How do you say goodbye to someone who helped make your destiny possible?
Thank you, Ed, for opening the door for our celestial exploration. You will forever be remembered as your legacy lives on beyond the heliosphere. 🖖
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[Ad Astra]
Poison a person, go to jail, they call you a felon for life. Poison a city resulting in dozens of deaths and thousands with brain damage, get a teaching fellowship at Harvard, they call you ex-Gov of Michigan Rick Snyder. Same with much corporate poisoning. 13/
Imagine watching as bulldozers tear through Arlington Cemetery and feeling the ground shake inside the National Cathedral as crews blast the earth. Hear the commotion, the destruction and the pain. #Opinion https://t.co/kXqcGHGa0O
There's a lot of totally correct talk about how @StaceyAbrams was pivotal to winning Georgia. Folks: Stacey & her team were pivotal to flipping Wisconsin too. And every other battleground. They worked with us to build massive, supercharged voter protection teams—starting *early.*
“We’re shaken. We are tattered. We’re torn,” he said. “There are people that did not vote today because the police released tear gas and pepper spray.”
One man was taken into custody after an officer told him to move off the sidewalk.
A black woman inadvertently drove into a protest scene. Philly cops pulled her from her car and beat her in front of her toddler. America’s largest police union then posted a photo of the boy and claimed his mother had abandoned him on the street.
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People should stop saying how many people police kill each year. Or, if you want to throw out a number, preface it with “at least” because, the truth is, no one knows.
What’s crazier is how many AREN’T counted
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Take Breonna Taylor, for instance.
Today would be Korryn Gaines' 28th birthday. But she was murdered by Baltimore police in 2016. Officer Royce Ruby shot and killed Korryn when she was in her own home, protecting her children. #SayHerName
Joe Biden should announce that the first bill he’ll introduce as President is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2021, a law that would guarantee every American the right to vote and the right to equal representation.
It would restore the Voting Rights Act, but also ensure:
Deputy Secretary of DHS Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR not only are they not stopping the Portland tactics they're going to take them nationwide. https://t.co/TJgZzN6two via @TPM
In case you missed this beautiful poem penned by Dr. Marvin E. Dingle in the most recent issue of @NEJM, please stop what you're doing and drink it in.
Friends? Please stay with us. And, as Dr. Dingle charges so eloquently, march on.
#BLM#dothework
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