The Red states are trying to destroy public education because study after study shows that the more educated a person is the more likely it is they will vote for Democrats. Texas is a clear example of this Red state governance. Four of the 10 least educated metropolitan areas in the country are in Texas. But note something important, the one educated city in Texas is in the Blue controlled enclave of Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, which made it to the top 10 most educated metropolitan areas, coming in 10th.
A recent study by WalletHub looked at 150 of the largest metropolitan areas to examine the most and least educated cities in the U.S. The data researchers examined ranged from adults 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher, as well as the racial education gap and the quality of public schools.
The findings were sobering, to say the least, where four Texas cities made the top 10 for least educated.
Only one Texas metropolitan area, Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, made the top 10 most educated, coming in 10th.
Out of 150 cities, Corpus Christi and Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas were ranked 142 and 143, respectively. Then McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas was ranked 148th followed by Brownsville-Harlingen at 149.
Visalia, California, meanwhile took the title as the least educated city, while Ann Arbor, Michigan was named the most educated.
Out of 150 cities, Corpus Christi and Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas were ranked 142 and 143, respectively. Then McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas was ranked 148th followed by Brownsville-Harlingen at 149.
Visalia, California, meanwhile took the title as the least educated city, while Ann Arbor, […]
PATRICK SVITEK, Political Reporter - Texas Tribune
Stephan:
Texas is so corrupt you can openly bribe a Republican Lieutenant Governor who is overseeing the impeachment of a criminal Republican Attorney General. This level of corruption is becoming a major feature of Republican politics in the Red states they control. It amazes me that this goes on and conservative voters just yawn.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks to reporters during a June 13 news conference in the offices of Blakemore & Associates in Houston. Credit: Annie Mulligan / The Texas Tribune
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is presiding over the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton, received $3 million in campaign support last month from a top group campaigning against Paxton’s impeachment.
In a campaign-finance report published Tuesday, Patrick — who is not up for reelection until 2026 — reported a $1 million contribution and a $2 million loan from Defend Texas Liberty PAC. The political action committee was by far his biggest benefactor on the report, which covered Patrick’s fundraising from June 19-30. It was the first opportunity state officials had to fundraise since the House impeached Paxton in late May.
Patrick’s Senate has scheduled a trial to begin Sept. 5 to determine whether to permanently remove Paxton from office. Patrick has been acting as presiding officer of the trial — effectively the judge — and the fundraising period partially overlapped with the Senate’s deliberations over the trial rules. […]
The Republican controlled states are really committed to controlling women, as this article describes. What next, burkas? I hope all the women in those states are getting this, because it is only going to get worse for the women in those states. I been following the male dominant trend for 20 years now, and it has become clear to me that gender equality is existentially threatening to MAGAt males.
A police officer stands near a patrol vehicle equipped with a license plate reader. Credit: Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe / Getty
A report published Tuesday details how digital surveillance can be used by police and prosecutors to criminalize patients seeking abortion and gender-affirming healthcare outside their home states.
The report—entitledRoadblock to Care: Barriers to Out-of-State Travel for Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care—was authored by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group. The publication comes as Republican-controlled state legislatures pass a wave of abortion and gender-affirming healthcare bans, forcing people seeking such care to travel out of state.
“Surveillance doesn’t stop at the state line,” STOP executive director Albert Fox Cahn said in a statement. “Even as progressive states seek to protect abortion and gender-affirming care within our borders, anti-choice states are continuing to expand the threat that they will prosecute residents who leave the state to find evidence-based medical treatment.”
“It’s crucial for patients to understand the ways that their movements can be […]
Jonathan Alan King, Co-chair of the Board of Directors of Mass Peace Action - truthout
Stephan:
This is a story of greed. Eisenhower warned us and we didn’t pay attention. The Military Industrial Complex for decades has promoted arms races and war. Over the last 50 years we have seen it is so so profitable, even as it has distorted our culture in many bad ways. All in the service of greed. A candidate in the 24 election should be evaluated on where they stand about this attempt to create another arms race.
Air Force F-16s and South Korean F-35As escort two B-1B strategic bombers entering the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone on November 19, 2022. Credit: Air Force Senior Airman Megan Estrada / DoD
Manufacturing in China has long supported the relatively high standard of living of millions of U.S. residents while helping U.S. corporations profit handsomely. Apple, Tesla, General Motors, Nike, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm have significant manufacturing operations in China. Meanwhile the Chinese government invests in U.S. Treasury and government agency bonds, having purchased about a trillion dollars’ worth over the last decade.
Despite these benefits for the U.S. economy, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has stated that China remains the top challenge to U.S. national security interests. According to Assistant Defense Secretary Ely Ratner, major upgrades including new war ships and ballistic-missile submarines, attack helicopter squadrons, and an artillery division headquarters in the region will make U.S. forces more mobile, more distributed, more resilient and more lethal.
In his May 2023 testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Secretary Austin said the following:
JESSICA CORBETT, Senior Editor and Staff Writer - Common Dreams
Stephan:
American water coming out of a faucet is amongst the worse in the developed world. What kind of person is against people having clean water? Congressional Republicans apparently. Here is the sorry tale.
Water is redirected from a damaged water main break along McLaurin Road as workers try to figure out how to fix the broken pipe on December 29, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit: Joshua Lott / The Washington Post / Getty
The advocacy group Food & Water Watch on Thursday called out Republicans on a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee panel for pushing a 64% cut to a pair of federal clean water funds in the next fiscal year.
“House Republicans should be ashamed of themselves,” declared Mary Grant, the group’s Public Water for All campaign director, in a statement. “Their spending proposal threatens the very safety of our country’s water and wastewater systems for the sake of political showmanship.”
The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), on Thursday marked up a GOP appropriations bill for fiscal year 2024. A Republican fact sheet celebrates proposed “cuts to wasteful spending” and “claw-backs of prior appropriations,” highlighting that it “reins in” the Environmental Protection Agency, “limits […]
