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WordPress

• People of WordPress: Amanda Rush August 9, 2019
  You’ve probably heard that WordPress is open source software, and may know that it’s created and run by volunteers. WordPress enthusiasts share many examples of how WordPress changed people’s lives for the better. This monthly series shares some of those lesser-known, amazing stories. Meet Amanda Rush from Augusta, Georgia, USA. Amanda Rush is a WordPress […]
• The Month in WordPress: July 2019 August 1, 2019
  This month has been characterized by exciting plans and big announcements – read on to find out what they are and what it all means for the future of the WordPress project. WordCamp Asia Announced The inaugural WordCamp Asia will be in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 21-23, 2020. This will be the first regional WordCamp […]
• People of WordPress: Ugyen Dorji July 12, 2019
  You’ve probably heard that WordPress is open source software, and may know that it’s created and run by volunteers. WordPress enthusiasts share many examples of how WordPress changed people’s lives for the better. This monthly series shares some of those lesser-known, amazing stories. Meet Ugyen Dorji from Bhutan Ugyen lives in Bhutan, a landlocked country […]

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Code Pink

• Jes is building a Bridge of Hearts
  Dear CodePink Friends,Please check out my website: bridgeofhearts.orgIf you're on Facebook, I'd love to be your friend!I'll be using Facebook to set up house parties for a tour of the U.S. this summer,and I'll be showing a personal documentary on Iran, featuring footage from my last two trips.If you're interested in hosting a house party, […]
• Questionnaire for Tea Party
  Dear Tea Party members, In an effort to better understand the sentiments of your group and see where we, in the peace movement, might find common ground, we would appreciate it if you would answer a few questions. Thank you for your time.o The Cold War has been over for 20 years, yet we maintain […]
• There Are No Goodbyes
  I just wanted to briefly abuse my posting privileges here and say goodbye to the Pink House. I will never forget that great space full of joy, love, action, energy and creativity. A big thanks and hug to Des for being my surrogate mama when I was in DC, and to everybody I met who […]

ACLU

• Corrections Officer Who Struck Rhode Island Protesters with Pickup Truck Resigns
  Activists say the private prison where the officer worked should be closed and immigrants detained there released A senior corrections officer at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island has resigned after being placed on administrative leave for driving his pickup truck into a crowd of peaceful protestors on Wednesday night. The attack left one […]
• The Challenges of Breastfeeding as a Black Person
  How our workplaces and healthcare system create barriers to breastfeeding. The fight to protect individual choices about reproductive care, including breastfeeding, is an ongoing battle. The central lesson of the reproductive justice movement is that choice means little without access. That lesson applies equally to breastfeeding. Though laws, in the workplace and other contexts, are […]
• William Barr is Stuck in the '90s — But Americans Have Moved Forward When it Comes to Criminal Justice Reform
  A reaction to outdated, dangerous rhetoric. Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General William Barr descended on New Orleans to deliver a major policy address. His speech dismissed police violence and espoused a dangerous vision for America — one in which ‘90s era […]

Taxpayers for Common Sense

• Trump Trade War ContinuesAs The Trade War Turns
  President Trump’s market rattling trade war took another turn with Tuesday’s announcement that a select group of products imported from China will not face a 10 percent increase scheduled for September. Instead the tariff increase will be delayed until December 15, 2019. Santa Claus should be pleased because this set of approximately 550 products (out […]
• Weekly Wastebasket, Federal Budget DeficitThe Federal Budget Deficit – Unsustainable, Unprecedented, DisgracefulThe FY2019 federal budget deficit – through July, alone – was $867 billion, higher than the $779 billion for all of FY2018.
  America, we have a problem. The fiscal year 2019 federal budget deficit though July was $867 billion. That’s a deficit reached in only ten months of the fiscal year. The entire deficit for all of fiscal year 2018 was $779 billion. If deficit spending the last two months of FY2019 is on pace with The […]
• President Trump Gives Himself a Christmas Gift
  President Trump’s trade war took another turn with today’s announcement that a select group of products imported from China will not face a 10 percent increase scheduled for September. Instead the tariff increase will be delayed until December 15, 2019. Santa Claus should be pleased because this set of approximately 550 products (out of the […]