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15 Oct 2023
A lot of y’all are like: I care deeply for human rights and believe every life is precious and needs to be protected. The indiscriminate murder of civilians hurts my soul. I wish for peace and equality for everyone.*
*Except for Palestinians.
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30 Jun 2023
This Supreme Court killed Roe v. Wade, Affirmative Action, the separation of church and state, the Clean Air Act, Miranda rights, made it legal for businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and blocked student loan cancellation.
Fuck that undemocratic clown car.
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9 Jun 2023
Henry Kissinger is 100 years old. Another unfortunate reminder that karma doesn’t exist.
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7 Jun 2023
Saw a man strolling through the heavy haze in Manhattan today smoking a cigarette. Heard his lungs screaming as I passed him but a part of me couldn’t help but respect the double-down.
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9 May 2023
Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800.
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3 May 2023
On the second day of Mental Health Awareness Month a man having a mental health crisis was choked to death on the subway as people watched and cheered.
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3 May 2023
Instead of compassion we turn to punishment and violence. We turn to the carceral system. We turn to things that only exacerbate these problems.
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3 May 2023
This is how those in power choose to organize things. They don’t want to solve healthcare or homelessness, they just want people suffering out of their sight lines.
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3 May 2023
Jordan Neely was a New Yorker.
He was a person.
When he began to suffer from mental illness the city’s social safety net failed him, as it had failed countless others.
When he exhibited signs of his mental illness in public he was murdered on the F train.
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25 Apr 2023
Very funny to see all the people who paid for blue checks complaining that they still can't get anyone to like their tweets.
Folks out here like: "What the hell, I paid so you would lower the hoop to 8 feet and I still can't dunk!"
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4 Apr 2023
52 year old man buys three racks of Bud Light and shoots them from 10 feet away because they have rainbows on them.
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3 Apr 2023
Some of y’all are so damn soft.
Soft and racist.
A white girl talks trash and it’s fun and fiery. A black girl talks trash and it’s classless. Same old race-based, pearl-clutching nonsense.
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31 Mar 2023
Pretty remarkable that America temporarily constructed a safety net during Covid — including major health care coverage, food benefits, anti poverty funding for families & kids, etc — and then just systematically and slowly demolished it
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31 Mar 2023
But…but this opens the door to all prior presidents being prosecuted for their crimes.
Don’t threaten me with a good time, pal.
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24 May 2022
They won’t even entertain the idea that maybe fewer guns means fewer people using those guns for mass murder.
They say it’s a mental health issue, yet vote against all healthcare expansions.
What else is there to say at this point?
We are a diseased country.
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21 Mar 2023
So some of you really think this will all end with Trump in an orange jumpsuit wasting away in prison?
This is America, friends. Trump is a rich, connected, white man. He'll get a fine, claim victory, and act like even more of a martyr.
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17 Feb 2023
Imagine coming from nowhere to write one of the most successful and beloved series of books in human history and then choosing to have “she was a hateful shithead to trans people” be your legacy instead.
Truly a wild move.
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18 Jan 2023
Hochul:
–Disinvited a union leader from her State of the State for criticizing her
–Brought in Hakeem Jeffries to endorse LaSalle
–Used her MLK day speech to rally for LaSalle
–Now threatens to sue members of her own party after not getting what she wanted
newrepublic.com/post/170067/…
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16 Jan 2023
Some MLK quotes that people like to selectively ignore.
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
MLK- 1967
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“God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”
MLK- 1963
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16 Jan 2023
“As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.”
MLK- 1961
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