Teen Activists Plot to Unseat Greg Abbott, Other Pro-Gun Lawmakers

Julianna lays the blame for the shooting on “every politician who has accepted money from the NRA.”

“I blame every politician who has passed the loose and dangerous gun laws that are in place here in Texas,” she said, adding that their “recklessness, their performative constitutionalism has led to violence and death.”

She singled out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, accusing him of regularly stoking “the flames of extremism and white supremacy” and noting that the state had seen a number of major mass shootings on his watch, including the 2019 shooting at a Walmart in El Paso.

“Two of which primarily affected Latin Americans,” she said. “The same people he calls invaders and criminals.”

 

Source: Teen Activists Plot to Unseat Greg Abbott, Other Pro-Gun Lawmakers

Revista: Las Puertas del Mal

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Las Puertas del MalLas Puertas del Mal by Núria Masot
(English review here…)

Mujeres inteligentes (tal vez codependientes) capaces de enfrentar el peligro, políglotas vestidos poco normales quienes inspiran el miedo pero protegan a los demas, Trastorno por estrés postraumático mostrado, veteranos heridos sosteniendoles tras los tiempos, las semillas del odio y el poder de la lealtad aun tanto entre la gente como entre las comunidades diferentes. Eso son las cosas buenas que ofrece este libro, cuatro de cinco en el serie, Lo que me fastidio era el cambio ver el mysticismo, mientras el logico era el base de los primeros dos libros. Sin embargo, este libro queda exclente como trabajo multi-generacional que, como a Harry Potter, inspira la esperanza en la comunidad.

originally posted: 17 del agosto, 12 015 EH (Era Holoceno), updatedin 12022
Shira Destinie,

Founder of #ProjectDoBetter.

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Students walkout for gun control laws after Texas shooting – Los Angeles Times

Throughout the Los Angeles region and across the country, students and teachers walked out of their classrooms as part of an organized protest after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman opened fire inside a classroom at Robb Elementary School. Students Demand Action, an initiative that is part of the Everytown for Gun Safety group, organized more than 200 walkouts Thursday across the country.

The student group was launched after the 2018 shooting in Parkland, Fla., and advocates for gun-safety policies. On social media, videos and images captured students participating in such states as Rhode Island, New York, Missouri and California.

In Los Angeles, students staged walkouts from Los Feliz to Woodland Hills.

Ashley, who founded the Students Demand Action club at her school, said she believed it was important to walkout today to honor the students killed in Texas and the people whose lives were cut short by gun violence, including the people killed May 14 at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.

On Thursday, Ashley, with the support of her school administration, gave a speech during which she spoke about the shooting in Texas and named the victims. The school had a moment of silence and told the school the walkout would be held at 11:30 a.m.

 

Source: Students walkout for gun control laws after Texas shooting – Los Angeles Times

Herschel Walker Must Be Trolling Us

Since announcing his candidacy, Walker has claimed to know of a cure for Covid-19lied repeatedly about having a college degree, skipped debatewith his former Republican primary rivals, avoided questions about his actual residency in Georgia and ugly episodes with domestic violence in his past. None of that stopped him from demolishing his competition in the GOP primary this past Tuesday, setting up a race against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat who also happens to be the lineal occupant of the pulpit once stood in by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: Herschel Walker Must Be Trolling Us

Price for Freedom

Grounds For Hope

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We are divided by walls
Invisible, but gun enforced
Ignorant, stubborn stalls.
We talk and talk - it’s déjà vu
Rephrase, rehearse
Wipe off gunpowder residue.
Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat, life in one shot,
A high price is paid for freedom
Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat,
Souls dissipate without a reason.
Sound of discharging cartridge
falls one by one on the ground
A single pull of the trigger,
Silenced a once happy playground.

Written in 2012

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I Can’t Breathe

Grounds For Hope

A sudden force threw me off my feet.
Oh dear God! What just happened?
The counterfeit twenty trapped me in.
The counterfeit twenty became my sin.
       Andrew Jackson sealed my fate
       You shut me up, in fear I’d be talking.
       Knee to the neck with vigor and with hate.
       If only I could see your face. 
If only I could see your eyes.
Are you human or the devil in disguise?
With face on the ground I feel the accuser.
Crushing pain in my chest.  
       The heart is pleading for a chance.
       A sharp bonny knee in my face.
       Dear bystander, please help me, 
       I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe...
       Quiet. A sudden peace.
The body lifeless on the ground, 
The summer wind blows soft kiss
Let go, let go. The heart skips beats.
Let go, let go. The life surrenders.

This was written summer 2020

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Long Covid + Intentions n Grace + Pod34: Hair Color 4 Men n All

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Heading over photo of K-D doggie with da-AL.

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Click H-E-R-E for my podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s show is the audio version of Hair Coloring for Men and All.

At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page, you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotify and Apple Podcasts, to Google Podcasts and Pocket Casts, along with RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher and more, plus an RSS feed. Check out the full list of 50+ places.

Writing this, I’d only just gotten my 4th Covid shot and was feeling woozy. Rather than working on my novels, for several days I slept, hence this post is short. Fortunately, as of this morning, I’m back to a very grateful normal. Besides the added immunity, I’m especially appreciative that for the first time since I got Covid a year and a half ago, earl grey tea doesn’t…

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Leitura

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Ler deve ser sempre um convite. Todo leitor ao pegar um livro, deve ter o cuidado de abri-lo como se estivesse servindo alguém, não por obrigação, mas um ato prazeroso, satisfatório, íntimo. A leitura tem essa coisa de provocar o êxtase, o tesão insaciável da descoberta genuína de estimular a imaginação. Muita gente pode pegar ou mesmo, ter um livro em casa, mas o grande desafio é essa aproximação. Por isso, que para se fazer uma boa leitura é preciso ter concentração, para aproveitar os benefícios ao máximo.

Marii Freire Pereira. Leitura

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Imagem: pinterest/Tere Sa

Santarém, Pá 26 de maio de 2022

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