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@listenjustright.bsky.social

A guy. Listen up, fuckos

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Daniel McElroy@danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 3w ago

This determination to separate social/cultural politics out from the economic is never ever going to work and is reflective of someone who doesn’t actually understand how people or political values work.

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · last mo.

This may be terrible advice, but buy yourself the damn shrimp. Buy it twice in one day if you can afford it. Not buying the shrimp isn't going to save you enough to buy a house and they're going to find another way to denigrate you regardless. And then you'll be slandered and shrimpless.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

listen just right@listenjustright.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't know, seems like significantly downplaying what it's like to be in a place flooded with Nazis where you get firehosed by Elon's musings about the birth rates of various ethnic groups whether you want them or not

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 2mo ago

i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What has been the impact of the Roberts Court on democracy? Wealthy people have more political power than everyone else. Partisan actors have more power to reduce voter choice. Black people and other minority groups are offered fewer protections and less visible political representation.

If this seems like hyperbole, lets review the key decisions. With Citizens United in 2010, the Roberts Court killed any meaningful effort to regulate the flow of money in politics. The Roberts Court refused to take on gerrymandering when Justice Kennedy was on the court, and then in 2019 said that partisan gerrymandering might be “contrary to democratic principles” but there was nothing they could do about it. With the Shelby County decision in 2013, it eliminated the pre-clearance section of the VRA, which meant that districts with a record of discriminating against Blacks would no longer need to get permission from the DOJ for their changes. With the 2021 Brnovich case, they further limited the conditions under which laws that made it harder to vote could be considered as discriminatory. Now with Callais, SCOTUS gave state the green light to redistrict majority Black districts out of existence. The Court insisted it is not overturning the Voting Rights Act, but it made the bar for demonstrating such actions are illegal so high as to be impossible.
Seth D. Michaels@sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Roberts, like many conservatives of his generation, believes enforceable standards to prevent discrimination against Black people in employment, schooling, housing, or the electoral process are an affront to liberty, while the actual discrimination is, if it even exists, the natural order of things

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very good synoptic review of the Roberts Court as an enemy of civil rights and voting rights, and its historic partisanship & polarization. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...