isn’t always just is.
And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it!
Somehow we do it.
Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.
2/12
[thread in 12: The hill we climb — @theAmandaGorman]
When day comes, we ask ourselves
where can we find light
in this neverending shade?
The loss we carry a sea we must wade.
We've braved the belly of the beast.
We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.
1/12
isn’t always just is.
And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it!
Somehow we do it.
Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.
2/12
where a skinny black girl descended from slaves
and raised by a single mother
can dream of becoming president
only to find herself reciting for one.
Yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine,
but that doesn’t mean..
3/12
We are striving to forge our union with purpose
to compose a country committed
to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.
So we lift our gazes not to what stands between us,
but what stands before us!
4/12
to put our future first,
we must first put our differences aside.
We lay down our arms
so we can reach out our arms
to one another.
We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true.
5/12
That even as we hurt, we hoped.
That even as we tired, we tried
that will forever be tied
together victorious.
Not because we will never again know defeat,
but because we will never again sow division.
Scripture tells us to envision..
6/12
and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.
If we’re to live up to her own time,
then victory won’t lie in the blade,
but in all the bridges we’ve made!
That is the promise to glade,
the hill we climb if only we dare.
7/12
than a pride we inherit
it’s the past we step into and how we repair it.
We’ve seen a forest that
would shatter our nation
rather than share it.
Would destroy our country
if it meant delaying democracy.
This effort very nearly succeeded.
8/15
periodically delayed,
it can never be permanently defeated!
In this truth, in this faith we trust for while
we have our eyes on the future,
history has its eyes on us.
This is the era of just redemption.
We feared it at its inception.
9/15
to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour,
but within it, we found the power
to author a new chapter,
to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.
So while once we asked,
how could we possibly
prevail over catastrophe?
10/15
to what was,
but move to what
shall be a country that is bruised,
but whole, benevolent, but bold, fierce, and free!
We will not be turned around
or interrupted by intimidation
because we know our inaction
and inertia will be the
inheritance of..
11/15
Our blunders become their burdens!
But one thing is certain,
if we merge mercy with might and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children’s birthright.
12/15
better than one we were left with!
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest
we will raise this wounded world
into a wondrous one!
We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the West.
We will rise from the wind-swept Northeast..
13/15
We will rise from the Lake Rim cities of the Midwestern states. We will rise from the sun-baked South. We will rebuild, reconcile and recover in every known nook of our nation,..
14/15
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“If you show up at the gym 5 days in a row—even for 2 minutes—you're casting votes for your new identity. You’re not worried about getting in shape. Youre focused on becoming the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts”
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
https://t.co/KZDqte19nG
2. “social anxiety is overwhelmingly common. Natural selection shaped us to care enormously what other people think..We constantly monitor how much others value us..Low self-esteem is a signal to try harder to please others”
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
https://t.co/uZT4kdhzvZ
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents...Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without a believe in a devil.”
Grandstanding
https://t.co/4Of58AZUj8
"if politics becomes a morality pageant, then the contestants have an incentive to keep problems intact...politics becomes a forum to show off moral qualities...people will be dedicated to activism for its own sake, as a vehicle to preen"
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https://t.co/yLC4eGHEd4
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The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
https://t.co/uZT4kdhzvZ
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Grandstanding
https://t.co/4Of58AZUj8
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https://t.co/yLC4eGHEd4
“Across diverse cultures, a man who lives in the house with another man’s children is about 60 times more likely than the biological father to kill those children.”
@bellingcat's attempt in their new book, published by
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission. @BloomsburyPub @Tim_Hayward_
1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:
2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyX… @RobertF40396660
3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUv….
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@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission. @BloomsburyPub @Tim_Hayward_
\u201cAllegations of our involvement with the intelligence services are of course false,\u201d says Bellingcat founder @EliotHiggins https://t.co/55V7sJV9or
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2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyX… @RobertF40396660
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and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUv….
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In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.
This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.
In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.
The story doesn\u2019t say you were told not to... it says you did so without approval and they tried to obfuscate what you found. Is that true?
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) November 15, 2018
In the spring and summer of 2016, as reported by the Times, activity we traced to GRU was reported to the FBI. This was the standard model of interaction companies used for nation-state attacks against likely US targeted.
In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.
This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.
In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.
