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English #communitycollege adjunct faculty. Wellness educator. Author of Eat Vegan with Me. Views expressed here are my own #wearamask #disrupttexts #govegan

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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@JoshuaPotash Pulled over & arrested for rolling up a window. Driver: "It's my right to roll up my window." Cop: "No, it's not." Insanity.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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The next time a 2A Republican sends their "thoughts & prayers" after a #MassShooting I want someone to ask them "what do you say in your prayers? Do you just thank God it wasn't you?"
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@Soldier_Cynic @SCOTUSPlaces This is great. My town paper/FB page is always writing up copaganda aimed at indoctrinating kids. I'm going to share this now. Thank you.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@akapczynski Republicans are already in a tizzy over the leak, which is all the evidence you need to know they did it.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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"The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment was NOT passed to help white failed sons like Brett Kavanaugh and Jared Kushner get into schools..." 🔥Excellent take as always from @ElieNYC
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The ReidOut
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. @ElieNYC on Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions: "It was a terrible decision on the law, but we all know the real reason why people like John Roberts did it." #TheReidOut
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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Tracy Chapman singing HER SONG. 👏👏👏 #grammys
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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Wow. Annie Lenox doing a moving rendition of Nothing Compares to You. Mascara running with you, Annie. Artists for #ceasefire #grammys
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@rawveggies @AP Only if you're white.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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I hate what they did to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Pure evil. “I’ve lost my name. I’ve lost my reputation.” #January6thCommittee #January6thHearing
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@Jose_Pagliery @thedailybeast Ironically, the Seven Springs estate includes a tudor-style mansion built in 1919 by H.J. Heinz, the founder of Heinz ketchup.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@donwinslow So basically Trump spent $15 billion of taxpayer money on a ladder.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@donni May I suggest a catio
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@BlackKnight10k Hopefully not like OJ's trial.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@MuellerSheWrote @hugolowell @JoyAnnReid I'm hoping Clarence Thomas is getting nervous.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@NBCNews "[County Sheriff] said it seemed unlikely that so many people could have disappeared from the Omaha area without drawing more attention" Really?? Because "her father lured sex workers and transients from Omaha to his property before he killed them." That's why.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@Victorshi2020 A pedophile nominating another pedophile is so on brand for Republicans.
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@MorePerfectUS Their end goal is (and always has been) to eliminate public education entirely and make school available only to the wealthy elite. An uneducated populace is easier to control.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@equalityAlec Echoing Nixon's pivotal "mistakes were made." Police shootings are always written in passive voice, or as Radley Balko calls it, "past exonerative" tense in "The curious grammar of police shootings."
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@BrittanyBronso1 I once interviewed at a non-profit for a DoD position and in the 3rd round they asked me to write a proposal for a $5M capital campaign which I would pitch to the Board. I said hire me & I’ll do it on salary, otherwise no thanks.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@MuellerSheWrote And numerous times Cheney said many of Trump's actions were "illegal." She used the word.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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Today’s @FBI raid was made possible by National Archives Archivist David Ferriero whose persistence in retrieving the missing 15 boxes led to their discovery at Mar-a-Lago.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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This is just mesmerizing. Some things have changed, but Joni you’re beautiful as always #Grammys #GRAMMYs2024
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@sandibachom It’s the work of Stephen Miller. Be very afraid.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@Phil_Lewis_ Can the Till family sue her in civil court, even just symbolically? I mean, not that they should have to traumatize themselves even further, but...?
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@emllyannette Getting fired from a non-profit is the worst bc you feel like you failed at caring enough. I got fired bc I refused to continue doing unpaid evening & weekend hrs volunteering at events on top of working 40 hrs/wk. The CEO called this "insubordination"; I called it self-care.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@marclamonthill It’s sad that Trump’s lies led to her death, and infuriating that he will never be held accountable for it.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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"There's a small group of white men who are fearful of this coalition that is rising being lead by Black women, communities of color, righteous white folx, Asian people, indigenous people that stand for democracy, and we're gonna remove them from office." @MsLaToshaBrown 👏
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. @MsLaToshaBrown slams #Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon being arrested for knocking on the door of Gov. Kemp's office. Plus, @AriBerman tells us that America's democracy is on the line if Congress does not pass the voting rights bill HR 1. #SundayShow
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@WajahatAli The right to protest includes the public sidewalk in front of a private residence.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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Can we just all agree that @clem_burke is one of THE BEST drummers of all time? Look at this. 👀😲
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Last night in the desert . Coachella week # 2 . Rock On !
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@OccupyDemocrats Um, why hasn't she been censured? @ewarren got censured because she quoted Coretta Scott King.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@Jezebel Do first amendment rights not apply to the Montana legislature? This is absurd. @ZoAndBehold you are an inspiration to so many. Thank you for speaking out & standing up for the rights of the transgender community. 🏳️‍⚧️ Sending you my love & support ❤️🙏
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@softtail65 A related fun fact: Mike Nesmith used his Liquid Paper inheritence to fund the 1984 cult classic, Repo Man.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@FordJohnathan5 All this is well and good and he deserves to be left penniless, but when exactly will he have to start paying? Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1Billion to Sandy Hook victims in 2023, but he hasn’t paid a cent. When will justice be served for these corrupt con men?
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@espiers It’s not that they don’t understand. It’s that they don’t WANT TO understand. These are the same people who say there’s no such thing as systemic racism or police violence. It’s the privileged belief that THEY get to dictate the narrative, and truth/facts are irrelevant.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@AntonioArellano This is a taunt. Abbott wants to provoke an arrest to rile up tRump's base even further. He should be arrested, but the Biden team is probably looking at more diplomatic options that tiptoe around this.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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"I can't in good conscience tell you to wait... You and I are not fighting for scraps. We're fighting for freedom. Because that's what education affords us: Freedom." @AyannaPressley speaking at @AFTunion conference. #IamAFT #AFT #UnionStrong
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@BerniceKing Beautiful ❤️😭🤗
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There’s nothing like the love of a grandmother. Beautiful ❤️ 21 year old Sha'Carri Richardson embraces her grandmother after qualifying for her first Olympic Games.
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@ThatSmartGuy123 @AP Only if you're white.
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@ECMcLaughlin @MuellerSheWrote Or if there was a deeper plot to overthrow the government, Vice President Harris.
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@Heavenisabeach @sandibachom It’s called prison.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@sandibachom I wonder how many of those Evangelicals have had abortions.
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"To reach the full potential of our society, we need to liberate our young people [student debt.]." @DrJillStein
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@PENamerica How would that even be history if it only goes back to the 1970s? Good for them. The students are the teachers and administration should take a lesson from them.
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@tx_outsider @Soldier_Cynic @SCOTUSPlaces But their parents are, unfortunately.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@sandibachom I was damaged from childhood abuse. Didn't end up a Trump supporter. There's more to it than that, like religious ideology, cultural heritage, socio-economic status, education, etc.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@DonLew87 I hope these hearings get to the bottom of why DC/Capitol police were so unprepared when there were warnings days/weeks before that this could happen.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@juliacarriew Research shows those who have the most empathy tend to experience greater levels of burnout.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@whoiszhu Angel Kitty Buttercup demands I hold him in my arm every night for sleepy time
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@atrupar "Please do your best." Why is Wray still head of @FBI ? Clearly he's still loyal to TFG since he can't even give a straight answer to any of these questions.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@PalmerReport So, can we officially start saying "it's Mueller time" again?
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@CalltoActivism The more they project, the more they're guilty of.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@hugolowell The Freedom Caucus is a group of conservative members of the House. It was previously chaired by Gym Jordan, and before that Mark Meadows. So... 🤷‍♀️
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@AyannaPressley And plantation owners in the front.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@L_M_Fisher @duty2warn I think about this every day.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@BreeNewsome Exactly. MPD was one of the departments that DID implement "reforms" after George Floyd's murder. Clearly the answer is not more reforms.
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@POTUS Please go BIG. Time is running out.
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@ElieNYC So can parents claim 30 fertilized embryo babies as dependents on their taxes?
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@antifaoperative @ChudsOfTikTok But only for white men.
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@sandibachom We all did. The verdict was 💯 gaslighting the nation.
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@ScientistsLift Adjuncts who have taught for at least 6 straight semesters should be considered permanent employees.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@CREWcrew Deputy assistant director Tony Ornato would've had a role in approving spending. More evidence of colluding with Trump from the get-go.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@academicswrite Can you share what year/level students these are, what the class was, and the assignment prompt? Also, can you describe where you teach? I wonder about transferability.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@whstancil "Shots were fired." There is never any police accountability.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@hugolowell Jeezus, next thing we'll learn is there were confidential documents stuck inside the menus at Mar-a-Lago Club for VIP diners.
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I'm guessing this scenario is not unique to Uvalde.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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Robb Elementary has 576 students—and 84% are economically disadvantaged. Now 19 were murdered, 17 have bullet wounds, & 538 are emotionally scarred the rest of their lives. The school has 1 Counselor. ONE. Yet, Uvalde Police is 40% of the town budget. This Is A Failed System.
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@emmersbrown I wonder how long it will be before people start asking if it's not the police's job to protect us from bad guys, then why are we paying them $4 million??
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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Best movie entrance ever: Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka Best movie line ever: "I said GOOD DAY SIR!!"
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@AOC @GOPLeader And yet @ewarren was censured by Congress for quoting Coretta Scott King.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@chipfranklin The fact that this was done in secret AND not a single Congressperson who attended alerted Congressional oversight to express concern shows they ALL knew what they were doing and should ALL be held accountable.
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"Young people like me found comfort in education when we couldn't find it anywhere else." @santiagomayer_ @VotersTomorrow speaking at the @AFTunion convention #AFT #IamAFT
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@JamesFLoveIV Everyone needs to stop saying "it can't happen here." It already is.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@BlackKnight10k Every FBI director in its entire history has been a Republican.
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@MollyJongFast The funny thing is he thinks that's an insult. 🙋‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛
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@nytimes This is heartbreaking. She was recovering from Covid. The medical community does not know everything there is to know about this deadly disease.
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@kylegriffin1 "The suspect has been detained and is in police custody." I'm guessing it's another white male shooter.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@AshIsHereForIt @PamKeithFL Will the Emmett Till Antilynching Act be applied here? This was clearly a hate crime.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@caslernoel Most likely that $170k has been laundered. Unlike the Depends.
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@Soldier_Cynic @SCOTUSPlaces I'm sharing this from a friend who is a public defender who shared this with me. Definitely worth watching for further info:
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@WalshFreedom They were busy gathering evidence, obtaining testimony, etc. All that takes time, and they've been very thorough in the process. I appreciate everything the #Jan6thCommittee has done.
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@robreiner And yet, no matter how many times Dems used the word, not a single person was physically harmed as a result.
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@joncoopertweets This is great news! But I wish more could be done to regulate predatory lenders that exploit people who just want an education.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@ElieNYC By the same token, Dems need to stop projecting their compassion, rationality, and integrity onto MAGAs. They just don't have any. There's no reasoning with them.
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Beautiful, powerful message from @MsLaToshaBrown at @selma_jubilee "What is your radical reimagining of what America can be? We are being called to be VISIONARIES!" 🙏❤️ #Selma56
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@PamKeithFL And they fear the possibility of a Black woman President even more.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@MorePerfectUS Not a surprise. Do we really need studies showing that better pay, flexible schedules, remote options, PTO, and work-life balance promote wellness? I'd be curious to know if this particular study focused on US workplaces or if it was global in scope.
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@kylegriffin1 I seriously doubt any of them even know anything about candlelight dinners either.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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This Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett duet is pretty amazing. #grammys
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@DonLew87 Part of me also wonders if this "son" actually exists. He's not in any family photo, he was not formally adopted, he did not take the Johnson surname, and now as an adult he could not be reached for comment. Yet Johnson touts his Black son as evidence of racial awareness. 🤔
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@SethAbramson Again, all of this took planning and coordination. I don’t think it’s conspiracy theory territory to surmise the two events are somehow related. It also coincidentally comes when the likelihood of a TFG indictment is ramping up.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@lhkuroda I've been teaching this brilliant speech in my ENG 101 comp class and never knew this! WOW. I'm bookmarking your thread and will add your lesson to our class discussion when we read the written text in a few weeks. Thank you 🙏
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@MaryLTrump I’m glad that her 15 minutes of fame is all used up and we never have to see or hear Katie Britt ever again.
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@MeghanJMJW Can you please offer sex ed to Congress and SCOTUS?
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Mary Lawrence (she/her) ☮️Ⓥ
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@PamKeithFL Two reasons: 1) If Biden were to replace Garland at this critical moment, he'd worry that might be perceived as political* 2) He still, perhaps unrealistically, believes the checks & balances work and justice will prevail. *Yes, I know, GQP will claim everything is political.
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