Fan of great food and live theater. Always ready to travel. Views are my own.
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The same people who say “children need a mother and a father” just robbed a family of nine of their mother over her allyship. 🏳️🌈
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This month in the US, people were shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car, using a leaf blower, delivering food to the wrong address, driving into the wrong driveway, and for asking a neighbor to stop shooting so a baby could sleep.
It’s the fucking guns.
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NEW: Fox News poll finds most voters - including gun owners - favor:
Universal background checks (87%)
Raising purchase age to 21 (81%)
Removing guns from people who are at-risk (80%)
Requiring a waiting period for all gun purchases (77%) foxnews.com/official-polls/f… #FoxNews
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Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton doesn’t stop at silencing legislators. Tonight, he had this grandmother arrested for speaking in the gallery against a bill to abolish community oversight boards of police that would undo the will of Nashville voters. This is not democracy.
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I will be closing down my Twitter in 2 weeks. Meanwhile:
My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opini…
Absolutely appalling! So much LGBTQIA+ living and spending in Miami/South Beach and Key West. In Orlando, and across the state. Where does this end? When internet access is banned in school and children can't have mobile phones? Gay is everywhere. You can't vote it away.
An expansion of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law requested by Gov. Ron DeSantis has been approved by Florida's Board of Education. The expansion bans classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades apnews.com/article/desantis-…
Going downtown, in any city, is something so many take for granted. This day needs support from corporations, volunteers, and donations. #formyblock
On 708 M3 will host a citywide event where we aim to bring 1,000 youth ages 13-22 to explore downtown. Youth will receive $50 exploration cards to purchase some good food, cultural items and activities. We don’t want youth to say “I’ve never been downtown.”formyblock.org/downtownday
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Payton Washington is in the ICU after she was shot for getting in the wrong car in Texas
Kaylin Gillis was shot to death for driving into the wrong driveway in New York
Ralph Yarl was shot in the head for ringing the doorbell at the wrong house in Missouri
It’s the guns
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In Hebron, NY, a group of friends searched for a friend’s house. They pulled into the wrong driveway. As they left the driveway, a White man named Kevin Monahan came outside. Fired two shots at the car. Tragically murdered 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis. 1/
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Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
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NEW: Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot twice by a white man in Kansas City after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home. The man shot Ralph in the head through his glass door, and then when Yarl was already bleeding out on the ground, shot him again: kansascitydefender.com/justi…
Just when you think things can't get worse...
Missouri Republicans have just voted to defund all public libraries heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/…
