“Hospitals across Florida are now being pushed to the limit with ICU beds filling up and providers struggling to find enough staff to care for patients as the state fights one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in the nation, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant,” CNBC reported on Wedn[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
Florida governor doubles down on pushing mask choice
“In a move that escalated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fight over mask mandates,” the governor threatened Monday “to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who disregard the governor’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates for school districts,R[...]
“Governor Death” allows parents to defy school mask rules
Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded his war against public health by declaring “he will sign an executive order to ‘protect the rights of parents’ and allow them to choose whether their children should wear masks even if their school requires them to do so,” The Hill reported on Frid[...]
Federal judge blocks new Arkansas anti-trans law
Earlier this month, the GOP-dominated Arkansas legislature overrode the GOP governor’s veto of a bill that bans gender-confirming medical treatments for trans youths. A federal judge blocked that law on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, pending an ACLU lawsuit to strike it down as a violation of those[...]
A short lesson in federal supremacy
Florida Governor Death Vader’s anti-mask, anti-vaccine policies are squarely at odds with the pro-survival approach championed by the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the conflict came to a head in a battle over cruise ship regulations in a federal courtroom where a Bush-appointe[...]
July 18th, 2021 - 12:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP “auditor” revives a false assertion about Arizona ballots
Tell people what they want to believe, and they’ll believe it. From day one, the Arizona Senate GOP’s sham “audit” of 2020 Maricopa ballots was always about trying to give legitimacy for false election conspiracy theories. To conduct the “audit,” they passed over [...]
GOP terrorism in Texas
Texas, like other states, has complicated voting laws. Too complicated for ordinary people to understand. But that’s no excuse. If you vote — or even attempt to vote — in Texas by mistake, you can go to prison for years. But only if you’re black. First there was the case of C[...]
Making Arizona’s colleges unsafe for learning
“Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has issued an executive order prohibiting public colleges and universities in the state from requiring unvaccinated students to be routinely tested for COVID-19 or wear masks,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (read story here). This isn’t su[...]
Idaho’s far right wants to renounce federal funding despite what that will do to their state
As elsewhere, a civil war is raging within Idaho’s GOP — between far right and even farther right. There are very few Democrats in Idaho. It’s a place where Ammon Bundy is fixin’ to run for governor (although he probably won’t be elected). The current fight is between p[...]
A conservative student picked a fight over diversity, then claimed to be a victim
At the University of Iowa, a dental student used the school’s listserv — intended for professional announcements only — to disseminate his political views. Like other students who had violated the school’s listserv policy, he was summoned for a “professional misconduct [...]