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Why do Republicans hate freedom?

The southern California city of Huntington Beach, a bastion of conservative voters, has made the move to block diverse monthlong celebrations of Black history, women’s history and Pride, in favor of observing the revolutionary and civil wars, California’s history and America’s independence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/22/california-huntington-beach-ban-diverse-celebrations

California town proposes ban on Pride, Black and women’s history celebrations

Far-right council members in Huntington Beach introduce agenda item to switch focus to US wars and America’s independence

The Guardian

#humanbehavior On any random help forum, when someone posts a question, what compels another person to immediately tell them to use the search function?

There's a person on a forum that I go to that does this all the time. Fortunately, for the most part, others jump in to answer the question and more often than not it's a new situation.

There must be an identifiable mental disorder or personality defect to this.

Dr. Linda Malkas kicking butt over at COH with a new cancer drug currently in phase 1 trials.

https://youtu.be/me3MOqcECso?si=IVNZmdO0i1G9YKFQ

#cancer

The Biggest Challenge in Medicine with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Dr. Linda Malkas

YouTube

If you're into podcasts and you want a glimpse into far right Michigan politics, try this one. It's probably available elsewhere too.

820: It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/313-this-american-life-18894588/episode/820-it-wouldnt-be-make-believe-if-137923681/

Prologue: In 2022, Michigan Republicans ran anti-establishment candidates who claimed the last presidential election was stolen. And they lost big. Now, the state party regroups and must decide whether to stay the course or moderate. (7 minutes)

More at link...

#Karamo #michigan

820: It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me - This American Life | iHeart

<p>A major political party in a major swing state bets on a new leader: a total political outsider. How does that work out for them? </p><ul><li>Prologue: In 2022, Michigan Republicans ran anti-establishment candidates who claimed the last presidential election was stolen. And they lost big. Now, the state party regroups and must decide whether to stay the course or moderate. (7 minutes)</li><li>Act One: The Michigan GOP’s newly elected leader, Kristina Karamo, faces her first big test: Can she organize and pull off the state party’s fabled, expensive Mackinac Island conference as a political outsider – with no fundraising experience or establishment connections? (9 minutes)</li><li>Act Two: Two young Michigan GOP vice chairs are totally on board with Kristina Karamo’s take on politics and hate the establishment like her. So why do they feel iced out by her? (15 minutes)</li><li>Act Three: At the start of the year, Warren Carpenter was a Kristina Karamo supporter; helped her get elected. Now he’s plotting her ouster. (13 minutes)</li><li>Act Four: Kristina Karamo and her camp defend themselves against Warren’s attacks that they’re bad at fundraising and bad at leading the party. (13 minutes)</li></ul><p>Transcripts are available at <a href='https://www.thisamericanlife.org/820/transcript'>thisamericanlife.org</a></p>

iHeart
Sixty percent of kids who have lost Medicaid coverage this year came from just nine states, all of which are Republican-led, according to new data from the Biden administration. https://t.co/Sawcd5pTq8
Most kids losing Medicaid come from just nine states all led by Republicans

The states are all Republican-led, suggesting a partisan divide in how states are reviewing eligibility.

Axios

@therobburgessshow
We are making progress despite what the people making money off of selling climate doom would have you believe.

Wind and solar in the USA will generate more electricity than coal during 2024. In fact, we nearly did it in 2023.

Wind and solar will provide about 17% of US electricity in 2024.

BTW: California just signed a contract with Form Energy for a long-duration battery storage plant yesterday too.

Coal also is down about 20% in 2023 and will be down again in 2024.

LeVar Burton Says Read Banned Books Unisex T-Shirt

This guy is a Republican rubber stamp and it turns out that he's a crook too. Every election he stuffs himself into his Air Force jacket and barely gets reelected. Last time by only 300 votes.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/santa-clarita-congressmans-stock-sale-under-scrutiny/

#california #congress #uscongress

“I wake up every day focused on the issues facing the American people… Unfortunately, House Republicans are not joining me. Instead of doing anything to help make Americans’ lives better, they are focused on attacking me with lies.” - President Biden in a statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/13/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-baseless-house-republican-impeachment-stunt/
Statement from President Joe Biden on Baseless House Republican Impeachment Stunt | The White House

The American people need their leaders in Congress to take action on important priorities for the nation and world. On Tuesday, I met with the President of Ukraine, who is leading his people in a battle for freedom against Russian aggression. He came to America to ask us for help. Yet Republicans in Congress won’t act…

The White House

Mike Johnson 4 years ago about #tfg

“The founders of this country warned against a single-party impeachment for good reason. They feared that it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation.”

“We have an election in 11 months. Let the people decide this.”