Our country is in a throw back to the 1940s. It is 2023, but you wouldn't know it especially in red states. Abortion, voting rights, books, child labor are all being rolled back from the progress we have made. Stop the insanity.
“ Our country is in a throw back to the 1940s. It is 2023, but you wouldn't know it especially in red states. Abortion, voting rights, books, child labor are all being rolled back from the progress we have made. Stop the insanity.”
"Amid her barrier-breaking first run for governor, Nikki Haley took time off the trail for an unusual event: A private meeting with two leaders of Confederate heritage groups.
"The men listened she assured them that she shared their worldview. She said the Civil War was a fight between 'tradition' and 'change,' without mentioning the word slavery. She said she supported Confederate History Month as a parallel to Black History Month" https://wapo.st/43vYZUI
Republican Iowa governor rolls back state’s child labor law protections
Change in law allows teenagers to serve alcohol in restaurants and could allow children to operate heavy machinery like power saws #GOP#news#Politics#USA
"Imagine I come home and find a crazy man in my house. He is holding a full gas can and a lit match. 'If you don’t sign over the deed to your house,' he screams, 'I will burn this place down.' I refuse, and we enter a standoff for days. Neighbors gather around my home. The police arrive. It is a major scene. The media show up. The newspaper and TV reporters see this as a big story and slap it on the front page and lead the evening news with it: 'Two local residents caught in fierce negotiations. If their talks don’t succeed, a house will go up in flames.'"
Their high-profile event on #Twitter Spaces, where #DeSantis had just announced his run for #president, had been plagued by technical glitches. The first audio livestream cut out before DeSantis could get his news out. The second one fared little better, drawing roughly 700,000 listeners at its peak. For context, #FoxNews claimed it drew 7.7 million viewers for #Trump’s Tulsa rally in 2020. #GOP#ElonMusk#RonDeSantis#EpicFail
A day after #DeSantis launched his US presidential campaign on #ElonMusk 's #Twitter, he signed a law in #Florida that "gives tremendous leeway to private spaceflight companies, specifically shielding them from lawsuits relating to 'injury to or death of a participant or crew resulting from spaceflight activities' "
#Musk's #SpaceX already reaping the benefits of their CEO pushing #GOP left and right.
When I was in Wellington, New Zealand, I was entranced by their unusual crosswalk icons. I asked my new friends there about them. I was told a story about a drag performer and activist by the name of Carmen Rupe. She was a trans woman who was also Māori (native people of NZ).
Jumaleissoni kun on sakeat ehdokkaat republikaaneilla rapakon takana. Sitten vielä supersakean setämieskerhon valinta sattuu jompaan kumpaan näistä jantteteista. Sitten vielä suuntaus heijastelee ympäri maailmaa.
Dana Milbank: Save the world economy or his own job? McCarthy can’t decide.
"'Let me be very clear,' he said. 'From the first day I sat with the president, there’s two criterias I told him,' McCarthy said, raising two fingers. 'We’re not going to raise taxes because we bring in more money than we ever have. And we’re not going to pass a clean debt ceiling. And we’ve got to spend less than we spent this year.'
Let me be very clear, Mr. Speaker. Those are three, er, “criterias.'"
Hello, @washingtonpost, these activists are not conservative or conservatives. TIme for political #journalism to catch up to the profound shifts in political ideology. Radical, activist Republican, far-right, antigovernment, Christian national, these are all possible options depending on the beliefs and agendas involved. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/26/debt-ceiling-deal/
Because just like Madison Cawthorn, he took it outside the family. Under indictment for years, but protected by his GOP malcontent cohorts, he calls out one drunk and suddenly they're sticklers for stuff like the law.
...I mean, if I'd known that that was all it would take to upset the apple cart, I'd have gladly staggered drunkenly into the State House
Republican politicians in #Texas support crime and corruption by their fellow #Republicans so routinely that we're all shocked when they hint that one of them went so far that they might, maybe, perhaps, one day hold him accountable.
Presidential contender Ron DeSantis has used governmental power in Florida to restrict access to health and education, promoting an intolerant and harmful agenda
#tRUMP#GOP ##SCOTUS
How long do we have to keep doom scrolling to find something that resembles the America we'd like to believe exists? Things that include decency, dignity, honor, truth, justice, equality. WTF! Democracy is circling the drain. What can we do about it! Voting doesn't seem to be enough.
Here are the 20 articles of impeachment filed against Ken Paxton
The Texas House will vote on articles
Article 1-6,8,18 disregard of official duty
Article 7,17 misapplication of public resources
Article 9,10 constitutional bribery
Article 11,12 obstruction of justice
Article 13 -15 false statements in official records
Article 16, conspiracy and attempted conspiracy
Article 19, unfitness for office
Article 20, abuse of public trust #KenPaxton#Texas
Lauren Boebert says fighting 'hate and antisemitism' is code for going after conservatives
“U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said on Thursday that the Biden administration's vow to ‘fight hate’ and antisemitism equated to a promise that they are "going after" conservatives.”
A person with even a small shred of intelligence might put 2 and 2 together here. But that clearly isn’t Boebert.