Rebecca I. Allen

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Reeling over alleged child sex ring, Alabama community asks: ‘Did no one know?’ At prayer meetings and other gatherings, Bibb County residents have grappled with the realization that horrific crimes may have been happening in their town.

"For some, it has shattered a sense that their small community was safer than bigger cities. But experts say rural areas are among the places where people are the most vulnerable to trafficking and abuse"
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Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive gro...

“Since January, President Donald Trump’s DOJ has dropped racial discrimination lawsuits, abandoned investigations of police misconduct and canceled oversight of troubled law enforcement agencies.”
Now this.
Excellent reporting from @coreygjohnson.bsky.social :
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is why Jinkx is the Queen of all Queens.

'The Hunting Wives' Author May Cobb Didn't Have Grocery Money. What Happened Next Changed Everything (Exclusive) The author was ready to give up her writing career when she got a series of phone calls that would change her life forever.

"Some months, we weren't making ends meet. We got eviction notices, and my mom would come in and cover our rent, but the cost of special needs is high. We were literally digging for change out of our car for groceries." May Cobb, author

I see News Professor 📰👩‍🏫🗞😃

Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.

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Maybe it's like this week's SNW 🤔😃 Did u see it?

a man in a red outfit is saying i am not a merry man Alt: Star Trek TNG, Micheal Dorn as Worf GIF: exterior, Sherwood Forrest, crew dressed in 15th century Robin Hood garb, a Klingon in a red outfit (with a particularly jaunty cap) angrily says, "I am not a merry man!"

Nope. Still here.

Right? Sames 😃 🖖

😃 "Pull on the bottoms! Put on the top! Get yer self set to pajama dee-bop!"

July 4, 2025 PATRIA You do not love her less when her skirts are torn, Her standard bloody, dragging in the mud, Her ankles fettered, chafed, her eyes cast down, Her ghoulish captors dancing her defeat; This is the time, instead to love her more, With all the fervency of desperate hope, Which sees, beyond the black horizon, fire That may be battle, or the burst of dawn. —Keith Boynton

From author Sandra Boynton
"My son Keith wrote this powerful sad strangely inspiring poem this morning, and it completely upended me." #IndependenceDay
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DHS is urging DACA recipients to self-deport "DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country," said DHS assistant press secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who then encouraged "every person here illegally" to self-deport.

In the past few months the Trump administration moved to strip DACA recipients of healthcare & launched investigations into colleges providing financial aid for them

Now DHS is urging participants to “self deport” marking weakening protections. My latest: www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Tasty boy! 11/10 😄

‘I’m Voting for Stephen’: Jimmy Kimmel’s Emmys FYC Ad Stands Up for Colbert and ‘The Late Show’ Amid CBS Cancellation Jimmy Kimmel rents a West Hollywood billboard reading "I'm voting for Stephen" in support of Stephen Colbert's canceled Late Show, for Emmys campaign.

‘I’m Voting for Stephen’: Jimmy Kimmel’s Emmys FYC Ad Stands Up for Colbert and ‘The Late Show’ Amid CBS Cancellation
"The billboard’s location — situated near major entertainment offices and within blocks of the Television Academy headquarters — ensures maximum visibility among Emmy voters."

Jinkx Monsoon's Take on She Who Must Not Be Named Is High Art "Who is Jake? Who is he? Jake Hay Rowling?" Monsoon asked in mock earnestness on the latest episode of Ziwe's YouTube series.

"Who is Jake? Who is he? Jake Hay Rowling?" Monsoon asked in mock earnestness on the latest episode of Ziwe's YouTube series.
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Happy Saturday, too 😃

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Smithsonian Removes Trump From Impeachment Exhibit in American History Museum
The Washington museum said it restored the display to an earlier version, which notes "only three presidents have seriously faced removal."
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Read Parable of the Sower by Octavia... **• @JoshuaPotash I don't think most people even realize how much they dehumanize others. Wanting unhoused folks arrested instead of housed, wanting drug users arrested instead of legalization, wanting immigrants deported instead of welcomed, it all comes back to viewing some folks as less human.

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happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back

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YouTube video by USA TODAY See the Moo Deng rescue drill starring a mascot version of the hippo #Shorts

Pygmy hippo on the loose? 🦛 Nah, just a drill! Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo ran a full-scale Moo Deng escape simulation starring a staffmember in costume as the Thai zoo's starlet mascot. Goal: sharpen emergency response and keep animals and visitors safe. 👏💯🫶🦛
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A Pregnant Texas Teen Died Under Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat Law It took three ER visits before a hospital admitted pregnant teen Nevaeh Crain, one of at least two Texas women to die under the state’s abortion ban.

At her second ER visit, Nevaeh Crain screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.

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Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!" Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

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Way back in '02 I had a chalazion removed from my eyelid, and I was awake for it. (They gave me some "joy juice" to help calm me beforehand) It all went well. I have a teeny scar in the crease u can't even see now —'cuz I'm all old. 😄