Found on Mastodon:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/nerves-rise-over-afd-threat-as-state-elections-in-eastern-germany-begin

It’s never going to stop. There is never a single victory, only “eternal vigilance”.

As in: “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”

We don’t get to win one election and then go back to sleep.

How Republicans win:

https://www.vox.com/scotus/367701/supreme-court-arizona-rnc-republicans-mi-familia-vota

«According to an expert who testified in the RNC case, “approximately one-third of a [percent] of non-Hispanic White voters [in Arizona] are Federal-Only Voters, while a little more than two-thirds of a percent of minority voters are Federal-Only Voters.”

This racial disparity likely explains why the Republican Party is now asking the Supreme Court to further restrict this small percentage of Arizona voters. 2020 exit polls showed Republican Donald Trump winning white voters in Arizona, but losing the state as a whole due to President Joe Biden’s strong performance with Latinos. Biden’s margin of victory in Arizona in 2020 was about three-tenths of a percent, and even a tiny shift in the state’s population of eligible voters could tip the balance.»

Honestly, it feels like we’re living in the end times.

Wow, that was fast.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3gre3y9yo

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-certifies-abortion-rights-initiative-november-ballot-rcna166321

«The secretary of state’s office estimates that 577,971 valid signatures were turned in by Arizona for Abortion Access, a coalition of reproductive rights organizations that includes the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona. The signature haul far surpassed the 383,923 signatures required to make it onto the ballot. The Arizona for Abortion Access Act will go before voters under the title “Proposition 139.”»

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-vance-mass-deportations-start-1-million-defends/story?id=112739447

«…and frankly if you make it harder to hire illegal labor, which undercuts the wages of American workers, I think you go a lot of the way to solving the illegal immigration problem.”»

Maybe Sen. Vance is simply too young to remember AL HB-56. Or maybe he thinks his electorate doesn’t remember (and maybe he’s right).

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/help-wanted-farmers-plight-proves-alabamas

I have made the most amazing discovery.

https://going-medieval.com/subject-index-table-of-contents/

#medieval #medievalHistory #medievalMyth

https://www.rawstory.com/news/j-d-vance-2668920972/

Surprised Vance’s tweet is still up. I expect it to disappear momentarily.

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/breaking-the-new-york-times-helps

Where do people get good recipes for weeknight cooking? I’m considering dropping my subscription.