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I work with refugees. Historian. I believe in humanitarian action, in helping others, in making society better for the most marginalized.

Joined January 2017
Police brutality Unequal education Maternal mortality Child welfare involvement These are all systems in which, and are not an exhaustive list, of the ways in which systemic racism is *quantifiable*. This is what we want with BLM. This is what needs changing. Not murals painted
Black women are 243% more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications than white women — this father brought his heartbreaking story to Congress to change that
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Centrism didn’t win the midterms. So why would we trust and support two wildly unpopular centrists to lead the party?
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In 2027 Mexico will implement Universal Healthcare. Leaving the USA as the only country in N.America without it. All that money, but the citizens never get any of it.
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The Nvidia CEO cheating on his wife with a Chinese spy is why we gotta get men tf outta leadership. No evolution with the species at all. The same ole tricks been working on them for thousands of years
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A sincere thank you to @AbbottElemABC for telling me about the meep stuff 'cause I am apparently an old, officially, and I now know the context of those varied meeps my nephew sends me. And that kid loves me as much as I love him and says it in... meeps
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Ok. The phone lines are flooded. Now there has to be a focus on who should be in those spots Ayanna Pressley for House Speaker or Ro Khanna Chris Van Hollen for Sen Majority Leader (CVH declines because of wanting to run in 2028) or Bernie Sanders
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The majority of the pro-Israel money spent against Hasan Piker-backed candidates was laundered through shell organizations to make it harder to track
The results are (mostly) in, Hasan Piker helped elect 18 new members of US Congress and local + state offices I had the pleasure of producing some of Hasan's interviews with them, so I made a website to show off the results
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You seriously don't understand how impressive of a Candidate Angie Nixon was. She not only got 721,000 more votes than Val Demings did in 2022, but she retained 66% more votes than Demings did compared to the prior general election campaign.
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Are those acknowledging that it is illegal still...going through with these illegal orders?
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weird how quickly liberals started their own racist version of "everybody DSA elected were just DEI tokens" you all are truly, truly Blue MAGA
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Democrats just won a huge mandate and they're using it to... position themselves to the right of libertarians 🥴
No. It’s time for ICE to be abolished.
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We certainly are, you bootlicker
Bitch we really on here w nutcases omg
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UNFORGIVEABLE: A Minnesota doctor just revealed Renée Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. A physician on scene offered to administer aid and was denied. In any courtroom, preventing medical aid after using deadly force isn’t just cruel, it’s an aggravating factor.
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Punch grew up and now takes care of a baby monkey😭
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Calling me a boomer while I am defending retail workers over actual boomers would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic and weak-minded
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I interned for Sen. Van Hollen and his constituent services office is something every elected official should strive to match the standards of, exemplified by how he handled Kilmar Ábrego García’s illegal detention in El Salvador. This is such a no brainer decision
NEW: Sen. Chris Van Hollen is now open to a run against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Van Hollen has "received an outpouring of calls and is now in active listening mode," according to a person familiar w/ his thinking around leadership "The door is not shut," the person added Van Hollen is a leading progressive & has said he needs commitments from Schumer before agreeing to support him for another term as leader. The Maryland Democrat has also been eyeing a presidential run
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I want to be abundantly clear: unions and the USSR are what got us basic workers rights, Civil Rights, and a decent, more-than-livable-so-you-might-enjoy-life wage. So many concessions were given because the USSR challenged them (problematic as it was)
There’s something profoundly dishonest about an economy that depends on millions of people doing essential work while simultaneously insisting that those people haven’t earned enough to live comfortably
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Why are these parents not going after this nasty fuck for recording their children?
Jake Lang thought he was outing a furry convention, turns out it was actual cats.I hope he donated to the event for shelter cats.
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Just occurred to me, as I was hanging my newest piece of art, I don't have a single piece of art purchased in the US, lol And my earrings are from no fewer than 8 countries.
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JEFFRIES HOLDING THE HOUSE HOSTAGE UNLESS THEY VOTE FOR HIM? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? @RepJeffries you dumb ass bully
Jefferies is demanding support or he'll withhold committee appointments, and James just said anyone challenging Jefferies has to go through her… Thats straight up bullying behavior. We need to get rid of them both.
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