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I like to ask questions and avoid small talk. Mostly here to retweet things I agree with in the moment. 🖤

[Addair @Addair]

@spectrumcenter hey! 2 old blink fans struggling to see the stage! Any more room on the floor? 🙏🏼🤘🏼

[Addair @Addair]

Governors from NC and nine other states called on Congress to take bipartisan action to protect current levels of funding for and increase recurring federal investment in child care as they develop the budget for FY 2024. Read the letter: https://t.co/uMou0MIVz0 #RaiseNC

[Kayla Johnson-White @kaylajohnsonatl]

Okay threads is helpful but y’all think I want my instagram followers to know what I tweet?! Hell no!!!

[emily may @emilykmay]

Is it immodest or is she just hot

[Addair @Addair]

The older I get, the more confident I am that the incel/calvinist Venn diagram is a circle.

[Meg | The Feminist Budget Mom @_nomadic_soul]

I tweet for the responsible Christian kids who were excellent listeners growing up and are called liberals now for just following what we were taught.

[Amanda Ach @amandaach]

Choosing which exclamation points to delete from my work email

[Addair @Addair]

@sheilagregoire I’d be interested in a study of the correlation between Christian men being told over and over again that lack of respect in the marriage is a root issue and the use of pornography focused on dominance

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Today is the anniversary of the electric-chair execution of George Junius Stinney, Jr.

He was 14 years old, and weighed 95 pounds, when he was executed in the state of South Carolina by electric chair.

(and he was declared innocent 70 years after his execution).

Here's a little more about that horrific event on June 16, 1944.

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[from my book EXECUTING GRACE]

George Junius Stinney Jr.

Have you ever heard that name?

George Junius Stinney Jr. was the youngest person ever executed in the United States; he was fourteen. He walked to his execution by electric chair carrying a large copy of the Bible under his arm.

He was accused of killing two white girls in the Jim Crow South. His trial lasted less than two hours. No witnesses were called, no defense presented. There is no record of a confession or of any physical evidence. And the all-white jury deliberated for a mere ten minutes before sentencing him to death.

In one of the quickest executions in history, George Junius Stinney Jr. was killed eighty-one days after being arrested. One of his last meals was ice cream with the officers who would later kill him. His skinny five-foot-one, ninety-five-pound body was so small that his head didn’t reach into the metal helmet of the electric chair, and so he had to sit on the Bible to make it work. He sat on the Bible. When the first jolts of electricity hit him, he flinched and the head mask fell off, revealing the terror in his eyes and the tears streaming down his cheeks. Only after several more jolts of electricity did he finally die.

I was so disturbed by George’s story, when I first encountered it, that I couldn’t stop reading about him. I thought maybe his execution had happened in the 1800s, but it was in 1944. Some of his family is still alive. Part of me wishes his execution had occurred hundreds of years ago so that I could write it off to those less civil days and dismiss it by thinking we’ve come a long way since then.

But no: it was 1944.

The case of George Junius Stinney Jr. is one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history. But his story raises many important questions. And while it is extreme, it is not exceptional. There are many George Stinneys.

Some things have changed since 1944. But what’s also striking, as we will see, is how little has changed since 1944.

*** In 2014, a South Carolina judge posthumously exonerated George Stinney. Seventy years after his execution, Judge Carmen Mullins threw out his murder conviction.

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[Addair @Addair]

@HC_Richardson @GovRonDeSantis I followed @HC_Richardson because of her nightly essays of historical significance post-election. I keep following her because of her Ivy League clap backs to idiots like this. Always a treat. She’s truly doing important work, top to bottom.

[Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here! @sheilagregoire]

The documentary makers of #ShinyHappyPeople did NOT have a responsibility to say, "not all Christians are like this."

That was not their responsibility.

That is OUR responsibility, to show by our actions and by the way we respond to the victims in this docuseries.

[Addair @Addair]

Did anyone actually get @mattrife tickets during the presale Tuesday or today? I’m channeling my rage into a daydream about a future @Ticketmaster documentary tracing their spectacular destruction. Themes of corporate greed, corrupt technology, and class action law suits. 🤞🏼

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

By 35 become aware of your coping mechanisms, your triggers, and your attachment style. This will not only make you a (very) desired partner, you’ll have the rare gift of emotional intelligence.

[Charles Meadows @cmeadows37]

@bethallisonbarr @albpeeler @TGC 💯"The best way to appreciate the God-given differences between the genders is to let them each bring their abilities to the same roles"(paraphrase from Birds of a feather).

Dr P drops the 🎤- on complementarianism's collective skull!💀

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Fanboying a murderous dictator while misspelling his name is very on-brand for him.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Thirteen years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

[Jay Wamsted @JayWamsted]

Them:
Student loan forgiveness is a travesty. Make people pay every dollar they owe for the education they chose. Plus interest.

Also Them:
Give me a voucher so I can send my kid to a private school.

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

“LGBTQ people are marketing sex to children” says the person who made his daughter pledge her sexual purity to him

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

If you have student loan debt, you should know this:

Every single House Republican just voted to overturn President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan AND retroactively charge you interest on your paused payments.