It smacks of the kind of twisted logic you might find in Business Insider (who only recently stopped writing articles about "how workers secretly hate working from home"). Also, there's no linked journal paper, so we should assume this hasn't been peer reviewed at all. Garbage article, garbage conclusion.
Not just farmers. People who own land often get money from oil companies just to prospect oil. I was in a jury selection for a case with two oil companies fighting, and there were so many people who had gotten or were still getting money for mineral rights or pumps.
It's the classic Boomer (which is mostly a Conservative demographic) trope of "fuck you, got mine." Their child-bearing years are long over, so time to be gigantic busybodies and force their subjective morals onto their children and grandchildren.
There's an elderly care crisis for the looming, and it's fueled by actions like these.
That's the Republican spirit. "Fuck their water shortage! I don't have a water shortage, so why should I give them anything until they give me my water back‽"
Which is exactly why it's so important that we ensure Democrats win a majority in both chambers of Congress (if we presume Trump will win, which I don't). It won't stop Trump from doing damage, but it will slow him down and prevent at least some of it.
There's lots at stake, and lots of downballot races deserve our attention.
I think that's because the "left" states are really just politically center. There's some that are doing more progressive things like Michigan, but since the GOP is now infected with extreme right goobers, the policies they push are also extreme right, which in turn pushes out anyone center or left of center.
The left analog would be progressive policies that push out the bigots (like Civil Rights and desegregation for trans people), but we don't have any examples of that these days, since that's not where any of the democratic state governments are.
Yes, good. Keep banging that drum. Surely, this hasn't been proven over and over again to be a loser issue at the polls...
But seriously, this is how they intend to solidify their hold: run off the good teachers (including the allies) to reduce the quality of education, so the voting base that's left is uneducated, feed them propaganda they no longer have the intellectual tools to question, profit.
Don't check out in November. There's a lot of seats up for grabs, and we can't let these people have a majority. Fuck theocrats.
“If we allowed encampments in this instance, it would be nearly impossible to stop encampments from other groups in the future without facing challenges of chilling speech or viewpoint discrimination.” —UT President Jay Hartzell
Yeah, Jay. That's kind of the point of the right to free speech, free assembly, and protest. That's why your goon squad dropped all charges against every protestor you arrested, because they didn't actually commit a crime and were in fact exercising their rights.
A good point. It's why I will always be a proponent of books and libraries. Everyone deserves access to the wealth of information we've discovered as a species.