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Brief Update on My Health Issues

Submitted by Steven D on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 3:48pm

First indications are that the "worst case scenario" that was on the table is now considered unlikely. I will know more when the pathology report comes back, but the doctor who did my procedure said all indications look positive to him. I have some more tests to do, but this is a big load off my mind. Still need to figure why things took such a downturn for me, but might simply be exhaustion and stress made my chronic autoimmune condition less manageable over the last two months.

Speaking up to the fear mongers

Submitted by Robyn on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 1:34pm

In the face of adults in positions of responsibility who were questioning the wisdom of recently adopted guidelines meant to assure the safety and well-being of transgender students in Anne Arundel County, MD, a student rose to speak.

Scott Howarth is a student at Anne Arundel High School and current president of the Chesapeake Regional Association of Student Councils.

TOMORROW, September 9th, support prisoners demanding their human rights!

Submitted by MsGrin on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 11:41am

In my inbox:

Individuals who are incarcerated across the country have announced their intention to participate in a non-violent work stoppage this Friday, September 9th, to protest inhumane living conditions and demand an end to coerced labor that is common to United States prisons, a practice allowed by the U.S. Constitution after the 13th Amendment ended non-penal slavery.

One of the few reasons to vote Libertarian just vanished

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 11:32am

Libertarians have always been a mixed bag for me.
I absolutely abhor their neoliberal, Social Darwinian view on society and the economy.
On the other hand, I like their pro-liberty views, such as anti-Big Brother spying, and decriminalizing things that have no victims, such as the War on Some Drugs.

This isn't Wizard Tiddlywinks at Hogwarts

Submitted by ek hornbeck on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 8:41am

If you search Google News for Jeremy Corbin you'll find that J.K. Rowling can't sleep nights over the prospect of the impending Corbyn romp over Owen Smith in the Labour Leadership election (about which more in a moment). Indeed 'Corbyn is no Dumbledore' and-

One day in the far distant future we'll look back and we WONT LAUGH, LABOUR, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T BLOODY FUNNY.

Now admittedly that last was tweeted at 3:31 in the morning last Wednesday after her earlier tweets had not met the customary adulation.

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