Robyn Bles
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Anyone want a Star Word? Star Words are words to reflect on for the year. If you’d like one, reply to this and I will draw one for you.
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@chettpritchett @therealIRD @mxbarclay @nate_nims What better way to cover up all the children and teachers who are going to get sick, because of the forced school openings this week, than to open everything up at the same time. This way it’s everyone else’s “fault” instead of failed leadership.
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@CaraGilger We have been wanting to do this for a while. This pandemic was the nudge to get us in gear. I’m hoping that means when we are back in person, we will have a better sense on how to make the digital experience even more engaging then if we never had this time.
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@ShaneIsner So helpful. It so speaks to the “pray for a miracle or healing.” And if it doesn’t come, then failure or blame must be attributed; which most often falls upon the one already hurting.
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This is such a good thread. Opened my mind to a set of ideas for how to interpret this moment and President that I’d not considered. The *power* of positive thinking...
Kate Bowler@KatecBowler
What happens when sickness is mistaken for failure? And honesty for negativity? This is the great exhaustion of having cancer or COVID or ANY kind of a fragility in a bootstrapping, science-fearing, positive thinking world. To the delusional go the spoils.
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If we look at all of the judges that have come through McConnell, 95% of the time they vote for corporations over ppl, for health insurance companies & against healthcare for the ppl, for polluters & against labor unions. We can't allow him to force a Supreme Court nomination!
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“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her final moments before passing.
We must honor that wish and fight for her legacy.
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How do you mourn the loss of a great champion for justice like Ruth Bader Ginsburg? You mourn deeply & you vow to continue her work with even greater resolve. Her death must bring us to life.
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To my white friends & neighbors: “One recent poll of WI voters found that approval for #BlackLivesMatter protests dropped from 61% in June to 48% in August, & all of the change came from whites.” We can't abide fair-weather, fickle friends. Our lives must matter more than this.
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@RyanNeilArnold @Coacheskolaches Oh now this is exciting! We now need a Midwest vs Texas kolache off!
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On days they play and I can focus for a full 5 minutes, I think, ok. I can do this. But friends, do not blinded by their cooperative cuteness. This. Is. Hard. Parents and families are slapping every aspect of life… instagram.com/p/CCTxBVjh-DX/…
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Tomorrow, 168 years after Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” I'll be preaching (online) from my home church pulpit, “What to the Freedom & Justice Movements of Today Is the Fourth of July?” Join us: fb.com/RevDrBarber
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God has called you to a free life. Just make sure you don't use that freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. - Galatians 5:13-14.
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Thank you @DMRegister for your accrurate reporting on @DMPolice’s attacking and kettling of non-violent BLM protestors last night.
bit.ly/37XzrUP
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Happy Juneteenth! Every Black life matters and we are fighting for them, today and everyday. ❤️✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BlackLivesMatter #DSMBLM
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Due to expected inclement weather, we have decided to move this event to another location. Start time is now 6pm. Masks required! Peace and power to the people. #BlackLivesMatter
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The movement continues! On 6/20, the #PoorPeoplesCampaign goes digital w/ a mass online gathering to demand that 140 million poor & low-wealth people across the nation are heard. Our demands must be front & center in this critical election year! Join us: June2020.org!
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Celebration is protest, too. Thanks to everyone who came out and joined yesterday!
Chris@photosbymanning
Well, that was a blast.
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Let’s remember our history: It was black & white coalitions that caused abolition, the women’s suffrage movement, the labor movement & the civil rights movement. We’ve not seen it on social media before, but transformation in this country has always been multiracial.
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