No thanks to right-wing extremist shills Justices Thomas and Alito, Supreme Court rejects anti-Constitutional “independent state legislature” theory embraced by some wacky Montana legislators…

From HuffPost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-election_n_6480ec03e4b027d92f8a4a3a Good read from the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/11/07/independent-state-legislature-theory-the-new-pitch-black/ And from Common Cause: https://www.commoncause.org/democracy-wire/6-reasons-the-far-rights-independent-state-legislature-theory-makes-no-sense/ Rosendale, far-right extremists, unAmerican, fascism, fascist, Christo-nationalism, MAGA cult, Trump,...

Let’s join the rest of the world and stop the unnecessary political charade that is having a debt ceiling and needing to raise it…

From the Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-happens-when-us-hits-its-debt-ceiling Thanks, also, to Nick Anderson. GOP hypocrisy, raised debt ceiling without question under Trump, Republicans responsible for debt

Considering right-wing extremism in America, perhaps our second President, John Adams, was right: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

The complete quote: “I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy....

From our History section: on this day in 1981 Ronald Reagan signed the “Economic Recovery Act,” signaling the beginning of “trickle-down” economics, the decimation of middle-class benefits and the staggering rise of income inequality in America…

From History: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-signs-economic-recovery-tax-act-erta? increased deficits, tax breaks for wealthy, rise of oligarchy, anti-union, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, reduced government services, infrastructure impacts, Kemp