Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue – Deuteronomy 16:18 In the wake of the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, a lot of people in a lot of places are expressing that they wish he’d gotten the maximum. That if he was black or brown or Muslim he wouldn’t have gotten less than the maximum. While I understand …
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Senator Schumer Tells the World What Is Going To Happen Today and This Week: SPOILER!!! It Is Not Voting On The For the People Act!
Senator Schumer made remarks on the Senate floor yesterday afternoon. In those remarks he explained what business he would bring before the Senate this week (emphasis mine): But tomorrow—tomorrow—the Senate will also take a crucial vote tomorrow on whether to start debate on major voting rights legislation. I want to say that again. Tomorrow, the Senate …
Just a Follow Up To MisterMix’s Earlier Post: The US Conference of Catholic Bishops Have Advanced Their Communion Plan
Just a quick follow up to MisterMix’s earlier post, The NY Times has reported that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has voted to advance their plan to draft guidance on which public figures can and cannot receive communion based on their political positions. Specifically whether they do or do not support female reproductive rights, doing …
NATO Did Not Agree to Admit Ukraine Yesterday
A whole lot of people got really excited yesterday after some reporters mistakenly reported that NATO had agreed to admit Ukraine. The bottom line is that the English language tweet by Ukrainian President Zelensky about Ukraine and NATO, while accurate, was confusing if you do not understand some of the technical details regarding NATO. This …
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Our Media Is Not Learning, In Fact They Seem Incapable of Doing So: This Is Why You Don’t Give Putin An Unearned Meeting
Six years! Six years and these idiots have learned nothing! JUST ANNOUNCED: Russian President Putin sits down exclusively with @NBCNews’ @KeirSimmons from Moscow — his first U.S. TV interview in nearly three years — just days before he's set to meet with U.S. President Biden. pic.twitter.com/Li3OkZh7a1 — NBC News PR (@NBCNewsPR) June 11, 2021 The …
Counter-Political Action Plus Civic Action Post & Comment Thread
In my post, Subsole requested a post, really a weekly post, but this one will be weakly as it is post workout, so that people can list in comments the local and state organizations they are part of or know of that are doing counter-political and/or civic action to oppose the Republican attempts to revise …
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Ignoring the Ecosystem Because You’re Telling People They Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
I wanted to briefly highlight and then comment on something from AL’s post this AM. Specifically: trying to think of a single international example of a party out of power successfully rigging elections — pear mesa credit union devops (@Theophite) June 7, 2021 I have no idea who this person is, nor do I have …