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Kyle Rittenhouse claims ex-lawyer 'set him up' for Proud Boys pic.
Kyle Rittenhouse claimed his ex-attorney “set him up” for a photo of him posing with purported members of the Proud Boys and making a hand gesture used by white supremacists.
Rittenhouse blasted his former legal team, John Pierce and Lin Wood, saying he didn’t know the “OK” hand signal is now associated with white supremacy and claiming he “didn’t know what a militia was” until after he was arrested.
The 18-year-old was seen making the gesture in a now-widely circulated picture taken in a Wisconsin bar, but prosecutors were barred from using it in the racially charged homicide case against Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two people and injured a third during a confrontation in Kenosha, Wis., last year.
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This little pos will never take responsibility for anything in his life! Ever!
Dane County Emergency Order #5....currently the ONLY county in WI with an extended mask mandate!
Face Covering Emergency Order #5:
🔹Effective on November 27, 2021
🔹Adds an exception for fully-vaccinated groups of people
🔹Rest of the Order mirrors Face Covering Emergency Order #4
🔹Expires on January 3, 2022
Read the news release: https://bit.ly/3l5bjax
This powerful artwork titled "Rittenhouse" by Portuguese illustrator Andre Carrilho
absolutely nails crocodile-tear murderer Kyle Rittenhouse.
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Fellow Dane County members......
Here is a link to provide comments to Dane Co Public Health regarding extending the mask mandate until community spread is down to moderate and ICU beds are available again. Criteria they expressed when the previous mask mandate was issued. They are likely to let the current mandate expire on November 27 because they are bowing down to a few very vocal whiners. Encourage them to stay strong and follow science. Community spread has increased this week from "high" back to "very high."
https://publichealthmdc.com/contact?fbclid=IwAR3L-fJ1mb2Ld9OKVk099HhLqrhaZaZR0VHAoXQpcJX73NbptlY2_ehTxQo
From a friend in Burlington, WI.....#werunforahmaud
Today our family had the PRIVILEGE to run in our neighborhood. No one was upset by that. No one called the cops on us. No one threatened us. No one thought twice about it.
Our skin color is not a threat in this country. But that is not the case for all Americans.
As a family we relayed 2.23 miles in honor of Ahmaud Arbery. As I rounded the corner to pass the baton to my daughter with tears in my eyes, I had a sobering moment.
I’m not simply passing a physical baton but as a mom I’m passing so much more. I’m passing to my kids my convictions, ideals, characteristics and biases.
My prayer in this moment is that my kids see that we don’t just stand by. We don’t watch from a distance and then keep scrolling. I pray that what I pass to my kids is kindness, love and equality for all people no matter the color of their skin.
As I watched my kids pass the baton to one another I see how easy kindness can spread if you choose to be a part of the solution. YOU can be a part of the solution.
As white Americans we have privileges that not all Americans have. A year ago, I didn’t believe that statement. I didn’t believe in white privilege and I didn’t understand why #blacklivesmatter should be a thing. But after a year of heart work, hard conversations and educating myself I realize I was wrong.
There is a major problem in our country and if you stay silent, you’re part of the problem. I used to be part of the problem, not because I was a racist but because I was ignorant and unaware.
Today we run with Ahmaud because he can’t run for himself, because his life was taken from him by racist men. I run for a mourning mama and a broken country.
Things need to change! My family runs for change.
#irunforahmaud #werunforahmaud
Bill Penzey weighs in ie: Kenosha and guns
“And guns are dumb. Yes, hunting, and ranching, and law enforcement, but even then there are substantial risks. But owning a gun as though it is some sort of safety accessory is stupid. It’s like spending hundreds of dollars to add a self-destruct button to your life. At any moment, all it takes is one pull of the trigger, and just like that all the goodness in your life can be gone, never to return. Guns are dumb.
We should all feel safe, and as humans, long before we had cooking we had weapons. But if you ever need a weapon, just look around you, they are everywhere. These days the kitchen of every American home rivals the arsenal of a good-sized medieval village. And who even needs the pointy things when you have cast iron? But guns are different. They try to sell you on the idea that guns give you control, yet with one pull of the trigger whatever happens next will forever be in someone else’s hands.
With yesterday’s verdict in Kenosha there were many headlines. Some spoke of freedom, and self-defense, and innocence, but once you pull the trigger there is no going back to what you were before. There is no return to innocence. Bring a gun into your home and it’s far less likely to take the life of a stranger in self-defense than it is to kill someone you love through accident, suicide, or your anger. A lot of the time someone wanting to own a gun is a pretty good sign that they’re the kind of person who shouldn’t have one. Guns are dumb.
I know that for many of you yesterday’s verdict and the joy it sent through the pro-gun crowd brought a sense of goodness slipping away. I get that. For me, in times like these I find cooking brings perspective. Once I came to see cooking as what it is, an act of kindness, the news lost much of its power to bring me down.
Even though the news presents itself as having its finger on the pulse of where we are at, it in reality shows little more than the couple dozen most out of the ordinary events that took place in the past day. Much of the news is horribly unkind. But to see cooking as kindness is to understand that for each and every event horrible enough to make the national news there are hundreds of thousands of acts of kindness happening in kitchens all across the country every day. Even on the worst of days there is so much more goodness. Please try to see it if you can.
If you are a hunter or if your job requires a gun, sure. But if you have a gun out of a sense of safety get rid of it asap. It is nothing more than a self-destruct button for the goodness in your life and in the lives of those you love. Guns are dumb.
Thanks for caring even on the days it hurts to care,
Bill
bill@penzeys.com
P.S. If this email was forwarded to you by a friend, would you please consider signing up for our email list? If you saw yesterday’s Kenosha verdict as one more sign that there is a separate but not equal justice system for white people in America and that reinforced your belief in the need to say Black Lives Matter until Black lives get to have justice, too, we would be much-much-much better for having you on our mailing list. Please come be a part of shaping a world filled with every kind of very kind people. Thank you.”
Wisconsin Democratic Party official response to Rittenhouse verdict.
Our statement on the Rittenhouse verdict: https://bit.ly/3HB6mjj
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