I met my husband two years ago in an FB singles group. I had no intention of ever dating again as I had been through a terrible divorce. We talked and became friends and then decided to meet. He told me he had a 6-year-old daughter and then dropped a bombshell. He couldn't see her regularly because his ex-wife accused him of molesting her. I was stunned and of course thought there's no way I can continue even a friendship with this man. Then, I thought, first of all, a pedophile doesn't announce he's a pedophile. I decided I wanted to meet his daughter and see them interact. One time seeing this little girl do everything she could to get away from her mom and run to her dad and jump in his arms was all I needed to see. Shortly after, there was a court date for him to try and get more time and I decided to put his paperwork together. I was appalled at the things I read. His daughter had NEVER been taken to a doctor, DCFS didn't do an investigation - they turned it over to law enforcement - and he was interrogated until they found out that the day he supposedly "molested" his daughter he was with numerous people, none that were spoken to about the incident. He sold everything he had to fight for this little girl and to this day he still does. He agreed to go to counseling, his daughter and ex also agreed so that they could work towards a 50/50 schedule. He committed his end; his daughter hasn't been to counseling for 6 months and I doubt his ex has gone once. A person doesn't become a pedophile once and then stop. I have three older children, all who love my husband, all who are comfortable with him and support him. We now have a granddaughter with whom he is amazing. For two years I've watched this woman do everything she can to keep this little girl from her dad. I watched her work the system, and I've watched the system enable her. This little girl loves her dad and should be allowed to be with him, he should not have to live with the stigma of being a predator, of having to sell everything he owns in order to see her. He shouldn't have letters written to his employer telling them he's a pedophile when the case against him has been closed for over 3 years now. Today is the 4th of July; if the court petition had been followed we would have been able to have his daughter on the 3rd at 6 pm until the 5th at 7 pm; instead, we get her from 12-6 and are unable to do anything because that's how her mom dictates it. This is wrong and it needs to be stopped. She should be charged and any woman who does these kinds of things should be charged.

By releasing voting data on every voter in the 2016 election, you are opening them up to possible targeting of hackers and those who could cause physical harm. We ask the you stop this move by Secretary of State Kris Kobach to endanger the privacy of Kansas residents.

Most TANF participants face multiple barriers to employment. Few (15 percent) of those with multiple barriers get jobs, while over 60 percent of those with no barriers gain employment. Work readiness (poor mental or physical health, education less than high school, lack of recent work experience, and lack of English-language proficiency) is a major impediment to employment. Two additional factors include having a young child and having a handicapped child. Other barriers include lack of child care for preschool children and those whose parents work at night, lack of before-after-school care, absence of employment opportunities in the community, mental and physical abuse, substance abuse, and care-giving responsibility for aged or handicapped relatives.

It is UNconstitutional to bar a minor's right to sue when they become the age of majority, 18 plus 2 years. The Texas Supreme Court needs to reverse their decision to uphold the minor of repose and cancel out a minor's right to sue if it's been more than 10 years!!!!The statute provides that minors under the age of 12 have until their 14th birthday to file a claim. This has been declared unconstitutional. It is generally believed that the two-year statute of limitation for minors will not begin to run until they reach 18 years of age. The TEXAS Supreme Court used to protect minor's rights! Although the statute says that the two-year time period begins to run against minors at age twelve, the Texas Supreme Court held that similar language in the predecessor statute was unconstitutional, allowing those whose claims accrued before their eighteenth birthdays to sue at any time until age twenty! Now the TEXAS Supreme Court has upheld the statue of repose that bars a minor from suing once they turn 18. This is unAmerican and should still be held unconstitutional! Tort Reform is a conflict of interest that supports the medical community, NOT the citizens. Tort reform caps have not saved doctors any money except in less settlement owed to their injured patients. They have a duty to DO NO HARM!! It has just allowed them to practice without regard to duty of care. Please stop the injustice of the Texas Statute of Repose and reverse the law so a minor may still have a right to an Open Court and I support Justice Lehrmann dissent on the ruling in 2014! The open courts provision of the Texas Constitution ensures that all litigants receive the opportunity to redress their grievances and receive their day in court. Tex. Const. Ann. art. 1, § 13; Odak v. Arlington Mem’l Hosp. The statue of repose violates this provision! Our children deserve their day in court and their voices to be heard!!

We need a march for healthcare for all in this country.

To raise awareness among animal lovers who donate to this charity about the practices of the ASPCA. If you have a story about the ASPCA, share it here! The animal world needs to know your story!

Thanks to an outpouring of support, Governor Kasich heeded the call to veto a proposal in the state budget to end enrollment in the Medicaid expansion starting in July, 2018. But lawmakers haven't given up. House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger has scheduled an unusual holiday-week legislative session for Thursday, July 6 at 9am, and has indicated there are enough votes in his chamber to override the Governor's veto (the bill received 59 of the 60 votes needed for a veto override, but some "no" votes came from conservative lawmakers who may be persuaded to flip). Senate President Larry Obhof, whose chamber passed the budget with a veto-proof margin has not scheduled a date to hold an override vote but expressed confidence his chamber would do so.

Yemen now faces the worst cholera outbreak in the world, due to the U.S.-aided Saudi-UAE war and blockade that have pushed Yemen to the brink of famine. "There's a U.S. imprint on every civilian death inside Yemen that's caused by the Saudi bombing campaign," Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said. "The Saudis simply could not operate this bombing campaign without us. Their planes can't fly without U.S. refueling capacity." [1] Congress can address this crisis by supporting amendments on the National Defense Authorization Act to prohibit the U.S. refueling of Saudi warplanes bombing Yemen [2], to prohibit the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia [3], and to block weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia until Saudi Arabia lifts its blockade that is pushing Yemen into famine. [4] Urge your Representative and Senators to back these amendments to attack U.S. aid for the Saudi war in Yemen by signing our petition. References: 1.http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/24/534236954/yemen-now-faces-the-worst-cholera-outbreak-in-the-world-u-n-says 2.http://www.rules.house.gov/amendments/Khanna_001_xml76171528582858.pdf 3.http://www.rules.house.gov/amendments/AMASH_011_xml77171056555655.pdf 4.http://www.rules.house.gov/amendments/KHANNA_002_xml76171529362936.pdf

The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution still allows slavery, creating increasing populations of caged people who provide free or near-free labor to the stockholders of the Prison Industrial Complex, the builders and profiteers of mass incarceration. As a result, American jobs are lost and job-seekers are victimized because private industry cannot compete with low-cost and unpaid labor.

Donald Trump seems to have lost a mental grasp that has impaired his ability to conduct himself as the President of our country.

Senate Bill 775 needs our support to counter an alternative proposal from Big Oil that does nothing to improve cap and trade, keeping the carbon price very low for years. WHAT WE NEED: A HIGH PRICE COLLAR TO PRICE CARBON with a floor of $60 and a ceiling of $120/ton of CO2 by 2030 AN END TO OFFSETS that allow local pollution to continue AN END TO FREE POLLUTION ALLOWANCES A CLIMATE DIVIDEND that returns revenue to every CA resident TO DEAL WITH SURPLUS ALLOWANCES from the current program to not undermine the post-2020 program WITH ACCELERATION OF RENEWABLE POWER in the state, as Community Choice Energy takes off county by county, along with technological advances in energy storage and in small wind, like PRIMO WIND out of San Diego, we are now primed as a state to transition to a CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY and lead the rest of the US. SB775 helps move that crucial path forward. SB 775 would provide the mechanism to effectively bring about a market-driven transition to clean energy by amending California’s cap and trade system to establish a predictable, steadily rising price on fossil fuels with corresponding dividends returned to all adult residents. That would create society wide demand for green energy technology creating new jobs and industries and make clean energy a driving force of our economy. SB775 was authored by State Senator Bob Wieckowkski (D-Fremont/10th district, including parts of Alameda/Santa Clara counties), chair of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. SB775 is supported by groups that include the following: Citizens Climate Lobby 350 Bay Area San Diego 350 SoCal350 Union of Concerned Scientists Physicians for Social Responsibility SF Californians for a Carbon Tax Friends of the Earth organizations and economists at these universities: Stanford, Colorado State and Duke. More information on SB775 can be found at: http://calfact.org/senate-bill-775 http://sd10.senate.ca.gov/news/2017-06-30-more-groups-line-support-senate-cap-and-trade-bill

The Speaker of the House, Rep. Nicholas Mattiello, shut down the legislature early before all bills could be voted on - most of crucial importance to all Rhode Island working families.