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@SkylarJordan

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Half my heart is in Appalachia. The other half is in England. Write about both professionally, study both academically, at home in both personally

Johnson City, TN
Joined December 2008
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I wrote about Marilyn Lands' surprise victory in Alabama, where the Democrat won a long-held Republican seat in the state legislature running on reproductive freedom in the heart of Trump country - and what lessons she has for Democrats nationally
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@Davis_Hammet Kansas Republicans are perverts
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@Slatzism Would you rather HIV patients die lonely deaths as public pariahs like they did in the 1980s?
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@POTUS Then you don’t support D.C. statehood and home-rule
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@JDVance1 Did you release a similar statement when a far-right terrorist murdered 5 people at Club Q last year? Or at the Buffalo supermarket? What about the El Paso Walmart? The Pittsburgh synagogue? The South Charleston church? The Isla Vista streets? The homes of New Mexico Democrats?
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So it's okay for William to sue the press, but not okay for Harry and Meghan to even push back on fake stories?
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@Slatzism Oh, I guess yeah, you would. What a nasty piece of work you are
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pagliacci the hated 🌝
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sodom and gomorrah was a warning not an instruction manual
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@SenRickScott You have his blood on your hands
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Excellent piece on how Prince Harry is spotlighting the nefarious practices and symbiotic relationship of the tabloid press and Royal family
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@heathermcgill32 @todpalmer @Dominic__Decoco @UofOklahoma @BruceFeldmanCFB It’s so sad that β€œactive shooter training” is even a thing. A damning indictment of our failing society
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@SenRickScott Y'all, Senator Scott is in a position to effect change. He chooses not to. He has an A+ rating from the NRA. What I said is deliberately provocative. I will continue to hold to account politicians who choose to do nothing as our people are slaughtered in the streets
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Absolutely love Haz taking Murdoch to task. β€œIt was around this time that I began to think Murdoch was evil… I didn’t care for Murdoch’s politics, which were just to the right of the Taliban’s” #Spare #SparePrinceHarry
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@NewsNationPR @EvanLambertTV @NewsNation Unacceptable. Your colleagues stand with you, Evan. The free press must be protected at all costs
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@AndrewYang @ryanbeckwith Yes they did. She was on the ticket in 2020 and we elected Biden/Harris lol
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@raphousetv2 You can't be "framed" by your victims, because having victims to begin with necessarily implies you did something criminal and harmful to them
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@SholaMos1 I don’t know if there is anything I could possibly say that would be helpful but I want to register my solidarity with you, Dr Mos-Shogbamimu. This is repugnant and has no place in a civilised society. Light and love to you and yours
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@GovernorKayIvey You have their blood on your hands
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@KYGOP Just because Donald Trump doesn’t love his sons doesn’t mean it’s weird to love your son
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@walmarthelp @EverydayPJ_ What, so you can sack the poor minimum wage worker you're exploiting? Get fucked
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@gstl215 @thejeffbarbra @TNGOP I'd really like to see us move to ban child beauty pageants
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@spuuky @DylanDoppelt They look like the cast of a Girls reboot
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@davidhth @luvinlifeinID @antifaoperative No wonder, with such a narcissistic mother
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@ProfTomkins @ShelaghFogarty I mean she can think whatever she wants, but others are free to think that what she thinks is bad. For me, the line is drawn when she wants to force me to live by her religious views. That's illiberal
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@Gabby_Hoffman This is ahistorical rightwing propaganda. The coal industry in Appalachia began declining in the 1950s with the advent of mechanisation and automisation. By 1990, coal accounted for only 28,876 jobs in West Virginia
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@JasonZacharyTN @CSexton25 That’s because you’re a fascist, dear
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It’s okay not to be a fan of Sam Smith. I’m not. But complaining about a queer man being gender nonconforming and hypersexual when you never complain about straight men and women doing and being the same really shows your own prejudice
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@timloughton She was mocking herself and you know it, Tim. Shame on you for misrepresenting this to pile on and bully her. I love the UK. It is my second home and the country I hope to live in permanently one day. But the way you all have completely lied about this moment has me appalled
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@Harriso77085636 @Davis_Hammet Says someone so ugly they won’t show their face. Sit down you moose
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@DavidAFrench The evidence suggests otherwise. You are running cover for a fascist, David. Shame on you
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@MittRomney So what are we going to do about it? Because all this talk with no action is long past ridiculous and exhausting
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@JohnAnzo @ppavnr Depends on what those "opposing views" are. As the GOP becomes more extreme, "opposing views" become "opposing morals" and that cannot work
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As an American I am aghast that Anne Sacoolas can escape justice for killing an innocent young man. Harry Dunn's family deserves justice. The US should extradite her if she does not go on her own accord
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Harry Dunn’s killer Anne Sacoolas advised not to attend UK sentencing 🚨
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@laurenboebert I’m very confused by this tweet. Is this supposed to be some transphobic dogwhistle?
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@Kanew This sent chills down my spine. I’m so sorry, Justin. Solidarity ✊🏻
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@Travistritt @JackDaniels_US I used to be such a fan of yours. β€œAnymore” is one of my favourite songs of all time, as is β€œI’m Gonna Be Somebody.” But this hateful turn of yours is so disappointing
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@POTUS Take a look at the replies to this tweet. Lots of people projecting their own issues into this. All I did was accurately assess the logic here. You can’t say you support home-rule but also support the federal government overriding the democratically elected city government
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@ShelaghFogarty @ProfTomkins But she does, Shelagh. She said she would have voted against equal marriage. That's limiting my rights because of her beliefs, and as a gay man that is a massive issue and makes her different than, say, Tim Farron from a few years back
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@AJRtheII Imagine if she was a lesbian and did this. The right would lose its collective mind
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Mehdi is also, I believe, a naturalised U.S. citizen meaning he legally can’t be deported. The implications of that specific threat make it all the more horrifying Never mind what the threat to imprison a gay critic of our would-be dictator means to me specifically
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Mike Davis β€” an ex-Gorsuch law clerk touted as Trump’s next AG β€” threatens to indict, detain, deport @mehdirhasan & put @Timodc in a women’s prison. Fascism is here, y’all. Mehdi and Tim are treasures. This is obscene.
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@jaycgallagher @LBC @AliMirajUK And it’s not her personal views people took exception to. It’s her political views
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@SanchoDelRanch0 @Davis_Hammet at least my mother loves me
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I wrote about the utter disregard for safety #OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush showed, how it echoes the safety failures of Titanic itself, and why - just as our ancestors learned from that disaster - we should learn from this one and regulate adventure tourism
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@Sen_JoeManchin That crime bill was not as bad as you're saying. It would've made it *easier* to prosecute crimes and reformed sentencing so that you didn't get more for destroying property than for murder. I'll never understand how you and your ilk have made it into something so scary
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@tedreednc @YesHunter Hi. I’m a journalist who writes about Appalachia and I am currently pursuing a masters in Appalachian Studies. I grew up near Vance in both Ohio and Kentucky That book did no such thing
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@michaellore @AP What? That white people need a consolation prize for Black excellence? I don’t understand why people are so upset about this. I mean, I do, but it’s just such a shame
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The sheer brass neck of calling Bonnie Raitt β€œunknown” 😑
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@TheTNHoller @GinoBulso @tnhousegop Gino Bulso is a nasty piece of work
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@SenRickScott Especially when those people are their purported friends. I don't know how you can see your friend murdered and choose to... do nothing
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@TPUSA @charliekirk11 They said coffee, Charlie. That’s just milk that’s turned
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@JakeBerry This is a socialist Gladvent calendar! Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong!
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@ColinBrazierTV That's not what is happening here. This was very clearly Meghan being self-depricating about her lack of knowledge and her own ignorance. That the right-wing press is making this out to be something else entirely is a damning indictment of you lot. Truly despicable
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@tnhousegop @TNGOP @GinoBulso @JasonZacharyTN @WilliamLamberth @RepChrisTodd Last year y'all proposed a marriage bill with no minimum age. You've done nothing to ban child beauty pageants which sexualise kids more than a panto dame reading a story at a library ever has. This isn't about protecting the innocence of children. It's a legislative gay bashing
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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has been called the Black national anthem for longer than "The Star-Spangled Banner" has been the U.S. national anthem. This tweet is for all the conservatives currently or about to lose their shit over a song praising God and freedom
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@emeriticus I got bullied because I was gay, Pedro
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@scarlett4kids @KelseaBallerini @CMT So should we prohibit straight white men from being on tv every time one of them does a mass shooting? Because there’s never be another episode of Tucker Carlson if that happened
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@BBCNews That’s not how hereditary monarchy works
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@chrisjollyhale @Justinjpearson Has he never heard of code switching? I was LITERALLY just discussing this with undergraduates today in an Appalachian studies course and they got it. Why can’t Tucker? (That’s rhetorical lol)
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@ShelaghFogarty @ProfTomkins And people vote against politicians for those things all the time. I wouldn’t vote for an anti-choice candidate anymore than I’d vote for one who opposes equal marriage. I want to he free to live by my conscience, not by theirs, and certainly not by Kate Forbes’
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@mattyglesias @thejb_stan You just tacitly acknowledged that you think 1) conservatives are racist and 2) that you think it’s important that we read racist articles and also 3) sometimes those articles are good Have a word with yourself
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This is a serious question: how much longer does Twitter have, do you think? I find it hard to believe this platform will exist this time next year
@AdamParkhomenko
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Elon Musk reportedly tried to sell Twitter's office plants to employees as part of his push for cash
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The more I think about that Maureen Dowd column, the more I can't believe the nerve of her. I think it's bringing up all the times people commented on my family situation over the years without knowing the basic facts. Some things are none of your business, Maureen
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Dressed illegally in Tennessee today
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Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, and Reba McEntire have all acknowledged their LGBTQ fanbases and have expressed support for our community before. Yet their silence in the wake of Tennessee’s hateful drag and trans health bans has been deafening. My latest:
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@jimrosecircus1 Gilmore Girls is annual viewing. Golden Girls is my go to, though
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Harry Belafonte. Damn. The child of immigrants, he risked his career to stand up for what was right by vocally supporting and participating in the Civil Rights Movement. If that wasn't enough, he changed American music forever and was an immense talent. RIP Legend, indeed.
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This is ahistorical rightwing propaganda. The coal industry in Appalachia began declining in the 1950s with the advent of mechanisation and automisation. By 1990, coal accounted for only 28,876 jobs in West Virginia
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When you shut down entire industries that keep Appalachia afloat by regulatory fiat - cough, killing the coal industry- you create ghost towns. On the other-side of the pendulum: SF’s permissiveness of homeless and rampant crime are equally of the Left’s doing. Not the own you…
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@tonyposnanski @AdamKinzinger I don't think that's fair to say of Adam Kinzinger. Most Republicans, sure. But Adam seems like he has a lot of compassion for everyone
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@bbcpress @thatkat @guardian Given how y'all are treating Gary Linekar, I'm not sure I believe you
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@RachelBitecofer Watch it and then read my essay on how the responses to them are a perfect reflection of the cultural differences between the two nations. (I’m very proud of it and it’s for a startup and the editor was very kind to me so I’m promoting it as much as I can)
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I don’t think Pete Davidson has actually dated all these women. I think that this is some elaborate performance art and in 30 years there’s gonna be some cast reunion that reveals everything and blows our minds
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@NoContextBrits Putting beans on toast is pretty unique to the UK, I think?
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@mtgreenee My God you are shameless
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@EStreachailt And fucking Graham Linehan cheering it on as protecting gender non-conforming kids. He really is thick as pigshit isn't he? And these Republicans are utterly fascistic. It's terrifying
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I saw Dixie Carter trending and got so excited until I realised it isn't Julia Sugarbaker
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@elle_hunt I did wonder if it was a comment on class and regional identity but then, he’s not working class. It’s the best explanation I’ve seen though, so thanks for sharing!
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Reading the Ronan Farrow report on Elon Musk and holy shit this caused me to gasp. No unelected person should have this much influence over the government. Our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves
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The reality is that most mainstream country artists today are perfectly fine with a descent into authoritarianism so long as it doesn’t affect ticket sales Some, like Jason Aldean, actively cheer it on
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. @jaketapper asks what we also want to know -- when will more country artists speak out in support of the #Tennessee3 ?
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@Western_Trad I am. I’m gay
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@VoteGloriaJ Get 'em, Gloria!
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@JoanneMason11 Jen Psaki is not a proven liar nor did she try to overthrow an election. Do keep up, Joanne
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@MarisaKabas They want so desperately to be oppressed lol. It's pathetic
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Before this morning I had never heard of Samantha Hudson. I wish it had remained that way. There's a lot to unpack here but mostly I'm just fucking exhausted by this kind of thing. Like... who hires these people without vetting old tweets at this point??? #BoycottDoritos
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@JenWoodruff79 @tedreednc @YesHunter It absolutely does on a topic I report on professionally and am pursuing a masters in. If I said "I'm a journalist covering Appalachia, let me tell you about nuclear fusion" you might have a point. But this is something of an expertise of mine; that is germane to the conversation
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β€œTelling women how to avoid rape” has been the primary deterrent to rape for decades. Centuries. Millennia. Spoiler alert: it hasn’t worked. Perhaps because the problem isn’t women. It’s men
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Victim-blaming is terrible. Rapists are solely responsible for what they do. But telling women how better to defend themselves from dangerous men isn’t always victim-blaming.
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I bet Kellie-Jay and her ilk are cheering this on, or will be soon. Despicable
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I can’t believe I’m writing this. A new FL bill will tell courts to SEIZE TRANS CHILDREN AWAY from their supportive parents if those parents provide or are β€œat risk” of providing them life-saving care. Parents would be charged with felonies + thrown in prison. This is fascist.
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@ThePerezHilton Why you gotta be so nasty? The β€˜00s are over, and you lost
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@BriansRicky @BBCNews I have a degree in it lol
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@JamieHh88 That’s exactly what a Nazi would say
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Lauren Boebert’s 17-year-old son impregnating a 15-year-old girl is the future Republicans want. The GOP is the party of child marriage and teen pregnancy
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@AsaHutchinson A fair statement, Governor
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@Louiestowell Central London is overrated and tourists should spend more time farther afield than zone 2
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They're basically arguing that anyone who isn't a white male is incompetent
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This is the latest narrative, from Tucker to Comer to the WSJ op-ed page, that diversity makes people lose money
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@JessieTweeting @broderick I can barely get a customer service rep on the phone *now*
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One thing about the #TennesseeThree that I haven't seen mentioned is that this all started because the children of evangelicals were slaughtered. Democrats are fighting for the lives of the children of Republicans while Republicans themselves try to expel them for it
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@erickbellomy @TheTNHoller @GovBillLee @CSexton25 @tnhousegop @brotherjones_ @VoteGloriaJ @Justinjpearson They won’t lose their seats. They’ve gerrymandered the state to make sure of it.
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@JonBontempe @JDVance1 Mother Emanuel AME. I used the names of the cities as a literary device to drive home my point that right-wing violence occurs across this country in many venues. "South Charleston church" was thus used just as "Pittsburgh synagogue" - instead of saying Tree of Life Synogague.
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