Lea Anne

💃Empty-nester| Food, wine and travel lover|Former Rx|Biz owner|Volunteer|Ally|Here to shine a light🌟|Follower of science & politics🤓

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

"You don't take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair." — LBJ https://t.co/uTsFxPsGLa

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act ten years ago on the belief that race-based voter suppression wouldn't happen. They were dead wrong.

Now they've gutted race-based admissions on the belief racism doesn't keep minorities from succeeding in society. Dead wrong again.

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

@MerriamWebster Prolly
I thought it was a made up word the first time I heard it. Turns out it actually saves an entire syllable 🤓

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

YES!!

[Tennessee Lookout || tnlookout.bsky.social @TNLookout]

Congressional Democrats reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would guarantee access to birth control regardless of any future Supreme Court rulings. @JenniferShutt reports.
https://t.co/K5o0cblMDP

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

Oh how I wish everyone got this!

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

To the gun owners of the country: the NRA and other organizations are lying - claiming Democrats want to confiscate your guns.. But I swear we just want you to hunt and shoot and protect your family without so many damned people getting slaughtered. Join us. This can’t go on.

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

@NickKnudsenUS @ABlackPolitical Disgusting

[Betsy Phillips @AuntB]

If the state of Tennessee can subvert the will of the voters and refuse to seat elected officials they don’t like, then we don’t actually have voting rights. And I would like the DOJ to act like this is serious. Send some lawyers.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

This nation was built on peaceful protest. No elected official should lose their job simply for raising their voice – especially when they’re doing it on behalf of our children.

[Rep. Justin Jones @brotherjones_]

It’s morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took six lives in our community, House Republicans only response is to expel us for standing with our constituents to call for gun control.

What’s happening in Tennessee is a clear danger to democracy all across this nation.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Governor Lee has done everything in his power to make guns more accessible since he was elected, even flip-flopping on permitless carry — which he said he was against when he ran, and which law enforcement opposed. #HowManyMore 💔

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Senator Blackburn took $1.25 million from the NRA.

[Peter Frampton @peterframpton]

I have posted this before but ..

26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK.

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

@caitforshort Precious!

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

A tale of two states. Vastly different. Which one actually cares for kids? This should be easy.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Left: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after signing a law that guarantees free breakfast and lunch to all public school students

Right: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders after signing a law that makes child labor easier

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

This warms my heart. Make sure kids are fed. Top priority.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

1 in 6 kids in his own state don’t have enough food—but this guy thinks poverty isn’t a problem because he doesn’t know any poor people. That is sick. Maybe if his party spent less time trying to ban books & more time listening to parents, he’d know how huge a problem hunger is.

[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

@chaparksdept I think this is what happened 😂

[Chris Anderson is moving to Bluesky @chrismanderson]

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[Lea Anne @LeaAnneWiles]

@caitforshort It’s just awful. And I think it’s by design. They hit on so many awful fronts that everyone is exhausted. But we can’t stop fighting. Love y’all