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@TheMelWestbrook @piper4missouri Thousands, yes. Out of the millions who give birth every day.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Hinds County, Mississippi which is 70% Black, ran out of ballots two hours after opening the polls.

The Democratic Party filed a motion to keep the polls open later so everyone in line can vote.

Republicans have appealed to a higher court to end the voting NOW.

Get the fuck out of my face talking about both parties are the same.

[Kathryn Antoinette @kattoinette]

@Dilettwat That's her porch.

[Margie 🌊🌊🌊 @MargieVotes]

Remember Kim Davis, the clerk in Kentucky, who rose to national prominence for refusing to issue a same-sex marriage license in 2015 —arguing that such actions violated her religious beliefs?

Last year, a federal judge ruled Davis had violated the constitutional rights of the couple.

Judge Bunning: “Davis cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official”.

A judge has ordered her to pay $100,000 to the local couple.

Kim Davis at the corner of FAFO
#DemVoice1 #FreshResists

[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

Politicians picking their voters rather than the voters electing their politicians.

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[Aaron Arguijo @AaronArguijo]

There are farmers who contract immigrants from Mexico and pay for their housing all over Texas. One in particular does it at the Plainview Labor Camp who puts at least four people in each apartment and contracts from Mexico every single year, transporting them to here.

Those people travel sometimes more than 22 hours on a bus to come and work the fields in West Texas, a place that no one wants to work anymore because the wages are too low to support an American family, above the poverty line.

These heroes for our agricultural economy show up with a gym bag of clothes.

That's it. And that’s all they use through the summer. They work 16 hour days, rushing off the bus that shuffles them back and forth to the laundry just to try to secure a washing machine, to ensure they can wash the clothes to hang dry them on the clothes line while they have supper.

The maintenance men in these camps inform us that they just put three twin mattresses on the floor, taking shifts to sleep. Sometimes, they'd get lucky and have a bed frame.

Migrant farmers are humans. They are the backbone of our entire agricultural economy. To vilify people for helping us is a different kind of hate.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?!

The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet...

But there are three parts to this story. And the first begins over two thousand years ago in Ancient Rome with a single word: et. It's the Latin for "and". At some point Roman scribes started combining the two letters of et into a single symbol, which was the ancestor of our modern &.

The earliest example of the "et" symbol is actually from graffiti in Pompeii. In any case, it did not disappear with the fall of the Roman Empire.

Latin survived as the language of the Catholic Church and of scholarship in Medieval Europe. Scribes during the Dark Ages continued to use the & symbol. It evolved down the centuries, in places losing any semblance of the letters e and t whatsoever.

The second part of the story is that during the 18th and 19th centuries, as education and the teaching of literacy spread, & was added to the end of the alphabet as a sort of 27th letter.

On a related note, although "et cetera" is now usually just abbreviated as etc., for a long time it was instead abbreviated as "&c". The & was for et and the c for cetera.

The third and final part of the story is about how the alphabet was taught to children — and how it was read out loud.

As this 1822 Glossary of Words and Phrases explains, it had been normal during the Renaissance, when speaking the alphabet, to add "per se" before any letter which could also be a word on its own — "per se" means "by itself" in Latin.

Take the letter A, which can also be a word of its own. When reading out the alphabet people would say "A, per se A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, per se I..." and so on. O was also considered a word of its own.

Which means, when people got to the end of the alphabet, with & being the 27th letter, they would say: "S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, and per se &."

When this old way of reading the alphabet was taught to children in the 18th century and they were reciting it aloud, they would garble "and per se " into what eventually became... ampersand.

A Dic­tion­ary of Slang and Col­lo­quial Eng­lish from 1905 relates some of the many other pronunciations school children apparently came up with:

"Am­persand. The sign &; am­persand. Vari­ants: Ann Passy Ann; an­pasty; an­dpassy; an­parse; aper­sie; per-se; am­passy; am-passy-ana; am­pene-and; am­pus-and; ampsyand; am­pazad; am­siam; am­pus-end; ap­perse-and; em­per­siand; am­perzed; and zumzy-zan."

Well, of all the many pronunciations that might have stuck, it was "ampersand" which came to be accepted and is now the official name for &... rather than zumzy-zan. So, from hurried Roman scribes to unruly school children, that's where "&" came from.

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[Pam Rotella @PamRotella]

@joncoopertweets Wow, that Fani Willis is hard core, with the amount of work it takes to put a RICO indictment together. The old federal RICO law was used to take down the Mafia, and she used Georgia's version. So many moving parts to those things, and she was working with state resources.

[🇸🇱 🇸🇴 🇪🇹 🇪🇷 The HOA Warrior @AmbWarsame]

@joncoopertweets The Ghost of John Lewis living through them #jury

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The Us govt must reassess @elonmusk contractor status. If a private citizen acted like this in any other capacity he would lose his security clearance