Where all sides (will) meet
Federal, state, and local, Constitutional rights, and diplomacy
It’s the worst the pandemic has ever been, I’m in one of the states with the worst numbers and the most resistance to public health measures, where education isn’t the highest priority even in the best of times, and I just signed up my last remaining virtual learner to return to in-person learning, effective yesterday. And I feel great–and terrified.
How anti-trans sentiment and sexism end up in the same bed, and take us all with them.
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
It’s now been nearly three weeks since Election Day, and more than two weeks since the Presidential race was called for Joe Biden.
November is when we observe Transgender Awareness Week. But Election Day also brought a huge week for LGBTQ candidates. While many might have thought the Presidential election was the only thing happening (not unusual), this November down-ballot races made a substantial bit of history: LGBTQ history.
One question of what comes next for America has been answered. Based on the late progression of close-call vote counts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, it was officially projected yesterday that the 46th President of the United States will take office in January.
Nobody ever expected what happened to America’s schools in March of 2020.
“Age old wisdom” asserts that the young grow more conservative as they get older. In many ways for many people, that is true, sometimes drastically so. But it’s also sometimes true, and often advised, that as adults grow even older, they lose their need to conserve a world they will some day leave behind, instead entrusting that world to the young.
Prior to our last Presidential election, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were already cracking down on undocumented immigrants with deportation orders. In 2016, churches across the country, the most honored of American sanctuaries, re-employed the disobediently civil practice of hiding undocumented immigrants.
