CL Anderson😸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

@mswarrior
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I'm living with #multiplesclerosis since 2011. I'm also a #coloncancer survivor. I live in Dubuque Iowa, USA. I’m the Chairperson of the Human Rights Dept., Board President for Habitat For Humanity, Founder of Guardians Against Bullying, Community Activist.
FBI Director Kash Patel wants to bring the UFC to the FBI, sources say

Patel suggested he wants UFC to help agents improve their fitness, sources said.

ABC News

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Abortion #Data #Research #Women #Health

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

ProPublica
Missouri senior who shot Black teen who rang wrong doorbell dies before sentencing
An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honour student who rang the white man's doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
#shooting #crime #death #law #Missouri #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/missouri-shooter-lester-dead-1.7463636?cmp=rss
Missouri senior who shot Black teen who rang wrong doorbell dies before sentencing | CBC News

An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honour student who rang the white man's doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

CBC
Every safety regulation is written in blood. As in, we get regulations only after terrible things have happened, to prevent them from happening again. Now the Trump Administration is firing the people whose job it was to stop the bleeding.
Spotted on Discord
Trump's Lawlessness Reveals a Broken Democracy, But Let's Not Overlook the Real Issues

Photo: NDTV It's often said that the law should apply to all, regardless of one's social status or political power. But in the United States, the notion of equal justice under the law has been put to the test during the tumultuous tenure of Donald J. Trump, a twice impeached, twice-indicted former president who seems to have made a sport out of flouting the rules without facing consequences.

BIPOC News of the Tri-State

Leaders of the U.S.House of Representatives & the head of the United States Postal Service today unveiled the new stamp honoring late civil rights leader, Rep. John R. Lewis. The stamp design features a 2013 photograph of the Georgia Democrat taken by Marco Grob for Time magazine.

"Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”

—Rep. John Lewis (1940-2020)

#histodons @[email protected]@BlackMastodon#BlackMastodon#History #CivilRights #blackandwhite

So let me get this: instead of appealing to young voters and producing a slate of policies to address the needs of the country, the Republicans want control over universities and are running scared as they are often snubbed by young voters. They are just desperate and it smacks of fascism.

Please do what you can to fight this. Express your support for public education and vote for people who do, too.

Conservatives seek control over public universities with state bills-
https://wapo.st/45IE2Yu

Conservatives seek control over public universities with state bills

Conservative lawmakers have accelerated efforts to try to rein in what they see as liberal indoctrination on college campuses, with dozens of state bills igniting debates over academic priorities and how public universities should operate.

The Washington Post

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A #Chicago cop got out of 44 tickets by saying over and over that his girlfriend stole his car.

And it worked.

All 44 times, his tickets were dismissed.

At hearings, Jeffrey Kriv often provided what he said were legitimate #police incident reports as evidence of the car thefts. He explained that he got the reports at police HQ.

Kriv did not let on that he, himself, was a cop.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/how-chicago-cop-got-out-of-44-traffic-tickets?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=TwitterThread

This Cop Got Out of 44 Tickets by Saying Over and Over That His Girlfriend Stole His Car

Chicago police officer Jeffrey Kriv used the same alibi to contest dozens of traffic tickets over the years. A deeper look at his career sheds light on Chicago’s troubled history of police accountability.

ProPublica