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First order of business for the Republican House: repeal funding earmarked to ensure that the wealthy pay what they legally owe.

Kyle Cheney of Politico has flagged one of the craven concessions McCarthy made to the sedition caucus: a green light for House committees to seize the right to monitor ongoing DOJ investigations–investigations that are inevitably targeting the likes of coup participants like Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

to prevent corruption in New York governance:

New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, who represents several Brooklyn communities, refuses campaign donations from the real-estate community–or, for that matter, from for-profit corporations.

I don’t care how close Ginny and Clarence Thomas are with Liz Cheney, we need to know about the criminality of the wife of a corrupt Supreme Court justice.

And ignoring MTG is not going to make her go away.

The Democrats must launch a daily rebuttal of her tirades, no matter how improbable they seem, because, yes, many Americans will believe her if she isn’t challenged.

For years, the Dems have made the disastrous miscalculation that Americans are more rational and informed than they really ae.

HE’S ASKED BY KARILYN PRISCO IN THE OCTOBER 2022 WEST VIEW NEWS:
“How does it feel to speak as a different age, gender, or member of a different demographic group when writing?”

“It feels scary but exciting. It feels like I’m stretching the limit of my craft. When I first started writing these stories the voices I knew well were the voices of the young thug and the sassy urban black female, but as I thought more and more about residents in a given building, I realized people can fit all kinds of different definitions. In order to portray them accurately, I had no choice but to go across age and gender. I took it as a challenge. This day and age it’s tough because everybody has their own idea of identity politics, but I think the beauty of fiction is inhabiting other people and swimming around in their skin.”

In other words, Fofana is functioning as a creative artist, as all writers should be allowed to.

Are the Own Voices agitators and the publishers they’ve bamboozled actually asking us to accept that writers of color should not be censored, but everyone else should be?

Do they not understand how this plays into the agenda of Republican party fascists?

Marina Harss reviews Red Star, White Nights for Wendy Perron’s annual round-up of dance books of note.

I had never heard of a couple of these books–Wendy is performing a public service!

Just heard about another, pre-emptive ambush by the “own voices” movement. Totally unprofessional and unjust.

On the one hand we have a resurgence of the most virulent racism unleashed by fascists like DeSantis and Trump.

On the other hand we have institutional prejudice being hard-wired into the publishing/media industries in the name of combatting that very same racism.

As Truthout, Tyler Walicek describes how SF’s Proposition M “will disincentivize large landlords from leaving units unfilled, while the revenue it brings in will go towards homelessness prevention and affordable housing.”

The moral vacuum leading Florida wants to loosen gun restrictions while demonizing life-saving vaccines.

Floridians re-electing him have signed up for the destruction of their state.