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Good News for Lefties and America. Hello, and thanks for
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joining this edition of Good News for Lefties. I'm Baowulf Rocklin,
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and I'm ready to help you get past the doom
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and gloom and find hope in these difficult times with
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positive stories for lefties, progressives, socialists, liberals, and anyone who
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believes in making America a better place for everyone. To
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help us spread the positivity. If you enjoy the show,
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podcast platform of choice, and share this episode with a friend.
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It helps some more lefties like you hear more good
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news stories and stay positive and motivated for the days ahead.
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Now let's get to some good news headlines designed to
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brighten your day. The Trump administration agreed on Monday to
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keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National
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Monument reversing Course after removing the banner in februs Quary,
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after a year's long campaign by activists who wanted the
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flag symbolizing LGBTQ plus pride to be flown daily inside
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the Park Service run site. The banner was formally installed
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in twenty twenty two during Democrat Joe Biden's presidency. But
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in February, the Park Service removed the flag in what
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the agency explained as compliance with federal guidance on flag displays.
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Trump's administration similarly has put national parks, museums, and landmarks
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under a messaging microscope, aiming to remove or alter materials
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that the government says are divisive or partisan, or inappropriately
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disparage Americans. Democratic President Barack Obama created the Stonewall Monument
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in twenty sixteen. The monument centers on a tiny park
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across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the Gay Bar,
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where in nineteen sixty nine police raids sparked an uprising
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and helped catalyze the modern LGBTQ plus rights move. According
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to court papers, the Interior Department and National Park Service
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has confirmed their intention to maintain a Pride flag at Stonewall.
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It won't be removed except for maintenance or other practical purposes.
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The Park Service insisted that the monument remains committed to
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preserving and interpreting the history and significance of this site
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through various exhibits and programs. But LGBTQ plus activists saw
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the flag's removal as a targeted affront meant to diminish
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a site that is all about their fight for rights
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and visibility. For the second time in three years, the
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Illinois House voted to ban hidden junk fees that are
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often added to the total cost of ticketed events, hotel rooms,
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and other goods and services. The legislation, sponsored by Representative
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Bob Morgan, passed seventy seven to eighteen. It was among
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more than eighty bills the House approved Thursday afternoon. House
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Built two twenty eight amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive
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Business Practices Act to make a violation for a business
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to not display all mandatory fees and charges they're adding
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on top of a listed price. This bill delivers on
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a promise that's quite simple. The price that you see
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should be the price that you pay, Morgan told lawmakers
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during flooria debate. Morgan said the bill was like the
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one that passed a couple of years ago, but ambiguous
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language was tightened up to make it easier for businesses
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to comply and the Illinois Attorney General's Office to enforce.
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In a State of the State address this year, Governor J. B.
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Pritzker explicitly called for lawmakers to get the issue across
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the finish line, arguing that such fees were quietly nickel
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and diming Illinois families out of thousands of dollars per year.
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Nine Republicans joined supermajority Democrats in supporting the amendment bill.
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Now the bill moves to the Illinois Senate. So my
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friends Jen and Dan do a podcast called Bandcamp, a
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comedy podcast where they read banned books and try to
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The new season has started and it's live now. The
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book is The Catcher and the Rye by JD. Salinger.
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it got banned. The twist, neither of them has ever
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read the book before, so you're basically listening to two
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A federal judge which dismissed the Department of Justice's lawsuit
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demanding Massachusetts unredacted voter registration rules Thursday, making the fourth
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loss for the agency with zero wins out of thirty
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active cases since Donald Trump returned to office. The DOJ
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demanded unfettered access to every state's voter registration records as
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part of the administration's obsessive focus on immigration enforcement. While
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seventeen Republican led states have complied, the rest have refused,
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leading the DOJ to sue twenty nine states and Washington,
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d c. For their voter rules. But when the DOJ
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demanded Massachusetts voter data, it failed to explain why, as
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required by the nineteen sixty Civil Rights Act. District Court
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Judge Leos Surcan noted in his opinion in state after state,
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the DOJ failed to explicitly do that, leading to their
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losses in California and Oregon. Under the CRA, the DOJ
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can request copies of state voter records to ensure compliance
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with federal laws, provided that the agency also provides a
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basis and purpose for the demand. In state after state,
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the DOJ failed to explicitly do that, leading to their
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losses in California and Oregon. A Trump appointed judge in
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Michigan also ruled against the DOJ's demands on separate legal grounds.
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Soregon cited all of those cases in his ruling. The
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requirement that the Attorney General state the basis for her
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request is mandatory, not a mere formality with which the
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federal government or this court is free to dispense, wrote
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Sorrogon and his ruling. Unlike the Justice Department's demand letters
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directed at some other jurisdictions, neither the July twenty second
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letter nor the August fourteenth letter pointed to any purported
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anomalies within Massachusetts's voter registration data.
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A U. S.
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District judge in Minnesota ruled Thursday that federal agencies have
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three weeks to produce troves of unredacted evidence related to
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the killing of Renee Good by federal immigration agent Jonathan Ross.
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The evidence is similar to what the State of Minnesota
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is demanding from Goods Killing in an unprecedented lawsuit against
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the Trump administration filed last month in the US District
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Court for the District of Columbia, but the order releasing
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the evidence stems from the prosecution of Roberto Carlos Munyo's Guatemala,
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who was convicted of assaulting Ross last year in a
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violent traffic accident in Bloomington. Eric Newmark, the attorney for
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Munyo's Guatemala, successfully argued that Goods Killing could produce new
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evidence related to Ross's tactics that affect sentencing or the
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possibility of requesting a new trial. Munyo's Guatemala was convicted
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of assaulting Ross after dragging him several hundred feet with
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his car on June seventeenth, twenty twenty five. Ross was
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attempting to execute an immigration arrest in Bloomington and his
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arm was inside the rear window when Munyo's Guatemala accelerated
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and attempted to flee. Judge Jeffrey Bryan ruled that Munyos
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Guatemala's right to do process included the disclosure of any
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relevant evidence through the sentencing face of his trial. Federal
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guidelines also require the court to consider whether any wrongful
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conduct by Ross contributed significantly to Munyo's Guatemala's decision to
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flee the scene. If it is determined that Ross's conduct
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did play a role in Munyo's Guatemala's crime, the court
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may reduce the sentence below the guideline range. Up next,
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a listener suggested story back in a minute, and Now,
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a listener suggested story from mindy. In Boise, Idaho, a
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week after taking down rainbow Pride flags to comply with
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a new state law, Boise City Hall installed a banner
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and wrapped its flag poles with LGBTQ colors. A large
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sign with rainbow stripes and the words creating a City
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for Everyone Now hangs on the outside of city Hall,
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while poles in front of the plaza are also adorned
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in Pride colors. Lawmakers passed a ban on unofficial flags
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last year, but didn't include a way to enforce violations.
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Boise then vote to make the Pride flag official and
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continue to fly it. Last Tuesday, Governor Brad Liddell signed
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House Bill five sixty one into law, prohibiting government entities
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from flying non official flags, with fines up to two
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thousand dollars a day for not complying. Only the US flag,
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state flag, official military flags, recognized tribal flags, and the
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Basque flag are allowed. The Basque flag huh. Well, the
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law pertained to flags, and we are in full compliance
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with the law. Mayor Lauren MacLean said on Tuesday, good
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for her. We have a rich history of an arts
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and culture scene here, the mayor added, so because it's allowed,
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we have installed art that demonstrates our values to being
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a safe and welcoming city to everyone. Boise flew pride
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flags for a decade before they were removed last week
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when the new stricter law was adopted. While they may
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not fly flags for the time being, the people of
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Boise can and will continue to show their pride. Thanks
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so much for that story, Mindy. If you have thoughts, ideas,
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or more good news to share, we'd love to hear
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from you, Call or message us at two zero two
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Lefties on Facebook, Instagram, or blue Sky. Turning Point USA's
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political arms spent months pouring money and resources into a
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little known utility election in Arizona, an effort that contributed
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to massive increase in voter turnout but ultimately failed to
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stave off a challenge from a slate of clean energy candidates.
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Salt River Project held elections on Tuesday for the boards
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and councils that set policy and make other decisions on
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behalf of its water and power utilities. SRP utilizes a
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unique electoral system that only allows landowners within SRP territory
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to cast votes, and for most positions, those votes are
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allocated based on a landowner's total acreage, giving large property
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owners more influence than leaving most homeowners with a fraction
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of a vote. For years, those elections have flown under
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the radar, but interest in the election exploded this year
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after Turning Point Action. The political arm of Turning Point
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USA waged a large scale get out the vote campaign
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and endorsed a slate of pro industry candidates. Turning Points
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efforts did not result in a clean sweep for its candidates,
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according to unofficial results released on Wednesday night. Instead, a
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slate of clean energy candidates is claiming victory after it
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won five seats on the board for SRP's power utility.
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The win gives clean energy advocates an eight to six
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majority on the board, which they say they will use
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to push SRP management to adopt more solar, battery storage
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and other renewable energy options. It's unclear exactly how much
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money Turning Point is spent on the effort because it
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has not filed any required campaign finance disclosure, but Tyler Boyer,
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Turning Point Action COO, told The Phoenix New Times the
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organization injected millions of dollars of capital into the election.
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Bye bye dollars. And that is a wrap for today's
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edition of Good News for Lefties. For more on today's stories,
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hosting the weekend editions of this show. I'm bea Wolf
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Rocklin weird name good news for lefties and America.
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Here's what you've been missing on the Stephanie Miller Happy
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Hour Podcast. So Ran controls the Straight, Then that's the
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And in case you missed them, here are some more
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good news headlines. A new poll on Donald Trump suggests
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that many American voters are regretting their votes for him.
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The numbers came amid an ongoing war between Iran and
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the United States. The University of Massachusetts recently conducted a
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Yugov poll in which many respondents reported feeling unhappy after
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voting for Trump. According to the survey, only sixty two
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percent of American voters are satisfied with their decision to
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vote for him, a decline from the seventy four percent
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in April of twenty twenty five. The changes in Trump's
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job approval ratings are happening as the war between Iran
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and the United States goes on. The war has led
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to arise in oil prices, affecting citizens across the country. Moreover,
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previous polls indicate that a partial government shutdown has also
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resulted in disapproval among respondents. A recent poll by The
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of respondents were happy with Trump's work in his second term. Overall,
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fifty percent of par respondents have complaints about the president's performance.
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Maine's seventy two
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hour waiting period on gun purchases is likely constitutional, handing
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gun control advocates a significant victory in a high profile
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Second Amendment case. Maine is one of roughly a dozen
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Maine annually. Maine's Democratic controlled legislature approved the seventy two
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hour waiting period law two years ago as part of
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a suite of gun measures passed after the October twenty
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twenty three Lewiston mass shootings that left eighteen people dead.
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constitutionality of the waiting period, but on Friday, a three
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judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in
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Boston disagreed. The law briefly delays acquisitions of firearms from
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commercial dealers. Reads the ruling, but it does not prevent
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a law abiding and responsible citizen from obtaining them and
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keeping or bearing a firearm after fulfilling the waiting period requirement.
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In our view, this likely renders a burden on, but
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not an infringement of, the Second Amendment right to keep
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in bare arms. We therefore view the imposition of a
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brief waiting period as a non abusive effort by Mane
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to address a documented problem arising from the immediate acquisition
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of firearms or remaining sensitive to minimizing the Second Amendment
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burdens imposed by the Act.
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joining this edition of Good News for Lefties. I'm Baowulf Rocklin,
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It helps some more lefties like you hear more good
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news stories and stay positive and motivated for the days ahead.
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Now let's get to some good news headlines designed to
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brighten your day. The Trump administration agreed on Monday to
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keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National
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Monument reversing Course after removing the banner in februs Quary,
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after a year's long campaign by activists who wanted the
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flag symbolizing LGBTQ plus pride to be flown daily inside
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the Park Service run site. The banner was formally installed
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in twenty twenty two during Democrat Joe Biden's presidency. But
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in February, the Park Service removed the flag in what
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the agency explained as compliance with federal guidance on flag displays.
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Trump's administration similarly has put national parks, museums, and landmarks
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under a messaging microscope, aiming to remove or alter materials
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that the government says are divisive or partisan, or inappropriately
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disparage Americans. Democratic President Barack Obama created the Stonewall Monument
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in twenty sixteen. The monument centers on a tiny park
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across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the Gay Bar,
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where in nineteen sixty nine police raids sparked an uprising
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and helped catalyze the modern LGBTQ plus rights move. According
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to court papers, the Interior Department and National Park Service
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has confirmed their intention to maintain a Pride flag at Stonewall.
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It won't be removed except for maintenance or other practical purposes.
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The Park Service insisted that the monument remains committed to
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preserving and interpreting the history and significance of this site
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through various exhibits and programs. But LGBTQ plus activists saw
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the flag's removal as a targeted affront meant to diminish
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a site that is all about their fight for rights
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and visibility. For the second time in three years, the
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Illinois House voted to ban hidden junk fees that are
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often added to the total cost of ticketed events, hotel rooms,
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and other goods and services. The legislation, sponsored by Representative
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Bob Morgan, passed seventy seven to eighteen. It was among
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more than eighty bills the House approved Thursday afternoon. House
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Built two twenty eight amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive
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Business Practices Act to make a violation for a business
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to not display all mandatory fees and charges they're adding
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on top of a listed price. This bill delivers on
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a promise that's quite simple. The price that you see
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should be the price that you pay, Morgan told lawmakers
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during flooria debate. Morgan said the bill was like the
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one that passed a couple of years ago, but ambiguous
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language was tightened up to make it easier for businesses
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to comply and the Illinois Attorney General's Office to enforce.
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In a State of the State address this year, Governor J. B.
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Pritzker explicitly called for lawmakers to get the issue across
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the finish line, arguing that such fees were quietly nickel
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and diming Illinois families out of thousands of dollars per year.
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Nine Republicans joined supermajority Democrats in supporting the amendment bill.
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Now the bill moves to the Illinois Senate. So my
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friends Jen and Dan do a podcast called Bandcamp, a
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comedy podcast where they read banned books and try to
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The new season has started and it's live now. The
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book is The Catcher and the Rye by JD. Salinger.
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It's been traumatizing school boards since nineteen fifty one because
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it's protagonist, sixteen year old Holden Callfield, says damn a
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it got banned. The twist, neither of them has ever
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read the book before, so you're basically listening to two
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grown adults finally doing their high school homework out loud together,
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slightly confused. Ten seasons in, they still haven't found a
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good reason to ban any of them. And I'm excited
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every episode with a special news segment covering the latest
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A federal judge which dismissed the Department of Justice's lawsuit
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demanding Massachusetts unredacted voter registration rules Thursday, making the fourth
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loss for the agency with zero wins out of thirty
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active cases since Donald Trump returned to office. The DOJ
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demanded unfettered access to every state's voter registration records as
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part of the administration's obsessive focus on immigration enforcement. While
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seventeen Republican led states have complied, the rest have refused,
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leading the DOJ to sue twenty nine states and Washington,
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d c. For their voter rules. But when the DOJ
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demanded Massachusetts voter data, it failed to explain why, as
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required by the nineteen sixty Civil Rights Act. District Court
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Judge Leos Surcan noted in his opinion in state after state,
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the DOJ failed to explicitly do that, leading to their
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losses in California and Oregon. Under the CRA, the DOJ
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can request copies of state voter records to ensure compliance
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with federal laws, provided that the agency also provides a
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basis and purpose for the demand. In state after state,
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the DOJ failed to explicitly do that, leading to their
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losses in California and Oregon. A Trump appointed judge in
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Michigan also ruled against the DOJ's demands on separate legal grounds.
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Soregon cited all of those cases in his ruling. The
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requirement that the Attorney General state the basis for her
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request is mandatory, not a mere formality with which the
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federal government or this court is free to dispense, wrote
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Sorrogon and his ruling. Unlike the Justice Department's demand letters
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directed at some other jurisdictions, neither the July twenty second
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letter nor the August fourteenth letter pointed to any purported
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anomalies within Massachusetts's voter registration data.
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A U. S.
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District judge in Minnesota ruled Thursday that federal agencies have
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three weeks to produce troves of unredacted evidence related to
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the killing of Renee Good by federal immigration agent Jonathan Ross.
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The evidence is similar to what the State of Minnesota
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is demanding from Goods Killing in an unprecedented lawsuit against
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the Trump administration filed last month in the US District
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Court for the District of Columbia, but the order releasing
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the evidence stems from the prosecution of Roberto Carlos Munyo's Guatemala,
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who was convicted of assaulting Ross last year in a
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violent traffic accident in Bloomington. Eric Newmark, the attorney for
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Munyo's Guatemala, successfully argued that Goods Killing could produce new
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evidence related to Ross's tactics that affect sentencing or the
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possibility of requesting a new trial. Munyo's Guatemala was convicted
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of assaulting Ross after dragging him several hundred feet with
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his car on June seventeenth, twenty twenty five. Ross was
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attempting to execute an immigration arrest in Bloomington and his
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arm was inside the rear window when Munyo's Guatemala accelerated
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and attempted to flee. Judge Jeffrey Bryan ruled that Munyos
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Guatemala's right to do process included the disclosure of any
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relevant evidence through the sentencing face of his trial. Federal
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guidelines also require the court to consider whether any wrongful
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conduct by Ross contributed significantly to Munyo's Guatemala's decision to
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flee the scene. If it is determined that Ross's conduct
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did play a role in Munyo's Guatemala's crime, the court
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may reduce the sentence below the guideline range. Up next,
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a listener suggested story back in a minute, and Now,
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a listener suggested story from mindy. In Boise, Idaho, a
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week after taking down rainbow Pride flags to comply with
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a new state law, Boise City Hall installed a banner
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and wrapped its flag poles with LGBTQ colors. A large
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sign with rainbow stripes and the words creating a City
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for Everyone Now hangs on the outside of city Hall,
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while poles in front of the plaza are also adorned
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in Pride colors. Lawmakers passed a ban on unofficial flags
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last year, but didn't include a way to enforce violations.
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Boise then vote to make the Pride flag official and
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continue to fly it. Last Tuesday, Governor Brad Liddell signed
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House Bill five sixty one into law, prohibiting government entities
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from flying non official flags, with fines up to two
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thousand dollars a day for not complying. Only the US flag,
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state flag, official military flags, recognized tribal flags, and the
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Basque flag are allowed. The Basque flag huh. Well, the
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law pertained to flags, and we are in full compliance
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with the law. Mayor Lauren MacLean said on Tuesday, good
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for her. We have a rich history of an arts
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and culture scene here, the mayor added, so because it's allowed,
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we have installed art that demonstrates our values to being
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a safe and welcoming city to everyone. Boise flew pride
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flags for a decade before they were removed last week
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when the new stricter law was adopted. While they may
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not fly flags for the time being, the people of
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Boise can and will continue to show their pride. Thanks
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so much for that story, Mindy. If you have thoughts, ideas,
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Lefties on Facebook, Instagram, or blue Sky. Turning Point USA's
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political arms spent months pouring money and resources into a
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little known utility election in Arizona, an effort that contributed
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to massive increase in voter turnout but ultimately failed to
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stave off a challenge from a slate of clean energy candidates.
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Salt River Project held elections on Tuesday for the boards
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and councils that set policy and make other decisions on
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behalf of its water and power utilities. SRP utilizes a
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unique electoral system that only allows landowners within SRP territory
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to cast votes, and for most positions, those votes are
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allocated based on a landowner's total acreage, giving large property
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owners more influence than leaving most homeowners with a fraction
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of a vote. For years, those elections have flown under
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the radar, but interest in the election exploded this year
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after Turning Point Action. The political arm of Turning Point
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USA waged a large scale get out the vote campaign
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and endorsed a slate of pro industry candidates. Turning Points
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efforts did not result in a clean sweep for its candidates,
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according to unofficial results released on Wednesday night. Instead, a
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slate of clean energy candidates is claiming victory after it
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won five seats on the board for SRP's power utility.
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The win gives clean energy advocates an eight to six
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majority on the board, which they say they will use
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to push SRP management to adopt more solar, battery storage
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and other renewable energy options. It's unclear exactly how much
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money Turning Point is spent on the effort because it
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has not filed any required campaign finance disclosure, but Tyler Boyer,
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Turning Point Action COO, told The Phoenix New Times the
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organization injected millions of dollars of capital into the election.
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Bye bye dollars. And that is a wrap for today's
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nuclear material, keeps its oil. We paid them reparations. They
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agreed to not bomb their neighbors. Oil and freshwater infrastructure
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Israel is not included. That's the deal. Starting to see
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how Trump manage to bankrupt a business where the entire
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business model is just an endless stream of people coming
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through the door twenty four to seven to give you
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all of their money. Six times he went bankrupt. Yeah,
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And in case you missed them, here are some more
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good news headlines. A new poll on Donald Trump suggests
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that many American voters are regretting their votes for him.
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The numbers came amid an ongoing war between Iran and
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the United States. The University of Massachusetts recently conducted a
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Yugov poll in which many respondents reported feeling unhappy after
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voting for Trump. According to the survey, only sixty two
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percent of American voters are satisfied with their decision to
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vote for him, a decline from the seventy four percent
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in April of twenty twenty five. The changes in Trump's
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job approval ratings are happening as the war between Iran
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and the United States goes on. The war has led
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to arise in oil prices, affecting citizens across the country. Moreover,
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previous polls indicate that a partial government shutdown has also
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resulted in disapproval among respondents. A recent poll by The
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New York Times also found that only thirty nine percent
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of respondents were happy with Trump's work in his second term. Overall,
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fifty percent of par respondents have complaints about the president's performance.
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Maine's seventy two
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hour waiting period on gun purchases is likely constitutional, handing
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gun control advocates a significant victory in a high profile
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Second Amendment case. Maine is one of roughly a dozen
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states that have some sort of waiting period on gun buyers.
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The stated goal is to reduce suicides and impulsive acts
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of violence by imposing a cooling off period on purchasers.
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Suicides account for about ninety percent of gun deaths in
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Maine annually. Maine's Democratic controlled legislature approved the seventy two
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hour waiting period law two years ago as part of
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a suite of gun measures passed after the October twenty
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twenty three Lewiston mass shootings that left eighteen people dead.
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But a group of gun owners and sellers challenged the
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constitutionality of the waiting period, but on Friday, a three
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judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in
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Boston disagreed. The law briefly delays acquisitions of firearms from
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commercial dealers. Reads the ruling, but it does not prevent
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a law abiding and responsible citizen from obtaining them and
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keeping or bearing a firearm after fulfilling the waiting period requirement.
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In our view, this likely renders a burden on, but
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not an infringement of, the Second Amendment right to keep
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in bare arms. We therefore view the imposition of a
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brief waiting period as a non abusive effort by Mane
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to address a documented problem arising from the immediate acquisition
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of firearms or remaining sensitive to minimizing the Second Amendment
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burdens imposed by the Act.
