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Florida Goes Full Police State Over Abortion Ballot Initiative
In fact, every court that has heard challenges to the vote has rejected efforts to overturn its result. Yet important Evangelical leaders have still supported calls for state legislators to unilaterally defy their own voters to appoint pro-Trump electors.
from The Dangerous Idolatry of Christian Trumpism by frenchpress.thedispatch.com
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One man takes on state government and wins after passage of 3 voter initiatives (fox13seattle.com)
Big recent news is that 3 of the 6 initiatives have already passed in the State legislature, and the rest will be sent to the voters as ballot questions.
We also have a new moderate city council in Seattle that is pressing charges against protestors who
... See morefrom Tide Turning in Washington State? by Tyler Cowen
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Thereafter, Florida continued to live up to its position as the southernmost state with among the most heinous acts of terrorism committed anywhere in the South. Violence had become such an accepted fact of life that, in 1950, the Florida governor’s special investigator, Jefferson Elliott, observed that there had been so many mob executions in one
... See morefrom The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson