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Chuck DarwinOn the U.S. Supreme Court —Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy. Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking —encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch —it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.We can draw a straight line, for example, from the Roberts Court’s 2010 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Citizens</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/United" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#United</a> decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting, to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Super" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Super</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PACs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PACs</a>, giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters. The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda, meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.Three years later, in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#County</a> v.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Holder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holder</a>, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination. Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history, declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.” A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority. “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent. But soaking us was the whole point. The downpour continues. Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander, a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rucho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rucho</a> v. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Common" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Common</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cause</a>. In that case, the Roberts Court —so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court” —conveniently found that <a href="https://c.im/tags/partisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#partisan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a>, -- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures, -- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.<a href="https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/</a>

DrogynSaw some Racing Royalty today. The 1966 Ford GT40 driven by Ken Miles and Denny Hulme that should have won Le Mans if not for some corporate silliness. If you've seen Ford vs. Ferrari, this is that actual car, on loan to the Shelby American Collection in Gunbarrel, CO, which has a lot of other amazing cars too.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shelby</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lemans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lemans</a>

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦WHITE PEOPLE! USA HAS NOT HAD FAIR ELECTIONS AS LONG AS THE <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectoralCollege</a> STILL EXISTSbut more importantly, since 2013 when John Roberts said in a Supreme Court decision that USA was now post-racial thanks to people voting for Obama, so no voting rights were needed, republicans doubled down on voting suppression since then.2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 and all the state elections in between have not really been fair since the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a> decision.also, primaries weren't covered by it.

Chuck DarwinJohn Roberts is well aware of the Supreme Court's credibility problems, but he doesn't want to fix it by a code of conduct -- he wants to fix it by cosy interviews with journalists <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rights</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roberts</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#County</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antidemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antidemocratic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laws</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Daley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Federalist</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bankrolling</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fringe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theories</a>

Chuck DarwinThree of our Supreme Court Justices had worked on Bush v Gore in 2000 -- and those are the "moderates" on this court - David Daley <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rights</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roberts</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#County</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antidemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antidemocratic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laws</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Daley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Federalist</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bankrolling</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fringe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theories</a>

Chuck DarwinEqual parts "Dark Money" and "Democracy in Chains", Minority Rule is a riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year Republican plot to 💥hijack <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rights</a> in America, 💥its profound implications for the 2024 <a href="https://c.im/tags/presidential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#presidential</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a>, 💥and the crucial role that Chief Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roberts</a> has played in determining how we vote.In 1981, a young lawyer, fresh out of Harvard law school, joined the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point. From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ, this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislation — the Voting Rights Act. His name was John Roberts. Over thirty years later in 2013, these efforts by John Roberts and the conservative legal establishment culminated when Roberts, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#County</a> vs. Holder, one of the most consequential decisions of modern jurisprudence. A dramatic move that gutted the Voting Rights Act, Roberts's decision — dangerously premised on the flawed notion that racism was a thing of the past — emboldened right-wing, <a href="https://c.im/tags/antidemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antidemocratic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laws</a> around the country immediately. No modern court decision has done more to hand elections to Republicans than Shelby.Now lauded investigative reporter <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Daley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Daley</a> reveals the urgent story of this 🆘fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their party's favor. From the bowels of Reagan's DOJ to the walls of the conservative <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Federalist</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Society</a> to the moneyed Republican resources <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bankrolling</a> restrictive voting laws today, Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling. Through careful research and exhaustive reporting, he connects Shelby to 🔥a well-funded, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot box — an effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle. In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fringe</a> conservative <a href="https://c.im/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theories</a> about our elections with the potential to shape the 2024 election and topple the foundations of our democracy. Timely and alarming, Daley offers a powerful message that, while Shelby was the misguided end of the Voting Rights Act, it was also the beginning of something far darker.<a href="https://www.powells.com/book/-9780063321090/1-0?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_gE3ND8cGzt8kj2t9rC7OytFg28&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlvW2BhDyARIsADnIe-KgQUFDIvpF383rfzJJyLKqiQuHTU7fzCum3YJJarH1NoCET9_Gh6YaAnYOEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.powells.com/book/-9780063321090/1-0?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_gE3ND8cGzt8kj2t9rC7OytFg28&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlvW2BhDyARIsADnIe-KgQUFDIvpF383rfzJJyLKqiQuHTU7fzCum3YJJarH1NoCET9_Gh6YaAnYOEALw_wcB</a>

Rick Calkins64 or 65 Shelby Daytona Coupe. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shelby</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/daytona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#daytona</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coupe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coupe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/weirdcarmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weirdcarmastodon</a>

EAS Watcher<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EAS</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WEA</a> for Christian, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IL</a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IL</a>: <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Tornado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tornado</a> Warning issued July 29 at 8:07PM CDT until July 29 at 9:00PM CDT by NWS Lincoln IL Source: NWS Lincoln IL <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christian</a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IL</a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ILwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ILwx</a>** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

EAS Watcher<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EAS</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WEA</a> for Christian, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IL</a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IL</a>: National Weather Service: <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TORNADO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TORNADO</a> WARNING in this area until 9:00 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Lincoln IL <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ILwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ILwx</a> ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

EAS Watcher<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EAS</a> for Harrison, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IA</a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IA</a>: National Weather Service: <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TORNADO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TORNADO</a> WARNING in this area until 6:45 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Omaha/Valley NE** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

Spaceflight 🚀When Mr Bridenstine suggested in 2019 that America could return to the Moon 🌙 using <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a>’s <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/FalconHeavy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FalconHeavy</a>, he provoked a row with Richard <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a>, a senator from <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alabama</a> who was then chairman of the Senate appropriations committee. Welcoming the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SLS</a> in 2011, Mr Shelby said that <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a>’s exploration of space, “has always been and always will be through Marshall Space Flight Centre [in <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alabama</a>].” <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/24/nasas-space-launch-system-is-yesterdays-rocket" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/24/nasas-space-launch-system-is-yesterdays-rocket</a><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpacePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpacePolitics</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/PorkBarrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PorkBarrel</a>

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