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May 17, 2021May 2021

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LINKHe Bought Health Insurance for Emergencies. Then He Fell Into a $33,601 Trap. — ProPublica
In the spring of 2019, Cory Dowd suddenly found himself without health insurance for the first time. A self-employed event planner, he had just finished a Peace Corps stint that provided health benefits, but he was still more than a year away from starting a graduate program that would provide coverage through his university. So, like countless others in an online world, he went insurance shopping on the internet. But the individual insurance market he was about to enter was one ...
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May 16, 2021May 2021

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Usarmygeneral9 I think we have a returning scammer. He set up a new profile a week ago. I saw him visit my profile but have not heard from him. Last time/previous incarnation I heard from him he was retired military and now active ...
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Watchers
May 16, 2021May 2021

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Usarmygeneral9 I think we have a returning scammer. He set up a new profile a week ago. I saw him visit my profile but have not heard from him. Last time/previous incarnation I heard from him he was retired military and now active ...
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News & Links
May 16, 2021May 2021

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LINKCitizen and Nextdoor Are Making Us All Vigilantes. Is That a Good Thing?
Public safety apps are creating a new kind of surveillance culture, absent of context. Adrian Ye downloaded the Citizen app weeks ago, looking for more information about an incident she'd read about on Nextdoor. But when she did, a notification nearly made her heart stop. "400 Feet Away: Child locked in car." Turns out, the alert was a test notification on display on the app's boarding page. But to Ye, a UX designer who has worked for companies like Apple, it was indicative of the ...
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News & Links
May 15, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/14/2021
This morning, as expected, the House Republicans elected Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Trump’s choice for conference chair, to replace Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY). This means that the four top House Republican leaders—Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Stefanik, and Policy Committee Chair Gary Palmer (R-AL)—all voted to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Stefanik thanked “President Trump for his support,”...
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News & Links
May 14, 2021May 2021

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LINKS.C. woman hoarding gasoline catches on fire after crash
A South Carolina woman who was hoarding gasoline caught on fire Thursday after her vehicle crashed and burst into flames, authorities said. The Pickens County Sheriff's Office said the accident occurred after a deputy attempted to stop a 2007 Pontiac G6 with a stolen license plate. "The driver of the Pontiac turned left onto Wolf Creek Road and accelerated the vehicle in an attempt to elude law enforcement," the sheriff's office said in a statement. "The deputy then activated his ...
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News & Links
May 14, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/13/2021
Today, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus can stop wearing masks, both outdoors and indoors, except on public transportation and in crowded indoor venues. The new guidelines come as cases are dropping and as the U.S. is now vaccinating children ages 12 and up. They are intended, at least in part, to encourage people to get the vaccine. The CDC guidelines do not override federal, ...
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News & Links
May 14, 2021May 2021

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LINKWe need paid family and medical leave -- and a new bill in Congress would give it to us — Ask a Manager
by ALISON GREEN on MAY 13, 2021 It’s no secret that the U.S. has terrible support for workers, particularly around paid family and medical leave. No federal law requires employers to offer paid leave at all. Some states have begun to require paid sick leave, but most still don’t. But there’s now legislation in Congress (the American Families Plan) that would provide paid family and medical leave to American workers. I spoke with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) — who has been pointing...
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News & Links
May 13, 2021May 2021

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LINKIt’s not their job to buy you cake
Working remotely for the last year has revealed just how much of office culture is accidental, arbitrary, and sexist. Fascinating discussion of going back to the offices or not, and how it wasn't all that good to begin with.
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News & Links
May 13, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/12/2021
As expected, this morning the House Republicans removed Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney from her position as conference chair after she refused to stop speaking out against the former president for instigating the January 6 attack on our Capitol and the counting of electoral votes for President Joe Biden. The Republicans ousted her by voice vote, which meant that no one had to go on the record for or against Cheney, and the Republicans kept the split in the party from being measurable. It also...
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News & Links
May 12, 2021May 2021

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LINKApril jobs report surprise: Is this a labor shortage or a great reassessment of work in America? - The Washington Post
Hiring was much weaker than expected in April. Wall Street thinks it’s a blip, but there could be much deeper rethinking of what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis. From Wall Street to the White House, expectations were high for a hiring surge in April with potentially a million Americans returning to work. Instead, the world learned Friday that just 266,000 jobs were added, a massive disappointment that raises questions about whether the recovery is on track. ...
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Posts
May 12, 2021May 2021

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Don't wake the fishies.
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News & Links
May 12, 2021May 2021

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LINKThe Satanic Temple Takes on Corporal Punishment in Schools | WGCU PBS & NPR for Southwest Florida
After a viral video showed a six-year-old being paddled by a principal in Hendry County, questions about corporal punishment come up. There is just one religious organization stepping up in kids' defense: The Satanic Temple. In 1977, the US Supreme Court found that the Eighth Amendment clause prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishments" did not apply to school students and that teachers could physically punish children without parental permission. With that as the federal stance, it’s up to ...
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News & Links
May 12, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/11/2021
Tonight, in a speech that claimed every piece of the Republican landscape since 1980, Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney launched a broadside against the Republican leaders who have shackled the party to the former president. “Today we face a threat America has never seen before,” Cheney said. “A former president who provoked a violent attack on this Capitol in an effort to steal the election has resumed his aggressive effort to convince Americans that the election was stolen from him. ...
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Uncommon words and their meanings.
May 12, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
lede /lēd/ Learn to pronounce nounUS the opening sentence or paragraph of a news article, summarizing the most important aspects of the story. "the lede has been rewritten and the headline changed" This was a new word for me today. I was reading ...
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Posts
May 12, 2021May 2021

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Usarmygeneral9 I think he is a returnee scammer. I an not 100% certain, but the pictures look familiar. He was on about a week ago. Says he believes in Satan, 100% sure. 61 years old and says he is open to having kids.... HA! No ...
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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here
May 12, 2021May 2021

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Usarmygeneral9 I think he is a returnee scammer. I an not 100% certain, but the pictures look familiar. He was on about a week ago. Says he believes in Satan, 100% sure. 61 years old and says he is open to having kids.... HA! No ...
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News & Links
May 12, 2021May 2021

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LINKNYT: Over 100 Republicans, including former officials, threaten to split from G.O.P.
May 11, 2021 More than 100 Republicans, including some former elected officials, are preparing to release a letter this week threatening to form a third party if the Republican Party does not make certain changes, according to an organizer of the effort. The statement is expected to take aim at former President Donald J. Trump’s stranglehold on Republicans, which signatories to the document have deemed unconscionable. “When in our democratic republic, forces of conspiracy, division,...
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News & Links
May 11, 2021May 2021

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LINK911 nightmare: Failure to dispatch leads to lawsuit after 6 killed by washed away bridge in Laurel, Indiana
I couldn't live with myself if that was my call and I didn't act on it. LAUREL, Ind. — When you have an emergency, the first thing most of us think to do is call 911. But what happens when the people taking your call don't send help? Last year six people died, when flooding washed away the Sanes bridge in the small town of Laurel, Indiana. Two of the victims were Josh Mosier's little girls. "That's the reoccurring nightmare, is seeing that and hearing them scream. And it's like I'm ...
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Love & Relationships
May 11, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKLive video of man hitting on teen girl offers a glimpse of what young women experience daily - Upworthy
Friendly guy or creep? Watch and discuss.
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News & Links
May 11, 2021May 2021

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LINKNRA bankruptcy decision: federal judge denies petition in win for New York attorney general - The Washington Post
This makes me really happy!! A federal judge Tuesday denied an effort by the National Rifle Association to file for bankruptcy protection, ruling that the gun rights group filed the case in an attempt to fend off a lawsuit by the New York attorney general. “The Court finds, based on the totality of the circumstances, that the NRA’s bankruptcy petition was not filed in good faith but instead was filed as an effort to gain an unfair litigation advantage in the NYAG Enforcement Action ...
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News & Links
May 11, 2021May 2021

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LINKColorado Christian school seeking broad 'ministerial exception' from 10th Circuit | Reuters
A U.S. appeals court panel on Tuesday will take up the latest high-profile case to test the limits of an exemption from anti-discrimination laws for religious schools, with a Colorado Christian academy claiming it should apply broadly to "teachers, chaplains and other leaders." Daniel Blomberg of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who represents Faith Christian Academy, will urge a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that the "ministerial exception" shields the school from a former ...
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News & Links
May 11, 2021May 2021

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LINKOpinion | Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal: We must fix the gaping holes in Medicare - The Washington Post
More than 55 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare — one of the most popular and successful government programs in our nation’s history — into law. Before the enactment of Medicare, about half of our senior citizens were uninsured and roughly 35 percent lived in poverty. Today, everyone in America aged 65 or older is guaranteed health-care benefits through Medicare regardless of income or medical condition, while the official poverty rate for seniors is now less than 9 ...
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News & Links
May 11, 2021May 2021

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LINKFFRF, civil rights groups say officials shouldn’t be shielded from wrongdoing - Freedom From Religion Foundation
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has joined more than 80 other organizations in calling for an end to the judicially created doctrine of qualified immunity — which shields state officials from liability for their misconduct even when they violate the Constitution. The criminal killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin has put a spotlight on this legal doctrine. “This doctrine has hampered our ability to fight for civil rights across the legal spectrum, not just on ...
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News & Links
May 11, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKLetters From An American 05/10/2021
A poll today by the Associated Press (AP) and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) shows that President Joe Biden’s administration is gaining positive traction. Sixty-three percent of Americans approve of how he is handling his job as president. Seventy-one percent approve of how he is handling the coronavirus pandemic; 62% percent approve of how he is handling health care. Fifty-seven percent approve of how he is handling the economy; 54% approve of how he is handling foreign affairs....
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Posts
May 10, 2021May 2021

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Macy23 First post was boob picture. No bio. Joined today. Head's up guys, she's looking for you!
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Watchers
May 10, 2021May 2021

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Macy23 First post was boob picture. No bio. Joined today. Head's up guys, she's looking for you!
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Feline Fanatics
May 10, 2021May 2021

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LINKWhat cats’ love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception | Ars Technica
It is a truth universally acknowledged—at least by those of the feline persuasion—that an empty box on the floor must be in want of a cat. Ditto for laundry baskets, suitcases, sinks, and even cat carriers (when not used as transport to the vet). This behavior is generally attributed to the fact that cats feel safer when squeezed into small spaces, but it might also be able to tell us something about feline visual perception. That's the rationale behind a new study in the journal Applied ...
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News & Links
May 9, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKCapitalism Is A Misanthropic, Dystopian Religion
Capitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion. By "capitalism" I mean this or any other possible system wherein mass-scale human behavior is driven by the pursuit of capital. By "religion" I mean organized collective faith-based belief system. In times past the dominant religions had names like "Christianity" or "Islam", which were used to promote doctrines that shaped societies, dominated civilizations, and built entire empires. Theocratic institutions labored on behalf of the powerful to...
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General & Hellos
May 8, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKLetters From An American 05/08/2021
Mother's day to those that have borne children and those that have been important in a young person's life. Those of us who are truly lucky have more than one mother. They are the cool aunts, the elderly ladies, the family friends, even the mentors who whip us into shape. By my count, I’ve had at least eight mothers. One of the most important was Sally Adams Bascom Augenstern. Mrs. A., a widow who had played cutthroat bridge with my grandmother in the 1950s, lived near my family in ...
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Posts
May 8, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
Anthony Started following me, and the pictures just look too darn good. I ran a couple of the pictures but they didn't pop. Not much of a bio, but does say he is 99.9% certain there is a god. He is a widower, it is surprising how many ...
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Watchers
May 8, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
Anthony Started following me, and the pictures just look too darn good. I ran a couple of the pictures but they didn't pop. Not much of a bio, but does say he is 99.9% certain there is a god. He is a widower, it is surprising how many ...
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News & Links
May 8, 2021May 2021

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LINKRansomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system
OOPS!! A Palm Beach attorney rejected a request from the city's residents to evict… A pilot recruit was blindfolded and strapped to a target as fighter jets… A ransomware attack caused a major East Coast fuel pipeline operator to shut down its entire network on Friday, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The attack on top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline appears to have been carried out by a criminal group, but federal officials and the private ...
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News & Links
May 8, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKWhy you (probably) shouldn't panic about the falling Chinese rocket
A large section of a Long March 5B rocket is predicted to reenter Earth’s atmosphere on May 8 or May 9. Here's what you need to know. This weekend, a spent, 100-foot-long Chinese rocket is set to plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. A substantial portion of the 22-ton launch vehicle—the core stage of a Long March 5B rocket—will be obliterated as it descends, although large pieces of debris could survive the fall. Based on the rocket’s trajectory, estimates suggest that reentry ...
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News & Links
May 8, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LINKJudge: Texas Gov. Cannot Block Atheist Holiday Display in State Capitol | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
In 2018 the Freedom From Religion Foundation won a major lawsuit against the state of Texas. Yesterday they did it again. Because there was a nativity scene in the Texas State Capitol in 2015, FFRF applied to put up their own display. It was a "secular Nativity" featuring the Bill of Rights, three Founding Fathers, and the Statue of Liberty. There was also a sign that wished everyone a "Happy Winter Solstice." unfortunately, Governor Greg Abbot demanded it be removed.
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News & Links
May 8, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/07/2021
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo articulated today what many have been reluctant to say: What is at stake in the Big Lie and all the Republican efforts to keep it in play—the shenanigans in the secret Maricopa County, Arizona, recount; the censuring of Republicans who voted to impeach the former president; the expected removal of Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney from a leadership role in the party; and so on—is not the past election of 2020, but the upcoming election of 2024. The ...
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News & Links
May 7, 2021May 2021

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LINKTop CDC official resigns from post following reassignment - POLITICO
This article leaves sooo many questions unanswered. Nancy Messonnier, a senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who was the first U.S. official to warn of the severity of the coronavirus pandemic last year, is resigning from the agency. Messonnier’s resignation comes two weeks after she had been reassigned within the CDC from her position heading the agency's Covid-19 vaccine task force, as first reported by POLITICO. Following her reassignment, Messonnier went on ...
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General & Hellos
May 7, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
LMAO!!!!!!
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Trump Pinata
May 7, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
OMG!! Absolutely!!!
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News & Links
May 7, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/06/2021
Today President Biden traveled to Lake Charles, in the Republican-dominated state of Louisiana, to build bipartisan support for his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan. The proposed law is designed to create good jobs while it rebuilds America’s badly neglected infrastructure. Biden stood in front of the Calcasieu River Bridge, built in 1952 and twenty years overdue for renovation, in a state hit 30 times in the past ten years by natural disasters that cost up to $50 billion in damage. ...
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News & Links
May 7, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
Today President Biden traveled to Lake Charles, in the Republican-dominated state of Louisiana, to build bipartisan support for his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan. The proposed law is designed to create good jobs while it rebuilds America’s badly...
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Uncommon words and their meanings.
May 6, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
This is not a word post, and I hope the moderators will forgive me and allow. I found this on FB and it made me smile soooo broadly! User: snuffles005 as someone who studies linguistics, i will never not laugh when someone says “that word ...
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Posts
May 6, 2021May 2021

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Jhenry2613 Another suspected scammer, I'm on a roll today :( Profile says he's from LA. When he first contacted me his profile said he was 37, now it says 52. His pictures look like a normal guy. Not quite NNES, but not great. He ...
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Watchers
May 6, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
Jhenry2613 Another suspected scammer, I'm on a roll today :( Profile says he's from LA. When he first contacted me his profile said he was 37, now it says 52. His pictures look like a normal guy. Not quite NNES, but not great. He ...
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Posts
May 6, 2021May 2021

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Walter537363 Profile looks benign, no NNES, not a beautiful person. He's messaging me, and the most recent message contains all sorts of NNES and reference to a diety. From his recent message: I was Once Married to a Beautiful ...
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Watchers
May 6, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
Walter537363 Profile looks benign, no NNES, not a beautiful person. He's messaging me, and the most recent message contains all sorts of NNES and reference to a diety. From his recent message: I was Once Married to a Beautiful ...
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News & Links
May 6, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/05/2021
With Trump loyalists consolidating their power over the Republican Party, Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) today launched the Republican opposition. Cheney is currently the House Republican Conference chair, managing committee assignments, media appearances, and certain debates in the House. Her refusal to whitewash the January 6 insurrection and to support the former president has led him to press for her removal from her position as the third most powerful House Republican. House ...
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News & Links
May 5, 2021May 2021

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LINKFamily of woman shot by cop during Capitol riot says it was murder
Yeah..... good luck with that. The family says she was murdered. Thirty-five-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was hit by the only shot fired during the riot. Babbitt had traveled to D.C. from California because of her fervent belief in the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump. Video shows her trying to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby outside the House Chamber when a Capitol Police officer guarding the entrance fired....
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News & Links
May 5, 2021May 2021

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LINKNew data shows how pandemic affected births in the US - CNN
(CNN)Remember that pandemic baby boom some thought we'd see about nine months after coronavirus lockdowns swept across the US? Well, as experts predicted, so far it seems to be shaping up to be more of a baby bust. New data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics on Wednesday doesn't paint the full picture, but it gives us a glimpse of what's going on. The birth rate in the United States fell in the last quarter of 2020, ...
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Watchers
May 5, 2021May 2021

Posted by HippieChick58
Has posted frontal nudes already. Oy, put it right out there.
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News & Links
May 5, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/04/2021
In any normal era, the big story right now would be the country’s dramatic economic recovery from the recession sparked by the coronavirus. In the first three months of 2021, the economy grew by 1.6% as economic stimulus measures kicked in and people started to buy things again. Amazon posted profits of $8.1 billion for the first three months of the year; the same months last year brought the company $2.5 billion. Supply chains are still frayed, pushing prices upward, but those problems are ...
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News & Links
May 4, 2021May 2021

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LINKJoy Reid Takes Tucker Carlson's 'Race Lady' Dog Whistle, Throws It Back At 'Tuckums' | HuffPost
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Tuesday ridiculed Fox News personality Tucker Carlson’s repeated derogatory description of her as “the race lady.” “The ReidOut” host noted she spends little time watching the conservative network. “Personally, I prefer my news and information to be grounded in reality, rather than monetizing my amygdala to keep me on edge and buying MyPillows and gold,” she explained. Reid then proceeded to dismantle Carlson’s attacks on her, airing a montage of ...
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News & Links
May 4, 2021May 2021

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LINKNonreligious Americans Are A Growing Political Force | FiveThirtyEight
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke and Perry Bacon Jr. speak with political scientist and pastor Ryan Burge about Americans’ declining religious affiliation and how that trend is shaping our society and politics.
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News & Links
May 4, 2021May 2021

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LINKN.R.A. Leadership and Bankruptcy Assailed by U.S. Trustee
The National Rifle Association’s hopes of end-running a legal challenge in New York were dealt a serious blow on Monday when a Justice Department official rebuked its leadership and called for the dismissal of its bankruptcy filing or the appointment of an outside monitor to oversee its finances. Lisa L. Lambert, a lawyer in the United States Trustee’s office, which is part of the Justice Department, said the “evidentiary record clearly and convincingly establishes” that Wayne ...
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News & Links
May 4, 2021May 2021

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LINKTrump voter in Pennsylvania convicted of voter fraud
In the wake of Donald Trump's defeat six months ago, Republicans launched a desperate search for illegally cast ballots to help justify the GOP's conspiracy theories. But despite all the hysterical rhetoric, only a handful of legitimate allegations have been raised, and some involve Republicans casting illegal ballots for Trump on behalf of dead relatives. Take Bruce Bartman, for example. The Washington Post reported this morning: Weeks before Election Day, Bruce Bartman mailed his ...
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News & Links
May 4, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/03/2021
Since the January 6 insurrection, Democrats have called the Republican adherence to the idea that Biden did not win the 2020 election “the Big Lie.” This term refers to a propaganda technique associated with Nazi politician Joseph Goebbels (although it did not actually originate with him). It refers to a lie told to garner power, a lie that is so big, so monstrous, and so outrageous that people believe it because they cannot imagine someone lying about something so important. One of the ...
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News & Links
May 3, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 05/02/2021
On Friday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and 36 Republicans sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona accusing him of trying to advance a “politicized and divisive agenda” in the teaching of American history. This is a full embrace of the latest Republican attempt to turn teaching history into a culture war. On April 19, the Department of Education called for public comments on two priorities for the American History and Civics Education programs. Those programs ...
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Health & Happiness
May 2, 2021May 2021

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LINKElderly Couple Use 'Morse Code' to Escape Assisted Living Facility
A friend from my Army days sent me a link to this article. I was an 05H which is Morse Code Intercept Operator. I had never considered Morse Code could be used this way, but why not! I think they were very clever!.
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News & Links
May 2, 2021May 2021

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LINKOfficers laughing over Karen Garner arrest are off the force - New York Daily News
Cops laughing over violent dementia arrest ‘no longer employed’ in Loveland, Colo. Police officers who laughed while watching footage of the bone-breaking arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia are no longer employed by the Loveland, Colo., police department. The Coloradoan reports that officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali, who were involved in the 2020 arrest of Karen Garner, as well as officer Tyler Blackett, are no longer on the force. A police department spokesman reportedly ...
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News & Links
May 1, 2021May 2021

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LINK'You lose people very quickly': Talking to friends or family who are down the anti-vaccine rabbit hole
It isn't just rabid Americans who are anti vaxxers... After the border closures and lockdowns last year, Suzanne was looking forward to finally going north to see her daughter and grandchildren in Queensland. But a few days ago, a message from her daughter put her plans on hold. Suzanne, who's in her 70s, plans to get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible, but her daughter says she won't see her mother if she's been vaccinated. "We were told if we'd had the vaccine, we shouldn't ...
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News & Links
May 1, 2021May 2021

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LINKSocial media and science show how ship's plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway | EurekAlert! Science News
A ship's container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer cartridges washing up everywhere from the coast of Florida to northern Norway, a new study has shown. It has also resulted in the items weathering to form microplastics that are contaminated with a range of metals such as titanium, iron and copper. The spillage is thought to have happened around 1,500 km east of New York, in January 2014, with the first beached cartridges reported along the coastline of the ...
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News & Links
May 1, 2021May 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/30/2021
In a hearing today before a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee charged with investigating technology and information warfare, cyber policy and national security expert Dr. Herb Lin of the Hoover Institution told lawmakers that in the modern era we are not formally at war, but we are not at peace either: “Information warfare threat to the United States is different from past threats, and it has the potential to destroy reason and reality as a basis for societal discourse,...
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News & Links
Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKIdaho lawmaker resigns after a 'terrified' 19-year-old aide detailed rape allegations
Hours after a legislative ethics committee voted that he should be suspended or permanently expelled for misconduct, an Idaho lawmaker accused of rape resigned Thursday, the Idaho Statesman reported. The former representative, identified as Aaron von Ehlinger, was accused of raping a 19-year- intern. Investigations against von Ehlinger began in March after the young staffer reported he raped her in his apartment after the two had dinner. After the Idaho House Ethics and House Policy ...
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News & Links
Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKSupreme Court Conservatives Just Made It Easier to Sentence Kids to Life in Prison | The Marshall Project
The new ruling could worsen existing racial disparities in states that condemn teens to die in prison. For years, the Supreme Court sent a consistent message about kids who commit the most serious crimes: They’re still kids. Their bad decisions are often a product of abusive upbringings and still-developing brains. So they can’t be executed. And they can’t get life without parole unless they kill someone — and even then, “all but the rarest of children” deserve a chance at ...
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Love & Relationships
Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHey, gals! If you're tired of the 'soy boy swamp,' this new 'Christian' dating site is for you!
This so much makes me want to be a troll or a scammer. Do you think I could pull it off...
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News & Links
Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKTed Cruz admits a bit too much about influence of corporate cash
April 30, 2021, 8:25 AM CDT By Steve Benen Three years ago this week, Mick Mulvaney spoke to a group of banking industry executives, who were likely eager to hear what he had to say. By that point, the Republican was already a highly influential figure in the Trump administration, leading both the White House budget office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so when the former South Carolina congressman agreed to offer bankers some guidance, they were ready to listen. "We had a ...
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News & Links
Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/29/2021
Today marks the hundredth day of the Biden-Harris administration. In many ways, the hundred-day mark is arbitrary, a holdover from the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who worked with Congress to pass 76 new laws by the end of his first 100 days, setting a high bar for a consequential presidency. A hundred days is not an entirely useless metric, though, because by that time, a modern president has generally set the tone of the administration. Crucial to the success of that tone is having...
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LINKTLC star Josh Duggar arrested on federal charges | TheHill
What are Mama and Papa 19 kids going to say about this one? Josh Duggar, the former star of the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting," was arrested by federal authorities on Thursday. The website for the Washington County Sheriff's office shows that Duggar was arrested on Thursday and was booked around 1 p.m. He is being held without bail, according to the website. The records shows that Duggar was arrested by U.S. Marshals, meaning the nature of arrest was federal and not state related. It ...
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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHow Amy Coney Barrett is backfiring for the right.
A Different Kind of Supreme Court Reform Is Already Happening The left is finally paying attention to the court, and it might be having an impact. But here is where we slightly miss the point: It is this sustained and productive frustration on the left that is really new and, in theory, transformational. It signals that the court has become a big, important issue. A progressive left that often sleepwalked through the Merrick Garland blockade and had no idea how to message the judiciary in ...
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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKJoe Biden was a boring candidate. He now draws comparisons to FDR | The Economist
WASHINGTON, DC “I’m sick and tired of reading how we’re planning another ‘hundred days’ of miracles,” griped John F. Kennedy before assuming the presidency. The sentiment made its way into his inaugural address, albeit in a more stirring manner: “All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration.” A recurrent trope of American politics is to scour the actions of the first 100 days of ...
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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKThe most dangerous place on Earth | The Economist
The test of a first-rate intelligence, wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. For decades just such an exercise of high-calibre ambiguity has kept the peace between America and China over Taiwan, an island of 24m people, 100 miles (160km) off China’s coast. Leaders in Beijing say there is only one China, which they run, and that Taiwan is a rebellious part of it. America nods to the one China idea,...
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LINKLetters From An American 04/28/2021
Earlier today, in anticipation of tonight’s address to Congress, President Joe Biden met with news anchors. The president told them that his many meetings with foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, have convinced him that the story of this moment is whether democracy can survive the challenges of the twenty-first century. As things speed up, is it possible, he asked, to achieve the consensus necessary for democracy in time to compete with...
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skyline A god botherer who has just PM'd me. Not much to go on except he lives in Texas and I don't, and he says he's 45, and I am so far past that. Not much to go on, but 45 and in Texas and asking me if I want to correspond to get ...
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skyline A god botherer who has just PM'd me. Not much to go on except he lives in Texas and I don't, and he says he's 45, and I am so far past that. Not much to go on, but 45 and in Texas and asking me if I want to correspond to ...
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Patlor00 God botherer. Following women from all over the place. There are contradictions in his bio regarding religion, but maybe he just wasn't careful. I don't notice any NNES. Pictures don't look like a movie star, didn't check ...
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Patlor00 God botherer. Following women from all over the place. There are contradictions in his bio regarding religion, but maybe he just wasn't careful. I don't notice any NNES. Pictures don't look like a movie star, didn't check ...
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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLouisiana's Ray Garofalo Argues for Teaching 'Good' Parts of Slavery in U.S. Schools - Second Nexus
Louisiana State Rep. Urges Schools to Teach the 'Good' Part of Slavery and Gets Instantly Shut Down A Louisiana lawmaker is in hot water this week after arguing that the state's schools should teach the "good" aspects of slavery in the United States. For over a year, Republican lawmakers across the country—following former President Donald Trump's lead—have sought to ban comprehensive history curricula like critical race theory from being taught in American schools and workplace ...
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LINKFederal investigators execute search warrant at Giuliani's home
Trump, the Justice Department reportedly blocked prosecutors' interest in Rudy Giuliani. Things are far different now. April 28, 2021, :06 PM CDT By Steve Benen It was four months ago when NBC News and The Rachel Maddow Show first reported that federal prosecutors in New York had been in communication with Justice Department officials in D.C. about trying to obtain Rudy Giuliani's electronic communications. There wasn't much in the way of public revelations in the weeks that followed, ...
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LINKLetters From An American 04/27/2021
More than 140 military leaders, former national security officials, and elected officials from both parties have asked Congress to establish a commission to figure out what led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol, and how to stop a similar coup attempt in the future. Yesterday, Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) told reporters that the proposed congressional commission should focus solely on that attack. "What happened on January 6 is unprecedented in our ...
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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKPossession Is Nine-Tenths Of The Law, The Last Tenth Is Elon Musk Breaking Into Your House
Florida is actually going to authorize him to bust into your property. That's not hyperbole. By JOE PATRICE onApril 27, 2021 at 4:44 PM There’s a classic joke about a hunter who killed a duck that landed on a farmer’s land. The farmer proposes to settle the property dispute over the prize bird by kicking each other in the testicles until one party relents. It’s a pretty great joke. Here’s Buddy Hackett telling it. Anyway, in today’s version of the joke, Elon Musk is the guy ...
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Apr 27, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/25/2021
On Thursday and Friday of last week, April 22 and 23, President Biden convened a virtual meeting of 40 world leaders to discuss addressing climate change. It is no longer possible to ignore changes in the world’s climate: the last decade was the hottest in recorded history, and the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached record levels. Arctic ice is melting; last summer’s fires in Australia, California, and Colorado were catastrophic. In 2015, representatives of more than ...
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LINKHere are the winners and losers following the 2020 census
More than a year since the 2020 census began in a remote Alaska village, the first numbers to emerge from the nation's once-a-decade head count were released on Monday, showing how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state is getting based on its population. Because the number of seats in the House of Representatives is set at 435, it's a zero-sum game with one state's gain resulting in another state's loss — like a pie with uneven slices. As one state gets a larger ...
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Apr 27, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/26/2021
In his first major speech as Secretary of State, Antony Blinken laid out the principles of the Biden administration in foreign policy, emphasizing that this administration believed foreign and domestic policy to be profoundly linked. Biden’s people would support democracy at home and abroad to combat the authoritarianism rising around the world… including in the U.S. “The more we and other democracies can show the world that we can deliver, not only for our people, but also for each ...
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Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKThe Satanic Temple is Launching it's Sober Faction!
The Satanic Temple Sober Faction provides peer to peer support for addiction free from the pseudoscience and superstitious dogma entrenched in most mainstream programs.
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Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKAlaska legislator banned from flights to capital.
An Alaska state legislator, Sen. Lora Reinbold, is now banned from flights on Alaska Airlines, the only carrier from her home in Anchorage to the capital in Juneau. She has refused to wear a mask and fought with airline employees once too many times for their comfort.
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Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKmy new hire is too attractive for me to manage her — Ask a Manager
I love Ask A Manager, I read her blog every day. She give great advice and has great contributors. One of the letters in today's blog got a great answer from her, and I thought I'd share. Click the link to read the replies and comments as well, there were over 300 comments when I posted. A reader writes: I feel like a bad manager for even asking this question, but I find one of the new hires assigned to me to be amazingly attractive. I would never act on it, or do or say anything ...
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Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKDC pastor used PPP loan to buy Tesla, Baltimore property, US Attorney says
GREENBELT, Md. (7News) — A D.C. pastor used loans meant for COVID pandemic relief to buy a Tesla and a property in Baltimore, according to U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. Rudolph Brooks Jr., of Cheltenham, Maryland, known as the pastor at Kingdom Tabernacle of Restoration Ministries, faces a federal charge for wire fraud. Federal authorities have also seized $2.2 million from his various bank accounts, along with a 2018 Tesla Model 3. The federal government enacted ...
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Apr 25, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKWe’re all socially awkward now - The Washington Post
“I’m looking for a kumquat. Do you know what that looks like?” Kay Kingsman flagged down a fellow shopper in the grocery store with that question — and no, he couldn’t identify a kumquat. But she kept on talking. “How’s your day?” she recalls asking. “Having a fun grocery trip?” Kingsman, a 27-year-old manufacturing engineer in Portland, Ore., dragged the conversation on so long that this stranger in the citrus aisle interjected with an answer to a question she hadn’t...
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Apr 24, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKMontana governor signs bill allowing residents to challenge regulations on religious grounds | TheHill
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed legislation into law on Thursday that allows individuals to challenge government regulations that infringe on their religious beliefs. The bill, dubbed the “Montana Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” requires the government to present a compelling reason to violate an individual's freedom of religion, and to achieve its goals in the least restrictive method possible. "The governor signed SB215 into law to protect the freedom of people of all ...
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LINKSTATE CAPITOL NEWS IN BRIEF: Creationism bill fails in committee | Senate OKs gun-laws measure | Vaccine-mandates bill sent to governor
A bill stating that Arkansas teachers may teach religious beliefs of creation alongside scientific theories failed to advance from the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday. The sponsor, Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, said many teachers had asked her for the ability to teach "counter-theories" and open up the class for debate among students. Sen. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, said the bill would allow all religion's creation stories to be taught, which would lead to "consternation."...
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LINKLetters From An American 04/23/2021
The big news today is the two-day climate conference of world leaders, which I will write about in the future, but I am still chewing over something from four days ago. Tonight’s post is a combination of history and speculation, so this is a good one to skip if you need a break from politics or you’re not interested in musings. If you’re still on board…. On April 19, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), who is the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, in charge of ...
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Apr 23, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/23/2021
Today there are three stories in the news about the mechanics of government that add up to a much larger story about American democracy. First, by a vote of 216 to 208, the House of Representatives passed a bill to grant statehood to the District of Columbia. The measure would carve out the area around Capitol Hill, the White House, and the National Mall to remain much as they are today, but the rest of what is now the District would get one representative in Congress and two senators. About ...
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Apr 22, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKRight-Wing Radio Host Slammed For Racist Response To Chauvin Verdict - Comic Sands
This is my town, they did the right thing. Omaha has a small blue dot in this huge red sea of conservatives. I am so pleased they axed the radio host almost immediately. Sure, he had a "boomer" moment. Sorry dude, man up, you did it, you got caught, and now you . KFAB news/YouTube Chris Baker, a right-wing radio host from Omaha, Nebraska, is facing backlash both online and in the real world after posting a racist GIF in response to the Derek Chauvin verdict. Chauvin, who was on trial for...
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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKPolice officers like me need to take the Chauvin verdict personally - The Washington Post
By Patrick Skinner Patrick Skinner is a police officer in his hometown of Savannah, Ga. He is a former CIA operations officer and served in the United States Coast Guard as well as the U.S. Capitol Police. April 21, 2021 at 11:28 a.m. CDT I was at work as a police officer when the verdict was read Tuesday in the Minneapolis courtroom. I am a violent-crimes detective in my hometown of Savannah, Ga., but like the rest of America, I was worried about the verdict. I was worried that once again, ...
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Selene (Gustav) English is not very good, and profile has some contradictions. Seems to be a god botherer. One picture, not overtly sexy at all. She has made some "interesting" posts: and she had a weird comment on ...
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Selene (Gustav) English is not very good, and profile has some contradictions. Seems to be a god botherer. One picture, not overtly sexy at all. She has made some "interesting" posts: and she had a weird comment on ...
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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKIs Recycling Worth It Anymore? People On The Front Lines Say Maybe Not : NPR
Recycling works, but it's not magic. As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste production, it's becoming more and more clear that everybody –- manufacturers and consumers — "over-believes" in recycling. This is a story about responsibility, and what happens when everyone keeps trying to pass it off to the next person. And what happens, when finally, there is no next person. This video is based in part on Throughline's podcast episode "The Litter Myth."
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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/20/2021
Today a jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota, convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on all counts in the death of George Floyd. On May 25, 2020, Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds after arresting him for allegedly trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. The jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. He faces up to 75 years in prison, and will be sentenced in two months. As we heard this verdict today, it ...
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Apr 20, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKColumbus police shooting: Officer shot and killed teen, family says
This saddens me again, just when we made one step forward.
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Apr 20, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/19/2021
America today is caught in a plague of gun violence. It wasn’t always this way. Americans used to own guns without engaging in daily massacres. Indeed, it always jumps out at me that the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, when members of one Chicago gang set up and killed seven members of a rival gang, was so shocking it led to legislation that prohibits automatic weapons in the U.S. Eighty-nine years later, though, in 2018, another Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory ...
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