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Oklahoma bill would empower parents to remove books from school libraries
https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/mad...ool-libraries/
Fascist Repugs Orban-izing state courts
In Assaults on Democracy, State Lawmakers Target Courts
Legislators are trying to weaken state courts’ ability to ensure fair elections.
unprecedented effort by partisan legislators nationwide to undermine or distort the outcomes of future elections, with the past year seeing a
wave of new voter restrictions,
partisan election audits in several states, and
state-level efforts to sabotage future elections.
Legislators in 35 states considered at least 153 bills between January 1 and December 10 of this year that would have
limited state courts’ power or independence or
made them more partisan.
Of those bills, at least 19 have become law across 14 states.
at least 12 laws enacted in 9 states this year appear to be targeted at state courts for the role they played — or will play — in election cases.
in Georgia, for example, will make it more difficult for some judges in the state to extend polling place hours to accommodate voters because of long lines or other logistical issues.
in Kansas, Kentucky, and Texas, also contain provisions that prohibit the judiciary or government officials from altering or suspending state election laws.
laws change who sits on state courts, which courts hear cases involving the state, or make it easier for judges to be targeted for unpopular decisions.
in Montana, for example, permits the state’s Republican governor to fill vacancies on the state’s supreme court and trial courts without vetting by the state’s independent judicial nominating commission.
Legislators in Montana have accused the state’s judges of being “too liberal.”
legislators in Kentucky and Tennessee have criticized the judges in their respective state capitals as being biased against Republicans because they are chosen by voters in Democratic-leaning parts of the state.
a new law in Kentucky requires lawsuits against the state to be filed in the county where the plaintiff resides as opposed to the state’s capital.
in Tennessee, where cons utional challenges and redistricting cases were generally heard by judges in the state’s capital, a new law created a three-judge “court of special appeals” composed of judges from different parts of the state to hear those cases instead.
With the hostility shown by the U.S. Supreme Court and many federal courts of appeals towards voting rights, state courts are only going to become more important — and attract more public attention — as people increasingly turn to them for protection.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/assaults-democracy-state-lawmakers-target-courts
'Madness':
Oklahoma bill would empower parents to remove books from school libraries
https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/mad...ool-libraries/
thinks this is what will get him elected by the cult mob
COVID Was 'Intentional' to Destroy America, Says GOP Candidate Noah Malgeri
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-was-intentio​nal-destroy-america-says-gop-candidate-noah-malgeri-1664048
wannabe dumbass tough guy vindictiveness and obsessional vendettas are hallmark of the degraded Repug party
Missouri Gov Mike Parson Vows Reporter Who Found ty Coding In State Website Will PAY
Back in October, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered an incredibly stupid security vulnerability on a state website.
The site, which was designed so people could easily look up credentials and certifications for more than 100,000 public school teachers, counselors, and administrators,
included a dumb error in its publicly viewable coding that inadvertently left the Social Security numbers of all those employees pretty much right out in the open for any bad person to steal.
No good reporting goes unpunished, so Parson reacted to the story by demanding the reporter and the Post-Dispatch be investigated and prosecuted for "hacking" the state website.
Parson then explained the full weight of Missouri law enforcement would be deployed against the sophisticated right-clicking hacking operation:
This administration is standing up against any and all perpetrators
who attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians. It is unlawful to access encoded data and systems in order to examine other peoples’ personal information. We are coordinating state resources to respond and utilize all legal methods available.
My administration has notified the Cole County prosecutor of this matter, the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Digital Forensics Unit will also be conducting an investigation of all of those involved.
This incident alone may cost Missouri taxpayers as much as $50 million.
A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content.
This individual did not have permission to do what they did.
They had no authorization to convert and decode the code.
This was clearly a hack.
Parsons said he's pretty sure the Cole County prosecutor will be charging the reporter for his crimes.emails obtained through a public records request showed the
state education department was on the verge of thanking the reporter for alerting it to the vulnerability before Parson demanded vengeance.
https://www.wonkette.com/missouri-go...bsite-will-pay
McConnell vows to stand for absolutely nothing ahead of 2022 midterms,
just like the RNC in 2020
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...he-RNC-in-2020
Fascist Capitalist Repugs:
Deny the Dems right to govern, to vote, to exist
Enable, protect, enrich Repugs' bribing Capitalists.
Trash splitting the Repug party?
'How do you sleep at night?'
Trump's GOP allies infuriating other lawmakers
by pretending Jan. 6 never happened
lawmakers are facing a barrage of threats and a "toxic" atmosphere in the U.S. House, according to veteran Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI),
senators say their colleagues seem to have moved on in the year since Donald Trump supporters tried to overturn the election,
“It seems like it’s as if it never happened,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
“Those who decided to buy into the stolen election dishonesty helped fuel the anger that led to the insurrection of Jan. 6.
It’s something that will be part of their personal legacy but
I don’t see a political price being paid.”
Seven GOP senators formally objected President Joe Biden's election win after the assault,
but none of them has expressed regret and
some continue to question the election results.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). ... you do what you think is right.
https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-republicans/
the Confederacy, will be the end of the Union
Canadian political scientist warns his country must face 'horrible' possibility of US becoming a 'right-wing dictatorship' by 2030
Thomas Homer-Dixon is only about 35 miles from the U.S. border — and in an op-ed published by the Globe and Mail on New Year’s Eve,
he grapples with the frightening possibility that Canada’s neighbor to the south could be under a fascist dictatorship only eight years from now.
“By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence,”
“By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine.”
there will be major implications for Canada.
“Returning to office, he’ll be the wrecking ball that demolishes democracy, but the process will produce a political and social shambles,”
through targeted harassment and dismissal,
he’ll be able to thin the ranks of his movement’s opponents within the state — the bureaucrats, officials and technocrats who oversee the non-partisan functioning of core ins utions and abide by the rule of law.
Then, the stage will be set for a more managerially competent ruler, after Mr. Trump, to bring order to the chaos he’s created.”
we must focus on the urgent problem of what to do about the likely unraveling of democracy in the United States.
large segments of the country’s population — mainly the non-white, non-Christian, and educated urban ones — aren’t really equal citizens,”
“They aren’t quite full Americans, or even real Americans.
This is why Mr. Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him — a falsehood that nearly 70% of Republicans now accept as true — is such potent anti-democratic poison.”
https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/canadian-political-scientist-warns-that-his-country-must-face-the-horrible-possibility-of-the-u-s-becoming-a-right-wing-dictatorship-by-2030/
Jan 2025, The American Experiment will evaporate, replaced by Capitalist/Chrisitian fascism.
If the voting rights act fails, it will be the last stop before the inevitable.
6 in 10 Americans say U.S. democracy is in crisis as 'The Big Lie' takes root
64% of Americans believe U.S. democracy is "in crisis and at risk of failing."
That sentiment is felt most acutely by Republicans:
Two-thirds of GOP respondents agree with the verifiably false claim that "voter fraud helped Joe Biden win the 2020 election" —
a key pillar of the "Big Lie" that the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
Fewer than half of Republicans say they are willing to accept the results of the 2020 election —
a number that has remained virtually unchanged since we asked the same question last January.
"There is really a sort of dual reality ;lol there is "reality and there is Repug FANTASY
through which partisans are approaching not only what happened a year ago on Jan. 6,
but also generally with our presidential election and our democracy,"
https://www.facebook.com/Accountable...tion&ref=notif
Trash and right wing hate media have LIED their stupid, ignorant sheeple into a fantasy world.
Cruz predicts a GOP House will impeach Biden
'whether it's justified or not'
https://theweek.com/ted-cruz/1008575...stified-or-not
... and of course, Cancun Cruz blames the Dems.
The GOP is planning to overturn elections in 2024
Banning books is very much in vogue in the GOP
Bully, bully for them!!!
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Because the squad is notorious Jew lovers.
MR. Magoo is defensive about GOP Jew baiting and election stealing. It's understandable, it's a bad look for the GOP, despite the popularity of both with Republican voters.
messianic zealotry
Prominent former evangelical:
'Authoritarian (FASCIST) Christianity' at the heart of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol
the merger between white supremacy and white evangelism as "Jesus Saves" signs and "Jesus 2020" and
the Christian flag mixed among the Donald Trump campaign signs and MAGA hats.
In fact, at one point, the Christian flag was paraded through the congressional chamber after officials had been evacuated to safety.
The Religion News Association even went so far as to call Jan. 6 the "top religious event of 2021."
https://www.rawstory.com/white-evang...rump-january-6
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Longtime Trump inner circle confidante Stephanie Grisham to appear before 1/6 Committee
https://www.rawstory.com/longtime-tr...-1-6-committee
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