at least the tweet has the right framing of the incident.
Yeah if asked about my reform ideas, I’ll mention cutting funding and redirecting it into the communities that need it most as one of them.
Yeah I think the interviewer is going to be someone I know and a person of color, so I doubt he’ll be pushing me off message but I’m comfortable pivoting back for sure.
Yeah I plan on having a handful of things I want to hit, being happy with any of them being what gets out, and pivoting to one regardless of the question.
Maybe I’ll record my end of it if possible and share it here.
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I don’t expect it to be live, but if it is I’ll approach it differently. For sure.
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Not good
So my hairstylist is deplorable-adjacent (vote R, but has been pretty silent this past week, and seems to be one of the people who are ok with the protesting in our little town), and she invited me to a private “defend ramona” rah rah 2nd amendment FB group. She knows I am an outspoken liberal, my FB picture is a BLM flag, etc. I’m going to join, I think. If anything, to keep an eye on them.
I saw one post before they went private and someone posted a Trumpganda pic (Trump on a horse or something) and the group admin told them to stop posting bullshit like that, so who knows…
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Anyone else not getting a count of new replies in this thread? I think it might have started after the “abolishing cops” posts got moved to a new thread.
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And if you accidentally give a shameless plug for Unstuck, no one would give you too much grief 
Good luck brother. You’ll make us proud.
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Yes, and when I click back into this thread ot takes me to the last post, not the first unread. Started sometime after the policing posts were moved.
They buried the lede.
Murkowski said she wanted to speak out today because she feels like she has been too silent.
“I have been challenged by some. I have been chastised by some … from some very close friends who say ‘you are silent, Lisa. Why haven’t you fixed what we are seeing?’ I have struggled with the right words. As a white woman born and raised in Alaska with a family that was privileged, I cannot feel that openness and rawness that I just heard expressed by my friends Cory and Kamala. I have not lived their life. I can listen, and I can educate myself, and I can try to be healer when we need to be healed.”
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We’re on to police brutality.
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You forgot fuck you trump! 
Judd Grady lmao
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Riot gear on and they’re worried about some water bottles lol
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Yeah, I joined, and the admin posted the following:
So with the recent activity that has taken place around the county and our country, I have been monitoring a group called “defend East county “. I am proud to see our boys stand up this week to protect “R” town but I believe we may have been a little pushy. Also we protected a intersection but left our old town unprotected other then a few shop owners. Instead of keeping peace a few were stoking the fire. As much as we will never give up our 2 amendment, we can not deny people their 1st amendment. It Does not work both ways. This groups only purpose, will be to aid our first responders when ever needed. This town has seen and experienced a lot over the years from fires to flooding and now a realization that there are people that would love to destroy communities. I am not saying that any of the recent protesters had those intentions, but there are people trying to use them as a way to destroy. So I hope this group can grow to be a positive and not a negative. We will not allow any kind of racism or white supremacy in this group. We are all god’s people and deserve equality and we base our principles on that. hope this work out and looking for any help to make this grow. God bless you all.
So basic right wing claptrap except…they actually acknowledge that some of them were the problem at our town’s protests, which to me is a step forward. It remains to be seen if they stick to the no racism thing, but at least I’m in and watching.
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Shlarp Blarpley
The best way to hide as a serial killer is to join the police. The guy looks like he’s wearing a human skin mask.
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A crowd of a few hundred had gathered in front of the Utah State Capitol before 7 local time. Not allowed in the park around it but the streets have been closed off so they’re on the street and lawns on the other side, facing the cops on the grounds and on the steps to the entrance to the building, about a hundred yards away. People are close together though most are wearing masks.
I had to detour around them to get back on my normal route across town. There were State Police cars and National Guard Humvees parked in the intersections on the approaches. Two guardsmen with assault rifles stationed at one corner as I rode up on my bike gave me a wave that was probably intended to be friendly but could have been a half-assed attempt to get me to stop. Anyway I waved back and didn’t get shot. They have a helicopter watching everything.
They had sense enough this time to block the lane for vehicle traffic on the road to City Creek Canyon so if they’d had to use it this time they wouldn’t need to do reckless shit.
Oh sorry I got nothing, just a classic name
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