The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar....Two loudspeakers, as big as the men carrying them, are brought to the rocky hilltop. Some 800m below, in the town of Hpasang, lies a sprawling Myanmar army base....
As Heather Cox Richardson reports, the Supreme Court just signed off on a South Carolina congressional map that dilutes Black votes by gerrymandering.
And Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. She writes,
"Almost exactly 70 years after the Supreme Court unanimously decided Brown v. Board, it appears that the framed timbers designed to reverse the expansion of minority rights are falling into place."
"The reason the Alito flag stories (like the Thomas stories) are so important is not because they reveal the individuals in question to be extremist ideologues. It is because of the utter contempt for the history, ethics, and standing of the court on which they serve."
If you are a citizen of a European Union country, you can vote in the EU elections, even if you live outside the EU. You can use any EU country polling facilities (I haven't tested it).
In Australia, Poland is opening polling booths in Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Perth on Sunday, June 9th, 7am-9pm.
National service can boost up job opportunities in Britain, it's a good idea of implemented properly!
Young people who take up a full-time armed forces placement under a national service scheme could get better work or study opportunities as a result, the Conservatives have said.
Rachel Maddow discusses her research into fascism, disinformation, and propaganda.
It's not merely an attempt to foster animosity towards a particular group. Fascist disinformation is to erode our democracy by convincing us that a specific group is perilous, untrustworthy, and should be disenfranchised.
What has transpired since 2016 with the former president is not just the vilification of ethnic minorities. He, along with Fox propaganda and other purveyors of disinformation, have escalated lies and disinformation into a violent domestic terrorist movement and a MAGA-driven fascist party. The presence of Republican fascists is a reality now.
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Fascism ... is about getting us to undo #democracy and we shouldn't stand for it.
Gaza has began to attack Central Israel through rockets!
Will the war ever end?
A massive barrage of rockets targeted Tel Aviv and central Israel for the first time in months. The rockets were fired from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-803682
Finally, people are realising the harmful effects of tobacco. Good move taken by the Telangana government!
The Telangana government has issued a one-year ban on the manufacture, storage, distribution, transportation and sale of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco and nicotine throughout the State, effective immediately.
#Germany#Democracy#FreedomOfSpeech#GermanConstitution: "Just five years ago, the 70th anniversary of the birth of the post-war German democratic state was accompanied by euphoric celebrations across the country. This week, by contrast, few Germans were in the mood to party. Aside from the Federal Republic of Germany’s economic woes, the prevailing opinion is that German democracy isn’t in very good health.
Who is to blame? The liberal-centrist consensus is that the country is facing an unprecedented threat from nefarious populist and far-Right forces — most notably the AfD, which aims, according to the country’s vice-chancellor, to “turn Germany into an authoritarian state”. But one may very well argue that Germany is already displaying worrying signs of authoritarianism, at the hands of those very same liberal-centrist forces that claim to be defending democracy from the barbarians at the gate."
Was haltet ihr von der Idee, allen Personen mit minderjährigen Kindern und generell allen unter 30 bei #Wahlen eine zusätzliche #Zukunftsstimme zu geben?
Altersgewichtetes Wählen tönt im ersten Moment spannend, sobald man es genauer analysiert, wird es schwierig:
Ich mache es mir einfach und zitiere aus der Zusammenfassung eines Papers [1]:
"First, even if the arguments are sound, they cannot vindicate any blanket age-based disenfranchisement, but only schemes whereby older citizens are granted somewhat less weight in elections."
I'm wondering, are there any articles on the #Assange case which elaborate on a what if Julian was released? Not just "superficially", e.g. that it would strengthen #democracy. But what that would mean for various institutions maybe, how they would need to change. As obviously that's what's been causing the clash all along, a clash with institutions. Could it maybe even change our view on and enhance the basic structure of democracy? Let me briefly elaborate: 1/
If you wanted to write today about vested interests, about the groups (and their networks) that are preventing governments from pursuing the reforms needed for Australia's economy to flourish, you'd have different targets.
Justice Sonia #Sotomayor admitted being moved 2 tears by #Supreme Court decisions that she did not agree w, reflecting on her emotional experiences in her time on Court. Sotomayor shared her emotional response to cases in speech at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, highlighting her personal struggles, dedication to her work. The 69-year-old Justice made these comments during an event honoring her at #Harvard, where she received an award for her contributions. #insurrection#constitution#democracy
Feature: Myanmar: Young insurgents changing the course of a forgotten war (www.bbc.com)
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar....Two loudspeakers, as big as the men carrying them, are brought to the rocky hilltop. Some 800m below, in the town of Hpasang, lies a sprawling Myanmar army base....