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Jess Piper: Show Me Misery
Author’s Note: This essay is about Missouri, but it applies to any other state with a GOP-dominated legislature. A state captured by the oligarchs. My state is representative of the “red states” you often read about.
We’ve elected clowns, and now we are privy to the horrible circus.
I live in Missouri. The Show Me state — a state that represented Midwestern values like kindness and morality and responsibility in government for decades. The bellwether state. A moderate state.
We elected a President from this humble state. He had a sign on his desk that said, “The buck stops here,” yet Truman would no longer recognize his state. He would mourn our trajectory under 22 years of a GOP Supermajority. His sign has no place in this state.
Republicans have no accountability, and the buck stops at a culture war and the awful circus they drum up to avoid accountability.
Harry S. Truman would loathe the officials running the state of Missouri. Particularly, our Governor, Mike Kehoe. A supposed “moderate” Republican who is tearing our state to shreds and dismantling the things that once made us a good neighbor.
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Daily Kos: House speaker: Starving the poor makes legal sense
John Pavlovitz: SNAP is What Jesus Would Be Doing. That’s Why MAGA Christians Are Trying to Kill It.
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Root: U.S. Gov’t Will Officially Label Many Black Folks as Terrorists Under New Trump Directive
The U.S. Government used its resources to target civil rights leaders and organizations throughout the 20th century. Trump’s latest move might see it happen again
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On Sept. 25, Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) called “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.”
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The last time the government acted like this was when they used COINTELPRO to spy on MLK , Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and other civil rights leaders and organizations.
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History (1659): Quakers executed for religious beliefs
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Register: Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
Foundation says it won’t compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would’ve really helped
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Christina Pagel: 10 things you should know about that have happened in America this weekend
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Daily Kos: Not even Trump knows what the hell he’s doing with his dumb ballroom
The East Wing of the White House was reduced to a pile of rubble last week in a hasty, brutal demolition that shocked the country. Now, it’s time to build President Donald Trump’s big, dumb, gilded bribe palace—but no one knows exactly what that entails.
The New York Times tried to figure this out, looking at the plans—which Trump waved around in the Oval Office—posted on the White House website and a physical model of the ballroom.
And guess what? None of them are the same.
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