The Arizona Republican Party’s Anti-Democracy Experiment – The New York Times

The aggressive takeover of the Arizona G.O.P. by its far-right wing was made manifest on primary night earlier this month, when a slate of Trump-endorsed candidates — the gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, the U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters, the state attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh and the secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem — all prevailed. As a group, they maintain that the 2020 election was stolen, have promoted conspiracy theories about Covid and have vowed to protect Arizona’s schools from gender ideology, critical race theory and what McCarthyites denounced 70 years ago as “godless communism.” They have cast the 2022 election as not just history-defining but potentially civilization-ending. As Lake told a large crowd in downtown Phoenix the night before the primary: “It is not just a battle between Republicans and Democrats. This is a battle between freedom and tyranny, between authoritarianism and liberty and between good and evil.” A week later, in response to the F.B.I.’s executing a search warrant at Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Lake posted a statement on Twitter: “These tyrants will stop at nothing to silence the Patriots who are working hard to save America.” She added, “America — dark days lie ahead for us.” Far from offering an outlier’s view, Lake was articulating the dire stance shared by numerous other Republicans on the primary ballot and by the reactionary grass-roots activists who have swept them into power.

Whether that viewpoint is politically viable in a swing state is another question.

Inaccurate maps are delaying the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s broadband funding | Engadget (Me: arrgh!!! Speed up!)

Following a contractor dispute, the FCC will publish its latest maps sometime in mid-November. Once they’re available, both consumers and companies will a chance to challenge the agency’s data. As a result of that extra step, funding from the broadband plan likely won’t begin making its way to ISPs until the end of 2023, according to one analyst The Journal interviewed.

 

“We understand the urgency of getting broadband out there to everyone quickly,” Alan Davidson, the head of the Commerce Department unit responsible for allocating the funding, told the Journal. “We also know that we get one shot at this and we want to make sure we do it right.”

 

Source: Inaccurate maps are delaying the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s broadband funding | Engadget

♫ Fortunate Son ♫

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Well, it seems I forgot to do a music post last night.  I woke this morning with a vague sense of something not quite right, something I was supposed to do, but it was almost 11:00 before it hit me that what I had forgotten was a music post!  I truly think senility is setting in!  Anyway, I had CCR in my mind, so I went in search of one I hadn’t played for a while that I could get on the schedule in under an hour, and this one jumped up and said, “Me … Me … Pick ME!!!!”  And so, I give youFortunate Son”!


The song was released in 1969, at the height of the war in Vietnam and the stateside protests against our role in it.  It soon became an anti-war movement anthem; an expressive symbol of the counterculture’s opposition to U.S. military involvement in the…

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Alexey Navalny moved to solitary confinement — Meduza

It’s only 3 days so far, but in the middle of September I have a visit from my relatives, which I am supposed to have once every 4 months. No visits are allowed to those in the SHU, so they say that unless I “reconsider my attitude”, it will become my permanent residence.

Source: Alexey Navalny moved to solitary confinement — Meduza

Jolly Monday — Food, Fun, and QUOKKAS!!!

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Good Monday morning, dear friends!  Are you ready to face the week head-on, to meet all those challenges that are out there just waiting for you?  Yeah … me too … let’s all just go back to bed.  But, since we can’t do that, let’s have a little snack and some fun stuff to fortify us for the week ahead, shall we?  Joyful has been working in the kitchen for a while now, so let’s go see what she’s got for us …

    


You might remember that I love quokkas, those cute little critters that are mostly found in Australia.  I came across some fun quokka memes and pictures that brought a smile to my face and I thought you might enjoy them, too!



I found some funny ‘toons for you guys … I hope you like ’em …


Here are a few things to jog your…

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‘Homegrown’ Vaccines: Monash Uni to House Moderna’s Only mRNA Facility in the Southern Hemisphere

The deal is between the Australian government, the Victorian government and Moderna. Under the agreements, an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility will be built at Monash University. Moderna will also establish its headquarters and a Regional Research Centre in Victoria. Source: ‘Homegrown’ Vaccines: Monash Uni to House Moderna’s Only mRNA Facility in the Southern Hemisphere

Why Wagner Group Is Snatching Children From Their Mothers in the Central African Republic

“I counted up to 20 children in a gold mine controlled by Russian fighters near Bambari [in the central part of the country],” Sylvestre, a 27-year-old artisanal miner based in Bambari, told The Daily Beast. “One of those I saw is someone here in Bambari whose mother had said he had been kidnapped by Russian soldiers.”

“Children are now being brought into gold mines as workers while established artisanal miners are chased away, or killed, by these Russian soldiers,” said Sylvestre, who—like other miners residing in CAR—The Daily Beast is choosing to identify by his first name to protect him from possible retribution.

A number of locals who live in mining communities across the restive Central African Republic told The Daily Beast that children have also been taken from communities by Wagner mercenaries. Three of them said they have spoken to family members who claimed the Russians had driven the kids into mining areas and made them work in open-pit mines where they use shovels and sieves to scour the red earth for diamonds by the very group accused of abducting them.

“The sad thing is that many of these children were kidnapped and their family members are still crying to have them back,” a former rebel with the notorious Union for Peace (UPC) told The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity. “We have identified some of them and the good thing is that their families now know that they are still alive.”

Source: Why Wagner Group Is Snatching Children From Their Mothers in the Central African Republic

Minbari Mondays: Two Lessons “Atonement” (B5:s4e9) Teaches On Transportation — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

1.) Marcus is the very entertaining model of a modern major general, on a new form of semi-public transit! 2.) We do not have to atone for our multi-racial heritages.  But we do have to transport our ways of thinking to a higher level. Ivanova is still Drazi leader on the station, and Lenier […]

Minbari Mondays: Two Lessons “Atonement” (B5:s4e9) Teaches On Transportation — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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