Silver_Syzygy

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@rbreich
All too common in the medical field.

Have you ever been forced to sign a non-compete agreement?

30 millions Americans are currently trapped in their jobs by non-competes, which block them from seeking higher wages and better working conditions.

Banning them could increase wages by nearly $300 billion a year.

Most religious people adhere to the religion they were born and raised in, because once you truly believe in something it is very difficult to impossible to unbelieve it. So, if you are born and raised in a non-Christian religion, and have grown to truly believe in that religion, then you are punished for eternity for believing in the religion that you were born into. That's really messed up!

TX AG Ken Paxton, who serves as the state's highest law enforcement officer despite being under a felony indictment, "is lashing out at a 'Soros-backed' prosecutor after a jury found Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant, guilty in the shooting death" of a #BLM protester.

Perry ran his car into a crowd protesting racist policing before killing Garrett Foster. Prosecutors showed that he had previously talked about killing BLM protesters.

If that isn't #fascism, then the word has no meaning.

@maggie_pdx
Reprehensible !

"Less than 24 hours after a jury in Austin found Daniel Perry guilty of shooting to death a protester, Gov. Greg Abbott announced on social media Saturday that he would pardon the convicted killer as soon as a request "hits my desk."

"The unprecedented effort, which Abbott announced to his 1 million followers on Twitter, came as Abbott faced growing calls from national conservative figures such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Kyle Rittenhouse...."

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2023/04/08/texas-governor-greg-abbott-will-pardon-daniel-perry-convicted-of-murder-garrett-foster/70095504007/

Gov. Greg Abbott announces he will push to pardon Daniel Perry after murder conviction

Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted after Tucker Carlson called out the governor on his broadcast to say that Texas did not recognize the right of self-defense.

Austin American-Statesman
@neilhimself We just packed up my wife's classroom library yesterday, maybe 400 novels (edit: kid says 40+ per box x 20 boxes, they counted), based on official guidance from more than one direction. State law here is specific to sexual content but nebulous in nature, and parents are challenging books based on things outside the law, enough that the risks are just too great for our family.

The books could be kept on the shelves if:

  • a list is provided to parents, opening teachers to attack and lawsuits from previous exposure
  • the books are reviewed for content, but the language in the law allows for differences in opinion to turn into lawsuits against both the district and the teacher
  • a permission slip is signed for a student to read a specific book

Under cover of night, Romeo (age 16) and Juliet (age 13) consummate their marriage. Hard not to admit it includes "content involving human reproduction or sexual matters" when the price of failure is a felony. If adopted curriculum (Gatsby, Mockingbird, 1984, Giver, Outsiders), stuff read by most students in US public schools over the last 40 years isn't considered safe anymore, modern young adult fiction doesn't stand a chance. 📚💔

I am shocked –SHOCKED!– that the same Tennessee GOP who fought against removing a bust of KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest, and who protected a colleague known for sexually abusing his minor students before putting him in charge of their education committee, would eject two young black legislators trying to protect kids.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/08/tennessee-descent-statehouse-mag-00091090

No One Should Be That Shocked by What’s Happening in Tennessee

I covered the statehouse for years. It’s been heading in this direction for a while.

POLITICO
A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.
Time for a reminder that the U.S. is not a rich country, it's a poor country with some rich people in it.