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<\/p>\nYesterday, President Joe signed an executive order establishing military Offices of Special Trial Counsel, which will be responsible for all prosecutions of sexual assault, domestic violence, and other violent crime – taking those prosecutions out of the chain of command (under which so many cases have died.) About damn time. And good forJoe! Of course MAGA s furious. Also, a superseding indictment came out in the Trump** documetns case, over which people who are interedted in law and crime are salivating. And my area had a little power failure. Annoying – but didn’t last long, and it came with lightning which came with rain and cooled things down a bit. I had had to break out a couple of the knitted bands I keep (wet) in thr refrigerator and put one around my neck and one around my forehead while all the fans were stopped.<\/p>\n
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Associated Press News – Biden chooses former Maryland Gov.<\/a> Martin O\u2019Malley to lead the Social Security Administration The 19th – Newly disabled people aren\u2019t given a \u2018how-to\u2019 guide. Disability doulas are closing those gaps.<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, President Joe signed an executive order establishing military Offices of Special Trial Counsel, which will be responsible for all prosecutions of sexual assault, domestic violence, and other violent crime – taking those prosecutions out of the chain of command (under which so many cases have died.) About damn time. And good forJoe! Of course […]<\/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":[3704,4863,4132,4861,3851],"class_list":["post-52534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-disabilities","tag-health-care","tag-mental-health","tag-social-security","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\/52534","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=52534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52534\/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=52534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated former Maryland Gov. Martin O\u2019Malley to lead the Social Security Administration…. \u201cGovernor O\u2019Malley is a lifelong public servant who has spent his career making government more accessible and transparent, while keeping the American people at the heart of his work,\u201d Biden said in a statement. \u201cAs Governor, he made government work more effectively across his administration and enhanced the way millions of people accessed critical services.\u201d
\nClick through for details<\/a>. I haven’t heard his name for a long time, but Iseem to recall my impression was positive.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu began doing disability doula work long before they ever heard the term. From the time they were in middle school, they remember \u201cbeing responsible for big, intense crisis situations\u201d with their friends. Throughout high school, a close friend self-injured. Kaufman-Mthimkhulu would drive to her house and listen. They would also take care of their friend\u2019s wounds, spend time watching bad TV shows and eat ice cream. What they didn\u2019t do is blame or shame their friend. Now, years later, disability doula work is a core part of both Kaufman-Mthimkhulu\u2019s personal practice and their job as director of peer support organization Project LETS, which works to organize community-based mental health support for people with disabilities.
\nClick through for story<\/a>. I applaud their work. I hope they are allowed to continue and to grow.<\/p>\n
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