Yesterday, another much-longed-for update came through. Jamie Raskin had chemotherapy for the last time – because it has worled. This makes me so happy, please forgive me if I miss any errors trying to proofread. Of course he will now need to recover from the chemotherapy, but at least his body will not be constantly getting attacked, and I hope it will be easier and less painful.
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The Conversation – The presidential campaign of Convict 9653
Quote – Debs was behind bars in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, serving a 10-year sentence for sedition…. Debs had defiantly disobeyed a law he deemed unjust, the Sedition Act of 1918. The act was an anti-free speech measure passed at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson. The law made it illegal for a U.S. citizen to “willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States government” or to discourage compliance with the draft or voluntary enlistment into the military.
Clivk through for history. Of course Eugene V. Debs is about as far distanced from Trump** as it’s possible to be – politically, as a human being, and proabably other ways as well. But Debs had the experience, and I don’t begrudge Traitor Tot sharing it.
Daily Beast – Little Girl, Parents Shot After Basketball Rolls Into Neighbor’s Yard: Report
Quote – A 6-year-old girl and her parents were injured by gunfire on Tuesday night after a basketball rolled down a residential street in North Carolina and into a man’s yard, enraging him, neighbors told WSOC-TV. Witnesses told the station that the gunman ran up and down the street, firing until he ran out of bullets…. The young girl, Kinsley White, was hospitalized after being seriously wounded. She was released overnight, family members told Queen City News. Her father, William White, remains in the hospital.
Click through for story. A basketball, for heaven’s sake! You’re not safe even if you stay out of the neighbor’s yard. Not even if you’re white. And five years old.
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