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Opinion | President Gavin Newsom Strikes at Walgreens

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He punishes the drug store chain for abiding by other state abortion laws.

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ok fair enough - agreed that Newsom threatened to use his political power to punish a private company. I condemn that action.

Do you condemn what DeSantis is doing to Disney?

PS Newsom reversed, of course. Doesn't make what Newsom said ok or appropriate but apparently whatever Newsom was threatening did not happen.

Whereas what DeSantis threatened to do...he did against Disney. And DeSantis is being sued by Disney on 1A grounds for it.

So, what DeSantis is doing is much worse than what Newson said...because Newsom only talked and DeSantis did.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom declared last month that California was “done” doing business with Walgreens after the pharmacy chain said it would not distribute an abortion pill in 21 states where Republicans threatened legal action. Since then, Kaiser Health News has learned that the Democratic governor must compromise on his hard-line tweet California is legally bound to continue doing business with Walgreens through the state’s massive Medicaid program, health law experts said. And according to a public records request, the state paid Walgreens $1.5 billion last year.
Newsom’s administration confirmed it will “continue to comply” with federal law by paying Walgreens through Medi-Cal, which provides health coverage to roughly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. Were California to stop covering Medi-Cal prescriptions filled at Walgreens stores, legal scholars warned, the state would run afoul of federal law, which allows patients to get their medications at any approved pharmacy.

Good stuff here. Federal money helping convert old coal areas into green energy hubs and beat down the Rs who just want their fossil fuels to burn.

Of course many Rs are dead set against all this because there's nothing more American than just burning stuff even if you don't have to, but Joe-nomics is bringing jobs to Appalachia.

RAVENSWOOD, W.Va.—No state is more reliant on coal for electricity than West Virginia. Yet a clean-energy industrial project rising on the banks of the Ohio River is challenging coal’s stranglehold on the Mountain State.

Behind the project: Warren Buffett and state Republican lawmakers. It’s a surprising base of support in a region where political power and wealth has long derived from coal mining.

West Virginia has in the past year approved some $400 million in funds for three renewable-energy projects, including Berkshire’s. The Republican-led legislature, eager to create jobs, has passed new legislation that benefits renewable energy.

Accelerating the shift are billions in federal subsidies to clean-energy entrepreneurs and manufacturers from the Biden administration’s new infrastructure and climate laws.

Part of the former aluminum mill at the Ravenswood site, where the Berkshire companies plan to produce titanium with green energy.

The federal money—tied to industrial production that brings jobs—is beginning to sway even the most coal-centric areas of the country. The funds have reframed the renewable-energy debate away from global warming and environmental protection, and toward economic development.

That’s brought on board many Republicans in the GOP-majority states of Appalachia, where green energy projects backed by the federal subsidies are drawing billions of dollars in investments.

It’s also fueled a party split, with other Republican lawmakers denouncing big government spending. They argue that national security depends on fossil fuels, and point out the benefits flowing to Chinese and other foreign companies involved in the green-energy projects.

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Wisconsin has a Dem governor, 4 elected Dem Supreme Court justices, and one Dem senator. It voted for Biden. It's a purple state. But because of extreme partisan gerrymandering, Republicans have close to a supermajority in the two state houses. Absurd.

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Wisconsin 'conservatives' are not done, even after unethically securing their minority rule in the state house. Now they want to fire the head of the election commission too.

Republicans do not believe in democracy and they do not believe in a republic if they are the minority party. They just don't. That's why they stormed the capital and elected Rs organized an extra-Constitutional coup attempt.

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Wisconsin Republicans, after a string of losses in hotly contested statewide races, are taking steps toward sidelining the state’s nonpartisan elections chief and undercutting the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court.
Their actions – an escalation of bitter, partisan feuds that have rankled the state government in one of the nation’s most important swing states for years – raise questions about how the 2024 election will be run there and who will set the rules.
“This is clearly uncharted territory,” said David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With a new supermajority, Republicans in the state Senate are moving to fire Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission who continues to be the target of false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

Wait--nuance? Context? What board do you think you're on?

Yeah, of course Blackburn is going to misrepresent the figures. Just telling her voters what they want to hear, truth be damned.

GOP Crime Blotter

The criminality in the Republican Party is astonishing. I completely forgot about this guy. Yet another Republican defendant. Just endless. Hey let's give these guys another shot! /sarc

Washington — A top trade adviser during the Trump administration is set to stand trial this week for two counts of criminal contempt of Congress after prosecutors alleged he willfully and illegally refused to respond to subpoenas for documents and testimony from the now-defunct House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Jury selection in Peter Navarro's criminal trial is set to begin Tuesday when a federal judge has said he intends to clear at least 50 potential jurors from a group of Washington, D.C. residents to fill just over a dozen seats on the final jury panel.

Despite years of legal wrangling and briefing schedules between prosecutors and defense attorneys, Navarro's trial is only set to last days as prosecutors successfully argued that he should be barred from employing certain explanations that he said were crucial to his defense.

The Jan. 6 committee initially subpoenaed Navarro in Feb. 2022 for records and testimony as part of its investigation into efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. After he refused to comply with the requests, Congress voted to refer the matter to the Justice Department. Navarro was then indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. He pleaded not guilty.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/contempt-of-congress-trial-for-peter-navarro-set-to-begin/ar-AA1ggffl?OCID=ansmsnnews11

These are Trump's business partners. And Kushner's business partners. Republican buddies. The guys Kushner set out to help from the WH and was rewarded with billions of dollars to manage. Judge the Republican Party by who their friends are. The 9-11, bone-saw, repressive theocratic kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Think of them when gas hits $4 or $5.

Saudi Arabia will continue its voluntary 1 million barrels per day (bpd) crude oil production cut through the end of this year. This decision, announced via the official Saudi Press Agency, comes after Riyadh first enacted the 1 million bpd reduction in July and subsequently extended it on a monthly basis.

Democrat police blotter (Well done, Libs, you have ruined our cities) the party of lawlessness:

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Austin police ask robbery victims to call 311 amid staffing shortage, crime crisis

Austin Police Department asks residents to call the non-emergency 311 number if they become victims of robberies amid departmental struggles with understaffing and crime.

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Democrat police blotter -- please tell us how the borders are secure! :

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Pennsylvania schools close as law enforcement continues manhunt for escaped killer

Multiple schools in Pennsylvania have closed Tuesday as authorities hunt a convicted killer who has been on the run since escaping from prison last week.

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Agip voted for and supports this lawlessness. Well done Agip! Keep ruining the country you live in.

Hey let's play, Sally!

GOP Crime Blotter

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Two West Virginia women are facing felony charges after troopers say they found over $100,000 worth of methamphetamine during a traffic stop in southern Ohio.

If we are discussing West Virginia ladies doing meth - has your GOP crime blotter fallen this far? What is next - discussing how an Austin 80-year old Republican old lady jaywalked? Is that all you have?

Point is I was mocking you for posting crimes as if they were political.

Here's another GOP-er blotter entry from today, albeit crime-ish, not crime:

BREAKING: A federal court has struck down Alabama’s congressional map for not following an order to comply with the Voting Rights Act. Court-appointed experts are now set to draw a new map for the 2024 elections

GOP Crime-ish Blotter

Lots going on today i/r/t 'conservative' criminals

The impeachment trial of Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, began on Tuesday morning on the floor of the State Senate, where its 31 members are gathering to weigh allegations of corruption and abuse of office and decide on Mr. Paxton’s fate.
Mr. Paxton, a third-term incumbent championed by hard-core conservatives and former President Donald J. Trump, is facing 20 articles of impeachment, which the Republican-dominated Texas House adopted in May by a vote of 121 to 23. The allegations focus on Mr. Paxton’s use of the office to benefit an Austin real estate figure.

Democrat-run colleges still plan on discriminating after SCOTUS banned affirmative action. Republicans shouldn’t be such cucks and should disobey

This is false narrative prosecutorial. They want to silence Navarrone because of his election reporting which uncovered Truth. The case is bogus. President Trump previously ruled that the alleged documents were executive and beyond unassailable. Yet liberal courts still proceed with the persecution.

You can thank Biden for the $4-5 a gallon gas. Destroying alliances with Saudi and other emirates while simultaneously enacting an executive order severely hampering the fossil fuel industry domestically as one of his first acts as president. The Trump’s had nothing to do with that.

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Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis | The White House

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Our Nation has an abiding commitment to empower our workers and...

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judge the trumps by their allies: the Saudis. The country that sent us 9-11. The bone-saw country thatkills journalists. Of course an autocratic nation because that's what Republicans want.

Saudi wants its business partners back in the White House and will try to defeat Biden with high oil prices. Could work. Disaster for the world, but so is the Republican Party so it's a match.