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no, i'm not. edman's chart seems more like the chart i would expect to see.

that chart seems more like the consensus on where fox news would be located.

i dont listen to either anymore so i really cant say. i only watch fox on election night when cnn is at commercial. i got tired of stories about poor guatemalan lesbian sheep herders and their fight against american sexist imperialism, so i stopped listening to npr.

looks like they have npr in two places. one further left than the other.

that political bias chart in that website has npr skewing further to the left than fox does to the right.

i dont think npr is extreme at all, but they are left. and not because of their vocabulary either.

npr is not fox news of the left, but they are to the left of most americans.

i mean, sotomayor and gorsuch issued a joint statement saying it was bullshit and that they're friends and even though they disagree on the law they still get along. then the chief issued a separate statement. so it obviously struck a chord with everyone involved. im sure nothing will happen to nina totenberg for giving a false report.

roberts came out and said he never asked the justices to wear masks, thus proving the report false.

great

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/01/19/west-side-murder-surge-was-driven-by-social-media-old-conflicts-now-groups-are-working-to-chart-a-path-to-peace/?utm_source=Pico&utm_campaign=6600aee44f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_01_06_03_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6b84a5cee-6600aee44f-124063403&mc_cid=6600aee44f&mc_eid=30fe6c2596 GARFIELD PARK — A West Side police district has seen more homicides and carjackings than any other during the two-year pandemic surge in violence — but area leaders say they are working to stop beefs before they erupt and chart a path to peace in the longterm. The 11th Police District — which includes parts of Austin, Lawndale and East and West Garfield Park — had 105 homicides in 2021, up from 103 in 2020 and 74 in the year prior, according to police data. While Chicago experienced a citywide surge in violent crime in 2021, West Side neighborhoods in the 11th District have long struggled with shootings and homicides. While the district has had the most murders of any district citywide for at least a decade, there has been a significant increase — in 2011, the district had 44 homicides, less than half the number last year. Carjackings in the 11th District have risen sharply since the pandemic began. In 2019 when there were 79, in 2020 there were 185 and in 2021 there were 192, according to police data.

and i did say the electoral reform act was the important issue, which would help stop the issue of replacing electoral approval boards with party hacks who will veto anything.

"The first big development on the rules front that many progressives seem to have overlooked is that there’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that voter suppression tactics are marginally effective at best, and maybe not effective at all. Studies of voter ID laws used to find small effects: This study that looked at 2012 found that voter ID laws lowered turnout in two states by two percent, and this somewhat-disputed study found a similar-sized effect (but, strangely, the effect was smallest on Black voters, one of the obvious targets of these laws). Some analyses that claimed to find larger effects were later found to be flawed. When German Lopez reviewed the literature on voter ID laws in 2016, he found that the effect was small to non-existent. Voter turnout among all minority groups rose between 2016 and 2020, and also between the 2014 and 2018 midterms. " from jeff maurer.

i would be wary of green bay receivers not named davonte adams. rogers makes them all look better than they are. allen robinson is a free agent. he had an injury filled year last year but might be less expensive this time around. i think the draft should hopefully net them at least one solid receiver. maybe two.

that article states india has many of the same issues as america (and other countries) in distrust of their government and unwillingness to get the vaccine.

voter id laws dont hurt democrats and dont help republicans. they dont do much at all, really. the democrats picking this hill to die on, and using ridiculously hyperbolic language about "freedom to vote," "jim crow", and "saving democracy" is going to backfire on them. i assume its a sop to the left wing of the party but its an issue most voters dont care about. cause its a non issue. similarly, the republicans constant bleating about fraud in elections and how their bills prevent that is a sop to the low information right wing voter. the effects of their bills are marginal at best and may end up helping democrats as much as it helps republicans. the REAL issue is the electoral vote reform measures that both parties are working on right now and has a good chance of passing. that's the important one to prevent 2020 type shenanigans from trump again.

people do pour their heart and soul into helping people with their children too. arguing that they dont is just a strawman. i think contraception should be easier to obtain for people. the religious exemption under scrutiny in the obamacare fights had to do with "abortifacients", or iuds that supposedly scraped the uterine walls and killed a fertilized egg. same with "morning after pills" and abortion by mail pills. people object to providing these methods of birth control because they kill already fertilized eggs. im not sure that is scientifically true of all forms of birth control to which a religious exemption was claimed, but that was the reasoning. and if you believe human life begins at conception, it is not out of the realm of reality to consider those forms of birth control to be killing a human child.

what penalties do we impose on the impregnated?

and you still have time to claim your great bloomberg offer...lol.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/india_coronavirus_full_vaccination_rate 47% fully vaxxed. less partially vaxxed, fully vaxxed, and boosted than the us. i know you have this dim view of america (familiarity breeds contempt...), but the us is better organized than most countries in the world, and that includes india.

kamala harris was.

g2, india is not 90% vaxxed. india is an unorganized mess of 1.5 billion people, getting 1.2 billion people vaxxed in a country as bass akward as india is impossible. come on.

we also airbrush away his attitudes on race and white supremacy in favor of select comments that appear to be race neutral so we dont have to feel so bad about american racism. the idea that king would have supported a black candidate over almost any white candidate is more likely.

nobody knows what king would have done and what he would think. people's opinions change as their circumstances change. as people get older their opinions change. king would be almost 100 years old today. the world is much different now than it was in 1968 and we have no idea what he would think today. what we do know is that in 1968 he was in line with the bernie sanders liberal democratic economic crowd. in fact, he was probably left of bernie. i find the attempts by conservatives and republicans to portray him as some sort of race and economic neutral to be hilarious.

i think its just as likely that king would have supported kamala harris, barack obama, and tried to get stacey abrams to run than he would have supported your old white man candidate.