How on earth have so many kids been wounded and killed by guns in the last year and we never talk about it? Tuesday morning, a 15yr old was shot dead just blocks from his high school in my neighborhood after 3 other males confronted him. At 7:30 in the morning. An honor student.
In 2022, 182 kids were shot in Philadelphia. That's just one city. Are cities and towns even keeping track of these shootings and the number of victims? On Sunday a 10 year old shot his 12 year old brother in Philly and was charged Monday. The parents may also be charged.
I've spent three decades reporting on #GunViolence in Philadelphia, Camden, NYC and New Orleans. I've been on panels, TV, radio. Three men have been shot to death in front of our house in the past 6yrs. My wife had to clean blood off our sidewalk and car. Guns, guns, guns. Why?
This can only happen with guns available to children.
Ron DeSantis says, "Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances." And then levels an anti-Semitic and racist attacks on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
Vile, despicable, shameless. floridapolitics.com/archives/59980…
“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis said,“The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent."
To recap: tonight men told me:
🔻 I'm not a reporter
🔻I don't live in my neighborhood
🔻I should "get off my fat ass" and get water for my 47k neighbors
🔻 I'm attention seeking for reporting a breaking news story
🔻 I'm pro-groomer
🔻 I'm a turd
🔻 I'm worthless
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People tell women journalists to just ignore these people --"they're just a bot." But the thing is, when men do this to you every day--I discovered one of those guys has literally dozens of comments to me, which is stalker behavior--the impact is cumulative.
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We also don't know what men will do. They may just be masturbating at home at the idea of causing you pain or they might be tracking you to physically harm you. I had to protect my wife for years from this by hiding her identity on here so she would be safe.
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@SpeakerMcCarthy is spewing the antisemitic Elders of Zion trope that Jews control everything by claiming that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg--a Black man--is a corrupt politician bought by Jewish Holocaust survivor and philanthropist George Soros.
It's not the first time Kevin McCarthy has shown his antisemitic derrière in public. During the 2018 midterms, McCarthy tweeted out an antisemitic message about three Jews--George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg. politico.com/story/2019/02/…
This deleted tweet of Kevin McCarthy's is online from every network--so EVERY news department should be discussing this and it should be part of Monday's story about McCarthy targeting Soros. antiSemitism is in the rise. And the Speaker is actively fomenting it.
I was kicked out of High School for being gay. Then I was put in a psych ward for conversion therapy. The GOP is now pushing conversion therapy en masse. My latest for @phillyinquirer. Please read/RT.
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"I was committed to a nearby mental institution for conversion therapy to “de-gay” me, a popular treatment for adolescents in the 1970s, 80s and 90s."
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"I was told that my 'obsession' with other girls was 'not normal.' I was told that this was a phase I would naturally outgrow, but that this therapy would speed up the process."
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Pat Schroeder was absolutely extraordinary. I worked with her campaign committee when she was contemplating her run for president. She was an electrifying person who broke ground every day.
It's impossible to fully articulate how much Pat Schroeder did during her time in Congress. She 1st ran as an anti-war candidate in 1972 and got zero support from the DNC. She was the 3rd youngest person elected to the House. The FBI surveilled her campaign.
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Pat Schroeder was always making policy for women and children and she was responsible for the 1985 Military Family Act and The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act.
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What we learned from the Academy:
Vivien Leigh has Asian ancestry.
Hilary Swank is considered the 1st actress of Hispanic descent to win Best Actress (grandmother was Mexican)
Jessica Chastain is 2nd actress of Hispanic descent to win Best Actress (father is Hispanic). #Oscars
Only two acknowledged WOC have won Best Actress: Halle Berry in 2002 and Michelle Yeoh.
14 Black actresses have been nominated for Best Actress but haven't won, including Angela Bassett, Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Diana Ross, Cecily Tyson.
Viola Davis and Whoopi Goldberg have both won Best Supporting Actress #Oscars as have 7 other Black women: Hattie McDaniel (the 1st), Jennifer Hudson, Octavia Spencer, Mo'Nique, Lupita Niyong'o, Regina King and Ariana DuBose.