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  1. I have not been able to get any audio for the past two week on my phone, just for the new content. The archives will play and the stories act like they are playing, but no audio. Any idea what is going on.

  2. Here in Florida my wife just received notice she has till Aug 30th to get the shot.
    Not sure what good a disclosure or religious exemption will do, they will review these forms for potential exemption after the 30th, in other words her employment is terminated after the 30th with no proof of the shot. She’s with one of the largest law firms in the country, not one lawyer nor employee is fighting this that we know.

    1. This is a siege to see who can last the longest before starving. If an adversary spent years preparing, we may need years to defend. Were bar associations weaponized to ensure that lawyers would stay away from some cases?

      https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/how-we-fought-woke-thought-police-won/

      This is the story of how Social Justice Activists turned the [Canadian] Law Society into the thought police. It’s a polarizing story, as all stories are these day, about a skirmish between warring factions of lawyers and paralegals that convulsed through our profession over the last couple of years. It’s a story about a handful of ordinary lawyers and paralegals, mostly sole or small firm practitioners, who risked careers, reputations, friendships and more to stand up against the progressive juggernaut, because they believed that their professional regulator had no right to tell its members what they are required to think and believe in order to practice law.

      All by itself, it’s a fascinating tale (as much as one can be fascinated by lawyers). But what I really want to share with you in my short 15 minutes is how this story is a microcosm of a much broader culture war that is being waged across Western society. I’d like to share some lessons learned, and some hope and encouragement that pushback efforts like ours can, and indeed must, succeed.

      … I’m here to tell you that there is something remarkably freeing about standing up for something you believe in, and withstanding the slings and arrows. Many on our team have told me that they’ve never felt so alive. We built a beautiful community of individualists, each bringing their own diverse perspective to the table, and each respected for that. We came together on important issues, and although I’m no longer managing a slate of candidates, I have watched our newly elected benchers grow in their positions, develop as leaders, work through problems and conflicts, and continue as friends and colleagues to restore some sanity back to the law society.

      They say the center doesn’t hold—all this activism and conflict hollows out the middle as people tire of being involved, especially when they are personally under attack. That’s part of the activist playbook too—but the center has to hold. If you know what you’re dealing with, you can prepare yourself. Ordinary citizens, and especially thinkers and leaders like yourselves, need to step up before this country becomes toxic and unlivable, with people speaking their opinions only in hushed whispers around their kitchen tables and everyone forced to conform with the prevailing orthodoxy.

      I believe 2020 will be the year that the balance begins to shift, when we stop merely tweeting about all the craziness, and when sensible men and women who value our free and liberal society roll up their sleeves and get to work. They can’t cancel all of us.”

      Last year in NY:

      https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ny-bar-association-creates-mandatory-vaccination-task-force-2021-07-28/

      https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/11/07/state-bar-passes-mandatory-covid-19-vaccination-recommendation/

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