memeorandum: Next Slide — “We were like this is unreal, this is unbelievable,” McCord said. (Knoxville News-Sentinel)

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Starting January 20, Donald Trump Can Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages to the Entire Nation — You've probably, at some point, gotten a text alert on your phone about some nasty weather, an Amber Alert about a missing child, or even a (very poorly worded) alert about police looking for a criminal.

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Knoxville News-Sentinel:

Next Slide — “We were like this is unreal, this is unbelievable,” McCord said. “When we had both fully read it, we looked at each other — and I will never forget this moment — we both burst into tears. I was ghost white, and we just prayed. There was nothing else to do.

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