Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at Tom Harbin.

Come. Welcome back, Tom Harbin here with you.

Well let's just take a broad look at what this administration and the Republican Party

all across the country are up to right now.

Good Twitty was tweeting last week that, well actually on March 31st, that just a few days ago

that a black mother in Texas who accidentally voted before her parole ended.

You get this?

Now, in many states, I think in most states,

as long as you're not in jail, you can vote. But in the voter suppression states, in the states that have large black and Hispanic populations that the local white power structures trying to keep down, historically one of the ways that they keep people down is by

is by criminalizing almost everything, so large numbers of people become criminals,

and then preventing people who have a criminal

background from voting making it illegal and in Texas it's illegal to

vote when you're on parole this woman did not know that. She is black. She was sentenced to five years

in prison for voting while on probation.

On the other hand, the former chair of the GOP in that state, Steve Curtis was convicted of voter fraud.

He's white.

He was sentenced to probation. So there's that. Then

there's you know Ryan Zinke, lying about the public lands lands Ryan Zinke is the Secretary of the

Interior he's in charge of our public parks and our public lands which he is

aggressively profitizing I used to say privatizing I want to start saying

profitizing more and because that's really what it is it's like how can we make a

profit off public lands and he said that the 18 billion dollar investment that we're going to make is, you know,

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