I trained as a gymnast under Larry Nassar. I know what a pedophile and a groomer are. It’s not a teacher with an “All Are Welcome” sign. It’s not a librarian who has award winning books on their shelves. Love your kids. Thank a teacher. Donate to a library. Cut the shit.
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Freelance journalist (Lisa A. Goldstein) who happens to be deaf. I'm a disability rights advocate, voracious reader, & techie with a huge sweet tooth. She/Her
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Democrats are the party of freedom and community.
Republicans are the party of oppression and selfishness.
GOPrs mistake their selfishness as “freedom,” like a 5 year old screaming “I do what I want!” Democrats, by caring for the community as a whole, promote freedom for all.
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Want to really vomit? He was a Colonel in the Army and until a few years ago taught as a professor at the Army War College. This virulent bigot taught the next generation of senior leaders. Will the Army do any self reflection on that at all?
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Mastriano might be the most extreme major party gubernatorial candidate in 4 generations
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Dear news outlets trying to convince right-wingers that you’re being fair,
Right-wingers don’t want you to be fair. They’ll never be satisfied. Satisfy your audience instead by telling the truth.
Thanks,
Mark
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New: As Mastriano has traveled the state, he’s been accompanied by a personal security detail. Several members come from an evangelical church in Elizabethtown which has become increasingly politically active, and at least one has direct ties to a militia lancasteronline.com/news/politics/
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In financial hard times, normal people cut things out of their lives to make ends meet. Rich people cut things out of OUR lives to make THEIR ends meet.
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Records matter. If this is what we're seeing now, what kind of Governor do you think he'll be?
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When you check the news about Doug Mastriano, here’s what you’re seeing:
• Articles about him recruiting white supremacists on Gab.
• Clips of him running away from press.
• His refusal to speak with the January 6 Committee for his role in the insurrection.
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Normalize allowing your single friends to bring their platonic best friend as a plus one to your wedding.
Like I am begging y’all to stop only validating romantic relationships. Not everyone wants them but they still have a person.
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COVID Update: When will we have new boosters and when should we take them.
I’ve asked 5 of our top scientists & policy leaders and here are answers and other COVID news (good and bad). (1)
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A tale of two Tweets. How we frame stories is everything.
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Read the article I wrote for my job at to learn more. eyeandear.org/2022/08/what-t #hearingloss #hearingaids #otchearingaids #whattoknow #audiology #audiologist #overthecounterhearingaids #caveats 2/end
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This week, the approved over-the-counter hearing aids. On the surface, this may sound like great news (pun intended), but it's important to be an educated consumer. 1/
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Don't listen to Mitch McConnell. By downplaying Republican odds to retake the Senate, he is trying to lull Democratic voters into a sense of complacency. Don't fall for it. Keep fighting & send him into retirement. After all, he vowed to retire if they don't retake the Senate.
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Sarasota County schools literally just mandated teachers out LGBTQ+ students to their parents. This is dangerous, irrational and horrifying.
Children will be harassed, assaulted, thrown out of their home and even killed in the name of DeSantis gaining more power. Hate it here.
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Libs of Tiktok, Matt Walsh, and other far right influencers have decided to make Yale New Haven Hospital and Pittsburgh Children's Hospital their next targets. They've already started the dehumanizaiton and literal demonization. They'll keep going until someone murders a doctor.
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As a woman, I have never once in my life felt threatened by a trans or gay person.
But I feel threatened every day by straight male Republicans.
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Democrats, a vote for Liz Cheney is a vote against codifying Roe V Wade.
It’s a vote against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act,
It’s a vote against the Equal Rights Amendment.
A vote against the Paycheck Fairness Act.
It is a vote against Women’s rights.
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Covid-19 took a month of my life. Now I will try to claw it back:
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A Black professor had his house appraised.
The value: $472,000.
Then he removed indications of Blackness from his home, including family photos.
He had a white colleague — another Johns Hopkins professor — stand in.
The second appraisal: $750,000.
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Funny how that works 🤔
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What happens when you cross youth sports parents with state-sponsored transphobia? Gender policing by sore losers deseret.com/utah/2022/8/17
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In battleground states, election deniers have claimed almost 2/3rds of GOP nominations for offices that have authority over elections. They'll have the power to count votes and certify who wins.
If we want a fair election in 2024, we must defeat these candidates in November.
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The amount of threats/harassment I receive on a daily basis is disgusting.
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I agree. And I was the CIA Director
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I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.
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I downloaded it. Will you?
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NEWS: We've got an app! Visit joshshapiro.org/app and get in the game with us.
We've got you covered from opportunities to get involved to our latest updates on the trail.
When journalists write a story about breast cancer, they don't interview someone who "doesn't believe in chemotherapy" for "balance". That would be absurd.
We are asking journalists to stop treating #abortion care differently than other healthcare.
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Wow. This new resource from breaks down county-by-county how 's proposed cuts to education would devastate PA public schools. #PAGOV
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When Beto said “motherf*****,” wrote a big article about his language.
When AZ GOP Gov nominee Kari Lake talked to a crowd about “big d*cks,” there was nary a peep about how children or old people might react to it.
This is an intentional decision by .
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Make this make sense.
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Florida appeals court affirms an order prohibiting a parentless 16-year-old from terminating her pregnancy on the grounds that she has not proved she is mature enough to get an abortion. So the state will force her to have a child instead. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2213
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0nly 30% of 5-11 yo children have received 2 doses of vaccine and 94% of US counties have high levels of COVID transmission. So why isn’t CDC urging schools everywhere to require masks until transmission levels drop?
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We are *starting* the school year with the majority of the country currently in the highest level on the transmission map, the 2nd highest rates of pediatric hospitalizations ever, & the majority of kids still not vaccinated.
And yet we just removed all precautions in schools.
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Daily pediatric hospitalizations with confirmed COVID are currently at the second-highest level of the entire pandemic
It's August 7th, 2022 nearly three years into the start of the pandemic
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