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

Saturday Surprise — Fun Critter Facts ‘n Pics!

Today’s Saturday Surprise is … well, just a hodgepodge of animal facts, some with pictures and a few accompanied by short video clips.  I thought …

Saturday Surprise — Fun Critter Facts ‘n Pics!

¡DEVOLVER LA TIERRA AHORA! « La tierra para los Indígenas no tiene valor comercial, como en el sentido privado de propiedad civil. Es una relación de…

‘Arrancaron nuestras hojas rompió nuestras ramas cortar nuestros baúles Pero se olvidaron de arrancar nuestras raíces ‘ Y hoy luchamos por la vida. …

¡DEVOLVER LA TIERRA AHORA! « La tierra para los Indígenas no tiene valor comercial, como en el sentido privado de propiedad civil. Es una relación de…

THIS MADE ME SING….

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Photo by Nan

ALLONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIE, but I wasn’t sure what the whole song said.  I looked it up and saw only the first line was really appropriate, but the beat and vigor were and are a pick-me-up!

All in response to the nytimes news that New York is fighting back!  I hadn’t thought there was any place left to move, but if I were a tad younger I like to hope I would hit the road:

The big news is that New York just passed a law to prohibit hand guns in subways, buses, parks, hospitals, day cares, Times Square and private property unless the property owner expressly okays it. The state legislature also initiated the move to protect abortion rights, but the process will require time.  Do read the original article.

From <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/nyregion/ny-guns-abortion-supreme-court.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20220701&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=92821497&segment_id=97449&user_id=808aa8374858aa0bb61eef25d704e6b0>

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I Couldn’t Say It Better, so…

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The court’s most immediately lethal decisionremains Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. But do not let Dobbs distract from the onslaught that followed it. If anyone still doubted that the Supreme Court served as the nation’s chief policymaking institution after Dobbs, Thursday should put that to rest. The court is ruthlessly efficient, putting our gridlocked Congress to shame with its speedy and definitive resolution of the most pressing issues facing the country today. It does not require hourslong hearings or endless negotiations to operate. The six-justice conservative majority chooses which conflicts to prioritize, takes up cases that present them, then picks a winner, nearly always for the benefit of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.

Consider the issues that SCOTUS has resolved this term—the first full term with a 6–3 conservative supermajority. The constitutional right to abortion: gone. States’ ability to limit…

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