President Obama, on the passing of Alan Krueger: https://t.co/G6dsa87sif
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David Gura (@davidgura) March 18, 2019
Posts Tagged ‘suicide
Less Afraid Of The Unknown
“Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer.” This is how I’ll remember Tony. He taught us abo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 08, 2018
An octogenarian columnist who’d written a review about a new Olive Garden in her small city was ripped to shreds by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Zac Echola (@celiasojourn) June 08, 2018
Anthony Bourdain and President Obama once shared a memorable $6 meal in Vietnam https://t.co/nGw6o3j7iQ
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NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 08, 2018
Energy In His Presence
Tragic news about Anthony Bourdain. Such energy being in his presence. Hanoi, Vietnam 2015 https://t.co/sRKAzvPLds
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Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) June 08, 2018
Anthony Bourdain on humanity:
"Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Wilkine Brutus (@wilkinebrutus) June 08, 2018
A Tweet Or Two
"I’ve committed to doubling the pace at which we cut carbon pollution." —@POTUS #ActOnClimate http://t.co/q2ZFQCPKk2
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White House Live (@WHLive) May 20, 2015
Climate change threatens every country on the planet.
No nation is immune.
RT if you agree we need to #ActOnClimate. snpy.tv/1PWKg8d
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 20, 2015
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Hail to the FLOTUS!
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Michelle Obama can kick your ass bit.ly/1EXPUkf http://t.co/3ui11UPF25
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Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 20, 2015
Michelle Obama just one-upped the president’s workout and probably yours too. buff.ly/1EjnY9W http://t.co/QAY5S3xhQF
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The Root (@TheRoot) May 20, 2015
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Jesus. FLOTUS can kick all of our asses. huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/mic…
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jennifer bendery (@jbendery) May 20, 2015
Michelle Obama is serious about her workouts nyti.ms/1R35xPP http://t.co/sSmfYQFp76
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The New York Times (@nytimes) May 20, 2015
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Where are the white leaders in the community?! Where are the fathers?!
BREAKING: Waco police now say they've found as many as 1000 weapons at Twin Peaks, including an AK-47. Many were hidden in toilets, food.
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KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) May 20, 2015
Mugshots of the more than 150 people who were arrested in the Waco, Texas, biker fight: apne.ws/1efMqUO
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The Associated Press (@AP) May 20, 2015
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BREAKING: AG Lynch announces 5 international banks are pleading guilty in currency case » cnb.cx/136LsmZ
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CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) May 20, 2015
BREAKING: 6 banks pay $5.8 billion in DOJ settlement, 5 plead guilty to market rigging bloom.bg/1Ht6v3m
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Bloomberg Business (@business) May 20, 2015
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Iran to allow U.N. inspection of Yemen aid ship in Djibouti reut.rs/1PWv5vL
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Reuters Iran (@ReutersIran) May 20, 2015
Experts warn climate change could make Lyme disease-carrying ticks more common bloom.bg/1B9k17x http://t.co/UvXRdL1dN2
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Bloomberg Business (@business) May 20, 2015
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I'm sure if you asked the right kind of questions, you'd find that many Americans believe black neighbors inherently lower property values.
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Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) May 12, 2015
@jbouie nymag.com/daily/intellig… http://t.co/qo9dVtnCkl
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Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) May 12, 2015
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More truth here
Listen. You can't 'visit' poverty. You can't vacation there. You can't even hope to understand it by artificial limitations for a week.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015
Poverty is pain. It's the anxiety of knowing you can't afford to move, so you have to put up with a bad place, bad neighbors, rent raises
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015
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A Darkness Visible
It was 2003. My sister-in-law was visiting us. It was a weekend, and her, my wife, and our niece were going to go up the coast to a fish shack just over the Ventura County line. They asked if I wanted to join them. I said no.
The fly-by-night telecommunications company for which I worked had just closed its doors, but I had quickly found a job at a similar company. I started that following Monday. And all I could see was a hopeless, endless succession of dead-end jobs, one following the other, none leading to anything, no hope of doing anything better, anything more meaningful. I was trapped. I was in the grip of my depression.
Depression can be triggered by anything—or it can be triggered by nothing. It can have warning signs; or it can come upon you like Judgment Day, as a thief in the night. It robs you of you, turning you into someone other than who you were, altering you irrevocably. You are suddenly or not so suddenly this person you weren’t before, a distorted image of the person loved and cherished by others, an image of yourself dark, twisted, sent into the world too soon.
My depressive episodes, stretching back to the late Nineties, have usually been triggered by the combination of pointless work, or lack of work, and the curious malady of my stutter which made me despair of ever being able to do anything other than what I was doing. But triggers don’t always happen. As Robin Williams shows, people who have it all can feel as if they have nothing. Fame, glory, money: they don’t matter. When depression strikes, it doesn’t discriminate. It will take the high and the low, the rich and the poor. It’s very democratic in that way.
Evening chat – Robin Williams
A celebrity’s death shouldn’t matter much in the scheme of things. But Robin Williams touched millions of lives via his art. And the manner of his death—probably suicide—and the cause—months of battling severe depression—are epidemics in this country. Sometimes the loneliest place is surrounded by loved ones who don’t understand.
A tribute to Robin Williams
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Alcohol / Marijuana
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Golf
he’s running! oh, wait.
February, 2011
NJ. com: Members of Gov. Chris Christie’s inner circle said today he won’t run for president, batting down increased speculation that spiked on Monday when former Gov. Tom Kean said Christie was thinking about throwing his hat in the ring.
Christie’s brother, a well-connected Republican fundraiser, said the governor hasn’t changed his mind. “I’m sure that he’s not going to run,” Todd Christie said. “If he’s lying to me, I’ll be as stunned as I’ve ever been in my life.”
Three people close to Christie said they were surprised by Kean’s comments …. They said the two men hadn’t spoken in about a week and they insisted that Christie wasn’t going to run. Kean told the magazine’s website on Monday that Christie is giving a presidential run “a lot of thought,” saying, “I think the odds are a lot better now than they were a couple weeks ago.” … Kean has not returned phone calls….
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The NYT said today that one of the wealthy GOP supporters offering to back Christie is none other than that charming enemy of democracy, David Koch. Wow, these creatures really aren’t happy with their field, eh?
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