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Debra Poneman's avatar

Thanks for letting us know about this Marianne. Maybe this is what the current co-president had up his sleeve when he said to the Christian gathering last July, not to worry, they 'won't have to vote anymore' if he's elected...he had it taken care of. If he eliminates women and poor people, the white men will have every election sown up even if many of even most don't vote.

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Rebecca Suzanne's avatar

Crazy, huh?! Just when you think it can't possibly get any worse...

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Lila's avatar

You are missing the context. He said that because it is known that Christians tend not to vote due to their second coming beliefs. He was convincing them that he would help them get their main issues in the bag (religious freedom and leaving abortion law to the states).

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Karl Hester's avatar

This can’t happen. Our country can’t be this backward. This is asking for violence. My heart is breaking.. God help us all. Standing up for what is right and just is all we can do.

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Lee Anne Collver-Richards's avatar

And we are take courage oh truth seekers

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S. Mack's avatar

Maybe women should fight back by keeping their last name that is on their birth certificate and choosing to never change their last name? And then help all married WOMEN to Change back to their maiden names even while still married. Then start a fund that specifically helps all women to get passports with that change name on it. We don't need to take anyone's name to be married. Start keeping your own. Don't even hyphenate it! Changing the last name is becoming like proof of male dominance/ ownership, especially now. So we women need to STOP it NOW. Thank his I changed my name back when I divorced. Every woman should think about that too. Protect yourself from ownership. NOW. Get valid passports.

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Rebecca Suzanne's avatar

Thanks for the heads up, Marianne! However, there is SOME good news tonight. 1.) Elon Musk was not successful in his efforts to buy the WI Supreme Court. And, 2.) Four Republican Senators - Murkowski (AK), Collins (ME) and both KY Senators Paul and O'Connell - voted "no," and blocked Trump's efforts to impose additional tariffs against Canada ( as opposed to those other tariffs in some other circumstance, somewhere else). Still, a win is a win. Let us pray it is a crack in the wall.

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Marianne Williamson's avatar

And Cory Booker's amazing filibuster

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

MONSANTO & CANCER MILK - This is why Canada doesn't want U.S. milk.

¨Journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired by the Fox News television station they work for after refusing to change their investigative report on Posilac, a Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) made by Monsanto. Their research documents potential health and safety problems of drinking milk treated with the synthetic hormone, but threatened with legal action from Monsanto, Fox wants the negative effects played down. The court eventually throws out Akre's whistle blower lawsuit after deciding that the media is allowed to lie.¨

Monsanto & Cancer Milk: FOX NEWS KILLS STORY & FIRES Reporters. 10:20 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1pKlnhvg0

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Susan Meeker-Lowry's avatar

I’ve been fighting against rBGH since it was first tested in the UVM test herd in the 1980s. Monsanto’s fake farmers, dressed like Vermont farmers except their clothes were ironed and their boots had no manure on them, trying to convince dairy farmers in the state that using their product was the best thing they could do. Even at that time there were numerous reports of harms done, not only to the actual cows treated with the growth hormone, but for their progeny as well. And, by the way, the milk itself isn’t “treated” as is implied in the above statement. It’s the cows that are, so they will produce a higher percentage of milk. Now, it appears, there are health implications for humans drinking the milk from treated cows. Just as there are health implications for humans, and animals, eating GMO crops. Those of us fighting this way back when it all started knew this would be the case.

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

A Nation at War with Peace

What the raid on the U.S. Institute of Peace reveals about who we really are.

Matthew Albracht Apr 02, 2025

¨Check out my new post. This issue is both enraging and heartbreaking. The U.S. Institute of Peace was taken over by White House and then all staff fired and shut down. Decades of expertise and learning down the drain. What does that say about us?

https://matthewalbracht.substack.com/p/a-nation-at-war-with-peace

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Janet Soinski's avatar

I just emailed this to 34 friends. I will call in the morning. Tonight I spoke up on Facebook with a letter “To the People of the World.” Where else can I print it?

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SUE Speaks's avatar

This struck me as the very right spirit. People are coming out of the woodwork now as activists. Everyone turned on to doing whatever they can is a heartwarming antidote to the horror of our time. Marianne is doing it in a public way, given the attention she gets, but everyone doing what they can is the best that can happen. One thing you can do with what you wrote is to link it here, and send it to me where I have the word out to find winning ways.

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Jenny Pearce's avatar

Far out... one would think that's the end of any politician who votes for it. Is any other result possible?

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David  Powell's avatar

Yea those women. They could never manage to get a copy of their birth certificate….🤦🏻

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EXCLUSIVE LEAK! The Freedom Preservation Manual™—How to Win Elections Without a Majority

Confidential GOP Onboarding Guide | Prepared by the Department of Electoral Hygiene and Narrative Control

“Welcome, new operative. If you're reading this, congratulations: you've been entrusted with protecting America’s most sacred institution—not democracy, but the illusion of democracy. In this training you’ll learn:

How to rig the vote with ID laws.

How to purge the rolls with surgical precision.

How to redraw maps like weapons.

How to close polling places that work too well.

And how to control the narrative so no one notices—or dares to challenge it.

This isn’t about protecting democracy. It’s about preserving control—in a country where fewer and fewer people want what we’re selling.”

https://patricemersault.substack.com/p/exclusive-leak-the-freedom-preservation?r=4d7sow

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Amy Hartsough's avatar

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Marianne. After I read your article, I emailed my representative, Mr. Loudermilk, (R) from Georgia, and urged him to vote "no" on the SAVE Act. May all things work for the good of the collective.

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Completed.

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Liz Burton's avatar

It’s not about a married woman proving her name at birth—that’s what a birth certificate is for. The problem is that the law requires that the name on the voter registration match what’s on that birth certificate.

Now, that wouldn’t de facto pose a problem, unless people have no idea where their marriage license is. The problem is the law contains NO provision prohibiting states from passing laws that exclude said marriage license from being acceptable, and as experience should have taught people by now that kind of gaping crack will be used by the Republibertarians to further shrink the franchise.

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SUE Speaks's avatar

I love what you are doing, speaking the clearest and most intelligent truth to be found, where I’ve speculated that maybe as you just keep talking all of humanity could come round. It’s heartening you get bigger and bigger audiences that have changed in character where half used to slam you but now everyone cheers you on. Maybe that could spur you to think you are being called to make the Beloved Community into a sign-up that would be bigger than the Democrats and Republicans combined, to bring about the loving community of humanity as a force for the good that we so desperately need.

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Gary Boivin's avatar

This travesty needs to be voted down, by filibuster if necessary.

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Rebecca Suzanne's avatar

Yes, Cory Booker - one of the good guys! Perhaps you had the opportunity to get to know him a bit during your presidential runs. He seems an ernest person.

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