trans people have become more visible and accepted in society. Yet these articles always cast it as some kind of enduring mystery.
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This week's D9 newsletter is out, with my response setting the record straight on those anonymous mailers : bit.ly/jan31d9. Click through to read it, and as always, get info on City Council meetings, opportunities for action and resources for workers and residents!
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Our friends at are holding an in-person public meeting tonight on potential revisions to the city's noise ordinance! Denver Police District 1 (1311 W 46th Ave., 80211, 6-7:30 PM
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You know, people should really care about this since these federal programs are practically the only ones most cities currently use to house very low income households, from low-to-no income to 60% of the area median income.
That's a lot of us and our neighbors.
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Pre-application for a chance to be in a lottery to apply to be on another waitlist. 15,000 applicants. The waitlist for the waitlist had been closed 6 years. Municipalities can't rely on eviscerated federal programs. Must take matters into their own hands.
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I also want you to watch Poker Face. It’s so good!
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guys, my mom really wants you all to watch Poker Face, don’t let her down
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Thank you , , & everyone in the coalition. Glad to be part of the initial effort through 's D9 office that sparked a movement. A historic day for racial justice by eliminating an antiquated & racially disparate traffic law!
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With today’s historic vote Denver is the second major city in the country to decriminalize jaywalking following the lead of Kansas City, MO! Big win for equitable streets.
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With today’s historic vote Denver is the second major city in the country to decriminalize jaywalking following the lead of Kansas City, MO! Big win for equitable streets.
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Conceptualizing conservatives as simply being anti-sex/sex negative is reductive and inaccurate and obscures the central role that compulsory sexuality plays in their politics. They generally view sex as another tool of social control, which is not the same as being anti-sex.
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Can’t wait!
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We will be phone banking alongside @sarahparady Tues & Thurs from 6-8pm, kicking off our canvass operation Sat at 10am & knocking with our friends at @DSAdenver Sun at 10am 
Sign up to volunteer w/ our campaign here bit.ly/d8kickoff
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Even if TERFs & conservatives succeeded in eliminating every trans person in existence*, that wouldn't satisfy them, bc what they hate is DIFFERENCE. They would just move on to the next group of people, and the next, and the next. It's already happening
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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I think that as I've gotten older, and thus seen a bit more of the world, noticing all the various ways a life can go wrong—a person can fall on hard times, the unexpected disaster that lays you low, etc—the more my politics have just become about alleviating the suffering we can
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Late but I loved Andor. Started slow but worth every second. wild that it’s one of the best depictions of life under a police state that I’ve ever seen.
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We are proud to be part of the broad coalition to decriminalize jaywalking in Denver.
Today and tomorrow morning are the last chance email your City Council members to support this! The vote is tomorrow afternoon.
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Note when “the public” excludes large swaths of people from existing in public spaces because it makes the “real” members feel yucky.
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Public transit doesn't work if the public doesn't feel safe on said transit.
Wild to me that transit advocates want to make transit a defacto homeless shelter while also lamenting low use by the general population.
Can't have both.
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“The largest predictor of police violence in America is not poor training, lack of discipline, or militarization. The largest predictor is simply contact with the police--and the most common contact Americans have with police is traffic stops”
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