James Dallas

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Mad Political Scientist building a Muletown (Maury County) Democratic Machine. Texans/Astros/Rockets Fan. All pronouns accepted. Offer not valid in all states.
Happiness is homebrew. #hamradio

The very same people who protected David Byrd when he was accused* of abusing children are trying to expel Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson for wanting to protect our kids from guns.

We won't forget this.

*And by accused I mean HE ADMITTED TO IT ON TAPE.

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Thank you to PFLAG Columbia and TEP for encouraging us to write!
I want my lesbian M&Ms back, you cowards.

From Lester Thurow to Rep. Buddy Carter: How a bad liberal idea (a broad-based consumption tax) became an even worse conservative idea that even Grover Norquist can’t stand.

https://newrepublic.com/article/170104/go-ahead-republicans-pass-national-sales-tax

Go Ahead, Republicans, Pass a National Sales Tax

No wonder Joe Biden is licking his chops. We can only hope House Republicans are this stupid.

The New Republic

Today is Blue Monday, the third Monday of January and supposedly the unhappiest day of the year—according to math!

In fact, the math behind this claim is complete bullshit.

We use the blue monday formula as an example of mathiness, formulas and expressions that may look and feel like math even as they disregard the logical coherence and formal rigor of actual mathematics, in our book _Calling Bullshit_.

Lol.
There would be outrage if Brazil's top prosecutor had still not charged the leaders of the attack on their Capitol more than 2 years after the attack. Yet in US that is exactly what is happening with Donald Trump and his co-conspirators walking free more than 2 years after Jan 6!

FTC proposes a rule that would ban all non-competes for U.S. workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/business/economy/ftc-noncompete.html

U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts

A sweeping proposal by the Federal Trade Commission would block companies from limiting their employees’ ability to work for a rival.

The New York Times