Vaccines, Infrastructure, and Kids In Cages: US Politics April 2021

Construction under the prior administration blew large holes into the Rio Grande Valley’s flood barrier system to make way for a border wall.

Big beautiful holes, no doubt.

No idea how real this is, but it feels like progress

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/border-patrol-unaccompanied-minors/index.html

Nice little story to end the April thread

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251069219.html

o_O

Samsel is the second Kansas lawmaker to be arrested this year. Former Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop, a Wichita Republican, was charged with felony eluding and fleeing from police and also faces misdemeanor charges of drunk and reckless driving after allegedly driving the wrong way on Topeka highways on March 16. He was forced to step down from his leadership post.

jesus that gets increasingly dark

I mean, I'd still vote for him a second time, sure, but if this sort of thing happens again I'd definitely reconsider voting for him a third time.

Feels like we’re lucky that didn’t turn into something much worse.

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