BREAKING: The U.S. budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in the first 11 months of the fiscal year through August, according to data from the Treasury Department https://t.co/cVndXhFyxh
— Bloomberg (@business) September 12, 2019
Asian Carp, Lake Michigan
Asian Carp Could Conquer Lake Michigan
WI DNR photo
Military, Privacy, Surveillance
Pentagon Spy Balloons Watching State
Similar to counterparts in Afghanistan, the craft will deploy from rural South Dakota and reach a maximum altitude of 65,000 feet. From there, they will drift across unspecified regions of Minnesota, Iowa, Central Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin. The balloons program, first reported by The Guardian, will likely outfit surveillance balloons with high-powered radar systems.
Congress, Elections, Josh Pade, Politics
Governor’s race ‘long-shot’ Josh Pade running in 1st Congressional District
2018 campaign photo
Gun Control, Legislation
Wisconsin bill would tax firearms and use funds for gun-crime victim services
State Rep. Jimmy Anderson (D-Fitchburg) and State Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) are circulating the bill for cosponsors; a similar bill from the 2017-18 session was introduced but never got a committee hearing or a vote.
Immigration
The Battle Against ICE
ICE headquarters in D.C.
Bigotry, Milwaukee
Vandal Places White Supremacy Stickers in MKE Pedestrian Tunnel
“Reject White Guilt” read two of the small stickers affixed to the wood structure designed to shelter pedestrians from the adjacent BMO Tower construction site. “Import the third world become the third world,” said another. The stickers come from an online, anonymously-run group known as the Hundred Handers that sends the stickers to its members.
Conservatives, Gov. Evers, Law, State Government, Veto, WILL
Right-wing law firm seeks to overturn Gov. Evers’s partial vetoes
Esenberg acknowledged that in seeking to undo the governor’s line-item vetoes WILL is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn long-standing precedent–one the group did not seek to overturn when Gov. Scott Walker was in office.
Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, WISGOP
Has-beens: Walker, Ryan, Priebus
“Where are Wisconsin’s GOP heavyweights now?”
Drug War, Immigration, Marijuana
Officials Use Minor Marijuana Convictions to Deport Immigrants
Any justification, however weak and biased…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Children, Crime, Milwaukee
Milwaukee Church Removes Banner of Accused Child Rapist
Naasón Joaquín Garcia
Unions, WisDems
State teachers’ union still packs a punch among Democrats
Conservatives, Scott Walker
Walker’s New Job Will Pay Big
Gov. Walker, Taxes, WISGOP
Some Wisconsin millionaires pay lower taxes than minimum wage earners
Elections, Gerrymandering, Law, Photo ID, Voting Rights
Voting Restrictions Rig Wisconsin’s Game
Politics, Wisconsin
Wisconsin politicians among most polarized in country
Crime, Marijuana, Race
Wisconsin: Blacks arrested for pot possession at four times rate of whites
4X
Immigration, Legislation, Migrants, Press Release, Sen. Baldwin
Senator Baldwin helps introduce the Stop Cruelty to Migrant Children Act
Congress, GOP, Trump, WISGOP
Pro-Trump Steil votes against resolution condemning Trump’s racist language
This Guy.
Congress, GOP, Trump, WISGOP
Wisconsin’s Newest Pro-Trump Congressman
With Trump 97.5% of the time.
Newspapers, State Journal, Trump
State Journal Offers Excuses for Pro-Trump Headline
Newspapers, State Journal, Trump
Noted Author David Maraniss Blasts State Journal’s Trump Headline
Conservatives, Scott Walker
Walker Takes Job Indoctrinating Conservative Youth
Captivating lecturer insists he’s not running in 2022.
Scott Walker, Trump
Trump puts ex-governor and college dropout on board of International Center for Scholars
Photo: Gage Skidmore cc-by-sa-2.0
It’s not even April 1st.
Agriculture, Dairy
Wisconsin loses over 5,000 dairy farms in 10 years
Press, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Examiner Launches Online
Bigotry, Corrections
Deputy Prison Warden Compares Muslim Children to Garbage, Makes Excuses Afterward
Bigotry, Trump, WISGOP
WISGOP Quiet About Trump’s Racism
Advertising, Weird Tales
Mountain Dew Adds Michigan’s UP to Wisconsin
Did we even ask for the UP?