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24 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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I promised personal news today...a little over ten years ago I was sentenced to prison and one of the last things I did was buy this shower curtain, in hopes of having my own place again someday
For the 7 years since I have returned, I lived in a boarding house...with shared facilities and a kitchen...in other words I have not had my OWN bathroom in OVER ten years...until today! This was my old place.
Yesterday, I became a first-time home owner, today I moved into my new place, and I now am a property owner for the first time in my life...one of the very first things I did was THIS...it took a decade, but now it is mine
Thanks to all of you who have supported me on this journey. And to everyone coming home and wondering if they can make it back...YOU CAN...and I have faith IN YOU!

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26 Oct
Anyone who is still listening to Cheeto Mussolini on "testing" needs to try again. Testing reveals actual cases, it does not create cases.

Also, contact tracing + testing is what controls and reduces cases, not testing alone.
Also, Trump largely stopped investing in testing months ago...he has never insisted on any kind of national testing repository or in record-keeping of any kind.

A few days ago he implied COVID was an election hoax and would end on Nov. 4th
This guy wears 🤡👞on COVID and we are all paying the price

If you are tired of masks and quarantines blame Trump...people warned him for MONTHS this would happen in the Fall and he went all-in on herd immunity
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15 Oct
Picking and choosing who gets to vote is anti-Democratic

Even the statement, "I don't think our Democracy is made better by letting _____ vote" is internally contradictory and self-defeating.

Democracy is not, and should not be, about elites choosing preferred voters Ted Cruz.
Side note: Oddly enough, in the state Mr. Cruz represents, people who did time for murder can vote...and yet, Mr. Cruz was elected. Is Texas' not an acceptable Democratic state?

Political grandstanding by putting real people's vote on the line is UGLY
He was also FLAT wrong...there is actual research that shows that VOTING by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people actually does make our communities safer and our democracy stronger
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14 Oct
"I am not sure our democracy is made better by allowing murderers to vote" - Ted Cruz

As usual, Ted Cruz is wrong on policy, and spectacularly wrong about what matters to a functional democracy
He even inferred that the 14th amendment suggested for disenfranchisement, which it does not (it only allows it, if a state decides to do so).

Just a shameful exercise in political theater with real people's votes on the line
1. No taxation without representation (you know the foundation of the Tea Party movement...I believe you have heard of it Mr. Cruz?)

2. Every member of that Tea Party broke the law and could have been excluded from voting under the Cruz reasoning
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14 Oct
Exactly...originalism is just political cover giving personal and religious views the appearance of objectivity...it is an attempt to suggest that the judge is like the narrator in a movie...but narrators are always unreliable
Everyone wants to believe that they make decisions objectively. Everyone wants to believe they arrive at conclusions fairly...but we all interpret what we read and arrive at what we write using OUR eyes and everything that makes us who we are...we are, by nature self-interested
If you and I read the same text, we will interpret at least parts of it differently...most likely, that is because how we read things is determined by everything that came together over a lifetime to make us who we are....Reading is ALWAYS a co-productive process
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13 Oct
Continuously restating that courts are not political does not magically make them non-political

Laws, and the context of laws, do not speak in "clear language," we hear them through OUR OWN EARS - the voice we hear is filtered through our own judgment (informed by our politics)
In other words, what @BenSasse is saying is absurd to me
The best way to explain this....remember when you were a kid and played the "telephone game?"

If we all read the same text, we will all see what that text means as DIFFERENT....the reasons for those little differences are based in the differences b/w us & who we are
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23 Sep
Matt Gaetz should be ashamed of himself

Amendment 4 passed with 65% of the vote.

The Legislature GUTTED it to suppress votes they suspected would be for Democrats (an absurd assumption)

What @MikeBloomberg did is follow the rules, he is paying off criminal justice debt
If your party can only stay in power by suppressing votes.

If your party needs to suppress votes to win.

There is something wrong with your party, not the potential voters
I am formerly incarcerated and I can tell you from experience, the idea that all formerly incarcerated people vote Democrat is LUDICROUS

But, EVERY PERSON should have a say in their government, NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

That is the core of our system of government
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