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🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.
i have this condition. have had from youth. it is debilitating. sometimes i medicate to ease the issue. i am terrified for my future. it is not benign. and i wouldnt put an 80 year old with the condition in the senate
Ken KlippensteinNearly the entire media parroted Susan Collins' statement that she has a "Benign Essential Tremor." The correct medical term is "Essential Tremor" because it's not benign and coincides with higher rates of dementia www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-is-sus...
The degree of political asymmetry on what judges/justices are up to these days, AND what politicians are doing to courts, is one of the most staggering aspects of our moment.
Democrats get a gerrymander in Virginia approved by a referendum, and it falls. Republicans in other states manage to gut the Voting Rights Act to enact partisan gerrymanders with no signoff from voters, and they stand. The game really does feel rigged, doesn't it?
Democracy DocketBREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.
A Democratic president with simple majorities in Congress could enact proportional representation for the House—no amendments required. 50%+1 could end the filibuster, expand SCOTUS, expand the House, and enact PR by state. And add new states like D.C. to rebalance the Senate while they’re at it
Lee Drutman"So in one stroke, PR could do a better job fighting racial vote dilution than Section 2 ever did, and do so without triggering equal protection objections." electionlawblog.org?p=155758