Yes and some of the key player that were named. The ones who are more vocal in protecting T.
Along with Greene, the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year, the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).
“We would talk to Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back,” says the organizer.
All this is super dope but is anyone going to take this report seriously ?
Like don't get me wrong, I do support an investigation but so far all the insurrectionists have as proof are receipts. It's not like these treasonous senators/congressmen were dumb enough to allow themselves to be taped.
???Here's to hoping they are that dumb tho lol
@blackandwhite Looking at the list I'm fairly confident at least two of them are, in fact, dumb enough. But we'll see I guess.
@Baba had a recent prediction that Garland shows his hand on all of this in November. Baba's track record is incredible so fingers crossed!
So next week I will be voting for the first time in an odd-year election. All of the previous odd-year elections I was either in college or living temporarily in another state, so I couldn't be bothered to fill out an absentee ballot. That's not the case this year though. Which gets me to thinking about how when each one of us votes, we create an energy of civic engagement that reverberates through time and space and affects elections in totally unexpected ways (even if you are voting on the west coast at the end of the day). There are several marquee races next week, and even if you don't live in a city or state where one of those races is taking place, you can still influence the outcome by showing up and voting at your precinct.
This is all to say: just vote.
Which gets me to thinking about how when each one of us votes, we create an energy of civic engagement that reverberates through time and space and affects elections in totally unexpected ways
❤️ This is beautiful Coyote!
The metaphors comment really got me laughing...that and sausage fingers. Thanks for the laugh!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-capitol-breach
how long will Trumpty Dumpty be allowed to obscure and delay and spend our tax dollars with frivolous lawsuits tying up and impeding progress? How long will his minions delay and kill the changes so so needed for the average American ? To care for our climate, our peoples? Do they really believe they can fly to another planet and start their Chosen Ones society there leaving Earth and 99% percent of us struggling and dying in the climate horror landfill they are making? Also- past time to get rid of the fillibuster and enact the full agenda of change that we have been asking our leaders to do. It's dark and raining and chilly here for this weeks end and I have had yet another older,sick cat dumped out needing hospice care.... which I am giving. She was vetted yesterday ... recheck in 2 weeks..this is the 7th one and I had to ask for help/donations this time. I am feeling such despair at getting the changes needed, and the perpetrators being held accountable, and how the main stream media seems to bow down to TFG and his flying monkeys?
I am feeling such despair at getting the changes needed, and the perpetrators being held accountable, and how the main stream media seems to bow down to TFG and his flying monkeys?
Don't lose hope my friend. With Biden's announcement about a scaled back reconciliation package yesterday we're in a great place right now! Was it everything it should have been? Absolutely not. Was it the best we could expect in 2021 given the current makeup of Congress and the incredibly tone deaf Manchin and Sinema using their newfound clout? Yes. But some reasons for hope: (even if it hasn't gone through both houses yet)
1) The monthly refundable Child Tax Credit will now be permanent, with the higher number being extended for a full year. Republicans will now have to actively defend their position of wanting to take away money from the working class.
2) Climate health is still a priority - no drilling for fossil fuels in the arctic, offshore drilling blocked, restoration of the coasts and Great Lakes, cleanup for mining, etc. Lots of great stuff here even if it's not the Green New Deal.
3) Investment in child care and universal pre-K. I still feel good that family leave is coming in future years legislation.
4) Medicare expansion - this too will grow over time.
Lots of other stuff in there too. Has it passed both houses yet? Nope. Has @Baba predicted this scaled back one will pass? Yep. Have hope there. Everything in the bill is great news for the US and the world even if it's not everything needed to address all the social and climate issues we currently face. Every child takes a first step before taking another.
Also have hope my friend that justice will come to pass. It's been foreseen here, but even watching the news right now (which I'm trying not to do) and watching Twitter - there are some very terrified domestic terrorists right now. The noose will continue to tighten and we just have to hang on for the coming months for justice to truly be served.
Just have hope in general my friend - as hard as it might be at times. Think if necessary of where you are on the spiral @Jeanne-Mayell brought up in the recent thread. We're all on an upward tick even though many of us are on lower rungs of it. We'll make it through this. Sending you some light and love!
@dannyboy Thanks Danny Boy.. and I needed that.. big hug to you. The news, the weather and yet another old and sick feline just dumped out to suffer/scrabble til death provides release by the uncaring previous owner.. all piled on to make me despair. She is the sweetest old kitty... sick with an URI and her liver showed up as huge and raggedy on the rads.. meaning most likely a tumor cooking or hepatic failure coming on. Hospice care once again.. and of course ... she's as sweet and humble a soul as ever I met in 30 year vet tech career... so grateful for the smallest crumb of care. I am glad she found her way here so that I can help her live her last days in safety,warmth and care with steady groceries. Even tho most days I know not a sparrow falls... the callous, uncaring and greedy seem to be winning sometimes... free from consequences while the rest of us do the clean-up from their fallout. I know the Highest Good is coming - that "in the End everything will be alright... if it's not alright it's not the end" I just feel really tired and discouraged yesterday when I got that news on her. I have had friends step up and offer to help with funds for her care...a first! And I appreciate it too.. because I can use the ? help with all these critters food and medicines. I think I just need to turn off the news and listen to some good tunes and cook something yummy and love on these furkids for my weekend. Turning on some John Prine and cranking it up and baking some bread and a poundcake before making a roast and winter veggies for supper tonight. Stay warm and dry my friends.
I had a vision that she is in heaven now. This brazilian kind ex-military guy is taking care of her. His wife, the kindest person that he met when he fought against Hitler with the Resistance really loves cats.
Stay hopefull
Aheartbegins
@thebeast Good to know she'll be loved on the Other Side by them when her time comes...til then I'll be caring for her here.
I really loved your post. Thank you for bringing hope to everyone who needs some.
If I were this cat, I would be overjoyed to have found you. I would not be surprised if she was indeed guided to you. You are her blessing, her angel. May our world be filled with more caring people like you Journeywithme2. I'm thrilled you have been given some support for your care otherwise this sweet kitty. Good call on turning off the news for awhile. Honestly, I think most of us can use a break from the news, especially political news. It is toxic and oppressive right now.
3) Investment in child care and universal pre-K. I still feel good that family leave is coming in future years legislation.
Hi Dannyboy, to give you an idea on what the rest of the world does in regards to leave so that you can set your sights higher in America and aim to be on top.
This site gives all the information on leave entitlements for countries in OECD and is alphabetical. The sick leave is a bit further down.
https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF2_3_Additional_leave_entitlements_of_working_parents.pdf
The exact length of the statutory minimum varies from country to country, but in most countries employees are entitled to at least 20 working days per year. Taking into account public holidays, this means that workers in many OECD countries, especially those in Europe, are entitled to at least 30-35 days of leave annually.
The US is the only OECD country that does not provide a statutory minimum annual leave entitlement, at the federal level at least.
Here in Australia we are about average, we have 20 days annual and 8 public holidays
For Sick/Carer leave we have 10 days paid and 2 days unpaid for each episode.
In America you can have 12 weeks unpaid leave per year.
https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF2_1_Parental_leave_systems.pdf
This site gives the maternity leave, parental leave information again in alphabetical order of country of how much time and at what pay rate.
Again America is NIL, here in Australia we aren't great we are again about average in being 18 weeks leave but it is at the minimum wage and not full time earnings. Our minimum rate as at July 21 is $20.33 per hour based on a 38 hour week of $772.60.
I remember when doing wages when I was working we would do the payment through the normal pay cycle each fortnight the government would transfer the funds into the firms bank account in arrears (we paid fortnightly where I worked).
If you lived in Bulgaria you would get 58.6 weeks.
Good luck with it all, maybe time for the workers to stick together and push for change no matter what political party is followed.
Regards to all
Umm...can someone explain to me why DeJoy canceled mail service to New Zealand and Australia ?? There are other countries on the list like Cuba, Syria, Sudan and Yemen, but Down Under???
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm
Katie Porter is brilliant. OMG!
Did you see what she did during the most recent hearing for with BIG OIL executives who were under oath?
I LOVE this woman. I love this committee. It feels like a big shift is coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-VgyBP1EGg
Hi Lovendures
The USPS is temporarily suspending deliveries across Australia, as its delivery service in the US begins to slow to keep up with the backlog. The temporary measure is a result of the pandemic and 'other unrelated service disruptions', the company said in a statement.4 Oct 2021
"Australia Post continues to accept all incoming international deliveries, the US Postal Service has temporarily suspended some outgoing parcel services to a number of countries, including Australia, due to air freight capacity issues."
Its basically because there isn't enough air travel going on especially as Aus & NZ borders were closed. Australia (at least NSW & VIC) are starting international travel from 1st November and the other states will start once they get to the 80% vaccination rate. I don't know about NZ as yet, they haven't made a decision. Re opening the international borders will ease the air freight capacity issues. More international passenger flights will add capacity to freight movement which will increase the room for the postal service. So I guess once the international travel starts making a difference USA will start postal services again.
Regards to all.
@matildagirl It was quite a journey for us to become pregnant with the twins. Multiple miscarriages and many months of nothing led us to IVF, the first round of which did not take, the second round (three embryos implanted) took - one implanted and split giving us our beautiful twins.
My wife's pregnancy was textbook - unfortunately it was the "everything that could go wrong" textbook. Around 24 weeks she went into pre-term labor (right around Christmas time - there was no room at our hospital - I literally ranted at a nurse to see if she could point us in the direction of the nearest manger - we were transferred to Grand Rapids) and ended up on bedrest. She came home at Christmas and had to stay in bed for the remainder of her pregnancy. I taught my classes until March when she gave birth at 32 weeks , taught until spring break and then took the remainder of the school year off - she had to go back after Spring Break - about 4 weeks after giving birth because she was out of sick time.
I'm incredibly grateful that we work in a field represented by a union that has fought over the years for many things including - cumulative sick days. I was one of those "It's just a cold, I'll keep teaching" people and ended up with close to 70 sick days that I was able to take at full pay to remain at home with my newborn girls partially out of necessity because my wife who had a similar number used hers prior to birth.
What I would love to see is a guaranteed number of days for maternity/paternity leave - though I'm not certain what the right number would be. For me it was 3 months which then butted up to 3 months of summer (incidentally this is when I left the classroom for my consultant gig at the ISD) and to be completely honest, I could have used another 6 on top of that if I had had it and/or the ability to take it.
I don't know what the right number is, but everyone should have this ability regardless of field or number of sick days, and I recognize how lucky I was to have had the ability to take a form of it - but it's not enough.
My mom (still a "both sides"-er) has gotten more conservative as she's aged - a personification of that horrific stereotype who is now reaping the benefits of decades of social programs and using all the tried and true arguments about why she deserves what she has and no one else does. She too was able to use the benefits of the field of education to take sick time to stay home with myself and my brother, and doesn't understand that that's not the same in every profession, or why a national "paid leave" is a better plan. We really need an education campaign (possibly targeted through the CTC expansion) about why this is a better way to spend our tax dollars than sending more money to the military or giving the rich another tax break (because they've certainly sent those savings down to the workers over the last 40 years, amirite!?)
I am so sorry... I didn't mean to tell you her time is up. I was so flared up that I misspoke. Please forgive me.
@lovendures I love her too! Can you imagine her taking on TFG?? She is so impressive!