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I live in a small New England town.

Maybe 10% of the eligable voters show up at non-Presidental elections.

About a decade ago, there was a referendum to build a new middle school. My son was just starting high school, having attended the old, out of date, and badly needing replacing junior high. My daughter lived out of the school district with her mother.

I had no children who were going to be attending that middle school. Keep that part in mind.

I had a part time job in the mornings opening a gym. I live in Northern New England, where some people often have a seasonal business of driving a snow plow. The money is inconsistent, but when it snows, you are very much needed.

The gentleman who drove the plow to clean up the gym's parking lot came in one morning after the morning rush of exercisers checked in and we had time to chitchat. I thanked him for doing the plowing and we were feeling amiable to each other.

The subject of the new school came up, and the referendum to raise the funds that was on the ballot. I mentioned I was voting in favor.

He about tore me a new asshole, how young people (I was in my forties) were foolish, spoiled and wasteful and how there was no way HE was going to vote for such a stupid thing, and wasn't my child in high school anyway and...

Mr. Snowplow showed up at every election. I knew that because I did and we lived in the same ward.

If you do not vote, Mr. Snowplow and people like him are going to be making decisions on YOUR LIFE at VERY IMMEDIATE local levels.

Hello Dear,

We, (Najwa, Jana, Farah, and Maryam), are the sisters of Shaheed Khalid Saed Ash-Shawwah, who was martyred on 07/31/24 along with Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul and his colleague, photographer Rami Al-Rifi . Khalid was our older and only brother and he was a great support for us and others. As you may heard Khalid’s story in the news, he was bombed while he was riding his bicycle coming back from delivering food to our old and injured neighbors.

Before the IDF forces killed our brother Khalid, they forced us to evacuate our house and left everything behind. They then destroyed our house and our father’s restaurant. We had to move at least 10 times since every new area we seek refuge to gets bombed.

Currently, the 4 of us and our parents, are living devastating and sad life in a bombed room in Gaza. It is extremely difficult for us to get the basic needs of food, water, and shelter.

We sincerely hope you can empathize with our dire situation and consider supporting us. We are raising funds in order to be able to pay the rising cost of basic necessities in north Gaza. Our family is large and the cost of survival in north Gaza is astronomical. If you have anything you can spare, we implore you to support us. From where you are right now, you personally can help save our lives in north Gaza.

Please donate and/or replog 🥺🙏🇵🇸

Please reblog our post, follow us @khalid-Sisters and boost our posts, and repost the link to our campaign across all your social media.

Your generosity has the power to make a significant difference, and will give us hope that there will a better future waiting for us once the war stops.

We ask God to bless you and your families and to protect you all from all calamities and to never make you feel or go through what we are going through.

June 21, 2024 - Namibia's high court has declared the "sodomy law" that criminalised gay sex unconstitutional!

76 years since my grandparents have been forcibly expelled from Jerusalem.