@lightintheblood @Chi_Hinm

An off-duty police officer pulled his gun on a gas station patron he suspects of shoplifting. He pulled his gun with no hesitation. He didn't try & ask a question, just pulled a gun for taking something worth $5 & then when he was wrong just goes, my bad like it's no big deal.

@VoteDodge @omega7stone @BrevardDems @DemocratsofIR Absolutely! I’ve got Rick Scott’s original 11-point PDF, McConnell is on tape giving full approval. Here’s the summary in plain English!

Polices that could make us safer, that could prevent massacres of children and people in public places are incredibly popular.

The problem isn't a lack of support.

The problem is that our leaders have failed us by lacking courage and

I wish I could say what happened in Uvalde is an unfathomable tragedy.

But it's not. It's completely predictable.

This disgusting state of affairs and these senseless tragedies could be prevented if our leaders had courage and were concerned about more than the economy.

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We absolutely have to address gun culture in the United States.

We need to admit our white supremacist foundations have led to a state of paranoia, of firearm fetishism.

That is a massive part of the problem and requires a sea change of cultural proportions.

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We must recognize that the GOP, with its radicalization, its dependency on fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories has created an environment where guns and violence are a main part of their appeal.

This state we're living in isn't independent of that. At all.

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And any conversation about gun violence or mass shootings has to involve the NRA, an institution that has done more harm to Americans and created more tragedy than nearly anyone else.

It is an absolute blight on the American body and its influence cannot be downplayed.

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I talked to a guy at the Trump rally who thinks women should be forced to give birth but doesn’t want the government “forcing people to do things against their choice”

Please understand, the photos and accompanying narrative I share are not meant to evoke guilt or shame or even sympathy. Native people laughed and played and wept (a million tears) just like you or I or us. I provide you supplemental history, that the education system — did not.

My motivations are simple: To help us all recover from our post-traumatic historical inheritances. To get the drop on those that want only to gloss over U.S. History, to whitewash it and pretend that America’s atrocities vis-a-vis its Indigenous populations — never happened.

So that our grandchildren will fully understand that America’s inception, that its very founding, did not occur in a vacuum. Entire bloodlines were lost. What non-Natives see as a land of plenty and freedom, the Indigenous community sees only a country— that’s illegally occupied.