SHIRLEY CHISHOLM ON HER 94TH BIRTHDAY

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It has been 50 years since Shirley Chisholm stared down sexism and racism to become the first black congresswoman in history. Today, members of Congress say they carry her lessons with them.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, told CBS News that Chisholm encouraged those around her to be "tree-shakers" and "changemakers." Jackson Lee said that mentality was evident in Chisholm's first marquee squabble in 1969 as the urban congresswoman took on party leadership when she was appointed to the Forestry and Rural Villages committee. 

With hard work and by recognizing the poverty in her district, Chisholm used the committee placement to help institute federal nutritional food programs that are still used by millions today...

As the daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Chisholm helped change how the immigrant community was perceived and showed everyone how they could be successful Americans, according to Clarke.

"Her run for Congress actually extended the Voting Rights Act into the Northeast," Clarke said.

For efforts like those, Clarke and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-CA. introduced a bill earlier this year to install a statue of Chisholm for display inside the U.S. Capitol. 

~CBSNEWS 

HAPPY 94th BIRTHDAY SHIRLEY

REST IN POWER

Read More: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shirley-chisholm-first-black-congresswoman-revered-on-capitol-hill-50-years-after-her-election/?

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ROSA MARIE ORTEGA TO BE DEPORTED AFTER A REPUBLICAN LESSON IN NOT WHITENESS

If you've been reading my stuff for a while, you know that I am of the opinion that 
if you're not-white,
you are taking your life in your hands 
when you vote for a republican.

With this in mind, riddle me this?

When is white or white-ish skin not enough to qualify as white? 

A. When your eye color falls within certain shades of brown
B. When your last name sounds Latino
C. When you are here on a green card
D. Both B and C
E.  If All of the above

I say 
    D is correct all of the time.
          E is correct a lot of the time

A Texas appeals court upheld the conviction of green card holder Rosa Maria Ortega for voter fraud on Wednesday, cementing a sentence of eight years in jail and a likely deportation.

Ortega, a mother of four, reportedly thought she was able to vote because she was a permanent resident. She voted five times between 2004 and 2014 — once for the attorney general, Ken Paxton, who later prosecuted her, according to her attorney. She also reportedly served as a poll worker...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-mother-four-gets-eight-years-jail-voter-fraud-n941261?fbclid=IwAR38Zg25ZIw1r6tK-m8FhRaoL3qRzPtzha_C74CMYp0ubJV3gWwAQZyXkso

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Rosa Maria Ortega, a green card holder, voted for the attorney general who prosecuted her, according to her attorney.
Rosa Maria Ortega, a green card holder, voted for the attorney general who prosecuted her, according to her attorney.Rosa Maria Ortega, a green card holder, voted for the attorney general who prosecuted her, according to her attorney.

Tunisia Protests Visit By Saudi Arabian Alleged-Murderer Of Jamal Khashoggi While U.S. Continues To Cape For Him

      "Prince Mohammed, commonly known by his initials MBS, [was] expected to arrive in Tunisia on Tuesday afternoon as part of a regional tour as he makes his way to the G20 summit set to take place in Argentina at the end of the month.

     It is also MBS's first overseas tour after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two months ago. The murder - widely seen as orchestrated by the crown prince - created an international firestorm against Saudi Arabia that continues to reverberate...

     Tunisia adheres to a "human rights framework" that should protect the rights of the Yemeni people, preserve journalists' right to do their work, and grant female activists rights to express themselves freely, said Aouadi.

     In addition to the Khashoggi killing, Aouadi was referring to recent reports on the alleged torture and sexual harassment of female Saudi activists, as well as the four-year Saudi-led war in Yemen that has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis..."

read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/tunisians-streets-protest-saudi-prince-visit-181126202952418.html?

Meanwhile back here at the White Supremacist Ranch we're all living in --still called the "United" States for now-- Trump's National Security Advisor doesn't understand why evidence that this murder took place, like the sound of Khashoggi being cruelly murdered is relevant to him

--as a real life, honest to goodness, National Security Advisor for the "United" States of America.

SMDH

So I guess this makes my next two questions: 

1) When is MBS coming to visit Trump?
2) Once he's here, will the dictator and Orange Dick-Tator-Tot-Wanna-Be french kiss each other on camera? 

3)Will Trump show off the nuclear football why MBS is here, even let MBS press a few buttons just for play-play?

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Wisdom From SOJOURNER TRUTH On Her 135th Birthday

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In 1867, when female suffrage was still being debated, Sojourner Truth said,

“I feel that I have the right to have just as much as a man. There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and colored women not theirs, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

The Fifteenth Amendment passed in 1870, without reference to sex as a protected category. Exhausted and embittered from the debate, members of the American Equal Rights Association split into two separate factions, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).

The vast majority of American women, Black and White, did not belong to either organization. They seemed to accept society’s claim that they truly were apolitical beings and belonged not in the voting booth, but at home, taking care of their families. Some housewives even denounced female suffrage, claiming that if women were to vote differently from their husbands, domestic unrest would surely follow.

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, White and Black women, however, did return to their role as social reformers.

The largest and best known was the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, (WCTU) founded in 1874. Their policies encouraged separate Black and White unions, but at least one White woman, Amelia Bloomer, campaigned against racism within the movement, and some Black women did rise to positions of prominence. Frances Harper, for one, was most effective in recruiting Black women to the cause and was eventually appointed to the national office.

Among Black women who were staunch suffragists was Anna Julia Cooper, best known for her statement: “Only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter in the quiet undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence or special patronage; then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.” Cooper was particularly effective in emphasizing to Black women that they required the ballot to counter the belief that “Black men’s” experiences and needs were the same as theirs.

Despite the racial divisions, Black women were collective in their courage in the fight for equality. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the journalist who led an anti-lynching campaign in the late nineteenth century, organized the Alpha Suffrage Club among Black women in Chicago and brought members with her to participate in the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.

[...where white women wanted black women to be segregated. Ida refused and joined the march at the same prominent location as white women.]

~Weslyan.edu 

http://www.wesleyan.edu/mlk/posters/suffrage.html

Migrants in Tijuana Run to U.S. Border, but Fall Back in Face of Tear Gas

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A peaceful march by Central American migrants waiting at the southwestern United States border veered out of control on Sunday afternoon, as hundreds of people tried to evade a Mexican police blockade and run toward a giant border crossing that leads into San Diego.

In response, the United States Customs and Border Protection agency shut down the border crossing in both directions and fired tear gas to push back migrants from the border fence. The border was reopened later Sunday evening. ... 

The backlog of people waiting to request asylum at a checkpoint has swelled, causing frustration among the migrants to boil over. Some of those rushing the border on Sunday had children in strollers and in their arms.

“The longer the caravaners stay in Tijuana, the more likely they are to succumb to the temptation to cross illegally into the U.S.” said Wayne Cornelius, professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego, who is an expert on the border...

~NYTIMES

READ MORE:  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/world/americas/tijuana-mexico-border.html 

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REMEMBERING THE AFRICAN WARRIOR QUEENS

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"Black Women have always been at the forefront of any movement or revolution. In fact, I'll go as far and say that without back women most revolutions or movements wouldn't  happen, or function properly" 

~HOME TEAM HISTORY

(source: video introduction)

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5. Queen Yennenga 

Yannenga was the daughter of King Nedega, who ruled over the Dagomaba Kingdom (which is now part of Northern Ghana.) Yennenga’s three brothers all commanded their own battalions, and as she grew Yennenga also learnt the skills of a warrior. She was an expert horse rider and learnt how to use a javelin, spear and bow. She was a match for any of the men in her father’s armies, and soon she led her own command.

Read More: https://sheroesofhistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/yennenga-warrior-princess/

4. Queen Gudit 

The fall of the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia toward the end of the 10th century A.D. was attributed to a queen who invaded from the south. This queen is said to have laid waste to the city of Aksum and the countryside, destroyed churches and monuments, usurped the throne from the ruling Aksumite king, and attempted to wipe out the remaining members of the royal family. Yet, this queen is a great mystery, and opinions about her vary from one scholar to another.

Read More: http://solarey.net/queen-gudit-ethiopia-africa/ (not secure)

3. Queen Nzinga

Queen Nzinga (Nzinga Mbande), the monarch of the Mbundu people, was a resilient leader who fought against the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade in Central Africa.

Read More: https://blackpast.org/gah/queen-nzinga-1583-1663

2. Queen Amina 

The earliest commentator to mention Queen Amina is Muhammed Bello's history Ifaq al-Maysur, composed around 1836. Queen Amina is also mentioned in the Kano Chronicle, a well-regarded and detailed history of the city of Kano and the surrounding Hausa people. It was composed in the late 19th century and incorporated earlier oral histories before the Fulani jihad of 1804-1810. It included king-lists of the various Hausa kingdoms.
Known as a great military strategist, the cavalry-trained Queen Amina fought many wars that expanded this southern-most Hausa kingdom.

Read More: http://www.blackhistoryheroes.com/2013/07/queen-amina-of-zaira-west-african.html

1. Queen Amanirenas 

At the northern border of Barwa, there was Egypt daughter of Nubia, which was no longer ruled by the Kamtiu (Blacks) since 500 years. In 4203, the Romans defeated the Greeks who had been occupying the country since 300

Amanirenas and son Akinidad

years. During the heydays of his reign, the emperor August Caesar made Egypt one of his provinces and decided to take Sudan.

Amanirenas and her son, the heir prince Akinidad, made an incursion in Egypt. In the lineage of the Sudanese extraordinary military qualities, Kandake at the head of her troops walked on the Romans, who were impressed to see a woman as a military chief. She lost an eye on the battlefield but beat the Europeans in Aswan, Philae and Elephantine. The Nubians went then back home with war prisoners and war loot that included August Caesar’s busts, one of which they buried under a temple dedicated to the their victories.

Read More: http://en.lisapoyakama.org/kandake-amanirenas-the-greatest-african-woman-ever/

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Queens or Kandakes of Kush 

Kandake, also known as Candace, Kendake or Kentake was the title for queens and queen mothers of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush, also known as Nubia and Ethiopia. They were known as Nubian warrior queens, queen regents, and Ruling queen mothers. 

They controlled what is now Ethiopia, Sudan, and parts of Egypt. They co-ruled the Meroitic with their brothers (not their husbands), a trait of matrilineal societies. They were buried with rich treasure in their own pyramids. 

Reliefs dated to about 170 B.C. reveal Kandake Shanakdakheto, dressed in armor and wielding a spear in battle. She did not rule as queen regent or queen mother but as a fully independent ruler. Her husband was her consort....

One of the most well known Kandakes was Amanishakheto for defeating the Roman invasion of Nubia by Augustus and subsequently brokering a favorable peace treaty.

Conclusion 

The “Kandakes/Candaces” serve as examples of women as powerful figures or clever strategists in their roles as queens, as warrior queens, or as romantic figures, they have had great appeal in times past, and will continue to do so in this present era of feminist or humanist interest in the subject.

Source: http://diasporicroots.tumblr.com/post/10665505018/the-kandakes-of-kush-kandake-also-known-as

THREE MODERN DAY CANDACES

Alicia Garza said

I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for Black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was post-humously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed. It was a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society and also, unfortunately, our movements.

Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.  It is an affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression....

Read More: https://thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/

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JANE FONDA AND PATRISSE KHAN CULLORS ON THE SOBERING REALITIES OF RACISM GENDER AND JAIL

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Patrisse: I wanted to ask what was your impetus in joining movements? What drove you to that? I know that you talked about your own family's history, but what about you?

Jane: Well, it was the Vietnam War. I was living in France, and the French had already been there. So, they had their war in Vietnam, and they knew we couldn't win, and it was an interesting thing for me, as an American, to listen to [the French] talk. I just felt, I can't just stay here and listen to this, I have to go back and be part of it. And, as you probably know, once you begin to study one issue, everything else—race, imperialism, capitalism—everything starts to come into question: economic issues, the fact that we don't have that economic democracy. But it was when I read your book, "When They Call You A Terrorist"—when Trump was elected—that I realized that white supremacy is closer to the surface than I had ever realized, and I thought, "Man, I better understand this more." You think you know, you think you understand, but if you're white, you don't really. And so I very deliberately have been studying, and I read your book, and it really moved me, and I called you up.

Patrisse: I thought it was a joke. June [my assistant] was like, “Jane Fonda wants to talk to you.” And I was like, “What?”

...Jane: You know, I've traveled a lot around the world, and the third world, and one of the things that I've learned is, it's easier to understand—for example, misogyny, women being treated like cattle—when you're in a country where it's totally blatant. That's when you think, "Okay, oh I get it." One of the gifts that POTUS has given us, is things are so blatant and bad, that things that were underground before, at least for white people, have come to the surface now. It's like oh my God, I now understand that we can't really be a full democratic country, a healthy country, as long as we have the legacy of slavery and race. We can't, and I'm not sure that it would've hit me before November 2016. Isn't it awful to say, I'm grateful for the lesson.

Patrisse: Of course.

Jane: But we all have to do it together.

Patrisse: For the last decade, many activists across Los Angeles county have been trying to stop a $3.5 billion jail plan. A plan that would be a woman's jail and a mental health jail. We tried everything: we lobbied our elected officials, we held protests, we did everything and we realized, "Oh they're not budging on this, so we need to take it to the people." We did a poll ahead of time, sort of to see what people want to see, so I started Reform L.A. County Jails, the pact, and we've been gathering signatures since March, we just completed our signature gathering. We have gathered over 230,000 signatures, we've registered over 10,000 people to vote in a short amount of time, and this is gonna be on the March 2020 ballot box.

I told Jane, you know, "We're gonna do this initiative." And she goes, "I want to help. I've been studying around jail issues and prison issues." Jane has done more than help, I mean Jane's been an ambassador of Reform L.A. Jails initiative. She's gone out door knocking, she's gone out gathering signatures, she's held dinners in her home around it. I mean, she's literally been a huge collaborator with me on this project. I think we've been able, for the first time in history, in Los Angeles County history, to popularize a jail fight and a conversation around ending mass incarceration...

 ~Harpers Bazaar

Read More: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a23105747/jane-fonda-patrisse-cullors-women-who-dare-2018-racism-civil-rights/?

THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE CORRECTS ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S MYTH OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING

"As the story commonly goes, the Pilgrims who sailed from England on the Mayflower and landed at Plymouth Rock near 1620 and started a colony. 

The white pilgrims were in danger of starving to death since they were unfamiliar with how to grow things on the land until the Native Americans showed them what to do.   

Grateful to the Native Americans for keeping them from starving to death during their first winter, the white pilgrims invited the Native Americans to dinner for a feast.  This was the first Thanksgiving in what would later become the United States."

This is the nice little story taught in elementary schools everywhere for decades. And it's a lie.

I am guessing that it is mostly white children --and therefore white adults-- who have been allowed to continue believing this fiction beyond the 3rd or 4th grade.

The thing I didn't know until recently is that this is Abraham Lincoln's lie. It was he who made this story up. And he created this story many decades after the fact in order to calm things down during The Civil War.

According to the Wampanoag people, the specific Native Americans or "Indians" described in this age old, fictional tale of peaceful communion, this story that most of us recognize as 'The First Thanksgiving' isn't even in the same zip-code as the truth.

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THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE REPORT ON THE FIRST THANKSGIVING

So [Abraham Lincoln's First Thanksgiving Story] was a political thing?

Yes, it was public relations. It’s kind of genius, in a way, to get people to sit down and eat dinner together. Families were divided during the Civil War.

So what really happened?

We made a treaty. The leader of our nation at the time—Yellow Feather Oasmeequin [Massasoit] made a treaty with (John) Carver [the first governor of the colony]. They elected an official while they were still on the boat. They had their charter. They were still under the jurisdiction of the king [of England]—at least that’s what they told us. So they couldn’t make a treaty for a boatload of people so they made a treaty between two nations—England and the Wampanoag Nation.

What did the treaty say?

It basically said we’d let them be there and we would protect them against any enemies and they would protect us from any of ours. [The 2011 Native American copy coin commemorates the 1621 treaty between the Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony.] It was basically an I’ll watch your back, you watch mine’ agreement. Later on we collaborated on jurisdictions and creating a system so that we could live together.

What’s the Mashpee version of the 1621 meal?

You’ve probably heard the story of how Squanto assisted in their planting of corn? So this was their first successful harvest and they were celebrating that harvest and planning a day of their own thanksgiving. And it’s kind of like what some of the Arab nations do when they celebrate by shooting guns in the air. So this is what was going on over there at Plymouth. They were shooting guns and canons as a celebration, which alerted us because we didn’t know who they were shooting at. So Massasoit gathered up some 90 warriors and showed up at Plymouth prepared to engage, if that was what was happening, if they were taking any of our people. They didn’t know. It was a fact-finding mission....

~IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com 

Read more at 

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/23/what-really-happened-first-thanksgiving-wampanoag-side-tale-and-whats-done-today-145807


The old adage says, "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it." 

And when you put that old saying in a cultural frame, you could rephrase it like this. "If we don't know the truth of our intermingled histories, we are collectively going to repeat the worst of our mistakes again and again."

And the struggle at Dakota Access Pipeline last year definitely seemed like the worst of U.S. history repeating itself. 

A broken treaty is at the heart of the battle over why this pipeline was moved from going through a predominantly white town to being put very close to native American lands -- where the inevitable pipeline failures and spills will run off. Environmental racism and regular racism has its fingerprints all over the DAPL struggle and the police brutality was icing on the cake.

If you never really followed what was happening to indigenous people in North Dakota, now is the time to learn.

Education is the first step toward stopping the cycle of abuse of indigenous people and/or black and brown people in general.

The second step is figuring out how you've indirectly benefited from the abuse of others (cheaper fuel costs etc).  

The third step is to be grateful for what you have at Thanksgiving while trying to find small ways to remove your tacit support for a government that abuses others. 

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DR. OLIVIA J HOOKER, LAST SURVIVOR OF BLACK WALL STREET RACE RIOT MASSACRE DIES AT 103

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In 1945, Olivia Hooker became the first African-American to join the U.S. Coast Guard. She later earned a doctorate degree in psychology and became a professor at Fordham University. 

And she is said to be the last survivor of the infamous burning of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Okla... 

 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921 

“My father’s store was destroyed,” Hooker told Radio Diaries. “There was nothing left but one big safe. It was so big they couldn’t carry it away, so they had to leave it — in the middle of the rubble.” 

The Burning of Black Wall Street in 1921 is considered one of the worst racial atrocities in American history, although it was rarely taught in any history class. 

Over two days, 300 African Americans were killed...

BLACK WALL STREET BURNED BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS 
MAY 31, 1921  to JUNE 1, 1921

Audio: Hooker Interview

Read More:https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2018/11/olivia-hooker-national-treasure-dead-at-103/?cat=1684

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HIS AMORAL ORANGE HIGHNESS DEFENDS MURDER OF NON-WHITE, NON-AMERICAN JOURNALIST

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Last week, the CIA reportedly determined that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [who is NOT the leader of his country YET] ordered Khashoggi’s murder. Yesterday, Trump said, “maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”

...The president issued an unapologetic defense of the kingdom in response to the death of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Turkey.

How White Supremacy Works In The United States
It's not just about skin color anymore....and it never really was.

Trump cited the need to maintain billions of dollars’ worth of arms deals with Saudi Arabia as the reason for his stance.

He said, “If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries — and very happy to acquire all of this newfound business.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elaminabdelmahmoud/morning-update-oh-so-this-is-the-bad-place

I am sickened to say that the only thing I actually find semi-shocking about this is that lizard brain didn't insist on wearing his maggot hat while issuing this reprehensible statement. The fact that his handlers cannot keep the muzzle over his his mouth is no longer even vaguely surprising.

I mean, it's not other U.S. Presidents wouldn't have found a way to keep that arms deal in place.

But I think any one of them would have had the fake-decency to pretend to care about the vicious torture and murder of a man that had been living here in the U.S. And I'm thinking most of them would have had the brain cells to know that had to, at least, let it be known that the U.S. thinks the King in Saudi Arabia should choose a different son to take over when he's gone. 

The impact of Trump is going to last for decades and decades if he doesn't completely destroy what's left of the democracy before he goes. 
 
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a·mor·al

adjective

1. lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something.

   "an amoral attitude to sex"

synonyms: unprincipled, without standards, without morals, without scruples, unscrupulous, 

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THE HANDMAID'S TALE Comes To Ohio: Senators Propose Death Penalty For Abortions

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After passing a bill through the House that would ban abortion at six weeks, Ohio Republicans are considering legislation that would ban abortion completely in the state and make the procedure punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty.

House Bill 565, sponsored by Ohio Sens. Rob Hood and Nino Vitale, allows for no exceptions for abortion in cases of rape, incest, or danger to a woman's life. Under the law, fetuses would be classified as "unborn humans," making abortion punishable under the Ohio criminal code. This means that a woman who receives an abortion and doctors who perform the procedure could face criminal penalties, ranging from a prison sentence to capital punishment.

Unfortunately, floating criminal punishment for abortion is not an obscure idea among conservatives: In April, Idaho State Sen. Bob Nonini suggested that "anyone who has an abortion should pay." And, before he was elected, President Donald Trump said "there has to be some form of punishment" for women who undergo the procedure.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/11/217323/ohio-abortion-ban-death-penalty 

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How Nearly 61 Percent of Arkansas Voters Shot Themselves In The Face & Took Anti-Trumpers With Them

When They Voted For Trump In 2016

A major initiative of the Trump administration has been adding work requirements to benefit programs for the [implied to be lazy] poor....[That] includes Medicaid for the first time in its history...This year, Arkansas became the first state to roll out the requirement. As a result, more than 12,000 people there have lost their coverage...

• Adrian McGonigal:I thought that everything was good about this. I thought it was just a one-time deal, that you report it, and then that was it. 

  Catherine Rampell:He was wrong. He was supposed to log those hours online every month. He became one of the 12,000 people that the state has booted from the Medicaid rolls in the last three months.

[What's more,] Arkansas has the lowest household Internet access of any state," [so] it can be difficult for Medicaid recipients to log their work hours in the online-only portal, which shuts down from 9:00 pm every night until 7:00 am the next day...”

So is Adrian --now living off his Mama at 40 years of age-- saying that he thought this republican plan was all-good because only the lazy non-working folk were going to be the ones SOL as far as getting access to healthcare? 

Maybe I'm reading between the lines wrong. However, there are plenty of people who think like Adrian might be thinking. And I don't understand how you can live in a country as rich as this one and not believe that everyone deserves to see a doctor when they are ill...period.

Read More: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/with-new-work-requirement-thousands-lose-medicaid-coverage-in-arkansas?fbclid=IwAR2Sz8XVsQZfUQmKin19JwwPVx3xYtT-0tkoQ8J97NzYa7xXioLyXcz6BfQ

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CHANNING DUNGEY RESIGNS AS ABC ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT AS FOX TAKES OVER

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Channing Dungey is leaving her role as ABC's Entertainment President.

     Channing Dungey [is] the ABC Entertainment president who made the bold decision to yank Roseanne after its star made a racist tweet, has resigned her post.
https://ew.com/tv/2018/11/16/channing-dungey-abc-president-resigns-canceled-roseanne/

     She is the first black person in history to be the president at a major broadcast network in America.    

Dungey began her career in entertainment as a development assistant for Davis Entertainment. She later joined Warner Bros. as a production executive, where she helped develop and supervise a number of commercially successful films including The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Heat (1995), The Matrix (1999), and The Devil's Advocate (1997).^[6]  

     Dungey joined ABC Studios in the summer of 2004 and worked as head of drama. Dungey was hired as president on February 17, 2016, replacing Paul Lee.^[7] Dungey oversaw the development of ABC Studio shows such as Scandal, Criminal Minds, How to Get Away with Murder, Nashville, Quantico, Army Wives and Once Upon A Time,^[8] as well as the second cancellation of Roseanne on May 29, 2018. Dungey previously defended Roseanne over racially controversial jokes made on the show. ^[9]  

     Dungey was ABC's entertainment president when a Blackish episode was cancelled. Dungey noted ABC executives disagreed with the creative direction of the episode, wherein showrunners featured a segment on NFL players kneeling during the American national anthem to protest police brutality and show support for black human rights. ^[10] 

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Her exit comes right as new executives from Fox are coming to the network after the 20th Century Fox acquisition. Because Dungey would have been reporting to Fox's Walden, who would now be Disney TV Studios head, her exit had been rumored for some time now as many thought she would head somewhere else...

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