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Enormously proud of this speech, our team, my fellow #CNNHeroes, and successfully not falling on my face in this dress. You can learn more about @MEANSDatabase at meansdatabase.org, and support our work - with your money matched! - at CNNHeroes.com. <3
"The lives of others may be beyond our experience, but they should never be beyond our empathy," says Maria Rose Belding, whose online platform MEANS has helped to distribute 1.8 million pounds of food to the hungry. #CNNHeroes cnn.it/2UsUVlb
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The replies are insane. I beg all of you to look at ANY other country that doesn’t have guns. This is strictly AMERICAN problem and the problem is guns. We don’t even get outraged when children are being murdered is schools, we have no empathy for human life. We cannot have guns.
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Gun violence spares no one.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk makes clear that this crisis doesn’t care about ideology or politics — it endangers us all. We know the solutions: stronger background checks, extreme risk protection orders, accountability for the gun industry, and more. What stands in the way is not a lack of answers, but political obstruction. Every day of inaction costs lives.
It’s long past time for leaders of every party to choose people over politics and act.
Maria-Rose Belding retweeted
Dr. Dobson was hugely influential in my family growing up. I’ll never forget the shame I felt as I read and re-read the chapter tucked away at the end of “Preparing for Adolescence” about homosexuality and how unnatural and broken we are. May Focus on the Family crumble. Amen.
Not the obituary I wanted to read today.
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And then we had a full-on brawl, because when you don’t punish this behavior, you encourage it. I was a little surprised Cunningham got ejected instead of an F1, but I can at least see how she got the F2. How Marina Mabrey didn’t is beyond me. #stopscratchingplayerseyesplz
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Before and after. MUAs are magic. Thank you so much Aubrielle. My face hit the pavement full force on Saturday, and I had a final interview for my dream job today. Thank you for helping me feel confident and ready to conquer the task at hand today. ♥️♥️ Now we wait for results!
Maria-Rose Belding retweeted
You know it’s almost Election Day when the Sesame Street characters have to run a coordinated campaign to keep us from doing another Civil War.
I actually am a combo of Calabrian, Spanish, NA/ME, + ~ 10% Brit, but even the 100% Calabrian members of the extended fam get mistaken for my actual heritage most of the time. Once there’s jet black hair + a tan, the JD Vance Whites stop being able to differentiate continents.
He’s cool with the Northern Italians. (Blonde, blue eyes, pale skin). It’s when he gets to those of us with Calabrian heritage (basically the bottom of Italy) that we become ~ethnic~. We tend to be misread as Spanish or Middle Eastern, but those are def worse in his book.
1. @sadgirlbrina is a type 1 diabetic, as am I. Google is your friend.
2. This is gross. Do you think all parents can afford or even access the ingredients you use for their children’s breakfasts? Please, come to Ward 7 here in DC and show me the organic produce.
Truly!!! Institutional knowledge is so important. The baton has been passed from mentor to protégée.
Maria-Rose Belding retweeted
In a 24 hour period:
*Kate officially makes the Aces roster
*Coach Bluder retires
*Jan Jensen becomes new coach
*Caitlin and the Fever are on a CHARTER flight to their first game
A great day to be an Iowa Women’s BB fan, a great day to be a queer woman from Iowa and see one of the most powerful non-Gov positions in our state be filled by an out lesbian. 🥹 She’s gonna crush it.
