Mastodawn

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/03/the-supreme-courts-conservatives-have-one-consistent-rule-black-votes-shouldnt-count/

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count

The Supreme Court’s conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act, but the last seven months have been something else — a rapid-fire series of emergency dock…

Techdirt

ProRep Coalition Jun 1

"After the death of the Voting Rights Act, it is nearly impossible to imagine a worse political structure for African Americans than one based on single-member legislative districts. " - Perry Bacon and Jake Grumbach in The New Republic.

#VotingRightsAct #gerrymandering #proportionalRepresentation #Callais

https://newrepublic.com/article/210669/voting-rights-act-dead-new-model-black-politics

The Voting Rights Act Is Dead. Here’s a New Model for Black Politics.

After Callais, the old civil rights politics is moot. And more recent strategies have limited reach. Here’s how we can build something more transformative.

The New Republic

Bongolian Jun 1

Ashley Cleaves: The #redistricting war isn’t only about voting rights. It’s about #affordability, too.

#gerrymandering #Callais #SupremeCourt #Alabama
https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-redistricting-war-isnt-only-about-voting-rights.-its-about-affordability-too

The redistricting war isn’t only about voting rights. It’s about affordability, too

Scary Austin May 28

Following our white supremacist SCROTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act in Callais, there is a Black led movement to fight for fair elections this fall: Freedom Summer!

Via Whitney Alese @TheReclaimed on Ig

https://blackpowerwarroom.com/freedom-summer/

#Racism #VotingRights #fascism #Trump #SCOTUS #callais

Freedom Summer — Launched Juneteenth 2026

Every Black neighborhood in America is a Great Migration story. The South is everywhere. Join us for Freedom Summer.

aslamK May 26

Republican-Appointed Judges Just Gave the Roberts Court a Stunning Rebuke – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/alabama-callais-redistricting-gerrymandering/

> A federal judicial panel strikes down an Alabama voting map the justices recently green lit.
#Callais #gerrymandering #VRA #Alabama

Gail Waldby ❌👑May 23

#VotingRights #Callais

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ew3npkvqvbrqbkxbeklaad2b/post/3mmevqucil222

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️May 17

from @aaron.rupar

Acting AG Todd Blanche: "We're very focused on finding out whether the right people voted."

The "right people voted"

The "right people"

Did he actually say "right people" or did he say "white people"?

Because, according to the GOP (and the GOP-controlled Supreme Court (and corporate owned media interviewing rural people in diners)), only *white people* are the *right people.*

#Racism #Politics #SCOTUS #Callais

Crooks&Liars May 17

#SupremeCourt, #USSupremeCourt, #SCOTUS, #Callais, #LouisianavCallais, #JohnRoberts, #VRA, #VotingRightsAct, #VotingRights, #Brecht, #BertoltBrecht, #PoliticalCartoon, #EditorialCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/05/john-roberts-has-dream-and-hes-livin-it?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=115602

John Roberts Has A Dream - And He's Livin' It

... and he's not being ironic. A cartoon for May 17, 2026.

Crooks and Liars

Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor May 16

The pic below is from this afternoon's Hell No to #JimCrow 2.0 rally in South Jersey with my friend, also named Pam!

This was one of many sister rallies to the two main events in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama to support civil rights / voting rights after the #Callais decision gutted what was left of the VRA.

Observation: the organizer told me lots of new people attended ... white people. Hopefully Callais is the wake-up call needed.

#TwoPams #civilrights #VotingRights #VRA #redistricting