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Arlen Parsa

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Here for justice. An over-thinker, mainly. But my business cards say documentary filmmaker.

Chicago, Proudly

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Joined June 2009

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Arlen Parsa

5 years

This is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Declaration of Independence. I decided to put red dots on all the men who held slaves. Next time someone puts them on a pedestal and says we can't question their judgement on guns or whatever, show them this image.

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4 years

I am actually the one who spent hours researching and making this. Glad to have it shared but I would like a bit of credit!

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5 years

Look how Trump’s face changes when he realizes an entire stadium is booing him

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Imagine being so racist you actually get upset when a company wants to treat non-white customers well

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The fact that a Jewish director of a highly acclaimed film about the Holocaust, made in collaboration with the Auschwitz Museum, is being accused of *antisemitism* by right wingers simply because he decried the violence done to Palestinian civilians in his name says so much

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I can't believe this just happened. This is a president who is rapidly unraveling.

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4 years

Every person in this video is effectively giving the middle finger to doctors and nurses who are sacrificing everything to try and get this virus under control

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6 years

so just as an experiment I put the president's ~supremely~ awkward oval office moment to the @VeepHBO closing credits theme song just now. uhh it works v well.

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3 years

Just discovered there is an incredibly wholesome subreddit that’s nothing but chill people who work in the produce department of grocery stores showing off their best displays

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Oh my god, imagine you’re dating a guy for an entire year and then he says by the way I have something to tell you

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3 years

Remember that Derrick Chauvin was accused of using excessive force at least *17 TIMES* prior to murdering George Floyd. His entire police department had dozens of opportunities to make the public more safe by firing him. This is not a story about “one bad apple” or even a few.

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9 months

Apparently this post is the most drama the wedding photographers subreddit has ever seen

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5 years

BREAKING: Alabama Republicans just tried to sneak through a measure that would make nearly all abortions a felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison without even so much as a normal a roll call vote. Watch all hell breaking loose on the Alabama Senate floor:

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5 years

my favorite way to listen to the president is slowed down to 1/2 speed because it reveals how often times his logic is indistinguishable from that of a drunk person:

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3 years

This story from a pizza delivery driver is everything

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3 years

After Delta Airlines told its employees they would get charged $2,400/year if they didn't get the free vaccine, they had... wait for it... zero people quit over the policy. Instead 4,000 more of their workers chose to get vaccinated. People are all talk. Mandates work.

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'Huge number' of unvaccinated Delta workers got vaccine after $200 surcharge announcement, official says

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2 months

Conservative lady really came back to life and said murder me again

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2 years

People live their whole lives in suburbs afraid of violent cities but they’ll never have an encounter with a stranger like this in Glendale or whatever

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1 year

Elon is exploiting H1B visa workers—who know they can’t quit because they’ll be deported— so he holds them hostage until 1AM in the morning to stroke his ego Sad to say I just unfollowed Vala after years because it’s now clear his values are utterly toxic

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Show me another CEO that has more skin in the game at 1AM in the office. These young engineers are learning from the most innovative person of the twenty-first century.

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3 years

Let’s check in on the gasoline hoarders from two weeks ago.... going exactly as expected

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3 years

When a business owner says they’ll have to lay off employees if the minimum wage is raised, they are actually telling you that their business model is based on exploiting underpaid workers

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5 years

Hey Twitter, we need to have a talk. Last night I learned & confirmed the name of the "main student" from the #CovingtonCatholic incident. The kid grinning in front of the Native elder. Hop in this thread because I'm going to walk you through some deep but important stuff. 1/?

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1 year

Florida textbooks literally removed the reason why Rosa Parks got arrested in the first place

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3 months

So two guys with guns shot up the Kansas City Super Bowl celebration, even with *850 police officers* present And we are supposed to believe putting one (1) officer in every school is going to deter school shootings? Really?

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4 years

@shaunking Hi, thanks for reposting the thing I spent quite a lot of time researching and making last fall! I don’t mind that you reposted it— everyone is free to share it. I would love a shout out or some kind of credit though :)

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5 years

This is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Declaration of Independence. I decided to put red dots on all the men who held slaves. Next time someone puts them on a pedestal and says we can't question their judgement on guns or whatever, show them this image.

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4 years

Raw footage: Trump walks out of interview after complaining that Lesley Stahl's questions were too tough for him

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3 years

Police officers walking off the job because they don’t want to get vaccinated is a pretty good way of identifying which cops cannot evaluate the most basic evidence before them about public safety

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3 months

Yikesssss

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5 years

When people say "But everybody held slaves back then!" remind them of John Adams. Before he became our second president, he was an abolitonist lawyer who represented escaped slaves in court and tried to free them. Here is what he said about slavery:

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3 years

Things that should not end when the pandemic does: - Wearing masks when you’re sick - Online access options for events - Heroic levels of medical research - Free-to-the-patient healthcare - Communicating science with all - Trying to fix health outcome disparities in poorer areas

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2 years

The day Clarence Thomas dies is gonna be a wild one on Twitter

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5 years

p.s. - trump sucks, public schools rock, please follow me or whatever

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5 years

I or anyone else who knows the ID of the #CovingtonCatholic #Magateen could ruin his life so easily. But that won't fix the root causes of this problem. Instead, let's lift the heroes who fight for justice. Nathan Phillips (the elder) is a badass. And so is this lady.

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8 months

Women senators were previously banned from the senate swimming pool because two of your male colleagues insisted on swimming naked

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If my interns can put on a suit so can a U.S. Senator.

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5 years

Time for some forgotten history. *Twenty two* African Americans served in Congress during the 1800s after the Civil War. Right before Southern racists took voting rights away from black people again. Since many people don't learn this in schools, let's do an important thread:

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The founders with red dots are the slaveholders. The founders in yellow are the only ones who freed all the people they held. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, raped one of the women he enslaved. He freed his illegitimate children. But not their mom.

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Here's the founders in this painting who weren't slaveholders. List is short enough to fit in a tweet: Sam Adams Robert Paine Elbridge Gerry George Clymer James Wilson Thomas McKean Roger Sherman Charles Thomson Will Williams Sam Huntington John Adams Will Ellery George Walton

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5 years

when your drunk uncle thinks he's making a really good point:

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After Pearl Harbor, 80% of Americans listened to FDR's "infamy speech" by radio. But people at home did not know that he was gripping the podium to avoid falling down. Today we need to talk about something we rarely mention: America's disabled president. #ADA30 History thread:

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This is James Wilson, a great Scottish-born Pennsylvanian abolitionist who wrote, “Slavery, or an absolute and unlimited power in the master over the life and fortune of the slave, is unauthorized by the common law"

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@arlenparsa @chick_in_kiev My face seeing all these red dots:

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You may have heard that the US Capitol Building was built with slave labor. That's true. But what most people don't know is the extraordinary story behind the statue that sits on the top of the dome, called The Statue of Freedom. This thread is going to be worth your time. 1/17

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5 years

Fox News is interviewing a man who is eating ten eggs this morning.

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"it's totally ridiculous. they're promising people everything; free this, free that, free this, free that. and in actuality if you sit down and look at it, that's buying votes."

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4 years

Ever since I made this, I’ve gotten notes from teachers, museums, journalists & even descendants of the founders thanking me for my work. Many folks ask if they can republish it and I have always given permission for $0. I only ask for credit! That’s it.

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Arlen Parsa

5 years

This is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Declaration of Independence. I decided to put red dots on all the men who held slaves. Next time someone puts them on a pedestal and says we can't question their judgement on guns or whatever, show them this image.

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UM YOU GUYS it works with the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song too, this is amazing

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5 years

Presidents customarily throw out the first pitch at major baseball games they attend, like the World Series. It's a tradition that goes back many decades. Trump decided not to do it tonight but here's a pic of him doing his best in 2006. Probably a good call to skip it actually!

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5 years

#CovingtonCatholic 's race problem is not limited to the almost all-white student body however. Before the school hastily removed its teachers directory yesterday, I reviewed it. Every. Single. Teacher. Is. White. (at least of those 80 listed yesterday before they took it down)

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One final thought: Every student in America (no matter the racial composition of their school) needs to see images like this from the Civil Rights Movement. If we can spread this knowledge of our past as a country, kids today will be more aware of how their actions echo history.

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Some political consultant clearly told Ron DeSantis he needs to smile more and this is the unfortunate result

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5 years

This World Series game was in Washington, DC. Here’s how DC residents voted in 2016. What did the president expect was going to happen when he showed up? Yikes!

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4 years

Harvard’s Law School accepted 500 students in 1956. Only 9 women were allowed in. She was a foot shorter than everyone else in the room. But ten feet tall in history’s eyes. #RIPRBG

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3 years

Cleanse your timeline stress with these arctic hares, aka cold cross buns

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5 years

I really wish we could hire the narrator for Arrested Development to fact check everything Trump says, like this:

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4 years

Today we have a demagogue who is clinging to the memory of George Washington to make himself more popular. So let's tell a story of when this happened before. In 1939 a group of American Nazis held a rally in New York City. This was their speech backdrop... (yikes thread)

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"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round" Nah, they laughed because they already knew the world was round–and his math about earth's size was incorrect. This is a #ColumbusDay thread about how so much of what we were taught about him was wrong:

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5 years

Alabama Senate Republicans, who just tried to sneak a law that would punish nearly all abortions by 99 years in prison without so much as a normal roll call vote, have ZERO women among their members. Their caucus is 100% men. The only four women in the AL Senate are Democrats.

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By the way, my name is Arlen and World Series pitcher Curt Schilling blocked me on Twitter because I made him think too hard about his awful political views. He really—and I cannot emphasize this enough— hates thinking.

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The first thing you need to know about Covington Catholic High School is that it is an elite private boys school with an expensive tuition. But the second thing you need to know is that it is as close to a "whites only" school as you can find in the 21st Century.

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It... kind of does though. Especially when you realize that some of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were slave traders whose idea of freedom was themselves being free to conduct their business of importing people from Africa without paying taxes to King George

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After I spent hours researching & creating the Declaration slaveholders pic, I thought all the work was over. But then @PolitiFact reached out for a fact check and LOL it was sooo stressful. Back to the books, documents & historic letters for more proof!

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Evidence shows most of the 47 men in famous 'Declaration of Independence' painting were slavehold...

As the nation observes the 400th anniversary of slavery, a Chicago documentary filmmaker tweeted about the painting Decl

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5 years

If we haven't crossed paths on Twitter before, my name is Arlen and I cannot stand when people act like the founding fathers were, like, unquestionable gods. They were people! Read a couple more of my tweets on this subject here:

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An awful lot of problems in America today stem from the founders’ lack of imagination. They couldn’t imagine private health insurance companies that trade on the stock exchange. They couldn’t imagine churches that act like corporations. They couldn’t imagine assault rifles.

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She 👏 said 👏 what 👏 she 👏 said

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5 years

As soon as the video surfaced, people started trying to ID the kids. Hard to watch that video & not feel like they're acting like a mob. Here's what I realized: if you try to ID kids to ruin their lives you're acting like a mob too. And there are more of us online than of them.

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If you’re convicted of first degree rape in Alabama, you can serve as few as 10 years in prison. But under this new draconian law that Alabama Senators just tried to pass, if a rape victim has an abortion? Up to 99 years in prison.

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Saw someone in Gen Z say they’re racking up credit card debt because they don’t think the world will be around long enough to have to pay it off Don’t do this. Trust me. We could have a nuclear winter but JP Morgan Chase will absolutely still find a way to collect

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2020 is the year we redefine what it means to be patriotic. These people are all patriots.

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I am sure the teachers at #CovingtonCatholic are hard working people and they don't deserve anyone's scorn per-say. But the school itself needs to reckon with how an a nearly all-white atmosphere can lead to, at the very least, "blind spots" in these kids' racial awareness.

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5 years

The president just interrupted a reporter to complain about a different reporter interrupting him. This is utter chaos.

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@AshtinBird For sure. To me it smacks of insecurity about having kids in the first place… and it also suggests they’re not a big part of his life!

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Kind of weird that in the year of our lord 2019 we're still walking around with pictures of old slaveholders in our pockets. At least Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 and Benjamin Franklin on the $100 did eventually free the people they held and spoke out against the practice.

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Astonished to learn that Mississippi has a 7% sales tax on groceries. My god! 37 states don’t tax food whatsoever, and yet food in the state with the highest poverty rate is almost 10% more expensive.

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Elon thinks Stephen King (net worth $500M) is balking over a few dollars a month rather than the principle of having to pay to write tweets? So out of touch and out of his depth

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I think #CovingtonCatholic as a school community needs to do some soul searching about gender, bullying, homophobia, and especially race. They're going to need some space to do that. Let's not be a mob like they seemed to be in that video.

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719AD: sorry, we have no idea why your kid died 1919: good news, we now have a name for the disease that killed your kid 1969: good news, we have a miraculous vaccine to protect your kid 2019: sorry, your kid died because other parents at the school didn't want the vaccine

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At least he didn’t let being booed by tens of thousands of people ruin his evening just having a great and very normal time at the world series, folks

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Here in Chicago we studied where criminals’ guns come from: There are zero gun shops in Chicago. The guns largely originate from spots like Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas. If your neighbor uses his leafblower sloppily, you’ll end up with raking to do— even if your yard has no trees!

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2 years

Abbott says “Chicago and LA and New York disprove the thesis” that stiffer gun laws prevent gun murders.

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Here are 2 fun facts about the #CovingtonCatholic "main student" whose ID I have learned: 1: When he was a freshman, he tried to hire an "essay writing service" to do his homework. 2: His mother is a vice president at a major American financial company that you've heard of.

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We need to zoom out here and look at the bigger picture. I have talked with students at Covington Catholic High School & those in the community. Multiple people close to the school have confirmed it has a very serious culture problem. Some racial, some homophobic, some sexist.

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Passing laws to control what students can or can’t learn in school is just one half-step away from burning books. We all realize that, right?

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Why have I decided not to share the #CovingtonCatholic kid's name? Because he's a kid. A dumb kid. Maybe a racist kid. (more on this in a second) But he's still a kid. Yes, I have confirmed he is under 18.

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If you like learning about history they don’t teach in schools, follow me for more of that. Like this thread:

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5 years

The very first black man elected to federal office was denied a seat in Congress because southern racists wanted to keep the chamber white-only. In 1868 John Willis Menard won 64% of the vote in a Louisiana special election. But the House of Representatives refused to seat him.

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@TomiLahren Might as well carry a scythe with that tweet, Tomi

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This isn't just about denying rights to the women of Alabama. Behind the scenes, the entire purpose of the Alabama Republicans men's bill to make nearly all abortions punishable by 99 years in prison is to get the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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4 years

Some bookstore employee deserves a raise

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5 years

As the saying goes: you find politics boring? Your boss doesn’t. Your landlord doesn’t. Your insurance company doesn’t. Some pastor halfway across the country who may not have your best interests in mind is really into politics too. It’s time to tune-in to politics. Vote.

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I went back to see if there was an update… This man has apparently deleted his entire Reddit account

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9 months

Oh my god, imagine you’re dating a guy for an entire year and then he says by the way I have something to tell you

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Percent of Americans using seatbelts: 1983: 14% 2020: 90% What happened in between? The first statewide seatbelt law was passed in 1984. Today 49 states have laws requiring seatbelts. At first people protested, even comparing lawmakers to Hitler. But they ultimately gave in.

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"Some staff at Twitter who are on H-1B visas are staying on despite wanting to leave the company" “Many of these people will have been in this country for over a decade" A broken immigration system allows unethical employers to take advantage of workers

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I talked to one former #CovingtonCatholic high school student who is of middle eastern descent. He got bullied and called a "terrorist." It got so bad he had to transfer schools. And he wasn't alone. Every year the school has only a minority students (in a school of 500).

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This is 73 year old Bishop Foys, in charge of the diocese that the school is a part of. One former student told me he's uncomfortable with women and girls getting leadership positions at his schools. There was also a story about a rapist that was allowed to "walk" graduation.

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This is the most amazing confusion aired on Fox News last night. I can’t describe it, you just have to watch.

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5 years

If watching that video of Alabama Republicans try to strip rights from women while nobody was watching upsets you, know that you're not powerless. 1. Email support to Senators Figures & Singleton who spoke up powerfully: 2. Visit

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After video surfaced of #CovingtonCatholic kids apparently harassing a Native American elder, people were angry at the students (understandably). The school was quick to issue a statement saying it might expel some students involved. But that's not gonna fix their race problem.

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I talked with a person who knows the "main student" in the #CovingtonCatholic video. Turns out, the #magateen 's favorite musician was the biracial rapper Logic. Here are some of his lyrics. I think this is a good way to end this thread and give this community space to reflect.

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You don't see this very much on Twitter but folks on the r/StudentLoans subreddit are crying tears of joy today

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While we're at it, we also need to talk about gender at #CovingtonCatholic . I have heard from members of the community there is an ingrained sexism problem at the school (which refers to women as "females"). Cov students have also harassed gay students at other schools.

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If you appreciated this thread, share it and take a deep breath... Check this out to learn about the badass early black members of Congress that history has basically erased:

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Time for some forgotten history. *Twenty two* African Americans served in Congress during the 1800s after the Civil War. Right before Southern racists took voting rights away from black people again. Since many people don't learn this in schools, let's do an important thread:

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On March 12, 1990 disability rights activists left their wheelchairs and dragged themselves up Capitol Hill steps to demand the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Jennifer Keelan, an 8 year old girl with cerebral palsy declared: "I'll take all night if I have to."

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p.p.s.- my reaction when i try my best to write a thoughtful thread about examining race relations holistically and not getting too caught up on any one person... ...and then that one kid *unmasks himself* in a lengthy statement. (can y’all stop hate tweeting at me now pls?)

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Thanks for following along this thread and this journey. As you can probably tell, a lot of research and discussions with people in the community went into it. I would appreciate a retweet or two if you found any of it meaningful to you.

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