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Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

So much false equivalence in the media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps were approved by the voters. The voters had no say in Texas. That is a big difference.

GOP - *gerrymanders* DEMS - hey stop that no fair GOP - *gerrymanders even more* DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely* DEMS - *start gerrymandering* GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

April 20, 1926: The borough of Lawnside, N.J., comes into being as the first independent, self-governing Black community in the U.S, north of the Mason-Dixon line. The nearly 100% Black town holds its first election, choosing James Hemmings, a Republican, as mayor.

Lawnside’s first police departmentMayor Hemmings (center), members of the borough council and other officials in 1926Camden, N.J., Courier

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

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