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Tell Senator Grassley 202-224-3744 Representative King 202-225-4426 "Hold Hearings on the E.R.A.!" 3 State Strategy thndr.me/isQnEq http://thndr.me/isQnEq

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Detainee Attempts Suicide After Trump Administration Jams Migrants Into Troubled Prison

Staffers have long-warned that the Victorville federal complex was ill-equipped to handle the influx from ICE.

"A controversial federal prison complex in Victorville, California, that is currently housing roughly 800 immigration detainees despite infectious disease outbreaks and workers' concerns about inadequate medical care, is now facing another danger: Detainees at risk of dying by suicide..."

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When You Stop Caring About Children

There are ways to alert you that people around you have lost the basic plot of humanity; massive red flags that point to a fundamental heart sickness, a cancer of cruelty that has metastasized to the point of being irreparable. I’ve seen those signs far too often lately, from adult human beings who are no… Continue Reading When You Stop Caring About Children

Friend, when you stop caring about children, you’ve stop being human. It’s really that simple.

It’s really that important.

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/07/31/when-you-stop-caring-about-children/

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Koch-Funded Hit Piece Backfires: Shows Medicare for All Would Save 'Whopping $2 Trillion' Over Ten Years While Covering Everybody

"If every major country on Earth can guarantee healthcare to all, and achieve better health outcomes, while spending substantially less per capita than we do, it is absurd for anyone to suggest that the United States cannot do the same."

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U.S. spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles

Weeks after the Trump-Kim summit, factories are still producing intercontinental ballistic missiles and enriched uranium.

Six weeks after #Trump declared that North Korea was “no longer a nuclear threat”, newly obtained evidence, including satellite photos taken in recent weeks, indicates that work is underway on at least one, and possibly two, liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles at a research facility on the outskirts of Pyongyang.

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Why Stacey Abrams Is the Future for Democrats

“We are going to inspire voters who, for the first time, see their values in the candidate, and see the investment follow those values,” Abrams says.

“I’m not going to spend a disproportionate share of our resources trying to convert Republican-leaning voters when we can invest in lifting up the voices of those who share our values,” Abrams told Rolling Stone. “Because here’s the thing: I think our values are the right ones.”

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Ever since the primary election victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right-wing media are in an all-out frenzy over the idea of health care, housing, and jobs as rights.

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An Open Letter to Those Who Still Give a Damn

It’s exhausting to give a damn isn’t it? To be a person of compassion in a time when compassion is in such great demand? To wake up every day in days like these, and push back against predatory politicians and toxic systems and human rights atrocities and acts of treason and spiritual leadership failures and… Continue Reading An Open Letter to Those Who Still Give a Damn

Yes, the world is upside-down right now, but we can make it right—one beautiful act of decency at a time. Get some rest and keep going. The world needs people like you. 

 Blessed are the damn-givers, for they will right-side the world.

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Building messy, authentic, and hopeful spiritual community— John Pavlovitz's book #ABiggerTable is out now! http://thndr.me/fb6E2L

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Trump is gutting the #ACA ad budget - help us fight back and promote www.Healthcare.gov; enrollment starts 11/1 http://thndr.me/D27RlF

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A Bigger Table

I just supported A Bigger Table on @ThunderclapIt // @johnpavlovitz

I just supported A Bigger Table on @ThunderclapIt // @johnpavlovitz

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From Helen: Margaret, that man is so stupid if he threw himself on the ground he would miss. And in that ridiculous hat he looks like something the dog is hiding under the porch. Honestly honey, I …

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My name is Nacole and I am the mother of one of the girls featured in the movie “I am Jane Doe,” which chronicles the battle that my daughter and I are waging against Backpage.com, the adult classifieds site that for years was part of the Village Voice. My daughter was 15 years old when she…

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This will break your heart… Written by Joshua Wilkey. My mother died the day she turned 55. This Sunday will be my first Mother’s Day without her, but nearly a year after she died, I s…

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Dear Mom—about your 50 year nursing career & Medicaid... 

https://while-you-were-sleeping.com/2017/03/24/dear-mom-about-your-50-year-nursing-career-medicaid-womans-post-plows-the-gop/

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Read Me...

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