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Tidbit from a piece I did some years ago:
#TaylorSwift began her philanthropy at 16. At 17 she donated $100k to help secure gay marriage rights against CA's terrible #Prop8. Michelle Obama honored her twice at the WH for her dedication to literacy.
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#TaylorSwift has given millions to disaster relief in the US and elsewhere, to climate issues, to textbooks for under-funded schools. She has donated close to 100k books to schools, libraries and children's hospitals.
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#TaylorSwift has given millions to #AIDS research, #FeedingAmerica, #UNICEF Tap Project, MusiCares. She has donated $25k to St. Jude's, $50k to Philly Children's hospital, $100k to cancer research. She has donated to myriad #LGBTQ rights organizations.
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Next up — our home-state senator @KamalaHarris! #EqualityTownHall #PowerOfOurPride
.@KamalaHarris sharing her story of the ‘Winter of Love’ weddings she performed back in 2004 always gets me. 🥰 #EqualityTownHall #PowerOfOurPride
.@KamalaHarris on #Prop8 fight: “Any one day in the life of someone who is denied justice is a very long time.” #EqualityTownHall #PowerOfOurPride
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Tomorrow is my last day in the @BuzzFeed office — something that is still hard to say! Here’s a little photo trip through some of the most amazing memories I made and history I saw during my seven years with @BuzzFeedNews (even before there was a BuzzFeed News)! #tbt
Edie Windsor! What an incredible woman. I’m so privileged that I got to know this woman — and her similarly get-it-done lawyer @kaplanrobbie. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Covering #Prop8 was a journey that began when I was writing at Law Dork in Columbus, Ohio, and continued through my time at Metro Weekly and into my time at BuzzFeed. The plaintiffs—Kris, Sandy, Jeff, and Paul—were, like all of the marriage plaintiffs, so full of stories to tell.
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Californians, are you totally confused by all these propositions you're voting on in #Election2018? It's a lot of information. So we put together 1-minute video explainers on each measure to help you better understand the props.
#Prop1: The affordable housing bond
#Prop2: Mental health money for housing
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