Good news for Friday! Plenty of fun-filled political Current News Events! (no football, though)
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Red-state leaders emboldened by Donald Trump’s presidential victory are not waiting for him to take office to advance far more conservative agendas at home.
Idaho lawmakers want to allow school staff to carry concealed firearms without prior approval and parents to sue districts in library and curriculum disputes.
Lawmakers in Oklahoma plan to further restrict abortion by limiting the emergency exceptions and to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, while their counterparts in Arkansas are moving to create the felony offense of vaccine harm, which could make pharmaceutical companies or their executive officers potentially criminally liable.
But few states have bigger, more aggressive plans than Texas. Ahead of their biennial session, which begins Jan. 14, the Republican legislators who control both House and Senate have proposed a multitude of measures that would push the state further right.
Migrants are a particular focus, with bills to create a “Texas border protection unit” and to repeal instate tuition for undocumented students, requiring colleges to notify law enforcement if they learn a student is undocumented. They also would require state police to DNA-test migrants taken into custody, allow troopers to return undocumented immigrants to Mexico if they are seen entering Texas illegally, fingerprint and track migrant children in a database and bar immigrants who are in the country illegally from accessing public legal services.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/13/trump-administration-conservative-states-agendas
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“Red state legislatures and governors are chomping at the bit,” said Craig DeRoche, a former Michigan House speaker who is now president of the influential conservative Family Policy Alliance.
The group has chapters in 40 states where, he said, conservatives are sending a message to likely members of the incoming Trump administration on a variety of issues: “Don’t fix it there. Send it back to us so we can fix it here.”
“There’s going to be an extraordinary accountability. And red state governors and legislatures are going to lead on that,” DeRoche said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/13/trump-administration-conservative-states-agendas
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Question:
What would Permanent Daylight Savings time look like vs Permanent Standard Time?
Answer:
Permanent Daylight Saving Time (PDT):
- Later sunrises and sunsets.
- More evening daylight year-round.
- Earlier sunrises and sunsets.
- More morning daylight year-round.
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Poor Anchovies. Are you lost?
Yeah, that sure is a “fun-filled political Current News Event,” as I said before, you got to get out “copy,” a lot more, maybe you should start watching football instead of searching Twitter for tweets
Diogenes
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Another one ^ who thinks daylight savings time is a top political issue, appears he also needs to get out more, you two can put on your Red Hat Club hats and go to lunch, got to be a deli somewhere near your gated community
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Low hanging fruit, indeed. I hope he's successful.
Diogenes
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If you think it's not appropriate for the Current Events Forum, Anchovies, report the thread.
I'll understand if you don't, of course.
Poor Anchovies.
Never said inappropriate, rather that it is anything but a “but a fun filled political event,” in fact it is just the opposite, B-O-R-I-N-G, and just because your Messiah tweets about it doesn’t make it news
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