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Founder and author of Popular Information, an independent political newsletter. judd@popular.info

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To recap: Supreme Court justices nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by Senators representing far less than half the country have eliminated abortion rights, green-lighted anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and ended affirmative action.

In one year.

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I donโ€™t know who needs to hear this but, without affirmative action, Harvard is neither race-blind nor a meritocracy

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IMO, we should probably focus less on who gets into Harvard, which is not that important, and more on supporting the educational institutions where most racial minorities and children of working families enroll

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"Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that would allow for roads across Florida to be made with "radioactive" mining waste that has been linked to cancer."

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LINK: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-radioactive-roads-phosphogypsum-potentially-cancer-causing-mining-waste-bill-signed-ron-desantis/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=222608220

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This is important as it completely undercuts the claim of the IRS whistleblower, who says Weiss wanted to charge Hunter in DC but was blocked by Graves

RT @ChadPergram

  1. From colleague David Spunt. Spokesperson for DC US Atty Matthew Graves on Hunter Biden case: "As the Attorney General has said, U.S. Attorney Weiss was given full authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction he deemed appropriate."

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1674444318772215810

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POP QUIZ

Who is more popular: Ron DeSantis or the Black Lives Matter movement?

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It's BLM by a wide margin

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"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter"

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ivanka-naked-sexism-miles-taylor-book-nyt-anonymous-1809187

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  1. The Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper yesterday, rejecting the independent state legislature theory, was very good news.

But it wasn't ALL good news.

Roberts' majority opinion includes a caveat

Follow along if interested.

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  1. Writing for six Justices, Roberts rejected the independent state legislature theory, which the Supreme Court has rejected for 100 years.

"The Elections Clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review."

https://popular.info/p/democracy-dodges-a-bullet

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  1. Roberts ruling, however, comes with a potentially significant caveat.

He says while state courts can review actions of the legislature on election issues, federal courts can overrule state courts if they "transgress the ordinary bounds of judicial review"

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  1. WTF does that mean? Well, Roberts is essentially establishing a concurrence in Bush v. Gore as precedent

In that case, 3 justices wrote that the Florida Supreme Court's order to recount certain ballots exceeded "ordinary statutory interpretation" and was invalid.

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  1. All of this is very poorly defined and the standards for "ordinary" judicial review and statutory interpretation are unclear.

But Roberts decision opens the door for the Supreme Court to intervene in controversial election issues whenever it wants.

Which is not great.

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  1. It's unlikely that the three liberal justices who signed onto Roberts' majority opinion wished to endorse a controversial aspect of Bush v. Gore. But it was the price for avoiding a more extreme outcome.

https://popular.info/p/democracy-dodges-a-bullet

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Twitter's algorithm is being manipulated to promote unreliable accounts.

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RFK Jr is holding an event with a doctor who says the COVID a vaccine turns you into a human magnet ๐Ÿงฒ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-does-vaccine-make-fork-stick-to-me.html

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Honestly I wasn't planning on talking to Ron DeSantis' kids at all

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A United States Senator "warns" people who disagree with him politically not to travel to his state.

Shameful.

RT @ScottforFlorida

Iโ€™m warning socialists and communists not to travel to Florida. They are not welcome in the Sunshine State.

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: https://twitter.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1673662921652551680

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  1. According to @GovRonDeSantis, textbook publishers are trying to indoctrinate students by incorporating "woke" concepts into social studies textbooks

But DeSantis has provided few details

So we've obtained Florida's reviews of the textbooks

Follow along if interested

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@GovRonDeSantis 5. This is the entire "discussion of lesbianism" within the textbook:

"LGBTQ candidates have also made some headway gaining governmental positions. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin became the first lesbian elected to the Senate in 2012"

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@GovRonDeSantis 6. The same review concludes that the "reference of LGBTQ court cases" is an example of "liberal bias" that is inconsistent with state standards.

This is the only LGBTQ-related court case referenced in the textbook:

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@GovRonDeSantis 7. The review of Civics Alive! Foundations and Functions also claims the discussion of "abortion rights" is "inappropriate." This is how the textbook addresses abortion rights.

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@GovRonDeSantis 8. One middle school social studies textbook, Florida US History Advanced, was not rejected by the state but did have several issues flagged by a reviewer.

The reviewer writes that "Slavery image on pg. 444 may violate the statute relating to guilt of future generations."

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@GovRonDeSantis 9. The same reviewer also cites another image that depicts "the life of White plantation owners," which the reviewer believes is "outside the scope of the standard and potentially the law."

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@GovRonDeSantis 10. If you value accurate, accountability journalism please don't rely on Twitter to get it.

The algorithm here is subject to the whims of a mercurial right-wing billionaire.

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