https://twitter.com/CuriousQuail/status/978754144939864064?s=19
«Every cat that ended up being born in our yard was the result of TWO unfixed female kittens being abandoned by their owners.
Two cats + feral toms = 24 kittens in one year, and that is with us ACTIVELY trying to trap/neuter/release. If we hadn’t? CATPOCALYPSE.»
Wisconsin Republicans’ refusal to follow the court’s order is part of a broader trend among Republicans at the state level to nullify legal rulings they don’t like and attack judges who rule contrary to their positions.
Worth pointing out to my NC peeps: In 2018, Justice is on the ballot.
No state has done more to undermine the independence of the judiciary than North Carolina. The Republican–led legislature there has embarked on an unprecedented plan to transform the state’s courts by gerrymandering judicial maps to elect more Republican judges, making judicial elections partisan instead of nonpartisan, and possibly even allowing the legislature to pick judges instead of the voters.
Courts have overturned 14 laws passed by the North Carolina legislature since 2011. But instead of changing their policies, Republicans are trying to radically change the makeup of the state’s courts.
«It surfaced that there was an investigation into Germano’s leadership style and command climate that provided the groundwork for her firing. I requested that, too, from the Marine Corps — and got it so quickly it made my head spin.
Typically, when I make a Freedom of Information Act request for a command investigation, it takes weeks or months for officials to complete the process of locating the documents, redacting them, and sending them back.
In this case, I got a call from the office of the commandant of the Marine Corps, recommending I ask for expedited processing. It was unusual that the office of then-commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford would reach out to me at all regarding the firing of a lieutenant colonel at Parris Island, and stranger still when I received the documents less than 24 hours later.
I heard a rumor that someone was ordered to turn it over to me as fast as humanly possible — even if they had to stay up all night redacting privileged information from the 300 pages of documents.
I can only speculate why Germano’s ouster received such high-level handling. What I do know is this: It came amid a heated debate about the future of women in the armed forces and whether they deserved a role in combat, and Germano was then, and has been since, an outspoken advocate for equality and integration who isn’t afraid to break things to get her point across.
Never before or since have I received a command investigation so quickly. When Lt. Col. Joshua Kissoon, commander of Parris Island’s Third Recruit Training Battalion, was relieved of his post the following year amid a hazing scandal, documents of any kind related to his firing took months to surface.»
Hmm.
https://twitter.com/SHoddeMiller/status/978384450504548354?s=19
«The Christian faith walks this interesting line by which we stare sin & darkness in the face without becoming hardened by it. Instead we humbly admit, “This is why Jesus came.”»
🙂 Coincidentally, while involved in a discussion on Twitter re criminal justice and inmate wages…
https://twitter.com/SICKOFWOLVES/status/978355964133847040?s=19
«UGH I AM HAVING SUCH A CLASSIC HUMAN DAY
I GOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC
I RAN SO MANY ERRANDS
THROUGH MY LACK OF ACTION I PASSIVELY ALLOWED FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
AND BUDDY YOU KNOW I DRANK TOO MUCH COFFEE»
Hmm.
https://twitter.com/dissentingj/status/978575267286388738?s=19
«They are the SAME issue. That’s the point. People are treating profit as unique to private prisons, but this is untrue. And since they represent such a small percentage, this distorts general understanding of prisons.»
Another tweet by the same guy:
https://twitter.com/dissentingj/status/978652202167427072?s=19
«Unpaid (or grossly underpaid) coerced labor is a huge monetary incentive in GOVERNMENT-run prisons. People are dangerously reducing “prison industrial complex” to private prisons, which are just a tiny fraction of all prisons.»
…after serving two hours in Afghanistan. He picked up a drug conviction. I wonder the rate of substance abuse is among vets with PTSD?
https://twitter.com/father_kipz/status/978426076824293378?s=20
Thread by @ramez: “1. The new budget passed by Congress is a massive loss for Trump, and a successful defense of sensible priorities by Congress. It’s not perfect. It contains some terrible speech and privacy acts. But it demonstrates how […]”
Huh.
<<The omnibus bill clarifies a 22-year-old de facto ban on studying gun violence>>
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/23/florida-school-shooting-sheriff-hoax-482170
«“Oh my God,” she said. “How do I get this off YouTube?”
She apparently can’t. YouTube’s parent company, Google, has refused her efforts and those of Israel to take them down — an intransigence that illuminates how new media firms have become platforms for fake news and take little corporate responsibility to combat it.»
