BTC talks with attorney Mark Elias about the the lawsuit in Florida winning against the unconstitutional Republican gerrymandering that demolished a black majority district, and lawsuits in other states against Republican gerrymandering. Mr. Elias is a real hero for taking on the unconstitutional power grabbing the Republicans have been doing in order to deny minority
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Neil deGrasse Tyson said there are 1.3 Billion Muslims; there are only 15 million Jews. Only a single Muslim has won the Nobel Prize, but 1/4 of the Nobel Prizes were won by Jews. He said what a difference in culture has made. I would add that the sciences and math – Algebra – flourished
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Quote: “”I think we are in an unprecedented time in our country’s history where Republicans are willing to corrupt every process of democracy to fulfill a political objective. Republicans in Wisconsin don’t want Fair districting. Republicans in Wisconsin don’t want a woman to make her own reproductive decisions. And they are willing to corrupt the
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It’s true: corporations have no pretense of democracy. This may not run for you if you’re not on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/100009308115158/posts/pfbid02L55DcPLFiL5ZQLie7Cmms7DhbcNuKgQ3F5p1cZF8xzAKHAMmC9QGGPSTXNWuxWjNl/?mibextid=NOb6eG
After the 2020 election all these restrictions started being passed by the mostly Republican legislatures. What has happened in the last few years? Haven’t they been challenged in courts and found to be a violation of free speech? All these ‘agenda’ laws got passed and analysis shows that they don’t meet the criteria of serving
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My interpretation of his discussion is that Trump and the rest of the Republican party who have supported him have ripped apart the fabric of American Democracy and it will never be repaired. This 12 minute interview by Judy Woodruff is to me an exceedingly important assessment of the horrible state of American democracy –
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Robert Reich explains why Trump is more than an authoritarian; he’s a fascist. Short YouTube video
I hope you can view this: https://www.facebook.com/reel/828276078710781?mibextid=9drbnH
This scenario is hard to grasp and understand: the plans Trump had to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, if they had succeeded, would have caused nationwide protests for ignoring the will of the people, and resulted in another massacre much, much worse than the Kent State Massacre of 1970. It would have been a coup
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Elon Musk says population collapse is a bigger threat than climate change. Is he right? This is a very good article on a number of different aspects of population change. It gives a lot of good statistics. Also makes aware that that the population isn’t as all important as the resource utilization. The Western world,
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