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Jennifer L. in Ontario 🇨🇦

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Gen X Canadian🙋‍♀️ Digital civil rights. Tax billionaires. Social safety nets = civilized. Right to read 📚 Less war, more dialogue. Fascinated by potential of the RCC ⛪ Cultural narrative as social fabric. Follow / RP ≠ agree 🍃

~All beings want to be happy.

  1. And let him be accountable for what Rome has done in the past. At some point, the honeymoon is over and he deals with the dysfunction and lack of development among his staff/Bishops and stops playing Holy Roman Emperor.

    Unpopular opinion: Chicago needs to back off the Pope.

    For example, he doesn’t need to be read in on “the vision for a new White Sox stadium,” as the email headline I just saw stated.

    Let him Pope.

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  2. Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

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  3. Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

    My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

    The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

    Because Greta is right ..

    A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." 

It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.
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  4. “Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou

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  5. Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵

    Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, is seen in a booking photo from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.
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