Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
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People need to eliminate the word "we" from public life and replace it with the word "Republicans." There is no we. There never was. There is only good v. evil.
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Queue the right wing talking points. " Now is not the time to politicize this " etc. The right only cares about corporate profits and billionaires. They do not care about citizens.
Their only goal is to get past tragic moments. Without doing a damn thing.
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Surely 'thoughts and prayers' is all they need?
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The majority of Americans across demos and party lines is for stepping up gun control. But if the majority fails to take power and lets itself be dicked around by a tiny, criminal puppet regime, nobody will just HAND the power to them. What Americans actually want thread bsky.app/profile/idio...
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Speaking truth very rare these days!
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The sad part is, all the outrage will pass in a week and the gun owners are gonna say "great, we fooled them again"
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The Repugniant gun owners are just gonna say, meh, what's for supper...
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Until all special interest money - especially the NRA money, goes away, the problem will remain.
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Well said
Iām personally at the point where I canāt even feign concern anymore. There is such a thing as compassion fatigue, and itās especially defeating when the same thing keeps happening, we know what will help address the problem, yet we refuse to do it
And itāll never stop
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If the shooter was a person of color - (Look I do not know if people say that or not anymore; and it this point it does not matter)
If it WAS a brown/black person there would be magat outrage like we have not seen...Would give them an excuse to continue the purge...
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We haven't done anything about it for 25 years, since Columbine. youtu.be/5BNj-BneTNI
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The best thing is to keep kids at home and home school, the Government Cannot be trusted seriously.
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Exactly. Weāve reached a point where children canāt even rely on adults in power to protect them from mass shootings. Thoughts and prayers arenāt enoughālegislators must take real action to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines before the next tragedy.
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Iām going to pick my kids up from school in 20 minutes. Every day around this time my anxiety flares up. Itās Schrƶdingerās Schoolā¦ there have been no phone calls so I assume everythingās ok, but then I remember Iām in the USA and the fear creeps in. Iāll breathe again when I see them, 19 minutesā¦
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She's not wrong but nothing will change because we've decided that the occasional murder of students/teachers is alright - all in the name of the 2nd A.
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Only one of many sad things, eg: could have been reduced to almost never decades ago but for greedy republicans republicans valuing money and careers over lives weak cowardly people thinking guns make anyone safer weak cowardly republicans salivating to kill people thinking it won't affect them
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Reece is correct. We sacrifice children to gun violence every year then offer thoughts & prayers as Colt,Ruger,Smith&Wesson,etc. continue to manufacture&pay gun lobbyists to bribe Congress with blood money.The blood is the blood of our children & Congress gleefully wraps themselves in stained money.
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Smart lady, NOT my favorite coach but good she spoke out. Saw her when Oregon Ducks beat the USA Women's team in Eugene!
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Shame they don't target media organisations like Murdoch
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Maybe weāll raise the purchasing age and then lower it. Maybe weāll do a mural and then paint over it. Maybe weāll think and pray, then unthink and unpray. And maybe weāll do all this somewhere else next week.
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So what is the help?? There is no way to reduce the number of firearms in the U.S. Maybe do not interview a 10 yr old that was despicable. So what are the serious options for help?? Not sure Iāll see them from a WNBA playerā¦
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Nope Republicans wonāt hear of it. Just more death and destruction for us.
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We women have begged our legislators for decades to protect the children but instead, they send prayers. Prayers do not stop bullets.
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Sadly true
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"A few dead kids is totally worth one less trans person."
-Republicans, probably.
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Sadly...
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Fact
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The heartbreaking reality
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Canada suffered a mass shooting in Montreal a while back and the result was a national gun registry and strong regulations. The regs piss off the gun owners once in a while, but on the whole they do the work of keeping guns out of the hands of those who should never have them. Mostly.
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look at this shirt šššš viralstyle.com/c/rneoaa
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Gun control - is total lack of control!
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Another day, another shooting. Children dead and injured. Why is there never enough white-hot burning rage about this? I don't want to hear Democrats telling us that their "hearts go out..." etc, etc, etc. I want to hear them screaming "ENOUGH OF THIS FUCKING SHIT!!!!" at the top of their lungs.
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Of course we arenāt going to do anything about it. Were are America. We are exceptional. We are an idiocracy; a country led by morons.
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NOT āthe greatest country in the worldā. Keep praying, itās working wonders.
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This country is sick when it chooses guns over children.
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Have I said how much I despise corporate media right now....or since Jan 20th. Anyway, when this happens, Repbs/GOP should have to stand up and say these words...on air "We value AR15s and guns over human life. Sorry 'bout your luck, but we will never care about your children, just NRA and $$$$$$$."
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Not us. Not Americans. Just Republicans. Republicans wonāt do a damn thing about it. Republicans are solely responsible for the gun violence Republicans are solely responsible for the slaughter of children
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There is little else in our country more dangerous than a white male (23-27) with a h/o significant depression (treated/untreated) who has access to purchasing semi or automatic guns. Doesnāt matter that heād become transgender. Itās biology and the depression could have been evolving to psychosis.
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End NRA. They own GOP & prevent common-sense gun laws
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...and that, is the BRUTAL truth of it all. Performative politics is not going to fix this issue. We need ACTION.
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Someone elsesās kids are expendable, I guess. We are fucking pathetic.
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Everyone powerful person repeating the same thing, āno one is going to do anything about itā. Make a call to action! Suggest what people can do, help organize a protest, tell the camera youāre calling directly on our legislatures to come back in session and pass meaningful gun control today.
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THIS is what Democracy sounds like
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Nothing like a ācoachā of some insipid sport to repeat the obvious. Fuck her cynicism. Taking a knee during the Fucking national anthem that blares out of every idiotic contest would be a start.
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I appreciate this, and I wish more people would publicly call out the cause. It's not a "we" that isn't doing a thing about it, because there is a big "we" that is trying; it's a "they" that is obstructing it. The GOP. (But also, there are some Dems that do too). We need to loosen that obstruction.
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Speaking Truth to EVIL.
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Parents who voted for Trump voted against their children's safety. What a trade.
Own the libs, let mass shootings continue.
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Unfortunately you abandoned all the mental institutions in the late 1970ās and 80ās. What the hell did you think would happen?
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Sadly so espc under the horrid Trump administration etc
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But we can do something about it if we want. Gun deregulation is kept going by ppl voting for the GOP on the basis of disinfo e.g. the lies that Dems want to take away all guns, even 4 hunting or self-defens. Most media are Right Wing now so most Americans hear lies
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Time to Solve Our Propaganda Problems like the Military Does
A large percentage of our nationās voters are immersed in Right Wing propaganda. Whatās the solution? We should
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Fixed it for her.
Because REPUBLICANS are not going to do a damn thing about it.
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Preach
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She's not wrong...
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Thereās honesty
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VOTE OUT EVERY REPUBLICAN IN OFFICE "NOW"!!! THEY ALL "HAVE TO BE REMOVED AND REPLACED"!!!
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Another sad thing is that theyāre still identifying the shooter as a male or him/he. Maybe that contributed to the anger this person felt. Iām not glorifying a criminal nor the act but language matters. The shooting isnāt about gender. Itās about mental illness and the availability of guns.
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Truth!
Has anyone consulted Joni Ernst for an empathetic, nuanced take?
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We sacrifice our children just so we have the right to own guns. So we can shoot each other in a fender bender. So we can have them stolen and used in crime. Itās our right and these children are paying for it with their lives.
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50 fecking US Senators hold 330 million people hostage to be subjected to endless gun violence.
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Sheās right. šš
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GO COACH.. spot on .. feel the .. frustration as MN VOTER and RESIDENT..
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āThe number of guns appears to be directly related to the number of gun deaths in America...
For every 100 Americans, the US has 120 guns...
There are many extenuating circumstances that lead to gun deaths in the US.
Letās start with the easy one: guns."
#Guns #News
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Facts! she's just telling facts.
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Asking religious zealots everywhere-
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She's 100% correct.
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The truth can be a bitch. Thank you Cheryl Reeve for standing up and speaking the truthš½
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The only thing PEDOfuhrer did was put the flag at half-staff, that's it! ZERO policy of removing any guns of mass destruction, bcuz PEDO & Congress don't care. NRA is THEIR favorite donors. š¤¬š¤·
Flags around Iowa will be at half-staff until sunset on Aug. 31.
FUK PEDOfuhrer & his murdering regime!
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Devastating š
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Correct it has become normal in this America as bad as that sounds and people keep voting for the same people who shoot down every firearm control bill thinking this will fix itself your wrong America will be burying children forever if they don't act to stop this
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Not āweā but republicans. Republicans are not going to do a damn thing about it.
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Truest words spoken today.
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The parents of these children donāt want platitude, they want to make sure this never happens to anyoneās child again.
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We all sat idly by as a death cult took over the country.
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"WE" are not the ones doing nothing about this. We have begged for years. It is the Republican party that has prevented gun law reform for years.
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Anybody notice "Minnesota mass shooting", is not 'trending' on Bluesky?
Why not? Very curious. Are we so used to it, it's not news anymore? Or is the site itself, hosting users unconcerned about this issue?
Mangione shooting was all over this site. Why not children at Church in Minnesota?
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No lies detected.
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Like all the other times. They will be trump's next target.
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Vote out every single republican. Support CA redistricting. Republicans with any decency, ethics or soul have left the party. What remains is morally bankrupt & must be exterminated like cockroaches.
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itās the 44th school shooting of the year. When is it ever gonna be too much?
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Yup
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A child's welfare doesn't supercede a grown and weak man's need to wear an AR-15 to Starbucks.
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My thoughts exactly nothing gonna change more worry about contributions
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She's right
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Yep just like like weāre gonna let a felon run the White House
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A large percentage of Americans love their guns more than they love their children. So, she's right.
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hitting the nail on the head but a real slap in the face.
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And donāt tell them to pray because they were praying when they got attacked with guns.
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We need to reframe the debate and say that those who wonāt vote for reasonable gun control are voting FOR the continuation of mass murders of our children.
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sad but true
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America loves its guns, but not its children. When children are buried under their desks because of an earthquake, that's different than when it happens because of guns.
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So very true, if these so called Republicans care so much about life, they have taken free choice away from women, Medicaid and Snap benefits away from some mothers and children, Trump tax bill taking funding from mental health, but offer thoughts and prayers instead of gun legislation
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She's not wrong.
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You got that right - Republicans love their guns more than kids
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The NRA are child killers.
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Governor Greg Abbott say Democrats are to blame for Texas' crumbling economy, high crime, and crumbling schools. But Texas' governor, attorney general, House majority, Senate majority, and ENTIRE state Supreme Court is Republican. So...? š¤ he's definitely Delusional and needs to STFU
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The Gun Manufacturers Assn ratings. www.nrapvf.org/search/?t=4834
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Time for all states to pass their own gun lawsā¦..then let it go to the Supreme Courtā¦ā¦.
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People had hope for change until Trump came along. Can't have a healthy society without hope.
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How terribly sad to realize something as virtually useless as gun possession should be more important than life of a child and the life trama for horrified classmates.
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As a country weāve made a conscious choice to live this way. Most of us donāt like it. Weāve made the decision at the ballot box. Until we hold our reps accountable in addressing gun violence, laws & ownership this is America. A majority demands change. Yet we reelect those who disregard our voices.
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What if we called in the National Guard and Marines to stand watch over all private Catholic schools?
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Stop saying "we" and start saying "Republicans" aren't going to do s damn thing.
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Childhood has been ruined.
And honestly, this ruination has been since Trump entered the national stage.
Everything wrong w/ šŗšø is bc the of trump.
I cry everyday for the loss of my sonās childhood.
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This morning when I dropped my 3-year-old off at daycare it crossed my mind to tell her to run and hide immediately if she hears screaming out loud noises
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Women are pissed off.
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Thatās right! Republicans are going to say democrats are sick because talking about solutions fresh from this tragedy AGAIN is politicize the death of kids. Republicans will make Dems feel guilty so they would tiptoe around the subject until everybody forgets. Itās a SICK cycle.
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Anniversaries of past mass shootings should be noted throughout the year .
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Completely true
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Itās not āwe.ā Itās Trump & team.
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You can tell them that they are about to ban a bunch of anti-depressants. So that should help.
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Yeah, people think more of their damn guns than they do the kids for sure. Itās a shame people have become so ignorant of safety.
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Why aren't there metal detectors at every entrance to any educational institution, every daycare etc? These are our children, our future. Why hasn't this happened yet?
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Guns donāt kill people. Republicans who allow easy access to guns and assault weapons do.
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Ban assault rifles. Most Western democratic countries do. And they donāt have an epidemic of mass shootings. Donāt tell me thereās no correlation. Thatās utter nonsense - itās delusional and deeply cynical.
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Sad but true.
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She is absolutely correct. This madness ends when enough of us say NO!!! Until then...crickets! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Note that the only political party interested in any reasonable gun control policies are DEMOCRATS. UNITE
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This is what I've been saying for years....over and over and over and over and over .....again.....everyone has their scripts ready when tragedy happens. They whip out their crumpled up papers and start with either T & P or we need regulation. Then go about as if nothing happened, til next time.
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Unfortunately, sadly, she is correct...we are not going to do a damn thing about it. It boggles the mind.
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White women ALONE have enough voting power to end this in ONE ELECTION CYCLE.
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They like say itās the cost of freedom yet their lack of rising up to fight the fascists shows itās really the cost of fetishism
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If only we had a functioning GOP congress, except to follow orders, GOP aren't helping People. GOP cost massive job losses #Again. Trump did this before when he ignored Covid, and destroyed the US economy, businesses, as GOP always do.
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Weāre not going to do a damn thing about itā in a quarter century after Columbine weāve done NOTHINGā Republicans wonāt allow it! Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June and itās already forgotten! These kids will be forgotten by next week. š¤·š»āāļøš©
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Eliminate the corrupt rich who created this world for their amusement, fix society. Can't do the latter without the former.
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VOTING for Democrats would lead to changes on GUN LAWS and GUN ACCESS!
Vote BLUE!
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A "school safety expert" on Fox News blamed the shooting on the Catholic Mass:
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Yours and every other professional sports team can cancel or postpone their seasons until meaningful gun reforms are made. Set the example for other entertainment industries to follow.
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Sheās not wrong
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Very unfortunate.
The Greeks equate mental well-being with justice
Mental health and justice.
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Sheās not wrong.
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Who isn't? Who needs publicity? Oh...yeah.
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Thuneās family wasnāt affected. Johnsonās family wasnāt affected. So letās focus on Hunterās laptop.
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@momsdemand.bsky.social is working hard on this; we can do something! We can all get involved!
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Unfortunately, so true. So. Very. Sad.
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WORD. Absolutely
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Mayo Clinic background.
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It's unforgivable and utterly heartbreaking that we do NOTHING.
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She just defined Republicans.
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Well, Trump let the kids die; now he'll let everyone else die, too. All those kids. All those parents.
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Translation: REPUBLICANS have not and will not do anything about it, even though they COULD; they block Democrats from passing any kind of control or reform. GOP = murderers.
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Republicans Republicans Republicans
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Sheās exactly right. The monsters responsible for it continue to offer their thoughts and prayers while taking $ away from mental health care and deregulating military style weapons.
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Fact
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Do thoughts and prayers count as doing something?
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And when she says we -- the means the traitors of the nation - the Republican party, its maga and domestic terrorists.
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I say we lay the blame for every school shooting at the feet of the conservatives on the court, who refuse to admit that the second amendment starts with the phrase "A well regulated Militia".
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#voteouttheGOP
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Because we worship guns more than kids.
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Why is it people like Cheryl, Steve Kerr, Popp, and so on, are better leaders in this country than the alleged āleadersā?!
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I wish there was a lie to be found...
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Not acceptable!! Vote Blue!!
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We were ~all witnesses to the FAILED response to the Uvalde TX mass shooting ..
tuff texas Rangers & dozens of other alleged protectors of the public cowered in fear- restraining parents who wanted to save their children.
Did Abbott etc release the internal documents?
MSN
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Same with Israelās genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
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No lies detected.
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GOP may do somethingā¦. The wrong thingā¦. and ban guns for Transgender individuals and the NRA will magically back them like they did with the black panthers.
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the last statement. that is the truth. hell will freeze over before republicans will do anything.
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Truly, utterly heartbreaking.
And our president doesn't care. He can't even pronounce Minneapolis.
"Minion-apolis" was the closest he ever got.
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I really wish that wasnāt true
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Every child matters in America. Getting an education matters. Being afraid and living like a war zone is unacceptable. Vote these SOB out of office. Personally, I don't think we will make it to 2028.
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I like her, instead of sending useless thoughts and prayers and blaming God, she's saying the truth.
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She is so right.
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Bingo.
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Wow. Quite a statement.
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Thing is the shooter has an arsenal - where did he get all the deadly āstuffā ā¦
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American š¤” signed an executive order on flag burning stripping away at first amendment rights. An act that hurts NO ONE!! But when it comes to the 2nd Amendment, American children will continue to be acceptable collateral damage.
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Nice to know the WNBA has coaches with Steve Kerr caliber character
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If they cared it would have been nipped in the bud the FIRST time.
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Insanity can no longer be tolerated as a way of life.
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Well said.
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She isn't wrong.
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And they know it too. No one is going to make it better for them.
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I hate it when people verbalize hopelessness and despair and a complete lack of expectations. We should take the opposite tack and demand that something happen.
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You are absolutely correct because the NRA will not let anything change.
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Agreed. If this country couldnāt rally and force our legislators feet to the fire on gun control after Sandy Hook, it will never happen. Our leaders would rather stay in office than see that not one single person again dies from gun violence
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FINALLY someone tells the truth. Crap as it may be, at least itās the truth after decades of useless rhetoric. FINALLY.
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When will Americans vote for what the other countries have? The so-called pro-life party hates children.
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This is a problem of 'we don't care!'
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Don't say WE. Say REPUBLICANS. Name the prolifers who are responsible for school shootings.
