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Charlie Pierce Esquire

Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where if you go down in the flood, it’s going to be your fault.

We begin in the state of Washington, where a state representative did his Dennis The Peasant routine in about the foulest way you can. From the Washington Post:

Washington state Rep. Jim Walsh has decried “vaccine segregation” and likenedhis state’s lottery encouraging immunization against the coronavirus to the “The Hunger Games.” Then, last weekend, the Republican lawmaker wore a yellow Star of David. “It’s an echo from history,” Walsh wrote of the star in the comments below a live stream of his talk Saturday in Lacey, Wash. “ … In the current context, we’re all Jews.”

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