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Please get involved, or find a way to support those fighting to stop voter suppression legislation, in your own state:
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michigan-republicans-governor-veto-voter-restrictsions
The petition process would require Republicans get more than 340,000 signatures, the Detroit News said. If they met that threshold, the proposal would become law, circumventing a veto from the governor.
Am I reading this right, if you get signatures from 3% of Michigan voters, it becomes law without a vote?
Iām pretty sure you could get 340,000 people in Detroit to sign their name to a law abolishing the Republican partyā¦
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I suspect that is the threshold to get the measure on the ballot, surely.
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I would have thought. Given that all of their current pro-voting legislation comes from propositions voted for overwhelmingly by the populace, I donāt imagine theyād think this would work using that.
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Itās something.
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@anon48584343 A man arrested and charged Friday over his alleged actions at the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol attempted to flee to Switzerland
@bryan Couldnāt get a direct flight to Moscow?
Probably following in the footsteps of his revolutionary forebears. Not sure the Russians will fall for that a second time, though.
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Seems to be working so far.
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Anthime Gionet, the prominent white nationalist personality known as āBaked Alaska,ā has asked a federal judge to remove a GPS monitor heās been wearing since his arrest for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, saying he ādoes not come from a background of violenceā and loves police.
not sure which is worse, to be honest.
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Well, he can say it. And I can say that Iām Mary, Queen of Scots.
After police announced the disbanding of the far-right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, the live stream chat room of the āalt-rightā writer Baked Alaska was flooded with calls to kill Jews, black people and counter-protesters.
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No civil forfeiture for these people?
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Strange that weāre somehow unable to take all these peopleās assets through civil forfeiture, nor hold them indefinitely without bail. And yet, somehow we are able to do that for other people. I wonder if thereās some difference that Iām missing.
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I thought I saw an old teacher in the crowd, and today had to file a police report after someone got violent on my way home.
These dipshits are asking for real trouble, it scares me, I donāt like getting angry.
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Embattled right-wing social media firm Parler infamously promises its users a laissez-faire approach to āfree speechā on its service. As the company now tells Congress, however, Parler apparently does warn federal authorities when it discovers certain kinds of violent content on its platformāand users who flock to the site for its anything-goes attitude are mad.
Apparently, users were not mollified. āSnitches get stitches or end up in ditches,ā one user replied.
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Did the FBI eventually get those postcards?
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Republicans regularly employ grievance politics and divisive rhetoric as a mask for the lack of a policy platform and their deeply unpopular economic agenda. Racism and divisive rhetoric is used as a tool, with sometimes deadly consequences, to divide a multiracial coalition calling for representation, while the GOP elites rig the system to benefit themselves.
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Do we still have to use āallegedlyā in this case?
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