We are a political bunch. The presidential election isn't interesting. But there are all sorts of local issues and offices on our ballots.
Is anyone here running for a position in this election? Is there a ballot measure or candidate for a local office that you are working for? Campaigning for anything is difficult this election because of Covid. People have had to be a little creative.
The latest polls out of Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina show Trump with a slight lead in those states.
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FBI Charges 13 Men in Plot to Kidnap Michigan Governor:The headlines are everywhere, although I haven’t spotted a #Hashtag yet. This is from The Independent, wsws. org has a lot of articles; this will take you to their posts tagged similarly: ‘The fascist coup plot in Michigan’, they’ve even created this timeline of the unfolding plot above.
In this exposé:’ Democrats call for “patience” as Trump moves forward with coup plot’, Eric London writes:
“Be careful of her and her attorney general,” Trump told the crowd in reference to Whitmer and the state’s top lawyer, Democrat Dana Nessel. “Because you know, they’re, like, in charge of the ballot stuff.” At the mention of Whitmer, the crowd chanted, “Lock her up!”
"We are surrounded by a world that talks, but we don't listen.""We are part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our role in it."In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, the ability to stand in the flow of the great conversation of all creatures and the earth can feel utterly lost to the human race. But Belden C. Lane suggests that it can and must be recovered, not only for the sake of endangered species and the well-being of at-risk communities, but for the survival of the world itself.
The Great Conversation is Lane's multi-faceted treatise on a spiritually centered environmentalism. At the core is a belief in the power of the natural world to act as teacher. In a series of personal anecdotes, Lane pairs his own experiences in the wild with the writings of saints and sages from a wide range of religious traditions. A night in a Missourian cave brings to mind the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola; the canyons of southern Utah elicit a response from the Chinese philosopher Laozi; 500,000 migrating sandhill cranes rest in Nebraska and evoke the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. With each chapter, the humility of spiritual masters through the ages melds with the author's encounters with natural teachers to offer guidance for entering once more into a conversation with the world.
"We need that wild country…even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be…a part of the geography of hope."
-- Wallace Stegner on sacred places
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So far, I've only projected two flip states, AZ and MI. Two trending in that direction, PA and WI. Two more also trending blue, but less so, IA and NC, with IA more likely to flip than NC.
Guess it's time for the “red” F state. (I'm literally allergic to it. Some critter(s) there love to chomp on me and leaves my legs covered in huge blisters.) And two tiny (population wise) states that for good reasons get ignored.
Florida
