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We Can't Be Speechless About School Shootings - Progressive.org progressive.org/op-eds/we-ca…
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Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell (c. 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt
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One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them.
If you’re looking for a flagrant example of white privilege, when I was about 10 years old, I got mad at my friend because she said the Brady Bunch lived in a bigger house than mine.
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Instead of protecting children by passing stronger gun laws, Texas officials are sending home books with elementary school students that “teach and reinforce concepts of the run, hide, fight format in an age-appropriate format.” oakcliff.advocatemag.com/202…
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Today I was doing an author talk at a middle school when a lockdown was called. I asked the girl nearest to me what to do. I explained that I'd never done a lockdown before. She looked at me in disbelief and said, "Did you grow up in America?"
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Someone on Reddit asked, “if you’re injured as a result of a mass shooting, are you responsible for that medical bill?” And I find that a uniquely American question.
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This child has taken the viral poetry prompts to a whole other level.
ALT Thank you for your poetry prompts. From my 16-year-old autistic child: Am I? The fox cannot help being. The tree cannot help being. The stars cannot help being. And neither can I. Even in my sleep I am. Even in my sadness I am. I swim in rivers of my existence. I climb through mountains of my being. I travel through this world. And at the end of it all I am. Name shining through the gloom, I am.
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We will never forget, today 24 years earlier.
#columbine
#columbinemassacre
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VICTORY: Our next Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice is Janet Protasiewicz! Justice-elect Protasiewicz ran a campaign founded on equity, justice, and preserving our democracy, and Wisconsinites are sending her to the bench. THANK YOU @janetforjustice, and congratulations!
ALT CONGRATULATIONS TO JUDGE JANET PROTASIEWICZ
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Here’s the deal: If Americans die in mass readings, we ban books, until then we ban guns.
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i have a fun question for everyone. if you used to believe in God and now you don’t, what made you stop believing? was it a specific event? a person who changed your mind? a sinking feeling?
