The “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, said the quiet part out loud this past week: The Republican Party stands for nothing. It has no policies nor anything to offer the country, other than its accumulation and abuse of power through gerrrymandering districts and voter suppression laws to keep Democratic leaning voters … Read more
Above Image: h/t the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in a different context. Axios reports, “Midnight is approaching” to pass voting rights protections: “Defenders of democracy in America still have a slim window of opportunity to act. But time is ticking away, and midnight is approaching,” according to more than 150 top scholars of U.S. democracy in … Read more
The Daily Beast reports, The GOP Dark Money Group Giving Big to White Supremacists: Efforts to overturn the election. Jan. 6 organizers. White supremacist groups. And more than a dozen private and public universities. They all have one thing in common: They received anonymous funding funneled through a single conservative dark money behemoth. That’s the … Read more
Just like Hitler Youth back in the day. Update to The MAGA/QAnon Cult Turns to Book Banning – Can Book Burning Be Far Behind? Asked and answered. The Washington Post reports, ‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) attacked Terry McAuliffe … Read more
Above Image: Charles and David Koch, and Leonard Leo. h/t Slate. Christopher Rufo and the right-wing Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have rebranded critical race theory into an appeal to white identity politics. But they are using this new scare word for an ulterior motive. It is the latest attempt by right-wing billionaires to use race … Read more