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BOC turns away from transparency

Transparency  and public participation  should be a cornerstone of government.   Tis requires citizens to receive timely notice of what matters government is considering.  In August  the Coos County Board of Commissioners {BOC}  adopted two resolutions through a process that undermined these principles. 

Can we disqualify Main and Taylor from holding public office

Main also provided campaign advice and guidance to the group whose members have been infiltrating nonpartisan positions from school boards to transit districts. Let’s not forget that Main uses his platform as a commissioner to bash opposing political views at commission meetings. Does this qualify as aid and comfort to the enemy? I personally think so and view Main as a threat to democracy.

Main and Taylor vote to violate state and federal law

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” ― Bertrand Russell

New Law Authorizes Lawsuits Against Private Militias

Under the new law, an individual or group of individuals harmed by militia activity can file a civil cause of action against those that harm them. The law also authorizes Oregon’s Attorney General to investigate, and if necessary, to ask a court for injunctive relief to stop militia misconduct. 

Election Lies Never Die

Despite Trump supporters losing over 60 court cases, most rank-and-file Republicans still think the 2020 election was stolen.  It is now fashionable among the GOP to claim any election they don’t win was stolen. 

Coos County needs some real action. Let’s get started

The authoritarian and fascist agenda of extremist white Christian nationalism is a serious threat to democracy. How do we fight back, then?

Citizens Restoring Liberty not dedicated to honesty

One interesting thing did come out and has been alluded to earlier by Matt Wilbanks on his blog is that a rift has formed amongst the CRL ranks.

Anti-democracy Christian nationalists threat to public safety

CRL also likes to invoke a lot of Sturm und Drang over drag queens, and the LGBTQIA+ community accusing them of being “groomers” and creating “indoctrination playgrounds” at public schools. Taylor, in his capacity as commissioner, wants to strip parents of their right to choose what their children read and along with his cult followers ban and burn books and purge local libraries of literature they/the Christian right deem “inappropriate.”

Geddry & Jurich Episode 8

Mary & Israel discuss what sustainability is and what it might look like in Coos County

Feckless leadership of Rod Taylor

Taylor inadvertently admits to being a failed leader when he likens his acolytes to a herd of cats who may have behaved in “unproductive ways.”

GLOBAL

Clarence Thomas & the Billionaire

Clarence Thomas & the Billionaire

For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe.

Ten Things You Should Know About Socialism

Ten Things You Should Know About Socialism

We need to understand socialism because it has shaped our history and will shape our future. It is an immense resource: the accumulated thoughts, experiences, and experiments accomplished by those yearning to do better than capitalism.

DNC Mask HYpocrisy

DNC Mask HYpocrisy

Enjoy the video below where Glenn Greenwald excoriates Alexandria Ocasia Cortez for failure to wear a mask and her “tax the rich” evening gown at the NY Met Gala

LOCAL

BOC turns away from transparency

BOC turns away from transparency

Transparency  and public participation  should be a cornerstone of government.   Tis requires citizens to receive timely notice of what matters government is considering.  In August  the Coos County Board of Commissioners {BOC}  adopted two resolutions through a process that undermined these principles. 

Can we disqualify Main and Taylor from holding public office

Can we disqualify Main and Taylor from holding public office

Main also provided campaign advice and guidance to the group whose members have been infiltrating nonpartisan positions from school boards to transit districts. Let’s not forget that Main uses his platform as a commissioner to bash opposing political views at commission meetings. Does this qualify as aid and comfort to the enemy? I personally think so and view Main as a threat to democracy.

Climate

Politics

Clarence Thomas & the Billionaire

Clarence Thomas & the Billionaire

For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe.

Energy

Coos County

BOC turns away from transparency

BOC turns away from transparency

Transparency  and public participation  should be a cornerstone of government.   Tis requires citizens to receive timely notice of what matters government is considering.  In August  the Coos County Board of Commissioners {BOC}  adopted two resolutions through a process that undermined these principles. 

Can we disqualify Main and Taylor from holding public office

Can we disqualify Main and Taylor from holding public office

Main also provided campaign advice and guidance to the group whose members have been infiltrating nonpartisan positions from school boards to transit districts. Let’s not forget that Main uses his platform as a commissioner to bash opposing political views at commission meetings. Does this qualify as aid and comfort to the enemy? I personally think so and view Main as a threat to democracy.