Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath Twitter profile

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Leah McElrath

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This thread from 2021 was re-upped into my mentions today. It’s a little outdated in terms of the threats mentioned, but the description of the dynamics remains relevant.

Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

3 years

Fiction tells us families come together after a death, but, in reality, they usually don’t. Instead, what often happens is previously existing toxic dynamics become more intense, not less. Sometimes family ties break altogether. I feel like that’s happening now, with humanity.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 months

The bombing hasn’t stopped in Gaza. You’re just not seeing as much about it because Israel killed most of the journalists.

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9 months

Right-wing accounts are responding to this photo of Justin Trudeau with his son with accusations the teenager is his lover. It’s hard to overstate how perverse and sexually-preoccupied the far right is. I don’t even bother to call out most of it anymore because it’s so sick.

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9 months

We’re team Barbie.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

3 months

The Palestinian Ministry of Health is where the death totals are calculated. Israel has killed the reporters, it has killed the doctors, and now it is killing the record keepers.

Rami Jarrah

@RamiJarrah

3 months

BREAKING: Dr. Taha Al-Shanti, along with his entire family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Dr. Al-Shanti, was the General Director of Private Medicine at the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

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Leah McElrath

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11 months

OceanGate is a private business and was operating in international waters. Its owner and staff scoffed at safety regulations. They sent an unworthy vessel into danger with NO backup plan or emergency beacon. One thing we are NOT going to do is blame this on the US Coast Guard.

David Beard

@dabeard

11 months

Red tape from the US Coast Guard has held up life-saving equipment from reaching Titanic tourists trapped deep underwater, @NatGeo reports.

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Leah McElrath

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7 months

I legitimately do not understand how people who live paycheck-to-paycheck are still managing to feed their families. I’m not going to bother to argue about it, but the prices of groceries and staples have skyrocketed and are completely unmanageable. That’s the simple reality.

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9 months

If she’d surprised him w a cake without first asking him what he wanted, then it would have been “it’s the thought that counts.” Asking someone what they want, having them answer specifically, making something different, and then monitoring their reaction is passive aggressive.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

3 years

@bethanyshondark @OddHistorian @libbyemmons You realize you’re not supposed to use the mask to wipe your bottom and then put it back on your face, right?

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

19 days

The professor has been charged with battery against the officer. You read that right.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

7 years

Dear world, We're sorry. We're scared too. We're trying to get him out of power as quickly as possible. Love, the majority of Americans

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 months

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@denvercunning

6 months

I was there. Check the videos. Guess what I DIDN’T SEE: Hate. Racial slurs. “River to Sea” genocide rhetoric, or violence.

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Leah McElrath

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7 months

See that little stuffed toy above her shoulder? Greta is now being accused of antisemitism because some are claiming octopuses are always an antisemitic symbol for Jewish people. Except it’s a plushy toy used by MANY autistic people to convey feeling states nonverbally:

Disclose.tv

@disclosetv

7 months

NEW - Greta Thunberg calls to "stand with Gaza" on Instagram.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

2 years

If you’ve never done a disruption, it is easy to underestimate how much courage it takes. Beto got up, stood there, said his piece, withstood verbal attacks and physical intimidation, and stayed outwardly calm all the while. Well done, @BetoORourke , well done.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

5 years

I’m going to say something that might make me unpopular, but: These stories that we are all are glad are being reported now about Trump, corruption, and ties to Russia? The seeds for them were in the public domain in 2016. Low hanging investigative fruit. Journalism failed us.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

2 years

White people—especially white women—need to start practicing NOT talking to police. They are not being friendly when they pull you over. They are trying to glean information and find foundation upon which to arrest you. “Am I being detained or am I free to go?” Practice it.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

So, tell me if I’ve got this right: Men and boys being drunk means they are NOT responsible for their actions, but Women and girls being drunk means they ARE responsible for what others do to them?

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

3 months

Thank you, @elmo 🫶 Art by @lartist

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

3 years

First reported women’s protest in Kabul following the takeover by the Taliban: Four women holding handwritten paper signs stand surrounded by armed Taliban fighters Indescribable courage:

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

If you watch nothing else about the mass shooting at #SantaFe High School in Texas, watch this. Her name is reportedly Paige. #SantaFeHighSchool

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

Kellyanne Conway just confirmed reports she has COVID-19. Here is a video of her having an extended, close conversation with Bill Barr at the Rose Garden superspreader event last weekend:

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

7 years

WOMEN TRIED T0 TELL YOU: It Was Never About Abortion And Always About Women's Right To Control Reproduction. #HandsOffMyBC

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 months

People do not recover from having their entire family killed. People do not recover from digging out the body parts of children by hand after an airstrike. Yes, people survive, but they are forever changed. None of this is making Israelis safer in the long term.

Gaza Notifications

@gazanotice

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the suffering still going on

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

1 year

I’m going to say something that will unsettle people, but I’m willing to bet all the money I don’t have that it’s true: Despite how disturbing the materials are Harlan Crow has displayed, there are almost certainly more disturbing items NOT displayed. The displays are a test.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

An international army of teenaged girls punked Donald Trump. It’s hard to imagine anything more perfect.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

We won’t know the results of the election tonight, but we do know one thing: We hoped for a complete and overwhelming repudiation of this monster and everything he stands for—and that does not appear to be happening. And it’s fucking heartbreaking.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

2 years

As a former comms person, I’ve sent folks onto television who didn’t hit their talking points this well while sitting in a chair. Impressive—watch:

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

3 years

Claudia Conway just posted some recordings on TikTok that appear to show verbal, emotional, psychological, and physical abuse from her mother. Disturbing stuff. I’m not going to post them, but she’s saying she’ll speak on the record to the media.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

Texas is a HUGE state with 29 million people. About 100 astroturfed people are in Austin protesting closures. A bigger story is the fact the vast majority of us in this state that values individualism and tends toward oppositionality ARE IN OUR HOMES AND HAVE BEEN FOR WEEKS.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

Eight years after being shot in the head by the Taliban in an assassination attempt because of her activism on behalf of girls’ right to education, Malala Yousafzai has earned a degree at Oxford.

Malala Yousafzai

@Malala

4 years

Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree at Oxford. I don’t know what’s ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep. 😴

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

whispers: *comparing @SHSanders45 to Aunt Lydia in the Handmaid’s Tale was about her role as a gender-betraying functionary within a misogynistic system, not about her looks*

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

I just want people to be okay. To have clean water. To have enough food. To have someplace to call home. To have medical care when we’re unwell. To have the resources to care for our children and elderly. These are not radical desires. These are fundamentals for a moral society.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

2 years

3,895 Americans died from COVID yesterday. Read that again.

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@leahmcelrath

2 months

It’s almost like they’re conditioning people to acquiesce to the conditions of martial law. It’s almost like they’re practicing for some big event in the near future.

Peter Hambrecht

@peterhvideo

2 months

The National Guard searching bags at the entrance to the Grand Central subway station. Earlier today Kathy Hochul announced she would send 750 National Guard members to subway stations throughout NYC.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

9 months

West Virginia: 92% White 3% Black DC: 40% White 45% Black (By “diverse,” he means white.)

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

9 months

Trump lawyer John Lauro on CBS: "We would like a diverse venue, a diverse jury ... I think West Virginia will be an excellent venue to try this case. Close to DC and a much more diverse--"

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Leah McElrath

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4 years

Most people do not seem to be mentally prepared for how much worse things can and likely will get over the next few months or for how fast things will happen once they do. I despair about how better to help people open their minds to this reality.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

2 years

I know some consider me an alarmist, but I think perhaps there is too little alarm about the re-emergence of Nazism and fascism.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

5 years

@ByronTau Here for the ratio. If you think all teenagers behave this way, you are revealing yourself. They don’t.

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@leahmcelrath

7 years

This is assault. Assault. Brought to you by @united , the airline who thinks 10 year old girls in leggings aren't properly dressed to fly.

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@JayseDavid

7 years

@United overbook #flight3411 and decided to force random passengers off the plane. Here's how they did it:

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

Now being black at @Starbucks is apparently a crime. (This is in Philadelphia.) The look of (self-protective) resignation on the men’s faces is heartbreaking and infuriating.

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1 year

My late mother was a computer programmer known as “the Legend” who began using binary code on punch cards. At the end of her career, her programs turned seismographic data into 3D color images of below the earth’s surface. She also founded Houston’s 1st battered women’s shelter.

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@leahmcelrath

7 years

No. They are charitable entities. This is why they do NOT pay any taxes. They are not entitled to relief funded by those who DO pay taxes.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others).

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

It is deeply traumatizing to have a clearly unfit person in power and to watch those who are in a position to stop him fail to do so. This is the dynamic of alcoholic and abusive families taking place at a meta level, with implications for the survival of humanity. Surreal.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

8 years

NEW RULES: Come at me with bullshit and you're muted. Come at me with disrespect and you're blocked. There's no time to play anymore.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

I chose the “straight ticket” option for the Democratic Party on the first screen. Once I toggled through the 16+ page ballot and reached the final screen to review my choices, I saw that my vote for @BetoORourke had been changed to a vote for Ted Cruz. Photo below. 2/x #TXSen

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@leahmcelrath

6 years

Dear @TXCivilRights - I was one of these people. I have not previously discussed it with anyone because I didn’t want to sound an alarm until I knew whether or not this was a pattern. I will detail what I experienced, along with a photo, in this short thread. 1/x #TXSen

Texas Civil Rights Project

@TXCivilRights

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🚨 ALERT: We have received multiple reports from voters who voted straight-ticket, then saw on a later screen that their votes were changed to that of the opposite party. You must check your ballot before casting to ensure it’s correct, and you can ask a poll worker for help.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

7 years

Dear @KellyannePolls – You are speaking to Colonel Ted Lieu, as well as Congressman. Veteran of the USAF, currently serving in the Reserves.

Kellyanne Conway

@KellyannePolls

7 years

Yet, lately role of the media has been to retract false stories & fire liars. "Truth" = patriotic vets died so you can talk nonsense.

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@leahmcelrath

9 months

People in LA are about to discover their homeowners insurance only covers water damage from water that comes from above (via roof leaks, etc.) and not from water that comes into their homes from below (via flooding). For the latter, you need flood insurance. 1/ #Hilary

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Leah McElrath

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1 year

I’m seeing people once again fail to understand the mind of a malignant narcissist like Trump. People are describing him as looking “sad” and “defeated.” No. He’s furious and plotting revenge. Stop projecting what you would feel in his situation onto him. He’s not made like us.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

7 years

Trump is already lying. The venue is half closed down and still not at capacity. There is NO line outside. There ARE 1000s of protesters.

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@leahmcelrath

3 years

Facebook employees can’t enter the headquarters because their badges don’t work, and those already inside can’t enter various rooms because access is linked through the IoT (Internet of Things) and so goes through the same DNS routes that no longer exist: #FacebookDown

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

7 years

Left: Female gaze Right: Male gaze HIRE MORE WOMEN IN FILMMAKING

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@leahmcelrath

2 years

You need to watch this: #Rasht #Iran #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #Mahsa_Amini #IranianProtests

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@leahmcelrath

6 years

These tweets today from Trump's account use some very specific and distinct language. (They definitely aren't written by him.) So...I got curious and started researching. And I'm going down a rabbit hole that is weird af. That's all I'm going to say right now.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

No. One. Punched. Trump.

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@TIME

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President Trump punches back even as synagogue mourns

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

8 years

Trump's statement is an eerie replica of psychological manipulations made by abusers after episodes of abuse. Let's break it down.

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@leahmcelrath

5 months

A horrifying precedent—she was coerced into resigning for defending her students’ right to political free speech.

Dr Danish

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5 months

And there it is. Liz McGill has resigned.

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@leahmcelrath

7 years

Remember when we could go to sleep at night without worrying the POTUS would start WWIII on an impulsive whim before we woke?

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@leahmcelrath

6 years

STOP explaining why arming teachers won’t work. EVERY explanation reinforces the idea as a possibility. IT IS NOT A POSSIBILITY. The idea is NOT MEANT as a viable solution. It never was. The idea is meant as a distraction to weaken the push for BANNING ASSAULT WEAPONS, etc.

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@leahmcelrath

4 years

The Obamas had the real Bruno Mars at the White House on July 4, 2015:

Scott Gairdner

@scottgairdner

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The White House 4th of July entertainment is a white guy singing Bruno Mars

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@leahmcelrath

6 years

At DEF CON, an 11-year-old girl hacked a replica of the Florida secretary of state's website within 10 minutes and changed the results - a tactic previously used by Russia in Ukraine 🚨🚨🚨

An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention. Discuss.

Veteran hackers have tried for years to get the world to notice flaws in voting machines. Now that they’ve got it, they have to wrestle with scaring people away from voting.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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@leahmcelrath

6 years

When I’m feeling exhausted and discouraged, I always think about @repjohnlewis . Other people have fought longer and harder than I have, and I owe it to them and to future generations to keep fighting.

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@leahmcelrath

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“Just tell me whatever you want me to do. I will go to the borders. I'd get arrested again. If necessary, I'm prepared to go to jail.” ~ @repjohnlewis

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@leahmcelrath

6 years

THIS is how to write relevant and factual headlines. Well done, @MiamiHerald .

Miami Herald

@MiamiHerald

6 years

NRA-backed South Florida lawmakers say gun control laws won’t prevent mass shootings

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5 years

The email from AMI to Bezos is dated days ago, but he and his soon-to-be-ex wife announced plans to divorce last month. AMI lacked leverage but nonetheless seemed confident they could blackmail him — the wealthiest person in history. Why? They must have succeeded with others.

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@leahmcelrath

6 years

whispers: *no one knows what’s going to happen in this election. no one. if the polls and hot takes are making you too anxious, it’s okay to ignore them. just vote, breathe, and help get others out to vote.*

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5 years

You realize we are all living in a state of complicated mourning, right? Complicated mourning — also known as traumatic grief — is what happens when trauma and grief coincide. If you think you are the only one going through it, please know you are not alone.

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This Indonesian cook on TikTok has 1.5 million followers. He demonstrates recipes and sometimes takes requests for cross-cultural creations. When asked to cook for Israel, he dons a Palestinian headband and…well, you can watch it and see 😂 The video has 11.5 million views.

Sydd

@SyddTheAquarius

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I… 🫢🫠

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

7 years

Whiniest. Administration. Ever. Unbelievable hubris and entitlement. You. Are. A. Public. Servant.

Archive: Ambassador Nikki Haley

@AmbNikkiHaley

7 years

Spending my 4th in meetings all day. #ThanksNorthKorea

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My account reach is restricted and you all deserve some goodness, so here is a photo of my dog. Please interact with this post to help me break free of algorithmic suppression and to receive your Bonnie boops 🫶🏻

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Before being found dead at home, Leslie Lawrenson made this video about being glad he got COVID because he didn’t trust vaccines. Family said he was “brainwashed by the stuff that he was seeing on YouTube and social media.” More:

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@leahmcelrath

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@CaitlinPacific @bariweiss Jamal Khashoggi was murderered, and the Trump administration did nothing. That’s unconscionable. Bari Weiss voluntarily leaving her job because her intellectual dishonesty and defense of racism invited critique she wasn’t prepared to handle is not.

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@leahmcelrath

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God herself couldn’t get this out of me: This man was advised by an employee to change his flight on 9/11—which saved his life—and he fired the employee.

Bill Ellmore 𝕏

@BillEllmore

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I was booked on United Flight 93 on 9/11, 2001, flying nonstop from Newark NJ to San Francisco CA. Around midnight the night before, a coworker called me urging me to change my flight to fly into San Jose instead. This meant I had to give up my 1st class seat and move to a flight…

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That means the media from “Arab Spring”—during which Twitter played an important role for raising awareness about human rights violations and popular uprisings throughout the Middle East—is all gone now. He’s literally erased history.

Tom Coates

@tomcoates

9 months

More vandalism from @elonmusk . Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service. For example, here’s a search of my media tweets from before 2014.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

6 years

I kind of want to vote early and then go backpacking or camping or something until a few days after the election because I’m not sure I can handle watching the results come in that Tuesday night. (I know I’m not the only one with PTSD from November 8, 2016...)

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If Bernie Sanders is your preferred candidate, great. He is not mine. If you come into my mentions harassing me, someone I retweet, or my followers for choosing not to support him in the primaries, I will block you. I have a zero tolerance policy on this now. Thank you.

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7 years

Reuters instructs its staff to cover the Trump Administration the way they do other authoritarian regimes:

Covering Trump the Reuters Way

In a message to staff today, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler wrote about covering President Trump the Reuters way:

www.reuters.com

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6 years

I toggled all the way back through the 16+ pages to undo the Ted Cruz selection manually and change it to a vote for @BetoORourke . I then toggled through the 16+ pages again and reached the final review page. This time it correctly read @BetoORourke . I cast my ballot. 3/x

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@leahmcelrath

3 years

An unexpected opportunity when I went to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription!!! My first dose 💉😊

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

Trump is not “mishandling” the pandemic response. He’s handling it perfectly to ensure the most chaos and the greatest number of deaths—all while maintaining a pretense of plausible deniability. Once you view his behavior through that lens, his words and actions make sense.

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6 years

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me.” 1. She names two others at the party. 2. She told her husband in 2012 couples therapy per notes. 3. She discussed the attack in 2013 individual therapy per notes. 4. She passed a polygraph test in August 2018.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

4 years

Oleander is EXTREMELY toxic. A single leaf can kill a child. Cattle and horses die from eating it. Oleandrin, the chemical discussed here, causes heart arrhythmia and sudden death from cardiac failure. This feels like we’re in Jonestown final days territory. I’m not kidding.

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President Trump eyes new unproven virus "cure" promoted by Ben Carson and the CEO of MyPillow

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath

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The young people were right about Vietnam. The young people are right about Israel. Ultimately, history will prove them so.

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Impeach the motherfucker.

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4 years

The next six months are going to be indescribably dangerous.

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Leah McElrath

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2 years

Muting this conversation. (I’m getting the “why did you mention race” replies.) I assumed it went without saying, but apparently not: I specified “white” because Black Americans and other POC in this country have never had the privilege of imagining police are not dangerous.

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Leah McElrath

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I don’t say this often, and I’ll delete it, but: I’m scared. Not of the virus but of the fact that the entire world is going to change and I’m having trouble seeing the way ahead.

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Leah McElrath

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3 years

Columbus Police tell the gathering crowd on the scene that “Blue Lives Matter”—AFTER SHOOTING A TEENAGED GIRL TO DEATH. There is NO reforming a system in which cops literally see themselves as victims immediately after they’ve killed children. #MaKhiaBryant #BlackLivesMatter

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6 years

Perfect editorial cartoon by @AnnTelnaes

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2 years

Many people seem to be quite fragile right now—not in the sense of being weak in character but rather in the sense of being so drained and depleted that their defenses are brittle and shatter easily. Please be kind to yourselves and one another. This is all very, very hard.

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Leah McElrath

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6 years

It hurts my heart to see so many women courageously strip off their scarred, protective skin to reveal their most intimate trauma wounds publicly – all in an effort to make men take seriously accusations of sexual assault and rape. And we do it over and over again.

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Leah McElrath

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7 years

Choosing a MAN to give the OPENING SPEECH at a #WomensConvention ? A man who villified a woman many respect? Hard pass, @womensmarch . Wow.

Women's March

@womensmarch

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We are so excited to have @SenSanders join us at the #WomensConvention October 27-29th in Detroit!

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Leah McElrath

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Plus I think cake guy is probably autistic, which is another level of misunderstanding. The double empathy problem. Never ask an autistic person for our “honest” thoughts if you’re going to hold our honesty against us. Because we will tell you. Because you asked. So don’t ask.

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Leah McElrath

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"suspect" vs "boy" "replica semi-automatic pistol" vs "toy gun" Words matter. Pay attention. Notice. #Baltimore

WJZ | CBS Baltimore

@wjz

8 years

#BREAKING : 13-year-old suspect with replica semi-automatic pistol shot by officers in N.E. Baltimore. Expected to survive.

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Leah McElrath

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4 years

If we live long enough, I think it’s likely we’re going to discover Trump and his family were enriching themselves from the mask and ventilator shortages.

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@leahmcelrath It's bizarre that people *still* don't grasp that this administration doesn't work for the people of the United States. As I've said a million times, it's a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. When Kushner says supplies are "theirs", he means mafia cohort.

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Leah McElrath

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After 3-day sit-in at her GOP senator's office, she was arrested. "I'd rather go to jail than to die without Medicaid." ~ Kalyn Heffernan

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Leah McElrath

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It feels like a trigger has been pulled, and events are accelerating forward toward greater destruction for the U.S. and the world. As bad as things are, they are likely to get worse before they get better. You are not crazy. You are not alone. This is as dangerous as it seems.

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Leah McElrath

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If you don’t understand the significance of the news about Gal Luft, here’s the tl;dr: To undermine President Biden by attacking his son Hunter, Republicans have been using an Israeli spy (a Lt. Colonel in the IDF, no less) who was working on behalf of China.

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