Uncle Badger
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just a reminder that Florida voters passed a constitutional amendment banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote… but republicans packed the courts and ignored it.
By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA & VA passed with approval of voters! both sides are not the same!
The Redistrict Network@RedistrictNet
#BREAKING: Governor DeSantis has signed Florida's new congressional map into law. flhouse.gov/Sections/Bills…
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@bonchieredstate There's no money to be made in governing.
There's plenty of money to be made complaining.
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Red states didn’t wait. The second SCOTUS butchered the Voting Rights Act, they went all in.
Louisiana: Roughly one-third Black, and now they’re pushing maps that could leave the state with zero Black representation in Congress.
The solution: Blue states need to match the urgency. Fight back, or watch representation disappear in real time and long term.
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@FurkanGozukara Oh FUCK YOU. This is bullshit & I’m surprised you’d post something this dumb. Many, many factors contributed to the bootlickery we have today: notably REPUBLICAN BOOTLICKERS changed the laws!
How dare you blame it on women.
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Helen Andrews drops a massive truth bomb on the collapse of modern institutions.
She confirms that as organizations became demographically female they abandoned objective rules and justice for emotional consensus.
The establishment traded competence for blind compliance.
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@iamgabesanchez @spencerpratt Why did he have to move to Santa Barbara County, dipshit?
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.@spencerpratt's mayoral run is a blatant grift. He's weaponizing the wildfires for sympathy while chasing taxpayer-funded perks, including the mayor's mansion.
When questions surfaced about his eligibility after moving to his parents' Santa Barbara County home, he took out an SBA loan, bought an Airstream trailer, and had it craned onto his burned Pacific Palisades lot just to manufacture LA residency for his campaign.
Why should anyone trust him to manage a city when he couldn't manage his own checkbook? He and Heidi torched $10 million on her failed music career, $4,000 bottles of wine, and a million-dollar crystal collection before nearly declaring bankruptcy.
Now he wants access to City Hall and all the perks that come with it?
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@BulwarkOnline Do you guys even know what you're doing anymore?
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Seth Moulton: "Hegseth is an embarrassment to the troops. That's why they call him 'Ranger Pete,' because he's the only Army Major who's never been to Ranger School. The troops don't respect this guy."
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This is why Trump can’t just keep sitting on this and needs to make a decision on whether to restart hostilities. The longer we wait, the worse the costs get.
Iran is not going to collapse from the blockade. It’ll inconvenience the regime, but it won’t defeat them.
ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki
1/ This is what $200 per barrel of oil would mean for US gas prices, which currently average $4.30 per gallon. It could go much higher. As one analyst says, once oil stockpiles are functionally exhausted by the end of May, "price increases become exponential rather than linear."
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Remember those people who just wanted to be left alone?
Yeah, well, you should have left them alone.
Because that is no longer what they want.
g.@GeauxGabrielle
It’ll be gay marriage next. Then interracial marriage. Then segregated schools. They’re already working on that. Then whites only public spaces. They’ve already re-segregated the federal work force by firing as many Black people as they could.
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@kaitlancollins Actually, the maps should be going through the approval of the people (as VA and CA) as the Courts have proven to be unethical. LO & TX have become so very dense with maga that it is time or the people to stand up for their rights. If not now, then they will lose everything.
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Sen. Rick Scott on the new Florida congressional map: "I haven't seen the details of it. We have an obligation to have fair districts. Whatever they end up doing, it will go through the courts.."
So you're in favor of the new map in Florida?
Scott: "I haven't seen the details. But what I do know is it will ultimately go through the courts."
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Lenin wanted to overthrow the tsar and create a new communist man, while today’s democratic socialists want “high speed rail” from Bakersfield to Sacramento and free cross-sex hormones for “trans kids.”
It’s a fundamentally childish ideology, only capable of empty simulation.
hasanabi@hasanthehun
🚂 🚊 🚆
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@JamesUthmeierFL get your boy ronny to put his hancock on the new map and let the fireworks begin Jimmy. good luck.
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This guy cites a case from 11 years ago… ignores the last 8 years where we mopped the floor with him.
Marc E. Elias@marceelias
Anyone who is wondering why DeSantis is waiting to sign the new Florida map it is because he is scared he will lose in court. I beat Republicans before when they broke the state constitution by partisan redistricting and I will do it again. Here are my receipts.
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@jbrooks33 @bonchieredstate This is, literally, not how lawsuits work.
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@TheDibsterX @Natonate84 @MSarelson You're the idiot who doesn't understand what "discovery" entails
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@Natonate84 @MSarelson Who goggles any longer when you can use AI. You should try it ... like now ... and educate yourself. Doubling down on your stupidity is not a good look.
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On behalf of Brian Harpole, I filed this defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens and Mitchell Snow. We will not be providing any other statements. You can follow me for updates.
scribd.com/document/10333…
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@mehdirhasan Hear me out- what id the GOP just packs the Court now? Would that be legitimate?
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If the Democrats don't make rebalancing and expanding the Supreme Court a top priority for whenever (if?) they next get into power, then I don't know what to say anymore. The GOP-packed court is the biggest block on progress in this country and has been for a while.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, weakening a landmark voting rights law’s protections against discrimination in redistricting. apnews.com/article/suprem…
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@Ilhan Yes, the daughter of a Somali warlord is worried about voting rights.
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The Supreme Court just eviscerated the Voting Rights Act.
Trump and Republicans are rigging the rules to suppress the right to vote.
If that’s the game, Democratic states must fight back to protect our democracy.
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@harrisonjaime @AaronBlake So, you're determined to prove even more so that you're an idiot
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As I stated in a substack in August of last year…
“And what makes this moment even more dangerous is how subtle it can seem. There is no single headline as shocking as the Dred Scott decision. Instead, there is slow erosion: deliberate, precise, and lasting. By the time the consequences are felt by most Americans, the foundations of our democracy may already be crumbling.”
open.substack.com/pub/jaimeharri…
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The Taney Court ruled in the Dred Scott case that Black people could not be citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery.
Jaime Harrison@harrisonjaime
Let’s stop dancing around it: under John Roberts, this is the worst Supreme Court in American history. Yes, worse than the Taney Court. Full stop.
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@bonchieredstate "Progressive, internationalist politics is here to stay."
Those politics are in free fall
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Why is the priority in a meeting between Spanish and British officials…Gaza?
Sadiq Khan@SadiqKhan
Great to meet Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez in Madrid. At a time when too many leaders are looking the other way, it matters that we stand together. We discussed Gaza, Europe & the shared values that unite London & Spain. Progressive, internationalist politics is here to stay. 🇬🇧🇪🇸
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@ZacharyDonnini So what?
By the time the census rolls around next, the Dems could gerrymander the shit out of their states and it's not going to make any difference.
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If Republicans aggressively gerrymander the South and eliminate up to 10 Democratic seats under a narrowed VRA, Democrats could respond in blue states.
For example, this 52-0 California map could become legal, flipping four seats from 🔴 to 🔵.
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@DuchessDeborah @TheMilkBarTV Holy shit. I didn't think they were real, but here's a live one.
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@TheMilkBarTV The fact that Erika has not sued for defamation is her admission of guilt. She would have to turn over her phone, text messages, and emails. Plus, her sketchy past would be proven true. Suspicious how TPUSA didn’t follow through with the audit Charlie wanted.
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It's impressive how well Candace Owens and George Farmer covered up his alleged DUI, leaving the scene of the crime while having a weapon almost three years ago.
Also impressive how Candace Owens has convinced her audience and her “mommy sleuths” that she and her husband aren’t the epitome of the elite who have gamed the very system she claims to be fighting. The essence of hypocrisy.
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: 🚨 I have obtained the alleged mugshot of Candace Owen’s @RealCandaceO British husband George Farmer from his alleged arrest in Nashville, Tennessee. Candace, do you want to explain this to your audience? Or should I? Last week you said you had nothing to hide!
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@JoshWilliamsOH Marc Elias says that you need white savior Democrats to choose who you can vote for.
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I'm a black Republican who currently represents a majority-white district in the Ohio State House and is running to represent a majority-white district in Congress.
The idea that black Americans need special districts carved out just for them is complete nonsense. It's a violation of the law and blatantly unconstitutional.
Glad the Supreme Court made the right decision.
Sean Davis@seanmdav
BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that racial gerrymandering, which has been used to create majority black congressional districts for decades, is unconstitutional. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for the majority.
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