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Dr. Tati

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Democracy Forward@democracyforward.org · 2w ago

The Trump-Vance admin's goal is to confuse you, to cast doubt in our election processes, and to make you believe it’s not even worth showing up to the polls in November. Make no mistake: your vote is one of the most powerful tools you have. Learn how to protect it:

The People's Guide to Voting Rights

While some powerful institutions have yielded to intimidation, the people have risen to meet this moment. This People's Guide to Voting Rights is part of Democracy Forward's effort not only to defend people in court, but to help communities understand, ...

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Zinn Education Project@zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3w ago

The threats to democracy and the new voting barriers being devised are deeply intertwined. More from @motherjones.com journalist @ariberman.bsky.social: 🧵 www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...

Do you know where your birth certificate is? Journalist warns of new voting barriers

The rules of the midterms are being rewritten, from redistricting to campaign money. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman explains why President Trump seems "obsessed with the mechanics of voting."

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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 4w ago

The DOJ is conducting a fishing expedition in an attempt to manufacture criminal cases against election workers. We’re thankful that a federal judge in Georgia blocked the Trump administration from subpoenaing the names and identifying information of election workers in Fulton County.

Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · last mo.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · 2mo ago

This week’s main story is about a small liberal arts college in Florida, why Ron DeSantis decided to take it over three years ago, how it’s been going since then, and when we can all expect Russell Brand to finally appear at their “cancel cancel culture center.”

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Dr. Tati@drtati.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢The new open access book “Equity-Oriented, Discipline-Based STEM Education Research” is out! 📚. Excited for my chapter w/ airealejoi.bsky.social problematizing liberal ideologies in STEM is included. Read free: tinyurl.com/EquityDBER

Liberal Ideologies in Academic STEM: How Faculty Can (Re)produce Racial Inequities

This chapter traces how dominant ideologies of meritocracy, equal opportunity, and color-blindness manifest in everyday STEM teaching, learning, and decision-making. With an emphasis on faculty practice, we demonstrate how well-intentioned actions that center these...

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Skye@simplyskye.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Former CIA chief John Brennan says Trump’s DNI pick, Bill Pulte, wouldn’t qualify for a top-secret clearance under “any objective standard” He’s there to “do Trump’s bidding,” citing his time at the FHFA, where he inappropriately accessed/distributed mortgage records belonging to Trump’s enemies

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

At this preliminary stage, the State has shown that it is entitled to interim relief from the District Court's injunc-tion. See Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citi-zens, 607 U. S. 一 (2025) (slip op., at 1-2). The State is likely to succeed on the merits as to both claims. As to intentional vote dilution, the District Court did not heed the presumption of legislative good faith, see Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U. S. 1, 10 (2024), because it interpreted the State's legal disagreement with the court's earlier remedial order as proof of discriminatory animus. Cf. Abbott v. Perez, 585 U. S. 579, 608-609 (2018). And, as to both claims, the District Court's analysis departed from Callais. Under Callais, the District Court was required to deny relief unless the plaintiffs' alternative map performed "just as well" with respect to all of the State's constitutionally permissible districting crite-ria. 608 U. S., at— (slip op., at 29). Yet, the District Court found a violation even though the plaintiffs' alternative map would not perform just as well as to the State's constitutionally permissible criteria of keeping together the Gulf Coast community of interest and avoiding the pairing of in-cumbents. The District Court also failed to follow our instruction in Callais that the mere fact that voters of different races vote for different parties is not relevant to proving racially polarized voting patterns. See id., at _ (slip op., at 30).
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Step 3: Officers are instructed to look for indications of hostility toward U.S. citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles. Basically praise Trump or else. A post of “8647” can be reason for denial.