Lowest quality of life states in America are Republican governed

 From Jess Piper on 07/23/26

I just found out that I live in one of the worst ranked states in the country.

Well, I already knew that instinctively, but my thoughts were confirmed when I came across a CNBC study of the worst ranked states in the country. Here is the ranking:

Tennessee
Texas
Indiana
Louisiana
Georgia
Utah
Missouri
Alabama
Oklahoma
Arkansas

States ranked at the bottom of the list were penalized for high crime rates, low health care access, a lack of livable wage policies, a lack of worker protections, and laws that restrict civil and reproductive rights.

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I bet you noticed something else immediately, though. Each of the states listed is dominated by the Republican Party. They all have a GOP-dominated government and many of the states listed, like mine, have had a GOP supermajority for decades and also have a Republican trifecta holding the Governor’s office and the Statehouse and State Senate.

This is where I state the obvious: Republicans can’t govern. And they don’t want to. It was never about governance. It was always about consolidating power.

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Standard time is much better than Daylight Savings Time if the US is to stabilize its clock.

From the Local Epidemiologist on 07/22/26

Congress has gotten as far as it ever has in ending twice-a-year clock changes. The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time (DST) permanent. It now heads to the Senate. If that passes, your mornings will stay darker for longer. But if it doesn’t go through, another bill is coming right behind it that would stabilize clock time in the opposite direction, enacting permanent standard time.

Ending the clock switch is extremely popular, and science agrees stopping this madness is what’s best for our health. But nearly every major sleep-medicine and circadian-biology organization recommends permanent standard time, not permanent daylight saving time (DST), which the House just approved.

The science about why the direction of the clock switch matters starts with your body.

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The proposal coming from the US House of Representatives to make Daylight Savings Time permanent and people in the US would no longer be changing their clocks twice per year is bad for the nation's health and is not based on science.

To do away with the time changes is a good idea and seems to be popular with the American people, but it would be better if the permanent time change was to Standard Time not Daylight Savings Time based on the circadian rythms of homo sapiens.

If you can't win fair and square: cheat

From The Conversation on July 17, 2026

 US President Donald Trump has used a rare nationwide prime-time address to again claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen, US voting machines cannot be trusted, and a “deep state” conspiracy has covered it all up.

However, the declassified documents the White House released alongside the speech do not support those claims.

As such, Trump’s speech may matter less for what it says about the 2020 election than what it portends for November’s Congressional midterm elections, which could result in huge losses for his Republican Party.

Critics say Trump is clearly setting the stage to delegitimise the vote, so he can contest the result if it doesn’t go his way.

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How it works: The Replacement Theory

How does authoritarianism work? One dynamic is the replacement theory.

The Catholic birth rate in Northern Ireland was approximately double the Protestant birth rate—yet during the three decades prior to the march on Derry, the Catholic population had remained virtually static, because so many people had no choice but to leave.

Keefe, Patrick Radden. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (p. 14). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

With Catholic birth rates higher than Protestant, the “replacement theory” raised its ugly head fueling subjugation and discrimination in Northern Ireland as it had in Nazi Germany, in the United States, and today, once again in the United States with White Supremacism having been reawakened with the MAGA movement. The threatened dominant class practices rejection, exclusion, and exile.

This dynamic occurs repeatedly in human history as one group attempts to maintain control over perceived threatening others. Failing societies favor exclusion while thriving successful societies favor inclusion. The replacement theory is fanned by would be authoritarians to gain political power. It only temporarily works as the society they would govern becomes increasingly rigid, brittle, and then breaks down.