These people are. Shifting political sands are “jarring” liberal-minded young people and professionals who moved to blue enclaves in red states during the pandemic, either for a change of scenery or in pursuit of work opportunities, and now some are having second thoughts, NBC News says [...]
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Don’t judge all Russians by Putin’s behavior
Most of the badness is the handiwork of just one of them, and he doesn’t dance. In Italy this week, Russian and Ukrainian ballerinas danced together in a benefit show to raise money for the Red Cross (read story here; watch video below). A lot of the awful stuff that happens in the world resul[...]
Trumper who screeched about “rampant voting fraud” voted twice using her dead mother’s ballot
Crystal Mason, a black woman, got 5 years in a Texas prison for casting a provisional ballot that wasn’t counted because a pollworker told her she could. I’ve posted about numerous cases of deliberate voting fraud committed by white Trump supporters, and none of them got jail time. What&[...]
More voting fraud!
Todd Krysiak, 39, a registered Republican, voted in 2016 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. That’s a crime. After years of investigation and prosecution, Krysiak was finally brought to justice. “He was given a 90-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine, plus a $960 penal[...]
Don’t tell her systemic racism doesn’t exist
Tracey Meares is wicked smart. She was the top student of her high school class, then earned a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. After college and law school, she clerked for a federal appellate judge, worked as a federal trial[...]
Why you’ve gotta read candidate biographies
“Trucker Randy” Bishop is well-known in northern Michigan politics. The ex-felon hosts a rightwing radio show, is an outspoken promoter of gun rights (for ex-felons, too?), and was kicked off Facebook, a badge of honor in his circles (details here). Now he’s running for state sena[...]
No, police won’t be defunded
And bail reform is likely to fall victim to rising crime, too. “Defund the police,” interpreted literally, was always a bad idea. But it was mostly a slogan and rallying cry for police reform, and such “defunding” efforts as were undertaken were modest in scope and aimed at r[...]
Request to GOP: Can we have some leaders?
Karl Marx famously said, “the masses are asses,” to justify what he called a “dictatorship of the proletariat” that turned out to be just another plain old dictatorship. The idea of representative democracy is to entrust ultimate authority for decision-making to the collectiv[...]
Chief hired to reform America’s worst police department fired; did the police union get her?
Aurora, Colorado, arguably has America’s worst police department. Its cops are infamous. Their own chief calls them “despicable.” So begins a posting I wrote last year (read it here). Then, Aurora PD was back in the news because of yet another police brutality incident. Now, because the ci[...]
Why is a GOP legislator shocked her party’s candidate for governor stuck his hand up her dress?
That’s what Republicans are like now, and you have to expect it, ever since Trump gave them permission to do it. What am I talking about? Well, a lot of incidents, but the latest one is this: “Nebraska Republican state Sen. Julie Slama said she was ‘in shock’ when Donald Tru[...]