I am fine with the DOJ intervening and cutting off funding for these jurisdictions with the highest rate of violent crime in the US according to FBI crime data.
Alaska
Tennessee
Arkansas
Louisiana
South Carolina
Alabama
Missouri
Guess who isn’t in the top 10?
NY, OR, and WA
Source below. These numbers are based on the most recent violent crime and murder data from the FBI.
Utah is ranked bottom of the nation for equal pay, education & air quality. They ban books, abortion & gender affirming care. Utah routinely engages in censorship of its own citizens. It is a dangerous place to live for LGBTQ people, women, and children.
In high school in the 90s my first job that wasn’t working for my parents (I’d worked for them starting at 12) was behind the meat counter at a local grocery.
I wanted to stock shelves but the owner never hired girls to stock shelves.
I was 15.
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(2) It was a very small NH town. If you were a kid and you wanted a job, this was where you worked. Period.
Once I started I realized the manager of the meat department was an utter misogynistic asshole. Dave loved the power trip of controlling and taunting young girls.
(3) When you were the new girl the rule was you cleaned the meat room every night. It was a horrible job washing away all the blood & guts & sanitizing it.
The new girl cleaned it every shift until it was done correctly.
Who decided when you’d done it correctly? Dave did.
2: Fetterman, with the unequivocally support of family, colleagues, and constituents, checks himself into Walter Reed to seek treatment for depression.
1: The humiliation fest continues as McCarthy loses 11th round of voting in bid to become speaker. It’s the longest the House has taken to determine a speaker in 164 years.
1: Kevin McCarthy fails to secure the House speaker spot, cementing the first time in a 100 years a speaker has proceeded to multiple rounds of voting.
3: Amber McLaughlin will become the first openly transgender person to be executed in the US – unless Missouri’s governor, Mike Parson, grants clemency and puts a stop to the planned lethal injection.