Joe Newton
I’m a female in my late 20s. I broke up with a toxic ex about a year ago, and I’ve been walking around (my house!) thinking I was over it. I never missed him and rarely thought about him. A brief backstory: In the final months of us living together, we started having more discussions about children and making a lifelong commitment. He told me he wanted both, yet at this exact time his moderate depression became more severe, and he refused to get help. I tolerated his cruel behavior because I knew how badly he was hurting. This ranged from icing me out to berating me and demanding I leave the home that we shared my house citing his need for “alone” time. One time he demanded I get up and leave in the middle of the night and go to a friend’s house! It’s worth noting the sex was mediocre at best, which I chalked up to him being a decade older. My self-esteem suffered.
Imagine thinking like Joe Manchin. After losing an election, a Republican president invents baseless allegation of fraud conspicuously pointing the finger at heavily African American cities he calls corrupt which his partisans use to try to overturn the election results while his devotees mount a violent insurrection. Undaunted, Republicans legislators introduce hundreds of bills to restore confidence in elections by making it more difficult for people usually people of color to vote.
Legislation has already cleared the House that would arrest this assault on democracy. But one senator is standing in the way: Our ultimate goal should be to restore bipartisan faith in our voting process by assuring all Americans that their votes will be counted, secured, and protected, Manchin wrote in the
Zondo launched an application for the court to jail Zuma for two years for his defiance.
Some have expressed frustration about Duarte’s perceived support of the embattled former president and others have called for the ruling party to institute a disciplinary process against her.
Here’s what was said on social media:
#JessieDuarte Obviously Jessie and Ace were siding with Zuma in that meeting. Nothing new. So I don t think Jessie is more qualified than lawyers like Paul & lot of Justices who see nothing illegal about the Commission and its chair. #SABCNews Lucky Manyuma (@Luckymanyuma) April 13, 2021
audio reveals how Jessie Duarte advised Jacob Zuma not to appear before state capture inquiry
This ain t your grandpa s weed. As Michigan s legal marijuana industry continues to blossom, dispensaries are offering an eclectic array of products, from meticulously grown flowers to delicious edibles and potent tinctures. Recreational and medical marijuana sales in the state hit a record $115.4 million in March, a more than two-fold increase over March 2020, according to Headset, a company that analyzes cannabis consumer trends. There were 1.4 million transactions in March. In 2020, the first full year of legal recreational sales, dispensaries rang up more than $500 million in purchases. Michigan s cannabis market is still growing, Cooper Ashley, a data analyst at Headset, tells
Metro Times. It flattened out a bit in late 2020 but appears to be trending up again.
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While Florida inches toward decriminalizing the leisurely use of doobage, the recreational scarfing of sandwiches has been legal for ages, and we have Sir Edward Montagu, aka the Earl of Sandwich, to thank for that dude did for handhelds what Tommy Chong did for weed. But Cheba Hut, newly open on Colonial Drive, rolls both cultures into one big fat joint of an eatery.
Yes, marijuana and the munchies are both celebrated at the city s first Cheba Hut, and the East Orlando location is in close proximity to the chain s primary customer base: UCF students and WMFE on-air personalities. There are punny-named menu items, a thumping soundtrack (Cypress Hill and Peter Tosh get heavy rotation), and wall art that ll either hold your gaze or freak you out, depending on how baked you are.