Joe Nation
Joe Nation's JournalI witnessed a murder this weekend while visiting a friend in Minneapolis
It turned to be about a dozen crows fighting over the contents of a discarded fast food bag in a parking lot.
In retrospect, I may have merely witnessed an unkindness.
After all, it is hard for most of to tell the difference between crows and ravens.
A quiet trend in blue state Higher Education
Talking to an old friend at my former university recently, he mentioned that one of the trends he is now seeing and his colleagues are seeing in other blues states is a wealth of LBGTQ applicants for open positions from states like Texas and Florida. Call it a red state brain drain or simply LGBTQ people not feeling safe in red states even at the higher education level anymore.
The trend is highly noticeable since many of these job searches have until recently, produced very little in the way of viable candidates over the last decade. The pools of applicants just haven't been all that great until republican governors like DeSantis began declaring war on higher education.
This also extends to students unwilling to apply to schools in red states as a result of laws like DeSantis' Don't say gay law and restricting what can be taught and what can't be taught.
As the red states trend dumber and the blue states benefit from idiotic laws, both sides have something to feel good about, if only a little.
There is only on way to end gun violence in this country at this point
No law is going to save us. Nothing Congress will do will ever prevent this horrific slaughter of our sons, our daughters, our wives, our husbands, and all those we love. No one is coming to save us. We're alone unless we act together and we have a plan.
It is far past the hour we needed to act but it isn't too later. We need to stop being shielded from the carnage. We all have cameras on our phones and we need to have the unbelievable courage to use them. At every single mass shooting, the camera phones need to be documenting the carnage and then plastering the internet, cable news, and newspapers with as many scenes of dead children, dead grandparents, dead babies as possible.
It is a horrific ask I know. But these victims can't speak for themselves anymore and we have to. We have to until something is done. Inaction isn't a choice anymore. We have to do the unthinkable or we have to accept that we'll never end gun violence.
Demand MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, and every other news outlet publishes graphic images of the carnage in America. Let the world see what we live with until nobody would even consider taking a trip to this country. If it were me or my child laying in the bushes with our faces blown off, I'd want the world to see what republicans have brought us to.
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