Which state has the least personal freedom?

I'll give you a hint: it's been dead last of all states in 8 years out of the past 10

From A Resistant CARTOONIST😊
FIERCE CALL OUT😂

#CoSoPoliticalCartoon

@OccupyDemocrats

BREAKING: MAGA Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is hit with nuclear bad news as Hollywood A-listers line up in droves to support her opponent Adam Frisch's campaign — raking in massive amounts of cash for the Democrat.

Lauren "The Groper" Boebert should start packing her bags now...
According to a new report from Newsweek, superstars Ryan Reynolds, Barbra Streisand, Rob Reiner, and founding Eagles musician Don Henley have all donated to Frisch.

US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries, new report

The United States spends more on health care than any other high-income country but still has the lowest life expectancy at birth and the highest rate of people with multiple chronic diseases, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, an independent research group.

New poll shows jump in adults who rate the quality of US health care as 'poor'

#Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/health/us-health-care-spending-global-perspective/index.html

@Oma_Trisha fetal development is tracked by medical personnel from the last day of your last period, so at 15 days, the zygote may not even have attached to the uterine wall yet. people who don't know what they are talking about shouldn't be writing regulations on it, it just makes them look even more stupid.

“We’ve been waging an all out war on American democracy.”

- Donald J Trump, MAGA GOP presidential candidate

#trump #thequietparts

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1731063685412474880/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/GpibEpqAt-IZKStD.mp4

Henry Kissinger is dead

I wrote the following seven years ago, as Donald Trump rose to power on the very fear men like Kissinger promoted as a national strategy.

The Latter Days of a Better Nation
https://www.stonekettle.com/.../the-latter-days-of-better...

Rereading it today, I wouldn't change a word.

New essay up on Stonekettle Station

Michigan Autumn: November in Pictures.

https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/11/the-month-in-pictures-michigan-autumn.html

If you're in Washington DC today and you get a moment, stop by the Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall.

There are more than 58,000 names on that wall, about 20,000 of which died so Richard Nixon could be president. THAT was the price we paid for Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize.

I've finally managed to put together a calendar printing process that produces a high quality product people can actually afford

I'll be generating a variety of 2024 calendar collections featuring my work in the next few days.

First up: The Great Blue Heron Collection. Twelve unique, high quality images captured by yours truly.

Available in two sizes on my store here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1625211983/great-blue-heron-calendar-2024

There is also a selection of new prints, puzzles, and mousepads up on the store as well.

New 2024 Calendar: Ruby Throated Hummingbird collection

Now available on my store:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1625758413/hummingbird-collection-calendar-2024

As a basic rule of democracy: Don't vote for people to run your democracy who loudly do not believe in democracy.

Corollary: If you elect a businessman to run your country like a business, then you're going to get the business. And you're going to get it good and hard.

Donald Trump lived his life surrounded by evil greedy kindred ghouls like Steve Bannon, Roy Cohn, Jeffrey Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, & Mike Flynn.

MAGA is the worst of the worst.

The scum of the earth.

This is dystopia

The neoliberal project said to the ’68 generation, ‘OK, you want liberty and freedom? That’s what the student movement was about. We’re going to give it to you, but it’s going to be freedom of the market. The other thing you’re after is social justice—forget it. So, we’ll give you individual liberty, but you forget the social justice. Don’t organize.’ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/11/26/neoliberalisms-dark-path-fascism

Hopefully George Santos takes the entire GOP down with him, but that won’t happen because nobody cares who’s screwing who. Nobody cares who’s on drugs. Nobody cares who’s getting bribed.

Republicans get to be lying cheating corrupt hypocrites.

They only care if it’s a Democrat.

As our local economy and market places are increasingly filled with low quality low wage McJobs, we as workers and innovators must demand a state prioritization of cooperatively owned and operated enterprises that would keep the wealth produced in our communities in our communities. Two legislative policies that could actualize a better bargaining position for labor, which would also help to create more democratized enterprises are;