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Jul 16, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/15/2021
Today Americans began to see the concrete effects of the American Rescue Plan show up in their bank accounts, as the expanded child tax credit goes into effect for one year. Through this program, the Child Tax Credit increased to $3,000 per child aged 6 to 17 and $3,600 per child under 6. All working families will get the full credit if they make up to $150,000 for a couple or $112,500 for a family with a single parent. The government sent payments for almost 60 million children on Thursday, ...
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News & Links
Jul 15, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/14/2021
Yesterday, news broke that, under pressure from Republican leaders, Republican-dominated Tennessee will no longer conduct vaccine outreach for minors. Only 38% of people in Tennessee are vaccinated, and yet the state Department of Health will no longer reach out to urge minors to get vaccinated. This change affects not only vaccines for the coronavirus, but also all other routine vaccines. On Monday, Tennessee’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tim Jones sent an email to staff saying there should...
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Trump Pinata
Jul 14, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
It has been quite a while since I welcomed new members. Despite Dumpsterfire Donnie being demoted back to Mar A Lago he is still in the headlines and we're still growing. We're still relevant. I'm not sure if I should celebrate or mourn, but here we ...
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Trump Pinata
Jul 14, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKPro-Trump pastor: God is going to ‘begin killing wicked men and women’ who opposed Trump – DeadState
Well, if his god is real, then none of us have much time left. I don't plan on losing any sleep over this.
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News & Links
Jul 14, 2021Jul 2021

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LINK3 Senate Democrats draft plan to end federal ban on marijuana
Three top Senate Democrats have a draft plan to end the federal ban on cannabis and implement a series of programs to help communities that have been harmed by the war on drugs, which have disproportionately tended to be communities of color. Senators Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Cory Booker of New Jersey announced the reforms early Wednesday. The reforms come as the public has increasingly supported marijuana legalization over the past few years. "This is...
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News & Links
Jul 14, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKMoon wobble to bring surge in coastal flooding in 2030s, NASA study predicts - CNN
This makes me really happy to be living in landlocked Nebraska. If you own property along a coast... you've been warned. Coastal communities in the United States, be forewarned. A "dramatic" surge in high-tide floods is just over a decade away in the US, according to NASA. The rapid increase will start in the mid-2030s, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by the climate crisis, found a new study led by the members of the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team from the ...
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News & Links
Jul 14, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/13/2021
“Are you on the side of truth or lies; fact or fiction; justice or injustice; democracy or autocracy?” In a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia today, President Joe Biden asked his audience to take a stand as he called defending the right to vote in America, “a test of our time.” Biden explained that the 2020 election has been examined and reexamined and that “no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny and such high standards.” The Big Lie ...
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News & Links
Jul 14, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKPrivate National Guard Field Trips To The Border May Be Useless But At Least They’re Also A Constitutional Crisis! | Above the Law
The federal government is telling South Dakota to send another 125 National Guard troops to the Mexican border. I’m sure that’ll do it. Nothing plugs up a thousand miles of land like 125 people! But this latest request feels like the federal government throwing South Dakota a lifeline to avoid confronting the constitutional crisis ginned up by the governor in recent weeks. Media coverage of South Dakota’s border hijinks over the past few days frame everything within the context of ...
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Jul 13, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/12/2021
Today’s news all centered around the Big Lie that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Yesterday, Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where the audience cheered through his meandering speech, in which he insisted that he won the 2020 election. “The entire system was rigged against the American people and rigged against a fair, decent and honest election,” he said. CNN’s Daniel Dale, who has fact-checked Trump’s speeches for years, ...
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News & Links
Jul 12, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/11/2021
On Friday, as President Joe Biden signed “An Executive Order Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” he echoed the language of his predecessors. “ompetition keeps the economy moving and keeps it growing,” he said. “Fair competition is why capitalism has been the world’s greatest force for prosperity and growth…. But what we’ve seen over the past few decades is less competition and more concentration that holds our economy back.” Biden listed how prescription ...
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News & Links
Jul 11, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKGOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger Says Insane Republican Party Is Crashing And Burning
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) called his party’s anti-vaccine stance insane, claimed that it will get Americans killed, and the GOP is crashing and burning. Rep. Kinzinger said on CNN’s State Of The Union: It’s absolute insanity. What President Biden said and maybe he could have said it slightly different was, we’re willing to come to your house to give you the vaccine. At no point was anybody saying they’re going to break down your door and jam a vaccine in your arm despite your ...
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Posts
Jul 10, 2021Jul 2021

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Vivianmorgan I wouldn't have found her if she hadn't visited my profile. She's young and chesty. She does not pop on Tin Eye. No bio. Not many details. I think she bears watching.
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Watchers
Jul 10, 2021Jul 2021

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Vivianmorgan I wouldn't have found her if she hadn't visited my profile. She's young and chesty. She does not pop on Tin Eye. No bio. Not many details. Bears watching I think.
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News & Links
Jul 10, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/09/2021
On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S. Constitution for the fourteenth time, adapting our foundational document to construct a new nation without systematic Black enslavement. In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution had prohibited slavery on the basis of race, but it did not prevent the establishment of a system in which Black Americans continued to be unequal. Backed by President Andrew Johnson, who had taken over the presidency after an actor had murdered President ...
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Watchers
Jul 10, 2021Jul 2021

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BeckyN Believer and god botherer. She is selling herself really hard. Provocative photos. She joined today. I see a scammer.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 9, 2021Jul 2021

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By Paolo Marini Noam Chomsky, one of the most important intellectuals in life today, has drawn up the list of media manipulation strategies. Give 5 minutes and you won't regret it. If only to expand your knowledge. 1-The strategy of distraction ...
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News & Links
Jul 9, 2021Jul 2021

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Sticking it to the libs
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News & Links
Jul 9, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKWhy Toyota's reversal on Republican financial support matters
Toyota faced a backlash after its PAC sent checks to anti-election Republicans. Under intensifying pressure, the automaker caved. More than half the House Republican conference voted against certifying President Biden's election victory in January, prompting many corporate PACs to curtail support for the anti-election lawmakers. There were, however, some notable exceptions. In fact, Toyota's corporate PAC stood out as unique: Relying on data from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jul 9, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
ATTORNEY'S ADVICE - NO CHARGE Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it someday. Maybe we should all take some of his advice! A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company: 1. Do not sign ...
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News & Links
Jul 9, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/08/2021
Today, President Joe Biden announced that the military mission of the United States in Afghanistan will end on August 31. We have been in that country for almost 20 years and have lost 2448 troops and personnel. Another 20,722 Americans have been wounded. Estimates of civilian deaths range from 35,000 to 40,000. The mission has cost more than a trillion dollars. Leaving Afghanistan brings up just how much the world has changed in the past two decades. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan a month ...
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Posts
Jul 8, 2021Jul 2021

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Erlinda_Parker Scammer, ya think. Apparently she messaged a 67yo female member and asked about meds she takes, for her phone number, and "if we can be friends!". She has her phone number in her bio. Level 3 already, posted lots today....
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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here
Jul 8, 2021Jul 2021

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Erlinda_Parker Scammer, ya think. Apparently she messaged a 67yo female member and asked about meds she takes, for her phone number, and "if we can be friends!". She has her phone number in her bio. Level 3 already, posted lots ...
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News & Links
Jul 8, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKHighest murder rates in the U.S. - The most deadly cities - CBS News
St Louis tops the list. Is your city on the list?
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News & Links
Jul 8, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/07/2021
Last week, the Bullock Texas State History Museum cancelled a book event three and a half hours before it was supposed to start. Written by journalists Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, the book is titled Forget the Alamo, and, according to historian H. W. Brands, who reviewed the book for the Washington Post, it both introduces the story of the Alamo to readers unfamiliar with it and explains how the story has been interpreted since the 1836 battle occurred, using the ways in...
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News & Links
Jul 7, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKEducation Dept. Hires Toby Merrill, Expert Cited by Elizabeth Warren
Biden's Education Dept. just hired Elizabeth Warren's student-loans expert, who studied predatory lending at Harvard A new hire at the Education Department is another in the growing number of experts who have fought alongside Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to reform the student-loan debt system. Toby Merrill, founder of the Project of Predatory Student Lending at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, was hired as the Education Department's Deputy General Counsel in ...
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News & Links
Jul 7, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKI'm A Person Of Faith, And Hobby Lobby's Latest Stunt Fills Me With Rage
Hobby Lobby has the Xians pissed off, that makes me happy. HL suck$. I haven't shopped there in years, and I used to spend the bucks in their fabric department. From the article: In case you haven’t been following along, Hobby Lobby is absolute trash. They’ve been trash for a while, but their latest antics should have every American calling out their undemocratic, hateful b.s. once and for all. I don’t care how much you love to decoupage or how plentiful their supply of ...
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News & Links
Jul 7, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKCurmudgeons or not, atheists like those of other faiths more than Christians do, study finds
A new study found that, while Christians look down on atheists, atheists have positive views of religious folks. David Speed does not worship Satan — a fact that helped win over his wife-to-be early in their relationship. On one of their first dates, Speed’s wife, who grew up Anglican, asked him what faith he belonged to. When Speed replied that he was an atheist, she pressed for details. “So you worship Satan?” he recalls her asking. “We still laugh about it,” said ...
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News & Links
Jul 7, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/06/2021
Six months ago today, rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, intending to stop the counting of the certified ballots that would make Joseph R. Biden president and Kamala Harris vice president. This attack was unprecedented. It broke our nation’s long history of the peaceful transfer of power. You know the story of that day. Former president Donald Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, insisting that he had lost only because the election had been “stolen” from...
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News & Links
Jul 6, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKWith his business indicted, Trump says a bit too much about taxes
After his business was indicted on tax fraud charges, Trump headlined a rally and said more than he should have about the charges. He just can't stop talking... Throughout his political career, Donald Trump has claimed to have an encyclopedic understanding of many subjects, but the Republican is especially proud of his tax-policy expertise. "I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world," Trump told voters in May 2016. He added five months later, "I ...
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News & Links
Jul 6, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKIceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter work week. The results will (not) shock you.
From 2015 to 2019, Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter working week. An analysis of the results was finally published this week, and surprise! Everyone was happier, healthier, and more productive. Please pretend to be surprised. The report was jointly prepared by the Association for Sustainability and Democracy (Alda) in Iceland and UK think tank Autonomy, who note that Iceland's experiment could be used as a blueprint for future trials around the world. "This study shows ...
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News & Links
Jul 6, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/05/2021
Last night, in a speech to honor Independence Day, President Joe Biden used his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic to defend democracy. Biden urged people to remember where we were just a year ago, and to “think about how far we’ve come.” “From… silent streets to crowded parade routes lined with people waving American flags; from empty stadiums and arenas to fans back to their seats cheering together again; from families pressing hands against a window to ...
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News & Links
Jul 5, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKFranklin Graham: Celebrating Pride Month is like ‘setting a month aside to celebrate murder’ – DeadState
I feel sorry for Franklin. He's passe and hasn't figured it out yet.
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News & Links
Jul 5, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKColo. school district stops bible distribution due to FFRF - Freedom From Religion Foundation
Expressing due appreciation for the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Colorado school district has ended a church’s unencumbered access to a local school. A concerned Eagle County Schools community member had informed FFRF that Redeemer Eagle Valley, a Christian church that rents facilities from Brush Creek Elementary School, was advertising and distributing bibles to Brush Creek Elementary School students. The church had a display up during school-sponsored summer school that included a ...
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News & Links
Jul 5, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKSouth Africa's Multiple Husbands Proposal Sparks Conservative Outrage! - YouTube
The South African government’s proposal to legalize polyandry has led to howls of protest from conservatives. In polyandry, the woman often initiates the relationships and has the power to remove a co-husband if he is found to be engaging in infidelity. Profesor Collis Machoko, a renowned academic on African societies and researcher of polyandry, has mentioned that Africans are “unwilling to accept true equality.” He added that African men do not know what to do with women they cannot ...
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News & Links
Jul 5, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKVatican indicts 10 people, including a cardinal, over an international financial scandal - CNN
The Vatican shows what it truly values. Children being abused by priests? Who cares? Money being mismanaged? RED ALERT RED ALERT
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Love & Relationships
Jul 5, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKBlackbird (Remastered 2009) - YouTube
Are you familiar with the song “Blackbird” by The Beatles? Most of us are. I had no idea the meaning behind it. I will never play it or listen to it the same way again 💔 Thanks for sharing, Doug. “Paul McCartney was visiting America. It is said that he was sitting, resting, when he heard a woman screaming. He looked up to see a black woman being surrounded by the police. The police had her handcuffed, and were beating her. He thought the woman had committed a terrible crime. He found ...
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News & Links
Jul 4, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/03/2021 Happy Independence Day!
And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." For all the fact that the congressmen got around the sticky problem of Black and Indigenous enslavement by defining "men" as "white men," and for all that it never crossed their ...
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Feline Fanatics
Jul 3, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
This is a possibility I try hard to avoid in my house. Yarn is generally kept away from the kitties.
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News & Links
Jul 3, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKAtheists, humanists sue Miss. over fee for Godless license plate | Gephardt Daily
July 2 (UPI) — Atheists and humanists, saying they object to being “a mouthpiece for the government’s preferred message,” are suing Mississippi over the lack of a no-extra-cost alternative to its standard license plate, which includes the phrase “In God We Trust.” To get a design without a mention of God, a vehicle owner must pay an additional fee for one of the state’s specialty plates, such as I Care For Animals and Dyslexia Awareness. The cost for most specialty plates is an ...
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News & Links
Jul 3, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/02/2021
Today news broke that Anthony Aguero, who was in the Capitol on January 6 and who is close to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), joined Republican members of the right-wing Republican Study Committee when they traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday night. Aguero interviewed, chatted with, translated for, and gave a ride to one of the lawmakers, there. Those included Representatives Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Thomas Tiffany (R-WI), ...
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News & Links
Jul 2, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKMore Churches Up in Flames in Canada as Outrage Against Catholic Church Grows
The incidents occur amid ongoing reports of more than 1,000 unmarked graves of Indigenous children found at former residential schools, with the latest site announced in B.C. on Wednesday. Another two Catholic Churches have been torched in Canada, as more Indigenous Nations have confirmed unmarked graves at residential school sites that likely hold the remains of Indigenous children. At 3 a.m. on Wednesday, firefighters were called to a century-old Roman Catholic church just north of ...
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News & Links
Jul 2, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/01/2021
Today, by a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court handed down Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee saying that the state of Arizona did not violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) with laws that limited ballot delivery to voters, family members, or caregivers, or when it required election officials to throw out ballots that voters had cast in the wrong precincts by accident. The fact that voting restrictions affect racial or ethnic groups differently does not make them illegal, Justice Samuel...
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News & Links
Jul 1, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/30/2021
Yesterday, by a vote of 285 to 120, the House of Representatives voted to remove the statues of Confederates from the U.S. Capitol. While 67 Republicans voted in favor of the measure, 120 did not. Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), who told the insurrectionists on January 6 before they stormed the Capitol “"Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass," issued a statement titled: “CONGRESSMAN MO BROOKS DEFENDS STATES' RIGHTS, RIPS INTOLERANT SOCIALISTS WHO SEEK TO...
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News & Links
Jun 30, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/29/2021
Last week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis became the latest Republican governor to sign a bill making it harder for citizens to shift away from the fossil fuels that are changing the climate. The move came after Miami, which is in danger as sea levels rise, proposed cutting carbon emissions by banning natural gas infrastructure in new buildings. The bill was written by lawyers for utility companies, based on a pattern written by the American Gas Association. Lobbyists for the Florida Petroleum ...
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News & Links
Jun 29, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/28/2021
This evening, President Joe Biden published an op-ed in Yahoo News about the infrastructure bill now moving forward on its way to Congress. He called the measure “a once-in-a-generation investment to modernize our infrastructure” and claimed it would “create millions of good-paying jobs and position America to compete with the world and win the 21st century.” The measure will provide money to repair roads and bridges, replace the lead pipes that still provide water to as many as 10 ...
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News & Links
Jun 28, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKPaula Stone Williams: I've lived as a man and as a woman — here's what I've learned | TED Talk
Wonderful talk!
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News & Links
Jun 28, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/27/2021
The big news today was a series of interviews that former attorney general William Barr did with Jonathan D. Karl of The Atlantic, in which Barr emphasized that former president Trump’s claims that he had won the 2020 election were “bullshit.” What is interesting about this is not the idea that Barr stood against Trump’s claims of a win. In fact, shortly after the election, Barr fed the Big Lie. A week after the 2020 election, he overturned Justice Department policy to investigate ...
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Trump Pinata
Jun 27, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
This is attributed to Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse.
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News & Links
Jun 27, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKPat Robertson Lies About Critical Race Theory, Then Calls It a “Monstrous Evil” | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
It is theoretically possible for televangelist Pat Roberson to say he just doesn't understand "Critical Race Theory." But that's not like him. So instead, on Thursday, he offered a false explanation of it before declaring it is "a monstrous evil."
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News & Links
Jun 26, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKThe Great Resignation: Why Millions of Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs : NPR
Work is no longer just about paying the bills. If I have to work, I'd much rather WFH. I love not commuting.
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Singles/Mingle/Chat
Jun 26, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKTerri Conley: We need to rethink casual sex | TED Talk
Fascinating discussion.
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News & Links
Jun 26, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/25/2021
Lots of legal news today. In Minnesota, Judge Peter Cahill sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May 2020. Last April, a jury convicted Chauvin of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Floyd’s death sparked protests across the country last summer. Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, noted that Chavin was going to get at least ten ...
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News & Links
Jun 25, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/24/2021
Shortly after noon today, President Biden announced to reporters, “We have a deal.” After weeks of negotiations, a bipartisan group of 5 Democratic and 5 Republican senators have agreed to a blueprint for an infrastructure bill with $973 billion in spending, $579 billion of it new. If 5 more Republicans sign on—and if all the Democrats vote yes—this bill can overcome any filibusters thrown in its path. In this case, progressive Democrats are as much a sticking point as Republicans, ...
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Uncommon words and their meanings.
Jun 24, 2021Jun 2021

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QUOCKWODGER New one for me!
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News & Links
Jun 24, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/23/2021
When voters elected Democrats to take charge of the national government in 2020—despite the efforts of some Trump supporters to stop that from happening—Republican lawmakers built on the anger the former president had whipped up among his supporters to impose a Trumpian vision on their states. They reworked election laws to solidify their hold on their state governments. According to the nonpartisan Voting Rights Lab, so far 18 states have put in place more than 30 laws restricting access...
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News & Links
Jun 23, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/22/2021
There were three important takeaways from today’s Senate vote on whether to begin debate on S1, the For the People Act, the bill that would protect voting rights, end partisan gerrymandering, establish new ethics rules for federal officials, and curb big money in politics. The first is that Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted with the rest of the Democrats to move the measure forward. This means that he is confident that his compromise ideas will be inserted into the final bill and that the ...
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News & Links
Jun 22, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKYouth Pastor Arrested for Voyeurism After Teen Boy Spots Camera Hidden in Church Restroom
I'm telling ya, xian youth pastors are NOT to be trusted. A youth pastor in Florida has been arrested after a teenage boy found a surveillance camera in the bathroom of his church. David Patrick Nims, 37, was charged with one count of video voyeurism by a person 18 or older, who is responsible for the welfare of a child younger than 16. The charge is a second-degree felony. The charge can have the maximum sentencing of 15 years in prison, an additional 15 years of sex offender probation ...
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News & Links
Jun 22, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/21/2021
Lawmakers today are jockeying before tomorrow’s test vote in the Senate on S1, the For the People Act. This is a sweeping bill that protects the right to vote, ends partisan gerrymandering, limits the influence of money in politics, and establishes new ethics rules for presidents and other federal officeholders. Passing election reform is a priority for Democrats, since Republican-dominated legislatures across the country have gerrymandered states to make it almost impossible for Democrats ...
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Bookwurmz
Jun 21, 2021Jun 2021

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I belong to a Humanist Book Club, and we have just started this book. The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel And I found a video of Michael Sandel explaining the book. Good viewing.
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Feline Fanatics
Jun 20, 2021Jun 2021

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Do you recognize this fruit?
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News & Links
Jun 20, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/19/2021
Yesterday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, made good on his threat to defund the legislature after Democrats walked out on May 30 in order to deny the Republicans the number of people they needed to hold a vote on a bill that dramatically reworked Texas elections. In part, Abbott is likely trying to distract Texans from yet another crisis in the state’s independent energy grid, operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Four months ago, the electric grid failed...
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News & Links
Jun 19, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKInvestment firms like Blackrock are buying affordable homes in growing areas.
The median price of an American house has increased by 28 percent over the last two years, as pandemic-driven demand and long-term demographic changes send buyers into crazed bidding wars. Might the fact that corporate investors snapped up 15 percent of U.S. homes for sale in the first quarter of this year have something to do with it? The Wall Street Journal reported in April that an investment firm won a bidding war to purchase an entire neighborhood worth of single-family homes in Conroe, ...
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Feline Fanatics
Jun 19, 2021Jun 2021

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National Geographic: Photography and Photos of the Day This picture is amazing!
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News & Links
Jun 18, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKDeep-rooted racism, discrimination permeate US military
For Stephanie Davis, who grew up with little, the military was a path to the American dream, a realm where everyone would receive equal treatment. She joined the service in 1988 after finishing high school in Thomasville, Georgia, a small town said to be named for a soldier who fought in the War of 1812. Over the course of decades, she steadily advanced, becoming a flight surgeon, commander of flight medicine at Fairchild Air Force Base and, eventually, a lieutenant colonel. But many of ...
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News & Links
Jun 18, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 006/17/2021
Early in the morning on this date in 1972, Frank Wills, a 24-year-old security guard at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C., noticed that a door lock had been wedged open. He closed the door, but when he went on the next round, he found the door wedged open again. He called the police, who found five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in the building. And so it began. I’m not going to write about that story tonight. I just think it’s cool....
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News & Links
Jun 17, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/16/2021
The big story today is the meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland. The event was carefully choreographed and left neither of them humiliated the way former president Trump was on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland, where he took Putin’s word over that of U.S. intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election (Trump’s Russia advisor Fiona Hill said recently she was so appalled during the joint press conference with Trump and ...
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News & Links
Jun 16, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKA Lesson on Critical Race Theory
Have you been hearing about CRT lately? In September 2020, President Trump issued an executive order excluding from federal contracts any diversity and inclusion training interpreted as containing “Divisive Concepts,” “Race or Sex Stereotyping,” and “Race or Sex Scapegoating.” Among the content considered “divisive” is Critical Race Theory (CRT). In response, the African American Policy Forum, led by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, launched the TruthBeTold campaign to ...
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News & Links
Jun 16, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKBarack Obama: Women have found themselves “in an impossible situation”
The 19th was recently invited to interview President Barack Obama around a series of themes tied to his new biography, “A Promised Land,” published shortly after the 2020 election. Editor-at-Large Errin Haines engaged him on topics including voting rights, systemic racism, the pandemic and the women in his life. Below are his written responses, chosen from several questions The 19th submitted in writing. Errin Haines: The pandemic has been economically devastating for women, ...
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Jun 16, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/15/2021
This morning, the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a series of emails and documents that show just how hard former president Trump worked to overturn the 2020 election and retain an illegal grip on power. On December 14, 2020, which was the day electors in each state certified the votes of the Electoral College, then-president Trump’s assistant wrote an email to then–Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen talking about alleged voter fraud in Michigan. The email was ...
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Jun 15, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/14/2021
Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told radio personality Hugh Hewitt that it is “highly unlikely” that he would permit President Biden to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court if the Republicans win control of the Senate in 2022. While it seems certain that, if returned to his leadership role in the Senate, McConnell would block any Biden nominee, the fact he said it right now suggests that he is hoping to keep evangelical voters firmly in the Republican camp. In 2016, ...
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Jun 14, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/13/2021
President Joe Biden is currently in England, participating in a meeting of the G7, an informal group of wealthy democracies including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Today, the participants issued a statement reinforcing their shared commitment to “democracy, freedom, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights to answer the biggest questions and overcome the greatest challenges.” They promised to value individuals and promote ...
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Jun 13, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKDarnella Frazier, teen who filmed George Floyd’s murder, wins honorary Pulitzer
Frazier was honored with a special citation for her video, which “spurred protests against police brutality around the world.” Darnella Frazier, the teenage girl who whipped out her cell phone and recorded the police murder of George Floyd last summer, a video that rocked the nation, has received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her courage. Frazier, now 18, was honored with a special citation for her video, which “spurred protests against police brutality around the world.” She ...
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Jun 13, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKFL Pastor Arrested for Hiding Camera in Bathroom in Church’s Youth Hallway | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
Okay, is there some sort of epidemic lately of pastors hiding cameras in church bathrooms in order to spy on people?
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Jun 13, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/12/2021
Yesterday, David Ignatius had a piece in the Washington Post that uncovered the attempt of the Trump administration to reorder the Middle East along an axis anchored by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudia Arabia (more popularly known as MBS), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, and Jared Kushner of the U.S. To make the deal, the leaders involved apparently wanted to muscle Jordan out of its role as the custodian of Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, a role carved ...
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Jun 12, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKChicago police officer charged in January 6 attack on US Capitol
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago police officer has been charged in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a federal complaint. Federal agents said Officer Karol Chwiesiuk stormed the Capitol with thousands of others on January 6, 2021. The 11th District officer was named in a federal criminal complaint and the subject of biting comments from the mayor and police superintendent. The 29-year-old officer has been removed from duty. "The fact that a Chicago police officer has ...
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Jun 11, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKThis Is the Worst Anti-Evolution Argument a Creationist Has Ever Made - YouTube
Good stuff!
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Jun 11, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/10/2021
You might have noticed that I wrote through the weekend rather than posting a photo on Saturday, thinking that I was sort of banking time and I would take a break during the week. Well, today was my day. Lots of ongoing stories but nothing big. Went to dinner with my brother and sister-in-law (going to be their 40th this year!) and thought to call it an early night. You know where this is going, right? Came home and opened Twitter. Katie Benner, Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt, and ...
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Jun 10, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKThe latest bipartisan talks to collapse: background checks
It was about three months ago when the Democratic-led House passed a pair of gun reforms, including a bill called the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, would require background checks on practically all firearm purchases. It passed 227 to 203, with eight Republicans breaking ranks and supporting the legislation. The response from the political world was muted, and it was easy to understand why. Sure, the bill would likely make a difference. And sure, it's popular. And sure, President Biden ...
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Jun 10, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/09/2021
Today, President and Dr. Biden left for their first trip abroad since he took office. In the next eight days, President Biden will meet with U.S. allies in Europe before meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16. “We’re going to make it clear that the United States is back,” Biden said. “And democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and the issues that matter most to our future.” Biden is the most experienced president in foreign...
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Uncommon words and their meanings.
Jun 9, 2021Jun 2021

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ESCHEATABLE: a. Reversion of property to the state in the absence of legal heirs or claimants. b. Property that has reverted to the state when no legal heirs or claimants exist. How long before a bank account is Escheated? Between one and five ...
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Jun 9, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/08/2021
After Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced this weekend that he would not support either the For the People voting act or an attempt to break the filibuster for a voting measure, but would work to get bipartisan agreement on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, today Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled the rug out from under him. McConnell said today that restoring the provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that protect minority voting would give too much power to the federal ...
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Jun 9, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKtelling an interviewer God said this is the right job for you -- Ask a Manager
I read Ask A Manager every day, and this one caught my attention. If I were the hiring manager I'd have passed over that one too.
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Jun 8, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKMassive outage takes websites, including Amazon and major news sites, offline BBC, Bloomberg News, CNN, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New York Times and Reddit were affected.
Stuff that happens while I'm sleeping! Websites around the world, including major news sites, Amazon and the United Kingdom's government page, were temporarily down during a massive outage early Tuesday. Fastly, an American cloud computing services provider, said it began investigating the issue about 5:58 a.m. ET on its status page. The company, which provides content delivery services to many websites, provided an update an hour later. "A fix has been applied," Fastly said. ...
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Jun 8, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/07/2021
Complaining that “the fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized,” Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) published an op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail yesterday saying that he would vote against S1, the For the People Act, arguing that protecting the right to vote should “never be done in a partisan manner.” Because Republicans do not support federal voting rights, he says, passing such a measure would “all but ensure partisan divisions continue to deepen.” Critics ...
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Jun 7, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKU.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999.
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Jun 7, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/06/2021
Saturday evening, just in time for the anniversary of D-Day today, President Joe Biden published an op-ed in the Washington Post explaining that his upcoming trip to Europe is part of a larger defense of democracy. This week, Biden will be meeting with the Group of Seven—also known as the G7—an informal organization of wealthy democracies including Canada, Japan, Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. He will meet with leaders of the European Union and with allies in ...
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Jun 6, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/05/2021
Today, Katie Benner of the New York Times broke the story that former president Trump tried to use the Department of Justice to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Five emails provided to Congress show Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, asking the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, in December, to investigate rumors of voter fraud. One of the fantastical stories Meadows wanted investigated was the story that “people in Italy had used military technology and ...
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john10 God Botherer. His bio seems normal enough: I'm looking for that special somone. Not looking for casual ! Please read profile carefully. I want kids . If your profile says "casual dating or dating nothing serious " please pass...
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john10 God Botherer. His bio seems normal enough: I'm looking for that special somone. Not looking for casual ! Please read profile carefully. I want kids . If your profile says "casual dating or dating nothing serious " please pass...
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LINKLetters From An American 06/04/2021
Today, Facebook officials announced that they would continue former president Trump’s suspension for at least two years from his February 7 suspension, when he continued to praise the mob in the wake of the January 6 insurrection. After two years, the company will reassess his ban, deciding “whether the risk to public safety has receded.” Facebook promised that it would begin holding political figures to common standards for hate speech, rather than giving them a pass on the grounds their ...
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Jun 4, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKHouston mom tries to shoot loose puppy, accidentally hits 5-year-old son, police say | WGN-TV
OMG, I am glad I DON'T live in Texas. HOUSTON (NEXSTAR) — A Texas has been charged after police say she accidentally shot her 5-year- while firing multiple times at a puppy running loose in a Houston neighborhood over the weekend. Angelia Mia Vargas, 24, is charged with deadly conduct and discharge of a78 firearm in the Saturday afternoon incident. Around 2: p.m., Vargas tried to shoot a loose running near 700 Dunham Road, firing three shots with a small caliber pistol, according ...
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ChrisMorgan Too cute to be true, especially for someone messaging me. His bio has grammar errors: Name is Chris Morgan,I like a good laughs,tequila,weekend away,work out ,spontaneity and dinner ,Low and laid back.i love reading and...
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Jun 4, 2021Jun 2021

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ChrisMorgan Too cute to be true, especially for someone messaging me. His bio has grammar errors: Name is Chris Morgan,I like a good laughs,tequila,weekend away,work out ,spontaneity and dinner ,Low and laid back.i love reading and...
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Jun 4, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/03/2021
Ten days after he was taken from a plane diverted to Minsk by autocrat Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, 26-year-old opposition journalist Roman Protasevich appeared on state television. Visibly injured, Protasevich praised Lukashenko and parroted his government’s story that protests are backed by the West. He disavowed his past opposition and confessed to organizing “mass unrest.” By the end of the interview, he was crying. “I never want to get into politics again. I want to hope ...
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Jun 3, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/02/2021
The big story today is that in Israel, a coalition of eight very different parties has come together to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power after 12 years. Netanyahu, who was a close ally of former president Trump, is currently on trial for fraud, bribery, and breach of trust while in office. For the first time, the coalition that will replace him includes a party that represents Palestinian citizens of Israel. According to the deal, hardliner Naftali Bennett will serve as prime ...
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Jun 2, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 06/01/2021
Today, more than 100 scholars who study democracy issued a letter warning that “our entire democracy is now at risk.” The letter explains that the new election laws in Republican-led states, passed with the justification that they will make elections safer, in fact are turning “several states into political systems that no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections.” If we permit the breakdown of democracy, it will be a very long time before we can reverse the ...
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Jun 1, 2021Jun 2021

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My kitty girls are napping on my newest quilt as I am working just a few feet away.
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Jun 1, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKFake news study: Most Americans can't spot fake news, study finds | CNN
As many as three in four Americans overestimate their ability to spot false headlines -- and the worse they are at it, the more likely they are to share fake news, researchers reported Monday. The study of surveys involving 8,200 people, which published in in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also showed Republicans are more likely to fall for fake news than Democrats are. The team, led by Ben Lyons, a professor of communications at the University of Utah, showed study ...
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Jun 1, 2021Jun 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/31/2021
President Joe Biden spoke at Arlington National Cemetery today to remember those who gave the “last full measure of devotion” to the United States, dying in our service. His speech was a full-throated defense of the cause for which those soldiers gave their lives: democracy. “Democracy is more than a form of government,” Biden said. “It’s a way of being; it’s a way of seeing the world. Democracy means the rule of the people—the rule of the people. Not the rule of monarchs, ...
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Natasha22 Potential new scammer. This is one of her first posts: She is very proud of her rack, it features in ever photo she posted. Oy, mama got jugs. Has not written a bio yet. Not much to go on besides the jugs.
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"Sister Quilt" made for daughter. 3 quilts made at the same time, all the same fabrics and same type of blocks, just different layout and different color bindings. Completed 2018
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Quilt on my bed made 2016. Wall painted ombre shades of pink, also in 2016
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"Sister Quilt" made for daughter. 3 quilts made at the same time, all the same fabrics and same type of blocks, just different layout and different color bindings. Completed 2018
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This is the current male love of my life, he's 8 months old and soon will call me Grammy.
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January 13, 2021 My newest and smallest grandchild. She arrived 5 weeks early and is now 2.5 weeks old and is less than 7 pounds. I've never held such a small baby before. She is quite perfect and very amazing. I love being a Grammy.
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