#shannon phillips

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

May 28, 2024

Ms Phillips: The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has recommended criminal charges against Lethbridge police officers who targeted me when I was a minister. I am grateful that ASIRT undertook a fulsome investigation and found what I’ve known for years, that my records were accessed in 2018 for no lawful purpose other than political intimidation.

The years that led up to ASIRT’s findings have been a bit rough on me. I know people think I’m strong. I’ve been the face of some tough files in Alberta and nationally, and that is true. I have a reserve of all the strength in the world for building a better world with my NDP colleagues, but I was not prepared for how hard the years-long grind of trying to get a bit of police accountability has been on me, my family, and my love of political life. The LPS did incredible harm to my career and my reputation. They’ve never shown accountability or responsibility.

It also has a profound and important effect on democracy. In particular, these findings of criminal behaviour by sworn officers send a message to progressive people who might want to participate in politics: in Lethbridge you might be a police target for your views. The threat that law enforcement may violate a citizen’s right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure if they don’t like that citizen’s politics is intolerable in a free and democratic society.

The lesson for the community and for Albertans is that we have still not seen accountability for the LPS, and at some point we have to send the message that police intimidating elected officials or anyone else is intolerable.

At this point none of it’s over, but I do want to issue some words of thanks to Lisa Lambert, my assistant, who has endured all of this with me in my constituency office; to Geoff Braun, my partner – it hasn’t been easy on him either – to my kids and my mom, who helped me with the legal bills; and to the Member for Calgary-Mountain View for all of her support and friendship.

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. It only bends that way if we are the ones who do the work.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

INTRODUCING SHANNON PHILLIPS, PETER’S ADOPTIVE SON

From the Now Publishing Comics The Real Ghostbusters: Volume 01, Issue 09

@bixiebeet @spengnitzed @professorlehnsherr-almashy @amalthea9 @shelleythesapphic​

[diioonysus]

“Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative”

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Eddie diaz dealing with his mommy issues arc in season 8 is feeling realer to me than ever right now

[kismetconstellations]

My Favorite The Greatest Showman Pairings:

1. Phineas Taylor Barnum/Phillip Carlyle 

2. Phineas Taylor Barnum/Charity Barnum

3. Prince Constantine/Lettie Lutz

4. Charity Barnum/Jenny Lind

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

From Lynette Noni's post:

I’m finally beginning to catch up on everything from the last few weeks, so here’s some fun pics from @supanovaexpo Gold Coast and Melbourne last month! I had the best time hanging with amazing authors @freyamarske, @trnapper, @longlukearnold, @say_shannon, and @gracechanwrites (plus @jameslindsayauthor and @marclindsayauthor) over the two weekends! And it was beyond incredible to see so many readers and talk about books! 😍

Huge thanks as always to the phenomenal Supanova staff and volunteers who go over and above to make the event/s magical (especially the literary manager @pagsbelfield, and of course the fab PAs like Teela and Kyle (among others!) who took such great care of us all). I wish I could thank everyone involved in making the event/s so special, but instead, I’ll just say I adore you all - and of course a MASSIVE thank you to all the readers who came out to see me/us! All the feels!! ❤️

Bonus from her instagram stories:

[graphicpolicy]

The elusive Gun Honey returns! Titan announces Gun Honey: Collision Course!

The elusive Gun Honey returns! Titan announces Gun Honey: Collision Course! #comics #comicbooks

[moviesandmania]

THE FEARWAY (2023) Reviews, trailer and now free to watch online

‘Death comes fast’ The Fearway is a 2023 American horror thriller about a young couple who seem to be unable to get off the road after being hunted by someone intent on keeping them on the road. Directed by Robert Gajic from a screenplay written by Noah Bessey. Produced by James Cullen Bressack, Mem Ferda, Vishwas Hannurkar and Aditya Juneja. The movie stars Shannon Dalonzo, Eileen Dietz, Simon…

[rockposerdotcom]

Steve Lukather Reveals Official Video For 'Someone'

Steve Lukather and The Players Club / Mascot Label Group have presented the second reveal in front of the release of his new studio album titled ‘Bridges‘. The song was written by Luke, Joseph Williams and David Paich. Lukather performed guitars, bass, and the lead vocal, with Williams contributing keys, background vocals and percussion. David Paich contributes keyboards while Shannon Forrest…

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Over one year on from Dobbs, please remember the victims of abortion bans in America. These are just the ones that made it to the news:

Marlena Stell

Amanda Zurawski

Mylissa Farmer

The 10-year-old from Ohio

The 16-year-old from Florida

The 15-year-old from Florida

Nancy Davis

Elizabeth Weller

Anya Cook

Kelly Shannon

Jessica Bernardo

Kierstan Hogan

Taylor Edwards

Kylie Beaton

Gabriella Gonzalez

Samantha Casiano

Lauren Van Vleet

Austin Dennard

Lauren Miller

Jaci Statton

Kristina Cruickshank

Tara George

Kailee DeSpain

Deborah Dorbert

Mayron Hollis

Kristen Anya

Heather Maberry

Melissa Novak

Kayla Smith

Lauren Christensen

Beth Long

Anabely Lopes

Christina Zielke

Kaitlyn Joshua

Lauren Hall

Carmen Broesder

Jill Hartle

Brittany Vidrine

Jane Doe from Massachusetts, who had an ectopic pregnancy rupture because a pregnancy crisis center told her it was viable

The Jane Doe had an ectopic pregnancy rupture after an anti-abortion pregnancy center told her she had a normal pregnancy

Emily Doe, whose fetus had lungs that wouldn’t develop and had no kidneys. The pregnancy had the potential to endanger her health…but it wasn’t endangering it yet. So she had to flee Missouri for an abortion.

Victoria Doe from Louisiana, who had to go to Oregon

Ashley Brandt

Anna Zargarian

Reverend and Doctor Love Holt

Michelle Mitchenor

Brooke High

Ashley from Mississippi, who was raped and forced to give birth to her rapist's baby. She's 13.

Nicole Blackmon

Allie Phillips

Jennifer Adkins

When we do win back our right to bodily autonomy, forced birthers will forget these people. Some have absolutely no idea who these people are. But when you tell them you hope what they force on others gets forced on them, they gasp and say you're evil. Because they recognize that what they force on others is wrong, and they think they deserve better than their victims.

If you think the "abortion debate" is merely a difference of opinion, you haven't been paying attention.

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

May 28, 2024

Ms Phillips: Why are we here? Time is what gives the public a window. What we do in this House is opaque. The traditions are, well, some 800 years old. Bills are difficult to read. The fact is that even speaking through the chair is something that is quite foreign to the general public. It also appears to be foreign to a number of the members that are here as well. Even those rules make what we do here somewhat inaccessible to the general public. Bill stages, committee stages, all of that: what it is designed to do is to give the public time to understand what legislators are doing, to bring our jobs back down to earth, to make sure that the people that we were all elected to represent have time to grapple with the pressing business that we are undertaking as a Legislature.

That is not what is happening in this Legislature at this time. I have never seen in my many, many years in and around this Legislature, not just as a sitting member but also in the years that I spent as a staffer back when we had two and four MLAs, an abuse of democracy such as we have seen in this last session. I have never seen a government so enthusiastic to hand-wave away the legitimate concerns coming from the public, to hand-wave away the legitimate concerns coming from the Rural Municipalities association.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

“IT’LL BE A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE OF THE MONSTERS ON YOUR SIDE!”

@professorlehnsherr-almashy​ @bixiebeet​ @spengnitzed​ @amalthea9​ @shelleythesapphic​

The werewolf Irena Cortez joins the mission to go to the demon realm and rescue Shannon Phillips from the hands of his biological father, the demon Astorath.

From the Now Publishing Comics The Real Ghostbusters: Volume 01, Issue 10.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta's police watchdog recommended laying charges against three Lethbridge officers who used police databases to improperly access the personal information of two people, including NDP MLA Shannon Phillips, but the Crown's office has declined to prosecute, CBC News has learned.

[...] Despite calling the Crown's refusal to pursue charges "quite regrettable," Phillips says she is feeling vindicated after years of pursuing police accountability. 

"I think it sends a message to the public that in order to get even a sliver of accountability, even a tiny little ray of light on transparency and accountability in a police service, you have to fight, you have to pay a personal cost, you have to wait years, and even then it will be partial," said Phillips in a phone interview. 

"The system overall is quite broken." [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @abpoli

[kismetconstellations]

The Greatest Showman Aesthetics

Phillip Carlyle / Prince Constantine (The Tattooed Man); requested by Anonymous.

[snowviolettwhite]

Ramon and Helena Diaz make mistakes and but they love their kids and want what they think is best for them and wanted to help them and they own up to their mistake when raising their kids. You can see how they love their kids. They wanted Eddie to stay in Texas because they love him and their grandson. They wanted to help him because they did not want him to struggle and Eddie and Shannon were still very much a kids and they worried. They are humans, stop dehumanizing them. We can go into the trauma immigrate parents have and how the generational trauma effect their children and grandchildren. They are trying to be better.

They are humans, stop comparing them to the Buckley parents. While Phillip and Margaret had Buck to have a savoir baby. They put Maddie in the position where she more a of a parent to him than they were. They barely never go to the hospital when Buck get hurt. They abandoned Maddie when she got stuck in an abusive marriage.