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The exhaustive conspiracy theories about Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, explained and debunked by Newsweek Adapted by Daffyd ap Morgen The entire Hogg family is connected to the CIA, FBI and CNN Like many conspiracy theories, these likely started with a tiny kernel of truth:  Hogg’s father is a retired FBI agent-information that the teen volunteered offhand during a television interview. Hogg or his mother is a CNN VIP who is "pimping" her son   This developed after a photo surfaced of Hogg and his sister, Lauren, touring the studios as children.  According to Snopes, the family was actually on a $35 VIP tour.  Rebecca Boldrick, the mother of the Hogg siblings, works as a school teacher, which the Broward County School confirmed. Hogg didn’t attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School A picture from a different yearbook with another student named David Hogg is used,  Others circulate a mugshot from a 26-year-old California man named David Hog...

To Do Next for the #NeverAgain Movement: Settle on a Clear Demand Social Justice and Activism by Ted Rall | April 5, 2018 - 5:22am Adapted by Daffyd ap Morgen A huge turnout will not lead to new gun legislation. Victory is achievable when rallies sharpen their focus. Movements need enthusiasm and careful strategizing to sustain and grow. Congress and the president ignore one-off events of large groups of Americans carrying signs, and chanting slogans.  Sustained movements must be organized around a message. Social media can bring large groups of people together quickly.  But they also need a simple, coherent, bumper-sticker-ready demand message. The 10 printed demands for the March on Washington remind us of American society’s failure to address the needs of the poor and oppressed since 1963.  They had a clear, coherent set of demands, beginning with: “Comprehensive and effective Civil Rights legislation from the present Congress — without compromise or ...

From Daily Kos : ME-Gov: A huge mess is unfolding in Maine, after Secretary of State Matt Dunlap told legislators on Thursday that the state could not conduct its June primaries using instant-runoff voting (IRV) due to a legal issue first pointed out by the state attorney general's office. Confusingly, though, Dunlap later said his department would nevertheless proceed with implementing the new system, which was passed by voters in 2016, claiming that election officials "do not have time to do anything else."​ ​The legal dispute is highly arcane but it leaves the state in a precarious position. Both Dunlap and state Attorney General Janet Mills, who is a candidate for governor, urged the legislature to correct the problem, but that's simply not going to happen, since Republicans and a number of Democrats are opposed to IRV. That means the issue is headed to court, though it could play a role on the campaign trail, too: One of Mills' opponents in the Democra...