Concealed-carry firearms in Kentucky Schools?
Are the lawmakers supporting this making good-faith arguments? You be the judge.
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Are the lawmakers supporting this making good-faith arguments? You be the judge.
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made this last decade and even more so in the last year is believing that listening to Trump voters — friends and family, but also strangers — would bring us to a mutual truth. That listening would make a difference. That I would learn from
Kentucky lawmakers need to focus on priorities for our citizens, not dangerous, unnecessary laws that pander to lawmakers' vanity and the president.
Fast-tracking bills hurts democracy
I am thinking about Renee Good’s dog because my heart hurts too much to think directly about the totality of her unnecessary death.
Repubs are fighting the Alphabet Wars (DEI, CRT, etc.) instead of making things better for Kentuckians
Creating rage bait by posting performative videos and/or misleading information to get attention is destroying our personal relationships and communities.
Making “jokes” about women is a pattern in the Kentucky Republican Party.
School shooting preparedness is a multibillion dollar industry.
This is how childishly small — how petty — grown men, your elected representatives, can be.
With a hat tip to Melani Sanders' "We Do Not Care Anymore Club"
During a government shutdown, as the Trump administration illegally withholds SNAP benefits from the poor, our privileged electeds are still having their fun.
Americans claim to be exceptional. We are anything but. We may not even be just good.
A county GOP chairperson in Kentucky posted a racist video. No one is surprised.
Whether it be a Cardinal or a President, the job of the news media is to hold the powerful to account without fear or favor.