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Lynda Rubin

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Ret.K-8 Counselor; Alliance for Phila Public Schools @APPSphilly . ALL children have my heart & deserve to be mentored/nurtured to become their best selves.

Philadelphia, PA
Joined May 2016
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@MillenPolitics @DahlELama2 The look on everyone's faces - esp. Justin Trudeau's - PRICELESS!!
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@davidhogg111 The fact that youth like you and others like you exist gives me hope that maybe this country can come out of this nightmare able to rebuild. Make no mistake. It’s going to take years to fight our way back (eg. the newly installed judges). I wish you well
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@thehill Asset forfeiture shld never be allowed from person not convicted of, much less not charged with, a crime. Def not from family of same. SHAM!
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@MacFarlaneNews Hope that goes with increased medical/psychiatric/rehabilitation services with outreach to these men, not waiting for them to get so bad they may not be able to reach out.
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@PalmerReport The Beverly Hillbillies had more class and humanity.
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@ClintSmithIII "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem." Simply stated, Profoundly true.
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@RonFilipkowski Remember. This is the guy who had to call Dan Quayle to ask if he as VP was allowed to punt on the election results. Dan Quayle - btw, who knew without having to call a lifeline friend.
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@greenpeeps5 @chipfranklin Nailed it. On the level of sports team bonding w strangers with whom you have nothing else in common. Pounding of chests, trash talk, and having something fun to focus on. Only nastier and more sinister.
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@MRandallnelson @atrupar We in Phila, esp educators, have long known who Pat Toomey is and has been. Tuesdays With Toomey has been a weekly protest outside his City office with speakers on people’s issues. He is, and has been, a corporate shill.
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Jared did not get 2 billion dollars in Saudi money for nothing. You betcha!! Some classified info of the highest level was shared. Are we naive??? #Individual1 has no problem selling for money and favors.
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@MacFarlaneNews Forgive me - men AND women. Can't believe I left that out.
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@JuddLegum This is one example of why #45 got elected: Media that forgot truth trumps making stuff up to appear even-handed.
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Not a golf person or even mild follower of the sport- (although I did date a guy long ago who was into golf) - But I have to give props to Roy McIlroy for his standing up against LIV. bit via @BleacherReport
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@mmpadellan Don't trust Manafort to try anything while holding out for a pardon. (State charges though?) What gives me comfort is that Robert Mueller's mama didn't raise no fool. Can't imagine Mueller would give Manafort the time of day without getting something BIG in return.
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Funniest line today! Trump raged to John Kelly why his generals weren't totally loyal like Hitler's Nazi military leaders. John Kelley responded, "“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said. 🤣🤣
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Trump raged to John Kelly that his generals weren't 'totally loyal' like Hitler's Nazi military leaders: report
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@DavidCornDC @MichaelCohen212 I totally understand that any good investigation that will stick takes time and following leads. But I still want this sooner than soon!
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@kylegriffin1 2 reasons: 1) Obama intro'd it. 2) enables businesses to hire as many white men as they want and as few women and minorities as they can
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@ResistBigly @davenewworld_2 In Phila. police who are fired for cause, most often get reinstated (with full pay) by arbitration review.
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. @AriMelber to Mark Zuckerberg: "It is about the money and it's not neutral. And in many cases, working with everyone and anyone to make money, is NOT good for democracy." Well said, Ari.
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. @AriMelber to Mark Zuckerberg: "It is about the money and it's not neutral."
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@TheBeatWithAri The phrase "Many people have said..." is going to have to be relegated to the proverbial ash heap for being meaningless, except to evoke snickers.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said over the weekend: “If Republicans were ‘good on the economy,’ the last 3 Democratic Presidents that followed one wouldn’t have had to: Drag us out of recession — Clinton. Enact emergency Recovery aid — Obama. Rescue our economy from freefall — Biden.”
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@itsJeffTiedrich @JefScotCantrell So simple an explanation - yet rarely put out there. Jeez, ppl believed there was a child sex trafficking ring in the basement of a pizza shop THAT HAD NO BASEMENT!
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@MichaelEDyson @RealCandaceO I watched the whole thing, and didn't hear it, probably bc she wouldn't stop spewing invective over your and Ari's voices. You, sir, have actual class and decorum. She showed herself to be a bully who probably felt really powerful about her "performance".
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@MichaelEDyson @RealCandaceO @TheBeatWithAri Frankly, she embarrassed herself for substituting diatribe for debate/discussion. Her modus operadi I'm sure. While I respect Ari's not wanting to cut her off, no one should be allowed to hijack the program. He should have warned her then cut her mic at next infraction.
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@AmoneyResists Read it. Horrendous but not surprised. It’s not new. But ppl feel more emboldened and proud to say it out loud. The Trump effect.
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@covie_93 Ya think??
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@4everNeverTrump @RaSincl @SteveSchmidtSES I have spent more time these last few months ruminating abt 30’s Germany et al & the rise & consequences of populist oligarchical fascism & the fact that Never Forget started unraveling only 40 years later.
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@RawStory He just wants to keep them there. Longs for days of indentured servants and sharecroppers.
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@voss_cj @ErieNotEerie Everyone knows. The only one who doesn't know that everyone knows that Lindsey Graham is gay is Lindsey Graham.
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@Karmastrophic_ @Krisbouncesback Pence ran that state into the ground. He jumped at the Veep spot, bc he wasn't going to win a second term as governor.
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@dailykos Now let's make sure that they ALL come out and vote!
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@krassenstein While this may be true, I won't credit Omarosa with having anything of note to say. If we give her this, we have to be willing to state that so many other abhorrent positions she's taken also have note. Uh, uh!
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@QasimRashid I'm not sure which I'm feeling more right now - My heart hurts or I'm outraged that this has become the norm!! Who are we!!
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@CharlesMBlow When people tell you who they are - believe them.
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@MuslimIQ I'm appalled & not just at racist ref. His coaches should have known this rule or if it's bogus. They should have pulled him totally supporting him. Johnson's post-win facial & body language said it all. His coaches failed him! Formal objection shld be filed.
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👏👏😢 What a lovely man to ease the parents and friends of each child by personalizing them with something the child loved.
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Meet the TX man who’s making customized caskets for each of the 19 young victims and two teachers from the school shooting in #Uvalde . Trey Ganem visited with the families last week so each casket is personalized to include each child's interests. 📷: SoulShine Industries
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@CannaMagine @girlsreallyrule EXACTLY! VOTE BLUE!! On the entire ballot. And, Yes, there is a big difference between #Individual1 , his minions and handlers and everyone who opposes them.
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@alfranken @santo_aol Ya gotta love Al Franken! I DO, I DID, I WILL. Smart, erudite and informed people with the charisma and tenacity that Franken has is sorely, and obviously, missed. Roll the tape! Yes, Dem women in office, I'm talking to you.
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@ClintSmithIII @anneowenphd I'm not a Pollyanna type person- I'm pretty jaded and know politics is dirty, behind the scenes dirty tricks, but I still can't figure out how it's legally OK for one person to be both candidate and person who's in charge of running the election.
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@jsaintnick @woodruffbets @nicholaswu12 To me? We've all been screaming at Dems to do something - without regard to strategy or laying groundwork - well, I think now may be the time - and it will still be unfolding - so critics just wait 2 secs.
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@SteveSchmidtSES I've been posting this very poem a lot lately.
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@MalcolmNance @TerriE1001 @TheJusticeDept He thinks if he lies using a soft, slow voice, he'll sound reasonable, not combative. He is, however, wielding a big club over our democracy and our diverse citizenry.
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@CharlesMBlow But I expected that Individual 1 would make his own grand entrance. And he didn't disappoint. All others seated and silent. Hail all hail.
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@StompTheGOP Look at his eyes. Lifeless is his default mode. How could he ever identify anything vibrant or full of hope, expectations and, well, life?😶
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@schulb53 @politvidchannel He's prob broke in terms of his past and future legal bills. Of course the term "broke" is relative to who you are and how you've lived.
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"...single family homes are sold for cash to investment funds instead of families)." Let that sink in.
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Those leftovers go to socially useless things, like buying houses to turn into rent-generating slums (Wall Street is fast becoming America's biggest landlord, and single family homes are sold for cash to investment funds instead of families). 19/
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@ofkenstale @jkbjournalist Asterick works in sports. Why not here?
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@Amy_Siskind Competency, knowledgeable, smart, personable and knows how to answer questions with multiple strands and shows respect for her job and the press. What a pleasure.
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I'm starting to use the apt term "American oligarchs" to the increasing class of behind-the-scenes billionaires who are, & for 30-40 years, fomenting replacing rocky democracy w/ sham democracy for their own interests. Gilded Age II w/ its disdain for welfare for regular people.
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@RanMann2 @JoeSteelerFan @TheRickWilson And why Dems holding the House majority this year is essential.
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@RadioFreeTom Exactly. They hate their lives and get joy by chest bumping each other. They’re not new. They just stayed in their hidey-holes until he encouraged them to act out. They don’t even notice that he’s done nothing to make their financial lives better.
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Bob Woodward, a GOP conservative who was elevated by Carl Bernstein into mythic status #Watergate , was just taken down on his “both sides to blame” on Ginni Thomas treason by Eugene Robinson & (!) Scarborough himself!
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@Will_Bunch @maddow Replacing Spiro with someone like Ford was the necessary precursor to getting rid of getting rid of Crook #1 (Nixon) so that Spiro didn't ascend to presidency as VP.
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@StephanieRade18 @facecanvasbyvic @PrincessBravato Or old. I have a friend of 40 yrs whose non-racist who never liked rap etc who said NFL would lose 1/2 their audience. I told him “you’re just old”. Just VERY out of touch. (His music tastes back then were folk & soft rock. Not real rock.
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@CynthiaWard19 @ReportsDaNews @funder Agreed. Can you imagine if they all stood up and walked out? What a message that would make.
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@DearAuntCrabby “I will build a great wall—& nobody builds walls better than me, believe me—& I’ll build them very inexpensively,” Trump at 2015 Pres run announcement. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, & I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” 0 for 2.
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The plot thickens The chief justice’s wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, has made millions in her career recruiting lawyers to prominent law firms, some of which have business before the court. At Supreme Court, Ethics Questions Over a Spouse’s Business Ties
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@mmpadellan Love his music, esp Bat Out of Hell, Abohor his politics!
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"I want to ask you about Christian nationalism. What’s wrong with saying God loves America and that the country should be built on Christian values? God doesn’t say it. That’s what’s wrong with it." The Rev. William Barber II
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@DA_LarryKrasner This is also justice - what many don't think about. Freeing the innocent as well as convicting the guilty. The kind of thing people don't consider unless and until it happens to someone they know and care about. Thank you.
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@kate12402 @shannonrwatts @FoxNews @LouDobbs Dobbs does more than say "influencing", he says that "two teachers union move children into the street to pursue their political objectives". 1) Factually untrue and 2) Insult to the #parklandstudents themselves! These kids will effect change!
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Our future! How the world must be laughing at us!!
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I just remember him literally running into the hearing room screaming “Benghazi, Benghazi” as Hillary Clinton sat thru 11 hours of Jordan spiked accusations — and winning the argument. He’s still out of her and our league!
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If and when Republicans send Jim Jordan to be 2nd in line for the presidency, they're not sending their best. Heck, even the child-molesting GOP felon was probably better than this guy Can a true featherweight be our next House Speaker? My new column
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We, as a people, have to get our priorities straight.
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@RexChapman Yes, but these same have to stand up and say NO to the stormtroopers among them!
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3rd campaign @HelenGymPHL I've worked on. Met her yrs before - we were each advocates for real public ed in Phila schools. Fun Fact: Deal for Parking Authority taken over by GOP was $45 million to SDP. Parking Authority reneged. Helen organized and GOT THE $45 mil! GYM for MAYOR!
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@ZezeSwanson @susan_borts @MeidasTouch @LeaderMcConnell @GOPLeader And tho McConnell blamed #Individual1 the next day, as soon as he realized he might jeopardize his powerful GOP Sen Leadership post, he fell right in line. Self-serving as usual, country be damned.
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@MacFarlaneNews The same police union that Officer Fanone outed for not supporting fallen officers, because they don't want to offend their Trump supporting members?
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La. Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) signed into law bill that will restore voting rights to people with felony records who are on probation or parole, as long as they have been out of prison for five years. via @thinkprogress
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@TheRickyDavila @MSNBC Thank you. In fact, while on my computer with the Chauvin trial on MSNBC in the background, I heard Chuck Todd's voice and jumped up to change the channel.!
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@ericgarland "...Once more unto the breach..."
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@HelenGymPHL Don't let anyone tell you that @HelenGymPHL isn't strong enough, knowledgeable enough or strategic enough to successfully take on Mayoral job. She has vision & the ability to go toe to toe with corporate interests, while negotiating agreements w them to make Phila. vibrant again.
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@AgendaPAC @thetimeisnowTB @Moms4Liberty So this isn’t a grass roots org. It’s an extremely well funded, professionally driven attack on inclusive beliefs. It’s a top down, mono-theist/racial tyranny. Abusing people’s bigotry is a bonding agent to get their own wants re taxes and wealth met. Don’t be fooled.
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@JillDLawrence @AARP That the AARP understands who it represents. Not mom and dad - but us!
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@ajplus Assaulting police with baton weapon, but, hey, he's been 'publicly disgraced' - that's enough... for white people, maybe. Ya want to make sure this doesn't happen again? Give sentences commensurate with the crime.
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Now here’s a surprise! Ginni Thomas’ atty tells J6 that he doesn’t get why J6 wants to talk to her, so No, she ain’t coming. I’m shocked! 😱 SHOCKED!! 😱😱 sigh…
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@LisaLptalk @JulieMNichols @thehill @SenBobCorker @SenatorCollins They have no where else to go. Did they really think their moment in the sun when taking a supposed stand against GOP robbery for the donor class would hold when they publicly joined in??
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@acnewsitics Ya sure he's actually going to pay? 😂
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One way charters bilk School Districts claiming they're public schools too! For example, a student requiring speech& language therapy that costs $3000 may result in the sending school district’s taxpayers spending $20,000 to $30,000 more for that student’s charter tuition.
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PA Charter Change Roundup Dec. 6: Top 30 School Districts with Highest Special Ed Tuition Premium Costs
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Peanuts said important things
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@Flightless223 @K12ssdb And your miserable point is? Tell that to the child and his parents.
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@krassenstein @likeanhistorian Individual 1 doesn’t think abt other consequences. He’s all abt zero sum game how it affects him only.
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@clairecmc The equivalent of pointing elsewhere and shouting "Squirrel"! while providing pap for those who prefer to be entertained rather than be given important info.
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@RockyMountViews NO! I lived though Gerald Ford’s pardoning of Nixon for the same reason. While we agreed at the time, collective wisdom since (enabling future anti-democratic people and corporations) has shown us the danger of this encouraging future autocratic, criminal interests. No Pardon!
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@axios @brianstelter 🎶Queue up1966 Four Seasons song, "Workin' My Way Back To You, Babe",🎶 "Working my way back to you, babe With a burnin' love inside Yeah, I'm workin' my way back to you, babe And the happiness that died I let it get away Been payin' every day" Full lyrics
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@JoyAnnReid She probably doesn't even get the irony intended by the French Presidential palace's release of this.
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@GingerBMamma @davidhogg111 Or here in the US for that matter. That would change lives and the economy too. Titans have only worried about immigration when they didn't need any as workers or get a word-around permission.
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@ErieNotEerie And both issues are testosterone driven.
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@StompTheGOP Tell me the diff between Right to Lifers killing doctors working in Planned Parenthood clinics (serving all health needs,esp.for rural women) and/or other abortion clinics. Only men have the right to decide what any woman does with her body. Don't forget, Viagra's their right!
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@newsbreakApp Confirms my years long boycott of Walmart.
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@_SJPeace_ There's a "special place" for those who don't take extra care to protect children, just on GP's (general principles).
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Just sayin'
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@washingtonpost "Butler said the story underscored the school’s critical need to adjust the dress code." Adjust the dress code? What the school needs to address is them treating students -rising teens -with humanity and empathy - especially at a milestone event! signed a public School Counselor
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@politico Actions have consequences. I don't think these folk ever considered that.
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@peterdaou I've heard of "the house always wins", but this is ridiculous! Ga needs to start planning for the future right now for the next election. Get people mobilized to dog the elections office and keep at the voter rolls till the next election.
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@mycroft16 @JoshuaPotash Ain’t that the truth!
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@_SJPeace_ How dare these judges even pretend that children understand what they're saying. Try asking an educator, doctor, etc. what children understand. They're not just short adults. Cognitive development is a real thing.
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