This is the moment I warned of - we have sacrificed so much already, but it feels like nothing is working. That's because it takes weeks to see results. We must stay committed and trust that the social distancing we are enduring now will save thousands of lives.
Thread about airplane creeps: I’m on a plane from a late-evening stopover from and was very tired and had a row to myself to sleep but couldn’t avoid noticing what was going on in the row behind me.
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@mrsnipperknapp Ha, I’ll go with yes and not me clutching my phone so tightly after reading my timeline that I accidentally tweeted something.
🔥🔥🔥🔥 to the ground
I went to high school and college with lots of Brett Kavanaughs. Rich, ambitious, smart party boys. When they're confronted with anything they've done wrong, they unravel. They cite their own accomplishments. They cry. I know this because I've dated them. It all came back.
Folks say, "don't focus on identity politics" in a society where the entire social, political & economic order has been organized around racism in order to create a white elite and a Black underclass. Y'all are foolish.
This is a thread about how institutional racism works.
In the 1950’s SUNY schools & community colleges offered FREE tuition to local students. My mother-in-law, who is white, took advantage of this program and received her degree from SUNY Buffalo in Speech Therapy.
@iSmashFizzle My 7th gr Eng teacher gave us numerous creative writing assignments throughout the yr and marked me down bc mine were “too dark” no other criticism
My office closes every year for Election Day. 🗳 It makes it easier, obviously, and it becomes a priority for my day. I also have a better chance of being able to bring my kids along, so they can get used to the process https://t.co/WoOX0F4WX6
I believe we should eliminate President’s Day as a holiday and make Election Day a national holiday in its place.
I can think of no better way to honor our Founding Fathers than to make it easier to participate in the democracy they founded.