To be clear, Reagan’s firing of the PATCO strikers ushered along a period of anti-union policies embraced by both parties that accelerated income inequality in the US.
"Many authorities in Texas say they have seen an increase in spur-of-the-moment gunfire since September 2021, when the state began to allow most adults to carry a handgun without a license" (NYT) nytimes.com/2023/05/06/us/…
And as of July 1, Florida will become the 26th state allowing residents to carry a gun without a permit or training.
Chris Christie in NH at St. Anselm: "Donald Trump said a couple of weeks ago, I am your retribution.
Guess what everybody? No thanks."
Christie also jabs at DeSantis w/o naming him: Other candidates are gonna try to be Trump-like, they're gonna get thisclose to him but no so bad. Let me tell you something, everybody, he says -- results will be no better than in 2018, 2020 & 2022.
Christie is challenged by audience member: why didn't you do more to stop Trump in 2016? Christie says "We all made a strategic error" not thinking he could win.
He is no holds barred on Trump: "We are the party of me right now. It's about him and nothing else.
You can't win"
College Board's new statement on Black studies course is a mea culpa:
"We deeply regret not immediately denouncing the Florida Department of Education’s slander, magnified by the DeSantis administration’s subsequent comments...” allaccess.collegeboard.org/our-commitment…
More: "Our failure to raise our voice betrayed Black scholars everywhere and those who have long toiled to build this remarkable field...This error triggered a conversation about erasing or eliminating Black thinkers. The vitriol aimed at these scholars is repulsive and must stop
The College Board alleges FL's Dept of Education misrepresented and manipulated its interactions over the course for political reasons. "These phone calls with FDOE were absent of substance, despite the audacious claims of influence FDOE is now making."
Asked @GlennYoungkin in Virginia a day after a 6-year-old shot his teacher in Newport Beach if he supports more gun safety laws. He says he’ll work w 2023 Leg on a ‘whole package of enhanced penalties for crimes committed with guns.’
Youngkin also said VA ‘has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation already.’ They were passed under his Dem predecessor and Dem majorities in the General Assembly l, over fierce GOP opposition usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
Finally, Youngkin said there was a ‘massive behavioral health’ problem across the state and he is asking Leg for $230 million for more capacity
Alaska’s new ranked choice voting - in which voters’ second choices, avoiding the most polarizing candidates, including Palin, influence the outcome — may show a way past hyper partisan elections. thehill.com/homenews/state…
It’s official: @MaryPeltola, D, has won the AL-AL House race, and @lisamurkowski, R, is re-elected as Senator