Have you noticed that the corporate media has been repeatedly using the word “violent” to describe what the summer of 2021 is going to be like? Many Americans believed that once Joe Biden was in the White House that all of the civil unrest that we have been witnessing would magically disappear and that violent crime rates would go back to normal. Of course neither of those things has happened. We continue to see civil unrest erupt in major U.S. cities such as Portland, and murder rates are even higher in 2021 than they were in 2020. This is a fact that was highlighted in a recent Axios article entitled “It’s set to be a hot, violent summer”…
by Matt Baume • May 3, 2021 at 8:30 am
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Mitt Romney gets a warm welcome. Or at least, as warm as he could possibly hope for thousands of people booing at him. Mitt was speaking at a Utah Republican convention, and he brought up Trump’s “character issues,” which prompted the crowd to get hostile. Some called him a “communist,” which … you know what, I’m not going to try to understand it, I’m just going to enjoy it.
Two injured in a Tukwila mall shooting. Police have not released any details about suspects, and say it was an “isolated incident.” Uh huh, sure also this weekend, three people were injured in a mass shooting in Saint Paul; four injured in a mass shooting in Delaware; two were killed and four injured in New Orleans; one killed and four injured in New Rochelle; one killed and three injured in Atlanta; five injured in Massachusetts; and one killed and three
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At last, an end to gerrymandering is possible! OK, not likely, but if Democrats or rational humans are serious about changing the system, now is the time.
It’s time to fight gerrymandering with gerrymandering. (Quick aside: Please do not apply the logic that follows here to every situation. You may be able to convince pro-gun people that guns are bad by shooting at them, but that’s not necessarily a good idea.)
The census data are out and big blue states like New York and California are losing House seats. That means those states have to redistrict.
Now imagine those two big states being entirely blue. It could happen. All you need to do is put together a redistricting commission willing to boldly fight geography.