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August 8, 2022

Abortion rights activists want a national leader. Is Kamala Harris up to the job?

Harris’ opportunity in the spotlight — albeit on a sleepy summer afternoon — came courtesy of voters in reliably conservative Kansas, who voted overwhelmingly in a statewide referendum hours earlier to protect the state’s constitutional right to an abortion.

“The people of Kansas spoke and said this is a matter of defense of basic principles of liberty and freedom in America,” Harris said of the surprise victory.

The moment offered a glimpse of potential for Harris, who has tried to turn a crisis for Democrats — the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, ending the constitutional right to abortion — into a political opportunity.

Taking command in the battle over abortion’s future, now largely being fought in the states and as an issue in the November election, comports neatly with Harris’ political résumé, touching on her experience as the first woman elected to the second-highest post in the nation
and as a former California attorney general and U.S. senator with a longstanding interest in maternal health.

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“We need a leader on this. No one knows who’s the head of Planned Parenthood,” said Montana state Sen. Diane Sands, an abortion rights activist since the 1960s and one of many Democratic lawmakers and advocates who have met with Harris in recent weeks. “In her body, as a woman and a woman of color, she knows these issues in an intimate way.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-08-08/abortion-rights-activists-want-a-national-leader-is-vp-harris-up-to-the-job

August 8, 2022

GoFundMe raises $45000 for woman whose house was destroyed by Anne Heche

The woman who had her home destroyed by Anne Heche is identified https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11090571/The-woman-home-destroyed-actress-Anne-Heche-identified.html?ito=native_share_article-caption#i-3f5aa998974d1d40

August 8, 2022

Performer booed in California for mentioning Texas

The clear standout of the set was the lead single off her forthcoming album called "This Hell," a country-pop stomper that asks the question: "What if Shania Twain made a song about the horrors of being alive in 2022?" It is eminently catchy, with a chorus about the devil wearing Prada and loving drama. When Sawayama introduced the song, she led off by asking drummer Emily (the token American on stage, she joked) about where country music and hoedowns come from.

"Probably Texas," Emily gamely responded.

"Pretend we're in Texas right now," Sawayama told the crowd.

She was roundly booed by the largely young crowd; we're in San Francisco, after all, and given the abortion ban and anti-trans legislation in Texas, her fans did not feel particularly stoked to fantasize about the American Southwest, even for a fake hoedown. It was a reminder that pop music, as joyous as its highs are, can't always be rooted in escapism — even if the songs that defined our childhood often felt like three-minute getaways. But throughout her set, Sawayama made the case that she is the pop star to confront this hellscape we're in head-on

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Rina-Sawayama-Outside-Lands-headliner-17358105.php

August 8, 2022

Nine shot in Cincinnati

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August 7, 2022

Disappointed' remnants of People's Convoy are living in cars/vans wondering why movement didnt catch

https://www.rawstory.com/peoples-convoy-2657822483/

'Disappointed' remnants of People's Convoy are living in cars and vans in DC: report
Tom Boggioni
August 07, 2022
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According to a report from the Washington Post, a small group of die-hard conservatives and Donald Trump supporters who took part in the the so-called "People's Convoy" have yet to go home and have been living in their cars or vans for weeks, meeting each day and wondering why their movement didn't catch on

The trucker convoy, also known as the "1776 Restoration Movement," was ostensibly organized to protest vaccine mandates, but gradually changed into a grab-bag protest against the policies of President Joe Biden which mostly dissipated as they were ignored and then was dogged by accusations about where donations were going.

In June, trucking industry website Freightwaves issued a special report stating that $1.8 million in donations had been taken in with no accountability about spending which had organizers pointing fingers at each other.

That report stated, "In the days prior to the convoy’s collapse, participants and supporters say they were asked to 'pass the hat' and chip in cash to pay the Hagerstown Speedway for allowing them to camp there and use the site as a staging area to launch its slow rolls and loops around the Washington Beltway.

On Sunday, the Post's Joe Heim reported some members have yet to leave.

"They were hoping that thousands or maybe even millions of other Americans would join their cause, Tom Fisher, 70, a retired state park ranger from Arizona said as he stood in the shade on a blistering hot Washington afternoon last week," he wrote. "Instead, there are about two dozen stalwarts who’ve camped out with American flag-draped cars and trucks since July 6 to demonstrate against what they say is America’s slow but sure abandonment of the Constitution and to call for a peaceful return 'to a constitutional Republic through the restoration of a moral society.'"

August 7, 2022