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Victoria Brownworth
@VABVOX
Award-winning investigative journo ▪️ 2022 Society of Professional Journalists Award/Newspaper Feature Reporting ▪️2023 NLGJA/Curve Award ▪️ Socialist ▪️Widow
Philly, natch
Joined April 2010
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    #Courage is a value. We should all adopt it. Why? Bc being #brave gets stuff done. Being brave inspires others to get stuff done. #justice
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    So Tim Walz believe kids should be fed at school so they can learn better and JD Vance believes kids should accept being shot at school as a "fact of life." Vote accordingly.
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    I've been covering politics for decades and I can't explain this.
    Harris loses Michigan and Wisconsin but Slotkin and Baldwin win their Senate races.
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    When I was 16 in the 1970s I was expelled from high school for being a lesbian and put in a psychiatric ward for conversion therapy to de-gay me. It was so traumatic, I attempted suicide. I was fortunate--I survived. So I am celebrating another birthday, today. But conversion
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    Wow. Wow. Wow. This opener by Jimmy Kimmel is a gut punch. He's crying, he's raging and he's saying "let's make sure that not one of these [pro-gun] politicians holds office ever again."
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    Am I the only one who doesn't understand why any healthcare worker would refuse to get vaccinated?
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    So Clarence Thomas wants to invalidate my marriage protected by Obergefell but not invalidate his marriage protected by Loving. Got it.
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    Ryan Wesley Routh, the alleged shooter in today's incident against Trump, is a 60 year old white man with a history of mental illness. He appears to have voted for Trump in 2016 and his Facebook page has COVID conspiracies on it. He is not an immigrant nor is he Haitian.
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    True story: So someone emailed my work email to ask me why all the students on Abbott Elementary are Black and I said because it's set in Philly and they asked where the white students were and I said Philly is 75% BIPOC and majority Black and the public schools are 86% POC and
    GIF
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    Hey--remember that debate when Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump was Putin's puppet? She was right.
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    I'm fighting a brutal #cancer. Alas, my latest tests show it's progressing. My next surgery is scheduled for Thursday. I really need y'all to vote to save my healthcare so I can keep fighting. Please 💙 me if you will vote for the 21M Americans like me who have cancer right now.
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    No one wants to hear this, but none of the 606 mass shootings so far this year have been perpetrated by women.
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    This guy actually has a dating podcast and draws circles on women's bodies. Honestly, the entitlement of unattractive mediocre middle-aged men is astonishing.
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    This video moved me so much I had to track down this barber. His name is Anthony Klaxton. He's dedicated his barber shop to "restoring queens" self confidence by "restoring their crowns." There's an interview on YouTube. A loving, caring, fabulous man.
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