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It has a relatively low level of college-educated voters and outside of Albuquerque/Santa Fe is pretty rural. Assuming that cultural depolarization continues, do you think it could vote for the GOP again within the next few decades?

[the bus]

It's telling that he threw his wife under the bus. Not once do conservatives ever take responsibility, they always find someone else to blame even if it's family.

& quite literally at that!

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1791563461639418111

I spoke directly with Justice #Alito about the flag story in the NYT.  In addition to what's in the story, he told me a neighbor on their street had a "F--- Trump" sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21.  Mrs. Alito brought this up with the neighbor.

According to Justice Alito, things escalated and the neighbor put up a sign personally addressing Mrs. Alito and blaming her for the Jan 6th attacks.

Justice Alito says he and his wife were walking in the neighborhood and there were words between Mrs. Alito and a male at the home with the sign.  Alito says the man engaged in vulgar language, "including the c-word".

Following that exchange, Mrs. Alito was distraught and hung the flag upside down "for a short time".  Justice Alito says some neighbors on his street are "very political" and acknowledges it was a very heated time in January 2021.

https://twitter.com/HolmesLybrand/status/1791530761243246685
"Believe me, 'Mrs.' Alito was just so distraught at our neighbors thinking of us as kind & well-liked. The bare minimum requires bringing the c-word into the discussion! Don't they know why I'm such a crotchety old man!?"

So Alito made-up a bunch of BS excuses, and shamefully involved his own wife and neighbors.
Why am I not surprised.

Rememeber that the South Bronx is mostly latino nowadays

https://twitter.com/TheFIREorg/status/1790471930488750514

As I said earlier Texas is being disgusting on free speech and needs to be sued for what they are doing.

Universities banning people from speaking arabic? Isn't America supposed to be the home of freedom or something like that? Amazing.

You didn't make this argument when people were deplatformed for alleging that we were funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-nih-repeatedly-refutes-ecohealth-alliance-president-dr-peter-daszaks-testimony-tabak-testimony-reveals-federal-grant-procedures-in-need-of-serious-reform/

Key Hearing Takeaways

NIH Deputy Director and former Acting NIH Director, Dr. Lawrence Tabak, acknowledged that NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China.

Dr. Lawrence Tabak repeatedly refuted EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak’s public and private testimonies. It is now clear that Dr. Daszak misled both the Select Subcommittee and the NIH on numerous occasions.

Serious shortcomings and failures in the NIH’s grant awarding and grant oversight procedures enabled EcoHealth to facilitate gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. These NIH deficiencies were exploited by Dr. Daszak and his team in an effort to avoid oversight and maintain funding.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) decision to immediately suspend funding and commence debarment proceedings against EcoHealth is backed by substantial evidence and necessary to protect America’s national security.  

The Select Subcommittee also recommends that HHS immediately begin debarment proceedings against Dr. Peter Daszak personally.

The NIH often lacks the necessary subject matter and scientific expertise to ensure U.S. taxpayer funds are spent and overseen safely. Dr. Tabak testified to these gaps in NIH’s system today, and former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins recounted similar problems during his transcribed interview found here.

The Select Subcommittee’s investigation into EcoHealth’s impropriety is far from over. Chairman Wenstrup appreciates Dr. Tabak’s honesty today and intends to use his testimony to hold EcoHealth accountable for its facilitation of gain-of-function research and its blatant contempt for the American taxpayer.

You support Free Speech only for folks you agree with.

Time to pass the PRO Act to strengthen and enforce current laws against union busting activities.

And yet many military personnel in our nation, continue to support everything the Republicans do.
Go figure.

Last decade I noticed that the estimates gave the Hasidic towns much slower growth than what would make sense for such places, and the 2020 census corrected these estimates with much higher numbers.

Looks like the census estimates are mostly back to making the same mistakes: Lakewood and and New Square show minimal growth, and Bloomingburg shows a small decrease. The one exception is
kiryas Joel which shows very high growth, even higher than would be expected purely from high birth rates.

I don´t like "always mask leftists", but this is too much. People with health canditions do exist.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

Why?

Jury will probably be deliberating this day so he needs to be in NY in case they come back.

It's possible the verdict could drop DURING this rally.