I tried muting the State of the Union Address on Twitter. It didn’t work. The inanities that leaked through confirm I was right to make the attempt. That list of shame again:
- Abortion
- Climate crisis
- COVID-19
- Evictions: National/Pennsylvania (rental assistance money seems finally to be being distributed, temporarily easing this threat[1])
- Gun nuttery
- Health care
- Infrastructure (specifically, the
$3.5sub-$2 trillion reconciliation package, now dubbed Build Back Better) - Minimum wage
- Unemployment
- Voting rights
- White supremacist gangs (police)
I’m going to bed.
Pittsburgh
Infrastructure
Megan Tomasic, “Potholes are wreaking havoc again, leaving drivers swerving and road crews scrambling,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review< March 1, 2022, https://triblive.com/local/regional/potholes-are-wreaking-havoc-again-leaving-drivers-swerving-and-road-crews-scrambling/
Abortion
Please do tell me again what the fuck the Democrats are good for:
Democrats fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to bring the Women’s Health Protection Act to the floor for consideration after the House last September passed it on a narrow party-line vote. One Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, joined all Republicans in opposition to beginning debate on the measure.[2]
Carl Hulse, “Republicans Block Abortion Rights Measure in Senate,” Washington Post, February 28, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/politics/abortion-rights-measure-senate.html
Pennsylvania
Marijuana
Harold Brubaker, “Pa. medical marijuana sellers offer advice on weed legalization at Senate hearing,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1, 2022, https://www.inquirer.com/business/weed/weed-legalization-pennsylvania-senate-hearing-regan-20220301.html
- [1]Chris Arnold, “Evictions rising even as rental help from Congress reaches millions of people,” National Public Radio, November 11, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1053540080/evictions-rising-even-as-rental-help-from-congress-reaches-millions-of-people↩
- [2]Carl Hulse, “Republicans Block Abortion Rights Measure in Senate,” Washington Post, February 28, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/politics/abortion-rights-measure-senate.html
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