Is this #Freedom? I think not!
Just a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the #Tennessee Legislature by #RepublicanLawmakers captured headlines across the country. Their offense wasn't #corruption or #criminal activity- instead, they had joined a #protest at the #statehouse in favor of #GunControl, shortly after the #Nashville #shooting at a #Christian school. Earlier this week, Representative #ZooeyZephyr, of #Montana, was barred from the #RepublicanHouse chamber after making a #speech against a #TransHealthCare ban. In the past few years, in #RepublicanControlled #Arizona, #Wisconsin, and #NorthCarolina, legislatures have worked to strip powers from state officials who happen to be Democrats in order to put those powers in #RepublicanHands. Jacob Grumbach, a political-science professor and the author of "Laboratories Against Democracy," talks about how state #politics has become #nationalized.
"If you're a politician, and you're trying to rise in the ranks from the local or state level in your party," he notes, "your best bet is to join the national culture wars"-even at the expense of #constituents' real #concerns.
Plus, the contributing writer Joshua Yaffa talks with David Remnick about #EvanGershkovich, the first #American #reporter imprisoned in #Russia on charges of espionage since the nineteen-eighties. "Evan was not sanguine or Pollyannaish or naïve about the context in which he was working," Yaffa notes, but he returned to Russia again and again to tell the story of that country's #descent into #autocracy.
OCD Symptoms
Do you often have unpleasant thoughts, urges, or images that repeatedly enter your mind and feel driven to perform certain behaviors or mental acts over and over again?
YES, I’m insane!
ADHD/ADD Symptoms
Do you generally have difficulty paying attention to details on tasks, completing tasks, staying organized, remembering routine activities, following instructions or conversations?
Resounding YES!
On this weeks Life Examined on @KCRW: "THERE IS LIFE AFTER DIAGNOSIS': NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES OF DEMENTIA CARE AND SUPPORT
#Dementia and #Alzheimer's advocate Teepa Snow discusses best practices and skills for effective care. Jay Newton Small shares how we can learn to be more #empathetic to those suffering from #MemoryLoss with her company that tells the story for the patients, #MemoryWell.
#LifeExamined
I just booked an appointment with Taylor Hernandez at Downbeat Barber Company via @Square! https://square.site/book/B8JK7BM75C5D1/downbeat-barber-company-tustin-ca
That #white marine was #trained to #kill. He wasn’t trained for #empathy, #compassion and kindness. Say his name! Jordan Neely!
Jordan could have been alive now if that #marine could have used common sense and an ounce of #kindness to get Jordan food and water! That marine #cannot justify his #actions at all!
#Anonymous #StopBanningBooks
#RepublicansStopBanningChoice
#RepublicansStopBanningFreedom
#RepublicansStopBanningBooks
Brooklyn Library offers any teenager in America a public library card
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
Link included to make sure your teen has access to knowledge
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94
https://twitter.com/anonopsunited2/status/1651177422203543552?s=46
The gall of #VladimirPutin to blame the assassination attempt on Ukraine! #Putin is ranked just as #atrocious as #NaziHitlerKiller and other #FascistDictators of the world! Stalin, Mussolini, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, Talaat Pasha, Queen Ranavalona, Leopold II, Emperor Hirohito, Mao Zedong, Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, Kim Jong Un, George W. Bush, Benjamin #Netanyahu, #XiJinping, Donald #Trump…Vladimir Putin…
Read it Putin, your legacy is not about bringing people together through the reunification of Russia and Ukraine rather your #legacy is the #genocide and #destruction of Ukrainians in an attempt to subvert Ukraine under your #FascistRegime! Your #ego needs to be #assassinated so don’t be surprised that there was an attempt. I will be looking forward to more #assassination #attempts on your decrepit life, #Putin!
I’ll add #XiJinping to that list for the #genocide of the #Uyghurs and his relentless attacks on his own #people for trying to live a good life!
The gall of #VladimirPutin to blame the assassination attempt on Ukraine! #Putin is ranked just as #atrocious as #NaziHitlerKiller and other #FascistDictators of the world! Stalin, Mussolini, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, Talaat Pasha, Queen Ranavalona, Leopold II, Emperor Hirohito, Mao Zedong, Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump…Vladimir Putin…
Read it Putin, your legacy is not about bringing people together through the reunification of Russia and Ukraine rather your #legacy is the #genocide and #destruction of Ukrainians in an attempt to subvert Ukraine under your #FascistRegime! Your #ego needs to be #assassinated so don’t be surprised that there was an attempt. I will be looking forward to more #assassination #attempts on your decrepit life, #Putin!
Why is this corrupt judge still a Supreme Court Justice? No one is above the law! Not even if you’re Donald Trump or if you are Clarence Thomas! Their position in life should not dismiss their own disregard for the laws of the United States Constitution. What are living in? A banana republic? Oh wait we are…none of us cares for the #environment! The United States and the world that we’re living in, is fucked!
Let’s go dark Brandon!
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Let’s go dark Brandon!
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Let’s go dark Brandon!
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Let’s go dark Brandon!
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Let’s go dark Brandon!
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You know…I didn’t think there would be a time where I’d see two California #NBA teams face each other in the playoffs and here we are. I just saw a remarkable game 1 #win from my #Lakers over my #Warriors. Mid Cali Bay Area vs So Cali…It got close towards the last 10 minutes of the game but Lakers pulled it off with a win! Congrats LeBron, AD, Austin, D'Angelo, Dham and Lakers team!
I am in total agreement with everything you said. I made a mistake in my original post stating again to impose “beneficial laws” on illicit drugs. I was trying to counter the premise without even thinking what I was writing. Again, like I said that all drugs need to be decriminalized. There is no such thing as beneficial laws for drugs. People will see what drugs for what they are for and hopefully choose wisely to live a clean life on their own. Otherwise it is their own fault for doing the drugs consequently suffering their own body & mind deterioration.
Of course Elon Musk is an asshole right winged fascist bloody bastard! Let him be that oligarch influencing his bro friends on his right to do whatever he wants. Another reason to quit and delete @Twitter!
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-threatens-reassign-npr-twitter-account-npr-says-2023-05-03/
Let’s implement #BIP47!
Addressing the drawbacks…
1. We better get the complex changes right if we want to fork #taproot as part of the #Bitcoin protocol. Nothing good is ever easy so it is worth pursuing taproot to reap the benefits of #privacy.
2. See above.
3. Having privacy is paramount to having #FinancialSovereignty. There will always be illegal activities using bitcoin or any liquid currency for a matter of fact, for illicit purposes and money laundering. It is best that the government makes drugs legal like they are legal in Denmark, Portugal, Czech Republic & Germany. In all countries that have decriminalized drugs have seen disease rates drop as well as deaths from overdose. Other preventive laws will also be beneficial so there will be less illicit drugs used and money laundered. The public and private sectors will have to be vigilant to the criminals that are out there and must be due process and rehabilitation to all those who do criminal activities.
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Hear the #delusional, #weak and #loser @SpeakerMcCarthy & the #ultra #conservative #HouseRepublicans!
@JoeBiden and all #Democrats ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CONCEDE & COMPROMISE with the #RIGHTWINGEDTERRORISTS! Passing the #DebtCeilling is a #ProForma function of the government since 1917 when congress enacted the 2nd Liberty Loan Act. Passing a #CleanDebtCeiling needs to return to becoming a regular Pro Forma performance of the government function without any dispute or unnecessary spectacular drama that wastes everyone’s time, money, funding and votes! Go ahead and let the #Republicans cause a #Catastrophic #World #Economic #Deppresion! It will be because the Republicans who don’t know how to follow the #Constitution of #USA so they need to rightfully be fired just like they had participated on #Jan6th!