Today—after running and losing a campaign for Edmonds City Council in 2019, after applying twice for appointments to Edmonds City Council in Jan. 2020 and Sept. 2022—I was appointed to Edmonds City Council, Pos. 7. 1/4
(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading)
Please.
Folks, seriously.
PLEASE.
Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.
Children are children, for God’s sake, they are all special, and they are all worthy of the best life has to offer.
If taxpayers don’t want to lose diversity in the classroom at the college level, then taxpayers need to pony up and start paying for universal preschool. 3/5
to compete with White and Asian children. That is where the disparity starts and it is entirely due to economic investment and access to resources from the beginning. The difference in test scores has literally nothing to do with the children’s natural abilities or talents. 2/5
@joshuaatencio1 thank you for taking pictures with us! You played a great game and will get that “W” next time! It was my boyfriend’s first @SoundersFC game and you made it extra special for him! #GoSounders! 💚💙💚💙💚
@Netflix: Add Trigger Warning for Portrayals of Animal Cruelty, Death, and Dismemberment - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/y1rLXkksFL via @Change@peta, will you share our petition, please? We are almost at 300 signatures already! Thank you!
Oh well, I watched this happen to MySpace after the founder sold his company to Rupert Murdoch. These egotistical billionaires seem determined to ruin the digital commons of the 21st Century with their obsessive need to control everything. 4/4
This gives me serious pause about whether I want to continue to use Twitter and, through my patronage, generate ad revenue for @elonmusk, whom I do not admire. It seems that he is determined to destroy one of the megaphones of my generation. https://t.co/OmB0F1aAc4 1/4
It was part of the internet’s democratization of information that helped spark young people to assert their civil and human rights in many restrictive societies, such as during the Arab Spring. 3/4
For almost 250 years the men and women of the United States armed forces have prevailed against tyranny. Your example inspires Ukrainians today to fight back against Russian aggression.
On behalf of all Ukrainians, Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service.
@thislemontwist @myedmondsnews@edmondsbeacon @smpaine Mayor Nelson has authority to open up any public building owned by the City of Edmonds as an emergency shelter during inclement weather, I believe. Please address the Edmonds City Council and our mayor tomorrow night at our meeting if you would like the city to do that. ❄️
@thislemontwist @myedmondsnews@edmondsbeacon @smpaine The Emergency Cold Weather Shelter in Lynnwood only opens when temperatures hit freezing, 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
I’ve been a huge fan of Mariah Carey‘s ever since I was a little girl and it is so like her to have a sense of humor about the backlash to her most famous Christmas song. #MarkedSafeFromMariahCarey
My fellow Americans we need to stop being tribal! I love and care for my family members in rural and urban areas of the country. From Texas to Kansas to Indiana to California to DC to Iowa & more! Let us talk to one another and not turn people into the dangerous other!
I just got out of my second city council meeting as a councilmember. I ended up at the Edmonds Denny’s, the only restaurant in town still open. This is the face of a very happy woman at the end of a fourteen hour workday. #LocalGovernment#ForDemocracy 🇺🇸