The citizens of Kansas voted to keep abortion rights into the state constitution, by a landslide.

*Organizers said treating reproductive rights as a non-partisan issue was key to success in a Republican-leaning state.*

The vote was on a right-wing initiative to ban abortion in Kansas, but initiatives to legalize abortion are also possible, in the states that allow them.

What should we say about the people who started out supporting the wrecker when he was a hate-spewing right-wing extremist, and stopped only when they saw he was an enemy of our system of government?

I don't think that either the good or the bad erases the other. I can't deny that Pence is actively campaigning against sedition. I can't refuse to recognize that he is a religious extremist that seeks to impose his religious extremism on everyone in the US. He is a hero and he is atrocious, both at once.

The military budget passed by the House of Representatives is a big give-away to the military-industrial complex, including systems that are useless.

Several new business-supremacy treaties are being negotiated. In addition to the usual kinds of oppression, these may also restrict governments' in blocking massive surveillance by networks of businesses.

(satire) *Democrats Worried Biden Will Be Healthy Enough To Run Again In 2024.*