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Citizen🇺🇸 Writer🇦🇲 Musician🇱🇧 Educator @UCLA | Words: @nytimes @miamiherald @baltimoresun @outsidemagazine @LAReviewofBooks @laphamsquart |Opinions = mine

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3 years
If Russia is serious about protecting its regional allies and the US is sincere about honoring territorial integrity worldwide, then both powers should agree to stopping Azerbaijan’s military from invading Armenia.
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and also, nobody elected you or asked for you asinine lectures on the workings of a government you’re trying to destroy for your own financial benefit and to serve your empty, wounded ego. DISGUSTING!!!!
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Sociopath-in-Chief exploiting the tragedy in Washington to float a half-baked anti-DEI screed.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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RT @DAcemogluMIT: Yes, an oligarchy of billionaires running the country would be (and is) bad news. But history, especially from Africa, La…
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Resources to support impacted individuals are abundant. A few starting points we can suggest are: 1. Los Angeles County Emergency Response: 2. City of Glendale: 3. FEMA Assistance and Recovery Support:
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2 months
Optional registration at Learn more and submit poems for Jewel City Review volume 2 at  Deadline: February 21, 2025. @myglendaleLAC
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RT @stengel: Trump has fallen below 50% in the popular vote. His margin of victory (pop vote + electoral college) is the third smallest sin…
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RT @geviskajyan: Insane scene as Armenian Congressional Caucus Chair Frank Pallone arrives at COP29 in Azerbaijan. The only protests allowe…
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3 months
I struggle to understand the logic of creating a new bureaucracy to streamline an old bureaucracy. Or maybe this is the logic of autocracy — doublespeak through and through.
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3 months
RT @brandlibrary: What if Earth could speak? 🌍 Liz De La Torre & Glendale Poet Laureate @RaffiJo explore this in 'Earth Speaks,' part of Bl…
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3 months
Superb episode from Junk Films for @PBSSoCal series Artbound tracing creativity & love infusing “Blended Worlds” exhibition. In a time of strife, this story elevates human connection. Honored to be a part. TY to the countless creators! PBS:
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RT @DAcemogluMIT: And now on global risks. Trump’s effects will not be confined to within the US borders. He will increase uncertainty arou…
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RT @LindseySnell: A genocidal petro-dictatorship is about to host COP29, and an Azerbaijani official has already been caught in the act of…
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