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

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8358951

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

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...

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8284923

Key Takeaway:

"In defending itself against union busting allegations, Trader Joe’s fired a cannon ball that could sink the ship of modern American labor law.

The grocery store chain is arguing that the federal agency prosecuting it for unfair labor practices — including giving union workers worse retirement benefits and barring workers from wearing union pins at work — is unconstitutional."

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!

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8045144

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...

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...

The taste of champagne as we know it could change beyond recognition in the coming years. As global temperatures continue to rise, the climate crisis poses a threat to the production of wine.

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/