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Victoria Brownworth

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Feb 4

Wow. This piece by Armond White may just be the most vicious, hateful and hate-filled review I've ever read. There's no service to the master's house like the intellectualized GOP pretending objectivity.

Oprah Revives the 1619 Project Fabrications nationalreview.com/2023/02/oprah-… 🧵

"This show is for the semi-literate,content-hungry masses who can’t read through to the Times’ true agenda but can be swayed,maybe,by Oprah’s visual divertissements." White (who's Black),tries to reduce the brilliant Nikole Hannah-Jones to "fuschia haired activist" & "crackpot."

"The 1619 Project is sometimes risibly subjective. Hannah-Jones’s voice carries the tone of her Iowa roots, in contrast to her Notre Dame–New York–MacArthur Prize résumé — recalling the Arkansas twang that Hillary Clinton dropped once she reached the national stage." Wow.

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Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

Feb 3

Spent part of this week talking to undocumented women about how they're getting stiffed on wages and thinking about how much of my early working life was spent fighting men taking advantage of me because I was young and pretty and desperate and people thought I was stupid.
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There is so much abuse in the work force and employers in sweat shops and produce places and restaurants all know how to scam workers who have no recourse. It's so awful, but the GOP thinks "socialism" is the problem, not corporatism. Employees have so little recourse.
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So many movements were supposed to help us. What happened to #TimesUp? What happened to the #FightFor15? What happened to Biden saying 2yrs ago he would raise the minimum wage? It's still at $7.25 where it's been since 2009 when Pelosi raised it. What happened to Bernie?
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Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

Feb 1

“All he wanted to do was get home,” Reverend Al Sharpton said of #TyreNichols.
“Home is not just a physical location. Home is where you are at peace. Home is where you’re not vulnerable. Home is where everything is alright."
#TyreNicholsMemorial

“He said, all I want to do is get home. I come to Memphis to say the reason I keep going is, all I’m trying to do is get home… I want to get where they can’t treat me with a double standard — I’m trying to get home. I want to get where they can’t call me names no more — "

— I want to get home. I want to get where they can’t shoot and ask questions later — I’m trying to get home. Every Black in America stands up every day trying to get home.”--Rev. Al Sharpton
#TyreNicholsMemorial

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Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

Feb 1

“Tyre was a beautiful person and for this to happen to him is just unimaginable,” said Tyre Nichols mother RowVaughn Wells.
#TyreNicholsMemorial

“The only thing that’s keeping me going is the fact that I really truly believe my son was sent here on an assignment from God and I guess now his assignment is done. He’s been taken home…”--RowVaughn Wells

“I want to thank all the community activists for being there for my family…the chief of police for acting swiftly, the district attorney, the state of Tennessee…I want to thank my lawyers…"--RowVaughn Wells

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Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

Jan 28

#TyreNichols should still be alive.
#BreonnaTaylor should be alive.
#GeorgeFloyd should be alive.
#DuanteWright should be alive.
#FantaBility should be alive.
#TamirRice should be alive.
#LaquanMcDonald should be alive.
#SandraBland should be alive.

#SayTheirNames

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#AtatianaJefferson should still be alive.
#StephonClark should be alive.
#FreddieGray should be alive.
#BothamJean should be alive.
#PhilandoCastille should be alive.
#MichaelBrown should be alive.
#EricGarner should be alive.
#AltonSterling should be alive.

#SayTheirNames

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All these people in mental health crises I reported on should still be alive today. They or their families called police for help.
#MichelleCusseaux
#TanishaAnderson
#JanishaFonville
#MaKiaBryant
#WalterWallace
#DanielPrude
#AaronLynch
#PorterBurks
#SayTheirNames
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Victoria Brownworth

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Jan 27

They want the date of the girl's first period, how long between periods, how regular the cycle. Know that many girls stop menstruating when they are hyper-athletic.

Florida sports association panel recommends making menstrual cycle questions mandatory palmbeachpost.com/story/news/edu…

When girls stop menstruating, schools can claim they are really trans and kick them off the team. I have reported on schools that have checked the medical records of girls whose athleticism is superior to their teammates all the way back to kindergarten to "prove" their gender.

There is ZERO reason to have this data on girls' menstrual cycles. This is to check sexuality, orientation and identity and control their bodies. It's a huge invasion of privacy and ACLU could take this on in between supporting Trump and Fuentes' 1A rights to social media.

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