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If it's not written down, it didn't happen. – Rob Pedregon	added by Hellraisermail 1 month ago
The only thing that can tear America apart is America itself and we cannot let that happen. – Joe Biden	added by anonymous 6 months ago
We should all take a step back and ask : How did we allow this to happen ? this is what happens when a company intentionally delays the development of an H.I.V. drug for monopolistic purposes. – James Krellenstein	Found on New York Times 9 months ago
My wife keeps telling me, ‘ But how could this happen ? You always promised me that Canada was a peaceful country, but now we’re starting to flee as if we’re back home. – Rey Steve Mabiala	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition. – Planned Parenthood	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
Worry is interest paid on problems yet to happen. If there is nothing you can do about tomorrow’s problems, don’t spend a moment thinking about them or you live the problem twice. i started taking photos of the quilts my mom makes and posting them to Instagram. My Dad saw that I was up and out of bed, so he built me an entire quilt stand to hang them from to make photographing easier. – Bo Petterson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You would have essentially on the ballot the question of both Comstock enforcement and also potentially Comstock repeal, do I think, under a Trump presidency, they’re going to confiscate surgical gloves because they could be adapted for use in abortion? No, I don’t think that’s probably going to happen. – Mary Ziegler	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The bottom line is that a development agreement has to be approved by the governing body of a jurisdiction, and that didn’t happen from the cities that have jurisdiction. – Daniel Langley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s great, we have another terrorist off the face of this earth. I’m good with that, but it doesn’t absolve the administration or the State Department or the Pentagon from taking responsibility or accountability for what happened. They haven’t stepped up and said we messed this up and it won’t happen again. – Darin Hoover	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People need to have a sense of agency in order to avoid having a stress response, when people don’t know what’s going to happen and they don’t have any control over what’s going to happen, it can lead to anxiety and to increase levels of stress. – Dennis Stolle	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was a stay-at-home mom with four kids, we knew the woman needed to feel as though she was in control of what was happening to her. We were making it happen for her, but it was not about us. It was about her. – Martha Scott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I just want to make very clear, people who experience a same-sex attraction are not responsible individually or solely for the atmosphere of the sexual revolution, you know it. It’s a long time coming. It came after no-fault divorce. It came after we implemented very permissive policies on contraception. The sexual revolution has gone through several phases. We just happen to be at the phase now where same sex marriages is at the fore. – Matthew Kacsmaryk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The State Department needs to seriously think about what do they need to do to end the fighting, not get all wrapped up as to who started the conflict, is one side the good guy and the other side, the bad guy. I think the goal needs to be to get the fighting to stop as quickly as possible and then ensure that whatever happens that that also [positively] influences the negotiations that undoubtedly will happen. – Abdel Fattah al-Burhan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What I always stress is that bad things can happen to us, but they don’t need to define us, it goes back to understanding that there are things out of our control, and we’re really spinning our wheels when we try to control them. What we do have control over is the way we respond to it. – Leah Brogan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We know that exposure through the media – which can happen across many different outlets, with the swipe of a finger or a ding on your phone – to some type of traumatic event can result in someone experiencing an acute stress reaction and can trigger underlying post-traumatic stress they may have from something else, so certainly, that constant exposure can be escalating and activating people even when they don’t experience something directly. – Leah Brogan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
(The US is) a major leader in economic growth around the world. It cannot let that happen. – Christine Lagarde	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I just cannot believe that they would let such a major, major disaster happen. – Christine Lagarde	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But if it melts really quickly, which is probably going to happen because we have these late snows and now we’re right up against warm temperatures, then you get the water just rushing over the land and not taking time to charge the aquifers and just evaporating off the surface, then it seems counter intuitive, but less water will make it to the lake in that case. – Bonnie Baxter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re not going to be bailed out by excess snow, we’re hitting these pressures of climate change now. Mother Nature is not likely to cooperate with five landmark years, so to expect this to happen five years in a row, that’s not going to happen. – Bonnie Baxter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’ve seen this happen with Toys ‘ R ’ Us, Twinkie, most recently Bed Bath & Beyond. – Ventakesh Shankar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is part of a long process since the summer. There was expectation that rents would fall and that didn’t happen. Rents peaked last summer. Every month since then, they’ve been moving sideways, with a modest increase, it was just enough to set a new record. – Jonathan Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today we are sending a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence, today we send a clear message to Speaker (of the House) Cameron Sexton that the people will not allow his crimes against democracy to happen without challenge. – Justin Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Most of the attacks happen in the water, but because hippos raid crops on farms, there are also attacks on people trying to protect their crops. There are some tourists, but largely the attacks are happening to local residents. – Rebecca Lewison	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You wouldn’t really expect anything to happen at this location. – Gerald Neal	Found on CNN 1 year ago

If it's not written down, it didn't happen.

– Rob Pedregon

added by Hellraisermail
1 month ago

The only thing that can tear America apart is America itself and we cannot let that happen.

– Joe Biden

added by anonymous
6 months ago

We should all take a step back and ask : How did we allow this to happen ? this is what happens when a company intentionally delays the development of an H.I.V. drug for monopolistic purposes.

– James Krellenstein

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

My wife keeps telling me, ‘ But how could this happen ? You always promised me that Canada was a peaceful country, but now we’re starting to flee as if we’re back home.

– Rey Steve Mabiala

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

– Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Worry is interest paid on problems yet to happen. If there is nothing you can do about tomorrow’s problems, don’t spend a moment thinking about them or you live the problem twice. i started taking photos of the quilts my mom makes and posting them to Instagram. My Dad saw that I was up and out of bed, so he built me an entire quilt stand to hang them from to make photographing easier.

– Bo Petterson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You would have essentially on the ballot the question of both Comstock enforcement and also potentially Comstock repeal, do I think, under a Trump presidency, they’re going to confiscate surgical gloves because they could be adapted for use in abortion? No, I don’t think that’s probably going to happen.

– Mary Ziegler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bottom line is that a development agreement has to be approved by the governing body of a jurisdiction, and that didn’t happen from the cities that have jurisdiction.

– Daniel Langley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s great, we have another terrorist off the face of this earth. I’m good with that, but it doesn’t absolve the administration or the State Department or the Pentagon from taking responsibility or accountability for what happened. They haven’t stepped up and said we messed this up and it won’t happen again.

– Darin Hoover

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People need to have a sense of agency in order to avoid having a stress response, when people don’t know what’s going to happen and they don’t have any control over what’s going to happen, it can lead to anxiety and to increase levels of stress.

– Dennis Stolle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was a stay-at-home mom with four kids, we knew the woman needed to feel as though she was in control of what was happening to her. We were making it happen for her, but it was not about us. It was about her.

– Martha Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just want to make very clear, people who experience a same-sex attraction are not responsible individually or solely for the atmosphere of the sexual revolution, you know it. It’s a long time coming. It came after no-fault divorce. It came after we implemented very permissive policies on contraception. The sexual revolution has gone through several phases. We just happen to be at the phase now where same sex marriages is at the fore.

– Matthew Kacsmaryk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The State Department needs to seriously think about what do they need to do to end the fighting, not get all wrapped up as to who started the conflict, is one side the good guy and the other side, the bad guy. I think the goal needs to be to get the fighting to stop as quickly as possible and then ensure that whatever happens that that also [positively] influences the negotiations that undoubtedly will happen.

– Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I always stress is that bad things can happen to us, but they don’t need to define us, it goes back to understanding that there are things out of our control, and we’re really spinning our wheels when we try to control them. What we do have control over is the way we respond to it.

– Leah Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that exposure through the media – which can happen across many different outlets, with the swipe of a finger or a ding on your phone – to some type of traumatic event can result in someone experiencing an acute stress reaction and can trigger underlying post-traumatic stress they may have from something else, so certainly, that constant exposure can be escalating and activating people even when they don’t experience something directly.

– Leah Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(The US is) a major leader in economic growth around the world. It cannot let that happen.

– Christine Lagarde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just cannot believe that they would let such a major, major disaster happen.

– Christine Lagarde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But if it melts really quickly, which is probably going to happen because we have these late snows and now we’re right up against warm temperatures, then you get the water just rushing over the land and not taking time to charge the aquifers and just evaporating off the surface, then it seems counter intuitive, but less water will make it to the lake in that case.

– Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not going to be bailed out by excess snow, we’re hitting these pressures of climate change now. Mother Nature is not likely to cooperate with five landmark years, so to expect this to happen five years in a row, that’s not going to happen.

– Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve seen this happen with Toys ‘ R ’ Us, Twinkie, most recently Bed Bath & Beyond.

– Ventakesh Shankar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is part of a long process since the summer. There was expectation that rents would fall and that didn’t happen. Rents peaked last summer. Every month since then, they’ve been moving sideways, with a modest increase, it was just enough to set a new record.

– Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today we are sending a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence, today we send a clear message to Speaker (of the House) Cameron Sexton that the people will not allow his crimes against democracy to happen without challenge.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most of the attacks happen in the water, but because hippos raid crops on farms, there are also attacks on people trying to protect their crops. There are some tourists, but largely the attacks are happening to local residents.

– Rebecca Lewison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You wouldn’t really expect anything to happen at this location.

– Gerald Neal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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