What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Mark Ruffalo, more stars slam Ellen DeGeneres’ support of George Bush
Well, thank goodness that selfless, non-full-of-themselves, non-publicity hounds like Mark Ruffalo are here to remind us that Ellen is the true villain of the wars in the Middle East. I mean, who are Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld anyways, right?
Anyone care to guess the odds of him voting Nader in 2000 and staying home in 2016???
Mark Ruffalo: ‘Kindness’ Is Irrelevant Until Bush Is ‘Brought To Justice’ | HuffPost
Spoken like the kind of douche who voted Nader in 2000 and stayed home in 2016, helping to the elect the very leaders he rails against.
Go away Mark, you’ve become part of the problem.
Drawing on contemporaneous emails and private interviews, an 18-month probe by the Senate Finance Committee’s Democratic staff found that the NRA underwrote political access for Russian nationals Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin more than previously known — even though the two had declared their ties to the Kremlin.
…Tax-exempt organizations are barred from using funds for the personal benefit of its officials or for actions significantly outside their stated missions. The revelations in the Senate report raise questions about whether the NRA could face civil penalties or lose its tax-exempt status.
NRA Was ‘Foreign Asset’ To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Finds : NPR
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Tyson, 63, owes court-ordered fines and fees for three felony convictions, one for robbery, two for theft, all decades old. Under a Florida law that went into effect July 1, he must pay those penalties before casting a ballot or risk being prosecuted for voter fraud.
Tyson searched court records, first on his own, then with the help of a nonprofit legal advocacy group. They say that because Florida has no comprehensive system for tracking such fines, the documents don’t make clear what he owes. The records, viewed by Reuters, show potential sums ranging from $846 to a couple thousand dollars related to crimes he committed in the late 1970s and 1990s. Tyson says he won’t risk voting until Florida authorities can tell him for sure.
Restoring felon voting rights a ‘mess’ in battleground Florida – Reuters
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Chao met 4 times as often with Kentucky officials as from any other state – POLITICO
In news that so unsurprising it hardly qualifies as news….
Pat Robertson: Trump is ‘losing the mandate of heaven’ over Syria decision
Too little, too late, Pat. Sit down and shut up.
Although the case centers on transgender rights, Trump’s lawyers took a position that would diminish the rights of [all] women and girls…. — by allowing employers to force all employees to dress and behave in accordance with archaic gender norms and punish them if they do not.
…If the Trump administration has its way, schools and employers can soon force women and girls to wear stereotypically “feminine” clothing like skirts and dresses.
Trump’s Department of Justice Could Allow Women to Be Forced to Wear Skirts | Teen Vogue
aggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
For instance, results from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, published last year by the CDC, found that among sexually active high school students, the prevalence of using a condom during a recent sexual experience increased from 46.2% to 62.8% between 1991 and 2005 but then decreased from 62.8% to 53.8% between 2005 and 2017.
…”We have an STD crisis in the US because prevention programs were sold short for years,” David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, said in the statement.
“Our first line of defense is underfunded and overwhelmed, leaving Americans vulnerable to STD outbreaks, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing,” he said. “STDs have real health and human costs. Babies dying from preventable conditions, like congenital syphilis, is not an outcome we can accept. This is a heartbreaking symptom of our nation’s STD crisis. Without a radical shift in how we prioritize sexual health in the United States, we can only expect things to get worse.”
STDs on the rise: Cases of 3 common infections reach all-time highs in the US – CNN
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Ex-Officer Not Guilty of Manslaughter in Georgia Shooting | Georgia News | US News
sigh….
Well, at tleast they got him for violating his oath.
The national movement against prison gerrymandering began in 2001 when the founders of the Prison Policy Initiative discovered that the sheer size of the prison population was combining with an outdated Census Bureau rule to seriously distort how political decisions are made in this country.
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During closing statements, Biden had the line of the night: “Look, I’m like plastic straws. I’ve been around forever; I’ve always worked, but now you’re mad at me?”
SNL’s ‘Impeachment Town Hall’ Funnier Than Expected | The Daily Wire
heh
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg inaccurately said that “we could lose half the world’s oxygen because of what’s going on in the oceans.”
…Climate change does pose a threat to oceans, including by reducing the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water, which in some places could be cut in half. But globally, oceans are projected to lose only 1%-7% of their oxygen, and the world’s atmospheric oxygen supply is not at risk.
Buttigieg Wrong About Climate Change’s Effect on Oceans – FactCheck.org
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