Such sad. One of my favorites.

Republicans. Not too long from now, that word will mean about the same as “quisling”, a new dictionary entry.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/14/2163811/-GOP-advances-bills-that-could-let-it-throw-out-future-election-results-in-Texas-largest-blue-county

By the time I was almost done quoting, I realized I was about to paste the entire article, so just go read it. It’s not that long.

«Republicans have run into a ditch. Their base gets high off displays of authoritarianism and religious zealotry, so they’ve taken up an agenda that actively targets fellow Americans, inflicting real harm on communities with race-baiting tactics and onerous health restrictions. And in doing so they continue to alienate the voters they desperately need to win elections in purple states.  How Republicans got here is no mystery; Trump touched the third rail of the Republican base, the people who were so beyond the pale that previous candidates had at least pretended to disavow them. I’m talking about the Richard Spencer types, the racists, the antisemites. After touching this rail, and narrowly eking out a win in 2016, Republicans found themselves dependent on that base for turnout. Now they have gone so far down this road that they find themselves staring down an intractable death ray with crushing defeat—unless, that is, they change the rules to keep minority rule.»

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/tennessee-abortion-trump-gop-loves-losing

My one free read at VF, I guess.

One of my favorite videos. 🙂

I will always regret the death of Twitter because I only saw this because of the #miltwitter folks I follow.

https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/

Republicans.

Republican House, Republican Senate, Republican governor. Here we are.

In North Carolina, we are one election away from this kind of hogwash.

Well, since I’m always last with the news, I guess everybody already knows this. On the off chance somebody doesn’t know, Smalls was quite the dude.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1169131310/navy-ship-with-a-confederate-name-now-honors-black-union-hero-robert-smalls-inst

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/10/nashville-council-justin-jones-expulsion/

36-0 vote! Go get ’em, Justin!

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