{"id":52038,"date":"2023-06-07T05:54:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52038"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T01:11:18","slug":"open-thread-june-7-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/open-thread-june-7-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 7, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center released its 2022 Report on Hate and Extremism. It doesn’t look pretty – not that we all didn’t already know that via gut feelings, but here are the numbers to demonstrate it<\/a>. Also yesterday, I spent over two hours trying to report a package whuch was supposed to have beenbe delivered Mionday and wasn’t though it showed up in my Informed Delivery as having been delivered, with a delivery time time and everything – only to discover (fortunately before I found an actual person) that it had been delivered last week. The tracking number had not gotten into the system when I actually received it, and they were apparently belatedly trying to account for it. Weird.<\/p>\n

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The New Yorker – How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy<\/a>
\nQuote – \u201cIf you\u2019re used to the powers that be either passively ignoring you or actively screwing you over, for generations, it\u2019s natural to hear about some new nefarious thing they\u2019re up to and think, Same shit, different day,\u201d [Sailor Jones, a democracy activist] said. \u201cThe challenge for us, messaging-wise, is to find a way to tell folks, You\u2019re not wrong, but, also, this one really is different.\u201d \u201cThis one\u201d was Moore v. Harper, a Supreme Court case that was set to be argued in December and resolved by the end of June…. Even if the apparatus of democracy is not dismantled this year, or next year, it\u2019s worth reckoning with how easily it could be.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. I wish this were not important … but it is. Statistically, we actually have, or have the potential for, a majority in enough states that are considered solidly red that if we could only get people registered, turn out the vote, and generally turn up the enthusiasm, we could deal with this. But that is something we are as a group too rational to be really good at. If you are paywalled out, shoot me an email and I will send you the article.<\/p>\n

HuffPost [Fringe] – Oklahoma School Board Approves 1st Taxpayer-Funded Religious School In U.S.<\/a>
\nQuote – The Archdiocese of Oklahoma said in the \u201cvision and purpose of the organization\u201d section of its application that: \u201cThe Catholic school participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out.\u201d Brett Farley, the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, said: \u201cWe are elated that the board agreed with our argument and application for the nation\u2019s first religious charter school.\u201d
\nClick through for story<\/a>. I don’t know how far this would get if it were taken to court – and there are asome groups and people who will be taking it there. For one thng, the state’s AG says it is unconstitutional under Oklahoma;s constitution … and Americans United foor Separation of Church and State also appears to be on it.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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