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valerieburnett

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Joined March 2009
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@dawnstaley18 Sep 2022
#FreeBrittneyGriner 213 days my sister and friend @brittneygriner has been wrongfully detained in a Russian prison. Praying your safe return to your wife and family. Love you BG! #WeAreBG
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Meg@mleighc19 Apr 2022
We did it.
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The new law requires the Maine attorney general’s office to review how the guard handled past reports of sexual assault and harassment to local law enforcement agencies, including the option of bringing new criminal charges. #MEPolitics bangordailynews.com/2022/04/…
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Meg@mleighc10 Mar 2022
My hope is that the Maine Legislature, including Sen. @craighickman and Rep. Chris Caiazzo of the veterans and legal affairs committee, will find this report to be an insufficient response and demand an independent investigation of the MEARNG.
Bangor Daily News (@bangordailynews) profile pictureBangor Daily News@bangordailynews10 Mar 2022
But the Maine Army National Guard's proposal didn’t address how it would prevent sexual assault from happening or protect soldiers from retaliation. bangordailynews.com/2022/03/…
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We can’t go back to the days when women had to risk their lives to end an unwanted pregnancy. We must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. And if there aren’t 60 votes to do it, and there are not, we must reform the filibuster to pass it with 50.
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Meg@mleighc1 Dec 2021
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure in leadership.”
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Replying to @jan_Awija
Make the Cape of Good Hope Great Again!
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BBC Newsnight
@BBCNewsnight15 Apr 2019
We leave you tonight with this extract from the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, read by actor Tom Hollander #newsnight

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Fascinating: white rats will save only white rats — unless they were reared integrated with black rats. Then they save ALL rats. The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness via @NYTimes nyti.ms/2Ro4qDB?smid=nytcore…
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@shannonrwatts1 Dec 2018
In 1995, former president George H.W. Bush resigned as a Life Member of the @NRA because he objected to the leadership's extremism: google.com/amp/s/www.upworth…
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Here's a side-by-side of 'The Lion King' trailer with the same scenes from the 1994 original movie. #TheLionKing
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Todd Wilson@todd_wilson_ne10 Nov 2018
My God what a man!
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@emanumiller7 Nov 2018
This is brilliant. May 1981. President Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at an Air Force base in West Berlin when a balloon pops loudly. Only two months previously, the President had been shot in an attempt on his life, not long after beginning his first term. Reagan's response:
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@BBCArchive13 Sep 2018
Roald Dahl at work in 1982. #RoaldDahlDay2018

"you get really comfortable, and then you're away"

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And here it is! ISLAND ZERO: exclusive trailer of our new horror film with director's commentary. funsizehorror.com/community/…
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Last night, Sen. Collins congratulated Maine’s Teachers of the Year, including 2017 #MTOY @TamaraRanger
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Dan Roan@danroan9 May 2016
The most compelling piece of film you'll see. About the bravest of people. On @BBCiPlayer now bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bgnk…
BBC Two - Hillsborough

BBC Two - Hillsborough

Account of the Hillsborough disaster, capturing the horror and exposing police failures.

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A closer look at modern slavery in Britain. Watch Britain’s Modern Slave Trade: aje.io/x6re
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Trial of suspects in murder that stunned upscale Texas city expected to offer rare glimpse into Mexican cartels on.wsj.com/21aXLbq
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Filming underway in Camden area for #horror flick based on .@tessgerritsen screenplay bdn.to/y3lf
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