If you don’t know the indigenous land where you reside on, you can look it up here: https://native-land.ca/

The land of the newly understood not to be extinct Chemakum and the Quileute and Coast Salish.

Coast Salish & Port Gamble S'Klallam

I think Swinomish, Samish, perhaps others

Linda Bock from Sammamish, Coast Salish, Stillaguamish, Duwamish

Kitsap County, where I am is S'Klallam & Costal Salish land.

Spokane

Melvin Mackey — Vashon, WA — Sqababsh Land

Jeremy from Vancouver WA

Tish Levee from Nisqually land in South Salish Sea (aka Puget Sound) living on what is now called Lacey WA

I am Robert Brown from Fircrest (suburb of Tacoma). I live on the lands of the Puyallup Tribe.

Ken Dammand participating from the Tulalip Reservation just North of Everett

My comment on the MTG trials is that it isn’t known who is the official who can disqualify her. If it is Rathenberger, Secretary of State of Georgia, he won’t likely disqualify her.

It would be good to know all the things they did to support the tea party. I have always wondered if they paid people directly to show up and protest at Democratic leaders’ town halls. By the way, do you notice that Republicans never hold town halls?

One argument in mTGs favor is hat the 14th amendment was intended to prevent southern warfigthers from getting into Congress, which now makes it obsolete, even if this is true,but she is still exposed at the state level.

And now they are refusing to debate as well.

the Glen Morgan> wow

Ooh--disagree @Jeff Eidsness--civil war was the context for the 14A but the language is very generic--disqualifies anyone who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof"

Another article re the canvas group and Glen Morgan...https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/group-going-to-voters-for-information/?fbclid=IwAR288vHlOvl1II412LYnwOF4U91fDvip7TWQ7T46sLRYXCsHMNXDn47h1tk

@Roy amendments have also been 'reinterpreted' by the SCOTUS but by the letter of the law, I agree with you

Meanwhile, those pundits and politicians who deliberately vote in districts in which they don't live get away with it, zero penalty. Especially if they are Republicans.

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure”

Dennis Erickson was not a good man politically. Apparently, he was a good man otherwise.

Will study this article for sure. I would like to know. 14th Amendment is imprtant to democracy. Punish states a good idea.

"less-trumpy"

the deal hasn't gone through yet though has it? He's not in charge right now

i thought that the twitter deal had a poison pill, did they remove that?

I believe they did remove the poison pill

#smart #sarcasm

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He doesn't own Twitter until Sept/Oct. What he did now is block them from following him. Not from being on the platform.

Be a Twitter Quitter

27/22

Ah, that makes sense--thanks @Lisa

So, it's down right now, but FWIW, I've really enjoyed the community over at https://counter.social

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Didn't Elon's Court filing explicitly attach legal liabilities to him banning any such individuals for non-transparent violations if such a ban DID occur without due explanation aligned with their ToS?

Not much faith in Musk. But he could clean it up - get rid of all the bots and trolls who mess it up; and then a subscription basis could hold a lot of them back. Also all verified accounts, not anonymous folks taking shots. Could be interesting. Otherwise, he may have bought the next AOL or Myspace.

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meaningfulmovies.org

The New Corporation - May 9th - FB event:https://www.facebook.com/events/1146163716184175

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-rYQiNasmU&list=PL1zDCgJzZUy_O52bErVCYZfVYMgVgu3nX

I think this confirms @Lisa's statement that Musk blocked public citizen: https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1519064518441246725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1519064518441246725%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.knowyourmeme.com%2Fnews%2Felon-musk-blocks-public-citizen-raising-a-kerfuffle-about-free-speech-on-twitter

Not to mention Jewish groups on social justice issues

The Right Wing has grabbed the microphone'

I'm guessing its impossible to know whether or not he's got direct ties to the Koch network?

Not that it'd surprise me at this point.

Should be the opposite -

Relevant: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/democrats-storytelling-connecting-with-voters/629681/

Yay for the young Mi senator who spoke out!

Some people had very ugly comments against the school levy in Marysville recently, too.

sports like ultimate fighting seem to be modeling ultimate fighting politics.

Yvonne, can you pupt the link to this group in the chat—the one you are talking about?

@Julie the same thing happened n Kitsap County on our school bond

Cindy--please put the link in the chat.

@dwight exactly, just like wrastling

"it's not slander if it's free speech," right?!

the problem is that a person who has been slandered must sue the slanderer, and often they don't have the $ to go up against them in court.

Mallory McMorrow video response to attack ads 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOo0KB80es

What about more guidelines for the Supreme Court?

ERA was one much needed.

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There is a strong case to be made for a second bill of rights, we're past time for an amendment

Whereas as determined by the US Supreme Court in Bush v Gore, the individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/00-949

Spokane County's Prosecutor's wife has connections with white Supremacy.

We’ve been trying to get the Equal Rights Amendment for how long? I remember many of us going to Arizona in 1976 (?) to go door-to-door to get AZ to agree to confirm it.

Ken, we live in a facist state with two parties. who take money from the rich, the means of production.

Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178486/democracy-incorporated

Democracy Inc.https://g.co/kgs/Z3hgS2

Thanks for the book recommendation. Ken.

Link to Netflix Series: "How to Become a Tyrant": https://pisaries.blog/2022/04/23/netflix-series-recommendation-how-to-become-a-tyrant-2021/

Thank God for Stacy Abrams who doesn't give up.

Ty Yvonne!

Thanks, Yvonne

I will send a link to the domestic ask from Ecumenical Advocacy Days to Cindy to include with the follow up email for today's Happy Hour.

Sheldon Wolin: "Democrac, Inc.:. Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism." This is an absolutely great book that will provide an overall structure into which the events of tody can be meaningfully fit. Please get and read it.

Ty Ken! Added!

For the Supreme court stating we don't have the right to vote, look in the Per Curium, Section II B, or do a word search on "electors".

On the link I previously sent

Spokane

s Public Television is hosting high school civic debates between 6 high schools starting MAY 2ND 7:00.

Harming children is the easiest, lowest smear you can hurl.

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