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<\/p>\nYesterday, I paid a couple of bills. I didn’t venture outside, though I suppose I might have, because besides the evacuations the day before, we also has spring winds (to blow them away) – but that’s a straight stick which points two ways, – the winds could aldo have brought the fires (and their smoke) closer. Not difficult to justify doing what I wanted to do anyway (grin.)<\/p>\n
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\nQuote – Smith will likely replace DeSantis\u2019s gerrymandered maps with one of two that the Republican-controlled legislature had previously passed, which the governor had vetoed earlier this year. Though still advantageous to the GOP, those maps are seen as somewhat better (though by no means perfect), in terms of respecting Black voters\u2019 voices, than the ones DeSantis demanded be passed after his veto.
\nClick through for article<\/a>. Here’s my take on DeSantis.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nQuote – It\u2019s not just people on the left pointing out Fox\u2019s racism. In 2020, amid the George Floyd protests, The Daily Beast reported that it \u201cspoke to more than a dozen Fox News insiders, who all suggested that behind the scenes there is a growing despair among employees about the network\u2019s role in demonizing and spreading fear about Black Americans in particular.\u201d One Fox staffer quoted in the piece described some of the network\u2019s personalities as \u201ca white supremacist cell,\u201d adding, \u201cThis is rank racism excused by Murdoch.\u201d Another described Fox programming as \u201cwhite supremacist crap.\u201d
\nClick through if you can stand to<\/a>. Shall we expect Fox staff to treat Karine with even more disrespect than they did Jen? (OK, I grant I was shocked when Doocy said on camera that he would miss her because she’d always been a “good sport.”)<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Douglas, Marshall, and Blackmun were the intellectual leaders of that Supreme Court. Their opinions gave the Court its moral heft. They drew not only from the Constitution as written but also from the nation as it had evolved. They understood the moral leadership America needed to protect the rights of the voiceless and the powerless. Today\u2019s Supreme Court majority doesn\u2019t have a clue about the Court\u2019s moral authority, and couldn\u2019t care less.
\nClick through for history, nostalgia, and moral clarity<\/a>. Today’s FFT is a meme drawn from this article.\u00a0 Feel free to share it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Reich.jpg\")
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