Category: Current Events
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Have yourself a merry start to the holiday season!
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“And angels sing thee to thy rest.”
Go to your rest, Lilibet.
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9/12/01. The day after.
Everyone has their own recollection of 9/11, if they were alive on that day. (It’s hard for me to believe that there are now sophomores and juniors in college who were not yet born when that tragic event occurred.) That day is seared in my memory forever, but the days after 9/11/2001 are as well. […]
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Everyone deserves affordable healthcare.
Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege.
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So you think it’s just like the flu. An open letter to Courtney Harris.
For people who are not well-versed in science and who believe that personal freedom takes precedence over public health, I think one of two things have to happen to convince them to take this seriously.
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I’m with you, truly
In my very bones, I felt a pain whenever those awful, derogatory slurs were uttered in my presence. Still do. I have always felt a connection to all people, maybe with a few exceptions…I guess that’s how I, and many of my fellow white folk, feel about what’s going on with the entire George Floyd case. Does the anger belong to us? We’re angry for you. We’re angry with you. We don’t know what it’s like to live in America and be black. But we are your allies.
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