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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1m

That would likely restore the Alabama and Louisiana maps to how they looked in 2022 but protect, say, the compact districts in Memphis and Charlotte.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3m

A ruling where the six conservatives create some extra compactness standard to specifically nuke the Louisiana map (and a few others) is probably the least-bad outcome from the oral arguments today. And I'm not exactly banking on least-bad outcomes these days.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12m

Louisiana guy "If you look at the black population in Louisiana, they're all over the place."

Again, the fundamental argument for why Louisiana (which has 6 congressional districts and is 1/3 nonwhite) should over-represent white folks is because black folks are "too spread out."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14m

A foundational truth of this republic is it has no king.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25m

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 16m

Some white conservatives are really committed to the idea that racism only exists because the correctives to it "went too far" and became "entitlements."

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 34m

Kavanaugh now saying they shouldn’t defer to Congress’s judgment on when to sunset or repeal VRA Section 2, which gets very close to Scalia’s infamous soliloquy from Shelby County’s args

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Jul 4

As an added bonus, here’s Justice Scalia saying out loud, and in totally racist terms, exactly why Republicans have captured the Court: to have unelected partisans with lifetime appointments do the dirty work of striking down laws their political counterparts would repeal at their electoral peril

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29m

Kavanaugh really, really wants a time limit on remedies for racial discrimination. I really, really want a time limit on racial discrimination in America. But guess what

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29m

(They also wanted to draw out Garrett Graves, whom they didn't like, and reward Cleo Fields, a Democratic ally of the governor.)

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29m

And they admitted to this. So, an easy remedy if you supposedly care about compactness is just to tell the Louisiana GOP that they can't take those political considerations into account.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 33m

And even if you didn't want to use that one, you could make a "nicer" looking district that hugs the eastern border of the state. Louisiana Republicans chose not to do this because they didn't want to draw out Julia Letlow, the delegation's only female representative.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 39m

The easy answer is that once there is a complete lack of racially polarized voting, Section 2 self-sunsets. But we aren't there yet.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 55m

Kavanaugh looking to find the "end point" when the Court no longer has to worry about the intentional use of race to create black districts.
I'd say "WHEN WHITE FOLKS STOP INTENTIONALLY USING RACE TO DECREASE BLACK VOTING POWER" but he thinks white people doing that is cool.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 48m

The only thing that has changed between Milligan (2023!) and now is the impending possibility that the GOP might lose the House in a blue wave.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1h

CJ Roberts: "Allen v. Milligan took existing precedent as a given."

Uh ... ok? What? The litigants challenged existing precedent in that case too?

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

Especially since one important line of attack against Vivek would be energy prices and data centers, but it’s hard to do that when you’re also tied to crypto.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

If Jones does lose, the goal of a Democratic trifecta should be to severely curtail Miyares’ power so he can’t ratfuck the state from the AG’s office.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3h

In some states, if a candidate withdraws (or dies) after it's too late to change ballots, or even after winning, the party can still name a replacement and the votes will count for them. Not an option in VA. If Jay Jones formally dropped out, votes for him simply wouldn't count, GOP wins by default.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

Almost every College Republican I knew from 2006 to 2010 is now a Democrat.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, yes, I’m sure there were no conversations or coordination before or after. Very smart.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h

“If there isn’t a confrontation, it’s just vapid memery” implies you can always predict when there’s going to be a confrontation.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h

It’s just wrecker shit. Wrong rock nonsense.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 4h

I have trouble reading things like this and not seeing it as tantamount to right wing agitprop tbh.

“Large scale popular protest with growing participation across society is just superficial activism.”

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 15h

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 12h

Well yes, no argument there. Hard to actually maintain guardrails when closed partisan primaries and outside funding can ensure people like MTG can topple more establishment figures.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of the Democratic Party, especially in the South, was also pretty damn racist at that time. If you want to act like the Trump administration isn't worse than any GOP administration that has come before, by all means, be my guest.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 13h

Yes that's why you want a strong party. To make sure there are guardrails that can keep that undercurrent just as an undercurrent.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 13h

Hochul is saying the right things but in the wrong venue, for instance.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17h

“It’s actually better when they’re openly Nazi rapists” no it’s not. That’s not true.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14h

She's of the exact same educational and age profile of various other normie liberal women who are radicalizing.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 14h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14h

It's weird to post the screenshot because I think most normies will understand that Jones' argument is not as bad as racial slurs.

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