(due to illness, resignation, or other factors like representing areas that are predominantly populated by black or brown people)
(There are currently six non-voting members of congress: a delegate representing the District of Columbia, a resident commissioner representing Puerto Rico, as well as one delegate for each of the other four permanently inhabited U.S. territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.)
He’s great at making enemies.
Maybe he’s trying to succeed in politics by trying to be some sort of leveled-up version of Trump?
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Seven months after teachers at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, went public with their concerns about an administrator’s advice to balance books on the Holocaust with titles that show “opposing” perspectives, district employees this week discovered that a new clause had been added to their annual employment contracts, listed under the heading: “Non-Disparagement.”
“You agree to not disparage, criticize, or defame the District, and its employees or officials, to the media,” it read.
Today’s Popular Information newsletter was good, as always.
Fuck the Chamber of Commerce. And Anthem. And the rest of them funding the RSLC.
In case you don’t feel like reading it, the summary is RSLC is basically the pipeline manager for getting fascist crazies into down ballot R positions. They financially rewarded a bunch of FL and NC republicans (and others) after passing anti-LGBTQ laws and voter suppression laws, and, for the hat-trick, anti-reproductive freedom. The newsletter highlights what corporations put on their public feeds versus where they put their money, and it’s predictable, but still infuriating.
That’s also an anti-union attack.
What I was looking for was the head of this RSLC snake:
Seeing Reince Priebus, Karl Rove, and Christine Toretti on the board (among a cast of known conservative clowns) was depressing, too.
Huh? So much there, but he also doesn’t seem to know that the analogy to berthing a ship would imply the baby is put back into the womb.
It’s kind of satisfying that this guy is an example of the best speakers they can get for these events. Until I consider that a large portion of the audience is eating this drivel right up. 
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“When the allegations became public — largely because of the legislative ethics investigation — Doe faced unrelenting harassment from some of von Ehlinger’s supporters. Her name, photo and personal details about her life were repeatedly publicized in “doxxing” incidents.
One of the people who frequently harassed her was in the courthouse to attend the trial, but law enforcement banned the man from the floor where where case was being heard.“
The list of scandals involving evangelical figures and institutions was long enough when Du Mez wrote her book, but it has grown even longer since. In the past few weeks, celebrity pastors at Hillsong Church have been accused of preying on women and have resigned from their jobs; a renowned pastor, John MacArthur, has been accused of protecting a pedophile who was in leadership in his family of churches; and top former editors at Christianity Today magazine have been accused of sexual harassment in the workplace.
Other scandals in recent years include the extensive sexual misconduct allegations against Ravi Zacharias, who was celebrated by evangelicals until his death in 2020 as one of the great champions of the Christian faith. After his death, however, it was reported that he abused his power to solicit and pressure at least 200 women for sexual favors. The Southern Baptist Convention has faced turmoil over the Houston Chronicle’s revelations in 2019 that church officials routinely swept allegations of sexual abuse under the rug.
A culture that considered male authority not just as important but as a central pillar of the Christian faith itself led to patterns of protecting abusers and minimizing the effect of their actions on victims, who were usually women and children, Du Mez writes.
Again I have to wonder how many of these scandals we’re reported by the media. It’s more difficult for these abusers to stay in power when their deeds are made public. If news about the crimes being committed by leaders of these organizations got as much coverage as their conspiracy theories and partisan lies, they might not have enough followers or donors to affect pols.
