NBC NEWS: Critics say he runs an ‘open dictatorship.’ Why is Viktor Orbán a star with the GOP?

Critics say he runs an ‘open dictatorship.’ Why is Viktor Orbán a star with the GOP?
“The reason that Orbán keeps winning is he has the control of a dictator,” said one political scientist. “So the question is, what are the Republicans in it for?”

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Staying Cool …

Again Ten Bears has posted some valuable information on climate change and global warming. I had no idea that the US used so much electrical power in just air conditioning. I love that there is so much innovation in the works. Hugs.

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The Economist, people, not some hippy rag

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SLATE: “Christian Nationalism” Used to Be Taboo. Now It’s All the Rage.

“Christian Nationalism” Used to Be Taboo. Now It’s All the Rage.
A scholarly term for people who want the U.S. to be governed as an explicitly Christian nation has been reclaimed by those who once rejected it.

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Conspiracy Theory: a brief history …

Hello Ten Bears. A grand video. Thank you. I love the history and the information presented which explains how / why conspiracies are so attractive to people. Hugs

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The more things change the more they stay the same

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Report: GOP Has A Plan For Young Voters, People of Color, and Unmarried Women

Again Tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has posted valuable information on ways the RNC / Republicans plan to restrict voting and harass voters even more. Not content with the damage they have already done, they plan to continue their obstruction to people casting ballots right to the voting stations during the voting itself. Please read the post and as always enjoy the comments. Hugs

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For those of you who tsk-tsk your host (that would be me, ya mugs) for exaggerating that the GOP is a thing of evil from top to bottom and are planning on cheating to create a fascist authoritarian dystopia and must be (electorally) destroyed, I enter into evidence:

The Republican National Committee has been relying on a stable of the party’s most prolific spreaders of false stolen-election theories to pilot a sweeping “election integrity” operation to recruit and coach thousands of poll workers in eight battleground states, according to new recordings of organizing summits held this spring in Florida and Pennsylvania obtained by POLITICO.

Yup, their train-the-trainers effort is for liars to train liars how to lie.

On the tapes, RNC National Election Integrity Director Josh Findlay repeatedly characterizes the committee’s role as supporting in-state coalitions — delivering staff, organization and “muscle” in key states to the person they…

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$2,245.62 a second: ExxonMobil scores enormous profit on record gas prices

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/energy/exxonmobil-chevron-earnings/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/north-carolina-police-resign-black-city-manager-reaj/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/north-carolina-police-resign-black-city-manager-reaj/index.html

POLITICO: Justice Alito mocks foreign critics of Supreme Court abortion ruling

Justice Alito mocks foreign critics of Supreme Court abortion ruling
The conservative justice made the comments during a surprise visit as a keynote speaker at a religious freedom conference in Rome.

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Declare a Climate Emergency …

Thank you Ten Bears for posting this. We really have to understand what a real life crisis this is not just for the US but the world. This is the only place so far that we can live, we really need to stop destroying the habitat we need to live here. Hugs

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Quit fiddle-fucking around

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THE GUARDIAN: Texas lawmakers test how far their threats against abortions can reach

Texas lawmakers test how far their threats against abortions can reach
Letters warning of felony charges for firms who offer funds could set up a showdown over constitutional rights

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