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TALKIN’ POLITICS

1. T/F
   1. Boebert can salvage herself enough to win in Colorado
      1. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/lauren-boebert-maga-colorado-election-00113943
      2. This comes at the same time Boebert is kicked out of a theater for vaping, being loud while and dancing… oh and cranking her date’s hog while he gets a handful of c-cup she gets kicked out and flips the bird and plays the “do you know who I am” card
         1. She also lied, and then whoops - there was video
      3. Colorado Newsline story from a couple weeks back with poll showing Frisch with a 2 point lead: https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/adam-frisch-leads-rep-lauren-boebert-by-2-points-in-democrats-campaign-funded-poll/
      4. Axios calls it a deadlock - probably a good description given how 2022 ended in recount with very narrow margin for Boebert
         1. https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/08/22/lauren-boebert-adam-frisch-2024-poll-colorado
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2. Yeah No…
   1. Human rights limited in Red States https://missouriindependent.com/2023/09/15/missouri-lags-behind-most-states-for-childrens-rights-advocacy-group-finds/
      1. From article: Human Rights Watch, measured every state’s laws against the standards of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international treaty that the U.S. has not ratified.
      2. The organization examined every state’s laws on child marriage, corporal punishment, child labor and juvenile justice.
      3. No state received an A or B grade. Missouri and 15 other states received an F grade - Mississippi was dead last, New Jersey was first
3. Really a larger human rights issue in states like MO
   1. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/13/dobbs-pregnancy-maternal-health-00115561
   2. Note for Rachel: “New data reveals an unexpected consequence of these developments” UNEXPECTED BY WHOM, POLITICO?
   3. DeSantis using same kind of anti-public health BS https://www.semafor.com/article/09/15/2023/desantis-camp-bets-on-covid-lgbt-backlash-to-return-to-2024-relevance
   4. Anti-LGBTQ ad DeSantis is running Iowa https://youtu.be/N58q7-hUWj4?feature=shared
4. Yeah, Yeah!
   1. Nashville progressives take the day with Freddie O’Connell’s election as mayor
   2. From TN Lookout: https://tennesseelookout.com/2023/09/14/freddie-oconnell-wins-nashville-mayoral-election-in-landslide-victory/
   3. Nice follow up from our discussion about Gloria Johnson’s chance in the TN senate race
   4. From article: O’Connell grabbed 64% of the vote, while his opponent, former Republican strategist Alice Rolli, snagged 36%. A total of 114,103 people voted in the runoff.
5. Buy or Sell…
   1. The GOP’s continued push on impeaching Biden is a plus for Dems
      1. Ken Buck (notably of House Freedom and sedition caucus) on CNN says McCarthy KNEW he didn’t have the votes to open inquiry, says at least 20 GOP members in house would vote NO
      2. So much of it is tied to Ukraine too, almost feels as much about discrediting support for Ukraine as it is attack on Biden?
         1. Ukraine senator support story: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article279264219.html?ac_cid=DM847839&ac_bid=-320453519
6. McCarthy seems to know it’s super dumb, may be its a trade off to keep form a shutdown on funding which would probably be really, really super dumb
   1. Good NPR article on risks for GOP here https://www.npr.org/2023/09/16/1199818085/republicans-impeachment-polling-biden-mccarthy
7. The Big One
   1. Googling Google… no really, it’s worth a google. Or a bing. Or an ask jeeves
      1. Google is going on trial
         1. SEMAFOR article: https://www.semafor.com/article/09/12/2023/google-antitrust-trial-opens-us
            1. A massive antitrust trial opens against Google and its parent company Alphabet Tuesday. The trial, brought by the U.S. Justice Department, alleges that the tech giant used its power to squash any competition, illegally making itself the default search engine on many apps and services.
8. VOX article: https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/9/11/23864514/google-search-antitrust-trial
9. Bork-ing of corporate oversight in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox

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