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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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Kirby and me, 2020

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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2 years

@BrianneKohl Somewhat related: my 3-year-old daughter was invited to a birthday party. I was writing the card and I couldn’t remember how to spell the birthday girl’s name: Claire or Clare. I asked my daughter “Does Claire have an “I,” and she said yes. Beat. “She has *two* eyes!”

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@BostonJerry I'd love to see the rhetoric on pay changed: instead of saying "3 out of 4 individuals make less than $75k/year," could we say "3 out of 4 individuals ARE PAID less than $75k/year"? "Make" says it's something we do, but "are paid" makes it clear it's something that's done to us.

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@Nadia_Shammas_ LA reminds me a lot of London: small communities that grew together to be one big city. But everything happened more quickly and more recently in LA.

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@RichUSA82 @davidsilkenat @joelw_762 The point of a university is education, not money-making and not football.

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@NCyankee27 @ewarren Did you know, college degrees represent four years (at least!) of study, beyond high school? People with college degrees have studied more topics, and in more depth than people with only high school degrees. That kind of work will never "mean less" if more people have access.

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@annehelen @yashar “A certain cable news network”? Why the reluctance to name Fox News as the killer?

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I love this.

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@RVAwonk What was that phrase? Oh yeah, "lock him up."

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@ask_aubry Anyone who writes "me and Sasha's marriage" is not remotely classy.

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@varsha_venkat_ It was horrible. I never imagined that anyone would cheat like that and get away with it. And then the press covered Bush as if he were a normal president, when it was clear he was a puppet, it was like everything I believed about the US was proven to be a lie.

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@nytimes They haven't outlasted their critics: we're still right here, rested and ready.

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@tinytempest @Ebonyteach Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s book, _Women’s Work, the first 20,000 years_ (Norton, 1994) is terrific, and filled with understanding based on weaving tech. E.g. Aphrodite’s “girdle of 100 tassels” in Homer and string skirts found in art & burials.

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4 years

Time to nationalize the airlines.

CNBC Now

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BREAKING: United Airlines CEO threatens big job cuts if company doesn't receive "sufficient government support by the end of March"

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@AJentleson @KevinMKruse I am queasy with fear and disgust, and frustrated fury.

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@blkgirllostkeys In college, almost all my papers were returned with the comment “This would have been an A if you turned it in on time.”

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@jbview @nberlat Hahahaha no.

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@Sensata2014 @absolutebeleif @julieturkewitz @nytimes Also, why should students go to school in a prison? A very bad idea.

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7 years

@DrNerdLove Strangely enough, women rarely get to behave this way, in fiction or in life.

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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@BudrykZack True! But also, Mozart and Beethoven lived through a change, when composers started to need to promote their own music. Benefit concerts were for the benefit of the composer! William Weber is great on the politics and economics of 19th century concert life.

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@kristinrawls Now I’m wondering if prohibitions against eating pork is because people realized it was possible that any given pig had eaten a person. <shudder>

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@IndyStarDanC Did you know, people can be important for reasons that have nothing to do with you?

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@Various_Jams Harry Potter and Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World

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@megsokay Tomorrow is Bastille Day, just saying...

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@AnnaMeierPS And adjuncts. The whole system is messed up. I'm so grateful for the grad students striking, let this be the start of an avalanche!

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7 years

@ABIGIVESNOFUK @Chaos2Cured @davequast Families can work together in a business they own, np. But the US was deliberately set up NOT to have anything like a "royal family."

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@DamonLinker @sadydoyle Oh, did someone ignore white men for a moment? Get used to it.

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@amndw2 @john_overholt I finally realized that university websites are designed to appeal to 1) donors and maybe 2) prospective students and their parents. NOT for faculty.

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@deborahkherman @RogueUSMint Super deliberate.

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@nberlat @jbview GOP won’t be in any position to make demands. Why should Democrats give up anything? Let’s see how this all plays out.

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6 years

@old_warrior1 @docrocktex26 All dog whistles: Law and Order means "criminalize minorities," Family Values means "we hate gay people," and Morality means "women are sluts." You are right: we should never take them seriously again.

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@studentactivism Three musicologists signed the letter, and I was shocked to see their names attached to something so shameful. Now all 3 want to disavow their signing, because they hadn’t done the reading—that’s shameful as well.

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@nberlat @jbview Not for long they don’t. Anyway, there are more important things to focus on instead of *rewriting the Constitution to disadvantage the party not doing crimes.*

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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4 years

That ridiculous tweet should make you *change your practice*. Stop publishing garbage “both sides” takes like that.

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4 years

We've deleted an earlier tweet and updated a sentence in our article that implied that only "some experts" view the ingestion of household disinfectants as dangerous. To be clear, there is no debate on the danger.

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@TheTattooedProf That attitude (in Engineering) damaged my son (hopefully not forever, but it’s not looking good). I had no idea that some disciplines decide in advance how many students will pass. I think students not doing well in my classes means *I* am doing something wrong!

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@sadydoyle I haven’t trusted Bernie since he refused to support Hillary Clinton in 2016. That shocked me, quite frankly. I think he’s a pawn.

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@zoiedt She didn't say that. Don't fall for right-wing propaganda designed to upset you.

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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@prof_nch Run away.

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@USAttyBash Nobody sits like that accidentally. And if it was innocent, why was she removed once people started tweeting about it?

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@CantorCWunch @_celia_bedelia_ No it doesn't. Autism doesn't make people murderers. Autism doesn't make men misogynists. Just stop with blaming neurology.

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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I want high speed rail! I hate airplanes and would like it if I never had to ride one again.

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@HousingHumanRt Transit oriented development reduces traffic, improves air quality, makes cities walkable. It's an enormously good idea.

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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My article on the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade is out!

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@MollyJongFast It’s a toddler move. What happened to leave these men stuck at toddler behavior?

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@Thom_Sgt @CoastalElite28 Noo, *don't* tell them, they will want a piece of the action and mess it up!

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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@swordsjew Have you seen Kate Manne’s essay? It’s great:

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@fklein907 @DisabilityStor1 And sometimes professors are disabled themselves…

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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4 years

"...Toobin’s inability to maintain self-control on a work call is ultimately a reflection of both his lack of respect for his coworkers and his position of extreme privilege."

Rolling Stone

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For some reason, prominent male media figures feel it’s their duty to stand up for Jeffrey Toobin after his Zoom-dick incident

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@Army7stan @euphorixa @Marty_Petrucci And toddlers whose needs are met as infants don't need to learn to be manipulative!

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@lingerie_addict I looked up the date, and apparently I saw them in 1974 at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. They glowed like jewels! My other favorite was Ginger Rogers’s ice blue dress made of feathers. (I was in middle school)

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@ShaunKing Easily frustrated bullies should not be police. Fire him!

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@DaveKaszerman @JohnJHarwood Yes, yes they are really that stupid.

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@paigeweldon As everyone we love has already gone well out of their way to make this fact clear to us, your tweet is really unnecessary.

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@kpanyc I am so sorry you're going through this. I experienced the "hit by a truck" thing too: one minute fine, the next very much not fine. I hope you all have a speedy and complete recovery! (I'm still coughing and gagging 2 months out, ugh)

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@RVAwonk If he didn't want any investigation of his family's finances, he should have separated himself from his family business, as required by law

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@LouisatheLast WE HAVEN'T HAD THE VOTES. Why is this so hard to understand? When we get the votes, we can change the world.

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@SoujirosCorner @NCyankee27 @ewarren True. But any college degree involves more study and learning beyond high school!

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@MarcDavenant @erinoverbey Properly funded education, housing, and healthcare gave you the Beatles, and posh British people apparently said ugh never again.

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@JuddLegum The impeachment inquiry needs to continue to get *everybody* who was involved, and to turn to all the other high crimes and misdemeanors.

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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6 years

@MAGAExpressUK @realDonaldTrump And real Americans oppose him. That's how it works in a democracy.

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6 years

@pronounced_ing My son, now 21, was upset that one of the little piggies "had none," so I changed it to "this little piggy had naan," and he was satisfied.

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@coffeespoonie I was told by another kid in elementary school that I wasn’t *allowed* to say the “under g-d” part, because I was Jewish. I never said it again, and I was thrilled to learn, as an adult, that those words weren’t part of the original pledge.

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@ddale8 He actually said, "If I weren't here I believe the New York Times probably wouldn't even exist." We're in "emperor believes he makes the sun rise" territory.

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2 years

Some of us were asked directly by adults, why can’t you just be normal?

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2 years

It's pretty sad to me that I'm 99% sure most autistic people have had thoughts of "I wish I could just be normal and not be so difficult" based on other people's expectations, esp. in childhood. Like that's not up for negotiation, that's just the default experience for us.

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7 years

Be like this.

Propane Jane™ 🔥💣

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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on Terrorist, Genocidal Confederate Symbolism Is One for the History Books

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3 years

This thread is beyond belief

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3 years

Because this statement truly needs appreciating by itself to let it all sink in, here it is again: Having invented leaded petrol, Thomas Midgeley Jr. then invented CFCs.

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@SenWarren YES. Thank you, Senator Warren.

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My dog died 12 days ago, and I miss him very badly. He was a 14-year-old miniature poodle and I loved him so much.

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@KatzOnEarth A big reason Notre-Dame de Paris is iconic is Victor Hugo’s novel (in English, The Hunchback of Notre Dame), written to help drum up public support for a big refurbishment of the cathedral, harmed during the French Revolution, in the 19th c. It will be rebuilt again!

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@ezlusztig Those are not "well regulated militias." They should be required to disarm. And cancel "open carry" -- it's pure intimidation.

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@ArulaRatnakar @AspieHuman Penalizing lateness has nothing to do with learning, and everything to do with ableism and compliance.

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@latimes @latimesopinion No we don't.

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@ShiraTaka9 @leah_hat @frizzydizzyliz “What you said hurts my feelings” keeps the emphasis on the words, not on the kid. You don’t want to teach a child that “I didn’t mean it” is an acceptable excuse.

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I am SICK of bad people winning

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@SethAbramson I disagree. There is literally no point in talking to fascists, they just lie. No-platforming is the only way to go.

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@IamBrokeeper @heymrsbond Reducing grades for late submission directly harms disabled students, especially penalizing them for their ADHD brains. This has nothing to do with learning, or measuring understanding. It just rewards the neurotypical while missing the point of study.

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@PriyamvadaGopal No, of course not. But the original point was that women who finished doctorates, and even have academic positions, aren't acknowledged as legitimate experts. It's about believing women's expertise, not just honoring institutional titles.

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Dr Elizabeth Upton

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@irinibus I had the bad luck to work with not one, but two of these monsters. When the first one left, the second, younger, one moved into the power vacuum. My career, mental health, and physical health were all damaged. The betrayal by admin who wouldn't do anything was also painful.

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@_alexrowland @benedict_rs @serpentcast I’ve been reading Good Omens fanfic as my main entertainment for over a year and a half now, and I’m not tired of it, and I’m still wildly entertained. OP needs to google the “It’s ok to not like things” song.

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@deadwoodidaho @Ilhan It was a Republican president who screwed up in 2001 as well.

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@soledadobrien The "don't see color" thing was very much pushed in the 1980s as a "good" attitude for white people, when the problem was framed as white prejudice against people of color. If an adult is saying this now, I think it means they haven't thought about racism since then.

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@C_Stroop Didn’t anyone read about South Korea’s 31st coronavirus patient? She went to church and infected over a thousand people.

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@michaelshermer Real professors find ways to meet educational goals AND support students. It’s not difficult, and it makes classes better for everyone. Check out Universal Design for Learning!

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7 years

@paulkrugman @thinkprogress Why are "Men of God" so often such liars?

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@IWriteAllDay_ I wish people understood that “picky” eaters responding to food textures have sensory issues. It’s not willfulness. I wish there was more research on what to do about these issues.

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@nberlat @jbview Ah, you’re right: succession is in the Constitution, while the specific order is in later acts. Still, it’s ridiculous to weaken our side when it’s clear that Republicans won’t ever do the right thing. Don’t give gifts to terrorists.

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@KeepToTheLight @jbouie That's not true: cities force people to interact. Outside of cities segregation is easier to maintain.

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@CharlesPPierce It’s the voice. Nothing is as good as Jason Robards’ voice.

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@lynnv378 I'll identify and side with oppressed people, but I know I benefit from white privilege based on how I look. So I'll defer to black people, who get to decide who their allies are in various situations.

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@DAPLFacts All pipelines leak. That's a fact.

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@emptywheel God, I hope you’re right.

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@RichUSA82 @davidsilkenat @joelw_762 If it's not true, it should be.

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@irinibus @timeshighered Point #3 about fearful sidekicks flattered into helping the original toxic bully is so important. Such sidekicks in my department continued abuse long after the original bully left my dept, and even university. I’m still affected, and no longer think my dept can recover.

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@DrSamiSchalk Japanese paper notebooks (I get them from ), or Clairefontaine for drafting by hand.

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@paigeweldon Nobody "chooses" to be picky "for no real reason." Nobody. Yeah, you're a monster.

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@emilybuckshot I started playing The Wolf Among Us about two weeks ago, and it has completely taken over my imagination. It's a thing of beauty: gorgeously atmospheric, fascinating, AND the sour misogyny that marred the Fables comics is neutralized. Ave atque Vale #TelltaleMemories

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@SethAbramson I read that! You've been a real light in the darkness, and you've been correct and on target from the beginning.

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@lynnv378 “Being forgotten” is pretty much the definition of Gen X. But we see each other.

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@SecPriceMD @POTUS @HHSGov "recent events"? Do you mean "stealing a million dollars in air travel from the US people?" Or something else?

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@JillFilipovic Congratulations, you're neurotypical. And you don't have to worry about picky eaters being embarrassed, it's even worse: we're mocked and abused, especially in childhood. I'll stop here, but there's plenty more I'm thinking

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