PamelaWaldman

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Wait. I'm overthinking it. Pacific NW. Probably older than you. Curious about everything. Love #language. #Art #Music. #Comedy #Mental Health #Theatre #Dance #Fiction #Covid #Science
Or, maybe this is precisely why you put xmas lights on palm trees.
These words are engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court. Maybe it’s time for them to be removed. They're clearly no longer accurate.
People aren’t aware of this but Unions, all of them, operate as Non Profits. This bill is aimed at destroying unions in very short order. I’m surprised they aren’t raising an alarm on this bill. Do they think they are immune?
"House Republicans have revived HR 9495, which would give Trump power to shut down nonprofits he doesn't like under the guise of fighting “terrorism.”
52 House Dems shamefully joined the GOP in voting for it last week.
Every Dem should vote against this authoritarian power-grab."
I would like to opt out of finding out, I was not doing any of the fucking around
"The House of Representatives blocked H.R. 9495... Because the House ... was attempting to move the bill on suspension it required a 2/3 majority ... to pass. This legislation would have granted the Secretary of Treasury the unilateral power to investigate and effectively shut down any tax-exempt organization — including news outlets, universities, and civil society groups — by stripping them of their tax-exempt status based on an unilateral accusation of wrongdoing. "
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-cheers-house-vote-blocking-h-r-9495
ACLU Cheers House Vote Blocking H.R. 9495 | American Civil Liberties Union

Under this bill, any tax-exempt organization that criticized the government could have had its status stripped away arbitrarily by a designation that it...

American Civil Liberties Union
Well, I do read banned books

98-year-old Dick Van Dyke endorses Kamala Harris and reads a speech from 1964 when he shared a stage with MLK:

"Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcendent facets of the human personality. They're diseases!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIzsPIrZdc

VOTE!! @kamalaharris

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