Dr. Michele Martindill
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I admit it--I forgot about Ken Starr being removed as Baylor's president & having to resign as chancellor amid a sexual assault controversy. And a president picks him as a defense attorney?
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Happy Birthday to Me!!! It's my 70th birthday! There may or not be a picture later!! 🥳🎉🎂
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Dan Rather is correct--this story on Jerry Falwell is top-notch reporting. Falwell makes my skin crawl. Read about the shady financial dealings, the nightclubs, his sexually explicit talk... Liberty U has 110,000 students, mostly online. It's a cover for a dark world.
Top-notch investigative reporting on one of President Trump’s most vocal political allies. Lots of questions in need of answers...
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@realDonaldTrump
We live near the border & in a sanctuary city. We are not "pushing hard" for a wall, nor will we stop protecting immigrants. Drugs enter this country through USPS, UPS, FedEx--at our airports & shipping ports. Your focus on the Mexican border is blatant racism & white supremacy.
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@DrPsyBuffy
My professor years were roughly '87 to 2011. Sociology and Peace Studies. I'll vouch for everything you wrote and add that all I asked was for conservative students to provide citations for their opinions. They couldn't and that was a source of their frustration.
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@MysterySolvent
Rep. Dingell died of prostrate cancer in Feb. '19, 4 months after my husband of 42 years died of pancreatic cancer. Mocking a widow or any aspect of the death of her husband is cruel and anyone who stoops that low has no business holding public office. My heart is shattered.
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@paulinaporizkov
Older widows are expected to not only be invisible, but to be quiet, too. We are the ultimate disposable people in society. Studies show at least 11% have no friends or family, and the majority of that group are Black women. Racism and ageism go hand in hand.
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@johnlegend
In Oct. 2018 my husband died of pancreatic cancer. The last 2 weeks in the hospital cost over $250,000. He had insurance, but I still had to pay over $30,000. out of pocket. Who has that much in savings when someone has a disease like cancer? Dying is not cheap.
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@realDonaldTrump
Oil is priced according to the value of the dollar. When the value of the dollar declines, as it is now, oil prices rise. The devalued dollar is contributing to overall inflation. Your friends Russia & Saudi Arabia have agreed to slow oil production to keep the price of oil high.
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@Joseph_Fasano_
So true!! Language is action, as is silence. Sociologist Arnold Arluke said the same thing. He showed how Nazi leadership controlled the words used for Jews, eg comparing them to vermin, and the words used for Aryans, eg comparing them to brave eagles. Words become institutions.
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This story will be buried. It's more than worth reading. Who's the beneficiary of this market manipulation and insider trading? 3 guesses & the first 2 don't count.
The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades via
@VanityFair
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@Brasilmagic
I'm a woman and 64. Serious question: Did Rep. Allan Rothlisberg lose his penis at age 50? Clearly, his misogyny is intact.
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@JoyceWhiteVance
Just wait until you're a widow. My husband died 3 years ago and I'm still battling to get his name off of things. This week Spring/T-Mobile wouldn't let me access my account because I'm not Bill--even though I had his name removed 3 effing years ago! No fun re-living his death.
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@sarahcpr
Welcome to the club!! He blocked me years ago because I challenged his academic credentials. I'm a Ph.D. and I guarantee he isn't. Also, he doesn't like women who are Ph.D.s.
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@Mikel_Jollett
I'm tired of being told I have to create some kind of unity with white supremacists/nationalists, racists, sexists, misogynists, ableists, or anyone else from the oppressor class. We should be working together to speak truth to their power, to bring their bigotry to a full stop.
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@ananavarro
Really? I'm hearing a Stephen Miller dark speech. Fear mongering. Rationalizations for war. White nationalism. It's beyond gross.
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@MSNBC
Why did
@realDonaldTrump
&
@FLOTUS
think they would be welcome at that hospital? They disrupted the care of patients, and that was an incredibly thoughtless, selfish thing to do.
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@RepLizCheney
is making uninformed accusations for personal political gain. Fewer than 2% of births are late term (no more than 6,000 annually) and they only happen to protect the life of the mother or to end suffering. (see citation below)
I will donate $25,000 to the charity of their choice to the *FIRST* REPORTER who plays this video for
@Liz_Cheney
and asks her tomorrow on camera which Democrats are killing babies AFTER their born?
$25,000 to the charity of your choice.
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@realDonaldTrump
@nytimes
1. It's counsel, not councel.
2. Did you read the NYT article? It was a soft ball.
3. As a U.S. citizen, Don McGahn has personal liberty. He's not your personal lawyer, so you don't get to "allow" him to do anything. He is the WH lawyer who protects the presidency, not you.
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What a life! I didn't know Stephen Stills helped Peter get the gig with the Monkees. Will miss you, Peter.
Monkees Singer and Bassist Peter Tork Dead at 77 via
@RollingStone
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@TomLynch_
@FBIWFO
@Ash__tag__
@nbcwashington
@Telemundo44
He's the founder of Cowboys for Trump and most likely used Otero County funds for his little outing. Check it out.
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@JoeNBC
Clearly, you're not a woman or a survivor of sexual assault. Where was that "one person" yesterday when we were screaming & hurting like hell? Do you really think our "tempers" will ever cool toward
@LindseyGrahamSC
,
@ChuckGrassley
or
@SenTedCruz
? Not feeling that "kindness."
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@PeterAlexander
@PressSec
@realDonaldTrump
was stating a made-up fact. He was golfing while the bodies of soldiers KIA were arriving in the U.S. There's no excuse. One of those soldiers is already buried, a soldier w/ over 200 yrs. of service in his family. Why didn't the U.S. dictator mention that FACT??
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@RepAdamSchiff
@thetruthwillout
@realDonaldTrump
keeps tweeting about how great Wall Street and the economy are doing, so why do we need a tax break for the wealthy? Shouldn't they be creating more jobs already?
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@FLOTUS
You're married to a 5 time draft dodger who bone spurs that mysteriously were okay as soon as the Viet Nam War ended. It's disgraceful and disrespectful for the two of you to even talk about honoring soldiers who died fighting for your freedom.
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@ShannyGasm
@ProdigalHoosier
Just wait until you're a widow in your 60s and people keep forcing you into groups with old women who only want to talk about their medications, surgeries, grandchildren and travels. Meanwhile, you'd give anything to find someone who could intelligently discuss Foucault.
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@AprilDRyan
No. Kavanaugh was belligerent, angry, loud, and refused to listen to or answer questions. His comments were red herrings, designed to distract from why the FBI wasn't allowed to investigate the charges. Worse, Kavanaugh tried to silence women senators by shouting them down.
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@realDonaldTrump
The relationship w/ Russia is bad because:
1. Putin is a dictator;
2. Russia invaded the Ukraine;
3. Russia annexed Crimea;
4. Putin murders journalists who aren't loyal to him;
5. Russia poisoned ppl on foreign soil;
6. Russia attacked the U.S. in 2016 & continues to do so
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@Joseph_Fasano_
When I was still teaching I had an exercise for students to find historical & current examples of taken-for-granted language that shapes thinking. It is worth noting how much of that language animal/insect/marine related, much of gaining power as the years pass.
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@DrEricDing
@Antonio_Caramia
1. Media outlets need more extensive reporting on
#BA2
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2. They need to stop saying only older people are hospitalized or die, and they need to acknowledge inconsistent data collection; and
4. They need to make clear that "mild" infections can still lead to long haul symptoms.
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@lawyermama41
As a widow, I relived Bill's death every single time a medical appeared in my mailbox. Those bills kept appearing for over six months, bills for tests, treatments and services that could never save someone with pancreatic cancer. Death becomes all about money and it's expensive.
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@kierstenj
@DrPsyBuffy
Not sure what you mean. I had trouble with conservative students, but it was of their own making. They wanted their personal opinions validated without any investment in academic rigor.
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@AP
Trump took a job for which is was completely unqualified. The Presidency is not a place where on-the-job training is an option.
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@kylegriffin1
@gailbriggs8
Kelly was every bit as racist and sexist in his statement about Gold Star families and protecting the U.S. dictator as the entire White Supremacy House regime. He dismissed the voices of 3 Black women, the widow & mother of the soldier KIA and a Congresswoman.
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@fred_guttenberg
I've cared for people w/ dementia &
@realDonaldTrump
shows the symptoms of dementia. It could be the result of meds, stress and/or heredity. Keep fighting to make people listen!!
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@JaneneHague
@Joette56123293
@realDonaldTrump
My state of New Mexico has a thriving solar energy industry, but it's threatened by the constant bad mouthing of the current U.S. regime. The aluminum & steel tariffs are affecting us, too, since solar panel frames are custom built here out of those materials.
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@WhiteHouse
@realDonaldTrump
It's a tragic day for the U.S. when the person who occupies the Oval Office has to be shamed into lowering the flag to half staff to honor a senator who died.
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I've found my sign.
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The day someone dies of cancer no one says it's too soon to talk about ending cancer. The day someone dies in a plane crash no one says it's too soon to talk about making planes safer. Why is the day people die in a mass shooting too soon to talk about ending gun violence?
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@RaisedRight252
@realDonaldTrump
Undocumented workers pay over 11 billion dollars into the U.S. tax system every year through rent, shopping purchases, & payroll deductions, & get nothing back for their effort. They can't get medical care, education, Social Security or any other social service. They support us.
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@chrislhayes
Parents made the choice to be parents, to deal with the good and the bad. It's their responsibility. I'm having trouble being sympathetic here.
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@Laurieluvsmolly
@RepSwalwell
I live near the border, so I get to laugh at border jokes!! I think I would have noticed 1/8 of the world's population showing up here. Ya know? 😂
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@LISAMW979
Bill's mother hated me. I was from the wrong side of the tracks. After a few years of marriage I got tired of her digs and told Bill he could visit his parents, but they weren't welcome in my house. That settled the problem.
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Thread. Here's how Big Pharma worked the "sue to delay" tactic on just one cancer drug in order to keep prices inflated--$750. a pill in the u.s. and only $10. a pill in Canada. Medicare recipients and the gov't lose billions in this scam. Meanwhile, cancer patients die.
⚠️Corrupt “SUE TO DELAY” big pharma shenanigan—➡️ Life saving cancer medicine lenalidomide (Revlimid) costs $720 per generic pill💊 in 🇺🇸. In 🇨🇦, same pill = $10. In Finland 🇫🇮, same pill = 2.5 Euros ($2.63)!!! Despite there being a generic drug, the brand maker Celgene sued to…
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@Joseph_Fasano_
My diss was focused on the social construction of the word/concept humane. When I was in grad school I worked at a kill shelter that called itself a humane society, but our work was not humane. Society thought we were kind, a good place. Little did they know.
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@go4itkcm
Yeah, that's the part that got my attention. Bots make some odd errors. They don't know history or the English language.
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My mother was in a nursing home for the last 5 years of her life. Staff dropped her twice, breaking a wrist each time. They gave her cigarettes & left her alone to smoke. She was burned several times. The home was constantly under investigation. We need nursing home regulations!
Now that Trump has rolled back the use of fines against nursing homes cited for neglect & abuse, the list of people he's hurt continues to grow. In addition to the most obvious groups - such as blacks, Latinos, women, gays, immigrants, elderly & the poor - who else would YOU add?
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@peterbakernyt
The striking thing is that the jobs created under President Obama were mostly professional, including work in health care, technology and education. The jobs currently being created are low level service industry jobs and only a small percentage offer benefits.
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Happy 66th birthday to me!!
First it was Zumba class and then I had a great lunch with a friend in Old Town. Gratitude!!
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@PreetBharara
Dershowitz is trying to make himself relevant by defending DJT. Ignore him. Don't feed the troll.
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@JillWineBanks
@realDonaldTrump
The only progress the U.S. dictator is making is to incite bigotry, increase white supremacy, spread racism & promote sexism. He's had a busy week.
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@RepSwalwell
Let's stop saying there are "responsible gun owners."
Let's stop calling it "sensible gun laws" or "gun safety laws."
Let's start admitting all gun owners are complicit in gun violence and mass shooting slaughters.
Let's start admitting we need strict gun control laws.
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@TeaPainUSA
Roger Stone is being deliberately cruel and insensitive, especially to David Crosby's grieving family.
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@StuartEtc
@SpeakerRyan
Calls for unity and singing Kumbaya ring hollow when they come from guns rights activists and legislators.
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@2StefanMoore
@SylviaStil44213
I'm a widow of nearly 5 years and every word of this essay is true for widows, too, BUT I do wish someone had said those words right when Bill died. The honesty would have helped me stay grounded, whereas the empty cliches were outright lies.
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@davidhogg111
I was a Repub '72 to '92. I lived in CO & 2 things changed me. Ben Nighthorse Campbell was running for Senate and the open racism toward a Native Am. candidate was disgusting. There was a vote on gay partners being able to get insurance benefits and the anti-gay hate was violent.
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@realDonaldTrump
Fewer than 1 million workers in the U.S. make steel.
Nearly 7 million workers in the U.S. have jobs that use imported steel to make things.
Your tariffs are going to put those 7 million workers out of work because the steel they need will be too expensive.
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@RockNRoLL_85
Bob Seger.
By a mile!!!! I simply can't listen to Neil Young. He writes great songs, but that voice drives me up a wall unless he's singing harmony. I'm sure I'll make somebody mad or defensive, but just remember we all have different tastes.
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@peace1
Great idea, but if you live in bear country like I do, then take the pumpkins deep into the woods. Don't risk habituating the bears to humans and human foods. Thank you!!
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@Mister_Canada_
No, the U.S. is not the greatest country in the world and never has been. From the first white invaders, this country has been steeped in racism, sexism, ableism and classism. It deserves ridicule and scorn.
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@TheRickWilson
Between the booing and the racial slur against Michael Steele I'm pretty sure CPAC is a KKK rally sans hoods.
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@mitchellreports
@PressSec
@margarettalev
No. No apology. This regime has insulted women, Gold Star families, Black people, Mexicans, people w/ disabilities, & people needing food stamps/health care, and done so w/out apologizing. During a press briefing
@PressSec
even insulted the way
@NancyPelosi
looks. Stop, Andrea.
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@admcgregor85
@KakiMiller1
Sec. Hillary Clinton--she was technically elected president. I want to see a woman running the show during a crisis of any kind.
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@waltshaub
As Kinzinger stated, Putin can't win against the u.s. air force or the combined NATO air force. He'll have to back off. If he tries to use nukes our intelligence should be able to stop him before he does any damage. I think it's worth the risk; otherwise, we'll never stop Putin.
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@TeaPainUSA
We lived in MO for 19 years. I've never been around so many holier-than-thou bigots in my life. I'm really happy to hear the Governor got caught in a little sneakin' around.
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@ananavarro
@Comey
James Comey wrote a memoir and now people who haven't even read the book are criticizing his ego? What did people expect? It's a memoir, not a guide to law enforcement. Comey is entitled to his perspective.
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@BadBradRSR
Barney Miller
The Jack Soo episode with the brownies still breaks me up!! "Mushy, mushy...".
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Well...the plot thickens...
NOAA staff warned in Sept. 1 directive against contradicting Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Oh goody, only two women at the table, both barely visible, one looks like
@PressSec
--who knows nothing about diplomacy--and the U.S. has no representatives with Black or Brown skin. Clearly, you're only concerned w/ the interests of wealthy white elites and corporations.
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#ElectionTwitter
and Covid questions: As a sociologist who knows statistics, I can say this THREAD is spot on. Indeed, what if a demographic is dead and missing in the data thanks to the pandemic?
@dumbassgenius
--fyi
Are polls wrong this midterm because of COVID? If a 1000-person telephone poll—the pollster keeps dialing more numbers until they hit target sample size. But what if some demographic is MISSING & died in pandemic? This is NOT captured in current polling methods.
#ElectionTwitter
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@ChelseaClinton
So, it's ok for the dictator to rant about women bleeding (Megyn Kelly) from their "whatever," but a woman can't turn the tables on him?
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@NicolleDWallace
As my southern grandma would have said, "There's somethin' 'bout that boy that just ain't right."
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@glennkirschner2
All 180,000 families of people who died from the Trump virus should speak at the RNC convention!!
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Big truth. My mother thought only wealthy people deserved respect because "they were smart enough to make money." She and Grandma happily donated to billionaire politicians because they "proved they knew how to handle money." Capitalism is a cult.
Way too many Americans think “freedom” is accepting a lower quality of life
in exchange for a billionaire class that gives you nothing
but various opportunities to worship them
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@thegoodgodabove
Widows are told, "He's in a better place now." Really? Better than with me?
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@robreiner
Agreed. And the Dems agreeing to funding the wall as a compromise will be the worst optics ever for the Dems. Dems need to take a strong stand against white supremacy.
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Bob Schieffer is busy right now saying the U.S. dictator sounds presidential. No, he sounds like he's ignoring human rights violations for $
Hey media, learn from last time. Don't give President Dumpster points just for reading a speech off of a teleprompter.
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@RWPUSA
Wait, I thought Jesus died so the U.S. dictator, aka
@realDonaldTrump
, could come as The Great White Savior and everyone could say merry xmas again, and then go shopping before being laid off by AT&T and DirecTV on xmas eve.
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@CarmineRoux
I still feel like barfing my guts out and it's probably a good thing Lindsey Graham, et al. aren't in front of me.
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@apathetic_NY
@chipfranklin
What the eff is wrong with vaccine mandates? It's about public safety, ffs. Why stop with vaccine mandates? Let's get rid of seatbelts, hairnets, handwashing, legal ages to buy alcohol/cigarettes, workplace safety inspections, PPEs....
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@JasonL3d
@Amy_Siskind
@ScottAdamsSays
Sociology is always relevant and you just showed why. Also, a PhD in sociology means I know statistical analysis, science and patterned behaviors, e.g. how white men get defensive when they encounter women w/ advanced degrees.
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@BabaMowa
@ASlavitt
Many people on Medicaid are primary caregivers of grandchildren, spouses, and parents. They're needed at home 24/7. Caregiving is full time work & actually saves the state money by eliminating the need for a nursing home bed, foster care, etc. Caregivers already work full-time.
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@SjamaanN
Old women. As an old widow, I've been subjected to plenty of old women and all they talk about are their grandchildren, medications/surgeries/aches/pains, gardens, and travels. Not one could talk politics or sports.
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@realDonaldTrump
Show us your citation for the knowledge claim about Ohr's bank account and that he's able to make to make money from a dossier anyone can access for free. Use formal academic sources for your citations & not simply a reference to state propaganda TV.
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@Angry_Staffer
Why is the WH staff so quick to always try and cover for what they perceive as Biden gaffes? The entire world cheered his comment about Putin and then the WH staff ruined the moment.
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@washingtonpost
Just get preachers to testify, brand all women with a scarlet A, & make sure all juries are 100% white men. Who needs forensic science?
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@GovKathyHochul
Raise insurance rates for gun owners.
Tax the ammo.
Require yearly training in gun safety.
Require random home inspections for safe storage.
Intensify background checks.
Reward businesses for not allowing guns.
Have a gun buy-back program.
Ban ghost guns.
Ban AR-15s.
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@VoLinxx
I was widowed in 2018. Just as I was getting my life back together the virus happened and for the last six months I'm reminded daily of all the new widows we have among us. I know their pain. The U.S. dictator has blood on his hands.
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@mdnij34
Yes, Juneteenth should be a paid national holiday.
End Columbus Day or National Genocide Day.
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@MysterySolvent
Vanky has had a lot of plastic surgery, colors her hair and basically is as phony as a 3 dollar bill.
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@ThatEricAlper
Zombies / She's Not There
But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know? Why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
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@realDonaldTrump
I live near the border. Our state has no more or no less crime than any other state. We welcome immigrants, especially in our sanctuary cities, including Santa Fe, NM. More importantly, we reject the white supremacy, racism, bigotry, sexism & misogyny of the current WH regime.
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@kepp_a
@ChelseaClinton
Funny, but why the uproar when a woman makes a strong statement against misogyny and yet we elected the man who ranted about women bleeding?
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@chrislhayes
There are abuse victims across the country who know a narcissistic abuser when they see and hear one in action. The interrupting and shouting were hallmarks of a narcissist. It was terrifying to witness.
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@berniemoreno
@SpiritAirlines
False equivalency--humans can regulate transportation vehicles and operators to make them safer; we can't regulate a virus like covid-19. Go ahead and keep spewing logical fallacies, but at least use logic, and try proper grammar and syntax for clarity.
#NotDyingForWallStreet
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@realDonaldTrump
Dictators lack sympathy & empathy for the victims of disasters like fires, floods and hurricanes. Instead, they always blame scientists & government agencies for the event. I doubt those who died in this fire or their family members care about your threat to end federal payments.
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