It takes work for a Republican legislator to get censured by a legislature where their own party holds 80% of the seats, but Priscilla Giddings (photo, left) pulled it off. How? By doxing a rape victim, in this case a legislative intern allegedly raped by a fellow Republican legislator, and then mes[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
November 16th, 2021 - 11:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Did an Iowa town whitewash a lynching?
Grinnell is a college town of 9,564 mostly-white folks (fewer than 2% African-American) a long way from anywhere. In September 2020, a local black man was found in a ditch, a rope around his neck, and his dead body on fire. A jury has decided his girlfriend’s white ex-boyfriend did it. On Tues[...]
November 15th, 2021 - 7:57 pm § in Politics
Is Liz Cheney a Republican?
Liz Cheney (R-WY) was elected to Congress as a Republican. She describes herself as a staunch conservative. Nobody can really argue with that; her voting record proves it. But the Wyoming GOP’s central committee voted 31-29 to “no longer recognize [her] as a member of the GOP” on S[...]
Utah school ignored racist bullying, now it’ll pay millions to family of a dead student
Izzy Tichenor is 10, black, autistic, and dead by her own hand. She committed suicide on Saturday, November 6, 2021, after relentless bullying and teasing by other students, including frequent use of the “N” word, which her teacher and principal ignored despite her parents’ repeate[...]
Texas hicks run off black high school principal
Let me say this upfront: Not all the residents of Colleyville, Texas (profile here), are ignorant hicks. Only some of them are. (More about that below.) Dr. James Whitfield was Colleyville Heritage High School’s first black principal. He didn’t teach “critical race theory,” w[...]
November 9th, 2021 - 5:34 pm § in Law and Courts
Six bicyclists were mowed down by a 16-year-old Texas “coal roller”
A Texas teenager thought he was being funny when he swerved his modified F-150 toward two groups of bicyclists training for a triathlon to scare them and hit the gas pedal to blow diesel smoke on them. He hit one of the groups. Six cyclists were injured; two were airlifted and two more transported t[...]
What if you call the police and they don’t come because they’re busy putting on their Klan robes?
In October 30, 2020, Biden campaign workers traveling in Texas by bus and car were ambushed by a “Trump Train” on the interstate highway passing through San Marcos, Texas. (Read background story here.) The Biden caravan had been harassed by other Trump Trains, but this was different. The[...]
October 30th, 2021 - 7:20 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
University of Florida orders profs not to testify in voting rights case
The university’s explanation is they “were not authorized” to serve as witnesses and their testimony would “pose a conflict of interest to the executive branch of the State of Florida” and “create a conflict for the University of Florida.” Read story here. [...]
October 28th, 2021 - 11:05 pm § in Law and Courts
Oklahoma botches 3rd consecutive execution
States using lethal injection to execute killers struggle to get execution drugs because pharmaceutical companies won’t provide them. So prison officials get creative. They go to compounding pharmacies that create the drugs for them. It doesn’t always work as it should. In fact it often [...]
October 22nd, 2021 - 2:02 pm § in Law and Courts
Do “stand your ground” laws have limits?
Florida’s “stand your ground” law gives belligerent bullies like George Zimmerman a lot of cover, but there may be some limits. The way ABC News reports today’s story (here), Clifford Anthony Bliss Jr., 58, of Umatilla, Florida (photo, left), became angry when his neighbor[...]