Darrel Grattidge
@darrelgrattidge.bsky.social
Ex From X (Xodous November 2024) "There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sissyphus
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids clinches Democratic primary nomination, AP says | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids clinches Democratic primary nomination, AP says • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas won her primary against a liberal Democrat, according to the Associated Press.
kansasreflector.com
Kansas Democrats, Republicans firm up teams for statewide office contests | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas Democrats, Republicans firm up teams for statewide office contests • Kansas Reflector
Primary election results will bring few surprises for statewide offices, outside of a skirmish among Democrats for Secretary of State.
kansasreflector.com
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
Lost solar power due to smoke blocking the sun cost Europe and North America nearly $2 billion in 2023 alone
Canadian wildfires are reducing solar power generation in Europe | New Scientist
Lost solar power due to smoke blocking the sun cost Europe and North America nearly $2 billion in 2023 alone
newscientist.com
Reversing the Enlightenment to own the libs.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Todd Blanche’s nomination to formally lead the Department of Justice appears to be back on track after two Republican holdouts signed off on a deal giving President Donald Trump and his family immunity from Internal Revenue Service audits. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP senators sign off on corrupt immunity deal from IRS audits for Trump and sons
Todd Blanche appears to be on track to lead the DOJ after Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) agreed to the plan.
democracydocket.com
Spending deal freezes Trump proposal to gain power over federal grants, extends highway law | via @fischler.bsky.social #ksleg
Spending deal freezes Trump proposal to gain power over federal grants, extends highway law • Kansas Reflector
Leaders of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee announced a bipartisan deal over the weekend that would keep the federal government funded through Dec. 11 and pause the Trump administration’s effo...
kansasreflector.com
How is Texas AG Ken Paxton able to own a 5-bedroom, 3-story “modern luxury” Oklahoma lodge worth over $1.6 million on a $153K government salary? Asking for a friend who’s still waiting on that public servant lifestyle. 🤔
Opponents of Kansas judicial selection amendment have faced intimidation, gaslighting kansasreflector.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opponents of Kansas judicial selection amendment have faced intimidation, gaslighting • Kansas Reflector
An insular gang of rightwing reactionaries has spent the better part of two years rigging the judicial selection amendment vote.
kansasreflector.com
Most states temporarily house foster children in hotels, offices | via Robbie Sequeira #ksleg
Most states temporarily house foster children in hotels, offices • Kansas Reflector
More than 9,000 children in foster care had to temporarily stay in hotels, office buildings and other potentially unsafe settings when states couldn’t find suitable places for them, according to a new...
kansasreflector.com
Opinion from @maxmccoy.com: A decade after Obama’s historic Hiroshima trip, the world edges toward oblivion. Can we step away? #ksleg
A decade after Obama’s historic Hiroshima trip, the world edges toward oblivion. Can we step away? • Kansas Reflector
Thursday is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and we’re still struggling with the ability to annihilate ourselves.
kansasreflector.com
The typical home now costs $3,200 a month. You need at least $120,000 a year to afford it. Meanwhile, the median household income is $84,000. An entire generation under 30 is starting to believe a home and family will never happen for them.
The fight for free and fair elections is the challenge of our generation. I started Democracy Docket to help inform and guide that fight. It has no corporate investors or advertisers. It relies on you for free subscriptions and paid memberships. Join today. demdock.com/4w6emld
Commercial speech lawsuit to proceed against major Kansas pet food company | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Commercial speech lawsuit to proceed against major Kansas pet food company • Kansas Reflector
Part of a lawsuit accusing Hill's Pet Nutrition of false advertising to undermine competitors in the dog food business is revived by U.S. Court of Appeals.
kansasreflector.com
Trump administration rules out mass ICE enforcement at the polls in midterms | via Amelia Twyman #ksleg
Trump administration rules out mass ICE enforcement at the polls in midterms • Kansas Reflector
ICE isn't planning an aggressive campaign at voting sites during the upcoming midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday
kansasreflector.com
Light bulb conspiracies, why planned obsolescence is good for us, and that is the real screaming across the sky that was introduced to us by Thomas Pynchon. Yes, planned obsolescence is marketing genius. youtu.be/wZrmQbQGVQk?...
The lightbulb conspiracy is both real and everywhere
YouTube video by NPR Podcasts
youtu.be
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
A family of four now needs $178,000 to $301,000 a year to get by in America. Meanwhile, the median U.S. household only earns $83,730. The American Dream now requires an income most will never earn.
Fauci pleads the Fifth to COVID questions by US Sen. Rand Paul at intense hearing | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
Fauci pleads the Fifth to COVID questions by US Sen. Rand Paul at intense hearing • Kansas Reflector
Dr. Anthony Fauci declined to answer questions from a U.S. Senate committee in a tense and confrontational hearing.
kansasreflector.com
Opinion from Frances Graves: What I learned from serving on the Kansas Supreme Court nominating commission #ksleg
What I learned from serving on the Kansas Supreme Court nominating commission • Kansas Reflector
Serving gave me confidence in a system designed to evolve so that no single governor, administration or group permanently shapes its work.
kansasreflector.com
ICE attempt to keep witnesses to Houston ICE shooting detained begins to crack: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Judge orders ICE to release one of the witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado's shooting
A federal judge on Monday ordered U.S. immigration authorities to release Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, one of the witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's shooting.
houstonchronicle.com
Donald 'Kid Starver' Trump 🍪 🍽️ More than 1 million children have reportedly lost SNAP food benefits since Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill became law 😟 📉 New analysis found around 4 million Americans have dropped off the programme, with some states seeing chil... www.themirror.com/news/politic...
Trump bill causes over 1 million children to lose access to food benefits
President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill has forced over 4 million people off of SNAP benefits, with 1 million of those people being children
themirror.com
An entire generation is realizing that a home and family may never be within reach. That’s a system failure. And society isn’t ready for what happens when millions feel they have no future and no stake in the system.
