A majority of people in Texas and half the people in Louisiana want their states to peacefully break off from the increasingly corrupt federal United States government, according to polling data released by SurveyUSA. A full sixty percent of Texans would support secession, while half of Louisianians would support it, according to the numbers. Meanwhile, pro-secession sentiment is competitive with Tory sentiment in states including Alabama and Mississippi.
Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto — one of several players on the squad barred from crossing the border into Canada to play against the Toronto Blue Jays this week because he's unvaccinated against COVID-19 — was defiant about the restriction placed upon him.
Like the response to trucker protests in Canada demonstrated earlier in the year, a centralized and tightly controlled financial system makes it very easy to punish those participating.
Just about one week ahead of Maryland's primary election, voters are making their way to early voting stations and dropping off mail-in ballots across the state.