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We’re all born with no notions of hatred, prejudice, or zealotry. Those are taught behaviors. Maybe we can stop teaching that shit. #quote #religion

@SrRochardBunson @AccordionBruce @Chip_Unicorn @ajroach42 @IanAMartin @geschichtenundmeer@literatur.social @mcv @olavf @Phil @brooklynmarie @geos @thepoliticalcat @skybrian @rachelcholst And I’ve gotten equally bad about replying to everyone in the thread. Something I would not tolerate in a text or email. Thank you, regardless.

@copter_chief I had that experience when I saw my oncologist in August. Blew my mind.

@arvrrob I can only hope he never gets the chance to destroy the country the way he’s destroying Florida.

@arvrrob I’m on the AL/FL state line, and it’s close enough. I never thought AL would look so good!

No doubt that tonight Nikki Haley will try to pass herself off as a reasonable Republican alternative to Trump…so let’s remember that just last November she called for U.S.-born Senator Raphael Warnock to be “deported.”

After a lifetime of being an athlete, now that I'm healthy enough (?!) in my long covid journey to consistently work out again, every workout continues to be incredibly emotionally difficult. I had no idea how strong and amazing I was until it evaporated seemingly overnight. Physical activity has always been a deep way that I found peace and now it's like a battleground.

You have to dig deep to find peace inside of trying hard but it's still there. Glad to be alive and trying.

The Emmett Till casket display, which bowled me over the first time I saw it, almost brought me to tears today. Something about the photo of Emmett smiling w/ his mother, taken not long before history seized this family so cruelly.

Confronting the past can be painful business, but I can’t see any future for our democracy without it.

John Lewis said our first task is to “make plain [the truth] without anger or apology.”

A tall order, but also, I think, the way we’ll be measured henceforth.

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If you live in the south, please register with LifeSouth to donate blood or platelets. It’s a simple thing to do, and could save a life.

donors.lifesouth.org/donor/aut

Somebody somewhere is going to be offended by something posted online. The message for me is try to avoid posting with the deliberate intent to offend.

@Ronnie It is. 10 Pacific. It’s expected to be one of the longest ever.

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