Alan Pirtle

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Trial lawyer, dad of three great young men, life mate of a wonderful woman, dog lover, St. Louis Cardinals fan, avid democracy & Ukraine supporter.
How do you spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest...
This is a sad article, but we need to face the fact that GOP lawmakers *WANT* #LGBTQ teens to feel so isolated that they die by suicide. It's the inevitable result of all the laws they're passing. The parents' rights BS is just a thin mask on brutal sociopathy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/25/transgender-suicide-karen-berg-henry-brousseau-kentucky/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_trending_now&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&location=alert
She lost her trans son to suicide. Can a Kentucky lawmaker make her colleagues care?

Eight weeks after the death of Karen Berg’s son, Henry, she’s fighting a flood of anti-transgender bills in the Kentucky Senate

The Washington Post

After 25 yrs back in the wild, the Mexican gray wolf has finally exceeded 200 wild members. The USFWS counted 241 in their annual population survey, up from 196 in 2021!

We're really happy to see the numbers continue to rise, but with their genetic health still on shaky ground, there remains a razor-thin margin between sustainability and extinction for wild Mexican wolves in the US.

More → https://nywolf.org/2023/03/mexican-wolf-numbers-reach-new-heights/

#Wolf #WolvesOfMastodon #MexicanGrayWolf #Lobo

Mexican Wolf Numbers Reach New Heights | Wolf Conservation Center

25 years after the first wolves were reintroduced, the species has finally exceeded 200 wild members, according to the latest counts from USFWS.

Wolf Conservation Center

#CatsOfMastodon
Please boost! Gramps is a diabetic kitty who is up for adoption in West Virginia. I would absolutely adopt him in a heartbeat but I have some circumstances that won’t allow me to take in another cat at the moment. So I figured the best thing I could do is share this little guy! He’s at a kill shelter and I’m so scared he won’t be adopted because he has diabetes. I have had a diabetic cat in the past and it’s super easy to manage!

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I obviously need to pin a post about this again which is forcing me to create a new one.

Nobody on social media owes anyone else an explanation for how and what they post. Nobody needs to roll up and tell people what and how to post.

Nobody owes anyone else an explanation for how they present themselves online, most especially anyone in a marginalized or threatened group. Nobody should have to share or be forced to share any more information about themselves than they want.

People usually come to a social media platform to meet like-minded people and relieve stress, not make new stress. Give people a break.

We have moderation rules. They’re reasonable. We stick to them.

And if you don’t like it, just don’t follow me or anyone on this instance. We don’t care. We’re fine. You don’t need to tell us.

We’re way past explaining it. We’re just going to block you.

So George Santos—if his name really is George Santos—will be sworn in Tuesday as a Republican member of Congress. What an insult this fraud is to every voter.
The January 6th Committee has posted its final report. The document is long. Please pause at this page right at the beginning, the list of the committee staff. https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/Report_FinalReport_Jan6SelectCommittee.pdf
Note how many attorneys served as investigative counsel. These attorneys deserve credit for generating documentation and evidence that gave the hearings their legal seriousness. #lawFedi #RuleOfLaw #Jan6Committee
There are those who look at President Zelensky and the Ukrainians as if the aid request is merely self-serving—as if they don’t grasp that the fight with Putin and Russia is not only for their sovereignty but for NATO and all those who believe in and are dedicated to democracy and justice.
This says it all