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Fighting the gerrymander
Marc Elias, the voting rights warrior who, with his group of litigators, smack immediate lawsuits on any state screwing around with their redistricting maps, sent this item today on his weekly Democracy Docket report on our monumental voting rights battle. … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged Democracy Docket, electoral redistricting maps, gerrymandering, Jim Cooper, Marc Elias, Nashville TN, New York State gerrymandering, SCOTUS, Tennessee gerrymandering, US Senate
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When I mis-read a NYT op headline, maybe I read it correctly
Fiona Hill has an opinion essay in today’s New York Times, drawing on her decades’ long study of Vladimir Putin. I admire her for that. But when I read the headline… Putin Has the U.S. Right Where He Wants It … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged 2020 election, Fiona Hill, Putin, Trump
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Two guys who did not become autocrats, although they could have
In an odd coincidence, over the last several days I’ve encountered a couple of remarkable characters who, in the most unlikely circumstances, rejected putting crowns on their heads for something much more complicated. Oh sure, the first one, Theseus, was … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights, War
Tagged Alexander Pope, CliffsNotes, Edith Hamilton, Homer, Lenin, Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, Netflix, Republic of Turkey, The Iliad, Theseus, Trotsky, Turkey
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