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Diaries

Chris Matthews Accidentally Destroyed The Latest Pro-Hillary Talking Point

Readers of political blogs by now are all too familiar with the scores of bogus pieces that say, in essence, "Bernie Sanders has been a great candidate and we love him, but when is he going to get out of the race and start supporting Hillary?" The author is usually a Hillary Clinton surrogate pretending to be a neutral observer.

Organizing opposition to I-1515

A crowd of about 150 people opposed to Initiative 1515 gathered in Renton, WA on Thursday. I-1515, which will need 246,000 valid signatures by July 8 to be on the November ballot,

would amend the Law Against Discrimination to state that, with exceptions, covered public and private entities may restrict access to "private facilities" to "biologically" male or female individuals regardless of their gender identity and limit state and local regulations governing gender-identity discrimination. It requires that public-school bathrooms and locker rooms open to multiple people. be sex segregated, and authorizes lawsuits against schools that grant students access to those facilities based on gender identity.

--Ballot Measure Summary

The begging bowl society (with update)

Literally the other day, I walked into my favorite coffee house, where everyone knows my name (hey, I always tip - that helps), only to learn that one of the baristas who had been on unpaid sick leave for a knee replacement her insurance company finally approved (or maybe she borrowed money from family and friends, I don't really know), had suffered a devastating loss. Her husband died unexpectedly this week after suffering a heart attack in his sleep.

WE NEVER FORGET: Last Statement of James Connolly, Irish Rebel

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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WE NEVER FORGET
James Connolly
June 5, 1868-May 12, 1916
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Last Statement, smuggled out to the world through his daughter, Nora,
on the eve of his execution:

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