Senator Joe Manchin’s own state of West Virginia has introduced 4 bills to restrict voting access.
In October, Manchin urged early voting and absentee ballots, but is currently upholding the filibuster and blocking voting rights.
What West Virginian voter suppression bills is Joe Manchin refusing to stop? Glad you asked.
HB 2607 restricts handicapped voting and potentially ensures their vote won’t count. Curbside voters have to wait for no one to be in line in order to vote.
HB 2666 sets to put restrictions on absentee ballots.
SB 565 deals with absentee voting and purging voter roles. Voters sometimes have their names purged and only discover it when attempting to vote.
SB 516, reported by the Brennan Center, doesn’t appear to be a voting bill.
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Thread: MLK opposed the filibuster being used to block civil rights.
Dr. King said the March on Washington, where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, would be a direct response to the filibuster.
(🎥 August 12th, 1963)
Martin Luther King, Jr. believed a filibuster of civil rights legislation would be a “blatant abuse of the legislative and democratic process.”
(🎥 May 26th, 1964)
MLK called a filibuster of civil rights legislation a “tragedy” used by “misguided Senators” who “do not represent the majority of the American people.”
1/ Dave Portnoy once said he was going to say racist things, and then Portnoy and his Barstool staff proceeded to say racist things about Colin Kaepernick.
No credible company or sports league should be partnering with Barstool.
2/ Dave Portnoy and Barstool said Colin Kaepernick had “terrorist skin,” “looks like a terrorist,” “isn’t really that Black” and his biracial and adopted situation “was all jacked up.”
🚨 Conservatives has been blaming New York fire deaths on the vaccine mandate, but it turns out FDNY has been organizing to fake injuries and sick outs to protest the mandate according to anti-vax protester Michael Bruno who works with the husband of a New York firefighter.
Just before this, another anti-vaxxer was discussing how “two people died in the Bronx because of the lack of firemen.”
Also, when she shared how SDNY wasn’t picking up trash, Michael Bruno celebrated with a fist pump.
These anti-vaxxers are supposedly pro health.
One NYC anti-vaxxer said she knows someone on “NYPD Chat” who said “a lot of NYPD called in sick” to protest the vaccine mandates.
Meet Anti-mask/vax activist Curtis Goldstein (@homesbycurtis) who harasses masked school children and their parents with his megaphone as they walk home from school.