RSN: Charles Pierce | SCOTUS' Conservative Majority Decision on Texas's Voting Maps Is Delusional on Multiple Levels
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Charles Pierce | SCOTUS' Conservative Majority Decision on Texas's Voting Maps Is Delusional on Multiple Levels
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "This decision to keep in place Texas's current voting districts is not only obviously delusional on the issue of race, it's yet another one that indicates that the five-vote conservative majority on this court lives in Happy Gumdrop Land - or, rather, Exxon-Mobil Happy Gumdrop White People's land."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "This decision to keep in place Texas's current voting districts is not only obviously delusional on the issue of race, it's yet another one that indicates that the five-vote conservative majority on this court lives in Happy Gumdrop Land - or, rather, Exxon-Mobil Happy Gumdrop White People's land."
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Excerpt: "US immigration agents can no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally and must work to reunite those families that had been split up in custody, a federal judge has ruled."
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Guardian UK
Excerpt: "US immigration agents can no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally and must work to reunite those families that had been split up in custody, a federal judge has ruled."
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Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Public Sector Unions
Ariane de Vogue and Clare Foran, CNN
Excerpt: "The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to public sector unions on Wednesday in a case that could shake their financial structure and undermine their future stability."
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Ariane de Vogue and Clare Foran, CNN
Excerpt: "The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to public sector unions on Wednesday in a case that could shake their financial structure and undermine their future stability."
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Anti-racist protesters were mowed down by a vehicle driven by James Alex Fields Jr. during a white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (photo: Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress)
Driver Who Killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville Charged With Multiple Hate Crimes
Joe Heim and Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Justice Department charged James Alex Fields Jr., the driver accused of murdering a counterprotester at last year's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., with multiple hate crime counts Wednesday."
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Joe Heim and Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Justice Department charged James Alex Fields Jr., the driver accused of murdering a counterprotester at last year's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., with multiple hate crime counts Wednesday."
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Donald Trump with Paul Ryan. (photo: Getty)
Trump's Latest Bid to Punish the Poor
Sanford Schram, Jacobin
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Sanford Schram, Jacobin
Schram writes: "Trump's plan to reorganize federal agencies sounds innocuous. But its real aim is to further gut the welfare state."
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Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna Use Radio to Fight for Their Land
Christopher Clark, Mongabay
Clark writes: "The Garifuna have been mounting a resistance, aided in part by a network of community radio stations."
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Christopher Clark, Mongabay
Clark writes: "The Garifuna have been mounting a resistance, aided in part by a network of community radio stations."
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Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Scott Heins/Getty)
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