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Service Academy Grad, combat vet, happy Dad, empty nesting with high school sweetheart, small business owner, 9/11 Pentagon attack survivor. I see every day as a gift. #fitness #servantleader #stratiegicplanner #ancientfaith #Orthodoxy #twittermigration #blackmastodon #bipoc #dei #smallbusinessowner
Votes held by Congress yesterday: 2 on Nomination, 3 on Cloture https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes 🏛️
Congressional Votes Database - GovTrack.us

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This is one hell of a speech to the 118th Congress from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AxDQK6yGBI

#congress #minorityleader #housedemocrats #speakerofthehouse #Houseofrepresentatives #hakeemjeffries

Leader Jeffries Speech Upon the Election of the Speaker of the House

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'This makes my brain hurt': Connecticut used disaster aid to rebuild million-dollar homes

Owners of 62 homes worth at least $1 million received recovery grants after Hurricane Sandy when HUD weakened rules meant to make needy people the priority, POLITICO’s E&E News found.

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Systemic racism down to the way women's clothes measurements were developed. Study done in the 1930s. Women measured, but all #BIPOC data immediately thrown out. This piece from RadioLab podcast tells part of the story on this. #fashion #blackmastodon #justice #dei #antiracism #justice #hiddenhistory #blacktwitter #blackfedi #histodon https://youtu.be/zvbwSV6dz9c?t=630
Butt Stuff | Radiolab Podcast

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Also, any serious discussion of election security has to grapple with two simultaneous realities:

- there's no evidence that any US election outcome has ever been altered by hacking

- there are real, exploitable vulnerabilities in many parts of our election infrastructure

I've written a bit on what these vulnerabilities are and how to fix them, See, e.g., this brief article:
https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.2-p505-522-Blaze.pdf

🚨VICTORY: North Carolina Supreme Court permanently blocks voter suppression law #SB824, which provided a narrow list of qualifying photo IDs to vote, finding that it was enacted to intentionally disenfranchise and discriminate against Black voters.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-supreme-court-blocks-strict-photo-id-law/
North Carolina Supreme Court Blocks Strict Photo ID Law

Read more here.

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@drcaberry When I moved to Puerto Rico 25 years ago, I had to unlearn professionalism from my own white context.

In Puerto Rico it's okay to occasionally bring your kids to the office or place of work (safety permitting, of course).

It's a quality of life issue, and generally acceptable. What is "professional" is dictated by the values of a people. Here, relationships, family, and fellowship are valued more.

I had to unlearn, but now that I have adapted, I find it no less "professional."

Stop and consider the breathtaking arrogance of any one individual saying he will run his privately owned platform as a venue for “free speech.” Freedom of speech is a guarantee from a democratic government that it will not interfere with the liberties of the people. No private individual stands in the relation to others that a democratic government stands to the people within its jurisdiction.
I’m planning to follow every single one of the journalists Musk suspends.

No warning. I report on Elon Musk and other topics for The Washington Post and will keep doing so because free speech and transparency are important for the world.

In the last few days I ... wrote about Elon Musk. I posted links to publicly available, legally acquired data as well as links to Mastodon, which also now is banned on Twitter.

Elon Musk is free to ban whoever he wants from Twitter, just like people are free to take their speech somewhere else.