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covering K-12 education for @hou_landing / fmr @chron , @vineyardgazette / work in @teenvogue , @nytimes / from houston

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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
2 years
Migrants and local high school AP Spanish students, who have been dismissed from school to help interpret, play a ball game in the Parish House parking lot to pass the time.
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 years
solid text from my mom today
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
3 months
Mayor Whitmire said in a press conference today he wants “to feel safe to go to the Kroger store at night” but high crime at the West Grey location gives him pause. This is the Kroger store in question:
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
3 months
New in @chron : CenterPoint blamed Hurricane Beryl’s outages on tree debris, saying Houston’s canopy had been weakened from years of extreme weather. Customers told me the energy company repeatedly ignored requests to trim or remove hazardous trees.
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Brooke Kushwaha
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@presidentgay i got kicked out of a meme page bc i hooked up with the admin's crush / a dude's ex once fb friended me as an intimidation tactic and then begged for a threesome / those two girls formed a band and fb invited me to the concert
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Brooke Kushwaha
1 year
sorry to my future children who will have to get in on the strength of getting rejected from brown alone
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Breaking News: Wesleyan University, a liberal arts college in Connecticut, ended legacy admissions, which help the children of alumni, just weeks after the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action.
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Brooke Kushwaha
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feeling an autumnal chill in the air
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 months
Calls for Mike Miles' resignation are mounting after @SpectrumNews1TX alleged that Miles-backed charter schools in Colorado received Texas state funds. HISD, TEA, and Miles' charter school company Third Future have not responded to requests for comment.
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
i know yall have some fallen angel complex going on here but i guarantee you’re all still doing better than the kids who were marginalized from the education system to begin with
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 months
West Gray* ugh i’m more of a montrose HEB girl
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
starting a service where underclassman girls tell me about the senior guy they’re into and i’ll tell them why he’s kinda weird
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
my friend’s brief freshman yr fling once walked into her room drunk and asked to borrow her laptop bc he “needed to write” and this is what he left
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Brooke Kushwaha
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@kissphoria just saw challengers. they definitely also saw challengers
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3 months
Inbox: Kroger is seeking to dispel rumors that the grocery chain’s West Gray location is unsafe after the mayor said he now avoids the store at night. “It’s worth noting our West Gray store is located in a relatively low-crime area.”
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Brooke Kushwaha
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why is @bjennymontero my entire life
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 months
i think i deserve more credit for this lede
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
I GOT HIGH HONORS !!!!
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
gotta say my thesis on the dangers of self-isolation looks pretty fucking stupid right now
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
no one: my mom in full pandemic panic mode:
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
we’ve got @jpbrammer originals enhancing their environment
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Brooke Kushwaha
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quarantine has me regressing to a 19th century catholic. all sexual urges feel sinful. i await daily correspondence from my beloved. i put on eyeliner and feel like a whore
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Brooke Kushwaha
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New in @chron : I looked into the emerging energy tech responsible for keeping H-E-B’s lights on through major storms. Exploring innovations from microgrids to solar to distant nuclear options, an exec told me, “We won’t stop until we’re retired or dead.”
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
my brand of feminism? more women should be allowed to go completely off the rails
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2 months
some bittersweet ✨personal news✨ as they say even though it’s always professional news: today is my last day at @chron . it’s been a short but memorable time covering everything from weed to ted cruz to hurricane relief. and while i’ll be sad to leave as the election heats up…
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Brooke Kushwaha
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male friendships be like “i don’t know anything about his personal life or upbringing but once a week we sit in a room and listen to the same music together”
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Brooke Kushwaha
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Metereologists told me they'd never seen anything like it, and that they'd remember it for decades to come. I spoke to a few of the city's weather experts about what made Houston's storm last night go from bad to "historic" in just twenty minutes.
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Brooke Kushwaha
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As student activists face crackdowns across the country, I talked to protestors at @UHouston and @RiceUniversity about how they’ve largely avoided university ire. To get around protest policy, Rice students labeled their encampment an art installation.
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
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boston is like what if you took a beautiful dainty city and filled it with dudes named mike
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
gotta say my thesis on the dangers of self-isolation looks pretty fucking stupid right now
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 years
the way people describe the second dose it feels like waiting for the world’s worst edible to kick in
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
every year on national coming out day i remember the girl from my high school who came out as an ally
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Brooke Kushwaha
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one of the ex hookups i never talk to looked me dead in the eye and said “hey you” and i freaked out until i realized i was wearing the cardinal costume and he had no idea who i was
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Brooke Kushwaha
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DKE calling psi u "fucking pussies" in the connecticut supreme court is peak white-on-white crime
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Brooke Kushwaha
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i have no desire to date a man but i have a strong desire to divorce one
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
please stop acting like i don’t know how impeachment works i’ve seen “call me by your name”
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Brooke Kushwaha
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…the school year is just getting started. i’m excited to join the talented education team at the @Hou_Landing later this month as a K-12 reporter. i’ve seen how political public education can get and i’m looking forward to digging deeper on the beat!
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
on liberal arts campuses across the country groups of white freshmen smoking their second ever cigarette just made pacts to have a “normal” college semester no matter what
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
oh my god they're back
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 years
please stop assuming i was joking about getting this tattoo
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Interviewed @BrigitteBandit , the drag queen whose speech at last weekend’s @texasdemocrats convention drew ire from “Libs of TikTok,” Sen. Ted Cruz, and Gov. Greg Abbott. She testified against Texas’ drag ban twice. This backlash was worse, she said.
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5 years
i’ve always been dumb but this time it shows
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Refugees attended mass this morning at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Edgartown. “Please keep these people in your prayers,” Rev. Paul Fedak told the congregation. “I’m a strong believer in the word of God,” one migrant, Uvaldo Arcaya said. “No matter where I am I seek it out.”
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big day for liberal arts men
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bitches be saying they’re “just a hole” when they don’t even have dimension or depth
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
my mom keeps watching queer eye and getting emotional....mom you have a gay sob story RIGHT here....
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Brooke Kushwaha
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when biden gets close to finishing a sentence well that’s edging
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
my thesis advisor just ruined my life
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white guys will do psychedelics and convert to buddhism but the whole time they just needed to be nicer to their mom
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
kinda fucked up that straight girls pee in the lesbian makeout closets
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Brooke Kushwaha
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i posted this on insta and some dude from my high school followed me just to say this..........the billionaire fandom is out of control
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Brooke Kushwaha
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the fact that r*th can cry to a group of white seniors about losing their senior spring and fail to show the same sympathy for FGLI students worried about their livelihood shows me exactly what he thinks college is for
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Brooke Kushwaha
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mitski show canceled
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Brooke Kushwaha
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blew my grandma’s mind today explaining that she can say “queer” now but she can’t say “homosexual”
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
straight girls are always tweeting like “my ex emotionally manipulated me but joke’s on him bc he was ugly and i never came!!!” babe what kind of flex is that
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
pharrell accidentally tweeted my article instead of the full interview i’m shaking
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Brooke Kushwaha
6 years
can we stop shaming gays for eating at chick fil a when yall eat at your grandma’s all the time
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
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by age 19 you should have: - shed the pathological need to be the smartest person in the room
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
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First story in @Hou_Landing is about uncertified teachers, whose numbers have risen exponentially as school districts struggle to hire experienced instructors. Is that bad for kids’ learning? Well, it’s not good.
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Houston Landing
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❓ What is an “uncertified” teacher, and what does it mean for my child if their teacher is uncertified? Each week, we will aim to help families by responding to an important question about education and schools in Greater Houston. Learn more here:
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
first day of online classes
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New in @chron : Mayor Whitmire implied his local Kroger store was unsafe. Kroger shot back. I looked into crime around the West Gray Kroger and its Polk Street counterpart “Combat Kroger” to determine just how scared Houstonians should be to get groceries.
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
can’t bring my gf home to the family this thanksgiving not because they’re homophobic but bc she’s taller than my dad
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Brooke Kushwaha
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just converted all 126 pages of my thesis to pdf........it’s over
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
wesleyan increasing their residential fee fully knowing they’ll just go online at the first sign of a second wave.......simply Evil
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Brooke Kushwaha
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my mom just referred to my girlfriend as my “partner” like i’m one half of a straight couple in brooklyn
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
2015 vs. 2020....a little different
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Brooke Kushwaha
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that bush girl is being unfairly targeted..........there are so many other 1% kids we should be bullying rn too
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
i don’t need to see the squidward-focused spongebob spinoff i already know what happens to liberal arts students postgrad
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
the vibes are....impeccable
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imagine being a senior and dating a fre.....🤢🤢🤢 dating a freshma... 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 i cant even say it 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 years
if i’m going to be miserable at my job i might as well spend a lot of money to make it all worth it. i will find a way to make this seem woke later
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
@jpbrammer hello kitty quesadilla?
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 years
wes anderson frog and toad adaptation WHEN
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@BrookeKushwaha
Brooke Kushwaha
6 years
you ever smoke so much weed you forget the alamo
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 years
what is pride if not a reason for bi girls in straight relationships to post on instagram
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Brooke Kushwaha
2 years
my friend was telling me about a girl he knows in new york who just got out of a long term relationship and is trying to date women “but she keeps ending up with mean wesleyan girls”
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
did we do it. did we picnic in a gay way
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Brooke Kushwaha
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it’s important to not let conservative outrage about wesleyan trick you into thinking you’re doing anything progressive
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
the best part of having sex with me? watching me scroll through twitter afterward and declare “i got x likes on my tweet”
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Brooke Kushwaha
6 years
said i wanted to be a journalist in class the other day and this girl *immediately* after was like “i thought i wanted to be a journalist but i’d rather be the person getting written about 😏” ok well first of all you’re neither
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
i just think that the class of 2020, since they aren’t getting a proper graduation, should get to keep their student discounts for the rest of their lives
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Brooke Kushwaha
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i felt more isolated as a chubby kid growing up than i did as a brown or a queer kid and it’s because fatness is still seen as a personal and moral failure. it makes u question your work ethic, your ability to be loved, your physical agency
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Brooke Kushwaha
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did molly w my gf and she ignored me all night to work on her collage
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Brooke Kushwaha
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hair update
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u ever meet someone with like a.....stock personality? like they went online and googled "sorority girl" or "guy at the DIY show" and didn't customize from there
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me: *speaking slowly* when u treat me badly it makes me feel....bad man: i had no idea....why didn’t you communicate this basic concept earlier? it must be your fault then. i can name 3 emotions
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
this harassment case is such an ugly note to end my wes career. i didn't leave texas to see another institution bend over backwards to preserve the ego of a republican dynasty
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
a relationship should be 50/50 i show her my haircut inspiration moodboard and she nods and says “you could pull that off”
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Brooke Kushwaha
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two years ago i pegged a dude and almost died from the UTI......please remember to pee after sex and vote democrat and maybe pee after voting just to be safe
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Brooke Kushwaha
3 years
not wesleyan university graduate….
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
can white girls stop saying they have “cr*ckhead” energy and start saying they have “squirrel” energy or “chihuahua with UTI” energy bc it more accurately fits whatever annoying thing they have going on
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
don’t mind me just rubbing my eyes until i see bus upholstery
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
we’re about to hit a recession and lowrise jeans are coming back god fucking dammit i cannot live another 2007
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Brooke Kushwaha
6 years
as someone who’s lived in hot weather my entire life only to get heatstroke in a “normally cold” climate, places like wesleyan need to understand that AC is a health and safety issue, not just an optional amenity
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Brooke Kushwaha
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if i were a former gifted kid i would simply stay smart
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Brooke Kushwaha
5 years
spot the difference you can’t
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Brooke Kushwaha
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can anyone on campus confirm that the groundhogs have come out to reclaim their natural habitat and that maybe we were the virus all along
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4 years
i hate representation what if I wanted to be the first half indian female vice president???
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5 years
he calls me joe biden in bed because i know how to reverse that position
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Brooke Kushwaha
4 years
hello kitty quesadilla press acquired
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Brooke Kushwaha
6 years
WHY AM I CITED ON THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE FOR "NECKBEARD" THIS IS MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
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i just don’t think white twitter leftists have the range to be critiquing immigrants for buying into american capitalism......if there’s no empathy it’s just wokepackaged white saviorism
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