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Since the beginning of 2011, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia have passed, or have plans to pass, restrictive voting laws…
In 2011, former President Bill Clinton condemned the laws for disenfranchising Democrats, describing them as “the disciplined, passionate, determined effort of Republican governors and legislators to keep most of you from voting next time.”
“There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the other Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today,” he said…
Eleven percent of American citizens do not have a government-issued photo IDs, according to the Brennan Center, and those without IDs are more likely to be minorities or low-income…
Viviette Applewhite, 93, filed a lawsuit with the ACLU and NAACP challenging the law. Applewhite, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, does not have a driver’s license, and the state cannot find her birth certificate. She is afraid that this year will be the first since 1960 that she will be unable to vote.
” —5 Voting Laws That Make People Angry
That last line just kills me.
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“I’ve had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”
—Kenneth Rexroth
LOL! Good point.
I know a man
who photographed the view he saw
from the window of the room where he made love
and not the face of the woman he loved there.—Yehuda Amichai
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Heh, that’s something my ex would do.
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Rumpelstiltskin book cover illustrated by Elizabeth Webbe (1963)
Incidentally, my song “Gold Thread” in that first video references Rumpelstiltskin.
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I’M SO STUPID.
Shhhh. Don’t say that.
I JUST-
I THOUGHT HE WAS DIFFERENT. HE WAS ALWAYS SO SWEET TO ME WHEN WE WERE ALONE. WE HAD ALL THESE PLANS. HE MADE SO MANY PROMISES, AND-
AND-
AAUHHHUHHHUHHHHAAUUHHGHHHH.
LOL. Been there…
It’s been 22 years, but it feels like yesterday. We still miss you, Jim.
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