If no one you know is in prison, you may not even be aware of this inhumane practice. But the era of of telecom providers charging high rates to incarcerated people and their families may soon be over, according to the Federal Communications Commission. The regulatory agency says it is set to "end exorbitant" call charges next month.
Two Tennessee lawmakers are calling for an investigation after the state coordinator of elections sent out over 14,000 letters asking voters for proof of their citizenship before the upcoming election. This comes just weeks before early voting starts for the primaries. Via WKRN.com:
The letter was sent a select group of Tennesseans from the state coordinator of elections, Mark Goins.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote the decision, likened the facts behind Wednesday’s SCOTUS decision in the Snyder v. U. S. case to a family tipping their mail carrier or students treating their college professor to a Chipotle’s dinner. But unless the tip or the dinner was worth thousands and given after the mail carrier or professor did a solid to the tune of about a million bucks, the comparison seems ridiculously stretched and convoluted.
Balkinization - Dobbs, and why Jack Balkin is history;
Dispatches from a Collapsing State - so you live in a declining Western Democracy
d r i f t g l a s s - both-siderists still stuck in the MAGA rat maze;
First Draft - Jim Justice and that damned dog;
Strangely Blogged - Boebert on top?
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Team (Traitor) Trump has been FREAKING OUT all week. They have claimed Joe Biden's on performance-enhancing drugs. They got in a fight w/ Kasie Hunt on CNN, b/c their 12-yr old SpokesCretin wouldn't stop attacking Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, and she was ultimately Gong Show'd off the broadcast.
Trump surrogates are rife with stories of Biden's using everything from cocaine to chugging Mountain Dews like he''s Trump taking down KFC grease, in some Drago-like-program to turn Biden into a Frankenstein-ish hulk.
Why all the nuttiness, even beyond their usual?
This article discusses plot points from the first eight episodes of The Bear Season 3.
When we last saw Chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, he was as alone as a human being could possibly be in a restaurant that had just served a dining room packed with his friends and family. Trapped in the cold, blue light of the walk-in refrigerator, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) cursed, punched the wall, and blamed his relationship with Claire (Molly Gordon) for distracting him from achieving perfection.