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the state had successful ballot initiatives regarding medicaid and medical weed, which were challenged in court by the state house.
Can’t have that socialist bullshit in Mississippi!

That cesspool state is where my mom’s side of the family hails. It’s difficult to accurately portray how backwards it is.

It makes Alabama look uber-progressive.
 

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Dark Money Organizer Giddy About Killing Democracy

Yeah, the HF is one evil collection of "human beings".

These "think tanks", and yes I am going to both sides this one, are nothing but money laundering operations designed to completely circumvent lobbying and election laws. Disgusting.
 

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Yeah, the HF is one evil collection of "human beings".

These "think tanks", and yes I am going to both sides this one, are nothing but money laundering operations designed to completely circumvent lobbying and election laws. Disgusting.
Their insidiousness predates Citizens United & is much, much worse, in my opinion
 

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Yeah, the HF is one evil collection of "human beings".

These "think tanks", and yes I am going to both sides this one, are nothing but money laundering operations designed to completely circumvent lobbying and election laws. Disgusting.
Mentioned it once or twice on other threads, I cannot recommend enough that people read the book 'Merchants of Doubt' and how they examine these think tanks essentially existing for nothing more than propaganda whether ideological or money based. They produce no academically relevant literature, it's all about the agenda.
 

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Can’t procure them with any consistency.
The depressing part of this is that a couple of states rushed through executions because their stock was about to expire. I think one of those was the guy in Mississippi (or maybe Missouri) whose DNA it was just discovered was not on the murder weapon, but someone else's was. Barbaric.
 

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Gaetz surely isn’t the big cheese at the end of the flip line they’ve been targeting? They’re going to want him to flip on someone too? I imagine he’s got a whole array of characters he’s incriminated along the way.
 

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Gaetz surely isn’t the big cheese at the end of the flip line they’ve been targeting? They’re going to want him to flip on someone too? I imagine he’s got a whole array of characters he’s incriminated along the way.
He likely is the big cheese, unless there's someone else we don't know about.
 

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Gaetz surely isn’t the big cheese at the end of the flip line they’ve been targeting? They’re going to want him to flip on someone too? I imagine he’s got a whole array of characters he’s incriminated along the way.
He’s probably the end of the line. We would have heard something else by now if there were more substantial participants.
 

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The party of Christian love strikes again, with Kavanaugh basically saying that it would be too much work to retroactively fix injustices.

 

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The party of Christian love strikes again, with Kavanaugh basically saying that it would be too much work to retroactively fix injustices.

Surely that’s the very definition of unconstitutional?
 

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Surely that’s the very definition of unconstitutional?
And?

Edit: crap, hit submit on accident

And? They quite literally don't care for anything but power. The constant cruelty of their decisions and laws remove any argument that they are guided by Christian or moral values. The outrageous spending on the military and tax cuts for the rich remove any arguments they are fiscally conservative. The right no longer has positions or policy, only hate and grievance. The party is dying, but like a true villain they are trying to take us with them.
 

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But they make sure that arguments will be heard the draconian Mississippi abortion case where, you know, ‘babies’ are ‘murdered...’

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1267568
This is quite literally the reason ACB was born.

It will be the first step in removing RvW, not even Roberts can stop that now.

Edit: Oh and Breyer can go feck himself the self important asshole. He is going to RGB us and then we are all well and truly fecked, maybe forever.
 

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Don’t think this is necessarily purely political, but it’s spooky shit nonetheless.
there's obviously complicating factors within the case, but from the article it looks like 75% of the radicalisation was done by the FBI, rather than by the convict on his own.
 

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That’s some weird shit. Sounds like the NSA/DIA triage operative knew it was nothing but a scared kid and actually warned him before passing it down to the FBI.
 

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there's obviously complicating factors within the case, but from the article it looks like 75% of the radicalisation was done by the FBI, rather than by the convict on his own.
It’s the national security equivalent of padding stats with minor drug arrests.
 

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She’s an absolute treasure...

and this has been bullshit for a long time. I could rant on this for hours (especially since my job is to sell to pharma’s), but I’ll be brief. The amount of money big pharma has been spending on R&D has been dropping. Not only that, they have been shutting down their R&D campuses, especially those focused on infectious disease. Instead they have spent their money acquiring small startups and integrating their tech. Which sounds fine except most of those startups are based on research paid for by taxpayers! It is insane to me that the NIH funds almost all the medical breakthroughs we see but reaps almost no rewards for it. Instead the universities get the patents and share a percentage with the researchers. fecking insane.
 

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Mark McCloskey, Missouri Man Who Pointed Gun At Black Lives Matter Protesters, Jumps In Senate Race