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<\/p>\nYesterday, as you are no doubt aware, I was very late posting. Eventually, I did get both daily posts up, but not until after many hours had passed. I’ll try not to do that again. If you panicked, I;m terribly sorry. My best advice is not to panic unles it goes into a second day with nothing – and I’m not even sure you should panic then. I did eventually reach my doctor’s office, resolved my prescription, reported the pain in my side, found out my difficulty faxing was likely on account of their equipment, not anythng I was doing, and got an email address (yay!) which I can use for non-emergency communication.<\/p>\n
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ProPublica – Barricaded Siblings Turn to TikTok While Defying Court Order to Return to Father They Say Abused Them<\/a> Colorado Public Radio – \u2018They\u2019re not gonna help you\u2019: Why domestic violence survivors say they\u2019re being failed by police and the \u2018red flag\u2019 law<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, as you are no doubt aware, I was very late posting. Eventually, I did get both daily posts up, but not until after many hours had passed. I’ll try not to do that again. If you panicked, I;m terribly sorry. My best advice is not to panic unles it goes into a second day […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704],"class_list":["post-51046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","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\/51046","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=51046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Two siblings in Utah have barricaded themselves in a bedroom at their mother\u2019s home in defiance of a judge\u2019s order to return to the custody of their father, despite state child welfare investigators determining that he had sexually abused the children…. The showdown is the fallout from the latest family court battle over \u201cparental alienation\u201d \u2014 a disputed psychological theory in which one parent is accused of brainwashing a child to turn them against the other parent.
\nClick through for story<\/a>. I trust I don’t have to explain the misogyny underlying this abomination. The fact that these children are 15 and 12, not toddlers, also suggests that only straight, white, adult males are to be believed – which is almost beyond irony.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The former couple are among the first people to go through Colorado’s new \u201cred flag\u201d process, which allows courts to remove firearms from people deemed a threat to themselves or others. The experience gave her a measure of power over a terrifying situation, she said, but it also left her disillusioned. Her story and others show just how difficult it can be for a private citizen to pursue an \u201cextreme risk\u201d petition \u2014 especially when local police aren\u2019t helpful. It\u2019s a situation playing out all across Colorado. In some cases, police simply aren\u2019t familiar with the new law, or may be hesitant to use it. In others, the authorities are intentionally avoiding it.
\nClick through fpr details and implications<\/a>. And this is in Colorado. Imagine if this couple were living in Texas or Florida.<\/p>\n
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