Thorough on the Wisconsin situation if you're interested in the details. #wipol #badger

"While Republicans have used partisan gerrymandering to maintain their large majorities in the Legislature, voters have elected Democrats to all but one of the statewide executive offices that are decided on a partisan basis, including governor and attorney general. They also have elected a Republican and a Democrat to the U.S. Senate — votes that also are done on a statewide basis."
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-impeachment-republicans-gerrymandering-legislature-21fc8c3cf99623a379cbf4dd01ed0b8c

In today's Cap Times of #Madison #wipol

"It is just that I think there actually is a lot of journalism in 2023 that identifies and labels lies and threats to our democracy. I think the national media did learn lessons from normalizing Trump’s 2016 campaign.

"By far the bigger problem is that many Americans refuse to listen. And I wonder whether constantly bashing professional journalists is all that helpful."
—Paul Fanlund

Opinion | Stop blaming the mainstream media
https://captimes.com/opinion/paul-fanlund/opinion-stop-blaming-the-mainstream-media-for-trump-s-resilience/article_7ae82482-ee66-52a1-beb8-2534a9c3189c.html

Badger badger badger. My sad home state in the news again. #wipol

Via the NYT home page:

Scott Walker boondoggle in the news. #Wisconsin #wipol

“It’s very easy for things to go awry in a big way,” David Merriman, a professor of public policy at University of Illinois at Chicago, said of government-backed economic development. “The standard should be, if it doesn’t make economic sense to do the project, you don’t do the project. There’s got to be some spillover benefits beyond the developer.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/22/foxconn-wisconsin-trump/

WI GOP is holding DEI programs hostage for $32M

#WIpol #wisconsin #education #diversity

https://captimes.com/news/education/republicans-targeting-diversity-efforts-set-to-cut-uw-system-budget/article_4f1a7eda-3cd3-5287-99bb-6d2d6a54c69e.html

My home state, and my old school, in the news. What a disunited mess. #wipol

"Medical schools in Wisconsin and the other states with near total bans can't teach abortion care.

"[Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Tammy] Baldwin says that, since the Dobbs decision, there's been a documented drop in OB-GYN medical residents who are applying to practice in Wisconsin and other states with bans."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/15/1182385919/all-ob-gyns-need-abortion-care-training-new-bill-aims-to-help-them-get-it

Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford becomes the first trans woman ever elected in Madison, Wisconsin!

Every vote counts.

Dina Nina won by 54 votes.

Go out and vote in every election.

Run for office if you have the capacity.

#wisconsin #madison #danecounty #Transgender #trans #elections #democracy #wipol #uspol #transjoy

@JamesFinn

"Republican state Rep. Dan Knodl has won the special election for Wisconsin’s 8th Senate District, securing a two-thirds GOP majority in the chamber that allows the party to impeach state office holders."
#wipol

https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/dan-knodl-wins-8th-senate-district-race-giving-gop-supermajority-in-wisconsin-senate/article_b03ebed9-385e-50ab-84bf-fc23bcac3f74.html

One side note of Janet's #SCOWI victory: Masking mandates to protect the disabled (and fucking EVERYONE ALIVE) won't be struck down by fucking anti-science Clerics cosplaying as Judges.

#SCOWI
#WIpol
#CovidIsNotOver

Dan Kelly shows what #Fascism and #Privilege look like embodied in an angry, crusty old white man who refuses to concede with a modicum of decency.

They play for keeps, and what they want to keep/take are your rights and your money.

https://www.channel3000.com/news/protasiewicz-beats-kelly-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-will-replace-retiring-roggensack/article_6a933f2a-d240-11ed-b251-6386e5d78a74.html

"I wish that in a circumstance like this I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent, but I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede," Kelly said.

#WIpol #WI #fascism #nonconcessionism

"Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal Milwaukee County judge, won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday — giving liberals a majority on the court for the first time since 2008 and bolstering their hopes that the state’s ban on abortion, along with its Republican-friendly electoral maps, could be revisited." #wipol
https://captimes.com/news/government/janet-protasiewicz-wins-seat-on-wisconsin-supreme-court/article_dd370a12-a1ed-5866-8ba9-2b8afcc2034a.html

I 100% believe that the difference in the WI-08 state senate race could come down to:

Science-denying antivaxxer antimatter killing themselves off at a faster rare than those of us living in the 21st Century.

#WI #COVID19 #wipolitics #WIpol #CovidIsNotOver

10 more Postcards to voters, for #wisconsin Supreme Court, featuring #vintage #stamps #PostcardsToVoters #uspol #wipol #judgejanet #protasiewicz #elections #activism #Politics #uspolitics #democrats

Postcards to voters, for #wisconsin Supreme Court, featuring vintage stamps #PostcardsToVoters #uspol #wipol #vintage #stamps #judgejanet

#WIPol #Wisconsin state supreme court strikes down "dark store" tax theory that allowed big box stores to avoid paying large chunks of property taxes. Seems like very good news for municipalities! https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2023/02/16/without-dissent-wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-blow-to-dark-store-tax-theory/

As long as we're doing Supreme Court justice discourse:

We have an opportunity to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court in April.

Sign up to volunteer with the Wisconsin Dems (wisdems.org) or Janet Protasiewicz's campaign (https://www.janetforjustice.com/volunteer) to get involved!

#FlipTheCourt #WiPol #WiDems

They are so determined to push the "election fraud" narrative that they are willing to disenfranchise the very people sworn to fight for our freedoms, out of fear that some tiny fraction of the .05% of Wisconsin votes come this way might be fraudulent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/05/wisconsin-military-ballots-fraud-lawsuit/
#WIPol, #politics, #elections