Steven L. Holcombe, Attorney at Law

"After a West Virginia woman died from COVID-19, her best friend blames former president Donald Trump's refusal to enthusiastically embrace vaccinations. The former president got his shot in private before leaving office and has offered meager approval since leaving the White House, and Anastacia Kelley feels certain her college roommate would have gotten one for herself if Trump had gotten his in the public eye, reported The Daily Beast. "Absolutely, without a doubt," Kelly told the website. "If he had come out and even taken a picture of himself getting it, he could have saved many lives."

"A sure sign legislators know they are passing harmful, misguided, unpopular laws is when they sneak the language into an unrelated bill at the last minute. That’s what happened last week, when a school finance review bill in the House suddenly had its language stripped and replaced with an attack on transgender athletes." https://amp.oklahoman.com/amp/7195103002

"PBS has announced plans to premiere the documentary Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten on May 31th, the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American History. We mentioned the erasure of incidents of white terror because despite the devastation wreaked in Tulsa, the massacre is rarely mentioned in textbooks."

"[T]he majority turned [the statute] into a #dontaskdonttell law. So long as doctors don't ask and women don't tell, the majority reassures us that women remain free to exercise their constitutional rights." #abortion #roe https://www.cnn.com//ohio-down-syndrome-abortio/index.html

Two Distant Strangers is one of the five Oscar nominees in the category of live-action short. I hope Free and his co-director, Martin Desmond Roe, snag a statuette. But they’ve already won something bigger. Free says police departments in Miami, Los Angeles and elsewhere are looking for ways to use this film in training and to foster deeper discussions around reform."

"Many Afghans fear that without the umbrella of American protection, the country will be unable to preserve its modest gains toward democracy and women’s rights."