Reuters: “Democrats have no chance of winning South Carolina in November, but the state is pivotal to Joe Biden‘s reelection anyway. Democrats hope South Carolina‘s new role as host of the party’s first official primary on Feb. 3 will bolster support among Black voters. Top party officials also see it as a springboard to an audacious new strategy: retaking the American South…
Month: January 2024
Looking at NC’s Psychedelic “Renaissance”
The Assembly: “To his three young daughters, Cruz indeed explains his profession as that of a wizard, albeit one with a salt-and-pepper goatee instead of a long white beard. “They know Daddy goes on journeys, that he works together with people who are trying to heal, who are trying to grow,” he said. To the…
“‘Textbook’ Execution or Botched One? Alabama Case Leaves Sides Divided.”
NY Times: “A day after Alabama became the first state to execute a prisoner with nitrogen gas, officials vowed on Friday to continue using the method in executions despite witnesses’ accounts that the prisoner writhed on the gurney for at least two minutes. Two very different accounts of the execution emerged from the state’s death…
“After a Botched Execution, Alabama Is Trying an Untested Method”
NY Times: “It was Nov. 17, 2022, and Kenneth Smith was lying on a gurney inside Alabama’s execution chamber, his arms and legs strapped down as he waited to be put to death. Mr. Smith, who had been on death row for more than a quarter-century after being convicted of murdering a woman, recalled thanking…
“Texas Had More Than 26K Rape-Related Pregnancies”
Political Wire: ““Texas saw an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies during the 16 months after the state outlawed all abortions, with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association,” the Houston Chronicle reports.”
“Ex-Florida GOP Chair Won’t Be Charged with Rape”
Political Wire: ““Sarasota Police aren’t filing rape charges against former Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler but have asked the State Attorney’s Office to review a related investigation into potential video voyeurism by Ziegler,” the Sarasota Herald Tribune reports.”
“Plan for $400 million monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia draws protest”
FOX16: “Some local residents and an animal-rights group are protesting plans for a monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia. Opponents on Tuesday urged the Bainbridge City Council to block plans by a company called Safer Human Medicine to build a $396 million complex that would eventually hold up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques that would be sold…
“Chip Roy Tells Texas to Ignore the Supreme Court”
Political Wire: “Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told Fox News that Texas officials should ignore the recent Supreme Court ruling saying the federal government could remove razor wire on the U.S.-Mexico border. Said Roy: “They have a duty under the Constitution … and every other norm of leadership of any sovereign state, to protect your citizens, period, full…
“Ron DeSantis ends presidential campaign before New Hampshire primary”
ABC: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was hailed for much of last year as a rising Republican star, is ending his presidential campaign after he failed to overtake rival Donald Trump in polling or in the early vote of the 2024 race. DeSantis made his announcement in a four-and-a-half-minute video posted to X on Sunday with less than 48…
“NC Attorney General files brief opposing review of Leandro case”
North state Journal: “In a Jan. 11 news release, N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein announced the filing of a brief in opposition to a discretionary review by the N.C Supreme Court of the long-running Leandro education funding case. The N.C. Supreme Court granted a discretionary review of the case last October. The current dollar figure in the case sits at…