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🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you for your thread!!

🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 1h

Going to have to leave work like at 1 pm or just stay and watch the parade downtown near the end

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🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 1h

Nominating Justice Ketanji Brown is probably the best thing Joe Biden did in his presidency.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

you cannot remedy racism without focusing on race. it's asinine to try.

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🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 1h

Their argument in summation “if you don’t have this you will still have black representatives…. So what’s the problem?”

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Sotomayor pointing out that there is ample evidence that even white Democrats in Louisiana won't vote for Black candidates.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Roberts and Alito skipped their chance to ask questions.

Sooo... what's basically happening is that the Republicans have decided to let the Democrats absolutely dog-walk Ed Greim so they can feel better about this case that they're going to lose.

Greim, meet bus, tell me how the wheels look.

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🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 2h

Having voting rights is stereotyping?!
IS THAT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING?!

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🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 2h

Wow they are really telling on themselves…. Especially with that last statement

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 2h

It’s wild that he can lie like this and no one bothers to ask any follow-ups about January 6th and republicans choosing to honor Ashli Babbit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 2h

SHE CUT YOUR FUCKING ASS OFF 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 2h

Ben Aguiñaga fighting Liz and Janky Jeff’s battles

a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a brick wall and making a shame gesture .

Alt: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a brick wall and making a shame gesture .

media.tenor.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

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🇬🇹 ⚜️ @saraodette.bsky.social · 3h

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Nelson: "Section 2 requires neither a confession, nor an accusation of racism. It looks only at results."

This should be the winning point, but it won't, because Republicans.