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Activist, Consultant, World Travelor 🌎 I'm pretty fun at parties 😉

Lincoln, Nebraska
Joined November 2015
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These are only controversial things in the US...I've been in Germany for 5 weeks now and have yet to have anybody tell me they disagree with any of these statements
Ohhh, I can block the Twitter Blue reply guys all at once...they're always right at the top. Hey! Hey...trans women are women! Climate change is caused by people! Healthcare is a human right! Birth control should be free and abortion should be legal!
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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself" ~ Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free ." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world." - Dolores Huerta
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"It's not only the swomee swans, barbaloot bear and humming fish that are disappearing. It's the whooping crane, the salt creek tiger beetle, the pallid sturgeon, great cultural symbols of the state of Nebraska, vanishing." valiantpost.com/embrace-nebr…
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Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year. "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. n.pr/42I9bK8
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Some reverse culture shocks I've experienced after backpacking Europe for 8 months: 1/?
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Tax not being included
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Complimenting something and getting the response of, "OH thanks! It's $8 from Trader Joe's" Forgot how Midwest this one is 10/?
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Counties in orange indicate where transit is the most common mode of transportation to work. We have A LOT of work to do.
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Hearing people only speak American English 6/?
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A question I pondered a lot while in Europe and is on my mind now that I'm back in the US is: Why does people's love for hate overpower their love for love?
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