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StarfishSaver

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June 15, 2020

There are ramps and there are ramps

And sometimes there's the same ramp but one person can handle it and another one can't.

https://twitter.com/ConserveLetters/status/1272158701516980224

June 15, 2020

Kimberly Jones has an eloquent answer to the question "Why are they looting?" Listen to her



People are like, "What did you get? What do you gain?" But I think as long as you're focusing on the what, you're not focusing on the why. Some say well (looters) are not people who are legitimately angry about what's happening, they're just people who just want to get stuff so let's go with that and say what it is.

Let's ask ourselves why in this country in 2020, why the financial gap between poor blacks and the rest of the world is at such a distance that people feel their only hope and only opportunity to get some of the things that we flaunt and flash in front of them all the time is to walk through a broken glass window and get it.

That they are so hopeless that getting that necklace, or chain, or TV, or bed or phone, whatever they want to get is that in that moment when riots happen that's their only opportunity to get it.

Why are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that food insecure, clothing insecure that they feel their only shot is walking through a broken glass window and getting it.
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And they are lucky that all black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.
June 15, 2020

The Supreme Court likely just invalidated Trump's roll back of LGBTQ protections in health care

I suspect the Trump team was confident this case would go the other way and rushed through the revocation of the regulation because it thought they were all in sync.

The action last Friday revoked an Obama-era regulations interpreting the Affordable Care Act prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex to include prohibition against discrimination against LGBTQ people.

Although today's case applies to the Civil Rights Act, its ruling that the definition of sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act includes LGBTQ means that the same prohibition in the ACA would also apply to LGBTQ.

So now the administration no longer has the power to issue regulations interpreting the law as it chooses since the Court just told them, in no uncertain terms, what the law says.

Sweet ...

June 15, 2020

I am really sick of having to explain why a black man who was shot in the back by a police officer

in violation of law and police procedure would have reason enough to be afraid of being harmed by the police even if he complied that he would resist arrest and run away.

C'mon people. Think.

June 15, 2020

Turns out Lindsay Graham is one Biden's most effective surrogates!

Thanks, Lindsay for this great ad!

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