#Politics

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she is running for U.S. Senate,

“I’m running for the U.S. Senate because Californians deserve a warrior fighting for them in Washington,” Porter, 49, wrote. “In the House, I’ve stood up to leaders of both parties — as both the only Democrat to oppose earmarks and as one of just a dozen Members of Congress to reject lobbyist and corporate PAC money.”

https://archive.ph/HRTL7

Taliban have reportedly ordered all female beauty salons in a number of provinces across Afghanistan to CLOSE their business. They have also sent letters to landlords & told them not to rent to women.

Yet the shameful silence on the Taliban’s war on women continues.

https://headtopics.com/ng/afghanistan-authorities-ban-women-from-working-in-malls-to-close-beauty-salons-for-females-in-10-da-33886472

The Virginia elementary teacher, who was shot by a 6-year-old student, escorted her students out of the classroom to safety while wounded, officials say.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wounded-virginia-teacher-walked-students-safety-was-shot-6-year-old-of-rcna64938

Trump Org CFO Weisselberg is being sentenced to 5 months jail for massive tax fraud, of which he'll serve ~100 days on Rikers.

Kalief Browder suffered in Rikers for 700 days in solitary confinement on the false accusation he stole a backpack, then died by suicide.

Two Americas.

https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1612844428946702341

A brave woman in Afghanistan, with a child in her hand, writes “Education, Work, Freedom” on a wall. Women are now using graffiti as a form of protest.

https://twitter.com/NasimiShabnam/status/1612808055980179457

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Progressive Katie Porter announces Senate bid amid uncertainty over Feinstein's future

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/progressive-katie-porter-announces-senate-bid-uncertainty-feinsteins-f-rcna65097

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Morning thought:

If you're in a position of power or influence over another person–as a friend, a teacher, a mentor, a supervisor or employer–it's not your duty or your right to try to remold who that person is.

You can try to bring out their hidden abilities and talents, encouraging what they already have inside them to grow. But you're not there to make them carbon copies of you, and you shouldn't want to. The world is better for a diversity of ways of being.

@Callmespicoli

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Shit!! Did you see what’s happening in Monticino?? #californiaweather

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-atmospheric-river-evacuations-flooding/

@JMHardin

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Please let them try:
Facts,
1. Within one hour of discovery of documents, national archive was called.
2. National archive took possession 12 hours later..(the next morning)
3. The room was re-searched, and no other documents found.
4. National archive is working with IT agencies on documents now.
5. White House is being transparent about the whole affair.

My heart is with Ukraine 💙💛

#CoSoCats

My California brothers and sisters

Please pay attention to evacuation orders. It's not just the flooding but the mudslides that will likely be happening.

Remember 2018 and the slides that took out nearly an entire town. Same kind of weather system.

Guessing someone took this person's announcement as an offer: 2 handguns stolen outside Colorado Capitol from truck belonging to incoming GOP state representative. https://coloradosun.com/2023/01/07/ron-weinberg-guns-stolen-colorado-capitol/

WOW Rachel Maddow just said that 10% of the US Population is all under #FloodWatch tonight!

#California #AtmosphericRiver #climatechange #flood #news

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HOLY MASA MOLE!!!!!!

Morgan Freeman Nailed IT

Morgan Freeman’s ‘We Are At War’ Video

https://www.facebook.com/ETCanada/videos/morgan-freemans-we-are-at-war-video/1632852690095045/

I've recently recovered from Covid, and I wouldn't want my worst enemy to have even a touch of it, much less die from it; nor would I ever mock anyone's health struggles.

But the U.S., and the world generally (with some few exceptions in particular countries), has mishandled a straightforward public health situation in a catastrophic way, with the result that the public is *more* ignorant about how to keep safe from Covid than they were at the beginning of the pandemic.