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March 26th, 2021 - 10:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Racism

Georgia GOP’s cynical and racist voting suppression law

Voting rights advocates argue the audacious voter suppression law Georgia Republicans have just enacted targets black voters (see story  here), and undoubtedly they’re right. A third of Georgia’s population is black, and high turnout among that demographic was responsible for Biden winn[...]

March 26th, 2021 - 6:00 pm § in Politics, Racism

PHOTOGRAPHY: Voting in Georgia

While white men in masks sign a Jim Crow law to keep blacks from voting, a black legislator is arrested (and later charged with a felony) for knocking on the governor’s door. (They’ll argue, “You can’t have it both ways. Either protesting is a crime or it isn’t. If the [...]

March 26th, 2021 - 5:50 pm § in Politics

Tennessee kids need birth certificates to play school sports

So Republican legislators can discriminate against trans kids, every kid in the state is now burdened with this: “Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a transgender sports bill into law Friday requiring students to prove their sex at birth in order to play in middle and high school sports. The b[...]

March 26th, 2021 - 5:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Health, Politics

Bagel Karen’s very odd excuse for not wearing a mask

The woman dubbed “Bagel Karen” (photo, right) who berated a bakery employee after being refused service for going maskless explained, “I’m a Christian and I don’t cover my face.” In other words, she’d rather make other shoppers dead than be caught dead wearing a cloth even [...]