Citizenship, the Census and Obama

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  19 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Memes circulating online claim that former President Barack Obama removed the citizenship question from the 2010 census”

Amazing how much the right wing republicans lie so much The Trump administration’s fight to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census was lost in June when the Supreme Court ruled that the administration had concealed the reason it sought to add the question. The majority ruled...

Rep. Ted Lieu: Trump Proves He’s A ‘Racist Ass’ With Attack On Congresswomen

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  77 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

“California Rep. Ted Lieu (D) blasted Donald Trump on Sunday, calling the president a “racist ass” for attacking his congressional colleagues by...”

California Rep. Ted Lieu (D) blasted Donald Trump on Sunday, calling the president a “racist ass” for attacking his congressional colleagues by urging them to “go back” to the countries they came from.  Trump fired off a barrage of tweets condemning ”‘Progressive’ Democratic...

‘This Is Designed to Shape the Electorate to Retain Political Power’ - CounterSpin interview with Steven Rosenfeld on gerrymandering

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Partisan gerrymandering, in which one party manipulates voting district maps to increase its power, is “incompatible with democratic principles.”

anine Jackson interviewed Steven Rosenfeld on the Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision for the July 5, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Partisan gerrymandering, in which one party manipulates voting district maps to increase its...

Betsy DeVos shows her true colors with effort to block help for disabled students

Via: Don Overton  •  Mental Health and Wellness  •  1 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 years ago

“For well over a year, DeVos has been blocking the implementation of the law designed to help disabled minority students despite repeated efforts by...”

The U.S. Department of Education’s various attempts to stall the implementation of federal regulations created by the Obama administration to address racial disparities in special education has blown up into a civil rights issue that continues to dog Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and team....

Thought for today

By: Don Overton  •  Citizenship  •  3 Comments  •  5 years ago

“A picture is worth more than a 1,000 words and this picture is 10x the worth”

if the republicans had their way they would only allow old rich white men citizenship.

Republicans Insult Sexual Assault Victims By Circling The Wagons To Defend Alex Acosta

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who has tried to claim she is a feminist in the past, ”

White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who has tried to claim she is a feminist in the past, told reporters Tuesday morning that Trump’s labor secretary Alex Acosta is doing a great job in the wake of the new Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking indictment. The unsealed indictment...

Thought for today

By: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  5 years ago  •  LOCKED

JUST “HIM AND EPSTEIN” AND “28 GIRLS”: FLORIDA MAN DROPS A DIME ON TRUMP

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

“Florida businessman George Houraney told the New York Times that the president’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein involved at least one “calendar...”

Donald Trump now says he’s “not a fan” of Jeffrey Epstein, a convenient way to feel about the disgraced financier in the aftermath of his 2008 conviction on soliciting underage girls for prostitution and his indictment Monday on charges of sex trafficking minors. (Epstein has pleaded not...

Trump and the Rise of 21st Century Fascism

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Wishing the danger would go away won’t make it so.”

AP Photo/John Minchillo President Donald Trump speaks during the 2018 Ohio Republican Party State Dinner in Columbus, Ohio When Donald Trump, enemy of the U.S. Constitution, first came to power, we were advised by the sages not to throw that “F” word around—you...

Be Prepared to Protect Yourself and Fight Back

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Once considered liberal and progressive, the Republican Party has been taken over by right-wing conservative con artists who lie, cheat and steal...”

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