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Dwayne Betts retweeted
4 Jun 2025
Per request - top of my head 5 episodes @EconTalker which have stuck with me (From a LOOONG list)
McArdle on internet shaming & civility
Keith Smith of Oklahoma Surgery Center
Mike Munger - the Uber/Sharing economy
Dwayne Betts - first episode
Alain Bertraud - Urban planning
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25 Mar 2025
Today was a good day @wwnorton
#doggerel #doglover #poetry #freedomreads #publisher #wwnorton #newyorkcity #goodday #happymoments #gratefulheart
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25 Mar 2025
Part 3: An honor to share The Things We Carry @politicsprose in DC. You can read the rest of my poem in my new book of #poetry, #doggerel.
#naturelover #justicelover #freedomreads #randomactofpoetry #healing #WashingtonDC #LiteraryEvents #NaturePoetry
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25 Mar 2025
Part 2: An honor to share #canary from #doggerel at @politicsprose in DC— you can read the rest in my newest book of poetry, Doggerel.
#poetry #naturelover #justicelover #freedomreads #randomactofpoetry
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25 Mar 2025
Part 1: An honor to share my story & poems from #doggerel at @politicsprose in DC—where words have the power to spark change. Grateful for the conversation, the community, and the poetry that connects us all. #poetry #naturelover #justicelover #freedomreads #randomactofpoetry
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
15 Mar 2025
1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.
Put simply: right-wing has narrative dominance.
My org (@mmfa) did this study and been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
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16 Mar 2025
What’s the dude who sold twitter to Musk saying? Just wondering what role the sale of this huge communications platform has to do with the profound number of crisis that the world wakes up to daily.
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13 Mar 2025
Also, why not - I'll invite you to listen to this short interview with me on NPR last week, if you're not sleeping - this will settle your disquiet, maybe: wglt.org/2025-03-10/reginald…
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13 Mar 2025
Just came back for a PSA: sleep still the cousin of death.
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8 Mar 2025
It’s rare to write and publish a book while in prison, more rare to do what @JohnJLennon1 is doing. This is going to be dope -
7 Mar 2025
📖 Announcing…THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME by @JohnJLennon1, a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Coming Sept 2025.
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4hjxUdI
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
21 Feb 2025
home ownership in the US is now out of reach for many, including me. by posting these comments about famous conservatives, i get hundreds of replies, earning me $3/ post. this puts me closer to owning a home in a walkable neighborhood without engaging in misinformation or racism
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
12 Feb 2025
"It was that essay that presented a real argument about who I might be in the world."
Freedom Reads Founder @dwaynebetts spoke w/ @cspan about his afterword to @HarperCollins' commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."c-span.org/program/qa/regina…
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
14 Feb 2025
The incredible @dwaynebetts joining @interintellect_ attendees, community members, and our hosts for this online conversation on forgiveness.
Hosted by dear @jenniferabanks 💞
interintellect.com/salons/fo…
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
21 Jan 2025
"It’s the stories that will create the tide that makes us look at each other differently."
Last week at the @cambridgepl, Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts spoke about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/…
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21 Jan 2025
This is some good work, if you needed a speech to listen to today: youtube.com/watch?v=S6Q8Yp_-…
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
20 Jan 2025
Read Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts' piece for @OprahDaily about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy ⬇️ oprahdaily.com/entertainment…
20 Jan 2025
What Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Means Today oprahdaily.com/entertainment…
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
16 Jan 2025
A reminder to vote for your favorite EconTalk (@econtalker) episodes of 2024. Can also find the poll at vote at econtalk.org. (PSA: can only vote for @DwayneBetts 6-3-2024, Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail", as "Best of 2024" and not "Best of all Time.")
Vote for your favorite @econtalker episodes of 2024! loom.ly/ssJ0aSY
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Dwayne Betts retweeted
16 Jan 2025
"Sometimes tears grow something like a tree, grow hope, grow possibility."
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts spoke for @TEDx about the Freedom Reads team and what it means to return to prisons with beautiful bookcases full of great literature. youtube.com/watch?v=S6Q8Yp_-…
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25 Dec 2024
I got every reason to feel I’ve made several mistakes here. But my kid says I look like a hippy. Maybe he said the unauthorized member of Black Hippy. Maybe K Dot will give me a verse.
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