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Dec 16, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
You never realize how many people you hate until you try to name a child.
A lot of teachers are telling me it's even harder to name a child when you've taught school. Why?
Holy shit this is so accurate.

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Aug 17, 2021
Republicans on Afghanistan:

2001 (W's invasion): Let's build a nation!

2009 (Obama's troop surge): We must leave!

2015 (Obama 's troop drawdown): We can't leave!

2020 (Trump's agrees to leave): We must leave!

2021 (Biden withdraws troops): We can't leave!
For the record, I wrote a protest song against the war in Afghanistan in 2006 called "The Winning Side."

At the time I was told it was, "Anti-American."
open.spotify.com/track/0ibC6URi…
I'm begging you to understand Republican operatives don't care about the Afghan people. This has always been solely a political wedge for them.

If they cared, they'd demand the US accept Afghan refugees, which they are dead set against.
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Apr 3, 2021
Major League Baseball is a business. Moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta was a BUSINESS decision after Georgia passed racist laws.

For years, Republicans have been saying, "Let the market decide."

Well guess what? The market decided.
It's pretty simple, really:

Racism is bad for business.

Want major sporting events in your state? Don't pass racist laws.
Nothing says "American patriot" more than a party that is now pro-Russia, pro-Putin, anti-voting and anti-baseball.
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Mar 26, 2021
Imagine calling yourself a "Christian" and thinking following Jesus means giving people weapons and denying them water.
I don't know how you explain to people that Jesus had a moral philosophy and it wasn't, "Sit in a building once a week looking pious."

It was fierce. Active. You help those less fortunate. You welcome the stranger. You love your enemies. It's not easy, it's not about hate.
You don't have to be a Christian to admire Jesus.

So many who claim to follow Jesus don't understand the first thing about the revolutionary act of channeling God's love for you into your love of others.

Jesus was very clear about these things. He did not mince words.
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Mar 18, 2021
This is one of the most heartless pieces I have ever read.

JD, as someone who also grew up in very difficult circumstances and who also wrote a book about it, the fact that you have no understanding of immigration, no empathy for immigrants is sickening.
Why do people come here? Your answer is, because they are greedy.

You don’t care about the poverty and violence they face, which is particularly sad since the REASON you are famous is bc you wrote a book about your own experience w poverty and violence.
You say big business is at the heart of the Democratic Party. You say and again that Republicans are the party of the “working class.” They aren’t. Republicans are becoming the party of the WHITE working class.

These are different things, @JDVance1.
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Mar 13, 2021
My father left prison at 27 and went to a drug rehab community which turned into a cult where I was born.

When we escaped, I finally got to know him. He became my best friend.

When he died I wrote this song for him. It’s called HOLLYWOOD PARK. open.spotify.com/track/4oqTFpt6…
This song is about the moment my father nearly died from a heroin overdose. He woke up with tubes in his arms in a hospital bed.

He always said if he ever went back to it, he knew he’d die and that was the only way to change.

It’s called CARRY ME.

open.spotify.com/track/42TPjDlB…
When my dad died, it was like a hole opened up in the sky. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it.

I would talk to him in my head. I could hear him, always telling me to be a better man.

I wrote a song about what he says. It’s called The Common Touch.

open.spotify.com/track/7FKf5Cbv…
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Mar 5, 2021
If you're wondering why the music industry is talking about NFTs, beyond cryptocurrency apps, beyond "democratization of patronage" is one simple, glaringly obvious fact:

Music is worth WAY more than it's current price in the modern world and corporations are strangling artists.
Musicians currently only get 12% of all revenue in the music business. That's it. The rest go to middlemen (labels, streaming services, publishers).

This system both undervalues music AND benefits corporations at the expense of artists.

NFTs have the potential to change this.
Music has been undervalued (mispriced) for a very long time. Basically after Napster disrupted the CD-based music economy in 2002, streaming services rushed to fill the void by artificially lowering the price of music so they could still control it.
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