Ray ⬆️ @Razor58 is still in a motel looking for better housing or at least reliable shelter, he asked if there's anyone who could do this kind of trailer build?
He's still in #Amarillo TX for the time being. Would go elsewhere but ideally would like to go to #NC.
In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court gutted essential parts of the Voting Rights Act, allowing GOP legislatures to enact some of the most racially discriminatory district maps in state history.
Last year, a federal judge in Georgia ruled that GOP-drawn maps were discriminatory and unlawful because they diluted Black voting power and ignored the state’s growing Black population.
In North Carolina, voting rights advocates filed suit charging GOP legislators with racially gerrymandering the state House and Senate maps by deliberately diluting the voting power of majority-Black areas.
And in Louisiana, a federal court determined that GOP-created maps violated the Voting Rights Act by weakening the power of Black voters. The state was ordered to finalize a new map
early this year.
Recently in Alabama, the Republican legislature refused to comply with a federal judge’s order to create fair voting maps that better represented Black voters. It had to be enforced by court order.
A North Carolina public university changed Pride Week's name, banned a drag show, and fired some DEI staff but said it isn't to please the conservative anti-DEI legislature.
Freedom of expression and bodily autonomy are completely free citizens. Move along before you're declared DEI and sent to Gitmo to listen to lectures by Charlie Kirk 23 hours a day.
As far-right contenders dominate the #GOP ticket in a state known for its flourishing #economy, the business community is bracing for potential fallout
[#NC restaurant owner Elizabeth] Turnbull, a registered Independent, was alarmed when candidates she viewed as #BadForBusiness, all #MAGA devotees prone to trumpeting #ConspiracyTheories, recently clinched the #Republican nominations for crucial state offices.
The #NorthCarolina Chamber of #Commerce rebuked “#partisan ideologues that cause #division & create #controversy” in an unusually biting stmnt last month, saying the Mar primary results offer a “startling warning of the looming threats to NC’s #business climate.” Ofcls did not put an amt on projected losses.
…Michael Walden, an #economist at #NC State U, who tracked the damage in 2016 [said], “You lose #jobs. You lose #construction activity. You lose an additional tax base. You lose prestige.”