i
just want
a country
where affording
health care
is easy
and getting shot
in the street
is hard
why
is that
so much
to ask
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Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) June 14, 2017Posts Tagged ‘Gun Safety
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The World As It Should Be
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Common Sense….
Maybe we shouldn't be making it easier for people to quietly kill other people? twitter.com/dino_grandoni/…
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(@igorvolsky) June 14, 2017We should not live in a country where people can so easily obtain such powerful firearms that they can cause a mass… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Millions of Americans have never been party to said blessing twitter.com/ezraklein/stat…
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Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) June 14, 2017Gun violence is all too common in America. So far, 2017 has seen:
27,760 gun incidents
13,474 injuries
6,862 deat… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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(@igorvolsky) June 14, 2017****
Soooo... still no gun control? K.
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Awesomely Luvvie (@Luvvie) June 14, 2017The answer to the horrific #shooting tragedy this morning in Alexandria is not more guns and fewer gun laws. https://t.co/D6ielP3npe
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Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 14, 2017****
I have no problem with people expressing thoughts&prayers
I do have a problem w/ just thinking &praying but doing 0 to stop gun violence
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(@igorvolsky) June 14, 2017Americans should be able to play baseball, dance in a nightclub and attend religious services without the threat of… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 14, 201709
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Oh Snap
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The President’s Day
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President Barack Obama makes a statement about a shooting that killed three police officers and wounded three more in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday
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The President’s Thinking Hours
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Michael D. Shear: Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone
“Are you up?” The emails arrive late, often after 1 a.m., tapped out on a secure BlackBerry from an email address known only to a few. The weary recipients know that once again, the boss has not yet gone to bed. The late-night interruptions from President Obama might be sharply worded questions about memos he has read. Sometimes they are taunts because the recipient’s sports team just lost. Last month it was a 12:30 a.m. email to Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, and Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff, telling them he had finished reworking a speechwriter’s draft of presidential remarks for later that morning. Mr. Obama had spent three hours scrawling in longhand on a yellow legal pad an angry condemnation of Donald J. Trump’s response to the attack in Orlando, Fla., and told his aides they could pick up his rewrite at the White House usher’s office when they came in for work. Mr. Obama calls himself a “night guy,” and as president, he has come to consider the long, solitary hours after dark as essential as his time in the Oval Office.
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He works on speeches. He reads the stack of briefing papers delivered at 8 p.m. by the National Security Council staff secretary. He reads 10 letters from Americans chosen each day by his staff. “He is thoroughly predictable in having gone through every piece of paper that he gets,” said Tom Donilon, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013. “You’ll come in in the morning, it will be there: questions, notes, decisions.” One night last June, Cody Keenan, the president’s chief speechwriter, had just returned home from work at 9 p.m. and ordered pizza when he heard from the president: “Can you come back tonight?” Mr. Keenan met the president in the usher’s office on the first floor of the residence, where the two worked until nearly 11 p.m. on the president’s eulogy for nine African-Americans fatally shot during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. Three months earlier, Mr. Keenan had had to return to the White House when the president summoned him — at midnight — to go over changes to a speech Mr. Obama was to deliver in Selma, Ala., on the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when protesters were brutally beaten by the police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. “There’s something about the night,” Mr. Keenan said, reflecting on his boss’s use of the time. “It’s smaller. It lets you think.”
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Early Bird Chat
For "Obama has divided this nation" folks: Just 1 week after his election, wasn't even sworn in for another 2 months https://t.co/b52kutv4YK
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Monie (@MonieTalks_1) July 09, 2016She literally did nothing https://t.co/qaKrEB1X3y
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jack (@WISTERIAJACK) July 10, 2016****
All Times Eastern
10:20AM: President Obama departs the White House with First Lady Michelle Obama
1:15PM: They and the Bidens arrive in Dallas, Texas
1:40PM: They attend an interfaith memorial service for the fallen Dallas police officers at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
3:20PM: They visit privately with the injured police officers and the families of the fallen police officers at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
5:35PM: They depart Dalas, Texas
8:10PM: They arrive at the White House
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#PhilandoCastile took the time to memorize the names & food allergies of 500+ students where he worked as a chef. https://t.co/oNexoyLAj9
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Jawn Solo (@RandiGloss) July 08, 2016heartbreaking note left outside Montessori school where #PhilandoCastile worked https://t.co/3VAL83eC3i
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(@bengarvin) July 08, 2016****
$200k in 9 hours. When we unite we are amazing. I am so proud of us. Thank u for thinking of #AltonSterling's kids: gofundme.com/2d3eze7g
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Issa Rae (@IssaRae) July 07, 2016You can support Philando Castile's family by donating to his GoFundMe fundraiser: gofundme.com/2d55v9g https://t.co/3E0iBYTcJD
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Complex (@ComplexMag) July 07, 2016****
Baton Rouge PD looks ridiculous. I never wore so much armor in combat. This is their own community. (Photo: Reuters) https://t.co/clCFFyD6jx
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Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) July 10, 2016Berlin right now.
#blacklivesmatter #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile https://t.co/nGHBRGBHi2
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Lukas Hermsmeier (@lukashermsmeier) July 10, 2016****
Baton Rouge is not having it...wow😧 https://t.co/U1KcC6tIn8
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logizzle (@iRUNx_LA) July 10, 2016#TamirRice's sister missed 100 days of school. #OscarGrant's daughter ducked from police. Kids affected by killings. nyti.ms/29KJG4v
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Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) July 09, 2016****
Someone named "Midwest Dermatologist" left this harrowing comment under this NYT article: nyti.ms/29DfZ2w https://t.co/fNxjZte2Qj
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Complex (@ComplexMag) July 08, 2016
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Hey, it's been awhile. Here's a reminder that Republicans' refusal to give Merrick Garland a hearing is totally historically unprecedented.
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Bearded Stoner (@beardedstoner) July 11, 2016#Dallas Police Chief to lawmakers: 'Do your job' on gun control: thebea.st/2a2EZzm https://t.co/7INO33GEdh
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The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 11, 2016****
When you check Theresa May's speech against her voting record, it's almost as if she didn't mean anything she said ind.pn/29HWc54
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Independent Voices (@IndyVoices) July 11, 2016UK is not innocent #BlackLivesMatter #London https://t.co/GuURI0RJy6
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(@HeardinLondon) July 09, 2016****
Some law students felt victimized by their professor's Black Lives Matter shirt. Professor's response is legendary: bit.ly/29zETzJ
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Alexander Hardy (@chrisalexander_) July 08, 2016. @Rosenbergradio loses it on police officer over #AltonSterling killing #EbroInTheMorning https://t.co/YgMMqYxCXX
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HOT 97 (@HOT97) July 06, 2016****
Tomi Lahren deleted her vile tweet calling the BLM movement the new KKK. We still have it, you horrible human. https://t.co/0Sf6WiVhY7
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Golden Lady Wallace (@MissKlept) July 08, 2016Disturbing, important context to Alton Sterling's murder from @jarvisdeberry: nola.com/crime/index.ss… https://t.co/CB6MnARwed
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Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 08, 2016****
All you "Dont you take my guns" folks. Are you going to stand for #PhilandoCastile?! A licensed gun owner shot over a broken tail light?
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Tracie Thoms (@traciethoms) July 07, 2016Have a number of non-Black friends asking what they can do after these recent killings. Here is one thought. https://t.co/sslXylXBoF
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Joshua DuBois (@joshuadubois) July 07, 2016****
Philando Castile Was a Role Model to Hundreds of Kids, Colleagues Say | TIME time.com/4397086/minnes…
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Janelle Monáe, Cindi (@JanelleMonae) July 07, 2016Taken at the protest in NOLA. I love this❤️ https://t.co/vUUghXC50s
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Eryn's mommy (@realericarenee) July 09, 201608
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The President’s Day In Poland
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European Council President Donald Tusk, President Barack Obama, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker arrive at a press conference for the joint press statements followig a meeting during the NATO Summit
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President Barack Obama meets European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Federica Mogherini
President Barack Obama observes a ceremony to honor NATO soldiers killed in the line of duty prior to the meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the Warsaw NATO Summit
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President Barack Obama and Poland’s President Andrzej Duda attend a press conference following a bilateral meeting
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President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice are seen before the meeting of heads of state of the North Atlantic Council (NAC)
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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Barack Obama, and Poland’s President Andrzej Duda
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President Barack Obama speaks during the NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland on the shooting in Dallas, Texas.
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The Intimacy Of A Hug
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis: Long And Genuine’ Hugs: Shooting Victims’ Relatives Recall Obama’s Empathy
The wrenching ritual has become all too familiar to President Obama. His armored limousine deposits him at a nondescript building big enough to hold a large number of families whose loved ones have died in a mass shooting somewhere in America. Away from the news cameras that normally track his every interaction, he enters rooms thick with grief and the hushed voices of people in shock. He grasps for words of sympathy, comfort and condolence and offers long, tight embraces that the mourners will remember far more vividly than his words. Mr. Obama will travel to Orlando, Fla., on Thursday for the latest round of mass consoling, four days after a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in American history. “He hugged each one of us individually — and I mean hug, so that I was able to smell his cologne,” said Sharon Risher, 57, who lost her mother,
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Ethel Lance, and two cousins in the shooting in Charleston, S.C., last year, and met privately with Mr. Obama the next week. “It was not a little pat on the back. The intimacy of that hug is what I’ll always remember.” Roxanna Green — whose 9-year-old daughter, Christina-Taylor Green, was one of six people killed in a 2011 shooting in a supermarket parking lot in Tuscon, Ariz., where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding an event — said she had campaigned for Mr. Obama with her daughter and mother and had often dreamed of meeting him. “But you never want to receive a visit like that from anybody,” Ms. Green, 50, said in an interview. “Their hugs were just long and genuine, like something you receive from a family member,” she said of Mr. and Mrs. Obama. “He said she was a beautiful girl, and he’s so sorry, and it was just a horrible loss and his girls are about the same age,” she recalled. “They were both very, very emotional. It was like it happened to someone in their family.”
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W/ GOP on recess, we (the constituents!) can go to district offices & ask why members thought gun debate wasn't pressing enough to stay inDC
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(@igorvolsky) June 23, 2016Lots of people tweeting me to ask what they can do to help #NoBillNoBreak besides just calling offices. Try this! twitter.com/igorvolsky/sta…
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