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If You Want To Die Young - Take the Red Pill
 If dying young appeals to you, here's a simple bit of advice: move to a state or county controlled by Republicans. At first glance, the images below appear to be political maps. And in the most real sense of the word they are: the county-by-county differences shown by the map from Jeremy Ney's brilliant American Inequality Substack newsletter and the state-by-state screen shot from the CDC's NCHS below it. Both reflect, in large part, decades of regional policy differences. Long-lived parts of America have generally embraced progressive policies dating back to FDR's New Deal; the early-death parts of our country most often reflect conservative opposition to everything from the working-class wealth that unionization and higher minimum wages bring, to the availability of healthcare through Medicaid expansion. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Thom's blog
A New War on the Vote
Sunday book excerpt: The Hidden History of the War on Voting. While preventing people from voting has a long and sordid history in the United States (and, frankly, around the world), the modern-day Republican Party'siance on voter suppression as a primary tool to win elections kicked off in a big way in 1993. That was the year when 27 Democrats and one Republican cosponsored HR2, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), sometimes called the Motor Voter Act. In the House, it got 238 Democratic votes and 20 from Republicans; in the Senate, every Republican but two voted against it, while every present Democrat voted for it (Jay Rockefeller missed the vote). Several parts of the legislation freaked out the GOP, the most prominent being that it required every state to let people register to vote when they presented themselves at DMVs to apply for a new or renewed driver's license (this part is called Article 5 of the Act). Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Is Jack Smith a Total Bad Ass?
If You Want To Die Young - Take the Red Pill
Hour Two: Did the GOP Only Take Back the House Due to Court-Backed Gerrymandering?
Why Is AARP Boosting Medicare Privatization?
AZ Official Has to Go Into Hiding Over Death Threats
Is Disney showing how comfortable business is with fascism?
Quote: " A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes" - various. Law: " 15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation". |
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