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Trump and US crime rates: a chasm between fact and fear-mongering
As the Brennan Center reports, crime rates in the U.S. remain at an historic low. Yet Trump continues his fact-free fear-mongering about crime. And apparently the Trump Base still gets excited by the dumb horror movie he’s scripted. Why? I … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged amygdala, Brennan Center, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Trump, Trump voters, US crime rates
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Gerrymandering: We are given reason to hope
OK, the Supreme Court Gill decision would have sunk me into the earth if I weren’t already there, given all the horrors surrounding us nowadays. And I was so, so crossing all my fingers and toes that Kennedy would determine … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting rights
Tagged Brennan Center, gerrymandering, Gill v Whitford, James McGill Buchanan, June 30 immigration protest, Justice Kennedy, Koch Bros final solution to democracy, Nancy MacLean, political gerrymandering, SCOTUS, SCOTUS decision on gerrymandering, Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas Paine Park, Tom Paine
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Another reason for being on Twitter…
I know a lot of people are flailing desperately over the horror we’re living in, feeling that — aside from recent elections — no strong opposition is presenting itself. Not so. If you get onto Twitter (you don’t have to … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged ACLU, Brennan Center, CREW, Democratic Attorneys General, Eric Schneiderman, Michael Avenatti, Southern Poverty Law Center, Twitter
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