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26 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What song/album/artist never fails you?
@frankturner

@Indigo_Girls

@RATMofficial

@U2
Never.

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2 Nov
Dear Trump-Supporting Friends and Relatives,

Given the work I do and how explicitly I've already shared my thoughts, you already know where our family is regarding this Tuesday's election, but I need you to hear this from me.
Recently, our 11-year old said of the current president, "He hates us. Listen to the way he talks about us." She is internalizing the horrible partisan rally rants and the incessant, baseless, incendiary attacks on Liberals, Democrats, and the Left.
And you are collaborating with him.
Our children are not stupid. They are social media-savvy and politically informed. They see the videos. They read the news stories.
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16 Jul
On a neighborhood message board, parents were talking about the anxiety of the coming school year. A supporter of the president asked, "If other countries can send their kids back to school, why can't we?"

Here's why:
Because the United States is having one the strongest and most sustained outbreaks in the world and now lags behind nearly every developed nation.
Because many states have governors who won't enforce mask requirements.
Because we have not even made it through our first wave.
Because the president just this week, wore a mask for the first time (at 137,000 death) who refuses to publicly distance, and who is peddling conspiracy theories about this virus and pimping beans instead of working on virus response.
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14 Jul
Last night my 10-year old daughter showed me the backpack she picked out for back to school. I pretended to be excited but I wanted to throw up.
It doesn’t seem right on an elemental level to be sending our children and teachers and school staffs into close proximity for extended periods of time with hundreds of people, when cases are skyrocketing and when so many businesses aren’t open because of the danger.
I want my and all kids to have the normalcy of school and of peer community, but I want them to be healthy and safe, and right now I don’t have confidence they will be, given our leadership and its like-minded base.
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4 Jun
Today I joined a few hundred other people here in Raleigh to take part in a sign of solidarity with and celebration of black lives. It was an intentionally family-friendly event with lots of young children.
We lined the heavily-traveled Hillsborough Avenue 6 feet apart, each holding signs with words of support and the names of people of color killed in hate crimes.
I joined several ministers who prepared to walk from the organizing church, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church to the capitol building where all participants would later gather for words and prayer.
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18 May
When I was a little kid, I can remember thinking that when something was a scary I could protect myself by just closing my eyes; that somehow if I could no longer see whatever it was that terrified me that would make it go away.

I grew out of that.
Unfortunately, millions of Americans are treating a deadly virus that has killed nearly 100,000 people here in three months, the same way.
They honestly seem to believe that they can defeat it by pretending it doesn't exist, that they will not be sick or make others sick if they merely choose not to acknowledge reality. That's really their mindset: that the monster will leave if they refuse to look at it.
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6 Apr
Inexplicably, I see people still defending this president, as if he's somehow the victim here.

Please.

He repeatedly lied about this virus for months, knowing that thousands of lives could be lost, because he thought the death toll would hurt his reelection campaign.
.@realdonaldtrump called the virus a "Democratic hoax" at a February 28th campaign rally, knowing that was not true, but also knowing FoxNews and the mindless sycophants of his base would applaud and perpetuate it.
He has lied over and over and over again while the danger escalated and while we lost time that we can never get back. This is why we have the largest number of cases in the world, why our death rate is rising, and why we have no unified plan to stop it.
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