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America has closed its borders.

It is therefore time to admit that building an immigrant nation was a bad idea.

We must all return this nation to the indigenous and go back to whatever countries our ancestors came from.

Wisconsin bill would create state hospital price transparency requirement

By Shawn Johnson | Wisconsin Public Radio A group of Republican state lawmakers is introducing a plan that they say would force Wisconsin hospitals to be

Wausau Pilot & Review
Indiana Students to Malicious comply with "Don't say Gay" bill.

So as some of you may already be aware. The Governor of Indiana signed a bill into law that will require teachers to out their students to their...

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Democrats would be foolish not to campaign on this and making commercials out of this for the elections this year and in 2024 and beyond.

And we would be foolish not to vote.

Vote OUT Republicans.

#TenneseeThree #Tennessee #TennesseeFascists #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #politics #usa #fascism #vote

Tennessee Republicans are following through on their threat to expel state legislators who chanted in favor of anti-gun-violence legislation during session.

Republicans are committed to abusing every formal rule of government to override democratic will.

Democrats must be equally wiling to play constitutional hardball, otherwise we face a ratchet effect in which we keep fighting from a weaker and weaker position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expulsion-shooting-gun-control.html

Tennessee House Ousts 2 Democratic Lawmakers: What to Know

The House voted to expel Representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson. The Republican-controlled chamber fell one vote short of ousting a third lawmaker.

The New York Times

Tennessee state rep Justin Pearson 🔥

“They’d rather support a status quo that kills us than do the work of creating legislation that helps to save us.”

#BlackMastodon #USPol #RepublicansAreFascists

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1644085779126267906?s=46&t=sOzbZslKv9hD-inq-5XHEQ

Aaron Rupar on Twitter

“Rep. Justin Pearson: "No one should be wanting to operate as though this is not happening, as though we are not living in a gun violence epidemic in the state of Tennessee. And the solution that is being offered is actually to reduce the First Amendment rights of people."”

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For the people who have advocated fruitlessly for years for the US to have any substantial data privacy law, it has to feel like gaslighting to see the country's national security apparatus finally focus on what TikTok collects and then conclude the answer is to ban that one app.
Look what arrived in the mail! I got started seven years ago with my first story in the Times about the enslaved people who were sold by Catholic priests to help save Georgetown. It has been quite a journey. It's amazing to finally see the galleys of my new book -- The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church. It will be in bookstores on June 13th, but you can preorder now https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550959/the-272-by-rachel-l-swarns/
The 272 by Rachel L. Swarns: 9780399590863 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette...

PenguinRandomhouse.com

745 billionaires now hold more wealth than HALF of American households.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.