These are elementary school children who woke up this morning. Who ate their favorite cereal. Who tied their shoes in double knots. Who laughed with friends on the bus. Now more than a dozen are dead. This isn’t normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. It can’t keep being this way

Bodies are piling up at the altar. At some point, honesty requires us to classify these dead children and shoppers as ritual sacrifices to a fetishized Second Amendment that allows 18-year-old boys and failed men to become unstoppable gods of destruction and acolytes of death.

Schools scared to death. The truth is, one education under desks, Stooped low from bullets; That plunge when we ask Where our children Shall live & how & if

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

I’m so fucking tired of holding my kids closer when I next see them, knowing other parents will never get to hold their kid again all because access to firearms above all.

Children died, living out their last moments in pure terror the likes of which no person should ever have to experience. And a wicked nation held captive by an extremist minority condemns children to this hateful fate and over and over again.

Just Sunday, after a lacrosse game and a trip to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard and Home Depot for some flowers, my 12-year-old said to me, “Did you ever think how stupid active shooter drills are because the shooter is probably there just learning where everyone hides?” And no…

How are we supposed to work today?

I just told my 8 year-old about the slaughter of 19 children and 2 adults IN THEIR SCHOOL. She expressed no shock, only asked what happened to everyone else. I am now convinced we are in hell.

Heartbreaking.

I don’t tweet much so when I do you know I’m moved! This is a LONG time coming and I’ve never been more proud to be a graduate of School of Nursing Cannot wait to see (& support) @mclemoremr in her work as Interim Director of the UW center for Antiracism in Nursing nursing.uw.edu/article/announ…

Problems with the #MinorityStressModel - calm and peaceful isn’t the baseline state. “Babies are born screaming!” We are calmed by connection & social safety - Lisa Diamond, PhD #lgbtqhealthconf

As a person who came out in small town Kentucky circa 1997, the acknowledgment of the physical wear and tear of the uncertainty of safety and inclusion is profoundly resonate. Thank you, Lisa Diamond, PhD and #lgbtqhealthconf

Get yourself some friends like @_karmacap and @KMNelsonPhD. Pro-tip on friendship: make it 💯 mandatory. 💕

Ridiculously excited to receive our National Academies Committee’s report on #equity in #clinicaltrials This work is already having significant impact. Many thanks to our amazing co-chairs, Alex Helman and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Procrasticleaning. It’s what I do. What’s your strategy?

WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU COME OUT WITH THIS STATEMENT NOW