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Urban Planner working on Environment/Climate Action/Resilience/Food Systems
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The Texas decision is based on the anti-racial-gerrymandering case Shaw v. Reno (1993, Sandra O'Connor writing). While progressives mostly lambasted Shaw at the time, they've found it useful many times since then in invalidating racially motivated maps. [Richard Pildes] /6
The Texas Gerrymandering Decision Rests on Shaw v. Reno #ELB
I have no view at this stage whether the majority is correct that six districts in Texas’s re-redistricting are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The dueling opinions are long; the issues are high...
electionlawblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Helpful overview of what comes next from @joshgerstein.bsky.social and @kyledcheney.bsky.social at Politico. SCOTUS is apt to get pulled into the fray whether it wants to or not. But the “minimalist way would be to let this decision stand," says Brad Smith, FEC chair under GWB. /5
Supreme Court set to wade into a case that could tip the scales for the midterms
A lower court order on Texas’ new congressional map has made its way to the high court. It could be the first of several mid-decade redistricting pushes.
www.politico.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Here's the dissent, by Judge Jerry Smith. It's really something. /4
electionlawblog.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Our county has an ordinance that says any onshore facilities associated with state or federal offshore oil and gas development would be prohibited unless approved by a majority vote Santa Cruz County voters. This was approved by voters in 1986. Maybe others could do this.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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We agree with you.

We have two Articles written, and we are working on a third.

Tyranny:
citizensimpeachment.com/impeachmenta...

Treason:
citizensimpeachment.com/article-of-i...

Any member of the House may introduce these at any time via Rule IX.
citizensimpeachment.com/rule-ix-and-...
Article of impeachment - Citizens' Impeachment
(For Article II: Treason, please click here) H. RES _____ RESOLVED, that Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the […]
citizensimpeachment.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Check: www.404media.co/tag/flock/ who report on this consistently, and check your own city on deflock.me
Flock - 404 Media
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Thiel's and Musk's Palantir AI is being trained on activities of hundreds of millions of Americans whose personal data Trump already handed over to Thiel and Musk.
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
US Border Patrol has been secretly using a nationwide network of license-plate readers and predictive algorithms to track millions of American drivers, even far from the border, ABC reports.

Anyone the system throws up for “suspicious travel patterns” are questioned, searched or arrested by police.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Let them mark who they are forever so everyone will always know they are racist, treasonous scum.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM