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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Young Adults

Let me start with a disclaimer. What I am going to write today is based on my own observations, which may not apply universally to all. The parent-…

Young Adults

USA Today: Most Americans Think It’s Good to Be WOKE — Filosofa’s Word

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch’s blog: Take that, DeSatanis! USA Today conducted a poll and found that most Americans think it’s good to be “woke.” Republican presidential hopefuls are vowing to wage a war on “woke,” but a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds a majority of Americans are inclined to see the word as…

USA Today: Most Americans Think It’s Good to Be WOKE — Filosofa’s Word

Relacionamento abusivo

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Em todo relacionamento abusivo, é comum se ouvir a classifica frase: ” Eu Te Amo” , mas você me obriga fazer isso. Vou logo dizendo pra você algo importante: Não é amor, é abuso. “O Eu Te Amo” é uma forma discarada de dizer ao outro, ou a outra, como ele deve agir, e agir conforme as vontades de quem “diz amar”. Definitivamente, esse tipo de situação não tem relação com a palavra amor. A punição neste caso é muito clara” você me obriga fazer…”. Veja, não estou dizendo que ninguém possa errar. Isso todos nós fazemos, por escolha, ou por não ter consciência mesmo. Mas, situações como essa, o castigo é muito claro. A punição é o que gera prazer, a quem aplica o método corretivo.

Em muitas relações é comum vermos atitudes egoístas, onde a pessoa tomada pelo sentimento de posse, começa manipular o outro para ter certeza…

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Texas GOP Proposes Bill To Allow Sec Of State To Overturn Election Results In State’s Largest Blue County

SB 1993 would grant Secretary of State Jane Nelson (R) the authority to order a new election in Harris County “if the secretary has good cause to believe that at least two percent of the total number of polling places in the county did not receive supplemental ballots,” according to the bill text. Secretary Nelson would have the same authority granted to a district court.

The bill would “allow really low thresholds” for ordering a new election, Katya Ehresman, the voting rights program manager at Common Cause Texas, told TPM.  “Anything from a machine malfunction, which can necessarily be the fault of the county or of an election administrator getting stuck in traffic—which in Houston is incredibly likely—and having a delay in providing election results to the central count station,” she said.

The bill was introduced alongside over a dozen other bills seeking to restrict voter access and overhaul the state’s elections process. Senate Bill 260, for example, would allow the secretary to suspend election administrators without cause, and Senate Bill 1070 would enable Texas to withdraw from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a bipartisan program that maintains voter rolls across state lines that has recently been targeted by far-right propaganda.

 

Source: Texas GOP Proposes Bill To Allow Sec Of State To Overturn Election Results In State’s Largest Blue County