23 Iyyar 5782 (May 2022) – Page 34

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· 24 Iyyar 5782 (Wednesday 25 May 2022) · 0 minutes to read

I tried to step away from WordPress once. In 2019 I moved this site to Hugo. I was looking for a simpler workflow and more performant site but, while I found the latter, maintaining it was anything but simple and I wound up back on WordPress just a year later. Today I find myself generally content w...

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5782 (Wednesday 25 May 2022) · 0 minutes to read

No, Ben, it is a plea from people who are fed up with the endless train of massacres that are followed by elected leaders doing nothing. We cannot keep shrugging our shoulders and pretending that the slaughter of a class of kids is an acceptable price to pay for "freedom." https://t.co/wsKOK3FcgU
— Darth Hoo 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@DarthHoo744) May 25, 2022

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5782 (Wednesday 25 May 2022) · 0 minutes to read

I'm tired of hearing "that won't work".

I want to hear "this is what we're willing to try."
— Jen Gumbel (@jgumbel) May 25, 2022

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5782 (Wednesday 25 May 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Fuck your prayers. They haven’t worked for the last 20 mass shootings how about passing laws that will stop these killings. https://t.co/Wz432YCMPe
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) May 24, 2022

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Iyyar 5782 (Wednesday 25 May 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Stop Begging. Start Fighting.

On Tuesday, after a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers in a Texas elementary school, Sen. Chris Murphy stood on the Senate floor and implored his colleagues to stop mass shootings. “I’m here on this floor to beg,” said Murphy, pressing his palms together in prayerful supplication. “To literally get down on my hands […]