Comfort the afflicted & afflict the comfortable. (she/her)
Nashville, TN
Joined August 2011
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@NashvilleDOT I am desperate to know why there are bollards blocking the turn lane from DB Todd onto Hermosa St.
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@nashvilledot please please tell me. Like I thought it must be a mistake but then one of them got broken and then was replaced???
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working on my chapter on the angela davis case, so thought it'd be worth mentioning this again:
davis was a grad student at UCSD when hired as a prof at UCLA in '69. she kept her san diego apartment & rented what she described as a "6-room" apartment in LA. each cost $75/mo 1/x
Watching Love is Blind 3. Cole looks like a darksided Sufjan Stevens. Zanab and Nancy should leave their douchebros and get together.
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idk man maybe it was a bad idea for an entire society to rally around an abusive actor for weeks in an obsessive misogynistic frenzy. maybe it had some consequences!
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fuck does "was engaged by law enforcement, but" mean in this context
Sgt. Erick Estrada of the Texas Dept of Public Safety tells @andersoncooper the shooter crashed his car near the school, got out with a gun and wearing body armor, was engaged by law enforcement, but made his way into the school anyway and went classroom to classroom shooting.
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We need:
✅ Fair Housing Leases, protecting tenant rights instead of signing them away.
✅ Rent Escrow accounts to repair when landlords won't.
✅ Forget about income restrictions.
✅ A HOUSING HOTLINE that will be accountable to resident issues and needs.
✅ A DISPLACEMENT FUND
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❗️ATTENTION ALLIES TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE❗️
Right now is a crucial moment for Natives in the US. The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative has released their first report on the 408 forced assimilation schools that operated from 1819 to 1969. The reports include the shaving of
One of my favorite classes in middle school was mystery lit, taught by the school nurse. We read murder mysteries by Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. A year or two later that school nurse was arrested for attempting to murder her husband.
What happened at your school that sounded like an urban legend but was real? My friend’s little sister was in drama class and slid across the stage on her stomach and a piece of wood was sticking up and impaled her. She had to be air lifted to Duke hospital.
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Free tests via USPS are back for another, this time you can get twice as many. special.usps.com/testkits
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Hey, who is noticing that “post-pandemic normal” is a lot of “I’ve been knocked out by this cold for weeks” and “Sorry, we’ve had to cancel this event!” and “My kids are sick for the second time in two months!” and “Due to staffing shortages…” and “The ER wait was 10 hours!”
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Katherine 'Kat' Massey, 72, was an advocate for civil rights & education in her community. Massey had gone to Tops to do some grocery shopping.
Kat wrote for both the Buffalo Challenger & Buffalo Criterion.
A year ago, she wrote in support of more federal regulation of firearms.
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Conveying the urgency of these issues for those affected while also not being alarmist is really important to me (particularly when the Trevor Project has found such a negative impact on youth mental health from discussion of these bills). 5/8
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#AbortionIsADisabilityRightsIssue 🧵: I and my spouse are both Little People and both support abortion rights for everyone, but I want to highlight why access is especially important for us dwarfs. First, there is the issue of “double dominance.”
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how non-filos can help us in light of the recent happenings in our elections – 🧵;
