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"Shannon Watts, who founded the advocacy group Moms Demand Action after the Sandy Hook killings more than a decade ago, countered Sunday that “faith without works is dead. Prayers without action are empty.”

She called on Self to do more to protect Americans. Mass killings like the one in Allen are “the logical outcome of lawmakers giving unvetted, untrained civilians unfettered access to arsenals and ammunition.”"
washingtonpost.com/nation/2023

#ThoughtsAndPrayers #Guns #GunViolence #GOP #USA

Our NRA World: Gunslinger drops his gun at an Alabama gas station. The gun discharges and wounds one person. It happens. whnt.com/news/decatur/morgan-c

A walkout by most Republicans in the Oregon Senate aimed at delaying action on gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care bills extended to a fifth day Sunday. trib.al/U8bmTjo #news #worldnews

“They’re lying to you,” he said. “This isn’t about mental health, which every other country has problems with. It isn’t drugs, which every other country struggles with. It isn’t computer games, which every other country has. It’s the guns. It’s obviously the guns.”

. “Let’s stop treating the GOP as the party of law and order and treat them, more accurately, as the party of gun violence, of school shootings, of mall massacres.” huffpost.com/entry/mehdi-hasan

stephen king on allen tx & a first responder

Allen, Texas: First responder took a little girl’s pulse before realizing she had no face.
Time for responsible gun laws.

@tristansnell
How's this idea.
Replace the SC with a Supreme Panel, composed of random picks from the numerous federal judges. Pick 3 every 2 years. Thus each serves 6 years on the Panel.

So Federal Judges still get lifetime appointments, but not lifetime on the Panel.

Such an arrangement would be very hard to stack or corrupt.

How did American classrooms and malls become #NRA-sponsored slaughterhouses? Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the twisted history of an utterly imagined "Constitutional right." #guns #crime heathercoxrichardson.substack.

“Abbott can go to hell.” Dude, he’s in Texas. He’s already in hell.

@statmonkey if God’s control is absolute pack your desk because we clearly have no need for congressmen

#Allusions are one of the trickiest #LiteraryDevices to teach young people, largely because allusions by their very nature expect the reader to already understand people and events generally considered to be “common knowledge.”

You see the problem.

bluecerealeducation.com/blog/r

#ELA #teachers #education #edutooter

Okay, look, America.

It's *Canada* Geese, not Canadian Geese.

It's just a name, they don't belong to us, they're not our fault.

Sorry, though. 😉

"No publicly traded company would consider naming Trump to an executive position... None of his billionaire friends would trust him with their money." He couldn't work in a school or a lawfirm. And yet we might elect him president, @sykescharlie writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

(Even God has to be saying by now: ‘Sheezus, just make it harder to get semi-automatic weapons. Just like you do renewing your license at the DMV or beating a red-light camera ticket.’)”

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Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature of 44.1C (111.38F), as weather experts and authorities told the population to remain indoors during the hottest parts of the day.

Scientists have said global warming is aggravating adverse weather. Neighbouring countries registered record temperatures during a heatwave in Asia in April.
#News #climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming
theguardian.com/world/2023/may

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