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As the current administration erases signs about women and LGBTQ+ people in national parks, Save Our Signs, a group of public historians and women librarians, are preserving their information. The creation of a crowdsourced historical record of information signs at national park sites comes from the fear that information will be lost. Over 500 items [ ]
Despot Donald Trump (DDT) has no bottom to his outrageous lies and other inappropriate statements: In a speech in Long Island (NY) about crime in the U.S., DDT said he will make the Strait of Hormuz, sharing jurisdiction by Iran and Oman, a U.S. territory, simply by a declaration. He didn’t explain the process. DDT [ ]
In Tuesday’s special election selecting over half Alabama’s primaries, only 5.4 percent of the voters participated after confusion amid few competitive races and schools reopening. The highest turnout for any race was 33,000 in the new GOP gerrymandered district to oust a Democratic incumbent. Alabama trashed May votes when it abruptly changed district boundaries in [ ]
It’s official: Francesca Hong, supported by almost $4 million from a camouflaged GOP PAC to sabotage a liberal win in the general election, lost Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary by 3,796 votes. Outgoing Gov. Tony Evers’ endorsement, David Crowley, will face off against Rep. Tom Tiffany, a strong Despot Donald Trump (DDT) ally who voted against [ ]
On a day with five big primaries and a GOP special election in South Carolina to replace deceased Sen. Lindsey Graham, a federal judge in Massachusetts again ruled against the anti-mail voting executive order by Despot Donald Trump (DDT), this time making it nationwide. Her order blocked the postal service from implementing DDT’s voter suppression [ ]
Last week’s lost 23,000 jobs report for June shows how bad Despot Donald Trump (DDT) administration hurts women. While 9,000 men gained jobs, 32,000 women lost them. Last month, 165,000 women exited the work force, either not working or not searching for a new job. Men in the labor force remained steady. The number of [ ]
Saturday’s post describing victories in U.S. democracy skipped an important one—the 21st win from 20 states and D.C. over the DOJ demand that they turn over all confidential information in voter registrations to the administration to use for disenfranchising people. In DDT’s 30 lawsuits, the department’s 0-21 rulings have all been declared unconstitutional because elections [ ]
In a bonus for democracy, members of both congressional chambers left D.C. for the next five weeks: The bad news: Todd Blanche was confirmed as DOJ AG in a 50-49 vote. One naysayer could have swung the vote, but both John Cornyn (TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) caved. Saying there s nothing we could do to [ ]
The “best economy in history,” according to Despot Donald Trump (DDT), lost 23,000 jobs in July, the sixth month with a job loss in DDT’s first 18 months of his second term with another decrease of 103,000 jobs in May and June. That means an average of 60,000 new jobs per month in DDT’s second [ ]
Tennessee: In Thursday’s primary, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), the choice of Despot Donald Trump (DDT), lost to former Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture Charlie Hatcher, by about six points in a solid red district. In the red district, Hatcher’s opponent raised almost four times as much for the November election. Tennessee’s Republican voters may tire of [ ]