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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/02/2025
A New York appeals court restored the state’s Voting Rights Act, which grants voters additional protections not covered by federal law. The judges concluded that a lower court had no authority to strike down the entire NYVRA.
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Appellate Court Revives New York Voting Rights Act
Read more here.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank you, Canada!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/02/2025
The Trump administration’s decision to impose a far-reaching freeze on U.S. foreign aid programs has thrust humanitarian and development organizations into crisis, prompting the layoff or furloughing of thousands of workers and mass panic as aid groups warn they may have to shut down.
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Funding freeze thrusts foreign aid groups into crisis
Development organizations that program and deliver billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid warn they may have to shut down.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
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Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/01/2025
Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies
“I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go," said one staffer.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If someone thinks it’s a good idea to go along with some of Trump’s policies in order to minimize the damage, are they not collaborating with a man bent on the destruction of American democracy and aiding his effort?
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Susan Ruddick @susanruddick1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Yes, it can happen again. 👀
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Remember when you thought SCOTUS wouldn't overturn Roe v Wade? Well, now Idaho is asking SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell, the case that makes same-sex marriage legal www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
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Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision (Gift Article)
A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 07/12/2024
🇺🇸Today, we remember those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor 83 years ago. We shall remain eternally grateful for their service, and forever honor their memory.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024
Instead of brownshirts, the 21st century has internet mobs edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...
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Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business
When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Shoulda voted Harris Gen Z
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Flynn Fella @youllbederezzed.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
💯 I just added consumer financial protection bureau expert @dalie.bsky.social to the follow the big dirty money starter pack. go.bsky.app/PeWSAz4
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vbhill.bsky.social @vbhill.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Did anyone else get a notification from Bluesky that Elon Musk followed them? Got a notification but in Bluesky app that person is not listed as following me.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/11/2024
Pete Hegseth has published three books in four years. Jonathan Chait spent the last week reading them—and concluded that Hegseth is almost certainly the most dangerous of Trump's cabinet picks. theatln.tc/80Muc59S
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