Quick Link: DC working to rename street outside Saudi Embassy for Jamal Khashoggi

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Thursday November 29, 2018 · 12:20 PM PST

2018/11/29 · 12:20

This is a quick Twitter hit, but:

Breaking news
DC commission just passed resolution 6:0 to designate the street in front of the Saudi embassy Jamal Khashoggi way.

I testified before the commission and urged them to adopt it.
Thank you for good words @mdedora #JusticeForJamal #JamalKhashoggi @KarenAttiah
Ã¢ÂÂ Nihad Awad ÃÂÃÂÃÂ§ÃÂ¯ ÃÂ¹ÃÂÃÂ¶ (@NihadAwad) November 29, 2018

An article from this morning has more details — this is a neighborhood commission, and there’s still another layer of approval needed above them.

www.nbcwashington.com/…

It seems a fitting gesture, and one that DC can make on its own, no matter what the administration does (or doesn’t do).

Voter Suppression in Al: how bad is it?

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Tuesday December 12, 2017 · 11:14 AM PST

2017/12/12 · 11:14

Some reports of voter suppression in Alabama are trickling in via Twitter. Take, for example, one user’s experience (I’ve just pulled the highlights from the thread — click the bird in the corner of the first tweet to see the whole thing on Twitter, or see my paraphrase below):

So I voted but let me tell you a quick story about this here special election:
— Ya Girl Brittany (@xobritdear) December 12, 2017

But because this election is high stakes, suddenly I and tons of others in my small town were marked as inactive.
Ã¢ÂÂ Ya Girl Brittany (@xobritdear) December 12, 2017

If you don't remember your birth county you can't fill out the form. Sucks for you if you were born out of state like me.
Ã¢ÂÂ Ya Girl Brittany (@xobritdear) December 12, 2017

She arrived at her polling place to find that, despite actively voting in the past, she’d been marked inactive. Which still allows you to vote, but requires more information, including birth county, which not everyone knows offhand. She’d brought her birth certificate, so she was all set, but if she hadn’t, they weren’t allowing anyone to take out a phone in the polling area, so no googling if you knew the town but not the county or anything.

Other users chimed in with reports of having been marked inactive despite voting in the Dem primary for Jones, and the ACLU of Alabama tweeted that they’re looking into this case.

Any other stories cropping up online that should get signal-boosted up?

Bully Gavel: Alabama judge orders "Church or Jail"

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Friday September 23, 2011 · 12:14 PM PDT

2011/09/23 · 12:14

An city judge in Bay Minette, Alabama, has decided the first amendment doesn't apply to those convicted of non-violent misdemeanors. They created a program where offenders can go to church instead of jail.

There are so many things wrong with this that finding somewhere to begin is kind of daunting. First -- the name. "Operation Restore Our Community". Because forced worship is the best way to build community.

Second, if there are any non-Christian churches in this program, the language doesn't suggest it.

If offenders select church, they'll be allowed to pick the place of worship but must check in weekly with the pastor and police.

It says choice, but then it says:

So far, 56 churches are participating.

though I wasn't able to track down a list to see if that included anything other than Christian churches. All I did find was that The City of Bay Minette lists a meeting for the program in July, with no details, meeting at an area church.

see ya on the flip side

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Monday September 12, 2011 · 6:49 AM PDT

2011/09/12 · 06:49

Not a terribly interesting diary; another first diary, another boycotter.

See y'all in a week, when I'll try to actually post some content here for the first time; I do, actually, have something I wrote for another context that I think this place would benefit from.

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