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Can’t Reform the Court’s Power? Then Let’s Take It Away. | The Nation
On this episode of the Contempt of Court podcast, a deep dive into jurisdiction stripping.The Nation
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"What is missing is a recognition of what it actually took, the first time, to pass federal civil rights legislation in the 1960s. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was not the work of legal advocates alone." texasobserver.org/supreme-cour…
#politics #USpol #news #voting #democracy #SCOTUS #Trump #history
The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA
The instinct of the response so far has been right, but incomplete. New maps. New litigation. State-level laws. Congressional pressure. All necessary. None sufficient.Robert Ceresa (The Texas Observer)
#StephenColbert’s top-rated late-night TV program goes off the air for the final time Thursday, effectively silencing a high-profile #Trump critic.
“The legacy of this show needs to be that we remember it as the show that was canceled because a presidential administration wanted it off the air,” says Heather Hendershot, a professor of #communication studies & #journalism at Northwestern University.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreePress #media #authoritarianism
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Sen Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s #Republican #primary in #Louisiana will be covered as evidence of Trump’s grip over the party. #BillCassidy voted to convict #Trump after his second #impeachment following #Jan6, 2021, & this was payback.
At the same time, Cassidy’s third-place finish highlights another unfortunate trend in #US politics: the decline of open primaries across the country.
Lip service from a MAGA SCOTUS judge. Next thing you know Alito will say he's an originalist.
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#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #Fascism #Democracy
Interview: Trump wants federal control over elections in at least eight states
He's "employing investigations, raids & demands for access to balloting systems & voter ID records for the campaign."
Trump has also run a campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies. Journalist Ned Parker counted 470 "enemies" that Trump has targeted so far.
democracynow.org/2026/5/8/trum…
#USPol #EUPol #USElections #trump #democracy #fascism #news .
Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker
A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the c…Democracy Now!
#SCOTUS rejects #Virginia's bid to restore congressional map favoring #Democrats
#fuckSCOTUS #law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #midterms #RepresentationMatters #democracy #Vote
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The Multipronged Red-State Attack on Voting Rights
#ProtectTheVote #RedStates #ElectionSecurity #Democracy #VoterSuppression
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The Multipronged Red-State Attack on Voting Rights | The Nation
Red states aren’t just gerrymandering away voting rights—they’re working overtime to suppress the vote in as many ways as possible.Christopher Shay (The Nation)
Since returning to the White House, #Trump has demonstrated great ambivalence toward #Taiwan, an approach that’s raising questions ahead of this week’s summit with #China President #Xi Jinping about whether the #US leader could be open to dialing back support for the island #democracy that Beijing views as its breakaway province. [as long as Trump gets something in return, cash, #semiconductors…, he’s open to it]
#geopolitics #sovereignty #kleptocracy #MafiaState
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#Tennessee removes its #black #US House district in #Memphis
#MAGA goons celebrate
"It's rigged why vote"
On the contrary people not #voting got us here as much as MAGA
Getting out of this means many things. But voting is a small effort compared to the other efforts so voices against voting are inauthentic or #troll #psyop
#Hungary had as bad or worse manipulations against #democracy, and look what Hungarians delivered
Are you angry? Do you want to fix this?
#Vote
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Look, this is what a modern scam for the good of the people should look like. 🤯
@lain @wraith
#EU #europe #W #socialNetwork #identityVerification #surveillance #privacy #humanRights #democracy #data
Scan your passport to join our social network.
Don’t worry, it’s European.
Needless to say, unless you’re a complete and utter fool, do not join W and warn your friends not to join W either.
#EU #europe #W #socialNetwork #identityVerification #surveillance #privacy #humanRights #democracy #data @lain lain.com/objects/aaa7d9d6-331b…
lain (@lain@lain.com)
guys they are finally making a social network for total losers https://wsocial.news/lain.com
The administration calls it a "little detour." One hundred seventy-four civilians dead. Twenty-five billion dollars. Zero congressional votes. When the past RNC chair calls it war crimes, you're not reading partisan screed—you're reading a smoke alarm. The land is keeping score. It always has.
#Politics #War #Accountability #QueerHistory #ClimateJustice #Resistance #VotingRights #ClimateScience #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+
What Survives the Morning: The Burning, Laughing, Rotting Corpse
Support the National Audubon Society and receive award-winning conservation stories delivered quarterly. Protect birds and their habitats while building a sanctuary for wildlife.Wendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)
“Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” directed $6 billion toward AI-integrated surveillance towers at the border… recently announced plans to install 1,500 more towers over the next few years”
You. You’re the target of mass #surveillance towers, not illegal immigrants or asylum seekers and refugees.
They track your movements, your contacts, and your communications. They make it too dangerous to speak dissent or form community. It’s #fascism.
🤩 Now available online: @_elena ’s wonderful keynote speech at the #2MR festival:
„I have a dream“ – A view of the Open Social Web in 5 years
👉 watch.2mr.social/w/k3ngQ8Xr3AN…
> To me, the #Fediverse is the best, most empowering #SocialMedia experience that I have ever had.
About #2MR: 2mr.social/
#SaveSocial #DiDay # #FOSS #Floss #Mastodon #democracy #digitalindependence #digitalsovereignty #media #danmarkskifter #DigitalRights
Leaving X.
German parties leaving, collectively, is more than a symbolic exit. It is a chance to reassess how and where political communication happens.
A platform’s relevance is not inherent. It is constructed through user behavior. And when influential users walk, the relevance begins to erode.
#WirVerlassenX #socialmedia #democracy #journalism
There are many problems with #USA #democracy
Like the stupid #ElectoralCollege
Gore beat Bush in 2000, Clinton beat Trump in 2016. In the popular vote. The EC erased it
Well here's another reason for you to #vote in the #primaries and the general #election:
The #Democrats, if they win enough in November, can kill the EC
It's been a 20 year effort of states agreeing to void the EC if enough agree: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
vox.com/politics/487766/nation…
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A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off
A Democratic wave in 2026 could deliver the key remaining states needed for a popular vote system, under this proposalAndrew Prokop (Vox)
Call your reps every day! So let's check in our list today. (thanks to 5calls.org/ )
* Oppose the ICE and CBP Budget Reconciliation Funding Bill
* Reform FISA Section 702 to Stop Government Surveillance
* Support Impeachment/resignation of Trump, Hegseth, and Patel.
* NO Public Funding of Trump's Ballroom.
* Support a war powers resolution to stop the Iran war.
* No Internet Age Verification Mandates.
* (Federal and State) Publicly investigate the figures in the Epstein files
Find your rep: house.gov/representatives/find…
Senators:
Schiff: 202-224-3841
Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)
Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841
#politics #democrats #democracy #California #santaclara #USPol #CAPol
A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s extraordinary decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
democracydocket.com/news-alert…
#voting #democracy #uspol #scotus #vra
Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander - Democracy Docket
A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s extraordinary decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of …Democracy Docket
"For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act."
~ Jay Willis
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
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The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections
The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.Jay Willis (Balls & Strikes)
#SCOTUS kills #VotingRights
The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics.
#law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
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“Today’s decision strikes a blow at the fragile infrastructure of our democracy. It casts aside the precious and noble actions undertaken by countless generations of activists, lawyers, and legislators, who worked to bring this country closer to becoming a true multi-racial democracy.”
#VRA #VotingRights #democracy #civilrigjts #scotus #SherrilynIfill
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SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Decimation of the Voting Rights ActSherrilyn Ifill (Sherrilyn’s Newsletter)
One of the parties in the Swedish parliament has twice the frequency of convicted criminals on their tickets for the September elections compared to the other parties.
Yes, it's the Fascists. Yes, they present themselves as tough on crime. Yes, it's the party of small-town men with short education. Yes, they're currently polling at 19% for parliament. Yay, #democracy .
In *Erasing History: How Fascists Re-write the Past to Control the Future,* Jason Stanley observes the “mutually reinforcing” relationship between representation and practice.
How we describe and talk about the past informs how we practice politics and frame the rights of citizenship today.
These stupid A250 trucks are driving around today as SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act (6-3) and these two things are mirror images of each other.
Some seriously kerazy — & for once literal — #irony
250 years ago the #UnitedStates declared its #independence from a monarchy.
Today, that very #monarchy, is warning the #US of making a #king of its #illiberal #ExecutiveBranch.
#NoKings #US #Constitution #democracy #independence #ForThePeopleByThePeople #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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"Purge Palantir" is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."
"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."
thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .
Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm
And how I got permanently banned from XGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
Robert Reich:
"I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him. "
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
> The supreme court justice recently condemned an entire philosophy of government. How can we believe in his impartiality?
#SCOTUS #Thomas #Project2025 #TrumpVirus #corruption #justice #democracy #history #oligarchy
Purge Palantir is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."
"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."
thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .
Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm
And how I got permanently banned from XGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
