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West Coast & Southern Appalachian roots. Listens. Reads. Writes. Imagines. she/her. Married.
Mar 27, 2023 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 1 min read
β€œDefund the police” means reallocate or redirect funds away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality.
That’s it. Defund does not mean abolish but even some abolitionists do not necessarily mean END law enforcement. 9 out of 10 calls for service are for nonviolent encounters.
Now, this does not mean that an incident will not turn violent, but police will, at times, contribute to the escalation of violent force.
Mar 19, 2023 β€’ 13 tweets β€’ 4 min read
Allen Dulles's client, George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, was one of the Republican leaders who recruited Nixon to run for Congress and later convinced Eisenhower to take him on as vice president.
The two families were close. George Bush described Nixon as his "mentor." George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and maternal grandfather, George Herbert "Bert" Walker, a native of St. Louis.

Walker started the banking and brokerage firm of G. H. Walker and Company in 1900 in St. Louis, then shifted to NYC at 1 Wall Street.
Oct 8, 2019 β€’ 7 tweets β€’ 2 min read
The Tell-Tale Tweet β€œIf FDR’s fireside chats are the pinnacle of presidential communication, then Donald Trump’s fiery tweets must assuredly be the nadir.” – ⁦@docrocktex26⁩ dailykos.com/story/2017/3/1… β€œAs each new round of treason allegations emerges, it becomes ever more apparent that the current White House occupant is paradoxically more intent on drawing attention to his misdeeds than he is on assuring the public that he can be trusted to lead.” 2/