the GOP went 0 for 5 on these races six days later
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nothing will ever beat how much hinged on 537 votes in our entire lifetime
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Minnesota Democrats enacting a robust progressive agenda with a single seat majority they won by 321 votes is probably the strongest argument for voting.
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GOP seem to be avoiding their worst case scenario in Pennsylvania:
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Just now: PA state Sen Doug Mastriano says he will NOT run for US Senate
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California prison conditions remain abysmal, and the use of solitary confinement pervasive. No one should have to endure these atrocious violations of human dignity.
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Nearly all local election officials who have amplified false fraud conspiracies and were on Pennsylvania's ballot last week prevailed in the Republican primaries.
Several had tried to block the certification of election results in 2020 or 2022.
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Inbox: Uber says it will cancel service in greater Minnesota and only provide “premium” services in the Twin Cities if Gov. Tim Walz signs the Uber/Lyft regulations into law
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The above via .
More background here by reporting on the referendum last year:
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Oakland voters passed 'democracy vouchers' last year, which would be a new model of public financing of elections emulating Seattle. But as city proposes to gut it via its budget, groups are looking for workarounds that would make a 2024 pilot possible:
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A lot more detail in this thread (and article).
For instance, on Kavanaugh (who crossed with liberals): "Kavanaugh said the ruling could imperil federal oversight of the Chesapeake Bay and flood control measures on the Mississippi River."
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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules in favor of Idaho landowners, puts new limits on the scope of Clean Water Act jurisdiction over wetlands:
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Writing in dissent on the shadow docket last year, Roberts wrote in this case: "the District Court properly applied existing law in an extensive opinion with no apparent errors for our correction," but said there was "considerable disagreement" about existing law
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With Justice Alito writing the Clean Water Act decision handed down today, it now looks all but certain that Chief Justice Roberts has the Voting Rights Act opinion (Allen v. Milligan).
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With Justice Alito writing the Clean Water Act decision handed down today, it now looks all but certain that Chief Justice Roberts has the Voting Rights Act opinion (Allen v. Milligan).
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A *majority* of California Democrats say Feinstein should resign, 52% to 24% who say she should serve out her term, in new poll:
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Fascinating piece in on labor & union organizing among formerly incarcerated people in New York:
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SCOTUS conservatives today narrowed what wetlands fall under the Clean Water Act.
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next opinion is Sackett v EPA - by Justice Alito - writing for 5 Justices, they reject EPA's authority to regulate wetlands with a "significant nexus" to navigable waters - the waters must have a continuous surface connection to navigable waters
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All six announced Republican presidential candidates now support sending the US military into Mexico, with or without Mexico’s permission.
This is also known as an invasion.
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Note the important detail here that there’s a guilty plea involved here.
Before getting to nullification, most cases never end up in front of a jury as defendants are threatened with hell if they take that risk and don’t accept a guilty deal.
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NEW: The Nebraska teenager charged for allegedly taking abortion pills that her mom ordered has plead guilty to one felony and faces up to two years in prison. Her mom faces up to eight
jezebel.com/nebraska-teen-
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NEW: The Nebraska teenager charged for allegedly taking abortion pills that her mom ordered has plead guilty to one felony and faces up to two years in prison. Her mom faces up to eight
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Major voting rights decisions are set to drop in SCOTUS at some point between tomorrow and late June, including over the VRA and independent state legislature doctrine.
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We should be getting closer to Moore v. Harper and Allen v. Milligan opinions now 
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2) Newsom vetoed a bill passed by California Dems that'd have created statutory restrictions on solitary confinement, saying that he'd instruct the prison system to better regulate itself on the matter (spoiler: it hasn't)
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2 things that are more similar than Gavin Newsom would prob admit
1) Texas Republicans are moving thru a bill that'd allow sheriffs to investigate themselves when someone dies under their watch, gutting existing statute passed after Sandra Bland's death
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Newsom vetoed legal restrictions on solitary confinement saying the prison system would regulate itself...
... and (surprise!), as Piper found out, well, it hasn't.
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The Mandela Act's greatest weapon may be survivors of solitary confinement testifying to the horror of the practice. But that means little if Newsom vetos the bill, as he did last yr, instead directing CA's prison system to essentially reform itself: boltsmag.org/solitary-confi
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This is why I tweet about these things. Their purpose is 100% clear. And they will not stop.
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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles lays out a Putin-esque plan to make Pride "culturally toxic" and then to use the power of the State to make it illegal:
mediamatters.org/daily-wire/dai
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its choking me up to see how generous people who *lost their jobs* are being to their colleagues who also lost their jobs but arbitrarily received less of a safety net — this industry is brutal, but you meet some real ones ❤️ please help my former colleagues out
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On April 20, everybody at BuzzFeed News was laid off. And last week, BuzzFeed told us that everybody will not be treated equally on their way out.
We need your help 
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Trump's lead in CNN's national poll has gone from 4% in March (40/36) to 27% (53/26) today.
And only 16% of Republicans say they wouldn't support him *in the primary*; no big mass of GOP voters looking for a primary alternative. documentcloud.org/documents/2382
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. immediately captures how tragic the situation is.
"By international human rights standards, Jack Morris was tortured by the state of California for almost four decades."
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All running unopposed… This is how we fix things from the bottom up. Every state. Every county. Every race.
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I had a list of New York sheriffs who've signaled they won't enforce gun control laws, & I looked up their races after the filing deadline for local elections.
And what I found... is that all those who are up this year will be running unopposed. boltsmag.org/new-york-distr
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A troubling moment of Gavin Newsom's governorship: He vetoed a bill last year that'd have restricted solitary confinement in California in line with UN's definition of torture.
Now survivors of solitary confinement are pushing a redo.
A powerful story:
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how the NDP may climb back into power in Albert next week:
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This time, the right is united—under a media-savvy extremist known for conspiracy theorizing who's managed to turn off a lot of centrist voters. (Sound familiar?) That's kept this election extremely tight
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"Susanville had become a company town, and the business was incarceration."
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point is, please subscribe to 's newsletter to not lose touch with us whatever happens...
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This is something that of course concerns me a lot: people talk about how twitter doesn't account for a huge amount of traffic, and sure, but that misses the visibility social media can bring, and importantly its equalizing effect for outlets of very different sizes & statures.
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Replying to @justbrowsingOO @chrisgeidner and 5 others
@Taniel, Bolts is one I contribute to. I'm certain I wouldn't have known about it if I didn't follow news/politics on Twitter. I don't think the damage that is/will be done to local/independent news can be overstated if/when Twitter becomes fully uninhabitable. 
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The cloture vote, 50-48, involved every voting Republican voting 'no' (including Collins & Murkowski); and every Democrat or Dem-caucusing independent voting 'aye' except for Manchin who voted no.
senate.gov/legislative/LI
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This was last week, but Nancy Abudu's confirmation to the 11th Circuit is a big deal: She is a civil rights lawyer who's worked with the ACLU's Voting Rights Project against felony disenfranchisement, & for the Southern Poverty Law Center. GOP fought it.
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