#Atlanta spa shooter Robert Aaron Long pleads guilty

#Atlanta spa shooter Robert Aaron Long pleads guilty

“#Atlanta spa shooter Robert Aaron Long pleads guilty” Accused Georgia spa mass shooter Robert Aaron Long pleaded guilty Tuesday to four counts of murder — but could still face the death penalty for the other four who were gunned down. Wearing a white button-down shirt and slacks and sporting a mohawk haircut, Long, 22, pleaded…

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#Get weapons of war off America’s streets

#Get weapons of war off America’s streets

“#Get weapons of war off America’s streets” Eight slain in Atlanta, now 10 in Boulder. Your town could be next. Can the nation finally do something about weapons of war on our streets? President Joe Biden called Tuesday for Congress to move immediately to “ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” It’s a start, though he’ll…

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#Media trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’

#Media trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’

“#Media trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’” The bodies of the victims hadn’t gone cold, the families had barely begun grieving, when the familiar cottage industry of activists and journalists jumped in to speculate and spread misinformation on social media. What drove someone to slaughter eight people in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta…

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#’I’m proud to be Asian’

#’I’m proud to be Asian’

“#’I’m proud to be Asian’” Sandra Oh delivered a passionate speech this weekend in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings, in which a gunman went on a rampage across area massage parlors staffed primarily by Asian women, leaving eight people dead.  “I am proud to be Asian,” the award-winning Canadian-American actress, 49, declared during…

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#The media’s new truth

#The media’s new truth

“#The media’s new truth” The massacres at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area this week, leaving eight human beings dead, others injured, and their families scarred, were horrifying. Read the deeply moving story about the son of one of the women killed to remind yourself of this. It’s brutal. The grief will spread and…

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#NYC sex-workers advocates respond to Atlanta spa murders

#NYC sex-workers advocates respond to Atlanta spa murders

“#NYC sex-workers advocates respond to Atlanta spa murders” Advocates for Queens sex workers condemned the killings of eight people, including six massage workers, in Georgia and insisted the victims “faced specific racialized gendered violence for being Asian women and massage workers.” Red Canary Song — an organization founded following the death of Flushing masseuse Yang…

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#Biden meets with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta

#Biden meets with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta

“#Biden meets with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta” President Biden called his meeting with local Asian-American leaders in Atlanta on Friday “heart-wrenching,’’ saying racism is “the ugly poison that has long haunted and plagued our nation.” Biden and Veep Kamala Harris — the country’s first Asian-American vice president — had met with the leaders to offer…

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