This is a reminder that progress can happen, errors can be undone.

Fun Fact: Gay marriage has now been around longer than the Confederacy was.

Justice Like a Thunderbolt: A Look Back at June 26, 2015

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Trump has known since MARCH that Russia was paying Afghan terrorists to kill American soldiers and he has done absolutely nothing. Knowing that, he then asked our allies to do Russia a favor and include Putin in the G7 meetings.

And he wants to dramatically reduce the American troop presence in Germany, even though REPUBLICANS warn that following through will “place US national security at risk” and embolden Putin.

It’s been plain to see for a long time that Trump is in Putin’s pocket. These are just this week’s examples. How can anyone support this behavior?

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/01/g7-trump-russia-294335

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-germany-troops-republican-revolt-nato-putin-a9582971.html

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Feeling despondent today. Because of the people who will not wear masks and are not taking COVID seriously, this is life now.

Until a vaccine is developed & distributed, life outside my front door is a crap-shoot. Will I be unlucky enough to get infected?

Will I be unlucky and develop symptoms?

Will I be really unlucky and be hospitalized?

Will I live but end up with complications for the rest of my life?

Will I end up dead, the unluckiest of all? Who knows, you gotta play to win.

And I look out my window and see a lot of gamblers.

“My mask protects you, your mask protects me.”

The evidence is overwhelmingly clear: wear a mask.

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_dc84e27e-b41f-11ea-84a5-37bfeddf476b.html

A mask is not a political statement. It's an IQ test.

— John Lundin 🌊 (@johnlundin) June 24, 2020

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June 20, 2020

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“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up,” said Siouxsie Wiles, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand — a country that has confirmed only three new cases over the past three weeks and where citizens have now largely returned to their pre-coronavirus routines.

“I can’t imagine what it must be like having to go to work knowing it’s unsafe. It’s hard to see how this ends. There are just going to be more and more people infected, and more and more deaths. It’s heartbreaking.”

Source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/06/19/countries-keeping-coronavirus-bay-experts-watch-us-case-numbers-with-alarm/

That price we paid during the lockdowns - in livelihoods destroyed, in collective psychological injury, in collateral health damage from non-COVID treatments postponed - makes the current apparent lack of any centralized strategy all the more galling. https://t.co/BiNtN8hG4n

— Daniel Liebman MD MBA (@D_Liebman) June 14, 2020

It's as if 3 or 4 full Boeing 737s or Airbus A320s were crashing every day, killing everyone on board, in the US. There's still not a vaccine. But bc the state & business don't wanna pay anymore, they're like, "Don't mind many daily plane crash-fulls of death!" https://t.co/KMHqIn7386

— Dr. Steven W. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) June 12, 2020

My mask protects you, your mask protects me.

The evidence is overwhelmingly clear: wear a mask.

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Be mindful of history this Juneteenth.

Here’s a video about the 12 years following the Civil War when lawlessness and violence perpetrated by white leaders created an American future of racial hierarchy, white supremacy, and Jim Crow laws.

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