Tom Brokaw
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mr president,
i've been a journalist 50 yrs. Never met one who didn't love USA.
Many risk their lives reporting on US values.
Cheap shot
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Pres Trump at a Penn rally calls my colleague and friend Chuck Todd a “sleeping SON OF A BITCH.”
Really classy.
Explain that to your children.
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pres trump - you are commander in chief by law, duty bound to honor sen mccain
ignoring his death is a disgrace
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pres trump on foreign soil calling 3 u.s. intel professionals “political hacks” while praising Putin
and believing his denial of Russian elect interference.
where is GOP outrage?
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dear mr president,
call speaker pelosi, form a coalition heavy on expertise, light on partisan canon. 10 urgent goals -
speed up the containment,attack the economic
cost starting NOW, report real progress twice a day. no more cheap shots or baseball cap slogans
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Let’s hear jt for James Shaw who took away the shooter’s
AR15 at Tenn Waffle House then raised $24k for victims.
Great Americans are everywhere every day
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please, Mr President, make room at the table for all American leaders, not just those you like.
FDR, Churchill and Stalin had differences but a common enemy.
This is not jr high.
History honors big men
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pres trump calls white house “a sacred place” deserving of better treatment by press.
no, mr president, it is not a religious sanctuary.
it is the people’s house, and its temporary occupants are not above examination or criticism.
always has been and will be after you’re gone
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"somebody elses babies" are in US mil uniforms and in harm's way. volunteers to protect America.
Cong King, please!
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sens cotton and perdue “can’t recall” potus using “s... hole” language.
fellow gop sen graham and others have sharper memories and better hearing.
sen cotton and perdue - costco hs a good deal on hearing aids.
just sayin....
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watching the fla students discuss on Sixty
mins the school shooting reaffirms my faith in the nxt generation.
sensible, articulate, determined.
a shame it took such a tragedy to be reminded.
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whatever you think about pres trump, the white house chaos is indisputable. if this were a pizza parlor or car dealership, a bank or a farm they’d be headed for bankruptcy
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those who accuse the grieving fla students of being actors i hope are being ostracized in their community. shame, shame, shame
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trump’s maliciously false attacks on joe of mornjng joe are beyond outrageous and it is time for jack dorsey and twitter to step up.
where are the republicans who are so quick to condemn scabrous attacks on one of their own.
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barbara bush’s funeral and her life of grace, honesty and warmth was a timely reminder of what we’re missing in public life across the board.
the funeral was a welcome respite from the current
alley cat brawl
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if bob dole saluting the casket of george bush didn’t move u, check your heart. it may be awol.
two one time rivals, wwii vets, one working class, the other
wealthy, later brothers in common cause - love of country
and what’s best for all.
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the image of america around the world - crying children being yanked from their parents by govt. order.
no political mumbo jumbo can change that.
immigration reform?
instead a collapse of US values
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Hmm. Not a word from WH re "fake news"
on brilliant NYT story on DT, Jr, /
Russians. Only fakes were his 1st explanations.
more to come
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savannah and hoda - historic and so deserved
one more step in what i believe will the hallmark of the 21 century
women hv full parity
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bob costas, my dear friend - broadcasting brother, really - is leaving NBC after 40 years of hall of fame work.
it’s like hearing his hero mickey mantle decided to leave the yankees.
the master is leaving the building.
godspeed, robert
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back in iowa city where i partied hard,dreaded mid winter walks across the iowa river, made life long friends and still regret i didn’t hit the library more often
now that library has a collection from my career.
probably should include my iowa gpa to prove anything is possible
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merry christmas, happy new year and best wishes to all as we enter a time of uncertainty, anxiety and, yes, promise because for all the darkness in america there is always light if we have faith in our history, institutions, laws and each other.
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ok America - what are we going to do?
it’s about a more than guns.
it’s about poisonous hate in social media
about hate in the political arena
about gotcha in mass media.
the center has been replaced by hate
so, now what?
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so proud of lester holt - as face of nbc news, journalist, citizen and great guy doing 24-7 duty in Houston
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i've been to j mccain's Hanoi capture site and VN jail cell.
no one should EVER deny his heroism or patriotism.
EVER.
fight on, senator.
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sen mccain’s funeral - bi partisan, eloquent, emotional - who we are not what we’ve become. now let there be a mccaine coalition - dems and republicans - to take on health care or immigration in a bi partisan way
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President sees Russian interference only in personal terms.
where’s the outrage over an attack on our NATIONAL interests? the condemnation of Putin’s constant attack on US values and system?
when does the Commander in Chief take command?
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i began my tv career at ktiv, in sioux city, rep steven king’s dist. in my long ago time there folks were conservative but not bigots.his views on race hv been abhorrent for some time. i hope they now understand he’s gone way too far. and they, too, are being judged.
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we can send space ships to mars, transplant hearts, invent the digital world but we can’t agree on a secure, fool proof ballot system that is critical to the integrity of our election system
current mish mash is disgraceful.
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P Trump blows off two Vet cemetery visits- then mocks one of America’s greatest warriors. still hasn’t visited troops in war zones
gives himself A+ as president.
what are they saying at the VFW in trump country?
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the royal wedding - so much more than a marriage of 2
in love. it was a welcome reminder that love, faith, joy - whatever your race, STAND BY ME
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the security of the southern border is a legitimate issue, deserving thoughtful bi partisan attn. not the potus hysteria.
why don’t we hear his real anger after mass shootings in l. vegas; a tx church; a fla school - and all the others?
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pres bush resisted my plan to include him in THE GREATEST GENERATION but i persisted.
at the dedication of the WWII memorial
surrounded by WWII vets
and an adoring public he wrote a note
TOM, MAYBE I WAS WRONG.
RIP great man.
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happy thanksgiving, all
difficult days but we still hv more opportunities, more freedom than anyone in history.
division is our common enemy
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my tweet portal is whack
i hv been trying to say i am sorry i offended
and i so appreciate my colleague
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p. trump says he’s read “some” of global warming report -but doesn’t believe it.
huh?
work of int’l group of brilliant scientists dismissed with less attention than his golf game? or his hair style?
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dick enberg - oh my, what a loss.
we arrived in LA about the same time, 2 midwesterners, wide eyed and excited about opportunities.
he stayed the nice guy to the very end.
RIP, my friend.
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the nite before she died barbara bush watched her husband order martinis.she said, i’d like a manhattan!
and who could refuse her!
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death threats against dr fauci??
rise up america in common outrage.
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i grew up with guns as a hunter. we didn’t need assault weapons for hunting or home protection.
now schools hv code reds and mass shooting drills.
and far too many deaths.
it is a shameful, unacceptable reality
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the las vegas massacre and the tx church killings
faded from the news quickly.
now the acute pain of fla, the heartbreaking stories of victims. do not let these deeply painful losses
be in vain.
it is a test of our nat’l character
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Spkr Ryan's excuse for Trump - this is new for him. Excuse me? Trump ran as a big time exec, not as an apprentice.
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just a month later LV shooting massacre is history - except for victims.
59 dead.
500 wounded - many for life.
why no cont outrage?
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March for Our Lives is a powerful, welcome and overdue demonstration against gun violence
and i hope there will also be more attention to inner city gun vioence.
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pruitt gets gop support “because he’s carrying out the president’s policies” which apparently no longer include
“draining the swamp”
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how will historians judge our time when school shootings are routine? civilization gives way to madness by gunfire.
it’s a national crisis and it is homegrown.
assault weapons are for war, not for civilians
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whatever your politics, what do you tell a child about POTUS use of scabrous language to attack a journalist? "he fights back."?
Shame
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i feel terrible a part of my comments on Hispanics offended some members of that proud culture
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trump loses. dems win. govt workers pay the price - and for what?
we cannot govern by hissy fit. both sides
must find a way to immigration reform. hyperbole and hysteria are distractions, not solutions.
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pres trump getting rid of general mattis is like the captain of a sinking ship firing the coast guard.
this is a time for all hands to be on deck - whatever their party label - and confront captain queeg, er, president trump
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trump praising r. porter who lvs the WH an accused wife beater - no POTUS word for porter’s wives - both with evidence of abuse
Shameful
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las vegas is the 911 of mass shootings- it will change concert, hotel, big crowd security but will it change access to military weapons
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great FBI work on bombing suspect
congressional critics should zip it
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so proud of l.holt intvu with POTUS.
smart, direct, newsy.
a pro's pro.
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trump and gop back away from funding the wall.
stock mkt craters again.flynn may
hv to cough up more to avoid jail time. cohen is singing to feds.
conservatives are unhappy about wall surender.
not so merry, merry at mar a largo this xmas,
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9-11. longest life of my professional career.
had no idea what would happen next.
so much pain, loss, confusion.
BUT very quickly the country united - by grief and resolve.
that’s been lost. an enduring shame.
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pres trump now running the runaway virus invasion the same way he ran his casinos, football league, ties, sales schools
how did that work out?
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mass murder in a synagogue by a vile anti semite,
pipe bombs directed at trump critics, mis representation of the central American convoy
and the pres blames the media??
except fox!?
a time for unity not hateful division
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xi, kim and trump - nukes, trade and the future.
stakes could not be higher.
who is advising president trump?
what’s the us strategy and objective?
it requires so much more than a tweet
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trump blasts euro allies - praises putin - where is the rank and file GOP outrage
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speaker ryan retiring
can u blame him?
choices - sundays on the phone with a twitter raging president - or feet up on the barcalounger, a plateful of brats, a cold beverage and the Pack on tv.
getting out this early? does he hear a coming train wreck?
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alex trebek.
RIP.
We both worked out of NBC Burbank at start of our careers.
Later reminisced about our good fortune.
Classy, modest and gifted.
#@%* cancer!
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happy new year and let’s all cheer NASA which has successfully sent a spacecraft to Ultima Thule, a barren chunk of rock at the edge of the known universe. NASA remains “can do.”
u listening WH and Congress?
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hank aaron - what a loss. great ball player, great man.
we became friends when i did a documentary with him
he described growing up in South and being told he couldn’t
play because he was black - which made him all the more determined.
a gentle giant
one of my great heroes
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chief justice roberts rebuke of p. trump’s reaction to a 9th circuit judge’s ruling on immigrants was welcome and important.
the constitutional framework of the American govt is designed to withstand presidential abuse.
no trump hissy fit will change that
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finalky caught up to The Post, Steven Spielberg’s brilliant account of graham, bradlee and the washington post taking on nixon and the pentagon papers.
closed with justuce black: the free press is to protect
the governed, not the governors.
true then and now
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happy thanksgivjng everyone
brace yourselves.
it’s going to be a rock and roll couple of years.
and remember - UFO
the unforeseen will occur.
hope we can find more common cause
and keep our differences on a higher plane.
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iowa/penn state game - why i love college football.
Hawks were 13 pt u'dogs - and came within 4 secs
of winning.
Dern
Big 10 football!
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74 years ago today -D DAY, the bold, brave invasion that
was the beginning of the end of the
monster, nazi germany.
reporting from omaha beach in ‘84 inspired GREATEST GENERATION
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good god!
banning bump stocks “something we hv to take a look at...”
make a semi auto weapon full auto & much more lethal? look?
duh
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the ying and yang of the digital age: FACEBOOK’S failures to protect your privacy - to allow others to cash in.
a huge problem.
BUT the digital age allowed investigators to track down the tex bomber.
like all technology, digital requires judgment
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the newsroom shooting, like all others this year
makes me physically ill. our dear friend carl hiaasen lost his brother.
it’s a shameful commentary. “got a problem? get a gun.”
guns aren’t going away but their homocidal use requires a new crusade.
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my twitter acct failed me at the worst time.
i am sorry, truly sorry, my comments were offensive to
many. the great enduring american tradition of diversity is to be celebrated and cherished. yamiche, thank u for your comments.
let’s go forward together.
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in the nytimes this week i wrote an op ed
as a tribute to US health care, including role of immigrants - MDs to techs to orderlies.
it rec’d a gratifying positive response. suggested congress should listen more to folks on front line of med
and less to lobbyists.
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may the christmas hallelujah of peace on earth
be heard and honored for all people all year and beyond
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Zuckerberg’s appearance demonstrated most Senators think the digital age means you can still count with your fingers
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god bless cokie roberts, a dear friend and national treasure
we met 50 yrs ago in calif, cokie and meredith full time mothers
and career women. steve and i were two lucky guys.
cokie wrote books, starred on npr and abc, raised 2 fab children
an enduring role model
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in berlin for 30th anniversary of fall of Wall. NBC had world wide xclusuve coverage when it happened. team effort.
thrills me to this day. perfect time to re-ignite western alliance ideals. work remains.
are you listening pres trump?
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i spent a day with burt reynolds on one of the smokey films for a TODAY feature.
it was like hanging with my h.s. football buddies in the locker room.
the real deal.
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3 nation strike on syria right response but now US should lead a diplomatic effort to resolve syria’s continued threat. US, Europe, ME and invite Putin.
time to end that madness
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watched eclipse today on Crow hunting grounds at 7k feet in Mt.
no houses in sight
just majestic mount. ranges.
spritual
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the DC deadlock is embarrassing.
for trump
this one is going the way of his atlantic city casinos.
dems are “my way or the highway.”
the big issue? hispanics. trump doesn’t want them.
dems see them as pol future.
where are the grown ups?
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on this veterans day a tiny % of our pop. are defending our lives and values on dangerous fronts.
remember and honor them EVERY day
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during ww II fdr limited his fire side chats, saying he wanted the american people to know that when he did speak it was
important.
in england churchill followed the same approach.
trump is on the air more than the insurance guy with the peacock
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you’re an army nurse/fed narc/park ranger/cdc tech.
how u feeling about Cong and WH these days?
Schoolyard scrums hv more discipline than the grandees inside the Beltway.
if DC were a biz it would be in bankruptcy
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chuck berry invited t. russert and me to duck walk an iowa hotel lobby in 2000.
two no rhythm white boys with the legend. RIP CB.
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does president trump’s “patriotic education” mean a return to segregated schools?
looking the other way at
lynchings?
when chinese workers were slave laborers?
when japanese AMERICAN citizens were sent to remote prison camps?
guess he missed that when someone took his SATs
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jim vance - NBC Wash DC forever anchor - rest in peace, my friend.
you defined professional cool and accomplishment
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savannah, kristin
now leslie!
president trump oh for three
when will it dawn on him ?.?
ego is a condition not a brain cell
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The president never had to worry about missing pay day.
his dad showered him with big $ early and often.
no worries about rent, food, medical.
so govt workers are just chips in his latest big casino
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40 years ago - the camp david accords - with sadat, begjn and president carter. an enduring triumph.
pres carter’s vision and persistence.
historic accomplishment. take a bow, mr president.
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Price wanted to drain the swamp to make room for a charter business
and pay for a single seat.
but his flight plan ran out of runway
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after 7 yrs promising better health care GOP craters. lesson: arrogance is not policy. bi-partisan fix only answer. Aug is time to huddle
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duke says trump should remember whites put him in presidency.
america the white only?
a burning fuse.
who will extinguish, DT?
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Wimbledon and the World Cup - two events
in which great athletes from around the world compete and neither side fires a shot or triggers a bomb.
A rare moment for humans to find common cause.
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RIP john young, the astronaut’s astronaut.
cool, man of few words and many accomplishments.
personified tom wolfe’s
THE RIGHT STUFF.
tough jnterview. preferred. action to words.
but what action!
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my first election coverage - 1956
after b’ball practice i raced to country schools in SD
to get returns for local radio station. stayed on until midnight. catering by Kip’s Blue Moon.
i was hooked.
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Dr King’s memorable “I have a dream...”
still to be realized. Let’s make it everyone’s dream - and reality.
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school shootings in usa now common - and sickening.
dead heroes and terrified families everywhere.
where’s the outrage?
this calls for national unified campaign of left, right and middle
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