More people were shot and killed in America over Independence Day weekend than are killed by guns in Japan and the UK combined during an average year. It’s not video games, lack of prayer, or too many doors that caused that. It’s guns. It’s always guns.

We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… via The New Yorker

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Would love to read thoughtful research/data on how K-12 students fared academically in the 2021-22 school year. Any suggestions please? Thanks!

Uvalde: AR-15
Buffalo: AR-15
Boulder: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Aurora, CO: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
Waffle House: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15
Midland/Odessa: AR-15
Poway synagogue: AR-15
Sutherland Springs: AR-15
Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15

Beautiful reflection by Bekah McNeel for The 74 the74million.org/?p=589988

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is also the lawmaker whose campaigns or political action committees have accepted the most money from the gun rights lobby, according to the nonprofit OpenSecrets. wapo.st/3PN1xaC

As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) attended a vigil Wednesday for the victims of the massacre in Uvalde, Tex., he stormed away from an interview after he was asked by a British journalist why mass shootings happen “only in America.”

It really is wild to consider the level of safety regulation we encounter in daily life basically every single place you look, except for guns.

How did the party that wanted to make it easier to start and operate a business become the party that made it easier to massacre an elementary school?

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via @NYTOpinion “But it’s hard for me to watch the church trying to control women’s sexuality after a shocking number of its own priests sexually assaulted children and teenagers for decades” via ⁦Maureen Dowd⁩ nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opi…

.⁦Richard Blumenthal⁩ comes to Litchfield pro-choice rally: says voters should support pro-choice politicians, help needy women in Anti-Roe states like Texas travel for health care, help pro-choice advocacy groups ⁦Women's March⁩

Lots of pro-choice honking in Litchfield, CT ⁦Women's March⁩

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