The Best of the Rest of the News
— Is a day of reckoning coming for the rightwingers on the Supreme Court?
— Sore loser and convicted grifter Donald Trump continues to promote his Big Lie about "election fraud" and the most recent lie-spree was among the worst.
— The filibuster is anti-democratic and violates the spirit (and, maybe, the law) of the Constitution: it needs to reformed or ended now
— Whatever the billionaires paid Kyrsten Sinema, apparently it worked.
— The latest hysterical freak-out among Democrats came this week when David Corn reported in Mother Jones that Joe Manchin had told Chuck Schumer he'd be
willing to change from (D) to (I)— Get ready for really expensive oil and gasoline.
— White supremacy becomes blatant in Texas.
— If the Trump-endorsed Q-supporting Republican candidate for Virginia governor wins his election November 2nd, he can thank the Koch network and the GOP's newest astroturf freak-out around Critical Race Theory and mask mandates. Judd Legum does a deep dive.
— There's a huge benefit to firing cops and other government employees who refuse to get vaccinated.
— Geeky Science: Oregon decriminalized magic mushrooms last year. Now it looks like there may be many added benefits to the new law
— Crazy Alert! The rumor-mongers and conspiracy nuts on the right have watched the old move "Alien" too many times: they're now saying that Covid vaccines
"implant" eggs into our bloodstreams that hatch into "synthetic parasites."
— In Good News — What started out with two women in New York has become a national trend, with restaurants offering reusable "to go" packaging for the millions of delivery meals Americans are ordering every month.
— Excerpt from
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of AmericaRead more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom
