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The American military cemetary. Fort Bonifacio Manila Philippines. With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II remember them.

@Still_AOK @LoriLightfoot If people vote for people who look like them, How did Lori get elected?

@LoriLightfoot "Representatives who look like them?" Isn't that the point of the Voting Rights Act? To eliminate race from the equation? I thought you wanted equality, yet you keep pushing the race button. Intelligence makes for equality, not skin color. I call that hypocritical Bullshit!!

I have been sick at heart since the announcement of the Supreme Court decision which gutted the Voting Rights Act. Republicans throughout the south are racing to eliminate Black electoral power to elect representatives who look like them. We have seen this before, throughout Reconstruction and then as political deals and other Supreme Court decisions stripped away the brief gains that former enslaved people received with the 14th and 15th Amendments. But why as a Black person I despair is the stripping of rights is never enough. I fear that like before, the New Jim Crow will be brutally enforced by a corrupt, soulless social order that will stop at nothing to maintain its power. I am a child of Jim Crow refugees. There is history. Shame on the Supreme Court and shame on every person who voted to impose this regime. This is why elections matter. Vote them out in November.

@ingerstedt Kagan, Sotomayor, & Jackson

I believe there are justices on the Supreme Court that will come regret the decision on the Voting Rights Act. nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/…

@Prodigy3211 fair enough. Your life is yours.

@Buzzsaws1990 It doesn’t matter. I’m not here to change your mind

I have a question: If you flipped the races of every person in Louisiana Would that 2nd district have been created?

@DatPolySciGuy Yep. You can't have two for every thirty thousand

@Buzzsaws1990 According to the US Constitution, the magic number is 30k. "shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand,"

I'm considering joining team 'expand the House of Representatives' 1 representative per 75,000 people would expand the house to about 4500 members My county would elect ~7 Reps, and my corner might be the only R district potential downside, small states lose EV clout.

@Prodigy3211 If I may ask...howso?

@Buzzsaws1990 Yes sir. It’s not in yours? I wonder why.

@Prodigy3211 It's a major factor in your life?

@Buzzsaws1990 We aren’t at either of those from my perspective. We shall see what happens in the next 10 years

@SamanthaBartosz @ishapiro "The Supreme Court ruled. The Voting Rights Act must be implemented consistent with its ruling" yes. No racial districting.

@Buzzsaws1990 @ishapiro The Supreme Court ruled. The Voting Rights Act must be implemented consistent with its ruling. I don’t believe that the VRA was in place for sufficient time to wring racial discrimination out of the culture. I hope I’m wrong. Southern states seem ready to backslide.

Um, Memphis is represented by a white Democrat, who is being challenged by a black Republican. So you’ll be supporting the latter?

@SamanthaBartosz @ishapiro The provision does not in any way address/compel majority-minority. Courts did so anyway. It compels access to the ballot box.

@Buzzsaws1990 @ishapiro That provision does not prohibit majority-minority districts. It establishes that a preset racial allocation of elected representatives - in other words, a quota - is not authorized by the Act.

@Prodigy3211 There is the 'It doesn't have a major factor on my life' & there is the 'It no longer exists' kinds of end

@Buzzsaws1990 My life is great. No complaints. But people have been telling me my whole life to celebrate the end of racism lol

@AricZubke @sirjamesa12 Theyre

@Buzzsaws1990 @sirjamesa12 I'm sorry, but I find "cracquers" hilarious! 🤣

so many cracquers and their tap-dancing sidekicks just celebrated the gutting of the voting rights act of 1965 just several days earlier, so no lies detected here.

@SamanthaBartosz @ishapiro "Not simply individual access to the voting booth, but a state district map that offered minority Blacks a chance to elect Black representatives." No. That is not in the VRA

@Buzzsaws1990 @ishapiro Not simply individual access to the voting booth, but a state district map that offered minority Blacks a chance to elect Black representatives. Again because of the manifest history of White oppression of Blacks. It was an intentionally remedial law by Congress.

@SamanthaBartosz @ishapiro Doing one does the other. Ethnicities have no right to majority districts. The VRA addresses access to the voting booth

@Buzzsaws1990 @ishapiro Not a Democratic majority. With a majority of Black voters who may vote either for a GOP, DEM or Independent candidate running in the district. The Voting Rights Act addressed racial minorities who were locked out of representation.

@Prodigy3211 Then you have nothing and I have 93% I's sad you cannot enjoy that.

@Buzzsaws1990 When it comes to racism it’s all or nothing. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@SamanthaBartosz @ishapiro They are FORCED to create 2 districts with a democratic majority. LA Republicans are forced to give the Democrats 2 seats. Virginian democrats are not forced to do anything. That's discrimination. Today ALL can vote. Voters are not being discriminated against.

@Buzzsaws1990 @ishapiro It is not “giving seats.” The voters determine a winner. It is establishing majority-minority seats to remedy a history of racial discrimination that offered no meaningful opportunity for oppressed Blacks to enjoy Black representation in legislative bodies.

@SamanthaBartosz @ishapiro In the 2024 house races it was 74% votes for Republican candidates 26% votes for Democrat candidates Alabama is FAR more Red than Virginia is blue Why can't Republicans in Alabama do exactly what Democrats just did in Virginia? Why do they have to give the democrats 2 seats?

@Buzzsaws1990 @ishapiro Statewide voting is a different matter than district voting.

@EcouteLesMots @FitzMofor9A & he was unable to dispute anything I said just ran away...

@Buzzsaws1990 @FitzMofor9A I read the words and by reading yours, you’re a gaslighter. One Fact: Registered Repubs = ~31%, Dems -36% of registered voters. But 17 states don’t track party affiliation. You’ve told us that you have no credibility. Mute.

I am a Maryland native who loves this state dearly. I cannot sit by while Maryland declines and watch my opponents focus on national grievances or culture wars. I am running in District 9A in the House of Delegates to lower costs and finally liberate Marylanders from the Democratic Socialists in Annapolis. mofor4md.com

@SamanthaBartosz @ishapiro In 2024 Virginia voted 52% Harris (+6) 46% Trump Its current house map is drawn to elect Democrats to 10 of the 11 seats In 2024 Louisiana voted 60% Trump (+22) 38% Harris Why must the house map be drawn to elect Democrats to 2 of the 6 seats?

@Buzzsaws1990 @ishapiro Thanks.

@Darlyn215 "In LA v. Callais on Tuesday, the Court eliminated the law’s protections against lawmakers drawing maps that dilute the political power of minority voters." There were no "protections against lawmakers drawing maps that dilute the political power of minority voters" in the law.

Finishing Off Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court Declares Racism Over — Again | Brennan Center for Justice brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

@MQOnline2000 @TheAtlantic In 2024 Virginia voted 52% Harris (+6) 46% Trump Its current house map is drawn to elect Democrats to 10 of the 11 seats In 2024 Louisiana voted 60% Trump (+22) 38% Harris Why must the house map be drawn to elect Democrats to 2 of the 6 seats?

@TheAtlantic Shame on these MAGA Republicans for weakening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and all over partisan advantage in the upcoming Elections over Democrats. LBJ is rolling in his grave right now. 😡 #2026Elections

The Voting Rights Act “has not been dealt a ‘blow’” by the Supreme Court, Vann R. Newkirk II argues. “The law is dead, and no matter what happens in the coming elections, politics in America has been forever changed.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…