Hadley Sheley

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Hadley Sheley

@HadleySheley

Political junkie -Unhealthy obsession with Chuy’s jalapeño ranch -John Oliver is totally my boyfriend- Dateline is my guilty pleasure

Austin, TX Katılım Mart 2014
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Hadley Sheley
Hadley Sheley@HadleySheley·
2015: You’re being hysterical, Roe is settled law. 2018: You’re being hysterical, SCOTUS isn’t overturning abortion. 2021: You’re being hysterical, nobody’s gonna ban abortion in cases of rape or incest. 2023: You’re being hysterical, womens right to contraception is safe…
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Republicans block bill that protects access to contraception

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The Root
The Root@TheRoot·
Marshan Camese explains what he was thinking when he delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.
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Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss@BeschlossDC·
Black and white "Freedom Riders," challenging racial segregation, were beaten and their bus burned by locals in Anniston, Alabama, this week 1961:
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Hadley Sheley@HadleySheley·
Just a Trash Panda out there living its best life❤️
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Nerdy Native
Nerdy Native@nerdy_native·
Trestle bridge fire just south of Canyon burning at night
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The Root
The Root@TheRoot·
A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.
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L. Louise Lucas
L. Louise Lucas@SenLouiseLucas·
They tried to connect me to the Epstein Files but all we found was a few thousand mentions of Donald J. Trump.
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David J. Bier
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier·
ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.
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Historyland
Historyland@HistorylandHQ·
Glass negative of a dignified gentleman mid lighting his cigarette, stares at the viewer, circa 1900s.
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Mr PitBull Stories
Mr PitBull Stories@MrPitbull07·
In 1925, a schoolteacher in Germany read Adolf Hitler’s book. Most people dismissed it. Anna Essinger didn’t. She understood that it wasn’t political rhetoric. It was a blueprint. And if the people writing it ever gained power, the children in her care would never be safe again. So she prepared. Anna was a Jewish educator running a small progressive boarding school near Ulm. Her students called her “Tante Anna.” She believed children should be treated with dignity, taught to think freely, and protected fiercely. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, she already had a plan. On Hitler’s birthday, when schools were ordered to raise the Nazi flag, Anna took all her students on a camping trip. Then she returned alone and raised the swastika over an empty building. “Atop a vacant building,” she said, “the symbol can neither convey its message nor inflict harm.” Then she began quietly moving her entire school out of Germany. Through Quaker contacts in England, she found an old crumbling manor house in Kent called Bunce Court. No money. No proper heating. Barely electricity. But it was beyond Nazi reach. She met parents in secret and asked them to do something unimaginable: Trust her with their children. Possibly forever. Almost all said yes. In October 1933, 66 children boarded trains in separate groups across Germany. Parents were told not to cry at the stations. No scenes. No attention. The children thought they were going on a school trip. They crossed into Belgium, boarded a ferry, and arrived in England safely. School resumed the next morning. Over the years, Bunce Court became far more than a school. It became a refuge for Jewish children escaping Nazi Germany, Kindertransport arrivals carrying single suitcases, and orphaned survivors who had nowhere else left to go. Students grew vegetables, converted stables into dorms, cooked meals together, and rebuilt broken lives together. One Holocaust survivor later wrote that Anna Essinger restored his humanity. By the time the school closed in 1948, she had saved and cared for more than 900 children. Many of them spent the rest of their lives calling Bunce Court “Shangri-La.” The only place they had ever truly felt safe. Anna Essinger never commanded armies. She never held office. She never became famous. She simply read a book carefully in 1925… believed what it said… and spent the next twenty years saving children from the future she saw coming.
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