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Some good discussion of #metoo movement in this article. Glad to see she is running.
Minnesota Woman Who Faced Backlash Over Al Franken Is Running For Office
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-port-al-franken_n_5ddf2b45e4b0d50f329c43f9
12/01/2019 08:51 am ET
Lindsey Port had absolutely nothing to do with the Democratic senator’s downfall. But she was blamed for it anyway.
Lindsey Port was one of the most unusual cases of Me Too backlash.
In 2017, as a Democratic candidate for the Minnesota state House, she spoke out about the sexual harassment she faced from a state legislator in her own party. The man, Dan Schoen, resigned from the state Senate, and Port received significant support for coming forward.
But then the finger-pointing began.
Port somehow ended up getting blamed for the downfall of Al Franken, Minnesota’s U.S. senator who resigned in January 2018 amid allegations of groping from multiple women. Port didn’t know Franken, and she never called on him to step down.
But the backlash was so severe that she ended up dropping her bid for public office and faced financial repercussions at her company.
Now, she is trying again. Port, 37, has announced that she is running for Minnesota state Senate, hoping that what she went through since 2017 will help her flip this district next year.
“Over the last two years in the challenges that I faced in speaking truth to power, it became really clear to me that we need voices who are not afraid to challenge leadership and the status quo,” she told HuffPost. “We need those people running at all levels of government.”
Dropping 2018 Campaign Bid
Port was one of the most visible faces of the Me Too movement in 2017. She and Erin Maye Quade, who was then a Democratic member of the state House, accused Schoen of harassment, and he resigned shortly thereafter.
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Lindsey Port is running for Minnesota state Senate.
These Are the Americans Who Live in a Bubble
While this is several months old, some may have missed it.
It is a Research study and It confirms what many of us actually see and experience.
These Are the Americans Who Live in a Bubble
A significant minority seldom or never meet people from another race, and they prize sameness, not difference.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/americans-remain-deeply-ambivalent-about-diversity/583123/
Emma Green
February 21, 2019
Most Americans do not live in a totalizing bubble. They regularly encounter people of different races, ideologies, and religions. For the most part, they view these interactions as positive, or at least neutral.
Yet according to a new study by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and The Atlantic, a significant minority of Americans do not live this way. They seldom or never meet people of another race. They dislike interacting with people who don’t share their political beliefs. And when they imagine the life they want for their children, they prize sameness, not difference. Education and geography seemed to make a big difference in how people think about these issues, and in some cases, so did age.
One of the many questions the Trump era has raised is whether Americans actually want a pluralistic society, where people are free to be themselves and still live side by side with others who aren’t like them. U.S. political discourse is filled with nasty rhetoric that rejects the value of diversity outright. Yet, theoretically, pluralism is good for democracy: In a political era when the vast majority of Americans believe the country is divided over issues of race, politics, and religion, relationships across lines of difference could foster empathy and civility. These survey results suggest that Americans are deeply ambivalent about the role of diversity in their families, friendships, and civic communities. Some people, it seems, prefer to stay in their bubble.
Read: It was cultural anxiety that drove white, working-class voters to Trump
In terms of both geography and culture, America is largely sorted by political identity. In a representative, random survey of slightly more than 1,000 people taken in December, PRRI and The Atlantic found that just under a quarter of Americans say they seldom or never interact with people who don’t share their partisan affiliation. Black and Hispanic people were more likely than whites to describe their lives this way, although education made a big difference among whites: 27 percent of non-college-educated whites said they seldom or never encounter people from a different political party, compared with just 6 percent of college-educated whites.
Even those Americans who regularly encounter political diversity don’t necessarily choose it, however. Democrats, independents, and Republicans seem to mingle most in spaces where people don’t have much of an option about being there. According to the survey, roughly three-quarters of Americans’ interactions with people from another political party happen at work. Other spheres of life are significantly more politically divided: Less than half of respondents said they encounter political differences among their friends. Only 39 percent said they see political diversity within their families, and vanishingly few people said they encounter ideological diversity at religious services or community meetings. Traditionally, researchers have seen these spaces as places where people can build strong relationships and practice the habits of democracy. The PRRI/Atlantic findings add to growing evidence that these institutions are becoming weaker—or, at the very least, more segregated by identity. “If you’re thinking from a participatory democracy model, you would hope to see these numbers much higher,” said Robert P. Jones, the CEO of PRRI............................
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President Trump is joined by supporters at a campaign rally for Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi in Tupelo.Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
A man was shot to death by the handmade device he made to protect his home
Source: cnn
Updated 2:05 PM ET, Sun December 1, 2019
By the numbers: Gun deaths in America
(CNN)A Maine man was killed by a device he made for the front door of his home, police say.
Ronald Cyr, 65, called 911 on the evening of Thanksgiving Day and reported he had been shot, the Van Buren Police Department said.
When officers arrived, they discovered a device on the front door of the man's home that was designed to fire a handgun if anyone attempted to enter, the department said.
Police found other unknown devices around the house and contacted the state's bomb squad.
After an hours-long investigation, authorities determined Cyr -- who later succumbed to his injuries --- was hit after an "unintentional discharge of one of his homemade devices," the department said. .....................................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/us/maine-man-booby-trap/index.html
I am glad no on else was killed.
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1201238196136185856?s=20
@SenJohnKennedy-the dangerous, stupid #Trump cult Loyalist says of Dr. Hill.......
Why do people keep having Kennedy on their shows-he is not honest.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar
· 2h
.@SenJohnKennedy: Dr Hill is entitled to her opinion
TODD: When does opinion become fact?
K: I believe reports Poroshenko worked for Clinton
T: My goodness, you just did exactly what the Russian op is trying to get Americans to do! Are you worried you've been duped?
K: No.
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1201196555480522753?s=20
https://twitter.com/linda72135856/status/1201203770438209536?s=20
https://twitter.com/pattykazUSA/status/1201218868737454080?s=20
In SW Florida this week, I saw many, many boats go by proudly flying Trump flags.
Yes, The Repug Party IS a CULT--a dangerous cult!
https://twitter.com/Q86Dee/status/1201020675512774656?s=20
In SW Florida this week, I saw many, many boats go by proudly flying Trump flags. However you feel about the guy in the White House, have we ever had a time in history where private citizens displayed FLAGS of our elected leader? This seems seriously weird.
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1201096259286814722?s=20
Trump's latest defense is that impeachment hearings should not occur while he's out of town
The clown Trump is a laugh. Since when does he care about NATO except to defund it and mock it and disrupt it.
Trump’s latest defense is that impeachment hearings should not occur while he’s out of town
Published 14 hours ago on November 30, 2019
While on vacation at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump attacked Democrats for the impeachment inquiry into his solicitation of foreign election assistance.
“I will be representing our Country in London at NATO, while the Democrats are holding the most ridiculous Impeachment hearings in history,” Trump argued
“Read the Transcripts, NOTHING was done or said wrong,” Trump argued, despite the fact the transcript revealed him soliciting foreign election assistance in violation of federal law.
The scheme was also confessed on national TV by White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Trump’s defense attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1200922099356962817?s=20
https://twitter.com/dvillella/status/1200941266667819009?s=20
https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1200925281244106752?s=20
https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1200922605290700800?s=20
https://twitter.com/YongKhor1/status/1200998392026918912?s=20
Trump at war with Pentagon after meddling in Gallagher case and turning it into a 'national clown sh
Source: raw story
Trump at war with Pentagon after meddling in Gallagher case and turning it into a ‘national clown show’: report
Published 1 min ago on December 1, 2019
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..................The Times reports that, “The president’s handling of the case has distressed active-duty and retired officers and the civilians who work closely with them. Mr. Trump’s intervention, they said, emboldens war criminals and erodes the order of a professional military.”
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According to Peter Feaver, a military specialist who served under former President George W. Bush, Trump is sticking his nose in internal Pentagon affairs best left to those who know what they are doing...............................
The Times notes, “As a result, the president finds himself more removed than ever from a disenchanted military command, adding the armed forces to the institutions under his authority that he has feuded with, along with the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies and diplomatic corps.”
Speaking with the Times, Chris Shumake, a former sniper who served with Gallagher, Trump has turned the administration of justice into a national spectacle that is hurting the military.
“It’s blown up bigger than any of us could have ever expected, and turned into a national clown show that put a bad light on the teams,” Mr. Shumakeexplained. “He’s trying to show he has the troops’ backs, but he’s saying he doesn’t trust any of the troops or their leaders to make the right decisions.”.................................................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trump-at-war-with-pentagon-after-meddling-in-gallagher-case-and-turning-it-into-a-national-clown-show-report/
Maybe this will be ENOUGH for the Congressional Repugs?? Silent so far so I doubt it.
Yet, Trump goes to Afgan and the Troops play along (I do not believe they have a choice)
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