Think of all the public safety nets we have lost this year. Slashing Medicare for the poor, cutting the ACA subsidies, ending food programs for poor kids, and ending heating assistance for the elderly. We also lost funding for education. Noem before she got fired ordered three planes for her personal use inclusing a luxury jet with a bar and bed. Hugs
Enjoy some time on your Wednesday!
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Amazing news! We were in the middle of of a zoom press conference about the Gas Suffocation aspect of the planned execution of Sonny Burton in Alabama on Thursday when a reporter put into the chat:
And with that, the news was broken. Governor Ivey heard YOUR messages, received YOUR petitions, read the articles YOU sent, heard YOU ringing her phone off the hook, heard us tolling our bell outside her house…. and she acted. Amen! THANK YOU!
Congratulations to Sonny and his legal team, his family, and to all who had a hand in creating this moment!Governor Ivey has declared that “All Life is Precious,” which is why we made sure to bring along our 4×10 foot banner to the 24-hour vigil we helped coordinate in front of her house a few weeks ago. The banner could not be missed from any street-facing window of the Governor’s mansion. We know with certainty that the Governor was there…. NOW we know that she heard our message!
The other good news is that now we don’t have to drive all the way to Alabama. In fact, we had planned to go to Texas fiirst to toll the bell outside the prison in Huntsville at the execution of Cedrick Ricks on Wednesday, which is still on. Without our planned return through Alabama, making such a long drive makes less sense.
As you know, everything we do to support local activists working to halt executions is another expense. It’s not just the costs of being on the road that we must cover, but also the overhead…
Thank you. Yours in the Struggle,
–abe
PS: New execution dates are being set regularly. Click here to oppose every upcoming execution.
White supremacist content grips teens plotting attacks in Southeast Asia
When police detained an Indonesian teenager accused of bombing his high-school campus in Jakarta in November, he had a life-size toy rifle inscribed with “welcome to hell” and the names of white supremacist mass killers.
Read in Reuters: https://apple.news/AHtLG1baLS1qYessIbT9YGA
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This caller is a well know immegration lawyer who calls in often. There has been a long running joke about the buttons on Sam’s shirts so ignore that part. The lawyer talks about what ICE is doing to help the detained people and he describes how horrific the conditions are. The goal is to make it so horrific these people will self-deport willingly. But the government is doing everything possible to hurt and harm the immigrants and detained people because of hate and bigotry of ICE and the white supremacists in the US government. Hugs
It surprises me how many religious evangelicals or fundies or whatever they are called are in Congress and government offices. They really are believers in the 7 mountains religious theocracy takeover of the US government. Between AIPAC and these religious people who believe Israel must be a beacon for all Jewish people to start the end times for their god to come home and hug them is horrific and costing the US every shred of our public safety net while providing Israel and religious organizations a free ride on our dime. Hugs
A Mississippi mother couldn’t find accurate sex ed for her kids. So she started a class at church
As states scale back requirements for comprehensive sex ed, some parents and faith communities are stepping in to teach what schools won’t
Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/AAtkJRVWNRyyFfXAfhy94Ag
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Hi every wonderful person who comes here. If you read my last post you might have noticed that Ron and I talk over what to cook for supper. Tonight we were going to eat up the few left overs and we got talking of what I wanted to cook tomorrow. I was planning to get the fryer out and then do french fries and deep fried chicken patties. Ron had already bought a bunch of cheese slices because he was thinking of me making another red tomato sauce to have chicken parmesan with spaghetti. But I suggested today doing the french fries and chicken patties with putting cheese on them while they were hot out of the fryer, and that way I wouldn’t have to make another red sauce, but we could have the thing Ron suggested later. He thought about it and he loves the idea. So I am off to cook supper. Making both my husband and me happy. Does this make me a traditional wife or just a happy partner in a same sex relationship? I don’t care really either way. It makes Ron really happy and he makes me really happy. Isn’t that what it is to be about? Hugs
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