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Human rights attorney working for equity in education and the workplace. RT ≠ endorsement

Down the rabbit hole.
Joined January 2011
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@JessLeeEsq
Jessica Lee
5 months
I can't even count how many VCU students were brutalized and gassed just now. And the ominous siren is blaring again. Helping students who were blinded. All are scared for students who were beaten. This is beyond dystopian. I'm so sickened.
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Jessica Lee
6 years
I always get pissed off when I hear "x will get girls interested in STEM." Girls are ALREADY interested in #STEM . It's just hard to STAY interested in STEM when faced with teachers and a society with one narrow (male) vision of what STEM practice is. #WomeninScience
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10 years
in front of the makeshift memorial where Mike Brown was killed, they've set up a voter registration table #Ferguson http://t.co/Puj339x9o6
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5 months
At UVA, VCU and beyond: When a public institution suddenly changes its rules in an arbitrary way that *just so happens* to shut down protest...it isn't an accident. It's an illegal restriction on free speech.
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1 year
@gossipbabies I'll never hear someone say "I'm in my bag" the same way again 🤣
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Jessica Lee
5 months
VCU students prepping a community meal this afternoon have been told to leave the compass lawn. The admin just changed their "major event" policy to include any gathering over 50 students. This morning the policy was 150!!! THIS IS UNCONSTITIONAL VIEWPOINT DISCRIMINATION
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Jessica Lee
2 years
My kid's class stopped eating lunch outside last week, forcing him to go unmasked inside. Now like 1/2 the class and a teacher are out sick with something. Kiddo brought it home and I can hear my mom coughing downstairs. This "normal" just doesn't work. I can't live like this.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
Who else thinks @GovernorVA should pardon all state cannabis convictions?
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The Virginia Mercury
3 years
Virginia legalized marijuana, but people currently in prison on charges related to the drug will stay there under the new law. Lawmakers said they ran out of time to include a resentencing provision.
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Jessica Lee
8 months
Friendly reminder that if you're nervous about mRNA vaccines there's a good COVID vaccine for you--NovaVax! It's highly effective and has extremely low rates of side effects!
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Jessica Lee
6 years
The thing that strikes me the most about #LivingWhileBlack is how many black folks are a target for racists IN THEIR OWN HOMES. Imagine not bring able to just--BE--in your own neighborhood, driveway, yard....or house! Smdh
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Jessica Lee
4 years
I know it's just procedure, but damn. Hearing @AOC say these words just gave me goosebumps. A tiny, beautiful glimpse at a different reality. 💔 We were so close, yall. Keep fighting. #BernieSanders #DemocraticConvention #NotMeUs
@People4Bernie
People for Bernie
4 years
"I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for President of the United States" @AOC #DNC2020 #NotMeus
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6 years
@jessica_roy @MoJohn8510 Still mad about this. I just realized that aside from the trauma and negative impact on their education this causes the girls, what the school is doing is PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS. The school is putting these girls at risk of toxic shock syndrome.
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Jessica Lee
5 months
I'm sorry, does the Governor run our universities' day to day operations? They belong to the Commonwealth...all of us...not him.
@MercuryVirginia
The Virginia Mercury
5 months
As protests heat up on Virginia campuses, Youngkin says no encampments will be allowed. @nathanielcline via @MercuryVirginia
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Jessica Lee
4 years
PARENTS: If your employer has less than 500 employees, you worked there for at least 30 days, and now you cant work because your kids' school/childcare is closed, the CARES Act entitles you to 12 weeks of leave at 2/3 pay. People dont know this, please PASS IT ON.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
I'm still just so mad at Terry McAuliffe.
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Jessica Lee
6 years
@IamGMJohnson Last week a friend played a video of their toddler chasing tennis balls on court, to which a ww said, "aww, she's going to be a little [insert name of white tennis player]." I DIED. Like, how are you going to aspire to be any player other than Serena? #Mediocrity
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Jessica Lee
3 years
Enjoy the warmth but don't forget--(Third) Winter is coming!
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Jessica Lee
3 years
So a Henrico cop shot and killed a car crash victim last night. And I hear...crickets. No one should have that kind of power.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
If nobody wants the Casino near them, maybe we should just... ...I dunno... ...NOT have a casino?
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Jessica Lee
5 years
@shaunking @JoeBiden "He's the only one who can win" is 1) not responsive to the question 2) baseless Where is this coming from? Honestly I can't imagine real people thinking this way.
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Jessica Lee
6 years
@jessica_roy @MoJohn8510 This is a despicable violation of Title IX (and likely state law). Please tell me they have an attorney (if not, I'm happy to make connections). This cannot keep happening.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
We could've had the nation's first Black woman Governor.
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@JessLeeEsq
Jessica Lee
2 years
I'm missing a lot of details but tbh there's one detail that tells me all I need to know: She was 17. He was 55...and powerful. Stop enabling Joe. 🚮
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Jessica Lee
7 years
@Ocasio2018 @samswey Quick legal note--Asylum seekers like this girl shouldn't be punished to ANY degree. They weren't convicted of a crime... If immigrants are treated like they're being punished, or worse, that's unconsitutional.
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Jessica Lee
8 months
@Imani_Barbarin Stanley Cup moms will be like: "A little lead isn't that bad! The woke mob and the corporations are just trying to brainwash you into avoiding *natural* minerals. People have used lead cups since the Roman times! There's a tik Tok on this!"
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5 months
I can't even count how many VCU students were brutalized and gassed just now. And the ominous siren is blaring again. Helping students who were blinded. All are scared for students who were beaten. This is beyond dystopian. I'm so sickened.
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@rohantalbot Ugh. Should people be *grateful* they aren't blowing up children on the beach like they've done before?!? The bar is set so low it's in hell.
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Jessica Lee
8 months
@MbekezeliMB My heart is SO full!!! This really does feel like a new era.
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Jessica Lee
4 years
@wormmaps @MaggieEThornton Not just paid sick leave. ANY sick leave. For far too many people staying at home sick means they lose their job.
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Jessica Lee
7 years
@Ocasio2018 @samswey This constitutes torture. Which is illegal (did we forget? Probably) under international and domestic law.
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Jessica Lee
5 months
THAT'S MY SCHOOL, Y'ALL!!! VCU! ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹
@BradKutner
BK
5 months
NEW: @VCU students walk out of their own commencement to protest @GlennYoungkin #valeg They will not be allowed back into the ceremony but don’t seem worried. “My families going to be mad, but it’s worth it for what he’s done to bBack and trans ppl” - said by a student outside
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Jessica Lee
4 years
@Kyle_Feldscher @CLindsayII "Herd immunity" **if it's even possible** also means longer term, disabling health impacts for tens of millions of Americans of all ages. Not to mention early deaths years from now. This disease is brutal, even for survivors.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
@tanzinavega It's breaking my heart as my friends who wanted kids, but couldn't afford them, start to reach the end of their fertility. They're grieving, hard.
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Jessica Lee
7 years
Adding this to my list of articles to share with ppl who ask me if they should go to law school...
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Jessica Lee
2 years
@JessGrose For me it's moral injury. 💯 The harm, death, and abandonment I and other parents experienced during the pandemic dramatically altered our view of society and the future. Here's more:
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Jessica Lee
10 years
just saw protesters stopping traffic on Brooklyn Bridge FROM A PLANE. #nyc you're so beautiful @thisstopstoday #shutitdown
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Jessica Lee
2 years
I've not seen a crowd this pumped and a turnout this big since the first Obama election. (Btw, it's moving fast, don't be scared.) This is what community love looks like!! @JennMcClellanVA
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6 years
@mattbc @brownblaze If you aren't a lawyer you can still help: 1)Tell kid you're there because you want to make sure they're ok 2) Ask if theres someone you can call for them 3) Record the interaction (but tell kid your focus is the police. You will NOT post it unless its of use to the arrestee)..
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Jessica Lee
7 years
#StephonClark (Zoe) had NO gun, murdered by Sacramento cops IN HIS OWN BACKYARD #Justice4Zoe #Justice4StephenClark
@k1ngdeezy916
The Deezy Nigga
7 years
This my bro Zoe.. 22 year old father of 2.. Killed by @SacPolice unarmed lastnight ❗️ The world needs to remember your face and push til yo family get the justice they deserve bro ❗️❗️ #FuckSacPD
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4 years
@DrJenGunter @jameelajamil Last I checked Canada, with no abortion laws, had a *lower* abortion rate than the US. It's almost like having access to healthcare has an effect on the prevalence of abortion?! 🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️
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Jessica Lee
3 months
@moorehn Absolutely. Also, it's deeply insulting to have people who've literally used eugenicists' talking points and failed to protect disabled folks with catastrophic results suddenly using disability justice as a shield.
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Jessica Lee
1 year
Richmond VA!!! Show some love for Kameron Simmonds who just helped Jamaica win it's first ever women's World Cup match! She's from Midlothian @NBC12
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Jessica Lee
5 months
Now @VCU students have started an encampment. I hope my alma mater treats student protest with the respect it deserves!!! If you're an alumn, please speak up!
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Jessica Lee
2 years
Only 3 states have paid lactation breaks. The next time you're tempted to say "breastfeeding is free," don't. We're paying for it in lost wages, lost careers, plus lots of blood, sweat, and tears.
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Jessica Lee
2 years
@BriannaABaker I'm sorry. What was the "lesson"? Happy to help if you need a hand filling a complaint now or in the future.
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Jessica Lee
2 years
Looking at the Queen's gaudy, labored, somber funeral procession and I just can't stop thinking about Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral being attacked. I'll never forget her pallbearers struggling to hold her coffin up even while being beaten.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
Betty Davis will always live, rent free, somewhere deep in my soul. ¡Betty Davis, presente!
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Jessica Lee
4 years
@Ohhhhhh_ASHLEY @IPM_HQ The answer to this isn't just closing care/school. The answer is fair working conditions and an emergency income. All of this death is because our broken government cant just take care of folks for a couple months and wipe this thing out. Smdh.
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Jessica Lee
5 years
The first election since I moved back to VA and WE'VE TURNED #VIRGINIA BLUE!!!!! You're welcome 😉 #Virginiaelections #VirginiaVotes
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5 months
Right now police are amassing near the site of the VCU Liberated Zone/encampment. @VCU you *must* keep our students safe.
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Jessica Lee
5 years
@Redistrict Interesting that I'm not hearing the same concern about nominating a gay man. Is misogyny more socially acceptable than homophobia these days?
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Jessica Lee
2 years
@FemiYahtzee @Bronsosaurus Can you please name the pharmacy? Especially if it is a chain? It would help with wider advocacy efforts.
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Jessica Lee
9 months
@JohnathanPerk (Funeral) iced lemon pound cake or 7up cake will always feel like home. But the favorite? Sweet potato cake. Hands down. It's heaven.
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Jessica Lee
6 years
@mattbc @brownblaze 4) Remind them they should say nothing, its their right. Tell them to say"it is my right to stay silent" and ask for a lawyer 5) Remind them that things they say (even seemingly unimportant) can be twisted and used against them. This includes things they say on the jail phone
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Jessica Lee
1 year
@LauraMiers I don't know how many people you've saved from death and disability, but I know you have. Thank you and I'm sorry. I hope a cure comes faster than the collapse...
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Jessica Lee
3 years
Sooo close. 🤣
@ratemyskyperoom
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Good depth. Angled walls are tough. Add more bright objects/vase to top of bookshelf. 8/10 @JessLeeEsq
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Jessica Lee
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@lindsayballant The way my jaw hit the floor...
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Jessica Lee
4 years
**Every day** I talk to workers in an absolute panic about the $600 unemployment boost running out. Desperate people, sick people, medically vulnerable people This is a crisis. This is a cliff. @timkaine @MarkWarner @Donald_McEachin @SpanbergerVA07 What's the plan?
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Jessica Lee
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@cmclymer The idea that a people's freedom requires another's destruction is absolutely sickening, and I can't believe you're spreading that idea. Freedom isn't anti-Semitic. People calling for freedom aren't inherently anti-Semitic. Shame on you.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
I went shopping today and saw 60+ people. EVERY whyte person I saw was maskless. Every. One. No matter the class, gender, age, size. No masks. I saw interracial families where that family member was the only one maskless. Anyone else seeing this? So disturbing.
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Jessica Lee
5 months
Today feels like a good day to tap this sign 👇🏽
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Jessica Lee
5 months
The right to protest is FUNDAMENTAL. I wish more folks concerned about the future of our democracy would say something right now. Democracy is not just elections! Our future is at stake.
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Jessica Lee
8 months
@rrserred @ali_sivi Over 4 thousand people knew *exactly* who this was about
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Jessica Lee
5 months
I was told the same by several VCU students who hadn't been involved before. The next protest will only be bigger.
@luca_a_powell
Luca Powell
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There is just no question that from the time police showed up, the protest at VCU only got bigger. At least three or four hundred by 10pm. One student told me she felt more inclined to support the protesters cause after seeing her classmates tear-gassed by their campus police.
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5 months
@VCU The students didn't disrupt exams--many were studying for exams at the encampment!! Students at the library right next to the encampment were studying and hardly looking up until the cops turned on the sound weapon.
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Jessica Lee
6 years
@ActuallyEmerson @Joe_Stanley Same thing with those folks' one black friend (or, "friend"). "But You're Special" syndrome or, "But You're Different From All the Other You-know-whats" syndrome
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Jessica Lee
7 years
@GeorgeTakei If #Sessions and #Trump don't think #Hawaii is really part of America, I know some native Hawaiians who would be happy to have it back!
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Jessica Lee
5 months
Please consider donating to bail out VCU students, if needed.
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Jessica Lee
5 months
Right now police are amassing near the site of the VCU Liberated Zone/encampment. @VCU you *must* keep our students safe.
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Jessica Lee
2 months
@Globalbiosec You're quoting the article wrong. It's 1 in 100,000. Still too many, but not 12.7!
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Jessica Lee
1 year
@blackgirlinmain My immediate thought
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Jessica Lee
5 years
The idea of Joe Biden speaking at rallies to try to get black women to "understand they can say 'no'" to sex makes my stomach churn. Go away, uncle Joe. You don't know what you're talking about. P.S. Don't smell my hair on your way out.
@WalkerBragman
Follow me Threads and download the OptOut app
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Joe Biden in 2007 discussing "the community."
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Jessica Lee
2 years
@GHMansfield @Ring_Sheryl "Well that's ironic, cuz I'd rather kill myself than live without a shred of human decency and respect for others..."
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Jessica Lee
5 months
I'd assumed the LRAD at VCU was some kind of alert/clear the campus alarm. I've been to more protests than I can count and even I was in total disbelief that they were pulling out military weapons on campus. No negotiating, no de-escalation, just violence from the cops.
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Jessica Lee
2 years
I....was not expecting this in my mailbox tonight.
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Jessica Lee
2 years
Free Leonard Taylor. End the death penalty.
@msolurin
Olayemi Olurin
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MISSOURI PLANS TO EXECUTE AN INNOCENT MAN, LEONARD TAYLOR, TOMORROW. Leonard has been incarcerated since 2004 on a quadruple murder charge evidence has never supported. Leonard helped free another innocent man, Lamont Campbell, last month
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10 years
#dellwood , where #Ferguson residents were planning to march to resist #Ferquson curfew just imposed 10pm curfew. 1st Amendment gone in MO
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Jessica Lee
2 years
@rgay We're not even safe when we're dead?!?!
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Jessica Lee
2 years
Nervous about asking for #longcovid accommodations at work? You can talk to a lawyer in my office about your rights for FREE: 415-851-3308  COVID19Helpline @worklifelaw .org
@USDOL
U.S. Department of Labor
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If you’re experiencing lingering effects of COVID – often called #LongCOVID – you may be entitled to workplace accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act ( #ADA ). Learn more from @JANatJAN . #LongCOVIDatWork
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@queenveej FACT! Black women are over 2x more likely than white women to be the family breadwinner. But tell that to the people who call us gold diggers and they'll just complain we're "too independent."
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Jessica Lee
1 year
This one right here got me. Whew. #BMBFA
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Jessica Lee
8 years
Jesus be a lighting bolt. Jesus be a lighting bolt. Jesus be a lighting bolt. You know the target. Amen. #Inauguration
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Jessica Lee
6 years
@roblee4 I'm also a Lee from Virginia. A black Lee. Not sure if your ancestors owned mine. And perhaps we're related. Either way, I'm proud to say you're bringing honor to the name. Thanks and peace to you!
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Jessica Lee
3 years
@GovernorVA How do you celebrate "barrier-breakers" without knowing the barriers they broke? Our history isnt just about a few brave leaders triumphing in the face of...nothing.
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Jessica Lee
5 years
@cmclymer How about a 3rd option: someone who has witnessed dementia firsthand, and is genuinely worried about Biden's health? This isn't some political strategy. We're not monsters. Its honest fear about what I'm seeing, and how it could impact our country.
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Jessica Lee
5 months
Tear gas or pepper spray. Again. So many students are bewildered.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
As I ride down I64, thinking of Tony Singleton, an unarmed Norfolk man killed by Henrico VA police after surviving a car crash here on Nov 6th. We still have NO answers. Praying for his loved ones this Thanksgiving.
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Jessica Lee
3 years
@melissagira This is also why having Black folk in leadership is critical. We've always lived with criminalization.
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Jessica Lee
7 years
It is so damn sad that I'm ecstatic about this baby step to justice, but HALLELUJAH! The cop who shot #jordanedwards charged with murder.
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Jessica Lee
4 years
WE JUST ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY IN VIRGINIA!!!!! Too late, way too late. But finally, it's here.
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Jessica Lee
7 years
@Travon @ShaunKing Unless you're black. Honestly I can't inflict more pain on myself from these videos and I can't blame other at-risk folks who feel the same. Already hurt, already moved, already outraged enough to act!!
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Jessica Lee
3 years
How tf is everyone not having an existential crisis over climate change right now?? California is burning. The Gulf just got slammed. A deadly new disease is killing thousands a day. This is a crisis.
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Jessica Lee
6 years
@MarkRuffalo When a resume comes in with bartending or restaurant experience on it, I PAY ATTENTION. Its experience like no other.
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Jessica Lee
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@AutSciPerson Extremely challenging for those of us with long COVID to do. I have symptoms most of the time. Playing "am I contagious or just disabled" is so exhausting. I wonder how many others are going through this without the support and knowledge they need to stay safe and sane!
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Jessica Lee
2 years
This mom signed up her middle schooler for a program with police--so he'd be familiar with them--presumably to avoid violence and danger. The kid ended up concussed, handcuffed, pinned to the ground.
@ActivateVA
Activate Virginia
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“Jackson said she has spoken to various people with the Richmond Police Department about the incident a number of times, but she still has not gotten answers to her questions. The police report she paid $5 for does not have an incident description.”
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Jessica Lee
3 years
Saturday Henrico police shot a car crash victim on I-64, killing him. 3 days later we finally have the victim's name, Tony E. Singleton. He's from the 757. No justification has been given.
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