Tracy Bennett

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Tracy Bennett @tracy0507]

@LakotaMan1 Any boy or girl should be able to have their hair anyway they wish. I have 2 grandsons with long hair 8 and 7.

[Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 @jilevin]

Here's a good question:

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Four or Five Republican can literally change the future for America and the world. With so many collapsing into a heap of fear, are the 5 brave ones left? (I’m told there still are). Be a Churchill or resign

My rant:

[Tracy Bennett @tracy0507]

@LakotaMan1 So beautiful

[Tracy Bennett @tracy0507]

I just read that @violadavis said that she wished she hadn’t played Abilene in The Help. That is one of my favorite movies and it was an amazing cast!

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Following the shooting at UNC the school paper made this the front page- it’s texts from students on campus during the shooting. It doesn’t have to be this way but Republicans in North Carolina have loosened gun laws.

[Tracy Bennett @tracy0507]

@hwinkler4real It was so good! Planning to watch it again with my preteen grandkids

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

Don’t accept condolences about gun violence from any politician who is in a position to prevent it and does nothing.

The shooting at UNC is another painful reminder that we let our kids pay the price for grown-ups who refuse to lead.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Today is the 103rd anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Remember—it only gave white women voting rights. BIPOC women waited decades more:
•1920: White Women
•1952: Asian Women
•1962: Native Women
•1965: Black Women
•1975: Latino Women

We must continue to protect voting rights

[Tracy Bennett @tracy0507]

@integritycdn This is awful. Wildfires everywhere.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

AMAZING TAKE DOWN:🍿Attention, everyone! You absolutely must see this video. It brilliantly combines comedy and truth in a powerful takedown of Republicans and white supremacy. Though it may be a bit long, it is definitely worth the time invested. Once you've finished watching, feel free to share your thoughts as it truly is an incredible piece. #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi was raped by a stranger in her front yard. That alone is enough to traumatize a child. But his young girl was forced to have a baby because of the state's restrictive draconian abortion laws.

Her mom didn't know the child was pregnant and when she found out she did not have the funds to take off work, pay the transportation, pay for a hotel and the cost of the abortion.

There are currently no abortion providers in Mississippi.

Now a 13 year with ADHD and possible Post Traumatic Stress has a baby. She doesn't want her friends to know so she will start 7th grade via homeschooling.

There is actually no little hope in Mississippi for pregnant Black woman let alone pregnant children. Mississippi has the 2nd mortality rate in the country. Black women are 4X as likely to die from pregnancy related complications as white women.

This is what the Republican Party wants for children. They want them born but they really don't give a fuck about them when they are raped, pregnant, traumatized and without money for healthcare even if they have a high risk of dying.

#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#HandsOffOurHealtcare
#FreshResist

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

She makes a great few points, no? So I have to ask: What the hell is wrong with half the voters?

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

The Trump Indictment count is now 91.🫨

Let's be clear.

Trump was NOT indicted by Biden, Clinton, Soros, Big Bird, Target, Wokeness, Disney, pride flag, CRT, or Barbie. Trump was indicted by private citizens—as the US Constitution requires. (And most witnesses were Republican).

[NBC News @NBCNews]

John Green speaks out against an Indiana library's decision to move his novel 'The Fault in Our Stars' out of its young adult section. https://t.co/ia2udqA17a

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

As of today, we’re headed for a government shutdown.

The right-flank wants one, and it looks like Speaker McCarthy is going to give it to them.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawai’i — a place that’s so special to so many of us. Michelle and I are thinking of everyone who has lost a loved one, or whose life has been turned upside down.

If you’d like to help, you can do so here.
https://t.co/i9zN74FiNT