You know about these bills tomorrow from the Senate Judiciary at 10:15 AM?
H.R.6719, Combating Online Predators Act
S.3394, SAFE Act
S.3397, ECCHO Act
S.3398, Stop Sextortion Act
S.3798, Safe Access to Cash Act of 2026
CHECK THESE OUT👆👆👆
Yes, especially the ones regarding children and defending them against predators. You and others on here have given be info regarding them in the past.
A majority of these bills/laws will ACTUALLY HELP MINORS 👏! (I didn't know about the last one, though!)
(The ones involving minors do not involve KOSA like verfications. They are just general safety bills for minors!)
I am happy that these will actually help kids online and prevent CSAM online and from being distributed by predators!
Shannen Doherty, 52, is urging her fans to "take action" and support the "The SAFE Act to ban horse slaughter."
Updated March 11th, 2024
Crusading to Save Horses, Shannen Doherty Says ‘We Have To Speak For The Voiceless’
Helping Horses Amid Cancer
Beloved actress Shannen Doherty, 52, often takes to social media while battling stage 4 breast cancer. She recently shared a video of herself urging others to take action and stop horse slaughter, as well as the export of horses. Being able to help animals while dealing with one’s own health battle is incredibly inspirational. We admire Doherty’s kindness and empathy toward animals— both horses and dogs.
Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. It went into remission in 2017 but returned as stage 4 cancer in 2019.
Her breast cancer spread to her brain causing her to undergo surgery to remove a tumor in her brain. Since brain surgery, Doherty’s recovery appears to be going well and supporting animals in need.
Challenging oneself can actually help people facing cancer, chronic disease, or other problems to develop resilience, which is an essential coping tool. That process of pushing oneself to try new things is one of the “three wellsprings of vitality,” according to Dr. Samantha Boardman. The other two are connecting with others and contributing to the lives of people around you.
“Those are the cores of vitality, and the core pathways to enhance your everyday resilience,” Dr. Boardman explains.
As “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Shannen Doherty’s battle with metastatic breast cancer is ongoing, and so is her passion for animal rights. We’re admiring the beloved actress’s ability to focus her energy on animals in need, especially during her personal health journey and making time for her new podcast iHeart Radio podcast “Let’s Be Clear,” as well as spending time with friends and family.
The horse enthusiast was recently featured in an Instagram reel urging her fans to “take action” and contact your members of Congress to support the “The SAFE Act to ban horse slaughter.”
The video clip, posted to Doherty’s Instagram page and originally shared by the non profit organization Horses In Our Hands, shows the animal lover saying, “Each year, thousands of horses are shipped off to slaughter. It’s an unbelievably inhumane slaughter. “We don’t eat horse meat here in America, but people do dump their horses off so that they can go to Japan and Mexico and Canada. And they are often shipped without water, without food, and then slaughtered inhumanely.”
She continued, “Horses are sentiment beings. They love. They feel. Our personal horses, our pets, get such emotional attachments to us as we do to them. Our American wild horses. I mean, there’s poems written about the American wild horse. There’s books, there’s movies.
“When people think about American, they think about the cowboy. They think about the roundups. It’s just … and yet we’re not protecting them. Instead, we have government agencies that are rounding up our wild mustangs, our wild horses … putting them in pens, breaking them from their families, from their band. Fools, babies, they are rounding up. And they go to auction and kill buyers buy them. And these beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, once wild, once free sentient beings are then shipped off and brutally dismembered for human consumption.”
“I believe we’re at the point where we have to be responsible. We have to speak for the voiceless. We have to be their voices. The SAFE Act will do that,” Doherty said, before urging her followers to do anything they can in their efforts to reach out to legislators and fight for the cause.
Doherty also urged her fans to “do it for me” before telling them how her passion for horses began when she started riding when she was a kid.
She recounted when she auditioned for a 1985 American television miniseries called “Robert Kennedy and His Times,” and how she was asked if she rode horses and could jump, to which she responded, “Yes, just tell me how high.”
But she admitted that when she got the job she didn’t actually know how to ride a horse, so she leased a horse named Joey and learned how to ride.
“That horse became my best friend. I loved grooming him. I loved spending time. I would just walk with him and it was great. And then I just kept that going,” she added, noting how she’s had horses that have grown old and she doesn’t sell them off, but instead, puts them out to pasture, “where they are watched and vets come, and I care for them.”
Referring to another horse she had named Picasso, Doherty said he passed away from old age and had a “wonderful life” with her.
She concluded, “All horses deserve that life and all wild horses deserve to be wild. … Lets have the horses have their land and more importantly, lets stop shipping horses off for slaughter in foreign countries.
The Horses In Our Hands’ post reminds everyone to take action for this cause by using the link on their Instagram page to “send a letter urging your members of Congress to support the bipartisan SAFE Act -Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act (H.R. 3475 / S. 2037).”
The SAFE Act will “permanently ban horse slaughter in the United States” as U.S. Slaughter House inspecting has been defunded yearly by Congress since 2007.
Additionally, the act will “permanently ban the export of American horses to other countries for slaughter.”
In an earlier Instagram post, Doherty’s love for horses can be seen a photo she shared of a horse and an open grass field, writing alongside it, “Off the grid. Horses. Cattle. My soul is starting to feel rejuvenated again.
“Back when I’m back.. #mountainlife #ranchlife #nocellexceptforonemountaintop which I’ll avoid for rest of time here.”
In another photo shared on her Instagram page, Doherty is seen offering a carrot to a beautiful horse … and it’s the sweetest thing. We’re delighted to see her pushing forward and being the voice for the voiceless.
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Animals and Healing
It is often said that animals improve our quality of life, and that can especially be true for people battling cancer like Doherty. Though she has always been an advocate, her passion for animals gives her something to focus on and put her heart into each and every day.
We often need to keep going, and there have been studies showing the power of passion of positivity affecting the outcome of your disease. What still brings you joy? It’s important to do things to feed your emotional health just as much as your physical. For Doherty, it usually involves furry friends, but she also enjoys hanging out with other humans.
It’s important to remember that life doesn’t slow down for a cancer diagnosis, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, our experts say that prioritizing your overall wellbeing and continuing to do the things you love, like how Doherty continues to save animals, can be very beneficial.
Dr. Geoffrey Oxnard, a thoracic oncologist, previously shared to SurvivorNet the three things he tells his lung cancer patients about living with the disease:
Don’t act sick “You can’t mope around,” he said. “Do things, and in doing things, you will stay active.”
Don’t lose weight “Eat what you need to do to not lose weight,” he said. “I like my patients pleasantly plump.”
Don’t be a tough guy “When you’ve got lung cancer, you need work with your doctor to keep your medical conditions under control.”
Shannen Doherty’s Cancer Battle
Shannen Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 after she discovered a lump in her breast. For treatments the first time around, she underwent hormone therapy, a single mastectomy (the removal of all breast tissue from one breast), chemotherapy and radiation.
Then in 2017, Doherty was deemed to be in remission, however, the cancer returned just two years later in 2019 as metastatic, or stage four, breast cancer.
This time, the cancer had spread to other parts of her body making it a metastatic, or stage four, cancer diagnosis.
Benjamin Wassell, USMC Veteran, 1st Arrest under SAFE Act, Charges Dismissed
Benjamin Wassell, USMC Veteran, 1st Arrest under SAFE Act, Charges Dismissed
USMC veteran Benjamin Wassell was the first person convicted under New York’s SAFE Act back in 2014. He sold two of his ARs to an undercover investigator, but because of a brain injury he received in Iraq there was some confusion about what he thought he could do. In April of this year, his conviction was overturned. Today he walked into the Chautauqua County courthouse where those charges were…
