And another day where the GOP continues to move toward full-on 1930’s Germany, ‘Welcome to fascism,’ AZ returning to its far-right roots, ‘the pandemic is over,’ TX revising sex education, crumbling public schools, medical debt, weather, and wearing thongs is illegal comes to a close:
“Put your right hand in the air … America will have a new birth of liberty.” -- PA Governor nominee, Doug Mastriano
Deaths
US: 1,078,663
World: 6,530,799
Cases
US: 97,509,436
World: 617,201,863
Cult Vibes: Trump Ends Rally In Bizarre Fashion, Leaving Crowd Mesmerized. AT THE END of Saturday night’s Trump rally, something strange (well, more strange than usual) happened. As the former president delivered the eight-minute monologue that concluded his speech, dramatic strings music began to play in the background and a portion of the mesmerized crowd raised their hands with their pointer fingers extended in an odd salute. -- I have a “one-finger salute” for the fucker.
'Welcome to fascism': Top Arizona Republican blasts Trump-backed candidates who might try to overturn future elections. The outgoing Republican speaker of the Arizona House says Trump-backed GOP candidates might send the country "back into the dark ages" if they win key midterm races and help enact laws to make it easier to overturn elections -- which he said was tantamount to "fascism."
“The moment when you give up hope, that is the moment when you cease to take any actions that might be positive to get out of the doom.” — Margaret Atwood
“So if I’m understanding this correctly DeSantis hired a woman named Perla to prowl the streets of San Antonio, lure migrants onto a plane under false pretenses of a trip to Boston and expedited work visas, and then dropped them in Martha’s Vineyard. If the migrants were misled to induce them onto the plane, that seems very illegal.” -- Judd Legum
Once McCain’s party, Arizona GOP returns to far-right roots. Less than a decade later, the right wing forces that McCain marginalized within the Arizona GOP are now in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely matched battlegrounds. Arizona Republicans have traded McCain for Donald Trump...Lake, a well-known former television news anchor, has delighted segments of the state’s GOP base that have long been at odds with their party’s establishment and want their leaders to confront Democrats, not compromise with them. -- That’s the entire Republican game plan: confront Democrats, not compromise with them. The two-party system is broken. Republicans are fascists. Vote them all out of office to keep democracy.
Prospect of far-right female premier divides Italian women. Should opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in the Sept. 25 election. Meloni might then be asked by Italy’s president to try to form a viable coalition government with right-wing allies. For many female voters, it’s a question of gender versus agenda. Some worry that Meloni, who exalts motherhood, might seek to erode women’s rights, including abortion access. For her supporters, what matters is her conservative, “God, homeland and family” platform, not her sex. Brothers of Italy has roots in a neo-fascist movement that hailed the legacy of Benito Mussolini, who bestowed prizes on women who had many children. The party took around 4% of votes in the last election, in 2018, but according to some pollsters it could win nearly 25% in this one. -- Worldwide fascism is on the rise. Will we accept it?
Biden: 'The pandemic is over'. "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We're still doing a lot of work on it. It's -- but the pandemic is over," Biden said.
As abortion bans take effect, Texas revises sex education to reduce teen pregnancy. While teen pregnancies have declined in the state and across the country in recent decades, Texas continues to have one of the highest state rates of teens giving birth at 22.4 births per 1,000 girls and women ages 15-19 — the lowest, in Massachusetts, is 6.1. Along with Alabama, Texas has the nation’s highest rate of repeat teen pregnancies. This fall, school districts across Texas are marking a shift to what educators call an “abstinence-plus” curriculum — the first time the state has revised its standards for sexual health education in more than 20 years.
US public schools get a D+ for poor conditions, and experts say problems are getting worse. Here’s what kids are facing. When it gets too hot in Denver and Baltimore classrooms, students are sent home because their schools don’t have air conditioning. In Massachusetts, checking for rusty water leaking from a ceiling has become a “morning ritual.” In California, a school’s cockroach infestation has gotten so bad that some students fear eating lunch. -- The Republican plan for decades has been to destroy public schools. They are succeeding.
1 in 5 households has medical debt. That includes people with private insurance. Among the privately insured, people with high deductible plans and people on Medicare Advantage were more likely to have medical debts. People with medical debt are "much more likely to be evicted, much more likely to be unable to pay for their utilities and much more likely to be food insecure.” -- Not that Republicans would give any shit about people having those problems.
College students are ‘quiet quitting’ to preserve their mental health: report. Now, new data show college students are hopping on the trend as one-third of these individuals report putting less effort into schoolwork in an effort to preserve their mental health…When specifically questioned about their school work habits, 34 percent of students said they do not go above and beyond what is required and 30 percent said they just put “some” effort into the work.
Woman detained by Myrtle Beach Police for wearing thong bikini. A video of a woman being detained by Myrtle Beach Police for wearing a thong bikini has caught the attention of hundreds of people on the internet.
Hurricane Fiona rips through powerless Puerto Rico. Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico’s southwest coast on Sunday as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around. Forecasters said the storm would cause massive flooding and threatened to dump “historic” levels of rain, with up to 30 inches (76 centimeters) possible in eastern and southern Puerto Rico.
Flood waters receding after storm batters western Alaska. Floodwaters were starting to recede in some parts of western Alaska that were battered by the worst storm in a half century, leaving debris flung by the powerful Bering Sea waves on beaches and in seaside communities.
Powerful typhoon pounds southern Japan; thousands evacuated. A powerful typhoon slammed ashore in southern Japan on Sunday as it pounded the region with strong winds and heavy rain, causing blackouts, paralyzing ground and air transportation and prompting the evacuation of thousands of people.
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