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Obama taking steps to fund affordable housing in affluent neighborhoods: hill.cm/YaHMsGv http://t.co/kKEevs5ule
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The Hill (@thehill) June 11, 2015
Home equity rises to highest level in nearly 10 yrs. Recovering all decimated by the Bush Repub housing bubble & collapse #obamasfault
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Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) June 11, 2015
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Surprise! @FLOTUS is guest-editing our July/August #MoreImpact issue. Here’s a sneak peek: more.com/michelleobama http://t.co/GkK1CvyskY
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MORE Magazine (@MoreMag) June 11, 2015
Our beloved First Lady is guest editor of July-Aug issue of More magazine & she's remarkable. more.com http://t.co/edKUfGJbMy
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meta (@metaquest) June 11, 2015
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Michelle Obama: First lady and magazine editor @RebeccaRKaplan cbsn.ws/1I3OyGn http://t.co/Do2t19IFsm
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CBS News Politics (@CBSPolitics) June 11, 2015
WILL be buying the First Lady's issue of More Magazine!
"Mrs. Obama — who has been on More’s cover twice... fb.me/7dIVRIc0Z
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(@afrobella) June 11, 2015
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Kentucky Governor Raises Minimum Wage With Executive Order nyti.ms/1KRQdlo
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NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) June 09, 2015
Republican senator criticizes Obamacare on the grounds that Obamacare subsidies are awesome vox.com/2015/6/8/87483… via @sarahkliff
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Eric Schultz (@Schultz44) June 08, 2015
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Poor child. The consequences of horrific police brutality
Girl officer forced to the ground in pool party video is having a hard time eating & sleeping, her attorney said: wapo.st/1GbIIEN
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Elahe Izadi (@ElaheIzadi) June 10, 2015
@ElaheIzadi her body is still in fight-or-flight. you don't eat or sleep in that state. poor thing. PTSD seems inevitable here. so sad.
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Cynthia Rose (@PurpleMonarch79) June 11, 2015
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Vile, disgusting, racist scumbag
This is #KarenFitzgibbons. She is an Elementary School Teacher. And she wants to bring back Segregation. #McKinney http://t.co/ZixAZ7N2c9
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D (@Delo_Taylor) June 11, 2015
This is one of the public school to prison pipeline train conductors http://t.co/6Dd6mfvENs
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No Relation (@TheCosby) June 11, 2015
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Teacher deleted post regarding #McKinneyPolice in which she said she "was almost to the point of wanting" segregation http://t.co/uAHqYPaWi1
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Adam Young (@AYoungReporter) June 11, 2015
The thought of this vile person teaching impressionable, innocent 4th graders makes me nauseous. #KarenFitzgibbons twitter.com/ShaunKing/stat…
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(@Only4RM) June 11, 2015
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I'm sure #KarenFitzgibbons can find a teaching job where her opinions will fit in at a school in 1859.
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(@JRehling) June 11, 2015
Twitter & Facebook: Nicely weeding out racists, homophobes, and any other general, horrible people. Thank You. #KarenFitzgibbons
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Jennifer Spiecker (@jen_spiecker) June 11, 2015
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How many black students have been singled out in #KarenFitzgibbons classroom and now have discipline records because of her beliefs?
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Krissy (@__Krisssyy) June 11, 2015
Teachers like #KarenFitzgibbons is why black children suffer in the education system. I can't imagine how she treats her black students.
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はるか (@melaninbarbie) June 11, 2015
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The racist been fired. Life comes at you fast
BREAKING: #KarenFitzgibbons, the teacher who defended #McKinney police with these words, has been fired. http://t.co/wk7hnxEUkY
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TRiLL CLiNTON (@iMadeSmartCool) June 11, 2015
#KarenFitzgibbons got fired. Segregate that. http://t.co/uIKAmFhEd5
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Dominator (@DuckFom) June 11, 2015
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Why is it so hard for families of color to get justice when a loved one is murdered? Must read by @edwin_d_rios: motherjones.com/politics/2015/…
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Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) June 09, 2015
One of most corrosive things to relationship between minorities and police: unsolved murder motherjones.com/politics/2015/… http://t.co/9PKV9TjcBl
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Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) June 09, 2015
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Only 9 Days in 2015 When The Police Haven't Killed Someone. America. http://t.co/yhTU4tcPxc
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 11, 2015
Police investigating photo of officers “laughing after a Muslim mother’s hijab was ripped off” bzfd.it/1IJQZUe http://t.co/Ybpsaa7x9Q
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(@BuzzFeed) June 11, 2015
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Damn. Of course, when police brutality of minorities in England is taken into account, British and American cops have a lot to answer for
American police fatally shoot 2 ppl a day
British police have fatally shot 2 ppl in 3 years wapo.st/1IwMqcX http://t.co/Gn2zj86zHS
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Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) June 11, 2015
One reason: fewer guns in hands of cops and fewer guns in hands of citizens wapo.st/1IwMqcX http://t.co/6MC6gT9Q9f
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Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) June 11, 2015
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"A boy was accused of taking a backpack. The courts took t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ his life."
newyorker.com/magazine/2014/…
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Jamiles Lartey (@JamilesLartey) June 08, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kalief Browder's suffering: "It was done by our servants, and it was done in our name." theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) June 08, 2015
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The abject horror and tragedy of #KaliefBrowder death has to be communicated constantly. latimes.com/nation/la-na-n… http://t.co/jij3nJvTsF
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Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) June 08, 2015
The cop who killed Kimani Gray, received a Cop of the Year award after the young boy's death. #MckinneyPolice http://t.co/exszlzYdQe
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 07, 2015
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Lesley Jane Seymour: Michelle Obama Guest-Edits More!
A little over a year ago, we started tossing around ideas about how we could collaborate with Mrs. Obama. At the time, having her serve as the first-ever guest editor of More seemed like a crazy dream, but it was at the top of my list. We knew that partnering on an issue would be a lot of work—I’m not sure the White House understood exactly how much!—but we were thrilled when they said yes.
This is truly the First Lady’s issue. From the beginning, she said she didn’t want the whole magazine to be about her. It was hard to take off my editor’s hat and not focus all of my attention on the person on the cover. Instead, we shifted our focus to the people, causes and opportunities she cares about.The First Lady always asks how her initiatives—Let’s Move, Joining Forces, Reach Higher and Let Girls Learn—are moving the needle and having more impact on the world. We hope this issue will empower readers to create positive change, whether by supporting one of the First Lady’s programs or another cause.
More here
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Darlene Superville: Michelle Obama Will Be ‘Guest Editor’ Of More Magazine
She’s a wife, mother and lawyer, an advocate for children and military families, and first lady of the United States. Now Michelle Obama has added a new gig: magazine editor. The first lady is “guest editor” of the July-August issue of More, which bills itself as the magazine for “women of style and substance.” It was a first for both the White House and the magazine industry, said Lesley Jane Seymour, More’s editor-in-chief. “There’s never been a first lady who’s ever guest-edited a magazine and certainly not a sitting first lady,” Seymour told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “She’s really the editor,” Seymour said. She said the edition focuses on Mrs. Obama’s “point of view on the world and it’s from her eyes.” “Guest editor” wasn’t just a fancy title. The first lady had to pitch story ideas and write and approve copy for the 148-page issue, Seymour said.
She “was reading every page and asking for changes up until the last minute,” Seymour said. “She had to approve absolutely everything. She had to suggest various things, too.” Staff handled stories about fashion and beauty, along with basic functions of the magazine. The theme of the issue is having “More Impact.” Mrs. Obama said she welcomed the opportunity to share some of her White House experiences with like-minded readers. “What I want readers to understand is that impact comes in all forms, shapes and sizes. And hopefully through this issue, what people will see is that you can have impact as a military mom changing careers, or you can be a young person starting a business or you can be the first lady and start a whole initiative,” Mrs. Obama said in a written statement released by More. The issue highlights the first lady’s four priorities: helping children live healthier lives, supporting military families, encouraging young people to pursue education past high school and helping girls around the world attend and stay in school. It also includes pieces on her long-serving chief of staff and senior adviser, two women who have influenced the first lady’s work.
More here
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Wonderful links within the tweets
Surprise! @FLOTUS is guest-editing our July/August #MoreImpact issue. Here's a sneak peek: more.com/michelleobama http://t.co/ZbGPj6XVal
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MORE Magazine (@MoreMag) June 11, 2015
Video preview-our historic July/Aug #MoreImpact issue, guest-edited by Michelle Obama more.com/behindthescenes @FLOTUS http://t.co/r5girfaoOg
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MORE Magazine (@MoreMag) June 11, 2015
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Michelle Obama: What Women Owe One Another
When Barack was first running for President back in 2008, I made what I thought was an innocuous comment about how, if he were elected, my most important job would be “mom-in-chief.” The response was swift and passionate. Some people thought this was great, a sign that I had my priorities in order and was doing what was right for my family. Some were less positive, concerned that I was devaluing my professional achievements and ambitions.
As for me, I was just confused. The way I saw it, embracing my role as mom-in-chief didn’t mean dismissing what I’d accomplished in my career or shortchanging the important work of being First Lady—on the contrary, I planned to pour myself into the job and do everything I could to have a real impact on people’s lives. I was just stating a simple truth: The most important thing in my life is raising my two daughters.
More here
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Early Bird Rise and Shine
On This Day: Pete Souza – “The top photograph shows the President having a water gun fight with his daughter Sasha on her birthday weekend at Camp David. Unbeknownst to me, David Lienemann captured a similar photo of the Vice President on the very same day.” June 11, 2011
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Today
2:35 EDT: The President speaks at a DNC fundraiser; private residence, Washington DC
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