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“For me the good news roundup serves as reminder there are a lot of efforts being made out there by many people. I will continue my efforts to make my neighborhood, city, county, state, and USA a better place for everyone. Each time I do something toward making it a better place it is a ‘win’ and I will continue to do so. I volunteer with different local organizations, cleaning up parks, helping out at local non-profits. I write, call, and attend meetings. I wrote so much one time that in one day I actually got 6 auto replies from my congress person! I work full time so I have to be selective and it is a balance but I do what I can. So, feel good about what you can do, not what you are unable to do. Thank you for all you can do, every little bit can make a difference.”
San Francisco Will Use AI To Thwart Racial Bias When Charging Suspects
“On Wednesday, District Attorney George Gascón announced that the city on July 1 would begin to use a “bias mitigation tool” that automatically redacts anything on the police report that might be suggestive of race, from hair color to zip code. Information about the police officer, such as badge number, will also be hidden. Currently, the district attorney’s office manually removes the first few pages of the report, but if any race details are in the narrative—the section where the police officer describes the crime—prosecutors can see them.”
Notorious neo-Nazi nexus now nears necrosis
A Columbus judge awarded Dean Obeidallah $4.1 million for a racist ISIS slur. Andrew Anglin must pay, he he has been on the lam for another lawsuit for more than a year. Not going to name the website here.
Impeachment Protest in Detroit
Yesterday I went to a park near Rashida Tlaib’s office, where I listened and marched and chanted, not all at the same time.
Rashida spoke, and you can watch her on the FaceBook video here. It’s set to the right time for her speech. While there, we got news that a nearby Rep had just the day before signed onto the impeachment bill. This morning, Sunday, we got confirmation from the Detroit Free Press.
Linda Sarsour, in town for a wedding, spoke briefly as well, at the 47-minute mark on the above video.
If you want to impeach Trump, please call your Representative. The leaders of the group Indivisible say that calling the office and talking to staff is the best way to make your voice heard in Washington.
Bill in Portland Maine lets me mooooch thwle results of his research. Bill stacked the following items in his popular Who Won the Week? poll in Friday’s Cheers and Jeers. About 2,600 people voted in that poll, and only 3.14 to 6.28 of them were Russian Butina Putin poutine bots! Please enjoy Bill’s on-point analysis and wit, vote in his poll, Rec his diaries, get on his bandwagon, send him a donation, and earn his blessing.
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- Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer, who ruled that the last abortion clinic in Missouri could stay open pending resolution of a licensing dispute
- Election Systems & Software: the elections equipment provider will stop selling paperless electronic voting systems and called on Congress to pass a law mandating paper trails
- The House Oversight Committee, for passing a measure holding Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress
- Scott Warren of the humanitarian group No More Deaths, who goes free after his trial for giving migrants food, water and shelter ended in a hung jury (8 of 12 voted "not guilty")
- Jon Stewart, for raking Congress (read: Republicans in Congress) over the coals after tromping up to Capitol Hill yet again to get funding for 9/11 first responders' health care
- Canada, for announcing bans on captivity of dolphins and whales for entertainment purposes, and single-use plastic bags, plates, straws, and cutlery
- The 180 corporate CEOs who signed their names to a full-page ad asserting that abortion restrictions threaten "the health, independence, and economic stability of our employees and customers."
- Sports fans, as the US women's soccer team scores the most goals in a single World Cup game (13), St. Louis wins their first Stanley Cup, and Toronto wins the NBA championship
- Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA), for responding to Republican congressmen ranting about abortion by calling them "sex-starved males" on the House floor
- The Prince of Whales
Spoiler Alert … Top Results of Bill’s poll —
- #3 The House Oversight Committee, for passing a measure holding Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress — 14%
- #2 Scott Warren of the humanitarian group No More Deaths, who goes free after his trial for giving migrants food, water and shelter ended in a hung jury (8 of 12 voted "not guilty") — 18%
- #1 Jon Stewart, for raking Congress (read: Republicans in Congress) over the coals after tromping up to Capitol Hill yet again to get funding for 9/11 first responders' health care — 31%
Who do you think won the week?
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How to Resist
This week:
Please call your representative to demand impeachment.
Please call your representative to demand impeachment.
Please call your representative to demand impeachment.
Ongoing:
The Five R’s of the Resistance
- Resist: Protest on the streets, call senators and representatives, etc.
- Rebel: Run for office, GOTV (Get Out The Vote), support a progressive.
- Revolt: Change the laws, change the culture, build your communities.
- Rely: Trust that millions of others are fighting the good fight.
- Rest: Take care of yourself, we are in this for the long term.
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