“I love you, honey,” Janis Joplin, who died on this day in 1970, told the audience, following four encores, “but I just got nothing left.”
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What we’re enduring in Texas is catastrophic — and the distribution of basic, factual, timely information from people and agencies in positions of power has been inadequate and incompetent *at best.*
As a D.C. resident, the story of Relisha Rudd is burned into my mind.
I remember when I got the AMBER alert for her in 2014. She was 8 years old and disappeared from a homeless shelter. The days that followed were a nightmare for the city that I won't forget.
Somehow we weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn't broken
but simply unfinished
There is always light
if only we're brave enough to see it
if only we're brave enough to be it.
— Amanda Gorman
Consider surrounding it with strong adjectives and context, such as “violent protest” or “rioting protesters.”
Calling it a “mob” or a “riot” would also be appropriate, especially when the protesters’ actions were wild, widespread, violent and uncontrolled.
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Every single Black person, every single brown person, every single queer person I know was worried about THIS in 2016.
Most of us were called crazy or hysterical.
The state will send 250 cops to use chemicals and rubber bullets on 50 people standing in a park holding a sign, but just a few dozen to to ask nicely as hundreds try to storm the Capitol.
State violence is never about safety or need. It's about what they want to do.
Sen McConnell delivering a blistering take down of Pres Trump's arguments. McConnell says if the election was overturned "our democracy would enter a death spiral" and that action "would damage our republic forever."
He adds for measure, "This election is not unusually close."
This is the fire weather forecast I was hoping wouldn't come to pass, given all that has already transpired in 2020: Very strong offshore winds, coupled w/exceptionally low humidity & record-dry vegetation, will bring extremely critical wildfire risk Sun/Mon. 1/3 #CAwx#CAfire
We're all living the horror movie that is 2020—and there's one thing we have to do to stop it, according to a Scream-inspired short film starring @rachelbonnetta and directed by @minapark. https://t.co/gie3YReNSv