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Category Archives: State Government
Truth is More Powerful than Hate
Yesterday, a member of the Michigan state senate gave a speech which struck right at the hate-filled heart of right-wing extremism and deception. Her name is Mallory McMorrow – it’s a name worth remembering, because I’m hoping she will soon … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abuse, Democracy, Government, Heroism, Michigan, Politics, Social Justice, State Government, United States
Tagged Mallory McMorrow
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Police infiltrated by RWNJs … It’s worse when we discover the paranoids are really after us
By ann summers What has long been accused and now manifest in a variety of agencies, incidents, and even specific actions comes to light in a classified FBI study obtained by The Intercept. President Trump has inherited a vast … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime, DHS, Fascism, FBI, Government, Immigrants, Immigration, Jurisprudence, Law Enforcement, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Police, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Prison, Propaganda, Racism, Society, State Government, States, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States, War on "Terror"
Tagged bannon, Conspiracy Theories, FBI, Media, Politics, Terrorism, Terrorists, trump, White Supremacists
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Censusless: This book needs to be read not just before 2020 or even November 2016
By ann summers Is Howard Dean, Tim Kaine, or DWS responsible for the poor leadership on what remains the real negative consequences of what should have been a better outcome for PBO’s 2008 election in the midst of an economic … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Conservatives, Democracy, Equal Rights, History, Justice, Legal Theory, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Pennsylvania, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Racism, RNC, State Government, States, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Congress, geographic information systems, GIS, maptitude, reapportionment, redistricting, Republicans
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Morning Open Thread – Drones, the new UFOs
Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. It would be hard to guess if one tries to follow TV news, but other things actually occur in the world besides election primaries. British … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking News, Christianity, England, Equal Rights, Homosexual Rights, Mental Health, State Government, Tennessee, Weird News
Tagged Drones, LGBT, UFO
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From Ronald to The Donald: “There are Two Donald Trumps” like there are (at least) Two Amerikas
By ann summers We’ve moved from figures of speech to violent acts of speech on bodily figures; the history of the GOP and its Southern Strategy is now manifest in its ur-candidate, the WWE The People’s Bro-maniac tRump. As Ben Carson of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, California, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Free Speech, Government, History, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Police, Progressives, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Society, State Government, Tea Party, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Donald Trump, Law Enforcement, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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Tennessee Sheriff proves beyond all shadow of doubt that Beyoncé is a stochastic terrorist
By ann summers Another minor public official in Tennessee has decided to support the Bundystani Soverign Citizen wardlordism using county sheriffs as the dupes of anti-government libertarianism. Now the false equivalence of RWNJ sovereignty protests applies where not only is … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Government, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Logic, Media, Murder, Music, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, North Carolina, Progressives, Propaganda, Rock and Roll, Short Video, State Government, Tea Party, Television, Tennessee, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency
By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ. Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Breaking News, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Courts, Crime, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, FFS Update(s), Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Literature, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, State Government, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States, War
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Racism, Terrorism
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Bundystani insurgency now tries to sell bantustan timeshares instead of exit plan
By ann summers The Fluffy Unicornists (provisional) are now counting on red rural poverty in a blue state with some old anti-Federal standards from the militia playbook. Fortunately, counter-fundraising has now raised over $20,000 to organizations representing those attacked by the current … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Fundamentalism, History, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Progressives, Propaganda, State Government, Terrorism, Terrorists, Theism, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Law Enforcement, Militia Groups, police, Terrorism
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Fluffy Unicornists prepared to announce their withdrawal plan: “Honor without Prosecution”
one persons’s paramilitary cosplay & Roman fasces is another’s…red crayon By ann summers While tarp boy LaVoy announced that the Bundy gang will reveal their “exit Plan” on Friday at 7pm at a venue yet to be determined although the Burns, … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, DOJ, environment, Equal Rights, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Fraud, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Government, Green, History, Humor, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Racism, Revolutionary War, Spring, State Government, Tea Party, Theism, Theodore Roosevelt, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Congress, Law Enforcement, police, Racism, Terrorism
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