WaPo: “Now that the statue of Robert E. Lee that towered over the onetime capital of the Confederacy has been cut into pieces and hauled away to some obscure warehouse, maybe the weaponized myth of Lee as a great man — or even a good one — can finally be mothballed as well. Lee’s bronze…
“Virginia Removes Robert E. Lee Statue From State Capital”
NY Times: “After more than a year of legal wrangling, one of the nation’s largest Confederate monuments — a soaring statue of Robert E. Lee, the South’s Civil War general — was hoisted off its pedestal in downtown Richmond, Va., on Wednesday morning. At 8:54 a.m., a man in an orange jacket waved his arms,…
Charlotte Catholic School Fails In Attempt to Argue Firing Teacher for Gay Wedding Announcement Not Discrimination But Protected Free Speech
The Progressive Pulse: “A federal judge has ruled that a Charlotte Catholic school wrongfully terminated a substitute teacher after finding out he got married to a man. Lonnie Billard taught English and later drama full-time at Charlotte High before switching to primarily teaching English part-time in 2012. The school, part of the Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools system, terminated…
Bobby Jindal Finds His Intellectual Depth: Joining Trump-centric Think Tank
LA Voice: “Call it the gift that keeps on giving. Just as we as a nation are beginning to emerge from the four-year train wreck that was the Donald Trump presidency, we’re greeted with the stark reminder of yet another failed Repugnantcan administration. Even better, the two are now uniting under the double yoke of…
“Texas’ Long History of Hollowing Out Women’s Health Care”
NY Times: “At least a dozen other states have enacted so-called heartbeat bills that have been halted by the courts, but the Texas version is particularly insidious. It applies not just to abortion providers but also to anyone who “aids or abets” care, which could include rape crisis counselors or a friend who drives a…
“New Texas voting bill deepens growing disparities in how Americans can cast their ballots”
WaPo: “Red and blue states are increasingly moving in opposite directions on how millions of Americans can cast their ballots, exacerbating a growing divide as Republicans in states across the country — most recently Texas — impose new voting restrictions, while Democrats in others expand access. The conflicting trends are widening the disparities in election…
“Abortion, voting rights, guns and covid: Texas Republicans go all in”
WaPo: “It was only a year ago when the talk about Texas was whether it was about to turn blue in the presidential race, as polls indicated a closer-than-expected contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Today the talk is over the lengths to which Texas Republicans have gone to stretch the boundaries of conservative…
Please appreciate the workingman this Labor Day 2021
Today please thank the working class for recognizing that life is more than work. Because of them, we have the eight hour day, the weekend, and today’s fight for a living wage. I hope you take time today to do what you feel you never have enough time for. Happy Labor Day y’all.
“What Can Democrats Do to Fight Texas’s Abortion Ban? Lots.”
The Nation: “No matter what fresh lawlessness Republicans commit, or what their legal enablers on the Supreme Court do to support that agenda, you can count on some Democrat or liberal-adjacent person saying, “But what can the Democrats do?” Never mind that Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the entire Executive Branch. They walk…
“The Density Divide and the Southernification of Rural America”
Model Citizen: “When I was a kid, the accents changed. Driving north from central Iowa through the corn toward Minnesota, the dialect would gradually get a little Fargo — a little Norwegian bachelor farmer — maybe an hour or so from the border. Past “the Cities,” you’d encounter the Oop! Uffdah! deadpan in full hilarious effect. Likewise,…