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Black Lives Matter / Me: Editor, writer, word nerd / Pronouns: she/her/hers

Boston, MA
Joined April 2011
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My company, sagewellfinancial.com, is hiring for the dev team and I'd _love_ to talk to you if it sounds interesting! - Helping seniors to manage finance ❤️ - Rails, @inertiajs, @sveltejs, TypeScript 💻 - Solid foundation, tons left to build 🛠 DMs open 😀
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I am telling you all: We are in dangerous times.
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There is no need for Sha’Carri to apologize. We need to get rid of archaic rules for a substance that is fully legal in 19 states plus DC. And we need to legalize it at the federal level. nytimes.com/2021/07/01/sport…
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We need to quit conceding that CRT is being taught in public schools. Conservatives do this thing where they redefine words and then people use those definitions as if they are accurate. We gotta stop doing that. If your kid is learning CRT, your kid is in law/grad school. – at Boulder, CO
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This is a big red flashing light of trouble for American democracy:
Two separate realities - one factual, the other based on the “big lie”: CNN POLL CONDUTED BY SSRS Did Biden Legitimately Win Enough Votes for The Presidency?                 Yes   No   Democrats     97%    3% Independents  69%   27% Republicans   23%   70%
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Who are your favorite Asian women design leaders? Looking to put a panel together of Asian women design leaders across leadership levels - Director, Manager, new to design managing, for a conference. And sadly realized I don't know many 🤔
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In 2009, the IRS tried to take on the ultrawealthy. It didn’t go well. How did a case that consumed so many years of effort, with a team of its finest experts working on a signature mission, produce such a piddling result for the IRS? propub.li/3x68zOA
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No matter what happens, our collective grief remains, as must our resolve to make Black lives matter in a country that has treated us as if they never have. What does justice even look like when a man loses his life this way.
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When ⁦@joshua_rashaad⁩, a Black photographer working for ⁦@nytimes⁩, showed officers his press credentials they didn’t believe him & struck him & his cameras. This is an infuriating reality for Black journalists covering protests. nytimes.com/2021/04/18/busin…
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"There's so many traffic infractions that any time you drive, you commit one. And that gives police an extraordinary amount of power, and we know that they selectively use this power against Black and brown people," says Georgetown Law's Paul Butler. trib.al/dmrwAUt
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I have yet to see a *single* headline noting how many out of 6.8 million Johnson and Johnson recipients — of which I am one — developed blood clots. (6. The answer is 6. Total. Over months of distribution.) I am begging editors to be responsible here.
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“The sadism of treating human beings like vermin lies precisely in the recognition that they are not.”
The thesis that viewing others as objects or animals enables our very worst conduct would seem to explain a great deal. Yet there’s reason to think that it’s almost the opposite of the truth. nyer.cm/l21qsjf
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If you know someone who was denied a vaccine because a healthcare provider insisted on proof of citizenship, please please submit @propublica ‘s form below. None of us are safe until all of us are safe.
1/ On Monday, a man who’s 60+ with underlying conditions went to a @GiantFood pharmacy in Virginia for his vaccine appointment. He is undocumented and brought a consular ID. He was told that corporate policy is not to vaccinate people without social security numbers...
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The "King of Debt" had promised to reduce the national debt. propub.li/3mgW25T
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Catherine Chen, CEO of Polaris, "Vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation so often starts with economic need, and arresting individuals in the sex trade does not solve the underlying problem of poverty.” Via @USATODAY usatoday.com/story/news/inve…
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Today I have seen a grown black man break down and cry on the stand and a grown black man begs, in vain, for his life in the streets. All while watching this trial. There is a phenomenon called “vicarious traumatization,” but I rebuke that spirit! I’m not sad or hurt. I’m ANGRY!
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This is not a prank. For every tweet, we give $5 to a classroom in need. Tap the button to #GiveThanksNotPranks and we'll donate up to $500k to @DonorsChoose through 4/1. Let's go! 👇

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Darnella Frazier, at 17, changed the world by filming George Floyd's death. Her video is at the heart of this trial, the $27M settlement for Floyd's family, the national racial reckoning, and so much more. And, she is haunted by what more she could have done. My goodness.
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