[Article] Voters reject stadium tax for Royals and Chiefs
The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday when residents of Jackson County voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium. #unitedstates #uspolitics #salestax #kansascity #sports #missouri #nfl #stadiums #mlb #politics
The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature has unveiled another election bill that would further restrict where voters can drop off mail-in ballots and also force party primary candidates into runoffs if they don’t get more than 50% of the vote.
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State Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, called the continued attempt at culling drop boxes “unnecessary and politically motivated.”
“Republicans continue to feed into its rhetoric that elections are stolen and are not legitimate,” Eskamani said. “… When you limit the options for folks, it is intentionally designed to just make it harder to vote.”
But Eskamani said the other major proposal in the new bill, a return to primary runoffs for state and federal races, was “worthy of exploration,” even if she couldn’t support the overall bill.
Currently, party primaries are held the third week of August. Whoever gets the most votes in their respective primaries, even if just a plurality, face off in the November election.
The new bill would change the primary date to the third week of June. Any primary race in which the winner doesn’t receive more than 50% of the vote would move to a runoff between the top two candidates in August, with the winner of that primary securing his or her party’s nomination.
Despite the unneeded restrictions on the ballot drop boxes the changing of the primaries would be really good.
Florida election bill targets drop boxes again, brings back primary runoffs
A new Florida election bill would further restrict where voters can drop off ballots, as well as force party primary candidates into runoffs. #unitedstates #uspolitics #votedem #republicanparty #votingsuppression #ballotdropboxes #mattgaetz #annaeskamani #florida #2020biglie #mail #primaries #donaldtrump #politics
[News] Republicans Furious as Speaker Johnson Turns GOP Leadership Meeting Into Religious Revival
#mikejohnson #uspolitics #unitedstates #republicanparty #religion #politics
News: Poll Ranks Biden as 14th-Best President, With Trump Last
President Biden may owe his place in the top third to his predecessor: Mr. Biden’s signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office. #uspolitics #poll #presidency #unitedstates #donaldtrump #joebiden #barackobama #billclinton #andrewjackson #ronaldreagan #woodrowwilson #ulyssessgrant #georgewbush #georgehwbush #racism #politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/us/politics/biden-trump-presidential-rankings.html
[Analysis] AOC's questions years ago helped spark the investigation into Trump's business. Now, he's been ordered to pay $355 million.
In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen's answers eventually led to Letitia James's fraud lawsuit. #uspolitics #donaldtrump #aoc #alexandriaocasio #trumporganization #newyork #michaelcohen #unitedstates #politics
Thailand's Cabinet approves a marriage equality bill to grant same-sex couples equal rights
Thailand’s Cabinet has approved an amendment to its civil code to allow same-sex marriage, with an expectation for the draft to be proposed to Parliament next month. #thailand #lgbtq #same #politics #worldnews
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-samesex-marriage-lgbtq-f14aa589cb91ce5f8d973f570ebbb065
This is implying Jill Stein doesn’t know she is helping Republicans with her failed 3rd party run.
Germany asks forgiveness for Tanzania colonial crimes
German forces killed almost 300,000 people during the Maji Maji rebellion in the early 1900s. #germany #tanzania #colonialism #worldnews
At the time, the state senator falsely claimed that an “African American Confederate soldier” had designed the flag. “I can only imagine how proud he was that his art, his flag design was chosen to represent our State and now we want to strip him of his pride, his hard work. I’m sure he put a lot of thought into this design,” Chism wrote in a June 2020 Facebook post.
In fact, a white supremacist lawmaker, Sen. Edward N. Scudder of Issaquena County, designed the 1894 flag. In a 1924 speech to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, his daughter Fayssoux Scudder Corneil explained his motives for designing the flag: “My father loved the memory of the valor and courage of those brave men who wore the gray … and has always taken keen interest in the reunions where he could meet and mingle with those of the Lost Cause. He told me that it was a simple matter for him to design the flag because he wanted to perpetuate in a legal and lasting way that dear battle flag under which so many of our people had so gloriously fought.”
** Mississippi entered the Civil War in an effort to protect the institution of slavery, as the the state’s Declaration of Secession explains**. Chism’s county, Union County, was formed in 1870—the same year Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.
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[News] Senator Calls For Return of Old Mississippi Flag: ‘Our People Died Under That Flag’
Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said the Legislature should not have retired the Confederate-themed state flag. #unitedstates #uspolitics #mississippi #flags #votedem #confederacy #republicanparty #gop #politics
[Analysis] Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.
The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America. #uspolitics #unitedstates #migration #iowa #minnesota #tennessee #oregon #portland #california #kimreynolds #missouri #polarization #transgender #culturewar #gop #votedem #republicanparty #flags #politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/us/politics/politics-states-moving.html
“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.
“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”
[News] John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics
John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. #johnkelly #donaldtrump #unitedstates #france #uspolitics #johnmccain #georgehwbush #usveterans #markesper #markmilley #williambarr #usmilitary #disabledpeople #trump #politics
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/politics/john-kelly-donald-trump-us-service-members-veterans
Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous
Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google. #microsoft #google #business #internet #satyanadella #antitrust #unitedstates #artificialintelligence #ai #bing #tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/technology/microsoft-ceo-testifies-google-search.html
[Analysis] McCarthy’s Speakership Is in Jeopardy as Gaetz Renews Threat to Oust Him
Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces a major test of his leadership in the days ahead, after one of his loudest Republican critics in the House reiterated a promise to try to remove him from his post. #unitedstates #uspolitics #kevinmccarthy #mattgaetz #republicanparty #gop #democraticparty #alexandriaocasio #ushouseofrepresentatives #government #politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/politics/mccarthy-gaetz-house-speaker.html
[News] Newsom Names Emily’s List President as Feinstein Successor
Laphonza Butler will fill the Senate vacancy left by the death of Dianne Feinstein, the governor announced Sunday. #diannefeinstein #unitedstates #barbaralee #uspolitics #california #laphonzabutler #gavinnewsom #emily #blackamericans #politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/newsom-senate-feinstein-laphonza-butler.html
Dysfunctional state parties is a symptom of not enough people being involved and a reason for people to get involved.
[News] Supreme Court rejects Alabama's defiance in voting case
In June, the court ruled that Alabama's Republican-drawn congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act. #unitedstates #gerrymandering #redistricting #uspolitics #alabama #supremecourt #republicanparty #gop #votingrightsact #votedem #politics
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1200906844/supreme-court-alabama-voting-case
This is great news! For anyone reading, but especially those in Alabama, make sure to join one of your city/county’s Democratic club/caucus to help organize change at the local level and better influence the direction the Democratic Party takes locally and nationally!