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Temporary shortages are pushing prices for scarce goods and services higher, exactly what you'd expect after the economy has been locked dow

Stiglitz: "Rather than panicking about inflation, we should be worrying about what will happen to aggregate demand when the funds provided by fiscal relief packages dry up. Many of those at the bottom of the income and wealth distribution have accumulated large debts—including, in some cases, more than a year’s worth of rent arrears, owing to temporary protections against eviction."

#republican gaslighting #economics #capitalism #inequality #inflation #supply and demand

#Republicans in power are as #rightwing as they wanna be. Why are #Democrats in power fixated on #bipartisanship?

Case in point: Texas's new permitless carry law.

The Legislature passed a bill allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license or training — an expansion of gun rights so divisive Repub

Texas GOP leaders promised action on gun safety after the El Paso massacre in 2019. But the 2021 Texas Legislature, led by Trumpublicans, actually made the state less safe and law enforcement's job harder. This kind of brazen abdication of responsibility shows the foolishness of the notion that Democrats somehow need Republican buy-in on major legislation at the Federal level.

#gun nuts #gun control #texas #txlege #republican lies #bipartisan #democrats

To spite #Biden, #pettytyrant #GovernorAbbott orders #Texas child-care regulators to yank licenses of facilities housing immigrant kids | #DMN

Gov. Greg Abbott, as part of declaring a disaster because of conditions at the Texas-Mexico border, ordered state officials on Tuesday to ya

Greg Abbott is a state governor who actively obstructs the Federal government because he has an ideological vendetta against the President. He does so using children as pawns in his selfish and mean-spirited little game of sleazeball politics. He also works to make it harder for disabled people to vote despite having a disability himself. He threatens to defund the Republican-led Texas Legislature if they don't do what he wants, but won't let cities take the same attitude towards their police departments. Greg Abbott is a petty tyrant who is not fit to be the Texas governor. He needs to go for democracy's sake. Vote him out.

#greg abbott #unfit for office #corrupt gop #petty tyrant

Allen #West, Sid #Miller and Louie #Gohmert attend #QAnon-affiliated conference where #Flynn agrees U.S. needs military #coup

Texas GOP Chairman Allen West, Republican U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller each delivered remarks at the even

Round up the usual suspects.

#qanon conspiracy #maga terrorists #sedition has consequences #michael flynn #allen west #louie gohmert #sid miller #texas

More than 100 Republicans, including some former elected officials, are preparing to release a letter this week threatening to form a third party if the Republican Party does not repudiate former President Donald J. Trump’s stranglehold on Republicans, which signatories to the document have deemed unconscionable.

Miles Taylor, a former Trump-era Homeland Security official who anonymously wrote a book condemning the Trump administration, is an organize

#gqp #trump is a threat to democracy #maga is cancelled

NYTimes: Faith, Freedom, Fear: Rural America’s Covid Vaccine Skeptics

Faith, Freedom, Fear: Rural America’s Covid Vaccine Skeptics https://nyti.ms/3nBIcvv

Resistance is widespread in white, Republican communities like this one in Appalachia. But it’s far more complicated than just a partisan di

If these libertarian, fundamentalist simpletons continue to refuse the vaccine due to their anti-science, anti-government paranoia, let them refrain from demanding outside assistance when the variant-fueled pandemic is killing them off.

#coronavirus #vaccine skepticism: u.s. counties with more trump voters are less likely to be vaccinated #christian fundamentalism #ruralcore

"A constant negotiation of feeling unwelcome" becomes deadly as #AsianAmericans become targets for lone-wolf #DomesticTerrorism

Many Asian Americans are bristling with pain and fury, seeing the Atlanta killings as a culmination of a steady drumbeat of racist attacks.

"In less than 48 hours, we had a historic Asian Oscar moment with multiple firsts in 93 years—then a mass shooting targeting 3 Asian-owned businesses. This is how terrorism works—you’re not allowed to feel safe, accepted, or valued."

#domestic terrorism #white supremacism #donald trump #anti asian hate crimes #covid 19 #fetishization #misogyny

"Republicans call it ‘election integrity.’ We see obstacles" | @DallasNews editorial calls out #GQP #VoterSuppression Efforts in #Txlege

Gov. Greg Abbott is right about this: No one will disagree with him when he says that we all need to have confidence in our elections. Rooti

FTA:

"Good policymaking means identifying specific issues, raising them with the public and proposing solutions that fix what’s wrong. Instead, what we see in Austin is a series of bills that seemingly do little to reduce voter fraud even while creating new obstacles for people to vote. If election integrity is the goal — and that is a goal everyone should support — what’s being proposed in the Legislature now is far from enhancing the integrity of our elections."

#texas legislature #texas gop #voter suppression #voter disenfranchisement #gop is dying

12 #Republicans vote against honoring Capitol police for protecting #Congress | US Capitol breach | The Guardian

House voted 413-12 to award congressional gold medals to all members of Capitol force for their efforts on 6 January

These are 12 GQP traitors who need to be removed from office at the next election. There is no place in Congress for this kind of gaslighting denial of facts.

#maga terrorists #unfit for office #sedition has consequences #capitol insurrection #gqp

#the onion #anti asian hate crimes #mass shooting #gun control

AUSTIN — Public Utility Commission Chairman Arthur D’Andrea stepped down Tuesday night as Gov. Greg Abbott moved to contain damage from the latest crisis...

The DMN headline buries the lede, while the above rewording reflects the shocking content of the article. Arthur D’Andrea, the sole remaining Texas Public Utility Commission member, was caught on a recording reassuring Bank of America energy traders that he was pursuing “strategies to run out the clock on finalizing highly controversial electricity trades during last month’s winter storm and to prevent the Senate from being able to vet additional nominees for the PUC before summer.”

In other words, he was colluding with third-party speculators against the Texans whom the PUC is supposed to protect. He was working to allow a price gouge of $16 billion that the PUC itself created during the power crisis and, moreover, to perpetuate the Texas Legislature’s lack of oversight of the PUC. This amounts to a conspiracy to swindle everyday Texas consumers, who had already been hurt by the combined incompetence of the PUC and ERCOT during and before the February debacle.

D’Andrea had been appointed as PUC chair by Gov. Greg Abbott after the resignation of the other members following political fallout over the failure of Texas’ electrical grid during the February snowstorm. While a spokesman said that Abbott would name a replacement for D’Andrea “in the coming days,” there was no word on replacements for the other two commissioners. More ominous was the lack of disavowal of D’Andrea’s statement, caught on tape, that it is “easier to just be going through one person” rather than deal with the full PUC.

D’Andrea should not just be fired. He should be indicted for corruption and also sued for negligence, the latter along with the other two former PUC members. But there is no justice in Texas with an AG like Ken Paxton.

#texas power outage #corruption #governor greg abbott #Texas GOP #Arthur D'Andrea #texas public utility commission #betrayal

Texas Republicans want to make it even harder to vote in their state.

Texas Republicans say they are legislating election integrity, but their intent is clearly voter suppression. The GOP’s need to resort to such tactics is a sign of its total corruption, intellectual bankruptcy, and emotional desperation. In short, it’s dying. Let’s give it the coup de grace!

#corrupt gop #gop is dying #Texas GOP #Texas Legislature #voter intimidation #voter suppression #voter disenfranchisement #gqp

About a dozen strangers who heard about the vandalism showed up with cleaning supplies and paint remover. By the end of the day, the storefront was clean again.

This is #Texas: both the ignorant #racists who vandalized the restaurant and the customers and others who showed up the next day to help the owner remove the graffiti. Unfortunately there are many more of the former than the latter.

#texas #anti asian hate crimes #racism #ignorance

#Frisco #pastor promotes the #BigLie with event at his #church this week - #idolatry & #sedition

A Frisco pastor who made headlines for exhorting his congregation to “go to war” to keep Donald Trump in office is promoting an event furthe

A faux Christian and pastoral impostor doubles down on idolatrous MAGA theology. Maybe Brandon Burden should change the name of his church to QAnon Life.

#maga theology #faux Christians #sedition has consequences

NYTimes: A Ripple Effect of Loss: U.S. Covid Deaths Approach 500,000

A Ripple Effect of Loss: U.S. Covid Deaths Approach 500,000 https://nyti.ms/37BAMl4