Museum Director, social entrepreneur, outraged (and deeply worried) global citizen.
Massachusetts
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Ban assault weapons. Now. No other action or combination of actions at the federal level will be anywhere near as effective as an assault weapons ban if your real goal is to reduce gun violence. BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS. NOW. #BanAssaultWeapons #BanAssaultWeaponsNow #assaultweaponsban
Your yard sign shares that you support our police and law enforcement officers.
Now you know that he does not.
How does that make you feel?
#january6 #firstresponders #police #lawenforcement #ruleoflaw
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Who says @cspan isn’t fascinating? @RepRaskin obliterates and educates all at once
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The researchers @KathrynEdin, @profshaefer, and @Tijone observed that people seem to thrive “when inequality is low; when landownership is widespread; when social connection is high; and when corruption and violence are rare.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Very fair, stomach-churning questions raised by this dichotomy.
Hundreds are still missing and feared dead after a boat carrying migrants sank in Greek waters last week.
Advocates say they’re frustrated the sunken migrant ship has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for 5 people. nbcnews.com/news/world/syria…
Word. Sagan’s words are breathtaking and heartbreaking. We self-immolate in our myopia, generation after generation. - We must be more humble and chose to share, do without, at least sometimes.
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
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When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you." "It's true." Replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you."
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When will people admit that more guns has never made us safer? When do we realize that we’re the only industrialized country where this happens?
How can anyone watch this horror and immediately jump to the defense of the fucking guns and not the kid WHO HAD NO FACE?
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If we, as Americans, watched this in any other country, we’d call them barbaric, gruesome. We’d call them monsters.
Why the hell does anyone’s sick desire to own an AR-15 dwarf people’s right to live? To walk around with their kids? To not have their bodies obliterated?
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Word. It’s the reflexive right wing effort to stifle any effective response to gun violence. And make no mistake: the only response that will make a meaningful difference is to ban assault weapons. Do it NOW. #BanAssaultWeaponsNow #BanAssaultWeapons
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Ban assault weapons. Now. No other action or combination of actions at the federal level will be anywhere near as effective as an assault weapons ban if your real goal is to reduce gun violence. BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS. NOW. #BanAssaultWeapons #BanAssaultWeaponsNow #assaultweaponsban
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Want to know how far the Republican Party has drifted on its interpretation the 2nd Amendment? Here's what Republican Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger-appointed by President Nixon-had to say about the NRA:
"The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires."
Make sure everyone sees this.
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“When babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers,” Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black says.
“Lord, deliver our senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous.”
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Let’s be clear—lessons about art or civil rights never killed kids. But AR-15s have.
Republicans are only interested in banning the former.
Democrats have passed laws to address school shootings and are calling for an assault weapons ban. Republicans want to ban books.
“People find it very difficult to act because to act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.” - Martin Luther King #quote #BlackHistoryMonth