People would rather cling to the fairy tale that one party is a hero and the other is a villain than accept the fact that we live in a nightmare where both parties are villains who turned our government into a money-laundering syndicate for billionaires, corporations, and Israel.
We’re in final stage of capitalism where global capital can’t expand or sustain past profits. It’s now consuming public institutions and key systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term gain.
Climate change denialism is such an obvious farce that it now requires Republicans to actively sabotage our data collection systems, fire hundreds of atmospheric scientists and oceanographers, and censor research.
More lies from Abbott to cover his hatred for Texas public schools.
He has purposely starved them to death for years.
Schools have reached a breaking point.
It’s time for sweeping changes in Austin.
Support Texas public schools.
Vote out Abbott and Patrick along with Paxton.
The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.
This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.
At some point the UIL, THSCA, and every coach in Texas should realize that your stipend won’t go up, your planning time will continue to be cut, and facilities will go under maintained as long as the current Texas government keeps underfunding public education.
To be clear, the Confederacy was defeated through violence. Combined with more than a decade of legally prohibiting anyone involved in that godforsaken regime from ever being able to participate in the political process. And even *that* was insufficient to put those bastards down for good. That’s a historical fact.