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President Barack Obama meets with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Thomas Brandon, and FBI Director James Comey to discuss what executive actions he can take to curb gun violence
President Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in the Oval Office at the White House
Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by Loretta Lynch’s father Lorenzo Lynch, second from left, and Loretta Lynch’s husband Stephen Hargrove, second from right, administers the oath of office to Loretta Lynch as the 83rd Attorney General of the U.S. during a ceremony at the Justice Department
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After a five-month stall, Loretta Lynch was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week and sworn in today
Loretta Lynch speaks after being sworn in as Attorney General under a portrait of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the Justice Department
“Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everybody!” —President Obama: go.wh.gov/qMY3Zw http://t.co/80hbeYM1T6
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 17, 2025Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Vice President's residence, where he hosted Irish Prime Minister Kenny for breakfast http://t.co/ebE1yqyr2M
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Vice President Biden (@VP) March 17, 2025****
✈ Wheels up! ✈
Follow along with the First Lady's trip to Japan and Cambodia: go.wh.gov/GA8WC2 #LetGirlsLearn http://t.co/lAdlJbCwhL
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) March 17, 2025“The First Lady’s Travel Journal: A Journey That Began Decades Ago” by @FLOTUS FLOTUS/the-first-lady-s-travel-journal-a-journey-that-began-decades-ago-d8237d74aeef?source=tw-504c7870fdb6-1426615680875&utm_source=TwitterAccount&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=TwitterAccount"> medium.com@FLOTUS/the-fi…
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(@Medium) March 17, 2025****
WATCH: President Obama discusses #CollegeOpportunity with students from across the country. ofa.bo/g3xM
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 17, 2025Thanks to the ACA:
16.4 million more Americans have health coverage ✓
The uninsured rate = ↓ 35% since October 2013 http://t.co/0k0phjyyTu
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 17, 2025****
Note: GOP holds off confirming 1st African-American woman AG to vote on denying health services for human trafficking victims. #ConfirmLynch
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) March 17, 2025Loretta Lynch has waited 129 days for Senate to vote on her nom as AG, despite having bipartisan support. Long past time to #confirmLynch.
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Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 17, 2025****
Not sure what @Starbucks was thinking. I don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you & still make my train. #RaceTogether
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April (@ReignOfApril) March 17, 2025honest to God, if you start to engage me in a race conversation before I've had my morning coffee, it will not end well.
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gwen ifill (@gwenifill) March 17, 2025****
I am 100% interested in engaging with Starbucks employees in a conversation about race. Let's start with anyone _but_ the baristas. VPs! HR!
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Anil Dash (@anildash) March 17, 2025It took my barista 45 minutes to draw this on my cup. :\ http://t.co/WJDFUvjF80
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Anil Dash (@anildash) March 17, 2025****
Hey Starbucks: Instead of badgering your customers about race, what about serving non-burnt coffee? #RaceTogether
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Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) March 17, 2025We cannot #RaceTogether when our starting line is 500m behind yours.
And our line comes with dogs.
And tear gas.
And you have cars.
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5'7 Black Male (@absurdistwords) March 17, 2025****
Corporate White Dude: Let's talk about race! 😃 #RaceTogether
POC: Uh...ok. *talks about race
CWD: NOT LIKE THAT! 😭 *deletes account
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Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) March 17, 2025y'all realize there are no coloured hands in the press photos right @Starbucks #RaceTogether http://t.co/Epd9knTYfz
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black power alt bro (@vidalwuu) March 17, 2025****
Maybe Starbucks should try to actually practice what it's trying to preach and be 100% fair trade to help POC. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #RaceTogether
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Wagatwe Wanjuki (@wagatwe) March 17, 2025@NerdyWonka @Starbucks And how they tried to screw Ethiopian coffee growers out of right to patent their own coffee. And they lost.
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diane sheehy (@dsheehy100) March 17, 2025****
http://t.co/AHJazpQVCh
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#ACAPULCO (@MADBLACKTHOT) March 16, 2025Is @Starbucks in its #RaceTogether convo gonna speak about how their logo was "borrowed" from a black Yoruba Goddess? http://t.co/uusX1mi784
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Brimstone (@bigbrimstone) March 17, 2025****
Starbucks baristas are being told to engage customers about race. I hope Starbucks now feels good about itself. for.tn/1MG1U05
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 17, 2025#RaceTogether is asking an underclass to make people they are SERVING feel hopeful about race with no Benefit or incentive to themselves
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Sydette (@Blackamazon) March 17, 2025****
So Starbucks both starts to serve alcohol and encourage their baristas to discuss race relations. Nothing about this seems like a bad idea
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DarkSkintDostoyevsky (@daniecal) March 17, 2025So a @Starbucks EXECUTIVE can't handle social media backlash about #RaceTogether but some 19 year old in Iowa has to do it face to face?
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April (@ReignOfApril) March 17, 2025****
@brokeymcpoverty yes & locked his IG. He doesn't want to have a convo abt race but wants us to have one w/ a barista http://t.co/sPriAu1ujQ
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Blanche Devereaux (@TLanzzz) March 17, 2025Starbucks introduces new racially-tinged latte thkpr.gs/3634583 http://t.co/GiMtWDFe4t
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 17, 2025****
How does @Starbucks even decide whom to ask about #RaceTogether? Are you engaging in racial profiling to talk about ending racial profiling?
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(@sfpelosi) March 17, 2025@sfpelosi @Starbucks And who in the world wants to begin a loaded convo on race with a perfect stranger? Productive convo requires trust.
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meta (@metaquest) March 17, 2025****
George Zimmerman and now Darren Wilson, are folk heroes + paid motivational speakers after killing unarmed black men: http://t.co/I5Kgqf6yeo
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rebkah howard (@pink_funk) March 16, 2025Darren Wilson spoke at Hunt For Justice event, a group directed by cop who beat assault & burglary conviction in 2009 bit.ly/1AAVvf3
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Danny Wicentowski (@D_Towski) March 17, 2025****
13-year-old baseball phenom Mo'ne Davis launched sneaker line to eradicate poverty for girls buff.ly/1Bt27eA http://t.co/RxsAL5S9XY
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The Root (@TheRoot) March 17, 2025I'm honored amd thrilled that @FLOTUS recommended my forthcoming memoir TheLightoftheWorld! skimmth.is/1DuZEr2 @theSkimm. #TLOTW
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Elizabeth Alexander (@ProfessorEA) March 17, 2025****
By this point in Bush's 7th year in office, Senate Dems had confirmed 13 judicial nominees. Obama has 0. huff.to/19wr6rX
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jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 17, 2025White House: Attorney general nominee Lynch "has already waited for far too long" ow.ly/Ksr21 http://t.co/iSPrHgzO6J
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The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2025****
Penn State fraternity suspended over nude photos of sleeping women trib.al/OE2fQUe
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(@GuardianUS) March 17, 2025Sen. Mark Kirk on trafficking bill fight: "My wish is that we hadn't junked that bill up with abortion politics."
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jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 17, 2025****
6 years ago, the first bill POTUS signed was the #LillyLedbetter Act.
Because when #womensucceed, America succeeds. http://t.co/IXMsMAtG7v
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Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) January 29, 20256 years ago today, on January 29, 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter #EqualPay Act became the very first act signed into law by President Obama.
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Voter Participation (@VoterCenter) January 29, 2025****
Wow. US to spend $600B less on health care this decade than @USCBO thought in 2010. Despite huge coverage expansion. offthechartsblog.org/projected-heal…
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Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) January 28, 2025Here's brief from 15 states arguing anti-ACA lawsuit is BS: washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/Wa… GOP state officials agree: washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 29, 2025****
North Carolina man declared innocent after serving almost 40 years for a double murder to.pbs.org/1wv9BeQ http://t.co/ayw4U2iCo1
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(@NewsHour) January 26, 20253 1/2 Minutes’ Film at Sundance: How Gun Culture, Fear and Racial Bias Killed Jordan Davis every.tw/1v5PPwT http://t.co/CVaaBGGTbd
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(@Everytown) January 29, 2025****
Only 3 women of color have won Best Actor (TV Drama) & all 3 hail from Shondaland buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselma… #SAGAwards http://t.co/uhYPyhFsQI
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Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 26, 2025@violadavis inspiring artists everywhere to ask to be in the stories. She is a real woman. What a treasure huff.to/1Jrhfjr 👏👏👏
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Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) January 26, 2025****
That Marshawn is incredibly disrespectful. I'm starting to get why the media hates him [ nfl.com/news/story/0ap…] http://t.co/CJwxNDkfih
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Jose Rivera (@Jose8BS) January 29, 2025Every man who complains about the new Ghostbusters should donate money to a kid whose childhood is actually being ruined by something real.
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Rita Meade (@ScrewyDecimal) January 29, 2025****
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What do states gain by expanding Medicaid? @urbaninstitute reviews impact on budget, uninsured, and hospitals: urban.org/UploadedPDF/41…
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) January 27, 2025Measles Outbreak Has Arizona Tracking 1,000 Who Might Have Been Exposed nyti.ms/1A3sXzb
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The New York Times (@nytimes) January 29, 2025****
Breaking: #Saudi Royal Decree dismisses Prince Bandar Bin Sultan from his post as head of National Security Council !
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Fahad Nazer (@fanazer) January 29, 2025#Saudi King Salman follows up Royal Decrees with Tweet to Saudis from his official account saying "you deserve more"
twitter.com/KingSalman/sta…
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Fahad Nazer (@fanazer) January 29, 2025****
#DRCongo announces start of mil ops against FDLR with @MONUSCO. Long overdue and must be followed by sustained action.
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Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) January 29, 2025Operations v. FDLR must ensure protection of civilians, minimize civilian impact & track with UN human rights due diligence policy.
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Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) January 29, 2025****
#KingSalman relieves governor of Makkah Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah from his post ara.tv/mhvgt
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Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) January 29, 2025Blumenauer calls on Boehner to cancel Netanyahu's address to Congress huff.to/15Z9nrk http://t.co/PBtDf4hfOD
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HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) January 29, 2025****
Michelle Obama’s modern, floral-print look in India: vogue.cm/1tveda9
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Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) January 29, 2025Repost By @richardcorman: #underthebrooklynbridge #ilovenyc #sunrise #ballet #dance #beauty @richardcorman" http://t.co/Oxhejq8HS3
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Misty Copeland (@mistyonpointe) January 29, 2025****
J. Cole Will Let Single Mothers Live at 2014 Forest Hills Drive for Free theroot.com/blogs/the_grap…
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deray mckesson (@deray) January 28, 2025Are you a member of the new 'Silent Majority?'
Yes?
You oughta be ashamed. http://t.co/vHbo3csROL
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Kennett Area Dems (@KennettDems) January 25, 2025****
Senate approves Keystone pipeline in 62 to 36 vote
on.msnbc.com/1A43tSi http://t.co/WKF7NIZTVU
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(@msnbc) January 30, 2025Delaware pushes DMV to consider issuing digital driver's licenses cbsn.ws/1DlAIP1
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CBS News (@CBSNews) January 30, 2025****
California eases prison crowding after years of trying reut.rs/1ESCrwl
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Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) January 30, 2025Texas rally by Muslims seeking tolerance disrupted by protesters reut.rs/1A481Ir
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Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) January 29, 2025****
Number of Americans filing new #unemployment claims tumbles to lowest level in nearly 15 years yhoo.it/1A1ZXI1
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Yahoo News (@YahooNews) January 29, 202576% of Pennsylvanians, including 64% of GOP, say gay marriage being legal hasn't negatively impacted their lives: publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/01/p…
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PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) January 29, 2025****
Republicans approved #KeystoneXL without guaranteeing that the pipeline be built with American steel and use American workers.
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Debbie Stabenow (@stabenow) January 29, 2025We have super low oil prices already rn, but sure, whatevs, build a pipeline that imports environmentally damaging Canadian oil, I guess
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Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 29, 2025****
Biden Op-Ed: On Monday, Obama will seek $1billion to help Central America reform its security, governance & economy: nyti.ms/1A4dX4j
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NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) January 29, 2025We're not young & invincible forever. #GetCovered by 2/15 to give yourself peace of mind. go.wh.gov/get-covered #TBT http://t.co/5tcaoHU4du
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Vice President Biden (@VP) January 29, 2025****
#TBT to being a young invincible. But now it's time to stay healthy & #GetCovered by Feb. 15 → go.wh.gov/get-covered http://t.co/5Gii2p7dAC
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) January 29, 2025No one stays young and invincible forever. Make sure you #GetCovered by February 15: go.wh.gov/get-covered #TBT http://t.co/NbBfcZB4ZJ
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 29, 2025
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