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If you could match me with any celebrity, who would it be?

(A Valentine’s Day Thread for the bored.)
(Seriously, I haven't been able to leave the house all day save for Urgent Care and my home is a quarantine facility. Send help and/or entertainment.)
(I can't even watch anything because my little guy is insisting on bingeing Chip and Potato on Netflix and I am not allowed to leave the room where he is wrapped in a million blankets.)
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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Asking me if I’ll vote for Bloomberg when I am trying to talk to you about the serious impact of stop and frisk on POC during the time I lived there is a sign of your obvious unwillingness to consider the harm he’s caused.

Don’t ask me again. You know what you’re doing. So do I.
One other thing: imagine the most invasive TSA pat down you’ve ever had. Maybe your crotch gets grabbed, or your boobs. Maybe you’re asked to spread your legs while they check your thighs.

Now imagine that happening every day on your way to school or work, randomly, anywhere.
Now imagine that you were powerless to stop it and it was your entire life, day in, day out, for 12+ years.

Crotch grabbing, spread legs, being touched everywhere, no matter where, for no reason.

Now imagine everyone around you saying: vote for the guy who made that happen.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
@ECMcLaughlin
This is plainly going to be an evergreen tweet between now and November.

I took at 24 hour break from Twitter because I couldn't tolerate it any longer, and it took all of my willpower not to wipe my account overnight, and now here are liberal white folks at it again at 7:28 am.
Maintaining optimism in saving our democracy in 2020 by nominating a candidate that will turn out the vote in every community is becoming impossible, and it's not because of Trump.

It's because of white liberals who don't seem to understand that the nominee MATTERS for turnout
Only white people would ask POC to line up and vote for a nominee who stopped and frisked more than 600,000 people of color in a single year for NO REASON.

Imagine being asked to vote for a nom who did that because "vote blue no matter who."

I'd want to stay TF home.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
@ECMcLaughlin
People, I argued with my dad to vote for Carter from the backseat of an Oldsmobile station wagon when I was FIVE.

Telling me to vote blue no matter who when I am trying to explain to you that there are SERIOUS issues of race and gender at stake in this primary IS SILENCING.
I've been voting blue no matter who for as long as I could vote.

Your willingness to create false equivalencies among candidates while we're still in the primary is *part of the problem.*

I'm serious about this. Lives are on the line.
Go talk to your neighbors who voted Trump about voting blue no matter who.

And in the interim, listen to those of us who are deep in the issues for the candidates this primary and *shouting* about what's at stake with some of them.

IT DOES MATTER.
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From striking women with goat’s skin to showering them with chocolates and flowers, here is how #Valentine’s Day became the #holiday we know today.

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Did HR issue you an insurance card? That's your Mediclaim.
Things to ask: How much PF is being deposited into my account each month?

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“Hi, Ife. I’ve just been raped. Can I talk to you?”

I received this message on Friday and as much as I had a gazillion things to do, I immediately called Seyi (Not real name)

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“I’m okay.” Her voice was clear.
“I’m sure you’re not. What can I do? How can I help? Where are you? Should I come to pick you so we can go to the police to report?” I was talking too fast. I do that when I’m nervous or when I’m in a situation I’m not prepared for.

“I can’t. I just want to talk, to understand”
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