Cattylibrarian

@cattylibrarian.bsky.social

Retired librarian, cat mom, book lover, weather geek. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

All the communities fighting back against ICE concentration camps are using the “red tape” requirements under NEPA to hold the line. If this passes, those camps are sure to open. Tomorrow morning: call your senators and demand they to vote NO on BAAJA.

Erik Schlenker-Goodrich@riogranderift.bsky.social · 5d ago

A vote is set for tomorrow, Mon. 11/9 on BAAJA, a 494 page bill authored in the R-controlled Senate. It would slash bedrock laws under the pretext they are “red tape.” “But these laws are not red tape. They are the core of a healthy democracy that respects people and place.”

Next year, the United States will be the only country in North America without universal healthcare, even though we have the most money. We are a country with *very* messed-up priorities. We focus on providing to those who need the least--instead of the least who need the most.

The United States is set to become much more racially and ethnically diverse — and at a faster pace than recent decades — as the white population begins to decrease in absolute terms in counties in every region of the country.bit.ly/4z2QzDq

What Census Data Says About America’s Changing Counties

As the country ages and birthrates fall, updated data from the Census Bureau points to a country changing in profound and unprecedented ways.

brennancenter.org

Trump went to Mississippi eight days before the election to prop up Cindy Hyde-Smith. Scott Colom is still ahead. His lead has grown with almost every new batch of votes. A state Trump won by 20 points is too close to call.

Trump Put His Name On Everything This Week. Look How That Went.

America’s first Black woman governor-elect beat Trump’s billionaire. Plus: Mississippi’s count, the 20,000 ballots Trump couldn’t touch, and what a judge did to his arch.

dworkinsubstack.com

They approved Trump’s 250-foot arch. Fourteen days later a federal judge blocked all construction and called the national security excuse a “belated and unsupported assertion.” Georgia. Mississippi. California. The arch. One edition:

Trump Put His Name On Everything This Week. Look How That Went.

America’s first Black woman governor-elect beat Trump’s billionaire. Plus: Mississippi’s count, the 20,000 ballots Trump couldn’t touch, and what a judge did to his arch.

dworkinsubstack.com

Ball: If you want to call James Talarico a moderate, and then you go and look at what he’s saying and it sounds exactly like Bernie Sanders, good. It’s true. It is the moderate position. That is accurate.

Jayapal: If he wants to keep on his path to self-destruction, he is certainly on the right path with Stephen Miller as his chief of staff.