Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

We stand shoulder to shoulder with kindred spirit @christianselig for his amazing work on Apollo. We've been honored and grateful to make small iconic contributions to Apollo over the years.

No matter what happens, we know Christian's next project will be inspiring. A big fist bump 👊 from all of us here at the factory, Christian. Reddit and its users owe you and Apollo a ton.

H/T Victor Shi: President Biden just announced that he will be appointing a coordinator dedicated to combatting far-right extreme book bans across the country. Republicans choose to mess around & President Biden will make them find out. This is great news.

The text for Newsom's 28th amendment proposal for common sense gun regulation. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/08/28th-amendment/ #28thAmendment

Breaking: President Dwight McBride has resigned from The New School this summer. Board announces an interim search.

Mike Pence would rather see armed school guards than gun control reforms

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-gun-control-cnn-b2353571.html

#IndependentUK #MikePenceGunControl #ArmedSchoolGuards #USPolitics #SchoolSafety #SecondAmendment #Politics #News

NEW: Colorado's governor Jared Polis signed a law that bans local governments from partnering with ICE to jail immigrants.

(This is a way some counties generating revenue by treating their jails as tho they were ICE hotels.)

Big immigrants' rights win: https://boltsmag.org/colorado-immigration-detention/

“It’s potent to both bases — as most moves on immigration are.” Mike Madrid

CA Governor Gavin #Newsom took to Twitter to confront Ron #DeSantis after the FL governor and presidential candidate sent migrants to #California.

#Politics #2024

@mikemadrid

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-05/newsom-desantis-migrant-flights-kidnapping-charges

And this via Steve Vladeck:

If you assume that additional majority-minority districts in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, & 1–2 other states would’ve been safe Democratic seats, then today’s #SCOTUS ruling strongly suggests that the Court’s 2022 shadow docket stays wrongly gave Republicans control of the House.

7/ You will recall that in the 2022 midterms, the Democrats lost control of the House. This was due to a lot of different factors, but many have noted the impact of gerrymandering and other democratic distortions in the outcome of the election.

SCOTUS in 2019's Rucho v. Common Cause said fed courts could not review (and adjudicate) claims of partisan gerrymandering.

And in February 2022, it allowed AL's map--the map it now agrees was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander--to go into effect.

5/ Murray cont'd:

And that's not all!

After the 2020 census Alabama drew its new Congressional map... and it seemed to many that the map was drawn for the purpose of diluting the electoral power of Black people, who comprise 27% of the state's population

Black voters, represented by the @NAACP_LDF and other groups, sued the state under Section 2, arguing that the map, as drawn, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

OOF. #pga #hypocrisy #bloodmoney (via @murphycartoons )

More from Elie Mystal re: #SCOTUS decision:

People are going a little hard on the "Roberts felt the pressure & is trying to throw people off the scent" narrative.

Roberts flipped here bc Alabama went too far. That Roberts has a "too far" line on this issue IS surprising. But he's not coming to Jesus or anything.

Maybe Oprah can send Thomas as $1200 bouquet of flowers w a card "Condolences for your failure to kill the 15th Amendment Hope Ginni isn't too mad and lets you off of the couch soon."

The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community
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#UnitooDailyNews #unitoo #News #Worldnews #tech #bot

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217981085 Breaking: Biden sending fire fighting assets to help extinguish Quebec wildfires.

Switzerland continues to take the side of the Russian fascist invaders by blocking other countries transferring weapons to Ukraine.

Abandoning the principle of neutrality, the Swiss government does great evil and empowers war and genocide by aggressor Russia.

James Brown’s Historic Concert, Staged 24 Hours After Martin Luther King’s Assassination, Is Now Restored and Free to Watch Online

https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/james-browns-historic-concert-is-now-restored-and-free-to-watch-online.html

Legal Expert: SCOTUS’ Stay Might Have ‘Wrongly’ Given Republicans the House https://www.politicususa.com/2023/06/08/legal-expert-scotus-stay-might-have-wrongly-given-republicans-the-house.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Study (preprint) indicates shingles vaccine may cut dementia risk. If this proves true, it could indicate one more link between certain viral diseases and certain neurodegenerative diseases.

Does shingles vaccination cut dementia risk? Large study hints at a link. Analysis of nearly 300,000 people finds an association between the shingles jab and a lower rate of dementia — but questions linger.
#vaccines #shingles #dementia
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01824-1