By Mindy Fischer on March 21, 2018
ACLU, age should be raised, Amodei, angry student, bump stocks should be banned, children, Christiansen, common sense gun control, Congressman, Congressman has student suspended for telling him to get off his f*cking ass and pass gun control, elected officials, get off their fucking asses, gun control, gun violence, kid, language, Mark Amodei, mass shootings, national school walk-out, Nevada, Noah Christiansen, offended by his language, political retaliation, protest, resist, school, school board, school shootings, student, student government, suspended from school, thank you for your comments, Washoe County School District, young man
Activism, Congress, Conservatives, education, GOP, gun control, kids, NRA, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Republicans, Resist, Right Wing Hatred, Uncategorized

An angry student called his Congressman to tell him to “get off his f*cking ass and pass gun control.” The Congressman didn’t like the message or the language, so he had the kid suspended from school. In March, the Washington Post reported that a Nevada high school student was suspended after he called his Congressman’s […]
By Mindy Fischer on February 12, 2018
ACLU, Black Lives Matter, black man, CNN, cop, de-escalate, domestic disturbance, fired, following his decision not to shoot a distraught suspect, guns, incident, lawsuit, Mader, outrageous, police officer, racism, Ronald R.J. Williams Jr., settlement, shooting, Stephen Mader, suicidal black man, the officers shot and killed the black man, the shooting was justified, unloaded gun, unloaded handgun, visibly choked up, Weirton PD, Weirton Police Department, West Virginia, what the hell is going on in this country, white cop fired for not shooting black man in West Virginia, Williams, yes seriously
Corruption, Domestic violence, gun control, Politics, race relations, racism, Right Wing Hatred, Right wing lies, Uncategorized

What the hell is going on in this country?? A white West Virginia cop chose to de-escalate a situation instead of shooting a suicidal black man. And for his efforts he got fired. On Monday, CNN reported, “A West Virginia city has agreed to pay a former police officer $175,000 to settle a wrongful-termination lawsuit after […]
By Mindy Fischer on October 25, 2017
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Corruption, Elections, GOP, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Republicans, Right Wing Hatred

674 voters in Alabama switched parties between the Democratic Senate primary and the Republican runoff. Now the Alabama Republican secretary of state is trying to send all of them to prison for five years. In May, Alabama passed a new law banning crossover voting. The new law says that if an Alabama citizen votes in […]
By Mindy Fischer on April 6, 2017
ACLU, alt-government accounts, anonymous or pseudonymous, anti-Trump accounts, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, dictatorships, dissent, filed a lawsuit, how we do things in America, protecting their users, refuses to be bullied, Trump, Trump administration, Trump's words and actions, twitter, Twitter sues Trump administration over attempts to unmask accounts critical of Trump, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services, Variety
Corruption, Donald Trump, Politics, Right Wing Hatred, Trump administration, twitter

This is not how we do things in America. It is how things are done in dictatorships. Clearly, Trump doesn’t understand or care about the difference. The Department of Homeland Security has been trying to unmask the identities of the people behind an anonymous Twitter account that has been critical of Donald Trump. In March, […]
By Mindy Fischer on March 11, 2017
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Activism, great news, Liberals, Resist

For the first time in a hundred years, the ACLU is launching a real grassroots effort to organize and train people to resist the President of the United States. On Saturday, the ACLU is holding a Town Hall-style meeting in Miami to introduce their new campaign called PeoplePower. The event is featuring “resistance training.” And it’s […]
By Mindy Fischer on November 10, 2016
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Activism, climate change, Democrats, Domestic violence, environment, Healthcare, Liberals, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Women's issues, women's rights

OK lefties, enough of fretting over what should have been. It’s time we fight back. Here’s how we start…. It’s not just that he’s completely unqualified and in way over his head. It’s also his agenda and the ramifications. 24 million poor people are about to lose health care. ISIS is recruiting. Russia is celebrating. […]