Pam Fessler
@pamelafessler
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Former correspondent, NPR News. Voting, poverty. ALSO, author of "Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice" (Liveright) https://t.co/OeM49ZiWWK
Washington, D.C
Joined May 2014
This is my husband's grandfather, Morris Koll, as a young US soldier in 1902. He contracted leprosy in the Philippines and as a result was later confined by his own government. His story was the genesis of mine.
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RT @GovPritzker: Great to stop by Hyde Park and see Chef Erick Williams. This Black Business Month and every month, we’re proud to show th….
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"A medieval knight in full armor riding a motorcycle through a misty jungle trail.". Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time.
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RT @AngryFleas: @PressSec Here in the United States, we have a presumption of innocence. Let’s talk after there’s an actual conviction?.
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RT @LongTimeHistory: ICE raids another car wash—target U.S. citizens. "I got my ID! Check my locker!" worker yelled as agents twisted him….
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RT @NBCNews: Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard blindsided CIA leaders when she disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer on a list….
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe previously clashed with the national intelligence chief when she overrode CIA objections to declassify a document related to Russian election interference.
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RT @MassGovernor: It's Labor Day weekend, and the Trump Administration just laid off 800 construction workers. Canceling funding for the….
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RT @patriottakes: JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.”.
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RT @ddale8: President Trump is, as always, telling the same debunked lies over and over again. Here are 10 he repeated in the past week alo….
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The president’s recent public remarks have featured many old lies. In the interest of not letting them go uncorrected, here is a look at 10 debunked claims he repeated over the past week alone.
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RT @AshleyRParker: At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fr….
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Their presence has terrified some, relieved others, and left even the troops themselves confused.
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Pretty clear what “again” they’re referring to when they say they want to make America great again.
Thanks to @POTUS’ policies, America is experiencing a Blue Collar Boom and our Workers are THRIVING!
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A few years ago I could have gone to Harvard and become a medical researcher but now I get to work in a non-union factory!.
Thanks to @POTUS’ policies, America is experiencing a Blue Collar Boom and our Workers are THRIVING!
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RT @GregJaffe: The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the….
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The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.
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Barbaric.
ICE detain mother and 4 year old son—they were looking for somebody else. "Mom, why are they here?" the boy cried. "Am I going to be in jail by myself?". 6 agents in 4 unmarked cars surround them while shopping—insist on following back to home. Then neighbor took this video of
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RT @GavinNewsom: We’ve been doing this work for years. Perhaps you should take a page out of our book. Your state’s homicide rate is 380%….
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Inappropriate for a govt agency.
Pray without ceasing.
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RT @Laurie_Garrett: Say hello to your new little friends:.E.Coli0157.MDR-Salmonella.Hepatitis-A.Norovirus.Campylobacter.Listeria.botulism.C….
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Like that. …national guardners.
National guardner?. National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
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