Month: September 2024
This is great-
It’s a WaPo piece, free (I know because I got to read it all with no nagging, and it’s not a guest link according to MPS,) and really full of info concerning a place where our tax dollars work well for we the people. This is a thing at which the US excels as a public entity. More people should know about it, so we make sure it stays public, rather than outsourced to a for-profit. Also, there is plenty of general science, and it’s noticeable how many women have great positions and have done superlative work. Thanks!
Will Ferrell’s dad cried after watching ‘Will & Harper’ doc
Will Ferrell made his dad cry with his new Netflix documentary. “Will & Harper” tracks Ferrell’s road trip with longtime friend Harper Steele, a trans woman.
Published 1:05 PM CDT, September 20, 2024
https://apnews.com/video/will-ferrell-lgbtq-lee-ferrell-national-44b58ea51eae4a1eb28c02607893edaf
It’s a short little video that is also so sweet. I read something about this docu somewhere earlier in the week, but I don’t recall where. If I see it, I’ll bring it back. I hope everyone’s first day of Fall has been really nice~
POLITICO: DeSantis deploys government resources to fight Florida abortion amendment
DeSantis deploys government resources to fight Florida abortion amendment
The Florida state health care regulator has campaigned against it, which DeSantis defends as informing the public.
Read in POLITICO: https://apple.news/Af9oqdZE2R6OyJixEj8FnbQ
Shared from Apple News
Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie
American Bird Conservancy-Bachman’s Sparrow
This is such a great resource, if you’re at all interested in birds. You can hear songs or calls, get habitat info, and so much more.
Peace & Justice History for 9/22:
| September 22, 1966 Eight hundred Puerto Rican men pledged in Lares to refuse U.S. Vietnam draft. They saw compliance as “part of the colonial subjugation of our country.” |
| September 22, 1980 The Solidarity union under leadership of Lech Walesa was allowed to organize by the Communist-led Polish government. The previous month the group had occupied the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk and had inspired a national general strike. |
| September 22, 1985 The first Farm Aid concert, organized principally by Willie Nelson, was held with more than 50 musicians raising $9 million for debt-ridden U.S. farmers. Farm Aid home  |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryseptember.htm#september22
A Prayer for Mabon.
(I love these; she publishes them each season. They seem powerful.)
The Internet Archive Lost Their Latest Appeal
I don’t know how many remember the Internet Archive; we heard more about them during the pandemic, but also when books began to be banned and removed from libraries that were accessible to young people. Meanwhile, Big Profit was fighting the Archive even during the pandemic, but now there is some sad news.
GA Election Board May Force Hand-Counting Of Ballots
This is a two part post. The first part is what they intended to do, the second is them doing it. The intent is well expressed in the comments. The goal is to have the red rural parts of the state that vote republican to be in and recorded with the urban blue lagging way behind so the cultist can claim tRump won and the Democrats cheated at the last minutes. Then if time runs out for the count to be done the state will only certify the tRump voting areas leaving the cities out of the count, throwing the state to tRump even if Kamala Harris wins. Again republicans know that their plans are unpopular and they don’t care. They don’t want to represent people, they want to rule over the people. Hugs. Scottie
The Washington Post reports:
The Georgia State Election Board is expected to vote on a measure to force counties to hand-count all ballots this year, a requirement that could delay reporting of results by weeks if not months and that critics say is designed to inject chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest in a vitally important swing state. The board will take up the proposal, which would require the hand count in addition to the customary machine count, Friday morning at the state Capitol in Atlanta.
The flurry of rulemaking is the work of a new right-wing majority that took control of the board in May with an avowed mission of preventing fraud and other irregularities from tainting the presidential result this year. All three are supporters of former president Donald Trump, and the rules they are pushing have been promoted by the state’s leading proponents of the false claim that President Joe Biden stole the Georgia election in 2020.
Read the full article.
The Washington Post reports:
The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count all ballots this year, potentially upending the November election by delaying reporting of results by weeks if not months.
The change was spearheaded by a pro-Trump majority that has enacted a series of changes to the state’s election rules in recent weeks and approved the hand-count requirement despite a string of public commenters who begged them not to.
Critics included democracy advocates who accused the board of intentionally injecting chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest as well as election supervisors and poll workers who said hand counts would take too long, cost money and almost certainly produce counting errors.
Read the full article.
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