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Sarah Kendzior: I was living in NYC, right out of college, but I was at my boyfriend's house in WI. We thought it was some kind of Y2K joke when we first heard about the plane hitting the tower. We had friends who worked in the towers.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: It was a weird time for journalism. We headed back to NYC as soon as we'd heard about the planes. All the candles, the posters of missing people you knew were dead, all the funerals for firefighters & other first responders...
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Under the cynicism there's so much fear and anger for what we've lost.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: If we hadn't gone to war in Iraq, there might have been some closure. We knew what the purpose of going into Afghanistan was--Saddam Hussein--but not Iraq.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: My daughter is in 7th grade & is learning about 9/11 in school. My life is her history lesson.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: I blame the media for this: We never got accountability for why our national security & FBI didn't stop the 9/11 attacks. Why did they fail to protect America? We need to learn the lessons of 9/11. Incredible incompetence & malice.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Rick: No one has ever been held accountable for the actions before or after 9/11. We won't get closure until then.
Sarah Kendzior: My upcoming book (April 2020) talks about how powerful people protect each other. People become afraid to talk about it
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: The Family is a group of kleptocratic actors who justify criminal or borderline criminal activity with religion.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior:They infiltrate gov't to rewrite laws; we've seen this happen in Russia. Recently authoritarian gov'ts that were formerly democratic, like ours, are working with them. Democrats in Congress should be better than me, not equivalent to me
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Democrats should be looking for this, doing everything they can to cut them off at the knees.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: What is predictable is preventable. The excuse is they didn't see it coming--we all saw it coming, we announced it to you but you ignored us!
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Ideally, yes, we should work together and get along, but not with criminals. This is so cut and dry. Trump commits an atrocity every day, turning away people from Bahamas, locking up children, & Dems pretend they can't see it.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Sometimes I wonder if Trump sits around wondering how much more he has to do to get arrested in this country.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: The American public is not being served.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Trump seemed to forget Barron is his son.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: We've had like 6 deaths from vaping and about 40,000 deaths from gun violence but we're going to ban flavored vaping.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Rick: Banning vaping is just a distraction.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: I'm not against banning vaping, but of ALL the things, THIS is what we act on?? Caging children, taking away our healthcare, gun violence, turning away refugees, and vaping is what gets immediate action?
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Trump wants to nuke stuff--he doesn't care if it's Iran or a hurricane. He wants a predictable outcome. He figured Bolton would be good b/c he likes to blow stuff up, too. We were not safe w/ Bolton in that position.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Where were all the old people to warn us about Bill Barr?
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: I would not put it past Trump for him to bring in someone worse. That's Trump's thing--he always outdoes himself with new appointees.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: The whole Middle Eastern region is invested in what happens between the US and Iran. Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize. He normally causes the problem, then wants the award for fixing it.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: Maybe something will accidentally go right.
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@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation Sarah Kendzior: We are stuck with Trump at least until 2021. He should be impeached, even if he doesn't leave.
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