The Political Rave and Drool

Ohio’s descent into red state status has already produced a legislature controlled by extremists and a congressional delegation top-heavy with mediocrity.

— Read on http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/05/a-trump-tinged-gop-senate-primary-in-ohio-unlike-any-other-and-not-in-a-good-way-brent-larkin.html

Voters in some urban, Democratic areas of Harris and Tarrant counties would see a drastic drop in polling places under the Senate version of Senate Bill 7, a Texas Tribune analysis shows.
— Read on www.texastribune.org/2021/05/23/texas-voting-polling-restrictions/

Leaked files show how police stepped up surveillance efforts after January insurrections for signs of violence from far-right groups
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/23/police-records-capitol-attack-lawmakers

Thoughts and prayers

A little-noticed news event this week with potentially major long-term implications for the U.S
— Read on seekingalpha.com/news/3699303-energy-producers-fear-biden-executive-order-on-climate-related-financial-risk

The “COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act” signed into law Thursday by President Joe Biden has been hailed as a rare breakthrough in the partisan gridlock that poisons American politics.That’s a fair assessment, given that the law was passed by whopping margins of 94-1 in the Senate and 364-62 in the House…
— Read on www.rawstory.com/hate-crime-bill/

King Alfred was reduced to skulking in a Somerset bog. A distraught Napoleon talked to coffee bushes on St Helena. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia hung around the haberdashery department of Jolly’s in Bath. Uganda’s Idi Amin plotted bloody revenge from a Novotel in Jeddah. 

— Read on http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/23/lock-him-up-why-is-repeat-offender-donald-trump-still-a-free-man

Propaganda Puppets be like…

Brian Williams named the GOP senator “Kremlin Cruz” after noting that he hated being called “Cancun Cruz” when he fled Texas during a storm.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-reacts-kremlin-cruz-nickname-sharing-russian-propaganda-2021-5

Amy Donofrio hung a Black Lives Matter flag at Robert E. Lee High as a sign her class was a safe place to talk about race. She is under investigation.

Long before George Floyd was killed – and many Americans turned a serious eye toward acknowledging, understanding and even uprooting systemic racism – English high school teacher Amy Donofrio was encouraging her students in Jacksonville, Florida to push for equality and empowerment, for justice and personal achievement.

— Read on eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/05/23/teacher-amy-donofrio-black-lives-matter-flag-jacksonville-florida/5147034001/

-17 voicemails in one day- it’s an outrage

In Stark County, Ohio, a continuation of the fight over the 2020 presidential election is in full swing
— Read on http://www.salon.com/2021/05/23/former-trump-campaign-staffers-file-lawsuit-in-ohio_partner/

Grifter Memory

After working for years in the Trump Organization, she apparently couldn’t recall Allen Weisselberg has been the company’s chief financial officer for de…
— Read on www.huffpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-allen-weisselberg-deposition-inauguration_n_60a99e71e4b0d45b752a0f25

Astronomers have never seen a black hole being formed. But we have, and it swallowed an entire political party
— Read on www.salon.com/2021/05/22/formation-of-a-black-hole-on-the-spectacular-implosion-of-the-republican-party/

A state appeals court in Florida heard the case of a Black man who was jailed for 30 days in 2019 after writing a critical letter to the judge who
— Read on atlantablackstar.com/2021/05/22/judges-have-to-have-thick-skin-florida-court-conducting-review-after-black-veteran-was-jailed-for-daring-to-critique-judge-in-letter/

The laws are aimed at making the voting process more cumbersome, and at making the election process more manipulable for partisan advantage.
— Read on truthout.org/articles/gop-wants-volunteering-at-the-polls-to-come-with-risk-of-jail-time-or-huge-fines/

Bodycam video — which authorities withheld for 2 years — shows Louisiana state troopers stunning, punching and dragging Ronald Greene facedown on the ground before his death.

Troopers initially told his family he died on impact after crashing into a tree.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/998536266/video-withheld-for-2-years-shows-a-black-mans-fatal-arrest-as-he-pleads-for-his-

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/21/ny-ag-james-unveils-bill-to-limit-cops-use-of-force.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-welcomes-the-mccloskeys-sick-sad-american-dream

Joe Biden Pretends the Moon Is His Boss After Peter Doocy Asks About UFOs (Video)

“political violence will become more acceptable and more prevalent on the American right” if the Republican Party“doesn’t counteract these lies rather than indulge them.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/road-political-violence/618929/