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@rosannecash

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Writer, rhymer. Plays well with others.

New York City
Joined September 2009
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TED Talks
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"We're all just radios hoping to pick up each other's signals." - @RosanneCash Watch this moving talk and performance on memory and the creative process here:
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Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.
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My daughter lives in Nashville & wore her mask to buy groceries. Guy yells at her: ‘Liberal pussy!’ Back story: she nearly died of H1N1. She was in the ICU for a week, on a ventilator for 3 days. She CANNOT get covid. The ignorance & hatred is so painful. She’s trying to survive.
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My dad would have been 90 today. Several yrs ago I was at his house on his birthday and a huge bouquet arrived. 'Who are those from?' I asked. He rolled his eyes. 'Elizabeth Taylor. We were born one day apart & she sends these every year to remind me I'm a day older than her.' 🎂
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Today I called the pharmacy to refill a prescription. The pharmacist said the cost for a 3-month supply was $11,000. Before I could get my jaw off my chest, she said, ‘Oh, sorry, I forgot to run it through your insurance. The cost is actually $134.’ This system is so effed up.
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Once I took a pregnancy test and it was negative for a long time, and then ALL OF A SUDDEN it was positive and I said what is this whole concept and then for some reason, I had a baby.
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TRUMP: “Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time, and then all of the sudden she tested positive ... this is why the whole concept of tests aren't necessarily great ... today, I guess, for some reason, she tested positive." 😳
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I’ve been debating all day whether or not to post this photo, but it’s just too good to keep under wraps. I expect a lot of captions, but none I haven’t thought of already. But go right ahead.
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'I would like equal time' says Harris and every single woman ever in the history of humans
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Me, my dad, and my daughter getting brainwashed by a yellow purveyor of government propaganda way back in 1991.
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It was a public vote, sir. We saw you do the exact opposite of what you say here.
@ChuckGrassley
Chuck Grassley
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I voted 2 make insulin available 4 pennies on the dollar 2 uninsured & w high deductible plans but Dems blocked it
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Diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, flu, pneumonia, polio, smallpox, tetanus, Covid-19. I’ve been vaccinated against every damn one and my ‘freedoms’ are still intact. I don’t glow and spoons don’t stick to my head. The microchip is in my phone; it didn’t go through a needle.
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Dancing at my wedding with my dad, 1995. Happy Father’s Day 💜
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How many pounds of black-eyed peas do I need to buy for New Year's Day to turn this whole thing around, do you think?
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I've alerted the estate attorneys that an insurrectionist is illegally using my dad's image to promote his fascist bullshit. In case you were wondering.
@RonFilipkowski
Ron Filipkowski
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‘Stop the Steal’ organizer Ali Alexander just surfaced and posted this, saying he will cooperate with the J6 Committee: “The only reason I’m going is because I don’t want to go to jail. Under the threat of imprisonment, I will be privately deposed this December” by the Committee.
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Announcement about my January concerts in Florida.
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I can't begin to say how influential Crosby, Stills and Nash were for me. I'm grateful David Crosby lived, and so very sad he's gone.
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Woody Guthrie, Antifa.
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Just to be clear, American taxpayers paid twice the amount a public school teacher makes in a year so the president's son could go to Mongolia and kill a rare sheep.
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In the last election 'Did Not Vote' won. Please. Vote tomorrow. It's a privilege.
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I want to sing backup for @NicolleDWallace .
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Large white male, red hat, lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
@FBI
FBI
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The FBI is seeking to identify individuals instigating violence in Washington, D.C. We are accepting tips and digital media depicting rioting or violence in and around the U.S. Capitol on January 6. If you have information, visit .
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My sister has lived in Portland for 20 years. She's never mentioned the decades of burning. These family secrets just never end.
@sahilkapur
Sahil Kapur
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Trump on @IngrahamAngle : “Portland’s been burning for many years. For decades it’s been burning.”
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Paul McCartney is five months older than Joe Biden. Wrap your head around THAT. And he has a new album out. Paul, not Joe.
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Miss my dad, gone 13 yrs today. Here he is after I told him I got a ticket for driving 102 mph in his car.
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I want to sing backup for Katie Porter
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Rep. Katie Porter
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I hope the Postmaster General comes prepared. I know I will.
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I made a huge mistake. I used fancy mayonnaise instead of Hellman's in my decades-old Southern potato salad recipe, and it's like the potatoes don't even recognize the dish. It's like the Hillbilly Elegy of potato salads. I must take to my bed now.
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I got the vaccine today and when the nurse said ‘congratulations’, I teared up. I can feel the anxiety slowly starting to lift.
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What are goji berries? I'm eating them and they taste like something Gwyneth Paltrow invented to make me feel bad about myself.
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This seems too bizarre to be true, but it is. He was an Air Force radio operator stationed in Germany. He told me and my siblings about it many times over our lives.
@CJFDillow
Chris Dillow
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70 years ago today, Stalin died. The first American to learn of his death was Johnny Cash: At least, that's what I want to believe.
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‘Losing My Religion’ doesn’t have a single rhyme in the whole song. I sort of knew this but just did a deep dive to confirm. That’s all, carry on.
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Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of my dad's recording At Folsom Prison. I gave this interview in 2008, on the 40th anniversary, published in RS for the 1st time today:
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All I can think of right now is that they just made my son register for the draft. And I am NOT giving up my son for Trump’s fucking re-election campaign disguised as the apocalypse.
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🙋🏻‍♀️ and btw, in decades of concerts, photo shoots, and television, I’ve never been allowed to write a cent off my taxes for hair styling, much less $70,000. And it’s not cheap to be a redhead, people.
@SenSchumer
Chuck Schumer
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🙋‍♂️ if you paid more in federal income tax than President Trump.
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@laurenthehough AND he did it without toilet paper. #nopressure
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Thank you for posting, @jaketapper . #WeChooseLove
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Jake Tapper
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God bless the family and the memory of Johnny Cash
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Don’t even. You vote against every common sense gun control bill that comes across your desk, you’ve taken over $1 million from the NRA and you rank 14th in all Congress for NRA contributions. Spare us the hand-wringing @MarshaBlackburn
@MarshaBlackburn
Sen. Marsha Blackburn
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Chuck & I are heartbroken to hear about the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville. My office is in contact with federal, state, & local officials, & we stand ready to assist. Thank you to the first responders working on site. Please join us in prayer for those affected.
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THEIR statement, not my dad's from beyond the grave. This is an irresponsible and thoughtless misuse of the image and supposed beliefs of someone who cannot offer his own opinion. Please remove his picture from your press release. I hope you all #getvaxxed
@RollingStone
Rolling Stone
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The Steel Woods say they won’t play concerts that require Covid vaccination. The Southern rock band used an image of Johnny Cash to make their statement about “integrity, freedom and liberty.”
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My lawyer just told me that every lawyer he knows with even basic familiarity with immigration law is at an airport right now. God bless.
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I live in NYC. 22,000 people died here during lockdown. We ran out of room in the morgues. We all stayed home, & wore masks to get groceries. We worked together for each other while some of you spit on workers & screamed that you needed a haircut. Yeah, this needs to go viral.
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Josh AbboŦŦ
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This needs to go viral
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A) I'm middle-aged. My parents are gone. B) he protested Vietnam War, for Native Americans, for prisoners rights, ETC. C) #ImWithTrashy
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Melba Ann Williams
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@rosannecash Your Daddy would not be proud of you. Surely you did not gather with that group of trashy women!!
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They were in a church that was full of prayers. They need a government who will enact common sense gun laws. #GunControlNow
@SpeakerRyan
Paul Ryan
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Reports out of Texas are devastating. The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers right now.
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Listening to Eva Cassidy, the most underrated singer of the 20th Century, IMHO. Her cover of Fields of Gold makes me come out of my skin. Such a sad story— no real career, insecure, died in her thirties. Maybe too sweet for some, but I listen to her regularly for inspiration.
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Those who insult her by saying she didn’t write the post never read her letter to Apple. Those who tell her to stay away from politics are actually telling her to stay away from citizenship. The rest of us offer our deep admiration.
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#ThingsMoreHeavilyRegulatedThanGuns Aspirin bottles. Cough syrup. Teeth whiteners. The cords on window shades. Fly fishing. The uterus.
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Sometime in the 90's, Nanci Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter & I did a songwriter-in-the-round show at the Bottom Line in NYC. Nanci played 'Trouble in the Fields'. It was--is--stunning. Here she is, singing it with the great @momaura . #RIPNanciGriffith
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Just give me one thing I can hold on to. I'm just heartbroken. #johnprine
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I’m late to the party on Pearl Jam and that’s my own fault.
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I really hope that one of these Confederate statues is replaced with one of Harriet Tubman, since she got so unceremoniously booted from replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
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Not sure why I’m crying. Maybe because they both look happy and they’re holding hands. And also because If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be a songwriter and there she is in her pretty sweater after nearly dying and still cares about art.
@nancyfranklin
Nancy Franklin
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Joni Mitchell and David Hockney, by @jacobsousa92 . (flamer_music on Instagram.)
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Beautiful.
@nycjim
Jim Roberts
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NYC Public Schools now provide free lunches for all 1.1mm students. No more lunch shaming.
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There are a lot of reasons to vote Biden/Harris, but this is one of the most important. I am voting for gun safety, for this little girl and all children who have died because of gun violence.
@fred_guttenberg
Fred Guttenberg
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Today I filled out my ballot and will hand deliver it. I am voting for gun safety and that means I am voting for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris . TODAY, I VOTED FOR JAIME 🧡🧡🧡
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My piece today in @nytopinion on guns, musicians and the N.R.A.
@nytopinion
New York Times Opinion
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Pull apart the threads of patriotism and lax gun laws that the N.R.A. maliciously intertwined by @rosannecash
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Thinking a lot lately about how great Peter Gabriel is. ‘Us’ was a game-changing record. ‘Solsbury Hill’ makes me glad to be in the world.
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Women would like a word
@SenTedCruz
Senator Ted Cruz
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Your health decisions are yours to make. It shouldn't be your boss, the government, or anyone else forcing you to make those decisions.
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This seems important. I will ask my husband to explain it to me.
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I’m voting for Elizabeth Warren in the New York primary.
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All terrorist attacks on US soil since 9.11 were by US citizens. This ban is immoral grandstanding. We are becoming something not-America.
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Senate Republicans won’t even vote on HR 8 or confirm an ATF director. They’re wholly owned by the NRA, a domestic terrorism PAC. Let’s name it for what it is.
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My son graduated from @UChicago last week and I spent two days crying because I blinked, and my child-rearing days are over. Don't blink.
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Alabama: I love your state, but you’ve really fucked up. You’ve made it so a teenage girl who is raped and impregnated has to give birth to the rapist’s child, compounding trauma, destroying lives. But you’ll at least provide free health care and education for the child, right?
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A little snarky humor used to be tolerated. Now it’s like throwing gasoline on an oil slick, or some metaphor like that. Big Bird has been encouraging kids to get vaccinated since 1972 and I love my family photo. I wasn’t trying to start a culture war.
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I did this once with only a Pink Floyd album and a glass of absinthe.
@NBCNews
NBC News
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At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.
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As an American whose relatives and ancestors served in every single conflict, back to the men on both sides of my family who fought in the Revolutionary War, this piece made me physically ill.
@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
4 years
1/ President Trump, who never served in the military, canceled a 2018 visit to a cemetery where American troops are buried, saying: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”
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Everything I want to say seems hollow or self-important, but there are protests and fires two blocks from me, so I’ll say it. If there is not true racial reparation and reconciliation in this country, we will destroy ourselves, and Trump will gladly help us.
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Willie Nelson is going to be 90. That's right. And a bunch of us are going to sing some of his songs at the Hollywood Bowl, and you should come. #willienelson
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I’m not celebrating today. I’m incredibly sad that we’ve betrayed every American ideal and value by putting babies and children in detention cages, and now we’re back to memes and celebrities and businsss as usual. I’m sickened by this. Where are they?
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Give them free rides to the polls, a monthly stipend, and a spa certificate.
@JeffYoungerShow
Jeff Younger
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Single women are mostly responsible for the leftward jolt in American politics. What should be done about that?
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Somebody noticed.
@trammell
Trammell
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All those ladies were dancing—in heels—on a field where professional athletes keep slipping.
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Best eclipse photo.
@AndyVoiceover
🎤Andy Field 🎙
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The @82ndABNDiv at @FtBraggNC was smart enough to schedule a jump today so they could take this pic. @sean_linnane that's some awesomeness!
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Remember when Harriet Tubman was going to be on the $20 bill? Just checking.
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Tom T. Hall, Don Everly, and Charlie Watts in less than a week. This is a kick to the gut.
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Thank you @ewarren . You moved the needle. We’ll get another old white guy, but you made everyone want to be better. Thank you for being an exemplary public servant and all-around decent person.
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Performing tonight at a dinner to benefit @Everytown . I keep thinking of the Ghandi quote: 'Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.' So I'm going to sing a couple of songs for common sense gun laws like it matters.
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It's getting harder to stay here.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
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I sang 'Danny Boy' at the 9.11 memorial in 2004, at Giuliani's request. I didn't know how I'd get through it. The song is already so sad. But the families stood there listening, with so much dignity & courage. It was so humbling. Music is sometimes purely about service & counsel.
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I was listening to some punk bands today because we all need to stay sharp.
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@rosannecash
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I just wandered over to see how you are all doing. I'm not deleting my account yet, but haven't been around much. Just doing a wellness check on everyone.
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So tonight the PA just died in the middle of my set. Dead. No bringing it back. The band and I turned our monitors around so the audience could hear us through them and played softer. Nobody left. It was an awesome night under battlefield conditions. Thank you, Ithaca.
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If anyone was up at 4 am worrying you needn't have bothered as I had it covered.
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Today I went down an 80’s and early 90’s wormhole and played Peter Gabriel, the Pretenders, Sinead O’Connor and Kate Bush for my son. He listened patiently for about a half hour, but after hearing Nothing Compares 2 U he sighed and said, ‘This is what’s wrong with you.’
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Today makes me so sad. All the money to the military & what are we defending? Not Art. Not Education. Not Science. Not Health. Not diversity
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Dark money in politics, Otis Redding’s death, interviews in which I sound like an idiot, the call letters of various FM stations, the last verse of Streets of Laredo. If you were concerned about any of these things at 3:30 this morning you needn’t have bothered. I had it covered.
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This is @MarshaBlackburn of Tennessee. I’d love to know the reason Tennesseans don’t want secure elections.
@thehill
The Hill
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#BREAKING : Senate GOP blocks three election security bills for second day
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The funeral of John Lewis was so inspiring, and how great it was to hear presidents speak eloquently, in complete sentences, not about themselves but about integrity, truth, and the power of the individual to bring change. 'Suit up and march on.'
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Yes. So much love for John.
@johnpaulwhite
John Paul White
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Please take a moment and pray for my friend and hero, @JohnPrineMusic . This world desperately needs him around as long as possible. Side note: F you, Coronavirus.
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Tonight @HillaryClinton spoke & I performed at the #NationalPortraitGallery for the launch of ‘Votes For Women: A Portrait Of Persistence.’ It was a spectacular night and the launch of a year long celebration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment. #ImWithHerAndHerAndHer
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I had my second dose of the vaccine yesterday. It doesn’t fool around. Crushing headache and a lot of shivering. Upside: Mr. L cleaned out the dishwasher.
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Just noticed I lost my blue check. I can still play all the chords I ever knew, so all is well. Drive on.
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No reported violence in any of the marches across the country.
@nbcwashington
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Woman's March on Washington didn't yield a single arrest, according to D.C. Homeland Security Director
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We’ve rolled with a lot of bad news this year, but the death of John Lewis, a man this country barely deserved, is wrenching. ‘Where is our soul?’ He shouted on the House floor. We have to keep asking that question, in his honor. Travel safely, sir.
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I hope addressing 'woke indoctrination in schools' is code for addressing 'six-year-olds with guns.' This country has lost its mind.
@Acyn
Acyn
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McCarthy says they’re going to pass bills to address “woke indoctrination in schools”
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12 killed, including the ‘good guy with a gun’, plus survivors of Las Vegas shooting. We can’t go on like this. I don’t want to hear about thoughts and prayers. I want #GunControlNow
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I cannot bear to see one more photo of innocent kids walking out of school with their arms over their heads. This has to stop. The NRA supports domestic terrorism. #GunControlNow
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Happy Birthday, Ringo Starr! I was lucky to perform with him once, back in the 80’s, along with Carl Perkins, Dave Edmunds, George Harrison & Eric Clapton. The producer told me straight out that I was the ‘token woman’ on the show but I didn’t give a damn because here’s the photo
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Compiling all my lyrics to post on my website b/c not a single lyric site on the Internet has them right. But.. does anyone care about this?
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Today I finished only the 2nd song I've written in quarantine. It's been so hard to focus. Both songs are really dark. Not that I was writing party songs before this. I think I'm making an EP. I'm not sure. Oh hell. See 'focus,' above.
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I’m honestly shocked that Republicans blocked a Jan 6th Commission. After everything that’s happened in the last four years, I’m still not numb to this cynical, craven, treasonous horseshit, and for that I’m grateful.
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@BluetickVols @Kville_Katana It reveals a lot about you, that you think I would make up a story that used my daughter’s compromised health to make a point. And it was at the Green Hills Kroger.
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