“Last summer, Idaho officials received demand after demand to investigate extraordinary claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, NBC News reports (here). “In a state where … Trump won by more than 30 points, people claimed a vast conspiracy cheated the f[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
March 6th, 2022 - 11:06 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The “stolen election” cult isn’t crazy, it’s dangerous
A simple answer to vote suppression
GOP legislatures are scrambling to restrict voting rights. In Arizona, “Republicans have introduced a bill that would … [also] allow the state legislature to reject election results” (see story here). (That’s not all. “The people who took video of police killing George [...]
February 26th, 2022 - 9:18 pm § in Politics
Texas democracy? No way!
Click here for the faces and stories of people who Texas Republicans don’t want voting — the blacks, the elderly, the sick and disabled, the young. To be honest, I can’t vote for a party or politicians who do that to their fellow citizens. How about you? And if a party has to preve[...]
February 23rd, 2022 - 2:13 pm § in Politics
Texas GOP governor orders kids to drop their drawers
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wants the government to investigate children’s genitals,” Huffington Post reported on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 (story here). He’s ordered the state child welfare agency to investigate sex change procedures on minors, just one day after Texas Attorn[...]
February 20th, 2022 - 7:45 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Texas GOP candidate for Congress berates college education
First, let’s start with what Christian Collins is for. He’s for himself succeeding retiring Rep. Kevin Brady in Texas’ heavily-Republican 8th District in S.E. Texas (profile here, see map below), for whom he worked as a campaign manager. He’s also for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Gre[...]
Southern justice
“Louisiana man jailed for 44 years on rape charges is freed as prosecutor dismisses charges after judge calls for new trial” He’s black, of course. White people don’t get treated like this. “In 1977, it took just minutes for a jury of 11 White men and one Black woman to convict Simmons[...]
February 11th, 2022 - 10:04 pm § in Politics
Move to Texas, lose your vote
Washington has 100% mail voting, which is not only convenient for voters, but saves taxpayers the huge expense of polling places. There’s no evidence mail voting is less secure or leads to more voting fraud (see, e.g., story here). But if you move to Texas, only voters “65 or older, vot[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Shot at for FedEx-ing while black
Two Mississippi white men are facing relatively light criminal charges after chasing a young black FedEx deliveryman in a pickup, and then shooting at him, CNN reported on Thursday, February 10, 2022 (read story here; more details here). D’Monterrio Gibson (photo, right), 24, was in FedEx unif[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:47 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Mississippi GOP ramps up attacks on transgender people
Mississippi’s GOP-controlled legislature is about to pass a bill prohibiting “incarcerated transgender or nonbinary people from legally changing their name or gender marker while in state custody.” The bill “would prohibit incarcerated individuals from petitioning the court f[...]
Is Washington safer than Florida from Covid-19?
There are stark differences between how the governors of Washington and Florida have managed the Covid-19 pandemic in their respective states. Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) has followed CDC guidelines and imposed mandates; Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has taken a laissez-faire approach and banned mandates. In [...]