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Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia’s Legislature, but they agree on one thing: Too few of their ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 11:55 AM PDT
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On Wednesday, December 28th, 2023 one of the last Confederate monuments in Jacksonville, FL was removed. What makes this more signifcant than the other Confederate monument removals in the recent past is this one was not done in the pre-dawn hours...
by DuvalDem
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 06:43 PM PST
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Hi all, Seth Levi here from SPLC Action Fund, the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Over the summer, I wrote several posts about why we thought the Mississippi Democratic candidate for Governor Brandon Presely had a very real shot...
by vonLevi
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 08:47 AM PST
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Well there are a few things about the South people like. The south is not about all bad things. Politically, it is by far a mess but on the good side, there are reasons people love the south. I am told I am a true southerner but with a New York...
by Vetwife
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on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 02:52 PM PDT
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“Thank God for Mississippi.” That’s been a standard refrain from officials used to defend their states’ national education rankings. The South in general has been a punching bag for those who wouldn’t own up to their own deficiencies. Well, they can’t...
by RickElia
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on Sat Jun 03, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Happy Friday! Bit is off today, so we’ll be going for groceries. She’s also doing her course for the FHA loan today.� Things are moving along for the house. The inspection went very well, we got ...
by FloridaSNMOM
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
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Workers at Blue Bird Corp. in Fort Valley, Ga., launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance and a voice on the job. The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them. But they stood together, believed in...
by Tom Conway
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on Wed May 24, 2023 at 08:23 AM PDT
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Virginia was the Old Confederacy’s seat of government, but I think of Georgia as the Modern South’s heart. It’s where General Sherman made his infamous scorched-earth March to the Sea, and regional resentments die hard. From 1872 until 2003, Georgia...
by dratler
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on Wed Dec 07, 2022 at 12:09 AM PST
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Firsts across the country just keep on coming: In Louisiana, Gary Chambers Jr. not only wants to be the first Black senator in the state, but wants to better the state’s health, education, infrastructure, and economy to increase the state’s rank. “When...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Apr 19, 2022 at 11:12 AM PDT
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Mt. Pleasant, SC, USA- Representatives in the SC Legislature have introduced four bills to gut public education here, with the hope of eliminating “social and emotional education.” They hope to empower individual parents to excise whatever they object...
by wjhamilton29464
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on Wed Mar 09, 2022 at 11:36 AM PST
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Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokesperson under Mike Pompeo, wants to be a congresswoman in Tennessee’s 5th District. The problem is, she knows less than nothing about the district she’s running in. When Ortagus showed up to Nashville’s...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 06:05 AM PST
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Go down the line of elected officials in Mississippi, from local offices to US senators, and you’ll find one Republican after the next. It’s not one of the sunbelt states like Texas or Georgia that has been creeping towards turning blue for a decade...
by Blue Tuesday
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on Fri Jan 21, 2022 at 09:23 AM PST
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Last week, I was visiting with two of my very young nieces, Bella and Tiffany (not their real names), seven and five (very nearly six), respectively. Tiffany tugged at my shirt sleeve as she told me that Santa had visited their school just that...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Dec 23, 2021 at 07:00 AM PST
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by Pickly
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on Wed Nov 17, 2021 at 07:00 AM PST
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Tennessee state Sen. Frank Niceley has been around for a while. He’s the kind of special scumbag that supports big government subsidies for guns but opposed his own Republican governor’s deal to expand health care coverage to Tennesseans back in 2015....
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Oct 21, 2021 at 04:07 PM PDT
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Welcome to another recap of The Brief! Joining hosts Markos Moulitsas and Cara Zelaya this week were guests Marcus Bass, deputy director for the North Carolina Black Alliance, and La’Meshia Whittington, the organization’s campaigns director. The Black...
by Dorothy He
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on Wed Oct 13, 2021 at 05:05 AM PDT
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This story � was originally published at � Prism .
Watching Alabama workers mount one of the “ largest and most ...
by Tina Vasquez
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on Mon Jul 19, 2021 at 08:30 AM PDT
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The presumptive front runner for Alabama’s soon-to-be vacant Senate seat in 2022 is current U.S. House Representative Morris Jackson “Mo” Brooks. You may recall Brooks from the riot of January 6, where he spoke at the rally immediately preceding the...
by cabaretic
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on Sun Mar 21, 2021 at 10:50 AM PDT
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The Real World, first introduced to the public on MTV in 1992, owns the distinction of being the very first reality television show. To celebrate, the network, which curiously no longer plays music videos, has pulled together the original cast after...
by cabaretic
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on Wed Mar 10, 2021 at 03:55 PM PST
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IF the 1980s television show “Dukes Hazards” resident bad guy, Jefferson Davis “J.D.” Hogg also known as Boss Hogg, was a real person —he would be George Ervin “Sonny” Perdue III also known as Sonny, the current Secretary of the United States...
by Teex Lo
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on Wed Dec 30, 2020 at 07:00 AM PST
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