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Jilly_in_VA's JournalMeggie, Day 3
I got up this morning and went down to feed the ladies to find that Meggie had turned her shelter 90 degrees so it no longer faced Josie's crate. Not exactly what I am trying to encourage here, as I would like them to get used to one another. I turned it back and got a horrified look from her before she went back in. If she does it again I'll leave it. Otherwise, she is eating some and using her litter box, so I guess he is beginning to settle in.
Here is her shelter intake picture. Just look at those gorgeous eyes!
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Josie has a sister!
Because Winnie seems, for all practical purposes, to have disappeared, and her microchip does not have a GPS, I thought that sooner or later Josie would need a sibling. She can't cover the entire property on her own.
I had intended to bring home a tabby boy I spotted in the barn cat room last week, but Cheyenne, keeper of the barn cats, knows I prefer the ladies for their hunting skills, so he wasn't there when I went in yesterday for my regular shift. Instead, she had kept a lovely little tuxie girl with big round yellow eyes, so that's who went home with me instead. She is still very scared and not coming out for photos, but I can assure you she's pretty. She's younger and smaller than Josie, which was what I wanted so that Josie, who was here first, would hopefully be the boss cat. She did eat a little bit of wet food, drink some water, and use the litter box some time between her arrival and this morning, so things are probably okay. Her shelter name was Marcie, but I thought that, in keeping with (Empress) Josephine, she should have a royal name, so I named her Marguerite and am calling her Meggie. Of course she will answer or not, as she chooses.
My great-grandmother hid her race. Two decades later I understand why.
I'm one of those New Yorkers living in Nashville, but perhaps you will forgive me because my family has deep roots in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
Incredibly, my connection to New York began in Louisiana.
In the 1930s, my great-grandmother Lola Perot married Irish New Yorker John Donnelly in her Louisiana hometown. They moved to New York after getting married. The adjustment from South to North must have been massive for Lola – not only did she leave behind her family and her culture, but I later learned she also left her name and her race.
My mom and her mother, Marion (Lola’s daughter), were raised as French and Irish by Lola (in New York she went by “Louise”). My grammy was very proud of her French heritage.
One day, after going through some boxes of old family photos, I saw a picture of my mom’s grandmother on her wedding day, standing next to my Irish great-grandfather. It was completely obvious that Lola was not white.
Two decades later, I am still grappling with the meaning of that photo, and everything it represented about who my family was, and still is. Throughout the course of my great-grandmother’s life, she and her family were censused as Black, Mulatto, Mexican (Latino) and eventually white. It shook me to the bottom of my perhaps not-so-French core.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/01/14/family-photo-great-grandmother-taught-me-race-heritage/11019422002/
Read farther and understand. Especially when you get to the part of the despicable Naomi Drake, UGH.
Republican Men Still Can't Talk About Abortion and Rape Without Embarrassing Themselves
It’s been well over a year now since Texas enacted its citizen-enforced abortion ban, S.B. 8, which offers no exceptions for rape. In September 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott famously defended this by proclaiming that he would simply “eliminate all rapists from the streets,” ostensibly by giving more funding to the same police officers who do little to nothing to prevent sexual violence—and often perpetrate it themselves.
And now, in the wake of some Texas Republicans expressing openness to adding a rape exception to the state’s abortion laws ahead of the 2023 legislative session, Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick (R) opted to give a revisionist history lesson on the issue on the podcast Y’allitics this week. Specifically, Patrick suggested Democrats are actually to blame for the cruelty that abortion bans inflict on rape victims. “Our original law that’s on the books now was written by Democrats—all Democrats,” Patrick said. “We had few Republicans back then, few Republicans in the state. They did not put in an exception for rape or incest when they passed that law.”
Patrick is referring to pre-Roe abortion bans and laws criminalizing abortion from the 1920s and as far back as the 1850s—you know, before the political realignment spurred by the New Deal era.
Because apparently it needs to be said, political parties took radically different stances 100 years ago! Today, Texas Democrats are challenging abortion bans and Republicans are upholding them—it’s not complicated.
https://jezebel.com/republican-men-still-can-t-talk-about-abortion-and-rape-1849981044
Black Lives Matter co-founder's cousin dies after being blasted with a Taser by L.A. police
Los Angeles police released body-camera video showing what led up to an officer deploying his taser on a man who later died.
The incident happened on Jan. 3 and involved Los Angeles resident Keenan Darnell Anderson, the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
Anderson, 31, a Black man, died at a hospital after suffering a medical emergency about four and a half hours after his arrest, said Kelly Muñiz, a police spokesperson, in a video statement.
The situation began around 3:35 p.m. when a Los Angeles police officer was flagged down about a traffic accident, Muñiz said. Witnesses directed the officer to Anderson, whom "they indicated had caused the vehicle accident," she said.
Cullors told The Guardian that her cousin, a high school teacher and father, was asking the police for help.
"And he didn’t receive it. He was killed," she said. "Nobody deserves to die in fear, panicking and scared for their life. My cousin was scared for his life."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bodycam-video-released-black-man-died-tased-los-angeles-police-rcna65524
Tasers can kill by disrupting the electrical rhythm of the heart. Kind of like AED in reverse. Should never be used more than once. Take them away from the cops.
Seven of Andrew Tate's houses searched by Romanian authorities
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency has carried out seven additional house searches in its investigation into divisive social media influencer Andrew Tate, an official said Thursday.
Ramona Bolla, spokesperson for the agency, DIICOT, said searches are taking place in the counties of Bucharest, Ilfov, and Prahova “in order to obtain further evidence.”
Tate, 36, a British-U.S. citizen who has 4.5 million followers on Twitter, was detained on Dec. 29. in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking, and rape. His brother, Tristan, and two Romanian women were also arrested.
On Tuesday, a court upheld a judge’s Dec. 30 move to extend their arrest from 24 hours to 30 days.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/seven-andrew-tates-houses-searched-romanian-authorities-rape-trafficki-rcna65491
Sock it to him, Romania!
Two Illinois EMS workers charged with murder in death of patient strapped face-down on stretcher
Two Illinois EMS workers have been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 35-year-old man in their care, who they allegedly strapped face-down on a stretcher.
Peter Cadigan, 50, and Peggy Finley, 44, emergency medical workers for LifeStar, were charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 18 death of Earl L. Moore Jr, Sangamon County State’s Attorney Dan Wright announced Tuesday.
Moore died after he was taken into an ambulance in a prone position, meaning face-down, and had straps placed on his back and lower body to keep him on the stretcher, Wright said.
The Springfield Police Department had responded to a home around on North 11th street in the state's capital around 2 a.m. after receiving a call about people inside with firearms. When officers arrived, a resident said the person who made the 911 call was suffering from “hallucinations due to alcohol withdrawal,” police said in a news release.
Officers found that individual, Moore, and “quickly realized that the patient was in need of medical assistance,” police said.
An ambulance was called and arrived at the scene at 2:18 a.m.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-illinois-ems-workers-charged-murder-death-patient-strapped-face-st-rcna65506
The software blamed for FAA outage is three decades old and years from an upgrade, official says
The software that failed and forced the Federal Aviation Administration to ground thousands of flights on Wednesday is 30 years old and not scheduled to be updated for another six years, according to a senior government official.
This system was installed in 1993 and runs the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, which sends pilots vital information they need to fly, the official said.
After the FAA was able to get planes flying again, a government official said a corrupted file that affected both the primary and the backup NOTAM systems appeared to be the culprit.
But the new revelation raised questions about why the FAA is still relying on software that was introduced the year President Bill Clinton entered the White House.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/software-blamed-faa-outage-three-decades-old-years-upgrade-official-sa-rcna65562
Shameful. No excuse for this shit.
Woman who used medicinal cannabis while pregnant taken off Arizona child-abuse registry
An Arizona woman who used medicinal cannabis to combat morning sickness during her pregnancy will have her name removed from the state's child-abuse registry.
The order from the Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday means Lindsay Ridgell will no longer be listed on the Confidential Registry, which limited her job prospects since she was placed on it in 2019. It also could have broader implications, as medicinal cannabis use is less likely to be treated legally as a form of child neglect.
"It's so magnificent," Ridgell's attorney, Julie Gunnigle, said of the single-page order from the high court. "My client has been suffering for four years, fighting the uncertainty of this case.”
The Arizona Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal from the state Department of Child Safety, which defended its decision to list Ridgell on the registry after her newborn tested positive for cannabis in February 2019. The department was on the losing side of an unanimous decision from the Arizona Court of Appeals last April. The three-judge panel found Ridgell's cannabis use was lawful and did not amount to child neglect.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/12/medical-marijuana-pregnancy-not-child-abuse-arizona/11038203002/
This should have national import
The Val Kilmer Lookalike Who Stormed the Capitol Has Finally Been Identified
A previously unidentified insurrectionist who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 has been identified for the first time as a former history major who repeatedly tweeted that former Vice President Mike Pence was a “Judas” and a “rat bastard.”
Stewart Curtis, who grew up in Sweet Home, Oregon, and studied at Southern Oregon University, was identified by researchers at Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks extremists, and verified by a VICE News investigation.
Images of Curtis were first posted online last August by the Sedition Hunters, a global community of open source intelligence (OSINT) investigators that has been working to assist the authorities in identifying those who stormed the Capitol just over two years ago. The group was unable to identify Curtis, who they had nicknamed #WannaBeKilmer due to Curtis’ resemblance to the actor Val Kilmer.
But their images show Curtis in the crowd approaching the Capitol on Jan. 6, alongside his two sisters, Moira Curtis, who is a car salesperson in Corvallis, Oregon, and Laurel Adams, a school teacher in Sweet Home.
Then at 2:07 pm, moments after the first insurrectionist breached the Capitol, video footage shows Stewart Curtis in a crowd of individuals pushing against a police line on the Western side of the U.S. Capitol building.
Curtis was identifiable because in most of the footage he can be seen holding up a red iPhone appearing to record what was happening.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkg5d8/jan-6-mike-pence-stewart-curtis
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