You make a strong case for Missouri as a state that cannot be trusted with states' rights. However, your identification of Texas Governor Abbott in your opening of this post identifies Texas as a state that certainly belongs on that untrustworthy list of states on issues of protecting rights. Texas has attacked and restricted the rights …
You make a strong case for Missouri as a state that cannot be trusted with states' rights. However, your identification of Texas Governor Abbott in your opening of this post identifies Texas as a state that certainly belongs on that untrustworthy list of states on issues of protecting rights. Texas has attacked and restricted the rights of one marginalized and vulnerable group after another - women, trans youth, LGBTQ+, students, public educators, immigrants, and even voters. Protecting the rights of every citizen regardless of sex, gender, race, ethnic origin, socio-economic class, faith or none, or country of origin should be understood as protected by our Constitution. We once thought our Supreme Court had a primary role in those protections - emphasis on once thought. However, the current court seems to have abrogated its role with regard to that.
There are several states that fall into this category. Missouri and Texas are just a couple. And you’re right, it doesn’t end with education. It’s all of our rights.
Texas, Florida and Iowa are almost interchangeable in the polices and laws they enact. It's like Govs Abbott, DeSantis and Reynolds consult each other before proposing legislation.
Add Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana to begin with. In New Orleans I once screamed out loud, "This is Malawai and Haitian style poverty!!!!! " We just hide it well.
Some difference of opinion. SCROTUS didn’t abrogate their role in protecting the rights of all. They actively are fighting—rulings—to make sure the rights of those outside their ideologies are not protected.
I am surrounded by a shell of gas and dust. I appear to be fading: as i draw closer to the my eventual end. Just as the star WOH G64, I will go on throwing out clouds of dust, thickening the shell around me and causing my light to slowly fade away. I will also shrink in size and thought.
I have always been in a chaotic orbit around this strange attractor of American politics. This is true for all of us.
None of this means the star WOH G64 will explode soon, at least as we humans understand the term. Dying stars can go on shedding gas and dust for millennia before the inevitable supernova comes. Neither you nor I will super nova. Whenever it does happen, however, it promises to be spectacular or may end with a whimper instead of a bang.
Sorry for what may seem like the ramblings of a crazy man. I was inspired reading the science post today by Alastair Williams about the star WOH G64, borrowing many of his words while still being under the influence of his writing about searching for water on Venus, a dead planet, as is Mars and earth is becoming, hastened by complex knots of human behavior.
You make a strong case for Missouri as a state that cannot be trusted with states' rights. However, your identification of Texas Governor Abbott in your opening of this post identifies Texas as a state that certainly belongs on that untrustworthy list of states on issues of protecting rights. Texas has attacked and restricted the rights of one marginalized and vulnerable group after another - women, trans youth, LGBTQ+, students, public educators, immigrants, and even voters. Protecting the rights of every citizen regardless of sex, gender, race, ethnic origin, socio-economic class, faith or none, or country of origin should be understood as protected by our Constitution. We once thought our Supreme Court had a primary role in those protections - emphasis on once thought. However, the current court seems to have abrogated its role with regard to that.
There are several states that fall into this category. Missouri and Texas are just a couple. And you’re right, it doesn’t end with education. It’s all of our rights.
Texas, Florida and Iowa are almost interchangeable in the polices and laws they enact. It's like Govs Abbott, DeSantis and Reynolds consult each other before proposing legislation.
They copy each other and use model legislation from organizations like ALEC.
Add South Dakota, witness it’s our Mike Rounds proposing a bill to end the DOE. We are 49th in pay.
Add Oklahoma to that list.
Add Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana to begin with. In New Orleans I once screamed out loud, "This is Malawai and Haitian style poverty!!!!! " We just hide it well.
Some difference of opinion. SCROTUS didn’t abrogate their role in protecting the rights of all. They actively are fighting—rulings—to make sure the rights of those outside their ideologies are not protected.
Andrew Jackson, “The decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate”.
The Court rules, the Federal Government enforces. Sometimes.
Ask Orval Faubus when he defied Eisenhower.
I am surrounded by a shell of gas and dust. I appear to be fading: as i draw closer to the my eventual end. Just as the star WOH G64, I will go on throwing out clouds of dust, thickening the shell around me and causing my light to slowly fade away. I will also shrink in size and thought.
I have always been in a chaotic orbit around this strange attractor of American politics. This is true for all of us.
None of this means the star WOH G64 will explode soon, at least as we humans understand the term. Dying stars can go on shedding gas and dust for millennia before the inevitable supernova comes. Neither you nor I will super nova. Whenever it does happen, however, it promises to be spectacular or may end with a whimper instead of a bang.
Sorry for what may seem like the ramblings of a crazy man. I was inspired reading the science post today by Alastair Williams about the star WOH G64, borrowing many of his words while still being under the influence of his writing about searching for water on Venus, a dead planet, as is Mars and earth is becoming, hastened by complex knots of human behavior.