Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21m

In a win for voters, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously rejected a GOP challenge to the state’s Election Procedures Manual (EPM), which provides guidance to election administrators. The court sent the case back to an appeals court to consider several remaining challenges.

Democracy Docket

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 24m

Hegseth’s paranoia about leaks and security breaches should be a red flag. If things were going well under his leadership, he would be trumpeting his accomplishments. Instead, he engages in the classic Trump ploy of misdirection. What is he trying to hide?

Dan Rather

3

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 26m

What they’re trying to do is suppress support for the opposition, to make you think that you are connected with violence if you show up for a peaceful protest rally. I think the turnout is going to be big, and I think that that’ll be a sign that their tactics aren’t working.

Senator Chris Murphy

1 3

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 28m

The goal of the disinformation campaign, which was no doubt coordinated in the highest ranks of the Republican Party, is simple: suppress turnout by criminalizing dissent–and change the narrative from “ peaceful protests” to “terrorism.”

Dan Rather

1 2

Reposted by Watashiwa judisudesu

Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 1d

10 19

Reposted by Watashiwa judisudesu

Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 1d

4 9

Reposted by Watashiwa judisudesu

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

95 1.7K 7.7K

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 20h

Why would they do that? It's not logical.

Reposted by Watashiwa judisudesu

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

AP: “Though 🇺🇸 only spends around 1% of its budget on foreign aid, Trump declared USAID — once the world’s leading donor of humanitarian assistance — a waste of💰and dissolved it.”

(But his pal Milei gets $40 Billion for Argentina) apnews.com/article/myan...

32 390 870

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

Trump will not stop until he is met with overwhelming political opposition. When he is, he will have no one to bully, threaten, coerce, or bribe. Solidarity is the way forward—for the American people and the institutions that underpin civil society and democracy.

Robert Hubbell

1

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

At a time when the Supreme Court is dismantling protections for descendants of enslaved people, defending Republican officials who “joke” about white supremacy and Nazi atrocities is beyond the pale of decency and humanity.

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

A Republican staffer on Capitol Hill had a modified US flag on his bulletin board that incorporated the Nazi swastika. The Nazi symbol was spotted by a participant in a virtual meeting with the staffer for Republican Rep. Dave Taylor (Ohio).

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

The fact that Vance cannot even find the moral courage or outrage to condemn a slur directed at the Indian people, given his familial connections, tells us everything we need to know about JD Vance.

Robert Hubbell

2 1

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

John Roberts may finally kill the Voting Rights Act. But it will be his Dred Scott moment, and will tarnish his name and legacy for centuries to come.

Robert Hubbell

1

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

The reactionary majority has adopted a Catch-22 that automatically invalidates any remedy that seeks to protect the rights of a racial minority. If the remedy uses race in fashioning a solution to race-based discrimination then the remedy violates the Constitution.

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican Party more broadly — holds that any measure rectifying the country’s habitual discrimination against minorities actually discriminates against the in-group.

Kate Riga

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

The tactics employed by Republicans to suppress the voting rights of Black Americans can also be used to reform the Court and rehabilitate the rule of law. Expand the Court at the first opportunity!

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

John Roberts’ lifelong assault on voting rights for Black Americans is the culmination of efforts by the Old South to reverse the gains of the Civil Rights era. They accomplished that task by packing the Supreme Court with justices hostile to equal rights for Black Americans.

Robert Hubbell

2 1

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

The tide of public opinion is turning against the false promises of Trump’s 2024 campaign; our task is to ensure that the sea change swamps the GOP in 2026. Roberts’ evisceration of the Voting Rights Act will make our task more difficult, but not impossible.

Robert Hubbell

2 1

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

Roberts came one step closer to cementing his status as the equal of Justice Roger Taney, whose opinion in the Dred Scott case is universally acknowledged to be the low point of Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Robert Hubbell

2 2

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 21h

Chief Justice John Roberts’ mission in life has been to erase the gains of the Civil Rights era by invalidating the keystone legislation that ended the scourge of Jim Crow laws in the post-Civil War South. During oral argument, Roberts made his ambition clear.

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 22h

Despicable

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 22h

SCOTUS seems ready to scrap fair elections, greenlight racial discrimination and hand House control to GOP

Marc Elias

💔

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 22h

Hegseth’s Pentagon is trying to force journalists to sign a pledge that would make it impossible to do independent journalism. Most journalists, across the board, declined to bend the knee. Attempting to cancel the First Amendment is part of this administration’s legacy.

Joyce Vance

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 22h

At the Pentagon, shutdown or not, Trump appointees are hard at work, shutting down the free press.

Joyce Vance

1