#Speech

Speaking of she-cessions and care-work in strange times:The 1942 mass income tax met fierce resistance from married women war workers who had children. Like care workers today, they were under
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CW: ableist languagefor years i've worked to strip ableist language from my vocabulary. ableist language around mental illness is what crops up most often in my own writing so it's
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1) I'd like to posit a few possibilities about our leadership.What if when our leaders commissioned all these people, sincere academics to come up with plans to address the climate
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Like, I know surgeons like to cut.But I've *never* landed in an interview with an oral-maxillofacial surgeon without them telling me I need a full jaw reconstruction.At that level, they
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To prove his vitality, @JoeBiden jogs to his podium... well, some of the way there. Note the pained squint when he has a minor brain freeze: "Jill and I continue
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Hello .@TwitterDublin Can I have a moment of your time? It’s my personal opinion that Gemma O’Doherty .@gemmaod1 is in breach of Twitter rules & in breach of Irish incitement
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So clapped (Stock extracts) I would simply not mention Stonewall 128 times in a short book, nor suggest that trans people are just comforting ourselves by immersing ourselves in fiction
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Canada was Ground Zero for the beginning of the first Cold War. We'll soon find out if we're fated to be Ground Zero for the beginning of the next one.
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I’ve had a lot of people ask what happened at last night’s event. I’m a pretty private person, but since this happened in a public space, I feel like I
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The Trump Superspreader Tour 2020 comes this afternoon to Vandalia, Ohio. Follow for a video thread. Trump began his latest superspreader rally by murdering irony Trump accuses Joe Biden of
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The thing about NIMBYs (which, for the unfamiliar, stands for "Not In My Backyard") is that it illustrates a really common problem with the "my right to swing my fist"
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“There is no legal meaning. It’s just a phrase. Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.”Mark Potok (May 2013)SPLC Spokesman Mike Sledge - “Who gets the last say”
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Trump in West Salem:"Let's get your governor to open it up."Wisconsin's stay-at-home order was overturned in May by the state Supreme Court. Trump began his speech by saying voters will
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Tw// mentions of depressionthis thread is gonna be long cus i need to let it out.I have never loved and admired someone that much as i love @BTS_twt .I today
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I don’t think enough love goes to Song Contest Hō’ike so I’m gonna make a thread of my favorite moments in the last few years: I’m starting this thread off
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