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MAT Graduate Student Intern for Drama Education 🏈🐗Woo Pig and all that🐗🏈

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Donald Trump promised to eliminate the national debt.

It was $23.1 trillion when he entered office.

It was $30.9 trillion when he left.

That's $7,800,000,000,000.

25% of the ENTIRE debt in the history of America was run up by Trump, with a GOP-led Congress in cahoots.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

The takeaway from this session shouldn't be: "Let's keep voting for Republicans - just different Republicans who are marginally better on guns but still bad on every other issue."

Use your privilege to support Dems who fought for gun safety all session. https://t.co/tPCuEHctYO

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I am 55 years old.
America is the only country I've ever known.
And I love my country.

When I was in school, I learned about the horrors of slavery. Sure, it was a limited education, but I totally got the gist of it.

We learned how people were taken from Africa, and how many DIED during the journey here, forced to labor in hot fields while being whipped, raped, deprived of education, and murdered.

In fact, when I was young, there was a mini-series on TV called Roots that depicted the brutality of slavery in horrifyingly explicit detail.

And then I did my OWN research, reading more books and watching more documentaries and movies.

But somehow, I was able to maintain my love of America. Despite all of the cruelty and brutality I had learned about, I was somehow able to figure out that the people alive in America today had NOTHING TO DO with slavery 200 years ago.

Somehow, I can still say the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the Star Spangled Banner, no problem.

But dishonest fascists like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ron DeSantis want to deprive American children of the knowledge of slavery, and African American studies because they say it's "propaganda leftist agenda" designed to teach kids to “hate America.”

That's a preposterous lie.

There are PLENTY of evils and horrors America is responsible for, and if you don't teach kids what happened in the past they may be DOOMED to repeat those horrors in the future.

Today's kids are being asked to treat as normal these "shooter drills" where the possibility of being shot with bullets that make them unrecognizable is a very real possibility, but we think they can't handle learning the truth about what happened 200 years ago?

If you ask me, those of us who learned the truth about America, and STILL love our country, are even more patriotic than those who are trying to whitewash it and hide the truth from kids.

Don't minimize it.
Don't rationalize it, with bullshit like "oh, it wasn't all bad because some people learned skills."

RESPECT THESE KIDS.
TELL THEM THE TRUTH.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

It could all be so simple.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Taxing the rich more literally feeds starving children

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Feel free to borrow this and share as needed.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

“You know, meteorologists need to be doing this more, not less.”

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Extremists in Florida are banning books, attempting to erase our history, and intend to teach our students that enslaved people benefited from slavery.

It’s outrageous.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Is it possible to love Samuel L. Jackson more?

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

You deserve a life:

-with clean air, food & water

-with free healthcare

-with free education

-with guaranteed housing

-without the fear of gun violence

-with bodily autonomy

You also deserve elected officials who will fight to deliver that life to the people.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I stand in strong solidarity with @sagaftra.

[Chris Jones @JonesForAR]

Over 25,000 Arkansas children were removed from Medicaid coverage just last month (many still eligible).

1 in 5 Arkansans live at or below the poverty line.

Nearly 50% of households can’t make ends meet.

We’re weeks away from another town’s water system failing.

And yet…

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

That video of Mitch McConnell is tough to watch but not nearly as tough as it is for the many millions of people in our country who can't afford lifesaving and life-dignifying health care specifically because of McConnell's career-long efforts to ensure they don't.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Climate change is ravaging the planet. Tuesday might have been the hottest day in the past 125,000 years. Congress must develop an unprecedented sense of urgency about this global crisis. https://t.co/VkJMWDlXnL

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

So $70k average PPP loan forgiveness is just fine, but $10-20k student loan forgiveness is not.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Right now, 98 MILLION people on the East Coast are under air quality alerts from Canadian fires and, last night, NYC had the worst air quality in the world. Climate change makes wildfires more frequent and widespread. If we do nothing, this is our new reality. It's time to act.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Young people all over the country are wondering: Will their political leaders have the guts to stand up and address climate change, or will the world they grow up in be increasingly uninhabitable?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨🚨🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have leaked confidential government information on Fox News, says national security law expert Mark Zaid.

In an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s show last night, Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that she had finished reviewing a confidential Treasury Report detailing alleged "crimes" involving President Biden and his son.

Greene admitted the document she read was inside a SCIF ― a sensitive compartmented information facility. Greene said the document was “unclassified,” but a SCIF is typically used only for very sensitive information. Lawmakers generally must check all electronic devices before entering, and cannot take notes while inside.

Greene not only said she took notes, but she SHOWED them on air.

She also has gone into specifics, giving details of what she saw within the report that has not been made public. If her claims are accurate, legal experts say this could constitute leaking government secrets, which is actually a felony offense.

Enough is enough. We are now being desensitized to congressional lawlessness.

If Marjorie Taylor Greene leaked information, We need CONSEQUENCES.

She should be expelled.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

NEW: I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to help end our nation’s gun violence crisis.

The American people are sick of Congress’ inaction.

The 28th will enshrine 4 widely supported gun safety freedoms -- while leaving the 2nd Amendment intact:

1) Raising the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21

2) Universal background checks

3) A reasonable waiting period for gun purchases

4) Banning the civilian purchase of assault weapons