Today the NE State Patrol unilaterally banned our very own @melodyvacc from the Capitol for life for yelling “Shame!” at the legislators passing LB77, permitless carry, spreading the #1 cause of US child deaths. Violation of due process and right to petition over a speech act.
The news we hoped we wouldn't hear: LB574 advanced this afternoon. If you are in crisis, please utilize the hotlines below:
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@Smolen4Omaha Thank you for this! All great points. I remember going to middle school with a boy called (let’s say) BJ. Day one of 2nd semester, a new teacher demands to know if his parents call him “JT” or “Bernard.” He said, um…Bernard…and from then in she insisted on that &nothing else.
Tragically, the First Lady of TN lost her best friend in the Covenant School shooting. I have to imagine that had some impact on Gov Lee’s executive order on background checks & his request to Republicans in the legislature to pass a red flag law.
Let’s see how lawmakers respond
Student: “Mr. Baker. I would like to be called this name rather than what is in the computer.”
Me: “Absolutely. No problem.”
Student: “And when you communicate with my family, please use my legal name only.”
Me: “Also, no problem.”
#oklaed
I wonder why people don't want to live in rural NE and are interested in the bigger cities.
What's your theory? (Don't leave one without at least two reliable resource links 😅)
#Nebraska
the two gay men behind me in the grocery line were whispering and pointing at me. I fantasized that they were marveling at my beauty, feared that they were mocking me. when I left the store, they chased me down the street. "Excuse me!" they called out until I turned around
@EliRigatuso@NebraskaMegan I will be doing the same. This gives me a little hope. He is my rep and I’ll admit I’ve just felt completely done with him and his lack of a backbone.
Here’s the Chest X-Ray of a young girl suffering from a condition that is now the #1 cause of death in children and adolescents in the U.S.
What’s the diagnosis?
Mass shooters don’t choose the AR-15 because it looks “cool.” They choose it, because they can kill upwards of 30 people before needing to reload.
On Sept 28th, 1982, 12 year old Mary Kellerman was hospitalized after being poisoned by a killer who laced a bottle of Tylenol that was on a store shelf, with cyanide. She died the next morning. A day later, six more would die from poisoned Tylenol.
By October 5th, Johnson & Johnson had issued a nationwide recall of 31 million bottles of Tylenol, and launched a massive advertising campaign to get people not to consume any of their products that contained acetaminophen (Tylenol)
The 1982 event inspired a rapid and radical shift in how certain products were sent out, quickly prompting manufacturers to start using tamperproof packaging. Untold lives have been saved in the years since.
The crisis management response by Johnson & Johnson is taught today as a model of corporate public relations and public safety.
These fucking shootings should be SIMPLE to fix. We KNOW how to rapidly bring about a massive reduction in school shootings and the senseless deaths of children and staff. We KNOW how.
It’s not happening, because organizations like the NRA spend millions upon millions of dollars to make sure GOP politicians do NOT allow those solutions to be implemented.
The NRA rewards the GOP for allowing our children to continue being slaughtered.
It’s NOT that we don’t know how to crush this. That, has never been the problem.