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@moiradonegan.bsky.social: „Political scientists have argued that America wasn’t really a democracy until the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the law that formed the signature achievement of the civil rights movement and sought to end racial barriers to voting when it was passed in 1965.“

It's been apparent to any honest observer for a while but today's Supreme Court decision makes it painfully clear that the GOP is an openly white supremacist party.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

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Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Incredible thread. Read it.

I guess with race science discourse still percolating, I should re-up my starter pack for people who work on the topic

The path to 50 seats in the senate is clear: NC, AK, and ME. The open question is which seat ends up being 51 out of TX, OH, IA, and NE.

At the risk of this Is post being misconstrued as an Ought post, I think its been clear for a bit that Platner was likely to win both the primary & the general bc a) its the year for that & b) ME has demonstrated it has a penchant for shitty pols anyways. I think he'll be a bad, unreliable senator.

The replies to this are such a perfect encapsulation of why the vast majority of political hobbyists on this site are utterly useless & not worth giving time to. Heres Jeffries saying exactly what they all claim they want to see Ds say re SCOTUS & all they can do is repeat the same mocking attacks.

Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures.

Folks will try to parse language around this, using words such as “limits” the VRA or “diminishes” the VRA, but the acts most potent tools for ensuring Black representation or that Black people can pick their representation have been eliminated.

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

KAGAN: Louisiana v. Callais is the “latest chapter in the majority’s now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” Expand and unpack SCOTUS in 2029.

Powerful words from Kagan in #SCOTUS voting rights case: The VRA "ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people’s representatives in Congress."

Wenn es so weitergeht, ist die #Union bald unter 20 Prozent. Und das liegt auch daran, dass große Teile von ihr, angestachelt von Merz, den sozialen Grundkonsens dieser Republik aufgekündigt haben.

Challengers was released 2 years ago today🎾

Die roten Flächen, das ist der Verbrennermarkt, mit dem es rasant bergab geht. Im Skigebiet wären das meiste Schwarze Pisten. Aber die Retroprediger in Deutschland, die immerzu von “Wirtschaftskompetenz” reden, wissen es weiterhin besser.

Erwartbare Peak-Dämlichkeit von CNN.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

www.zeit.de/politik/deut... Sehr guter Kommentar von @derbernd.bsky.social zur Kommunikationsunfähigkeit der aktuellen Regierung

www.zeit.de/politik/deut... Sehr guter Artikel zur Skepsis der Union gegenüber der Zivilgesellschaft

Buick’s Float in Detroit’s Golden Jubilee Parade, 1946

Donald Byrd, New York City William Claxton, 1959

Sen. Warren calls out Trump for trying to tear down the Fed's independence — claiming he's doing so because "he wants the Fed to use monetary policies to artificially juice the economy in the short term" before the midterms. She says Fed pick Kevin Warsh "is uniquely ill-suited for the job."

Noah Kahan's songs radiate empathy for loved ones and places from his past. After a gradual rise, the Vermont singer-songwriter finally makes his Tiny Desk debut. n.pr/4cGau20

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

American conservatives have long criticized Lionel Trilling for saying this, and yet every day they keep saying and doing things that confirm his point.

My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of 3 WOMEN boxd.it/e1jaBv Spacek & Duvall create two fiercely idiosyncratic characters, both hilarious & tragic, in unique & offbeat mood piece. A lot to unpack about identity & shifting social dynamics, what roles we play in our relationships. Wildly entertaining. #filmsky 📽

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.

Today, we remember the victims and survivors of Columbine. We pledge to never stop fighting for a country free from the threat of gun violence in honor of those who were killed at Columbine, and for all victims and survivors of gun violence.

Twenty-seven years ago today, two students armed with assault rifles and high-capacity magazines opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They shot and killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 21 others. It is the deadliest school shooting in Colorado’s history.

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