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seeking proper balance of the news and memes that mock the news

[Maria @rosesarerojas]

@maggierogers it’s been 7 minutes of presale SOS 😭

[Maria @rosesarerojas]

@dumbwithaloudb So true king

[Maria @rosesarerojas]

Got my second shot and my international bestseller by 30 under 30 legend @BeeBabs today 🎉🎉🎉

[Adam Lucas @jadamlucas]

New column: Roy Williams just retired from @UNC_Basketball (this is not an April Fools' joke), and leaves us with 18 years worth of incredible memories.

Oh, and a whole bunch of wins.

https://t.co/S4m8kzoSSd

[Maria @rosesarerojas]

Cincinnati & Columbus people: a black trans person has been kidnapped and is in need of urgent help, please spread the word to #findsai

[New Georgia Project @NewGAProject]

Dear 17-year-olds who live in Georgia: if you'll turn 18 by January 5, 2021, you're eligible to vote in the run-off election that will be held on that date. You have until December 7 to register to vote and we can help!

[Fair Fight @fairfightaction]

🚨 GEORGIA: We need your help contacting voters across the state to ensure their votes are counted. Voters only have until THIS FRIDAY, November 6th - sign up to help today: https://t.co/uQuSMf6f58 1/2

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

here’s the lyft code to get y’all to the polls

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Very important: today is deadline USPS recommends for sending back your mail ballot to make sure it’s counted. Better yet, drop it off if you can. 30 states require ballots to be received by Election Day (as SCOTUS ruled in Wisconsin yesterday)

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

I wrote about how, despite what the president wants you think, teaching students about the history of slavery is one of the most patriotic things you can do.

https://t.co/Pz5Exd8PeO

[Mara Gay @MaraGay]

The last word goes to you, Congressman.

“Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.”

John Lewis’ final op-ed to the country he loved. https://t.co/Ii4CRY5xOY

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

been watching this clip and thinking about how right this person is about narratives getting built around the people protecting themselves. Like how quickly the story here became "THE PROTESTERS HAVE THEIR OWN SHIELDS" as if that action was taken for no reason at all

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly. 1/

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

In the summer of 1776, my family lived in a town named Hiawasee, where the Hiwassee river flows out of the Appalachian Mountains into a wide, fertile valley.

The same summer our forefathers penned The Declaration of Independence, their army burned Hiawasee to the ground.