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Nearly 20% of the mail in ballots in the Houston area were rejected from the March 1st primary in Texas as a direct result of SB1.

The majority of the ballots were rejected "ID Issues". SB1 requires the voter identification number to be written on the mail in ballot and it must match what's on the voter registration. The issue is this could be a drivers license number or a SSN. If you don't know which one is on your voter registration and you put the wrong one your mail in ballot is invalid.

And of course this is fueling the conspiracy of voter fraud and that this is proof of widespread voter fraud and that SB1 is restoring voter integrity.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
www.cnn.com

Fort Lauderdale police chief fired over minority-first practices in hiring and promotions, report says | CNN

The city of Fort Lauderdale has fired its police chief Larry Scirotto, who has been in office for less than a year, following allegations of discriminatory practices for promotions.
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Not sure I understand what is going on here, but it appears Fort Lauderdale brought in a new police chief to address issues of racial discrimination in hiring and promotion practices that lead to an majority white police force with the command staff being virtually all white.

The new police chief basically did what every corporation is doing with Diversity & Inclusion trying to hire and promote minorities so that the force isn't so overwhelmingly white.

And then he was fired for doing that because these practices discriminate against white people...

Does that about sum this up?
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It’s disappointing but not surprising that this happened. Whenever a hiring authority says something along the lines of “we’re going to hire more minorities to be more diverse and inclusive” some assume they mean hiring only based on race/gender/sexual orientation and not also their qualifications and experience. Their mantras are usually “tHiS iS rAcIsT aGaInSt WhItE pEoPlE” or “JuSt HiRe ThE MoSt QuAiliEfD”. Not understanding that becoming a diverse and inclusive organization involves making those direct choices to bring underrepresented people to the table.
 
MsLoganHenney said:
It’s disappointing but not surprising that this happened. Whenever a hiring authority says something along the lines of “we’re going to hire more minorities to be more diverse and inclusive” some assume they mean hiring only based on race/gender/sexual orientation and not also their qualifications and experience. Their mantras are usually “tHiS iS rAcIsT aGaInSt WhItE pEoPlE” or “JuSt HiRe ThE MoSt QuAiliEfD”. Not understanding that becoming a diverse and inclusive organization involves making those direct choices to bring underrepresented people to the table.
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The Sun Sentinel newspaper had a better story than CNN, though it's behind a paywall.

But it gave facts like within the first 3 months he promoting 14 people. 9 White and 5 minorities. White new hires still outnumbered minorities.

But as you pointed out, for a large group of the right, diversity and inclusion is viewed as "this is racist against white people" and people should just be hired or promoted by who is the "most qualified". There is real push back against policies like these that is part of a White Flight 2.0 movement.

Along with LGBTQ Diversity and Inclusion is something conservatives are going to war against. They want to be willfully ignorant of other realities around them and put a stop to policies that favor inclusion.
 


I have said this before, but I will say this again, because y'all are my peeps. Find yourselves a famer's market and/or any other supply line for food that is localized instead of nationalized and start strengthening your local supply chains. Start looking around for ways to get food that isn't a traditional grocery store. I'm not saying that traditional grocery stores are going anywhere, just that traditional grocery stores are going to have lots of problems controlling costs of items unless they also start looking at local supply lines. Right now, my local, grassfed beef and pork is matching and sometimes beating the prices at the grocery--and their beef isn't even grass fed. I have also pivoted to getting milk and eggs from local sources--there's a local creamery that I get milk from and I usually get my eggs from my beef guy. Again, I don't think that we will have food shortages per se, just that we are going to start really paying a lot more for food, and the only real way to reduce this cost is to find local substitutes for things that we used to get cheaply due to massive market consolidation--it's now that massive market consolidation that allowed us to pay much lower prices relative to the real costs of things like eggs and milk, that is helping supply chains crumble because all the price fixing and controls were based on "just in time" manufacturing processes that don't work well when nothing is on time.
 
nolalady said:


I have said this before, but I will say this again, because y'all are my peeps. Find yourselves a famer's market and/or any other supply line for food that is localized instead of nationalized and start strengthening your local supply chains. Start looking around for ways to get food that isn't a traditional grocery store. I'm not saying that traditional grocery stores are going anywhere, just that traditional grocery stores are going to have lots of problems controlling costs of items unless they also start looking at local supply lines. Right now, my local, grassfed beef and pork is matching and sometimes beating the prices at the grocery--and their beef isn't even grass fed. I have also pivoted to getting milk and eggs from local sources--there's a local creamery that I get milk from and I usually get my eggs from my beef guy. Again, I don't think that we will have food shortages per se, just that we are going to start really paying a lot more for food, and the only real way to reduce this cost is to find local substitutes for things that we used to get cheaply due to massive market consolidation--it's now that massive market consolidation that allowed us to pay much lower prices relative to the real costs of things like eggs and milk, that is helping supply chains crumble because all the price fixing and controls were based on "just in time" manufacturing processes that don't work well when nothing is on time.
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The thing that saddens me is there are fewer and fewer options for this every passing year.

All the farms that were around my hometown growing up are no longer farms. They have either sold the land for development, the farms were purchased by wealthy people as a second home on the country and no longer operate as a farm or the next generation in the family has no interest in farming. This is happening a lot because there is no money in farming. If you are a small farm you are lucky to break even.

Almost all options for this type of thing around here now around here involve knowing someone who has a large garden and offers co-ops to a few different people. Or, as I get in the mail often, weekly or monthly farmer market boxes that come from New York State.

My mother gets her eggs from a neighbor. She did a co-op with a neighbor who grew a bunch of vegetables one year but found it to be too expensive and she ended up getting mostly leafy greens most of the summer before carrots and squash were ready.

In Eastern MA, many cities have zoning laws that don't allow for farm animals. For example, you can't have chickens. So fresh eggs are not possible for me to get around Salem.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
The thing that saddens me is there are fewer and fewer options for this every passing year.

All the farms that were around my hometown growing up are no longer farms. They have either sold the land for development, the farms were purchased by wealthy people as a second home on the country and no longer operate as a farm or the next generation in the family has no interest in farming. This is happening a lot because there is no money in farming. If you are a small farm you are lucky to break even.

Almost all options for this type of thing around here now around here involve knowing someone who has a large garden and offers co-ops to a few different people. Or, as I get in the mail often, weekly or monthly farmer market boxes that come from New York State.

My mother gets her eggs from a neighbor. She did a co-op with a neighbor who grew a bunch of vegetables one year but found it to be too expensive and she ended up getting mostly leafy greens most of the summer before carrots and squash were ready.

In Eastern MA, many cities have zoning laws that don't allow for farm animals. For example, you can't have chickens. So fresh eggs are not possible for me to get around Salem.
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Oh we have zoning laws too. I can't have chickens in the city limits either. I just have a lot more agriculture land around me.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
The Sun Sentinel newspaper had a better story than CNN, though it's behind a paywall.

But it gave facts like within the first 3 months he promoting 14 people. 9 White and 5 minorities. White new hires still outnumbered minorities.

But as you pointed out, for a large group of the right, diversity and inclusion is viewed as "this is racist against white people" and people should just be hired or promoted by who is the "most qualified". There is real push back against policies like these that is part of a White Flight 2.0 movement.

Along with LGBTQ Diversity and Inclusion is something conservatives are going to war against. They want to be willfully ignorant of other realities around them and put a stop to policies that favor inclusion.
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12ft

12ft.io

(re paywalls: 12ft – Hop any paywall dropped in front of the URL will get rid of most of them, just fyi)

First gay police chief, hired specifically to improve their diversity? I am shocked, shocked that this has happened. Well, not that shocked.
 
Time is running out to pass a badly needed increase to minimum wage.

With inflation at a 40 year high currently 52% of americans are making less than $15 an hour. We are at the breaking point where this is becoming a crisis for families deciding whether or not to fill that tank of gas to get to work or put food on the table. They have run out of things to cut back costs with.

Yet even now, we have little hope of passing a minimum wage increase in the senate. And likely zero chance after the midterm elections.

What our capitalistic system does well is exploit workers for the profits of a few.
 
well, republicans absolutely do not want that to pass, because they're just so into being heels or something. and democrats just don't have it in them to actually give a fuck and get anything done. TBH I am assuming it's a foregone conclusion that it won't happen, just like student loan forgiveness or anything that actually helps actual poor people.

it's real hard to get a politician to care about you if you can't afford to get their attention.
 
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