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esqueer_ Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer_ ·
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I spoke up against Musk and now my email inbox is filled with harassing emails and people are threatening me on socials. I won't be intimidated and I will continue to speak out against hate.

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penamerica PEN America @penamerica ·
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‘I can’t take up a weapon, so I create’: how #Ukraine’s artists are taking on Putin’s Russia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/26/ukraine-russia-war-arts-artists-culture?CMP=share_btn_tw

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penamerica PEN America @penamerica ·
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#SecondAmendment vs. #FirstAmendment: "Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/us/guns-protests-open-carry.html

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