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It appears it is that time of election season again. Everyone is settling into the reality that a choice is upon them, do they vote, who to vote for, does it matter? I’ve always had a Mark Twain kind of take on that last question. To paraphrase the great
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The Return of the Obama’s Michelle Obama delivered perhaps the best speech of the campaign season and Barack Obama took to the stage to usher in hope and change. Lurking in the background is the inadequacy of their politics and how ultimately it helped deliver Donald Trump. Barack Obama
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Democrats gather in Chicago to officially nominate Kamala Harris and begin the 2024 campaign in gusto. Night one is behind us and looking back, there might be some signs of things to come hidden in the festivities. AOC is Going to be a Senator Someday AOC had a primetime speaking
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Joe Biden was the weakest candidate Democrats have never almost nominated. Long touted as the only answer to Trump until just days ago it felt inevitable that Joe Biden going up against that very same opponent was essentially walking into a meat grinder. Joe Biden did the smart thing and
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Idaho is a canary in the coal mine for the reactionary shift in the Republican Party. Idaho has been on the cutting edge of far right extremism since at least the Ruby Ridge incident and what used to be relegated to an oddity of North Idaho has become the driving
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This week Idaho passed a bill bringing back the firing squad for state executions and the governor subsequently signed the bill into law. In my opinion there really isn’t anything extra morally egregious about the bill compared to lethal injection or other methods used by the state to murder
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As I close in on my second year as a public defender in North Idaho, the idea that crime is something that is done to people keeps coming back to me. And more specifically the idea that criminalization is a process that is done to people. We are taught to
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An Illinois state court declared that the state’s SAFE-T act could not go forward to the extent it was set to abolish cash bail with the new year. The reform wasn’t even set to be that monumental after significant carve outs retained judge’s right to detain people
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Today organizers with the Amazon Labor Union and Starbucks Workers United met with Joe Biden. And Amazon Labor Union leader Chris Smalls testified to the Senate, sparring with the likes of Lindsey Graham and making the case that workers make it all (corporate America) happen. Later organizers had the opportunity
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The Democratic Party is up in arms about the leaked draft memo from the Supreme Court which states clearly that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. It’s a vicious attack on the fundamental rights of millions of people in this country so that makes sense, but it’s all
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A draft opinion from February in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked detailing the conservative court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The Court was very explicit, “we hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of