Shannon Watts
@shannonrwatts
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Author, FIRED UP, coming June 2025 / Speaker, organizer, founder emerita, @MomsDemand / Board, @emergeamerica
Joined February 2011
I’m thrilled to announce my new book: Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age, coming June 17th 2025! This guide will help you figure out what lights you up and lead you to a bolder, braver, more audacious life:
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Um. This is Utah. …UTAH.
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New Zealand bans semiautomatic rifles less than 24 hours after the Christchurch mass shooting. Imagine: elected officials putting public safety over gun manufacturers’ profits. Americans deserve better than lawmakers who are letting gun lobbyists write our nation’s gun laws.
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Donald Trump's guide to diversity:. Haitians: Have AIDS.Nigerians: Live in huts.American Indians: Pocahontas.Black Americans: Disrespectful ingrates .Mexicans: Criminals and rapists.Muslims: Evil terrorists.Women: Treat them like shit. White supremacists: Very fine people.
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The same SCOTUS that said yesterday that states don’t have the ability to regulate guns today gave states the power to regulate women’s bodies.
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A reminder that the same lawmakers who say gun laws won't stop gun violence believe abortion laws will stop abortion. #RoeVWade.
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All this kid did was ask “Why on earth would you want someone who abused women to have access to a gun?” . I want to thank his parents.
Cub scout 'heartbroken,' kicked out of his den for asking Colorado state senator tough questions
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The only person who actually ran into the school in Uvalde to rescue kids was an unarmed woman. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Parkland, Florida, teacher on CNN who had to hide 19 crying kids in a closet in her classroom: “We did everything we were trained to do in active shooter drills, and still we had mass casualties. I blame our government for not keeping us safe.”.
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John McCain left hospital stay paid by taxes on flight paid by taxes to remove health insurance from taxpayers. And we paid him to do it.
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Why do I share DMs calling me a cunt or commenting on my age and physical appearance or wishing for my death or sexual assault? Because the men who write them work among us at hospitals, as firefighters, in the military. They don’t deserve anonymity if they’re toxic or dangerous.
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Is this your dad?
Totally normal to greet your wife with a firm handshake and a bro hug/back slap. Tim Walz isn't weird at all, guys 🤣🤣🤣.
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A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second mass shooting I’ve lived through. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent.”
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BULLSHIT: The El Paso gunman drove NINE HOURS to the Texas border to kill brown people. White supremacy is not a mental illness. It’s an ideology encouraged by the President and too many of our leaders, and it’s made deadly in the US via easy access to arsenals and ammunition.
.@GregAbbott_TX says in #ElPaso: "Bottom line is mental health is a large contributor" to any type of violence. #ElPasoShooting
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The government doesn’t pay for school supplies, field trips or classroom furniture, but suddenly they have a budget for glocks?
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“I hope to God no one sends me anymore prayers. I want gun control. No more guns!” . The mother of shooting victim Telemachus Orfanos. She says her son survived the Las Vegas mass shooting but was killed in Thousand Oaks. This must stop.
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John McCain, undergoing cancer treatment paid for by taxes, just voted to vote to end cancer treatment for taxpayers on Medicare. And we paid him to do it.
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Trump's guide to diversity. Africa: Array of shithole countries.Haitians: Have AIDS.Nigerians: Live in huts.Puerto Ricans: Lazy.Black Americans: Ingrates .Mexicans: Criminals and rapists.Muslims: Evil terrorists.Women: Treat them like shit. White supremacists: VERY FINE PEOPLE.
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Pro-heroin, anti-fluoride.
Trump’s nominee to lead the HHS says that Heroin helped him study .
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Trump to woman reporter: "She's shocked I picked her, she's in a state of shock”.Reporter: “I'm not, thank you Mr. President”.Trump: "I know you're not thinking, you never do”.Reporter: "I'm sorry?".Trump: "Go ahead". This is institutionalized misogyny.
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I think about their parents picking out special names for them. Attending school choir concerts. Doing mundane things like helping them with homework and taking them to the dentist. All to lose them to completely senseless and preventable gun violence due to lawmakers' cowardice.
15-year olds Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, the two teens killed in the #KentuckySchoolShooting. It was the 11th school shooting of 2018. There are 7 days left in January.
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Payton Washington is in the ICU after she was shot for getting in the wrong car in Texas. Kaylin Gillis was shot to death for driving into the wrong driveway in New York. Ralph Yarl was shot in the head for ringing the doorbell at the wrong house in Missouri. It’s the guns
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Shootings unfolding simultaneously right now in America: At a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma; a Walmart in Pittson, Pennsylvania; and a high school in Los Angeles, California.
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Greta Gerwig: Made a critically acclaimed, culturally profound, feminist movie about Barbie and the patriarchy that made a billion dollars at the box office. Oscar nomination goes to … Ken. #Barbie #Oscars2024
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How come the same lawmakers who say gun laws won't stop gun violence believe abortion laws will stop abortion?.
Alabama will make abortions a felony, punishable by 99 years in prison, without exceptions for rape or incest. It will be the most restrictive law in the country, voted into effect by men.
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The El Paso gunman drove NINE HOURS to the Texas border to kill brown people. White supremacy is not a mental illness. It’s an ideology encouraged by the President and too many of our nation’s leaders, and it’s made deadly in America via easy access to arsenals and ammunition.
Law enforcement officials believe the shooting suspect wrote an anti-immigrant "manifesto" before the attack. The document is "filled with white nationalist and racist hatred towards immigrants and Hispanics," CNN's @murphy and @artemischats report.
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BREAKING: Alex Jones is going down.
Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims win legal victory in lawsuit against InfoWars and Alex Jones, after judge grants families’ discovery requests, allowing access to InfoWars’ internal marketing and financial documents.
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THIS is last year's Christmas card from Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican who represents the district that Covenant School is in in Nashville. #tnleg
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No parent would be glad their child died unless they were in a cult.
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Since Parkland shooting:. A gun was fired unintentionally at a K-12 school in Florida. A Georgia teacher fired a gun inside class. An Ohio 7th grader brought a semiautomatic rifle to school. He planned a mass shooting but killed himself instead. Now Central Michigan University.
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When gently corrected by one of the astronauts about how other women have spacewalked, Donald Trump uses his middle finger to "fix" his hair. How is this even real life? .
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Donald Trump can no longer legally own a firearm.
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Just a reminder that Susan Collins called on Al Franken to resign without the so-called due process and presumption of innocence that she claimed to be defending today regarding Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Sexual harassment and assault have no place in any workplace. The reports involving Senator Franken are disturbing. His belated apology was certainly warranted.
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Why hasn’t every single major newspaper in the country called on the President to resign?.
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School shootings are not fucking acts of nature, like hurricanes and tornadoes. They're man-made acts of inaction, of cowardice, of corruption by all lawmakers who refuse to pass laws PROVEN BY DATA to stop preventable, senseless shootings like in Uvalde.
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Tennessee House subcommittee members had state troopers physically remove gun safety activists who quietly held signs from a hearing. We bow down to this woman who - visibly shaking - said: “You will have to drag me out.”. Moms will win.
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The Governor and Lt Governor of Virginia are Democrats.
Virginia has the best Unemployment and Economic numbers in the history of the State. If the Democrats get in, those numbers will go rapidly in the other direction. On Tuesday, Vote Republican!.
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This image will go down in history. New video shows shows Mike Pence callously observing and turning his back on severe overcrowding of men in cages at a detainment facility in Texas.
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It was literally called the #MarchForOurLives
Simply being anti-NRA is not a solution. March FOR something, not just against everything.
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Two dozen white supremacists are outside the main Disney World entrance in Orlando right now, marching with signs featuring Gov DeSantis’s face, swastikas, the n-word and homophobic slurs. This is the 2023 Republican Party.
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Who knew clapping could convey rage, disdain and threats of revenge.
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In retrospect, we should have taken to the streets when McConnell refused to let Obama rightfully fill a Supreme Court vacancy. That was an epic fail on our part as citizens.
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Reminder: Texas law allows the open carry of semiautomatic rifles and does not require a background check, training or an age limit. Walmart also allows open carry. Lawmakers and companies are not protecting their constituents or their customers. #elpasoshooting.
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Well, one President has tweeted his congratulations. #USWNT.
Yes! Fourth star. Back to back. Congrats to the record breakers on the @USWNT, an incredible team that’s always pushing themselves—and the rest of us—to be even better. Love this team. #OneNationOneTeam.
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Fellow white women: I've spent the last decade organizing you and I know firsthand the impact you can have when you use your economic and political power for good. This MUST be the election when a majority of us help elect the first woman, a Black woman, President. That means. .
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BREAKING: A grand jury just indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey on charges of exhibiting guns at protesters in a June incident in their neighborhood. Additionally, the grand jury added a charge of tampering with evidence for both members of the couple.
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What it looks like when a reporter isn’t just asking questions, but is holding an interviewee accountable with the facts. This occurs far too infrequently.
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What Americans don’t know you put Halloween candy in the bag the kid is carrying and not on top of their head? They’re like robots trying to mimic humans.
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The 20 year old gunman in Pennsylvania wasn’t old enough to rent a car, but he was old enough to buy a semiautomatic rifle.
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Palin’s son plead guilty to possessing a firearm while intoxicated after beating his girlfriend and threatening her with an AR-15. Then he beat his father and threatened to shoot him. He is still legally allowed to own guns. But do lecture us more about responsible gun ownership.
Anti-Gun Parkland Activist Finally Comes to His Senses After School's Cover-Up on Shooter Comes Out
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WATCH: “…it wasn't mental health that killed these people, it was an automatic rifle. I'm a gun lover. I have guns. I'm a former police officer. I’m a former Army officer . prayers won't bring these people back. We need action in our legislatures.��
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My new ringtone.
Trump at the court as crowd chants “vote him out” — it’s rare for this President to see his opposition this up-close and in-person
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BREAKING: Black people are allowed to be both rich and opposed to racism.
Sen. Cruz to @ShanicaJohnson: "To see incredibly wealthy, privileged athletes who are driving Lamborghinis, who are living in mansions refusing to show respect for the flag. disrespecting our soldiers sailors airmen & marines. I think that’s unfortunate, I think it’s wrong.".
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BREAKING: Rep. Mikie Sherrill said tonight that *members of Congress* led people through the Capitol on a "reconnaissance" mission one day before the riot. "I'm going to see they are held accountable, and if necessary, ensure they don't serve in Congress.”
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What Mehmet Oz means when he says abortion should be between "a woman, her doctor, and local political leaders." #PASenateDebate . Thx @amyschumer
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Amy Thorn, the registered nurse from West Virginia who recently spoke at the Republican National Convention to defend Donald Trump’s response to the COVID crisis, has been arrested for shooting a woman in the stomach during an argument:
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Nope. I have unarmed security at public events who will take me to the closest hospital if I’m shot. Because I get death threats thanks to gun extremists like you. But the good thing about armed security? They have to have background checks and training. Unlike armed civilians.
The head of Moms Demand Action, @shannonrwatts, has armed security when she leaves her home. Yet she doesn't believe Americans should have the same right to protect themselves, their family, and their friends when they leave their home.
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This is Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, an Illinois resident who was just charged with first-degree murder of two people last night in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This teen, whose social media history is full of misogyny and white supremacy, had easy access to an AR-15.
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Don't bother tweeting me that it's too soon to talk about the need for stronger gun laws. It's always too soon in America. For kids shot at Santa Fe High School today, it's too late.
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You misspelled "Mayweather is a serial batterer of women with 7 assaults resulting in arrest/citations plus police calls without charges."
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Nothing to see here. Just a man with classified federal contracts worth billions fantasizing about the assassination of the President and Vice President.
Elon & Tucker having a good laugh in new interview: “Nobody has even bothered to kill Kamala because it’s pointless. Ha, ha, ha. What do you achieve? Nothing, you just bought another puppet Nobody is trying to kill Biden, it would be pointless.”
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Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had 5 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 30,000 in that time. Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have only 10 shooting deaths a year; the US has 40,000. It’s the guns.
What drugs and/or psychiatric drugs was he on for his mind to be ruined in alternate reality games that caused him to commit a mass shooting?. His parents know. The police know. School, arrest, hospital records?. The public DESERVES to know.
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And now we fight. For Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We fight. Just like she did.
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Is this you?
Americans are so divided now I’m not sure if there is any way back. And I’m not sure of where we are headed.
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Imagine believing that Secret Service would allow people to “chase” the Vice President’s toddler. Just like Musk, Vance is using his child to virtue signal and troll.
Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared. I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them.
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NEW: Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot twice by a white man in Kansas City after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home. The man shot Ralph in the head through his glass door, and then when Yarl was already bleeding out on the ground, shot him again:
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“Having a daughter does not make a man decent. Having a wife does not make a decent man. Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man,” @AOC .
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Newark air traffic controller, “It is not safe. It is not a safe situation right now for the flying public. Don't fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs.”. The Secretary of Transportation: I ❤️ tacos.
Nice to come home on a Friday night to home cooked steak tacos after a long week working at the DOT! .#LatinaWife❤️💃🏽
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Donald Trump wasn’t going to shake Kamala Harris’s hand. She forced him to. Dominance. Love it. #Debate2024 #peopleforkamala.
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Finally a famous white male gun owner is publicly outraged at gun extremism. Thank God. Thank you, Matthew McConaughey.
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You did this in Ohio, where Tamir Rice and John Crawford were fatally shot for holding fake guns. You’re still alive, @kaitmarieox - not even arrested - after bringing a semiautomatic rifle to school. That’s white privilege.
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Man who left his wife and young children for a colleague he had an affair with gives marital advice.
jesse: if i found out my wife secretly voted for harris, "that's the same thing as having an affair. that violates the sanctity of our marriage. that would be D Day"
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Is there a single fucking Republican in America with any morals left willing to stiffen their spine and speak out against what happened today?.
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My God. Two Americans were killed and 15 were injured in a shooting today at a Kentucky high school. What is wrong with you?
Where are the 50,000 important text messages between FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Blaming Samsung!.
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“I didn’t get handed anything” says man whose family gave him $2 million to start a plumbing business.
Let’s talk about DEI:. I grew up in Indian Country, living on the same land my ancestors were forced to move to. I was born with bowed knees and a bad speech impediment. I lived in a barn. I NEVER let that be an excuse. Today, we all have EQUAL opportunity in America. 🇺🇸
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Processed food, soda and tanning booths for me, but not for thee.
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Let’s treat men who want guns the way we treat women who want abortions:. Waiting period.Parental permission.Doctor’s note.Watch video on dangers.Forced him travel hundreds of miles to gun store.Make him walk through protestors. Video by @NevSchulman
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FUCK. YOU.
Happy 4th of July, America! 🇺🇸. We are a country because of brave souls with guns who valued and fought for liberty and freedom.
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Ten people shot at a fucking celebratory Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, including children. This uniquely American hell was created by every lawmaker who supports lax gun laws.
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Sen Katie Britt says sexual assault is the worst thing that can happen to a woman while encouraging Americans to vote for a convicted sexual predator.
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How Howard Stern ended his interview with Kamala Harris: “I think you'd be a great president. You're compassionate. I love your experience as a prosecutor and I want to thank you. I love you as Vice President. I want to encourage anyone who thinks similarly to me to vote."
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The funniest thing about this is that Elon Musk thinks the issue is that Stephen King is balking at the $20 per month fee.
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If only the 57-year-old man in Las Vegas who shot 500 people and killed 58 with semiautomatic rifles and bump stocks had had nicer parents.
It’s not a gun problem. It’s a parenting problem.
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Someone took my Harris-Walz sign but they don’t realize I have about 25 of them in the garage and will continue to replenish as needed.
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Why hasn’t every single major newspaper in the country called on the President to resign?.
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“Mrs. Schimmoeller, we talked about it. If anything happens, we are going to carry you.”. THIS is the burden our lawmakers are making educators and student bear. Because they are cowards.
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Elected official enraged that a constituent asked her when she’d be holding a town hall this year gets out her camera to take a video, mocks her constituent’s appearance and sexuality, tells him to go fuck himself, and then … posts it. What a time to be alive.
Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off - and I won’t be backing down. I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.
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Nats fans boo Donald Trump after he’s shown on the big screen and then chant, “Lock him up.”.
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So posing with a gun on social media makes you a gang member?
NEW: The Trump administration is imminently planning on deporting an 18-year-old with a pending asylum claim to El Salvador, claiming that he's in Tren de Aragua because he's in a picture on Facebook with a friend holding a WATER PISTOL that ICE agents thought was a real gun.
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Meghan McCain's father had a brain glioblastoma for over a year while serving as a US Senator.
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According to the Governor of Texas, the gunman who killed at least 15 people in Uvalde is an 18-year-old who lives in the community. He had a handgun and may have been armed with a rifle, too. In 2021, Texas lawmakers lowered the age to carry a handgun to 18. #txlege.
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Yaaaaaaass!!!.
Kid Rock replaced by Waffle House shooting hero as grand marshal for Nashville Christmas parade
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I sent this to my four daughters to remind them why it’s so important to vote. Any man who says this about any woman shouldn’t have power over our lives.
Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi: I don’t mean any disrespect but it must suck to be that dumb
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NEW: A retired Colorado police officer who faces criminal charges for raping his three daughters remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered “reunification therapy” to repair his relationship with his sons.#coleg
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It’s easy to forget in 2019, but the whole point of living in a human body is to be kind and to love one another.
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