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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)

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Art History, feminism, sass. Tink's fave phrase: "you silly ass." Here to learn, sometimes to teach. Opinions mine. 🌈 #HarrisWalz2024

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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@riziles @CounsellingKaz @LisaTalmadge Leader of the Karens, forging a future that is intersectional, decolonized, and kind. ✨
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@RepJackKimble Absolutely worth breaking character. Every girl, every generation, needs someone like you. 🙏🏽
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@therecount Just for the record, this is one of our country's governors, a top executive position, using his platform to insult a 50-year public servant who has saved literally millions of lives through his service. Effing deplorable.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@ScottforFlorida This is a sitting US Senator, collecting a taxpayer salary, with a taxpayer funded staff, offices, and healthcare for life. Are you mad enough now to join me and saying that he is unfit to serve?
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
10 months
@davidgura We will distinguish you for researching and teaching how to build a more lethal weapon. But we will not distinguish you for researching and teaching why maybe we shouldn't. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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#FreePeteSouza @petesouza He is the best of us.
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1 year
@CaseyDeSantis @RonDeSantis "Mama" Casey DeSantis uses her own children as political props for hateful ideologies. She and her husband are also shameful panderers and unapologetic bigots.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
6 years
@joshuamckerrow @rtraister What a generous gesture to share this thread right now. Thank you Joshua. America thanks you.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@cmclymer “…the gum has lost its sugar“ may be one of the best turns of phrase I’ve read this year. 👏🏼
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@SpeakerMcCarthy And the President will come. And he will be respectful, thoughtful, and mature. And your conference will be petty, disrespectful, and disruptive.
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@TeamDeSantis @CaseyDeSantis "Mama" Casey DeSantis uses her own children as political props for hateful ideologies. She and her husband are also shameful panderers and unapologetic bigots.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 months
@DougJBalloon Thought of you.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@JebBush @TheRickWilson @nytimes I’m sorry, but this is so disingenuous. The administration caused this. They are perpetuating it. The cruelty is the point.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@OurShallowState Original. Beyond the weird fakeness of the image, the poster declares that Casey DeSantis is a man of integrity and honor. Just an epic fail.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
6 months
@Rothmus No it was not. No other person will have their life changed in any way through this. Except to stew in their own bitterness that others might benefit from progressive governance.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@realangsiegel You couldn’t just compliment one impressive activist. You had to throw shade on another. Both do good work.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@AyannaPressley No, you need to start arresting people. Start with the gynecologist. Continue with the guards who are enabling this crime against humanity. Then your work your way up the chain of ICE all the way up to the President of the United States. Haul them all off to the Hague.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@RNCResearch This framing is so dishonest. Banks are bailed out. PPP loans are forgiven. Y'all just hate the idea of lifting people up.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@SecCardona Education, particularly public education, creates an informed citizenry. Workforce training is a different mission. This tweet is profoundly disappointing.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff @mattgaetz Right, because your side has never held secretive closed-door hearings. Gaetz isn’t on the committees sponsoring this deposition. Rules, Gym.
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2 years
@SenRickScott @FBI AG Garland doesn’t owe you squat and neither does Director Wray.
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2 years
@SenRickScott You ignored four years of TFG's golf course governance on the country's dime. Find another song.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@marcorubio @rpetty @AndrewPollackFL Exactly what are you calling “noise“ Senator Rubio? The thousands of letters, phone calls, visits you’ve received from those demanding responsible gun control measures? Who are you intending to smear with this fatuous sneer? Because they have lost children too.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@SteveSchmidtSES Steve Schmidt is likely to go down in history as a person of principle. @SenRickScott and @marcorubio will be remembered as unprincipled, shameless, fraudulent enablers of a criminal presidency. As their constituent I will do my best in that effort.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@marcorubio Because mortality isn’t the only issue! It is a damaging disease to younger people, it is highly infectious and aggressively opportunistic.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@PettyLupone Agreed! Individuals who actually helped save our country rather than destroy it. 🙏🏽
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2 years
@JoshuaPotash Flood the zone
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5 years
@matthewamiller This was what Jon Stewart nailed so effectively night after night. His ratings soared because the public wanted that truth-telling.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@ryanjreilly Just regular tourists wearing goggles and helmets. I know that's my standard uniform.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@GovRonDeSantis For the record, school unions do not "hold teachers' paychecks hostage." They don't threaten, and they don't hide. Ron DeSantis has shown that he has no respect for teachers and what they actually do. A political panderer, of the worst kind.
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1 year
@JudiHayesFL For starters Alicia, you work for all your constituents, not just those who voted for you. This is horrifying.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@JakeSherman @GOPLeader Destroying democracy from within, for fun and profit. Just despicable.
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@marcorubio You have abandoned the US Constitution in favor of a charlatan. It is despicable, and you should resign.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@vivafalastin I hope they teach you about false equivalency there at NYU.
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@sbg1 @NewYorker 14 days of blanket negative coverage of the person who told the truth. 14 days of blanket silence about the person who lied incessantly and maliciously. Refusal to recognize that you are driving the narrative and public opinion. It is journalistic malpractice.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@60Minutes It is utterly beyond our comprehension what 60 Minutes thinks they are doing here. Lesley Stahl's "wow" moment will haunt her the rest of her days.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@FredTJoseph @ewarren For people who want to beat the drum that Warren used to be a Republican, read this thread. And notice that some people do the work. And others simply do not. Warren is doing it.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@TomSauve19 @AngrierWHStaff Just saw this today. I’d love having whoever made it in my classroom.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@PeterHotez 20,000+ Floridians died unnecessarily of COVID, after the vaccine was readily available. The anti-vaccine contagion came from the top, in Tallahassee. Its number one super-spreader now wants to be President of the United States.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@DeSantisWarRoom No, this was inevitable. DeSantis's hateful bigotry, inflammatory rhetoric and shameless pandering to an increasingly violent base has made Florida dangerous. This was the logical outcome and Floridians know it.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@BuddJenn Thinking about this one.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@SusannaLHarris The first reason I won’t ever enforce cameras is gender inequity. No one will judge a boy who just rolls out of bed and onto camera. A girl must “fix herself” for the appearance or face ridicule. Hell no.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
6 years
@djrothkopf Acknowledgments like this are how we will claw our democracy back from this darkness. It will take years, decades. Thank you.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@keithschnak It’s not the exact words that matter. It’s what they will spark. Surveillance. Recording. Lawsuits. Disruptive school board meetings. Targeted social media harassment. Publicized firings. Ultimately there will be violence.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@SecCardona When you align education with industry you produce workers to be exploited. When you educate human beings to question, discern, and problem-solve, you strengthen democracy.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 months
@sandibachom Reading the comments on this, and then finding my feed filled with charlatans, and Covid deniers is just heartbreaking. We could've done so much more. 🖤
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@mattmfm The many many millions of women who marched around the world on the day after Inaugration knew that we weren’t going to be fine. The activists and organizers of BLM, March for Science, March for Truth, March for Our Lives all knew this.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@CaseyDeSantis Fighting against what? Why must you make your neighbors your enemies?
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@ajzeigler She brought her seven children, unmasked, to a crowded event and exposed them to coronavirus. That is demonstrably poor judgment and indicates lack of character.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@JoyAnnReid On top of all of your other talents, you are such an exquisite writer. 👏🏼
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@JebBush @GovRonDeSantis Jeb! The 24,000 Floridians who died after a vaccine was readily available would like a word. The textbooks we’re not allowed to teach, the identities we’re not allowed to discuss, the soaring rents and homeowners insurance, election police?
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@piersmorgan @IvankaTrump If she were “decent“ she would use her considerable unearned power to restrain her hateful father and his destructive policies.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@tedcruz @benfergusonshow The indictment you have not seen is prejudged as garbage. This is a sitting US Senator undermining the Constitution he swore an oath to support and defend. Despicable
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@GovRonDeSantis Translation: "we are determined to destroy a world class university system in order to pander to the least tolerant among us."
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@briantylercohen She’s holding her dress closed so she can also hang onto the rail. This is so stupid. Pay attention to things that matter.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@MDCPS @TheAmandaGorman Amanda Gorman's poem was delivered to an entire nation. It was received with enormous gratitude and admiration. What on earth is wrong with you?
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@BridgetAZiegler @Disney Disney…ignoring parents. Yep that's their entire corporate business plan.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@jonathanvswan This undermines the power and authority of two sitting US congresswoman. This undermines separation of powers. It also continues to put a target on them. This should be impeachable.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@SpeakerPelosi Section 3 of the 14th amendment: No person who has engaged in or supported insurrection or rebellion against the United States may hold public office.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@NewsHour Thank you! Stay on this. The American people have a right to know, considering that we pay the security detail that he endangered with his little performance.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@SenRickScott @POTUS @SenSchumer @SpeakerPelosi Presidents don’t control gas prices. Read a report instead of repeating vapid right wing talking points.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@RoguePOTUSStaff @SpeakerPelosi You do not sit there and listen to such a pack of lies and not respond publicly. Destroying the speech speaks to the sanctity of the institution he degrades. He is in her house. He is in our house.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@hunnunuh Brava! But note that you had to do the work, the research, make the argument. That you posted it here is a reminder that that the additional labor and emotional toll is part of the system, which is working as it was designed. That dude had to go through none of this. 🙏🏽
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3 years
@RonFilipkowski Pillar of virtue.
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@WalshFreedom Don't forget that Democrats want to more aggressively collect taxes from wealthy tax cheats.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@RepBrianMast Biden/Harris won in the popular vote and the electoral college. Decisively. The EC certified. 60 lawsuits adjudicated. This is tantamount to sedition. Trying to overturn the will of the people. Offer credible evidence or step off the stage. GOP = death cult
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3 years
@TheRealHoarse A state senator leaving an unsecured firearm in a car. Not very smart.
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@Doctor_Eric_B Learning that he was kicked out of medical school was one of those moments, when it happened, where I recognized actual accountability. That he does not recognize his own errors is deeply frustrating.
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5 years
@davidmweissman Everything that is wrong with this country is embodied in Rush. I’m thoroughly disgusted.
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4 years
@kouskousVPI @WTOPtraffic @nbcwashington Passive voice: “went up.“ Did someone set it on fire? Is the owner safe? Can we help? Why is this country so morally bankrupt?
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@mmpadellan That October surprise is not going to bake itself. Billy’s in the basement mixing up the medicine.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@GovRonDeSantis To all those fan bots jumping in to tongue bathe DeathSantis, this will cost Florida taxpayers $ because it is unconstitutional and there will be lawsuits. The former guy was deplatformed because he fomented insurrection and let 1/2m people die with a bungled pandemic response.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@mschlapp The Trump campaign colluded with Russia. The Trump administration bungled a pandemic response and 1/2 million died, then fomented insurrection. Trump was impeached twice and defeated after a single deplorable term. Sync that sycophant.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@NetflixFilm Don’t forget film and art history. Deep ties.
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@christoq Space Karen 🤦🏻‍♀️
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@marcorubio They are outdoors, they are wearing masks and respecting each other. Your run in the public sphere is nearly over. You’re done. The stain of Trumpism will shadow you forever.
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4 years
@MsPackyetti @steveliesman This Karen co-signs. Put your concern where it matters Mr. Liesman.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
6 years
@ChuckRossDC @DailyCaller You mean the meeting that never happened? Or the meeting that happened but it was about adoptions. Or the meeting that happened but Don Jr. lied about it?
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@krassenstein He was a respectable environmental activist years ago. The descent into anti-vax conspiracy world happened well before COVID. Very sad. Now he's a Bannon op.
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2 years
@RonDeSantisFL You use your children as props for hateful ideologies. Despicable.
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@Cathy2NotToday "Where is MY ticket to Martha's Vineyard?" 🤣😳
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@marcorubio Couldn't bother to show up to vote again Senator? Why don't you just resign? You clearly hate this job.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@WalshFreedom Since you felt the need to repeat this in multiple tweets, it reads as though there's someone you're trying to convince. Here's the real deal: Donald Trump is not above the law. Your former party has abandoned the US Constitution, but it's not dead yet.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@POTUS You are going to compromise on voting rights. You are going to compromise on climate change. That is not bipartisan. That is surrender.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@aronberg Why don't our licensing boards hold these charlatans accountable? There are MDs circulating the gravest of disinformation.
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5 years
@MSNBC This is spin.
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@MsPackyetti An extra round of applause for announcing it to your constituents in person, in a town hall, being steady enough to withstand the boos and explain your position in person. 👏🏼
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
1 year
@krassenstein This is poorly phrased. It is not about "sharing opinions." It is about teaching honestly, using critical analysis, and pursuing genuine understanding.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
5 years
@DHuddlestonKY Hate in your mind replaces love in your heart. Sad.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
3 years
@SenRickScott Propaganda alert: Rick Scott delivers donor-driven talking points to rile the base. There is nothing in this tweet that is the rhetoric of a responsible sitting US Senator.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@JoshuaPHilll @model_daughters We are in the world's worst dystopian science-fiction video game.
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@CaseyDeSantis Nothing about living under the censorial culture war climate of Ron DeSantis promotes freedom. Literally nothing.
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4 years
@marcorubio Narrator: nothing about this is good news.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@GovRonDeSantis Parental involvement is a fundamental part of the structure. What you want is censorship.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@SenSchumer Subpoena them. Slash their budget. They are no longer serving the American taxpayers who pay their salaries. Gloves off Senator
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
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@jayobtv Straight up authoritarianism. And Palm Beach County, to their credit, declared a state of emergency today because cases and hospitalizations are so bad. They are literally trying to kill us.
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
4 years
@SenWhitehouse You’re doing this on Twitter Senator, but are you also on the horn to your Senate colleagues and the House Managers? We need witnesses!
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Dr. Karen Leader (she/her)
2 years
@GovRonDeSantis Instead of consulting with respected physicians, or experts in the field, you are seriously turning to a hack like Glenn Beck? What a disgrace you are.
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