Michael Adam Latz 🇺🇦☮️
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Dad/Husband/Rabbi. He/him. 🏳️🌈 Personal page. Political Nerd. Spiritual troublemaker. Resisting tyranny. Working for a just & fair 🌎
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The doctor who operated on
#TreeofLife
shooter is a Jew. The shooter shouted anti-Semitic slurs at him even as he tended his wounds. The doctor said that he was proud to offer medical care to a human who was wounded. You want to know what it means to be a Jew? Here's your answer.
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The Holocaust did not start with Auschwitz. It began with Hitler calling Jews vermin & newspapers publishing his insults. It began with the Nazi party blaming Jews for the country's economic problems. It began with an assault on basic institutions of democracy.
Sounds familiar?
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Just witnessed the most beautiful interaction at a cell phone store: Green haired, pierced lip non-binary clerk helping very demure elderly Pakistani woman wearing hijab call her grandson in Kenya. She was so frustrated and in tears because she couldn’t get the phone to work &
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For the first 49 years of my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened.
I don't wonder any more.
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Merry Christmas!
I’m a rabbi.
I’ll happily say “Merry Christmas” to all you good Christians who seem to get wound around the axel about “Happy Holidays.”
Fine.
We good?
Now, about those kids in cages...
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I do not celebrate anyone's death.
But there are those for whom I cannot weep.
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On November 9, 2016, I fell to the ground and sobbed.
I knew in my bones what was coming.
So many people told me-& so many others-we were over reacting.
Six years later, what say you?
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Guess I'll be traveling to Georgia in 2022 to distribute water and food to voters waiting in line to vote.
Who is with me?
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She had prom a couple weeks ago & graduates tomorrow & I'm so grateful we get to be her dads & gave her the ability to perfect the eye roll when her dads embarrass her just a little bit.
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Some folks here seem upset that a rabbi has opinions on politics & justice; one person thought I seemed "angry."
You know what?
I AM ANGRY!
I'm angry there are white nationalists in the white house.
I'm angry there are babies in cages.
I'm angry the president is a traitor.
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The Muslim ban.
Shithole countries.
Build the wall.
Nazis are fine people.
Jews are a nation.
Y'all see what he's doing, right?
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Profanity ain't the F-bomb.
Profanity is living in a country where a 17 MONTH OLD BABY IS SHOT IN THE FACE & the moral cowards of the Republican party tweet out vacuous
#thoughtsandprayers
.
THAT is profane.
#OdessaShooting
#MidlandShooting
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& the clerk was so patient and tender with her, helped her make the call, wrote down the instructions, & waited until she was speaking to her grandson. After the call, she embraced the clerk, and kissed their forehead several times, thanking them over and over again.
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I'm super confused. Republicans are cool with 10 year olds learning to hide under desks in active shooter drills but not cool with learning that my husband and I love each other & occasionally wear matching flannels?
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Just two humans connecting. There are some good people in this world. 💚
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Here’s an idea: You must pass a 5th grade civics class to be elected to public office.
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Hey my Muslim & Jewish friends: How about we gather this Friday afternoon together, join hands, and sing songs of peace? It will be good to be together. And it will drive Trump bonkers. Let's show up together with love. Y'all in?
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Dear Republicans:
Take a gander at the Nurenberg trials (where Nazis were charged with crimes against humanity).
I'll translate for you:
There is NO possibility for national unity or healing without public accountability.
Love, America
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If we are more offended by
@AOC
using term concentration camps than we are by the grotesque atrocities Trump & co are committing against children and their parents in these camps, it is worth taking a deep breath and pausing to reflect on our deepest values and moral commitments.
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A decent man would respond to .
@AOC
with something like, "Dear God, that must have been so terrifying. I'm sorry that happened to you. Let's hold those who did this accountable. How else can we support you & help you heal?"
She invoked her alleged sexual assault in order to shame as abusive those who don’t uncritically affirm her histrionic account of what occurred at the Capitol. If you don’t see the manipulativeness inherent in that rhetorical tactic, you are delusional
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Ironic that so many people who had such a strong and disgusted reaction to
#ColinKaepernick
's knee are eerily silent about
#DerekChauvin
's knee.
Telling.
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Folks: The Jews are telling you it's bad. Believe us. We have 3,000 years of experience facing fascists. We ain't playing. This is bad.
#CloseTheCamps
#StopICE
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Jews are tired
Muslims are tired
Immigrants are tired
Women are tired
Transpeople are tired
People of Color are tired
Native People are tired
People with disabilities are tired
GLBTQ folks are tired
Children are tired
Parents are tired
Mother earth is tired
WE ARE SO DAMN TIRED.
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As one of the rabbis in Congresswoman
@IlhanMN
's Minnesota district, she apologized for past comments, met with local Jewish leaders, & is actively working with our community to represent us in Congress.
Any comparison between her &
@mtgreenee
is absolute and utter nareshkeit.
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It costs us absolutely nothing to use the pronouns people request we use for them.
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Trump has ripped BABIES from their parents at the US Border.
I don't give a damn about
#SpeakerPelosi
ripping up PIECES OF PAPER.
You may find the latter distasteful.
Fine.
But the former is IMMORAL.
They are NOT the same.
#NancytheRipper
#NancyPelosiROCKS
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I don’t oppose
#AmyConeyBarrett
to the Supreme Court because of her religious beliefs.
I oppose her because she seeks to impose her religious beliefs on me.
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Churches, Synagogues, and Mosques are NOT closed. Our BUILDINGS are closed. Our spiritual work continues unabated. If the Jewish people can schlep God's house through the desert for 40 years, we all can meet God on Zoom from the comfort of our living rooms for a few months.
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When there are two dads in your family & your kid totally gets it. From years ago & still makes me smile.
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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.
~Elie Wiesel (z"l)
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I have never accidentally had dinner with a Nazi.
How about you?
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Mitch McConnell lecturing Democrats-or anyone-on democracy is like putting ham on a bagel.
Anyway you slice it, it just ain't kosher.
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Let's be clear: Storming a state capitol with loaded AR-15s to protest
#COVID19
#StayAtHome
orders is NOT a protest.
It is terrorism.
It is the tactics of Nazis.
It is fascist.
It is not a protest.
#MichiganTerrorists
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Children do not die in schools from pronouns.
Children die in schools when they are shot with bullets fired by guns.
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The right wing is going hard after Greta Thunberg.
Imagine the callous disregard for human decency it takes to troll a 16 year old because she wants to save the planet and humanity. (H/T
@MollyJongFast
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What on earth are the Senators who oppose witnesses testifying at the
#TrumpImpeachmentTrial
going to tell their children and grandchildren?
America will remember, "In the moment we called them forth to be brave, they chose cowardice and shame."
#WitnessesNOW
#ArrestRandPaul
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Slavery was legal.
Denying women the right to vote was legal.
Locking Japanese people in concentration camps was legal.
Refusing housing to Jews was legal.
Legal does not equal right.
Just because they passed a law does not mean that law is fair, just, or moral.
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I am so over white Nationalists and white supremacists and Nazis.
Our love is stronger than their hate.
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I’m angry that Muslims are harassed.
I’m angry that Black and Brown people are being murdered at alarming rates.
I’m angry Native people are still being treated as subhuman.
And I’m angry that people believe a single damn word that Trump, Pence, & their vile ilk spew.
Feh
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It is deeply distressing that the mainstream American Jewish establishment is more outraged by an SNL joke than they are about the Occupation of nearly 2,000,000 Palestinians.
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It sure would be great if our Christian clergy friends who want to be good allies to Jews would speak this Sunday and/or next Sunday about rising antisemitic attacks on our people.
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Any fool can tweet Biblical verses.
Show me the person who loves thy neighbor, welcomes the stranger, cares for the widow, immigrant, orphan, hungry, and poor, & works every day for justice and dignity for humans and our planet & I'll show you a truly religious person.
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First people to offer me condolences after
#PowaySynagogueShooting
?
Muslims.
Why?
They get it. Because we're
#cousins
.
Our love is stronger than hate.
#NewZealandMosqueAttack
#TreeofLifeshooting
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Look folks-I get the Matt Gaetz jokes about using Venmo to buy minor purchases seem clever. But they aren’t. He’s charged with sex trafficking CHILDREN. That’s a crime-not a joke. Don’t minimize these horrific accusations-Our kids deserve better from all of us.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87.
Steven Breyer is 83.
I don't give two nickles if
#IDoNotLikeJoeBiden
& such ridiculous petulance.
People are suffering.
Biden is an imperfect mensch.
Trump is a monster.
I can't even with this nonsense.
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My Jewish parents got to hug their Jewish grandchildren for the first time in a year because some brilliant Muslim scientists developed the
#COVID
#vaccine
& our Catholic president & his team busted tushie to get the
#FauciOuchie
in their arms.
Shukran my friends. Shukran.
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Matthew Shepherd's (z"l) yarzheit is today.
His life was a blessing,
his memory a revolution.
Rest in love, sweet Matthew.
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I'm Jewish. Folks wishing me Merry Christmas does not offend me.
White nationalists chanting, "Jews will not replace us," offends me.
Gun violence offends me.
Climate denial offends me.
Racism, sexism, & transphobia offend me.
Poverty offends me.
$7.25 wage offends me.
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I’m angry women are harassed, aren’t paid fairly, & aren’t taken seriously.
I’m angry people can’t afford their insulin and are DYING.
I’m angry that we are leaving the planet a mess & aren’t seriously addressing the climate crisis.
And I’m angry at the NRA & too many guns.
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@Rachel_442
They had “They/them” on their name tag, so I found that to be a reliable data point.
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I'm a rabbi.
Stephen Miller is a repugnant moral failure.
His behavior is what demonizes him.
He's done this to himself.
Stephen Miller Says Democrats are Trying to Demonize a Jewish White House Staffer
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Second, I know language around MJT is confusing. But the simple truth is that she's evil. She knows exactly what she is doing and why she is doing it. Do not make excuses for her and her behavior. She has promoted the murder of her colleagues in the United States Congress.
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I've always thought of the Republican party as morally wrong, not morally evil.
No more.
Kurds will be slaughtered at their hands.
The GOP allowed this to happen.
For a lousy tax cut they didn't need.
I wish my people believed in hell.
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#MarjorieTaylorGreene
is willfully, knowingly, strategically, unequivocally morally evil.
4/End
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I’m super happy more than $400 million has been raised to repair
#NotreDameCathedral
. Amazing.
AND: Flint still does not have clean water.
If your religious practice calls you to build beautiful temples but you neglect the cries of suffering children, that is blasphemy!
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” James Baldwin
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HUGE debt of gratitude to
@HillaryClinton
who stood boldly and chipped away the glass ceiling for a lifetime so all our children could see the day when
@KamalaHarris
broke it forever.
We rise on your shoulders, Madam Secretary.
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Many years ago, someone told me if I was ever in trouble, I should go to workers, day laborers, & folks who are poor. Why? I asked naively. Because they will be the first to help; they know how precarious the world is & how interconnected we are. I've never forgotten that wisdom.
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A word.
Please stop calling Majorie Taylor Greene "insane," "crazy," or "nuts."
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I am a 48 year old gay man who came out in 1991 to a world of men dying of HIV/AIDS.
In 2015, we celebrated legal marriage equality.
2019: Out gay married man runs for President, raising 7million dollars!
Kids
#ItGetsBetter
#MayorPete
.
@PeteButtigieg
.
@Chas10Buttigieg
🏳️🌈
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What do we Jews need today?
We need your Love.
We need your tears.
We need you not to be afraid.
We need you to call out
#antiSemitism
.
We need you to keep standing with women,
#GLBTQ
people, Native people,
#POC
, sick people,
#immigrants
&
#Muslims
.
#Pittsburgh
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I told the young man wearing the MAGA hat at the Holocaust Memorial Museum that I'd die defending his right to free speech.
I also told him that didn't make his decision to exercise that right just & someday he learn the difference between having a right & doing what's right.
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There are 14,000 migrant children in US custody, freezing, sick, without their parents.
The HuffPost elects to publish an article about how Trump is "the loneliest man in America."
Interesting editorial decision.
And I mean interesting in the most Minnesota way possible.
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I will never ever ever ever in a bazillion years understand the heart of someone who shoots people while they are praying. Never ever. Impossible.
#TreeOfLifeSynagogue
#synagogueshooting
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It would be really nice if the dude who runs this platform would stop giving it over to violent white supremacists and Nazis who are murdering Jews and Muslims and Catholics while we pray.
#JackStopTheHate
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#HolocaustMemorialDay
let us remember a painful truth: It was LEGAL to beat up Jews, force us into ghettos, steal our jobs & property, & separate our families.
It was ILLEGAL to provide Anne Frank (z”l) & her family shelter and protection from the Nazis.
Legal =\= moral.
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It is time to recruit
@fred_guttenberg
to run against the dolt Marco Rubio for US Senate in Florida. He's a fierce leader, has a strong moral compass, has made his life's work honoring his daughter Jaime's murder at
#Parkland
to
#endgunviolence
. Fred: America needs you!
#FLSen
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About those kids in cages.
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I read the Bible.
God doesn't say A SINGLE word about humans having the right to own an AR-15.
You're welcome.
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We defeated a tyrant, an authoritarian, not with bullets or with bayonettes but with our ballots.
We showed the world that not all battles must be fought with a sword.
For one brief moment, tonight, we touch the sky with tears of joy.
8/END
#ShabbatShalom
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If only he gave a shit about the born.
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I am grateful we live in a time where an openly Trans woman can run for Governor of California.
I am equally grateful that (were I a resident of California) I would campaign and vote against her without reservation because her policies would harm us all.
Progress.
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I’m a rabbi.
Two congregants died today from
#COVID
.
Another will likely die tomorrow.
Several are hospitalized.
They are grandparents, Holocaust survivors, neighbors, beloveds.
The rage I feel towards Trump, Gazelka, McConnell is biblical.
God forgive them.
I can’t.
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I'm going to get vaccinated as soon as possible (after the elderly, front line workers, medical professionals, & the most vulnerable, of course!). Raise your hand if you're with me!
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Out for a walk and wearing my kippah.
Two young Muslim women wearing hijab are walking towards me.
“Salaam Aleikum!” I say with a smile.
��Shalom Aleichem,” one of the young women responds with a warm smile.
Costs nothing to be kind.
Let’s start by seeing each other.
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The heart of Torah-the central commandment from God to the Jewish people-is to love the stranger, to welcome the immigrant, to feed, clothe, & house them; there is one law for citizen & immigrant alike.
Stephen, you’re as Jewish as ham on matzoh.
#ResignNow
& do t’shuvah!
Stephen Miller, Senior White House Policy Adviser on Fox News Sunday for an Exclusive interview with Chris Wallace tells Chris "As an American Jew I am profoundly outraged by the comments from Ocasio-Cortez"
#FNS
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I will die for freedom of religion.
I will die for freedom of the press.
I will die for the freedom to assemble peacefully (post physical distancing).
I will die protecting my children, husband, & community.
I sure as hell am
#NotDyingForWallStreet
!!!
Feh.
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@DashDobrofsky
It wasn't "raided"--that is TFG's framing. It was a legal search--approved by the REPUBLICAN head of the FBI, the Attorney General, and an independent judge--who all signed off because they have evidence and probable cause that a crime was committed.
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Dear Congress:
You have my rabbinic blessing to work on Shabbat (Saturday) to impeach the president. It would be an act of pikuach nefesh-saving human lives.
Love, me
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@SenatorRomney
@ryanstruyk
About that $1.9 TRILLION dollar tax cut for big businesses, I’d like to have a word…
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Making Gazan children suffer and die does nothing to help dead Israeli children.
Too much blood, too many tears.
Please, stop this!
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If you are someone who suddenly needs a ride to a "work conference," a "prayer revival" or a "rabbinic consult" in another state that is friendly to such gatherings (like Minnesota!), this rabbi would be HAPPY to help you out. I make a mean chicken soup. Thanks
@roblee4
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And if your mosques need us to stand guard, I'm there my brother. I'm there.
Our love is stronger than their hate.
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A thread on being Jewish today.
What breaks my heart the most—
beyond the horrific murders and
violence against Israeli Jews on October 7 and
the ensuing deaths of Palestinians in Gaza—
is the callous disregard and silence
for whether or not Jews live or die.
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First of all, people with mental illness are struggling enough; they don't need to deal with MJT in addition to everything else. People with mental illness deserve our compassion, our decency, and our resources to move towards wholeness and mental health.
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Turns out some folks on here think I'm a radical because I believe that Black people should be able to vote AND not get murdered by police.
It isn't radical. It's being a decent human.
But I'll wear the label proudly, thank you very much.
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@RepPatFallon
I’m super confused… you DON’T want them seizing drugs at our border? Because this sounds like Biden’s policies are effective.
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So let me get this straight: Customers in Costco ask young fit white man of about 30 to back off. He freaks the eff out, screams at them, approaches them aggressively, & says HE feels threatened?
2020 in 18 seconds.
BINGO.
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Thank you
@IlhanMN
I accept your apology and hope we can work together to address hatred in every form-anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, homophobia-in MN & across the globe.
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“You shall have one law in your land for citizens and immigrants and asylum seekers alike.” Lev. 24:22
You want to cherry pick the Bible for your favorite verses
@marcorubio
?
Game on.
Oh-and I’m a Rabbi.
This will be fun.
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live
Deuteronomy 30:19
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So this happened.
Our kid graduated.
Only one dad in plaid.
So proud!
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They raised OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS TO FIX A CHURCH in Paris that burned.
These are the LUNGS of the PLANET.
Do better.
BREAKING: G-7 countries have agreed to an immediate $20 million fund to help Amazon countries fight wildfires.
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