mautamu

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Absolutely disgusting.

“If it was up to me, Election Day would be Election Day,” Proctor added. “There wouldn’t be early voting. Mail-in ballots would only be for military or severely disabled. But I got to bring 84 people with me, so I’m trying to chip away at it.”

According to testimony the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office provided to Proctor’s committee, 2,110 ballots were received after Election Day last November and counted. There were 603 ballots received after the grace period, and 104 ballots arrived after Election Day with no postmark.

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 23 points 1 month ago

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." - MLK Jr.

Your point around trying to keep the school boards on the right side of things is of paramount importance. Education is of paramount importance right now.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/28024792

Demand for abortion in Kansas skyrocketed by 58% during 2023 in response to near-total bans on the procedure in Missouri and Oklahoma and strict limits in other Midwest states.

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Thank goodness, glad we're on the good list for once!

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely! I get it if you're stocking up for weather disasters to a degree, but the number of folks who rely strictly on bottled water is too high. Seems that some combination of advertising + fear and convenience have made it too enticing to use single-use water bottles, though. ☹️

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

Agreed! It's absolutely insane what passes the public by these days; unfortunately, I think that the extremely fast residence time for anything in the news cycle is getting worse these days...

 

An interesting anecdote about how veganism is "becoming easier;" does anyone have any statistics to share about veganism that you find surprising / insightful?

 

Very fascinating find!

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thank goodness for the Lincoln Project! Maybe the bully in chief will eventually come to realize he's not in control here...

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 9 points 6 months ago

They still can; the day is still young...

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/15832268

The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street.

The right-wing war on knowledge continues to be a five-alarm fire for American (and world) Democracy and getting worse by the day...

 

The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street.

The right-wing war on knowledge continues to be a five-alarm fire for American (and world) Democracy and getting worse by the day...

 

Another sign of a broken system...

 

Reposting this image from r/Minnesota:.

A vote for Trump is a vote for the end of the BWCA as we know it; tailings and copper pollution from the mining would ruin the environment and be a drag on tourism.

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 12 points 7 months ago

A Heritage spokesperson told CyberScoop after publication that the organization was not “hacked.” Instead, the spokesperson said “an organized group stumbled upon a two-year-old archive of The Daily Signal website that was available on a public-facing website owned by a contractor. The information obtained was limited to usernames, names, email addresses, and incomplete password information of both Heritage and non-Heritage contributors, as well as article comments and the IP address of the commentor.”

At least they're admitting to being incompetent...

 

A call to action, to be sure.

 

What a total waste of tax money...

 
[–] mautamu@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely despicable! Thank you for summarizing all of these details, this story has such sprawl it's difficult to capture just how all the issues factor into one another anymore. Really hope that justice starts to play out in the long term, but I'm not convinced that will happen on account of the corruption emanating from the State; the Kansas Bureau of Investigation decided to involve CBI in the matter, indicating the rot likely permeates much of the state bureaucracy as well.

There's also the attempt to undermine Kansas' 2016 Open Records Act in preventing the release of pertinent communications by officials and court records during and shortly before the raid (which many anti-transparency activists in the Kansas GOP are trying to use to get rid of the KORA (1 and 2)).

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most definitely!

At least where I am, they're in the most uptown bougie strip mall they can get into; same situation with Whole Foods. Starting to shop exclusively at the two state-wide/local stores that don't have these issues, but wish more folks had access to quality local grocers who pay well and support unions.

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Haha thank you! The first time was definitely a very scary experience, I felt the same way you do now; hope that you're not too rattled and doing better now!

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes! I've had this before also; luckily was able to get in to see an optometrist who, after she ruled out retinal detachment, told me exactly what it was and said something to the effect of "next time it happens just sit back and enjoy the show".

Do not recommend either.

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