One of the more affable drinkers in the DC area. https://xitter.cf/t.co/3OFdyRgxU1
Philadelphia, PA
Joined May 2015
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All the pieces came together - Spring, Charleston, and cocktails! My trip to the Holy City - hellococktails.blog/2018/06/…
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White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it.
Read *without paywall* here: wapo.st/3GaR70P
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A life-size statue of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent and were used for medical research, will be placed in a plaza previously named after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Roanoke, Virginia.
nyti.ms/3G4IaqW
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I have never yet seen the tramp I was not able to receive with open arms. He is a little less fortunate than I am. He is made the same as I am made. He is the child of the same Father... Had I been subjected to the same things to which he was I would have been where he is.
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Don DeLillo was born in the Bronx 86 years ago today.
If you haven't read him, boy are you in luck, they're ALL good. If you want a big juicy novel go for Underworld.
If you want a couple of perfectly formed classics try Libra or White Noise.
My fav early DD is Great Jones St
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"Researchers from the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity at Brandeis ... calculated that the GI benefits secured by Black individuals were worth, on average, 40 percent of those whites received. This produced long-term disparities, the study found."
motherjones.com/politics/202…
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War crimes. We cannot turn away from this horror. We cannot let those who perpetrated such unspeakable violence against civilians escape justice.
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9 years. Well, as the characters of my favorite TV series “The Wire” used to say: “You only do two days. That's the day you go in and the day you come out"
I even had a T-shirt with this slogan, but the prison authorities confiscated it, considering the print extremist.
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I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share.
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The @nytimes @lynseyaddario witnessed a war crime. This is the story behind the family that was killed. nytimes.com/2022/03/09/world…
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AP photo: Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son's lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
Fuckin love NYC
Outside Veselka, a diner on Second Avenue, on Thursday, two young women stopped to take photos of each other in front of a giant Ukrainian flag. The line for the restaurant eventually went around the block. nyti.ms/3shjLYf
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Seems pretty clear now that cases are dropping in DC. We were among the first to see Omicron. Hospitalizations lag several days so we still have to weather that storm but I’m very hopeful.
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Aspire! Afterschool Learning has partnered with a number of Arlington elementary schools to compile a wish-list of supplies for teachers, and is conducting a collection drive through Jan. 14.
The schools involved are those with the highest number of
sungazette.news/supply-drive…
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Mike Tomlin tolerating Antonio Brown for nine seasons is one of the great coaching achievements in NFL history.
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The facts:
*Our positivity is the highest we have seen in '21
*Our testing volume last week was nearly DOUBLE our high
*Our hospitalizations & deaths remain at the lowest level
*Last week un-vax'd Virginians were hospitalized at a rate 9.4x those vax'd
#GetBoostedDontPanic
