longvotinglinesladyoftexas

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Left the bird site because it’s toxic and owned by a megalomaniac and loving art, poetry and avoiding politics?

Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.

He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.

Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?

“If there is not immediate intervention, thousands of Gazans will die of infections, malnutrition, and dehydration, in addition to the bombardment.

Creating a public health crisis is no way to hold people’s grief or pursue peace. We need a cease-fire now.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-public-health-ceasefire/

Gaza Is Facing a Desperate Public Health Crisis. We Need a Cease-Fire, Now.

The situation on the ground is creating the conditions for infectious disease to spread, which would lead thousands of Gazans to die of infections, malnutrition, and dehydration, in addition to bombardment.

The Nation

Wow.

For a guy that doesn't speak up I'm not sure "speaker of the house" would be an appropriate position

#Jordan #US #defaq

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/powerful-gop-rep-jim-jordan-accused-turning-blind-eye-sexual-n888386

Powerful GOP Rep. Jim Jordan accused of turning blind eye to sexual abuse as Ohio State wrestling coach

Rep. Jim Jordan, a former wrestling coach at Ohio State and founder of the House Freedom Caucus, says he didn't know that the team's doctor was abusing students. Some wrestlers say that’s not true.

NBC News

The #GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.

Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.
— ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/electoral-maps-gerrymandering-texas-voting-elections-privilege

The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.

Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.

ProPublica

The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.
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Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, #Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory #voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.

#Elections #Texas #Florida #GOP #Redistricting #Gerrymandering #Politics #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/electoral-maps-gerrymandering-texas-voting-elections-privilege?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.

Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.

ProPublica
Eduardo Antonio Treviño, an 11-year-old from Houston, wows 'AGT' judges with mariachi performance https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies_tv/article/eduardo-antonio-trevino-agt-audition-18287172.php H Town y’all!

I appreciate so much the work that goes into ContraPoints. The clarity of thought and writing, with enough fun in the presentation to make it easy to keep watching a documentary-length essay, is outstanding and this episode is worth your time, especially if you are still giving any of your mental time to the question of what to do about J.K. Rowling.

4/4.

But J.K. Rowling and her ilk (like Anita Bryant) is not the biggest problem, the devil, the "final boss" of transphobia. It's the Republican party, the Conservative party, patriarchy. They're just the palatable faces making the call for bigotry, exclusion, and then violence.

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Anita Bryant did this against homosexuals in the late 1970s. Currently the 'dangerous outsider' is transgender people, and J.K. Rowling is a loud voice beating the drum and marching along with the Right and Far-Right

Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints, quoted above and linked below) traces the line from Bryant to Rowling in her latest video and does so with deep context and smart commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg

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The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints

YouTube
And I say to Justice Alito, no provision in the Constitution gives him the authority to regulate women's bodies.