Scottish fold cats are also popular for their calm, easygoing personalities. But y'know, most people with severe arthritis also avoid physical activity for the obvious reason that it hurts. And if you give Scottish folds appropriate doses of painkillers, they become much livelier until it wears off, suggesting their chill attitude is just the result of constant pain.
hey yall i havent been on here in forever i just wanted to stop in to reminisce, what a wild year but it honestly got sooo so much better by the end of the year. meditating helps A LOT with depression and anxiety so if you are struggling with that and looking for solutions i highly recommend giving it a try!
It’s always so frustrating to me that prison abolition and justice reform are going to require a huge social shift in terms of how we view crime and criminality and causes and effects and justice and compassion.
I want the changes to happen right now, and I’m being stopped by billions of absolute morons who think it’s okay to torture someone for car theft.
Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he's taking executive action to restore voting and other civil rights to former felons as soon as they complete their prison terms -- a move that will immediately apply to more than 69,000 formerly incarcerated Virginians.
Northam’s action, shared first with CNN, is the latest push to expand the franchise to ex-convicts in the state, and comes just months before Virginia’s gubernatorial and state legislative elections.
It also occurs in the middle of a battle around the country over who has the right to vote. Republican-controlled legislatures are moving to clamp down on access to the ballot. As of February 19, lawmakers in 43 states had introduced more than 250 bills that included voting restrictions, according to a tally from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. Arizona and Georgia – two traditionally Republican states that backed President Joe Biden last fall – have led the way in pushing new restrictions.
Removing obstacles to voting for former felons has been the subject of partisan warfare in some states because of the perception that this cohort of voters is more likely to support Democratic candidates.
Under current law in Virginia, anyone convicted of a felony loses an array of civil rights, including the right to vote, serve on juries or run for public office. The state Constitution gives the governor the sole power to restore most of those civil rights.
Previously, the state’s policy required former felons to finish serving “active supervision,” including probation or parole, before they were eligible to have their rights restored by the governor. Northam’s move means Virginians who have been released from prison but still remain on probation or parole now are eligible to vote.
On Tuesday, Northam said it’s unfair to deprive former felons of their rights once they have served their time.
“Probationary periods can last for years. But that’s also time in which a person is living in the community, rebuilding their lives,” he added. “They should be able to exercise those civil rights, even if they are still under supervision.”
“Letting these folks vote or exercise other civil rights isn’t a threat to public safety,” he said. “We’re a Commonwealth that believes in second chances. And we believe in forgiveness. We want people to move forward – not be tied down by the mistakes of their past.”
State officials, in anticipation of the announcement, reviewed Department of Corrections records to identify the former felons who meet the new criteria, and Northam will restore the rights of 69,045 people Tuesday, said Kelly Thomasson, Virginia’s secretary of the commonwealth.
Tonight (March 17 2021) in Atlanta, at least eight workers are dead after a series of targeted shootings in massage spas. The shooting is the latest in escalating Anti-Asian hate crimes, which have increased nearly 150% over the past year alone.
Below are a few links to organizations to consider supporting, all of whom are fighting for the rights of AAPI, as always feel free to add on any (credible) links or updates:
Oh for fuck’s sake. Yes, maintaining war and weapons deals and bombings - all that is really, really fucking bad. I’m not going to try to defend those, or pretend that I even hoped Biden would be better than any other president we’ve had for the last few years on those fronts. The rot runs fucking deep in this country and our military-industrial complex, and Biden is just one more face with the same old habits.
BUT, there’s a key difference between those things and passing minimum wage and COVID relief checks, and that difference is which ones the Republican party - who still controls exactly half the Senate - is willing to let pass.
Biden is the President, which means he doesn’t MAKE bills. He signs and supports bills that Congress gives him, and the Democratic presence in the House and Senate is what writes them. COVID relief checks and $15 minimum wage were both passed through the House, but were stopped at the Senate, because the Senate requires a 2/3 majority (as opposed to the ½ we have) to pass legislation so long as the filibuster exists. And said filibuster cannot be removed, because if the Democrats try, Joe Manchin will promptly vote with the Republicans on that bill and there won’t be enough votes to do so. Most recently, the Democrats tried to add the COVID relief checks and $15 minimum wage to budget reconciliation, but were stopped by the Senate parliamentarian - what the consequences of that are, we have yet to see.
tl;dr: it’s the Republicans and one or two conservative Dems holding this back, and they’re relying on you to not know this so they can pin all the blame on Biden and continue their “big government doesn’t work” spiel.
The kids are not in cages. They are sleeping in bunk beds and playing in sports facilities, outside the grip of border patrol, while the administration looks for their caretakers and ensures that they weren’t the victims of human trafficking. Because the Trump administration fucked up so much when it took these children away from their caretakers, the Biden administration has to work to find them again, which takes time - so they’re staying in the shelters until their caretakers can be found and they can be returned.
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