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Thread: Chick-fil-a Category: National & International Politics - 10-14-2019 11:23 AM
Chick-fil-a
Saturday Uganda announced a bill to legalize murdering gay people. National Christian Organizatipon paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers with the bill.
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Thread: Too many huddled masses? Category: National & International Politics - 09-29-2019 05:05 PM
Too many huddled masses?
I've started adding this to my emails to legislators concerning refugees:
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Thread: Tree-saving TP Category: Political Action Alerts - 08-30-2019 06:28 PM
Tree-saving TP
National Resources Defense Council is asking people to pledge to use 100% recycled-paper toilet paper:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/nrdc-actionkit/images/em-030819-Toilet-Paper-Scorecard.jpg
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Thread: From Mexico's president to the US's Category: National & International Politics - 06-03-2019 09:51 PM
From Mexico's president to the US's
Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico to move to Washington, DC, to speak with US officials about refugees.
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Thread: Caveat Category: Pets and other Critters - 06-03-2019 09:24 PM
Caveat
Please be very careful when seeking an adoptive home for a non-human animal; this isn't the first time.
"...at least 12 cats and kittens he found on Craigslist, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch... -
Thread: PLEASE vaccinate children. Category: Health & Wellness - 05-21-2019 08:24 PM
Re: PLEASE vaccinate children.
OK, how about we have a serious, issue-focused, non-snide (since no one would make up such a horror story as a "joke") discussion?
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Thread: Save Roe v. Wade Category: Political Action Alerts - 05-17-2019 06:30 PM
Save Roe v. Wade
Alabama's extreme anti-abortion bill gives the state control over pregnant people's bodies and increases the already tremendous barriers that people seeking abortion care in Alabama face in accessing...
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Thread: StateSide - Supporting Progressive Candidates - from Sister District Category: Political Action Alerts - 05-17-2019 04:25 PM
Re: StateSide--Supporting Progressive Candidates--from Sister District
With certain traitorous exceptions, a Democrat is always preferable to a Republican; I've been in the habit of saying,"Ehh, Demican, Republicrat--who can tell the difference?" though if the Repubs...
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Thread: Protect rapper Offset. Category: Political Action Alerts - 05-14-2019 08:04 PM
Protect rapper Offset.
"On April 27th, Offset [black] was at a Target in Sandy Springs, Georgia, when a man began filming him without his consent. In the video, which has since been widely circulated, Offset can be seen...
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Thread: Save Puerto Ricans. Category: Political Action Alerts - 05-12-2019 07:01 PM
Save Puerto Ricans.
After Hurricane Maria crushed Puerto Rico, killed more than 3,000 Americans, and left millions more without electricity and reliable access to food and water, Donald Trump floated the idea of never...
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Thread: Law "enforcement" accountability Category: Political Action Alerts - 05-11-2019 04:56 PM
Law "enforcement" accountability
Sign the petition: The Justice Department must require police departments to accurately report civilian in-custody deaths and publicly share the data.
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Thread: PLEASE vaccinate children. Category: Health & Wellness - 04-27-2019 09:46 PM
PLEASE vaccinate children.
I now know a womon whose mother wouldn't let her be vaccinated against measles and who then got measles and lost her hearing and a lot of the development of her brain; institutionalized for life.
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Thread: Popular vote Category: Political Action Alerts - 03-09-2019 03:54 PM
Popular vote
<big> Here's what you need to know: Contrary to popular opinion, electing the president by national popular vote does not require a constitutional amendment. The National Popular Vote...
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Thread: Marshall Plan, imperialism Category: National & International Politics - 02-07-2019 08:07 PM
Marshall Plan, imperialism
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has outlined a policy of prudence and non-confrontation with the United States, attached to the doctrine and foreign policy principles established in Article...
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Thread: Black adolescents humiliated Category: Political Action Alerts - 01-28-2019 09:49 AM
Black adolescents humiliated
You can sign this petition at https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/Binghamton?source=coc_main_website
"A school nurse and vice principal at Binghamton East Middle School stripped searched four... -
Thread: Bulletin: Camping OK. Category: National & International Politics - 01-26-2019 07:28 PM
Bulletin: Camping OK.
Here's the byline for this news:
By Maria Medina, <time class="post-date">January 24, 2019 at 11:01 pm, via CBS
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A new federal law makes it illegal for law enforcement to cite or arrest... -
Thread: Anti-vax danger Category: WaccoReader - 01-21-2019 08:02 PM
Anti-vax danger
Share this article.
A dangerous and illogical movement inspired by fear mongering and long-debunked junk science has a new and terrifying achievement to celebrate in 2019: The World... -
Thread: Heads up, Medicare recipients Category: WaccoReader - 01-21-2019 07:41 PM
Heads up, Medicare recipients
There is another scam going around where someone claims to be
representing Medicare and saying they can order braces or other
equipment for them at a discounted rate or no rate but need your ... -
Thread: Intentional child abuse Category: Political Action Alerts - 01-19-2019 08:30 PM
Intentional child abuse
Besides signing the petition, I've emailed my US legislators, asking them to read the statement and then call for impeachment or for a psychiatric competency hearing.
Last year, Nielsen's... -
Thread: Habitat for Humanity to launch Homebuilding Factory Category: General Community - 01-18-2019 09:49 PM
Re: Habitat for Humanity to launch Homebuilding Factory
Thanks for this piece of news. I'll be interested to see how decisions are made once the project is under way. Habitat For Humanity says applicants must have at least a certain income or land to...
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Thread: La Migra observers Category: General Community - 01-16-2019 08:31 PM
La Migra observers
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(707) 800-4544
Sonoma County Immigration Raid Rapid Response Hotline.
This is a hotline number in the event of an ICE raid or encounter.
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Thread: Please help Santa Rosa's homeless, who are in for a particularly bad two years. Category: General Community - 12-24-2018 02:31 PM
Please help Santa Rosa's homeless, who are in for a particularly bad two years.
I've been watching SR City Council meetings pretty regularly for about five years, and I'll bet a psychiatrist would diagnose Tom Schwedhelm as sociopathic. He's the one who's been inciting the...
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Thread: Animal-considerate shoes? Category: Pets and other Critters - 11-07-2018 06:30 PM
Re: Animal-considerate shoes?
This sounds like snidely-expressed annoyance. I don't know of any reason to think Bee Kind would leave any species's stools on the ground. Maybe you could find some humans who walk with dogs in the...
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Thread: Animal-considerate shoes? Category: Pets and other Critters - 11-06-2018 02:08 PM
Re: Animal-considerate shoes?
It could be seen as honoring, except that it gets more animals killed; without the very big money from leather sales, the meat industry would be hard to sustain at anywhere near its present size. 1st...
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Thread: PETA on Prop 12 Category: General Community - 11-04-2018 06:20 PM
Re: PETA on Prop 12
This is what I've been looking for; it sounds as though other farm animals will benefit from 12 and the way to protect hens is to get people to stop eating eggs.
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Thread: Animal-considerate shoes? Category: Pets and other Critters - 11-01-2018 10:54 AM
Animal-considerate shoes?
Does someone out there know where I can find the following? Shoes that are made with consideration for all Earth's creatures, including humans, so:
neither leather nor petroleum product
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Thread: Dreams to realities Category: National & International Politics - 10-30-2018 10:30 AM
Dreams to realities
With that lucidity that all his scholars and readers admire, but also with his unwavering vocation as a revolutionary to transform the world and make it more just and livable, the Mexican thinker...
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Thread: PETA on Prop 12 Category: General Community - 10-29-2018 10:30 AM
Re: PETA on Prop 12
Well, now I'm confused. I responded to a Humane Society text with that comment and got the following response: "...For the first time in history, veal, pork and eggs sold must come from the producers...
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Thread: PETA on Prop 12 Category: General Community - 10-25-2018 07:46 PM
PETA on Prop 12
While Prop 12 would ultimately abolish cages, it would also allow tens of thousands of hens to be confined to massive sheds with no more than 1 square foot of space per bird. Did you know that this...
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Thread: Protect Santa Rosa's poor. Category: General Community - 10-08-2018 09:48 PM
Re: Protect Santa Rosa's poor.
The Council members usually rotate the office of mayor among themselves; it ought to be Combs's turn this year, but the majority of the Council members resent her showing them up, as they resented...
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Thread: Protect Santa Rosa's poor. Category: General Community - 10-05-2018 12:55 PM
Re: Protect Santa Rosa's poor.
I wasn't there when the police attacked, but the people who reported it are well known to me as trustworthy sources of information. I've watched the City Council voting for five years. Schwedhelm...
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Thread: Protect Santa Rosa's poor. Category: General Community - 10-03-2018 06:28 PM
Protect Santa Rosa's poor.
If you want to do the homeless in Santa Rosa a favor, phone Jack Tibbetts, 707-495-7438 (his office number), and ask him to vote for Chris Rogers for mayor. The only other possibility would be Tom...
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Thread: Free naturalization, DACA help Category: General Community - 08-23-2018 05:41 PM
Free naturalization, DACA help
OneJustice is coming to Petaluma, CA on Wednesday October 3, 2018 from 3:30-8:30 pm. We will provide FREE Naturalization and DACA Renewal assistance as well as General Immigration Screenings for...
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Thread: Stop child-drugging Category: Political Action Alerts - 08-15-2018 04:37 PM
Stop child-drugging
Allegations of a private migrant children detention center in Texas routinely drugging children with psychotropic drugs against their will recently prompted a federal judge to order medication only...
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Thread: Dreaming of Bali? Category: WaccoReader - 06-03-2018 11:17 AM
Dreaming of Bali?
Traditionally, the Balinese have believed that heaven was just a continuation of Earthly life, only with people who have made the transition before you. Capitalism has changed that; read on.
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Thread: Fascism's 14 Characteristics Category: National & International Politics - 05-18-2018 10:54 AM
Fascism's 14 Characteristics
Can you spot the similarities?
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Thread: Sheriff Candidates - what do you know? Category: General Community - 05-16-2018 10:34 AM
Re: Sheriff Candidates - what do you know?
I concur. Despite his being intentionally obtuse when question publicly as to his policy on dealing with ICE,
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Thread: 300 million dollar housing bond Category: General Community - 04-23-2018 06:49 PM
Re: 300 million dollar housing bond
Thanks for showing us the arithmetic, Tommy; we've had a lot of good comments on this. A combination of a very progressive tax and a living wage would go a long way; I'd also be in favor of putting...
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Thread: Small-Animal Retrieval Category: Pets and other Critters - 04-23-2018 08:57 AM
Small-Animal Retrieval
I'm adding a note to a long-ago post about finding a lost cat or dog:
If your flier is consistently torn down from one place every day, stake it out; sit in your car in a position that's... -
Thread: US ex-cop w guts Category: National & International Politics - 04-04-2018 05:35 PM
US ex-cop w guts
A police officer from Texas named Alan spent eight weeks undercover in a jail as part of "60 Days In," the A&E documentary series that sent nine law-abiding citizens to go undercover at Atlanta's...
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Thread: Sheriff Candidates - what do you know? Category: General Community - 03-19-2018 11:07 AM
Re: Sheriff Candidates - what do you know?
What a pity we can't have Jay Foxworthy for sheriff! ...and I hope his family member's situation resolves quickly.
Of those who remain, Mutz is the least objectionable, even though he dodged and... -
Thread: Help Us Plan the Future of the Bay Area! Category: General Community - 03-01-2018 09:01 PM
Help Us Plan the Future of the Bay Area!
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) are partner regional agencies working together to make the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area a...
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Thread: Emergency interpreters needed Category: General Community - 10-15-2017 05:49 PM
Emergency interpreters needed
https://justicewomen.com/news/sites/all/themes/justicewomencss/images/object1217589023.png
Are You Bilingual? You Are Needed Now!
Are you in Sonoma, Mendocino, or Napa County? Are you... -
Thread: When I First Realized I was not Black Category: WaccoTalk - 10-08-2017 04:26 PM
Re: When I First Realized I was not Black
Here’s the incident that taught me viscerally about the protection, and the lack thereof, that various ancestries confer:
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Thread: Yipee--anti-circumcision article in Ha`aretz! Category: WaccoTalk - 10-07-2017 04:35 PM
Yipee--anti-circumcision article in Ha`aretz!
"It's Time to Give Up Circumcision
Judaism can survive in the post-ethnic world only if its rabbis give up the ceremony of cutting off babies' foreskins of their own initiative
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Thread: Genetically dis-engineer sickle cell anemia Category: Political Action Alerts - 09-12-2017 06:14 PM
Genetically dis-engineer sickle cell anemia
I just sent the following message to Color Of Change:
I'm a white womon who has always been an ally of people of color, so when Genentech started producing blue-eyed blondes(!) I asked them how... -
Thread: What The Health Movie Category: Health & Wellness - 08-31-2017 09:41 PM
What The Health Movie
Just watched What The Health and have decided to go vegan. Here's the URL where you can see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PkJ1MO-LNQ
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Thread: Immigrants improve Sweeden. Category: National & International Politics - 08-25-2017 11:15 AM
Re: Immigrants improve Sweden.
I have to agree that, from everything I've seen and heard, the majority of US whites would go on the dole before they'd take on the really hard physical labor required in agriculture. At the same...
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Thread: Good Jobs, 0 Waste Category: Political Action Alerts - 08-15-2017 10:00 AM
Good Jobs, 0 Waste
The Santa Rosa City Council is making a decision about awarding the waste management contract in August. The council and city staff now have the opportunity to establish clear priorities for...
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Thread: Immigrants improve Sweeden. Category: National & International Politics - 07-29-2017 07:56 PM
Re: Immigrants improve Sweeden.
Just to distinguish between Islam and certain Muslims, as one might distinguish between Christianity and certain Paulists: Not only does the Q'ran not prescribe FGM, it explicitly forbids child abuse...

Campaign contributions and why they are important
Linda Hopkins has come under fire because much of her funding comes...