6 thoughts on “Tuesday Open Thread”

1. There is a stink in Gilead.

   It comes from Donald Trump.

   Stay upwind, America!

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2. Garfield County really needs to break up the cabal that is their county commissioners. They're taking impact funds from oil/gas and instead of using the money to help their community which deals with the negative impacts of fossil fuel development every day, they're going to use it to try to warp the new state rules – in favor of oil and gas. As if the industry didn't have enough of their own funds to do this . . .

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   1. I appreciate the observation – I assume that all O&G producing counties did the same thing, but still

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   2. It’s shameful that they’re using funds to lobby, when those funds are meant to help protect public health by mitigating pollution in the middle of a respiratory disease pandemic. And they’re using the same threadbare arguments: 

      * what benefits the industry benefits the community.

      * this helps libraries, schools, and infrastructure. Yeah, right.

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3. Latest in voter suppression numbers: 

   From Adam Harris at the Atlantic:

   Black voters, on average, wait 45 percent longer to vote than white voters; Latino voters wait 46 percent longer.* One study, from the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, found that black and Latino voters in Florida were more than two times as likely to have their mail-in ballots rejected as white voters—because of a mix of voter error and how the state processes ballots. To leave that already flawed system unchanged in a pandemic is injurious, Aden said. “The failure to operate in the context that we’re in, which is a pandemic, and proactively use your resources to address the emergence of that: That is also a form of voter suppression.”​​​​​​​

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4. I don't care so much that he didn't take the SAT.

   I care that he committed fraud.

   I care that he hired someone and still didn't get 800/800.

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