I am a loving aunt to three school-age children who became deeply alarmed about their safety following the shooting in Parkland. As a result of that tragedy, I became a passionate activist for common sense gun regulation. and formed the Musicians Against Gun Violence Super PAC.

I used to work at Chipotle and I thought I was doing something good for animals. Chipotle brags about using "free-range" animals and treating them with respect, but when I went to a Chipotle-supplying chicken farm, I saw dead and mutilated birds. I couldn't believe this was being called "humane." I used to be one of the people calling this "humane" and being proud of it, but now I know the truth. Chipotle's CEO needs to stop lying to the public and to warn them about the way animals are suffering to produce the products Chipotle sells. Chipotle already posts warning signs when they are serving animal products that don't meet their highest standards, but they should be posting warnings of violence on ALL of their animal products because even on their "humane" farms, Direct Action Everywhere has documented cruel animal abuse and the public deserves to know the truth.

I've waited for 12 years to bring my sister here. Her daughter and son aged out of my petition. They had to go back to the end of the line and start a new petition. They've been waiting for several years and now the travel ban is making it very difficult for them to get approved. It's been 18 years.

My friend Emma was recently demoted because she was in a relationship with someone 3 years older than her. This in turn made her break up with her boyfriend who she loved because they were 3 years apart. They also tried to break up me and court and we aren't even staff in the server. Do you know how bullshit that is? Her boyfriend isn't even 18 yet and it also doesn't concern you. Sign this petition if you want things to change, starting with getting Emma her role back.

There is a proposed rule that would suspend high school student-athletes from post-season competition if their parents legally transfer them for reasons that are NOT athletically motivated. This rule targets low-income students and African American student-athletes in particular. It would hold them hostage in certain zip codes and educational environments that their parents do not feel are best for them. There has been very little transparency about this rule. This vote should be stopped and public forums should be held throughout the Commonwealth.

Abdul El-Sayed here: As Detroit’s Health Director, I personally inspected the City’s public schools, run by a state-appointed Emergency Manager and suffering from Betsy DeVos driven funding cuts. I saw children trying to learn in classrooms without good heat in the winter, and schools with dead mice and moldy floors. It’s a far cry from the Michigan public education I received - the Michigan public education every child deserves.

Twelve of my working, voting, paying taxes and good deed doer friends have had developers knock on their doors saying, "I know you've lived here 12 (20; 5; 8, etc) years but you now have eight months to move unless you have a million dollars. Your apartment is now a condo. Have a nice day." There are high rise buildings all over the city with empty apartments. Enough empty apartments to house the 50,000 evacuees from the Porter Ranch Gas Leak. We have 60,000 homeless and no place for them to go. The Porter Ranch people have all gone home. Who are in those empty high-rises? Wealthy foreign students, transient business people, a few local "wealthies," and corporations who keep apartments. WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING for our own tax paying, voting constituents. The governor, the mayor, and our city council can each afford not to be paid that little extra under the table for three years. They may resume their thievery at the end of the three-year moratorium on building non-affordable housing. When we saw a city councilman dressed in a silk suit to negotiate with developers who wanted to build in Los Angeles, we knew he did not want to appease the 200 people gathered outside to oppose it. He was there to impress the developers and design his own pockets. If California is so wonderful, let's prove it. Let's actually do something for the middle and working class people who live here and who actually pay our leaders' salaries and benefits. (I can't afford to buy you a silk suit and I'm not sure the bulk of your constituents can afford it either.) WHO IS MINDING THE STORE? We've got to ourselves. And don't think your vote doesn't count.....it does.

Summer is a time for kids to be kids. A time for families to relax and enjoy time with each other, NOT stress over homework. I know the summer reading program has caused nothing but unnecessary stress in my family since it started and I would like my kids to be able to just BE KIDS in the summer.

On July 3, the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by North Carolina Senator Richard Burr, released a report agreeing that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump's favor. Depending on how successful that interference is, we may not have a legitimate sitting president. If that is the case, Trump should not be able to name a lifetime appointee to the highest court in the United States. A Supreme Court justice has great power to change people's lives, and no justice should be confirmed when the presidential election is in question. I'm calling on Senator Burr to recuse himself from the confirmation vote on Brett Kavanaugh until we know the extent of Russia's interference.

There was a petition presented to the Siskiyou County Planning Commission urging them to deny a permit for the Jefferson Center for the Arts. This could be quite an obstacle, even though there were only 57 signatures. Let us show that many more want the JCA to exist.

Before I ordered the Brightwood 5.0 Study guides I called them and they told me everything is new when in fact it is exactly the same as my Kaplan 2007 ARE 4.0 content. They gave me a really hard time about getting my money back after I shipped them back their materials. Many other ARE Candidates, Firms, and AIA are really upset about Brightwood Architecture's ARE 5.0 scam. Here is my chart outlining how they have turned and reprinted all the ARE 4.0 study materials in 3 different books... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ojHoQpBaU7ESOai-T1bt9U1gBDL98ci1LmRCMfC-whw/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=113823595970065378712 Please sign the petition and share your Brightwood experience as the comment.

I'M TIRED OF SEEING THIS PRESIDENT DESTROYING OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR ALLIES.