@BetoORourke calls for putting partisanship aside and to bringing people together. #TexasSenateDebate
Ted Cruz claims religious liberty is under assault. Yes - for atheists, Muslims, etc #TexasSenateDebate
Sep 5, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I was 17 the first time I was raped.
I didn't say anything to anyone. It wasn't like I put up a FIGHT. I just said, "No" then everything happened so fast and I didn't know what to do.
Actions were happening faster than my brain could process it.
I didn't remember anyone telling me how to say No - to someone you knew. Someone that was friendly.
We learned self defense in physical education. They separated the girls from the boys in HS PE. I have a vague recollection of how to shove someone's nose into their brain.
Jul 27, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Let's play a game.
Which numbers would tell us more about how Americans are *really* doing than the unemployment percentage?
Whenever progressives speak up for refugees, the GOP pushes the propaganda that we don't care about the impoverished people of the United States.
We do care. We care a lot and the things that we advocate for proves that.
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Living Wage reduces poverty. Although in every conservative article, it will say the opposite. Of course it does! It never occurs to them that workers should make more instead of the 1% getting more wealthy off their workers' backs. /2 washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
Jun 18, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
When Trump said he would make Mexico pay for the wall, we all assumed he meant with money. ~paraphrasing @pru_fallows
Trump is making the children and parents of Central American families seeking asylum pay for his wall in anguish, grief, and sorrow.
Trump is hoping to exchange sorrow for money to build his wall. The wall that has been proven in studies to be ineffective and costly.
So now the exorbitant cost of his wall is no longer just monetary.
May 14, 2018 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
"The enemy of my enemy" is a phrase that no longer works in our current world order. The enemy of my enemy is probably still an enemy and with Donald at the helm, those who used to actually be our "friends" no longer rely on the US. /1
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newsweek.com/europe-cannot-…
The USA, China, and Russia have had a complicated past. Add in Donald's personal conflicts into the issues affecting the country and it gets messy, fast.
With or without humans, the Earth will still continue. It might not be the home we recognize it as, but it will continue. If we don't care for our home, we are making it uninhabitable for OURSELVES and the biosystem which sustains our lives as we know it. 1/8
With or without humans, the Earth will still follow the known laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. An Earth with unchecked levels of greenhouse gasses will continue to rise in temperature. 2/8 climatecentral.org/gallery/graphi…
