News of the Divided

Here's the news of political impropriety.

• GOP Candidate Wants To Dumb Down America By Eliminating Department Of Education 
• Twitter Cheers As Stephen King Crushes Trump’s Midterm Fear-Mongering Campaign Message With Just Two Words 
• More Dirty Tricks! Dem Name Missing From The Ballot In Arkansas
• Anthony ‘The Mooch’ Scaramucci Just Threw Trump Under The Bus Bigly On The Today Show 
• Fox News Host Embarrassed Live On Air When Panel Of Independent Voters Reject His Immigrant Caravan Demonizing 
• Facebook Purge of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning”: Top Neocon Insider 
• Anti-Media’s Purge From Social Media Discussed on Joe Rogan Podcast 
• The Trump Campaign Sent an Email Attacking CNN as the Network Was Responding to Bomb at Its Headquarters 
• This Alt-Right Group Sent Gov. Andrew Cuomo an Unsettling Package as Democrats Were Targeted with Explosive Devices 
• The View’s Meghan McCain Compares Bombs Targeting Democrats to Republicans Getting ‘Heckled at Restaurants' 
• Here's Why Trump’s Praise of Violence Against Reporters Should Concern Every American 
• West Virginia House Race Becomes a Coal Industry Proxy War, Pitting Executives Against Mine Workers.
• GA Sec. of State Kemp Caught on Tape Worried 'Everybody May Exercise Their Right to Vote': 'BradCast' 10/23/2018 
• How Washington unleashed fossil-fuel exports and sold out on climate 
• 'Important Victory' for Voting Rights as Judge Rules Georgia Must Stop Tossing Out Absentee Ballots 
• Despite Trump's Boasting of Strong Economy, 62% of Americans Report No Financial Improvement Since 2016 
• Why “Good Liberals” Won’t Save the Climate 
• The Occult Injustice of Laws Supporting Capitalism 

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The Politics of Concrete Operational Thinkers

Illinois Representative John Shimkus (R) may not have received "The Talk." You know, "The Birds and the Bees" lecture.

I'm waiting for legislation that will tax Storks.

• Washington Post: ‘Is that not correct?’: Male GOP lawmaker asks why men should pay for prenatal coverage
• The News-Gazette: Shimkus stands by remarks on men paying for prenatal care

What happens if we don't? Were you ever taught what happened in the past when we didn't pay for such things? 

Somewhere there must be a record of what inspired health, safety and environmental regulations, because in the U.S. legislation is reactive, not proactive. To see what conditions were like before Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, you only need to see the photos dating from the Great Depression all the way back through Jacob Riis to the Gilded Age.