Today the Republican Party voted for a christofascist to become Speaker of the House. The MAGAts now control the House. And here is an example of the kind of person they are putting forward at the state level for governor. There can be no question that the Republican Party is now openly against democracy, against women having the right to control their own body, against same sex marriage, against anything having to do with the LGBTQ community. Do you want to live in the world the Republicans have in mind?
Christofascist Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson. Credit: Anthony Crider / Flickr
Lieutenant governor of North Carolina and a leading Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, quoted Hitler and downplayed the Holocaust in an unearthed Facebook post, according to a new report.
Robinson has a long history of regurgitating antisemitic conspiracy theories and downplaying of the Holocaust, according to Jewish Insider. But at a press conference two weeks ago, he denied that he is antisemitic.
Robinson said his past social media posts had been dealt with and he had “moved past” them.
But he has been hit with new accusations that, in a Facebook post, he quoted Hitler and suggested the horror of the Holocaust wasn’t as bad as the abuses of communism. He also compared the removal of Confederate statues to anti-Jewish pogroms in 1930s Europe, the Jewish Insider reported.
“We often speak of the ‘appeasement’ of Hitler. But the biggest ‘appeasement’ of ALL TIME is how we turned a blind eye to the clear and present danger […]
Further evidence that we are becoming two very different countries in a single nation one, the Republican Red states, increasingly inferior to the Democrat Blue States. Poorer healthcare, higher maternal mortality, increased child poverty, inferior education, and the list goes on. If this continues for another decade, choosing which state to live in, will become a major decision with all kinds of implications.
People gather for a rally organized by LGBTQ youth and adults in opposition to Senate Bill 150 and also to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 31, 2022. Credit: Silas Walker / Lexington Herald-Leader / Tribune News / Getty S
In Florida and Kentucky, teachers are struggling under the weight of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ education laws in the country. And some of them are leaving — either their profession or their state.
Nick Clarkson, a transgender man who has been teaching for 13 years, resigned last month from the New College of Florida after the college voted to eliminate the gender studies program where he taught.
Policies enacted this year by the state’s board of education, or signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, would keep Clarkson from telling students the pronouns that match his gender identity — which he’s used for all of his adult life — and from being able to use the correct restroom on campus.As policies started going into effect this summer, the surreal new reality of being a […]
Here is further evidence of my two countries in one nation hypothesis. It also illustrates that Republicans care more about their ideology than they do the wellbeing of the citizens of their states. This is going to have all manner of negative implications
The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee Republican leaders are escalating their calls to reject millions of federal dollars rather than comply with requirements over LGBTQ fairness policies. Credit: The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — Tennessee Republican leaders are escalating their calls to reject millions of federal dollars rather than comply with requirements over LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access and other hot-button issues.
Already this year, the Volunteer State has rebuffed federal funding designed to prevent and treat HIV and money that would help clinics serving low-income women. Now, GOP lawmakers are talking about cutting off nearly $1.8 billion in federal education dollars — much of it targeted to serve low-income students, English learners and students with disabilities.
“I think this trend in declining federal funds really is alarming,” said state Sen. Raumesh Akbari, a Democrat from Memphis. “A big portion of our government and our budget… rely on federal funds. They are there to level the playing field with other states.”
States declining to accept federal funding isn’t new. Tennessee is currently […]
Elle Hardy , Contributing Writer - The New Republic
Stephan:
Christianity is leaving the United States. People, particularly the young, are abandoning church affiliation in droves. Those still affiliated, overwhelmingly White, are involved with churches that use the language of Christianity but advocate a perversion of Christianity, having very little to do with Jesus’ teaching, as this article describes. It is christofascism.
Congregants at First Baptist Dallas church celebrate Freedom on June 30, 2019. Credit: Ilana Panich-Linsman / Getty
A God who does his best work in the dark hours is integral to the story of American evangelical Christianity. The stuff of country music songs and conversions in roadside motels, Jesus tends to come to people at their lowest and loneliest. The only problem is that some of God’s most pernicious modern apostles understand this all too well. At a time when fewer and fewer believers are going to church, it is consumption, in these dark times, that illuminates a deeply antisocial shift in evangelical Christian beliefs.
Chief among the new doctrines is the idea that God rewards “seeding”—that is, the “sowing” of financial donations to churches, or favored online preachers—with a material harvest in return. The prosperity gospel might sound as old-fashioned—and feel as familiar—as a preacher in a three-piece suit, but a new and cynical version is making a comeback across ministries both old and new; among people who go to […]
Throughout much of the developed nations, the uber-rich have rigged the tax codes to protect their outrageous wealth. Think about this: in a world of 8,045,311,447 people 2,700 billionaires globally own $13 trillion of wealth, and this proposal to increase their taxes would only amount to 2% of their wealth, a fraction of what you pay.
A money changer counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Ankara, Turkey November 11, 2021. Credit: Cagla Gurdogan / Reuters
PARIS, FRANCE — Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday.
If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said.
Currently billionaires’ effective personal tax is often far less than what other taxpayers of more modest means pay because they can park wealth in shell companies sheltering them from income tax, the group said in its 2024 Global Tax Evasion Report.
“In our view, this is difficult to justify because it risks to undermine the sustainability of tax systems and the social acceptability of taxation,” the observatory’s director Gabriel Zucman told journalists.
Billionaires’ personal tax in the United States is estimated to […]
