2021 Redistricting process for Nebraska

 

Hi, Hope this message finds you well! We are emailing to provide an update on the ongoing 2021 Redistricting process for Nebraska and let you know what to expect in the coming months. I’m sure you already know how important redistricting is for our state, but it’s hard to overstate just how crucial a fair redistricting process is for every Nebraskan’s right to vote. Last month the Nebraska Unicameral ended its regular legislative session, but before they adjourned they made some important decisions regarding redistricting: Committee The 9 member Redistricting Committee was formed. The following state legislators make up this committee: Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, Chairperson Sen. Carol Blood Sen. Tom Briese Sen. Tom Brewer Sen. Suzanne Geist Sen. Steve Lathrop Sen. John Lowe Sen. Adam Morfeld Sen. Justin Wayne Rules The Committee adopted its rules for drawing new district maps, which can be found here. A stricter set of guidelines was introduced by Sen. McCollister during the session, but the bill, LB107, failed to find enough support in committee. Timeline The map drawing process will not be able to begin until late August, when the U.S. Census data is available to the Committee. Once they draw new maps, all Nebraska legislators will convene for a special legislative session to approve or amend their proposal. Prior to a final vote the Committee will hold a hearing in each Congressional district to collect public input on their draft maps. This process is very important for the future of Nebraska’s politics- maps motivated by partisan interests would undermine our state’s democracy and government for the next decade. We’ll be reaching out soon to share how to get involved with our work on this crucial issue.

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Cultural Wallet/ATM-Enabling Codependent

 

More than a Cultural 

Wallet/ATM-Enabling Codependent

As much a treatise on the ‘taken-for-granted’ presumptuousness of cultural psychology of their ‘required’ roles on a macro level than the micro-exploitation on the individual level. Folks operate on this in auto-mode expectation that their consumption is an entitlement of specie-status/class-gender-or-legal standing. As a consequence, both the ‘obliged’ and the ‘expectants’ exist in a pre-choreographed program of conditioned behavior in the cultural/social colloidally structured systems

J.J. Rousseau’s maxim, “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in  chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave  than they.", rings true today as much as it did 240 years ago. Just as Br’er Rabbit encountered with the tar baby, so we have adhered ourselves to this operative fallacy in our social human relations.

Admonitions about this entrapment have been similarly written [though for other ends]. In chapter 18 verse 47 of the Bhagavad-gita, it’s noted, 

“It is better to do one's imperfect and humble dharma, even than to do [or be the servant of] an other's dharma, even though perfectly. By doing one's innate duties, a person does not incur sin”. 

In the 27th Discourse if the Futuh al-Ghaib it states, “(May God be pleased with him) sad: 

Regard good and evil as two fruits coming out from  two branches of a tree. One of the two branches yields sweet  fruit and the other is bitter. So you Leave cities and..[other] parts of countries from where fruits are plucked from this tree and sent: and keep away from them and their people. Approach  the tree itself and become its guard attendant-servant, and  acquire knowledge of these two branches and of the two fruits  and their neighborhoods, and remain near the branch which  yields sweet fruit Then, it will be your and your source of  strength, and beware lest you should approach the other branch  and eat the fruit of, lest its bitterness should kill you. When you  persist in this attitude you will be in case and security and safety from all troubles and all kinds  of calamities are  born of this bitter fruit. 

When you are away from this tree and  wander about in countries and these fruits are brought before you and are mixed up in a manner that the sweet cannot be distinguished from the bitter and you start eating them, your  hand may fall on the bitter and you may put it in your mouth and eat a part of it chew it  so that its bitterness goes to your  palate; and then to your throat and further your brain and  nostrils spreads its effect you as far as your veins and the organs of your body and you are thus killed….

Both in the ‘Gita’ and the ‘al-Ghaib’ the warnings and admonitions to prevent one from being ensnared by fallacious notions that draw your association and consumption to them from the ambiguities of imperfection in our temporal existence. Those ethical and moral ambiguities from the emotional pressures and extortion of cultural ways and your social interaction dynamics lead you ignorantly into being the cuckold in the social saga of being a complicit and enabling codependent.

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EVEN IF THIS IS WHAT SOME ARE CALL A WEATHER TREND

 

EVEN IF THIS IS WHAT SOME ARE CALL A WEATHER TREND.... 

 

 

Like what I tweeted to Glenn Greenwald about his crowing over the latest "authoritative" report on the LaFayette Park Clearing last August: "I'd take 'cold comfort' as one who'd have to endure it, that it's not as bad as previously depicted.."

California’s Drought Is So Bad They’re Driving Salmon to the Ocean in Trucks

The drought in California is so bad that the state is loading almost 17 million hatchery salmon into trucks for a ride to the coast in a massive effort to help the species.

Typically, Chinook salmon spawn in rivers and then migrate to the ocean as juveniles, eventually swimming back up rivers to lay their eggs. But this year, the West is experiencing on of the worst droughts in history, with California Governor Gavin Newsom declaring it an emergency in April.

The once-cool and deep riverways salmon have historically traveled are now in some places hot, cracked stretches of dirt. And to make sure that salmon get to the ocean, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will use 146 trucks to carry the fish up to 100 miles from their hatcheries to the San Francisco Bay and other water areas, according to a release by the agency. They are being let loose at different times of day to avoid a feeding frenzy by lurking seabirds.

Full article at->https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvz...-theyre-driving-salmon-to-the-ocean-in-trucks