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.

Just keeping this blog alive with some news links

I neglected this blog for a long time. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it because I thought 'Coffee Coup' was kind of clever, but it turns out that coffee producing countries are prime targets of some industrial force working behind the the U.S. government.

• Safety
  • Big Ag Fights to the Bitter End to Keep Pesticide From Being Banned
  • Federal Toxics Law Still Protecting the Chemical Industry’s Dirty Secrets
  • Secret outbreak investigation targeted packaged salads in April
• Politics
  • Obama Shreds Trump In Powerful Message To Graduates: ‘Ignorance Is Not A Virtue’ (VIDEO)
  • Ben Carson Accidentally Reveals Trump’s Top VP Choices And The List Will Leave You ROTFL
  • Ted Cruz (R – The Moon) leaves door open for restarting presidential bid
  • Internet excoriates Green Party’s Jill Stein for calling Hillary bad mom
• Employment
  • More Mexican Immigrants Are Returning to Mexico Than Coming to the U.S.
  • The Top 10 Best and Worst Cities to Start a Career
• Class Warfare
  • How Trump Brought the Republican Establishment to Its Knees
  • Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans
  • Caymans, Bermuda lash out at U.S. 'hypocrisy’ during anti-corruption summit
  • Rich people have access to high-speed Internet; many poor people still don't
  • Where broadband access is unequal
• The Police State
  • WATCH: Girl On Bike Brutally Beaten By Cops And Then SHE Is Charged With Assault
  • New York Gun License Broker Paid Off Cops To Approve Client Licenses
  • Twitter Should Refuse to Sell Your Tweets to Local Law Enforcement
  • Why Government Use of Social Media Monitoring Software Is a Direct Threat to Our Liberty and Privacy
  • VIDEO: Cops Brutalize Triple Amputee, Remove his Prosthetic Limbs, then Leave Him Stranded
• Empire
  • Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug
  • The Real Story of Our Decades-Long Foreign Policy Disaster That Set the Middle East on Fire
  • Venezuela Accuses US of Plotting Coup, Declares State of Emergency
  • At Break Free Protests Around the World, Climate Activists Put Bodies on the Line
  • The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World
  • CIA provided tip leading to Nelson Mandela's arrest and 27 year long imprisonment
• Sociopaths In The News
  • 5 Worst Right-Wing Moments This Week: Trump and Shkreli Induce Gagging
  • WATCH: Fox News' Vile Jesse Watters Gets Humiliated by the Very People He's Trying to Humiliate
  • Peter King: Women Will Vote For Trump If They're Worried About Their Kids Being Killed By Terrorists
  • WATCH: Ex-NC Lawmaker Rants About 'LGBTTQQIAA' Activists Ruining America