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Fewer green jobs, more anti-trans policy & other "open tabs" [1]
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Date: 2025-02-07
Pardon me while I close a few "open tabs" on the laptop heading into the weekend.
The Georgia Senate passed SB-1 , banning trans girls & women from scholastic & collegiate sports. Senator Kim Jackson (D-41) sought to soften the blow, a bit, by inserting an amendment to "require school districts ensure that boys’ and girls’ teams be given comparable funding, access to facilities, equipment and other accommodations.," thinking Republican supporters of the bill would sure be consistent with their rhetoric. They were not. The bill now moves to the House for consideration there.
Steve Bannon revealed, in a 2019 Frontline interview, the Trumpian 'flood the zone' effect, and - as MSNBC's Jen Psaki pointed out recently - it works. Hence my cautioning folks left of center against freaking out over issues that rattle their sensibilities that don't even emanate from the White House. The NFL's "end racism" switch-a-roo, for example. R-E-L-A-X. Bigger fish to fry.
Author and political historian Heather Cox Richardson noted Thursday night that the Trump administration is "gaming Google" to "create a mirage of mass deportations." She also pointed out that the GOP - since Reagan - has been spinning this yarn that the federal government has been "taking" tax dollars from white conservative voters and "trying to hand tax dollars and power to undeserving Black and Brown Americans, women, and LGBTQ+ Americans." Also that Trump's been targeting CBS and '60 Minutes' for selectively editing their interview with then-VP Kamala Harris (a lie - here it is ; watch for yourself).
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