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  1. Nobody needs to hear the state is going to do the best that they can. That's all we've ever heard. We need it #codified #exactly what it is just like the #UDHR. Oh my goodness, this is not difficult, but we are just laboring over a trifle as it were since the solution stares at us. Sigh.

  2. Democrats: Look to #Minnesota’s #Miracle.

    The avalanche of #progressive #legislation that the state’s two-vote Democratic majority in the
    state House and one-vote advantage in the state Senate have enacted this year is a wonder to behold.

    .β€œDemocrats #codified #abortion #rights, #paid #family and #medical #leave, #sick leave, #transgender rights protections, drivers #licenses for #undocumented residents, restoration of #voting rights for people when they are released from prison or jail, wider voting access, one-time rebates, a #tax #credit aimed at low-income parents with #kids, and a $1 billion #investment in #affordable #housing including for rental assistance.”

    Take a breath and move on: β€œAlso adopted were #background #checks for private #gun #transfers and a #redflag #warning system to take guns from people deemed by a judge to be a threat to themselves or others.

    [Democratic] lawmakers banned conversion therapy for LGBTQ people, legalized recreational marijuana, expanded education funding, required a carbon-free electric grid by 2040, adopted a new reading curricula based on phonics, passed a massive $2.58 billion capital construction package and, at the insistence of Republicans, a $300 million emergency infusion of money to nursing homes.” The mix of tax cuts and increases, by the way, will make the state’s revenue system more progressive

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