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<\/p>\nYesterday, I found the missing item from yesterday’s package, and contacted the supplier to ask about paying for the extra one. They said just keep it with their compliments. Virgil called (as he generally does several times a week – I usually don’t mention it) and asked whether I’m coming this weekend, and I told him no, I’m coming on Christmas, and he was all twitterpated. Bless his heart, his short term memory is virtually zero. And the TBI was 57 years aho.<\/p>\n
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Mother Jones – Congress Agreed on Drastic Military Sexual Assault Reform. Then \u201cFour Men Behind Closed Doors\u201d Got Their Hands On It<\/a> ProPublica – What\u2019s Polluting the Air? Not Even the EPA Can Say.<\/a> The 19th – Soledad O\u2019Brien and Natalie Wilson show how quickly missing Black women are discounted<\/a> Food For Thought: Yesterday, I found the missing item from yesterday’s package, and contacted the supplier to ask about paying for the extra one. They said just keep it with their compliments. Virgil called (as he generally does several times a week – I usually don’t mention it) and asked whether I’m coming this weekend, and I told […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4408,3704,4330,4115,3748,4412],"class_list":["post-46265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-armed-forces","tag-cartoon","tag-environment","tag-justice","tag-racism","tag-womens-issues","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – With the exception of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic women lawmakers and survivor advocacy groups have widely praised the final bill, which will pass as part of this year\u2019s National Defense Authorization Act, as a significant step toward making the military court system fairer. In a statement, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), called the reforms \u201cthe most significant since the creation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in 1950.\u201d The reforms amount to a \u201csea change\u201d in how the military approaches sexual assault cases…. \u201cThis is huge,\u201d says retired Col. Don Christensen, the former chief prosecutor for the U.S. Air Force and the president of Protect Our Defenders, a nonprofit advocating for military justice system reform. \u201cBut,\u201d he adds, \u201cit\u2019s also a missed opportunity.\u201d
\nClick through for story.<\/a> I know, I’m upset with Senator Gillibrand too over Al Franken. But she – and, more to the point, all the women in the military – didn’t deserve this.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The only reason I\u2019d heard about the issue at the Portland plant was because my colleagues Lylla Younes and Al Shaw, who have been reporting on toxic air since 2019, spent the past year calculating the cancer risks posed by industrial air polluters across the entire country. Their first-of-its-kind analysis of the EPA\u2019s modeled data initially found that Portland \u2014 despite its reputation as an eco-friendly, farm-to-table mecca \u2014 was home to one of the worst hot spots of cancer-causing air in the country, all because of a single plant\u2019s emissions.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. Pro Publica is on fire this last month or so. Please also check this map (enter your Zip Code)<\/a> – unless, of course you don’t want<\/strong> to know whether you are endangered by your air.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – A simple classification really changes the narrative. I mean, think about if you see a missing person\u2019s flyer: If you see \u201cmissing\u201d or if you see \u201crunaway,\u201d which one would act on or pay attention to? Definitely not the one that says \u201crunaway,\u201d because you\u2019re under the impression that the person left voluntarily. So, we really need to look at policies and procedures and training of law enforcement officials regarding sensitivity and cultural [understanding].
\nClick through for more.<\/a> There’s a fair amount of repeating the same points in different words here, which I think is an effort to do whatever it takes to beat the reality into peopl’s brains. So sad that this is needed … but it is.<\/p>\n
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