cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21457570

The Flat Earther next door: These are the US states with highest share of conspiracy theorists

Another sign of a broken system...

A call to action, to be sure.

What a total waste of tax money...

Makes you very happy to see this!

Absolutely ridiculous...

A work vehicle bearing the saying that supports a white supremacist group was spotted in Hutchinson and reported to social media.

The slogan, according to the ADL, was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13826334

A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to silence the paper and causing the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother. 

The lawsuit did not include a specific figure for potential damages. However, in a separate notice to local officials, the paper and its publisher said they believe they are due more than $10 million.

The lawsuit from the Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating free press rights and the right to be free from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also notified the defendants that Meyer and the newspaper plan to add other claims, including that officials wrongly caused the death of Meyer’s mother the day after the raids, which the lawsuit attributes to a stress-induced heart attack.

Glad to see Kansas doing this and trying to bring some transparency back to the statehouse!

Crooked cop couldn't remember the Miranda Rights and threw a pizza party to celebrate... This story gets worse with every new revelation.

Suggesting that lead paint in water is of trivial importance is cartoonishly evil

Unfortunately, the oil-funded NIMBY scourge continues...

At this point, we really ought to be shouting about this from every rooftop in the country.

The ghouls are back at it again with the flat tax proposal. Infuriating that they keep bringing this up; Laura Kelly and the handful of reasonable Republicans need to stand their ground. Please contact your state senators and representatives today!

I really like Laura Kelly's takes here; glad to see that the looming water crisis, education crisis, and rural hospital shutdowns are taking center stage in her budget. Hopefully the Republicans are willing to support these measures as well, and even better if they drop the idiotic flat-tax proposal and school vouchers proposal they put forward perennially at this point...

Always interesting how some aspects of global heating go acknowledged by republicans while others do not...

see also: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/senators-own-up-to-1-2-million-in-big-oil-stocks/

Kansas GOP 🤝 Ohio GOP "We know better than you!"

Good to see a responsive governor willing to take ownership for things under her watch! Wish more politicians would grow to be even half the person Laura Kelly is

Will be interesting to see if Laura Kelly and Steve Morris can bring Kansas to moderate positions.