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[Marjorie Gaylor Queen 🏳️‍🌈 @Tim_Tweeted]

An armed transphobe in Eugene, OR attempts to intimidate folks at a Pride festival and fails

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This morning I sent my kids to school with a pit in my stomach.
I wanted to keep them home.
Wanted to keep them close.
Wanted to keep them safe.
But I can’t give in to the fear.
I can’t let them see that I’m afraid.
And I don’t want them to BE afraid.
So I sent them.
And just as I have done ever since the massacre at Sandy Hook, I made sure to memorize their outfits.
In case of the horrific unthinkable.
School shootings have been their reality for as long as they’ve been in school.
They are 9 and 13 years old.
And this is all they’ve ever known.
So it bears repeating -
That this is not normal.
And it is not ok.

[Moms Demand Action @MomsDemand]

Other countries don’t experience gun violence at a rate anywhere close to what we are forced to endure.

This is not freedom. We are being held hostage by the gun industry and the lawmakers who cower to it.

Join the work in your community to #EndGunViolence: Text ACT to 644-33.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Priscilla & Norma Hamilton are shinning a light on crimes overlooked by the media! 40% of missing women & girls in 2020 were people of color — the Hamiltons cover their stories because they're often ignored! This is work needed in our communities! https://t.co/JbUaXepcGi

[Brandon E Richardson @_Brandon_E]

Long Beach’s animal shelter is so full dogs are going to be euthanized to free up space.

“As of last week, 12 dogs were assigned euthanasia dates; 10 of them have issues that would not typically put them on the list.”

If you can, adopt or foster ASAP

https://t.co/hoacrjgof2

[Planned Parenthood @PPFA]

Just a little reminder to anti-abortionists to mind their own uterus. ✌️

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

More information on the @PasadenaHumane event here: https://t.co/yo81aUkrWj

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

If you're looking for love, you might turn to Tinder. But the Pasadena Humane is making a version for animals that are up for adoption. 
They created doggie dating profiles, and they are offering a $14 Valentine's Day promo for these sweet dogs looking for a forever home.  🐶😻❤️

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0

Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0

Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400

GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, & arm more kids with guns.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Last Nov., Bobbi Wilson’s neighbor called the police on the 9-yo for spraying spotted lanternflies. A Yale professor heard Bobbi’s story, honored the young scientist, and asked her to submit the invasive specimens in Yale’s Natural History Museum! What a full circle moment!

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

🙏🏾

[Barnes & Noble @BNBuzz]

Banning books seems pretty suspect.

[Lisa Bloom @LisaBloom]

We interrupt the news about the Monterey Park mass shooting to cover the Half Moon Bay mass shooting.

Because we have lost our fucking minds.

The Second Amendment, like slavery and subjugation of women, was one of our founders’ worst 18th century ideas.

Repeal it.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

MLK Day is the perfect day to remind everyone that another name for “Critical Race Theory” is “Actual American History”.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop.

Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing.

His crime—asking police for help.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

“The problem is the bloody guns. I’m only here because my husband is in the military. Otherwise I would not have chosen to come to this country.”

Outraged mother at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia after a 6-year-old shot a teacher

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The Speaker of the House makes $223,500/year, has healthcare, and unlimited paid leave.

Meanwhile, the minimum wage is *still* $7.25/hour and we don’t have universal healthcare or paid sick leave.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Side hustles shouldn’t need to exist. One job should be enough.