Clearing My Tabs for February 9, 2023 (Issue #31)
You may need to wait to file your taxes, the climate emergency, restricting travel of pregnant people, the California state budget, banning books about baseball greats, and more sports washing.
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ICE Kills Again
Stories I Wanted to Share (#127): An ICE killing in Maine; my frustration with Democrats’ praise of Lindsey Graham; Chuck Schumer spreads falsehood about God and our founders; Trump’s red scare; ICE’s intimidation of critics; and that time Tracy Chapman played NESCAC women’s soccer.
ICE Kills and Lies
Stories I Wanted to Share (#126): ICE attempts to cover up its murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; the Trump regime criminalizes protests; we need a fighting Project 2029; telling the truth about Alan Greenspan’s failures, and is Elon Musk still a trillionaire?
Stories I Wanted to Share (#125)
The postmark crisis and elections; Arkansas endangers women’s lives; redistricting horrors could lead to dummymanders; proportional representation and multi-member districts; Senate Democrats vote to confirm corrupt judicial nominees; Stephen Colbert; and what Rothko represents your current weather.
John Roberts Fulfills Career Ambition to Kill the Voting Rights Act (#124)
In this edition: nine stories with 15 links I’ve recently found interesting about where things stand in our long, twilight struggle to defeat authoritarianism. The Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act—and why Democrats need to be ruthless in their response; Democrats should sue CBS for editing their