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

Trump cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran | US news | The Guardian (Trump opposed to promoting democracy in Belarus, Honk Kong and Iran)

Source: Trump cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran | US news | The Guardian

The Trump administration has stopped vital technical assistance to pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran, which had helped activists evade state surveillance and sidestep internet censorship.

Sanders issues stark warning on Trump and calls for election commission

Trump casts doubt on his vote and his wife’s vote since they are voting absentee… Feeding distrust of voting and aiming to tie everything up in court and his criminal AG Barr.

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Senator accuses Trump and Republicans of ‘sowing the seeds of chaos’ by ‘casting doubt’ on election

Senator Bernie Sanders has returned to the campaign trail by calling for an independent election commission to stop Donald Trump defying the will of the people and plunging the US into a constitutional crisis.

The independent senator also urged social media companies to “get their act together” and news media to prepare the American people to understand that “there is no longer a single election day”.

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Most Texas public school coronavirus cases found in teenagers, data shows | The Texas Tribune (% is misleading, since if each just infected 1 additional person – things quickly get out of hand)

Source: Most Texas public school coronavirus cases found in teenagers, data shows | The Texas Tribune

Statewide, at least 3,735 Texas public school students who have returned to campus in person this school year have tested positive for the coronavirus

Tillis pushes debunked theory about COVID death toll | TheHill (disrespecting the deaths of nearly 190,000 caused by Covid-19 infection)

Source: Tillis pushes debunked theory about COVID death toll | TheHill

“But I think when the final accounting is done you are going to see, sadly, that the number of people who died may have died from an underlying condition at the same time that they had COVID,” Tillis said.

Ernst also drew fire for saying she is “so skeptical” of case and death counts from the coronavirus, later adding, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, “They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly COVID-19. … I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

The discredited theory comes from a misreading of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) webpage stating that the coronavirus was listed as the sole cause for only 6 percent of deaths from the virus.

However, that does not mean the other 94 percent of people did not die from the coronavirus. Instead, it means that another factor directly caused by the coronavirus, such as respiratory failure, was also listed or that there was an underlying condition that is not necessarily fatal on its own but heightens the risks from the coronavirus.

Hundreds of lawyers from nation’s oldest African American sorority join effort to fight voter suppression

We also will be available to monitor the election at polling locations as rapid responders to draft and file pleadings, appear in court, and make oral arguments to get ballots counted. Sorority members will volunteer where needed,” she continued.

For the effort, the sorority said the National Bar Association will be using the volunteer lawyers “to serve as poll watchers as well as poll monitors on Election Day.”

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The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., (AKA) the nation’s oldest African American Greek-letter sorority, has joined forces with the National Bar Association, the biggest and oldest network of African American lawyers and j…

Texas governor proposes stiffer penalties for organizing, participating in ‘riots’

Another attack on first amendment – if police or elected official declares a protest a riot, then who checks their power to suppress free speech.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday proposed a series of aggressive legislative proposals to significantly raise the penalties for crimes committed during protests, drawing criticism from civil liberties advocates….

Politics of Portland’s Protests: Crucial Battles Against barbaric Trumpism affect Elections — The Free

”At the moment the future is up for grabs, but can only be seized with a strategy capable of winning the allegiance of the broader public and stunting the growth of a now-toddling fascism”. by Shamus Cooke ON COUNTERPUNCH shared with thanks. Illustrations added. The Politics of Portland’s Protests Portland entered the 100th straight day […]

Politics of Portland’s Protests: Crucial Battles Against barbaric Trumpism affect Elections — The Free

Coffee Date with Luna: Addicted to the Noise — Luna

Hello everyone! I rose from the dead, here I am actually blogging on my own blog. My last few weeks have been quite interesting and when I say interesting, I mean numbingly painful but I am still working through that bullshit. When I say that I rose from the dead I mean it. Forgot to say, welcome […]

Coffee Date with Luna: Addicted to the Noise — Luna

Thoughtful Thursdays: learning a language to smile at others, or not? — ShiraDest: Education, Cooperation, and The 4 Freedoms for ALL Human Beings

Short story: glad I smiled at someone I did not know -who thanked me, and made me grateful to be alive, back in 2005. And even more recently. Less short version of the story:When I lived in Izmir, that summer I took long walks on Saturday afternoons. I had the habit of smiling, or at […]

Thoughtful Thursdays: learning a language to smile at others, or not? — ShiraDest: Education, Cooperation, and The 4 Freedoms for ALL Human Beings