Christina E O

She/Her/La - Sales Enabler by day, mother of humans and dogs by night,consumer of coffee always.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers repeatedly voted to block healthcare benefits for 9/11 first responders and veterans while he served in Congress.

He voted against healthcare funding for 9/11 heroes' cancer treatment on 4 separate occasions.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Omg this is incredible….Dolly Parton performing Peace Train with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

[Center for Reproductive Rights @ReproRights]

Oklahoma wants to make helping your friend get essential healthcare a CRIME.

Oklahoma’s HB 1168 has now passed through the state house and senate and is headed to the governor. It's a bill that would target anyone who helps someone obtain medication abortion.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941.

Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control.

Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action.

Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power."

Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.

[IAMNJERA @IAMNJERA]

Two generations brought together by the blues. This is so special.

The power of Sinners >

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

how it feels to be loved properly

[Rep. Joe Neguse @RepJoeNeguse]

No administration has done more damage to our environment — in a shorter period of time — than the Trump administration.

None.

[Christina E O @ortegapepper]

@Matt_Pinner Accurate

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Trans folks ain't done shit to you

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

We have featured Cheyenne two other times. Both times she warned us she was right. So I trust what she says.

10,000 ICE Agents at a new headquarters in Santa Ana California?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Hi.

Antifa is not a real organization.

Proud Boys are.

Oath Keepers are.

Patriot Front is.

KKK is.

Heritage Foundation is.

Antifa is not.

Thanks for listening.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

First I'm hearing of this. Anyone in Alaska? Let's raise awareness.

[greg @mistergeezy]

MORE OF THIS. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Christina E O @ortegapepper]

@insidemanifest Ok universe....why not? 111

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

ANDOR writer Dan Gilroy has released a statement critiquing the Trump administration and commenting on the parallels between the show and Disney’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

“As one of the writers on the Disney+ drama Andor, we spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill. Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week.

Donald Trump’s tools of governance, coercion and intimidation, have found focus on Hollywood. Faced with a social media firestorm, fear, and an FCC head threatening “they can do this the easy way or hard way,” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel for speaking his mind. I deeply disagree but acknowledge it was a difficult decision. If you believe otherwise, wait until fate knocks on your door and demands you choose between conscience and hardship — because if you work in this industry that day is coming.

The suspension bought time, but not much. Disney now stands at a crossroads: terminate Kimmel’s contract and become pavement for the road to a brave new Trumpian world; or stand for the First Amendment and take the onslaught. There’s not much at stake, just free speech, the oxygen that sustains life in this town.

Trump’s aim is to control what we make and say. The concept seems far off and abstract. Neither is true. Is it hard to conjure a new oversight office or cabinet seat? Is it difficult to picture Trump toadies deplaning at LAX with binders of banned topics and mandated alternatives? You’ll meet them when you have to pitch for approval or get grilled about subversive co-workers.
Regardless of how the jack-booted attack on Jimmy Kimmel is resolved, this isn’t a skirmish. It’s a siege. The first thing Putin did after taking power was silence shows that criticized him. Artists are censored first because they fear us most. The fact this isn’t new doesn’t diminish the shock of the last few days. The majority in Hollywood believed their job was entertainment — the bolder souls attempted to inject theme and commentary — but for everyone this has suddenly become Westworld real.

Whether you’re reading this on line at Blue Bottle or killing time before your 3 o’clock Zoom or staring at a glowing screen unable to sleep, we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence. Our industry faces the most sophisticated, venomous, creeping evil in America’s history. There’s no standing above this conflict. No impartial observers. If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it.

Their goal is to instill fear, to make you feel helpless, hopeless, to break you down. Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written — the pen is in your hand.”

[Christina E O @ortegapepper]

@JohnathanPerk Oh Jay I am so sorry. She is happily running the other trails waiting on you. It was been an honor witnessing your lives together. She has been an amazing partner to you. I will chant for her peaceful passing.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LISTEN TO THIS 👇🏼 #1619Project

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Michael Brown was killed by police on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Let us stand in solidarity with his family and all those impacted by police brutality.

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

I feel like Gen-Z may not know that Republicans had an actual pedophile as Speaker of the House until 2007.

Let’s remind them.