"Midterms. Midterms." -- Who I'm voting for

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The voice I keep hearing in my head these days belongs to a high school girl. “Midterms,” she is saying. “Midterms. Midterms.”

This girl was not fretting about exams, the way we used to do in high school. She was afraid of getting killed, and she was talking, urgently, about elections.
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The students sat on a stage at the Cambridge Public Library, talking about terror and rage in a way that was all the more powerful for being utterly poised, logical, and purposeful. “The reality is that children are dying in our schools, and that’s not a normal thing,” one student said.

“This is going to keep happening until we implement common-sense gun laws,” said another. “Our legislators need to know that they work for us.” - Boston Globe