An email from Lviv: “People are getting shot going to stores, just being at home, going to work (4 teachers were shot in Nikolaev as they were going to an orphanage where they worked), journalists are getting shot, evacuation trains are getting shot…”
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“…people trying to help others (a brother of our close friend was shot as he was delivering water and food to those living in the basements)…. We just had two moms with little children from a small town near Mariupol passing by through our church’s apartment for the displaced..
“…They had to live without electricity for two weeks in the basement of a school together with other 1500 inhabitants of their town because their apartment buildings were flattened. The moms had to go to ruined stores under bombs to look for the food for their children….”
“…Their little children saw a person shot right in front of their eyes.”
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THREAD -- A quick review of what the US Supreme Court said in its most recent case on partisan gerrymandering.
The Court in Rucho (in an opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts) said that federal courts had no basis to address claims of partisan gerrymandering.
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"Our conclusion does not condone excessive partisan gerrymandering. Nor does our conclusion condemn complaints about districting to echo into a void. The States, for example, are actively addressing the issue on a number of fronts. In 2015, the Sup Court of Florida struck..."
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..."Provisions in state statutes and state constitutions can provide standards and guidance for STATE courts to apply." (my emphasis).
"Indeed, numerous other States are restricting partisan considerations in districting through legislation...."
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Everyday Ukrainians fighting for their young democracy are inspiring the world.
I also hope they challenge every American to think through all YOU can do to fight for democracy here, where it’s also under attack
There’s so much!
WATCH:
The approach I describe in the video is exactly what RFK meant when he said: “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million…
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“…different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
If we each use every aspect of our circle of influence—our footprint of impact—to serve democracy, it builds a scale of activity..
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You want to read a Court decision absolutely throttling an out-of-control legislature that refuses follow the law but thinks Ohio voters are too dumb to figure them out?
"...the map drawers & the commission knew that their approach—starting w the invalidated map & switching competitive GOP-leaning districts to competitive Dem-leaning districts—would have the dual effect of eliminating weak GOP districts & creating weak Dem districts.
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"DiRossi and Springhetti still ultimately drafted the plan, and they answered only to Senate President Huffman and House Speaker Cupp. As before, “the commission itself did not engage in any map drawing or hire independent staff to do so.”
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Here’s LaRose promising, in 2018, that “I want my party to win elections because we have better candidates and better ideas - not because we use modern GIS mapping software…to draw district lines better than the other party.”
The rules greatly constrained what they could do re Cincinnati. Thank the voters for that, not the legislators.
The heist was in then carving Hamilton county 3 ways, carving out Dem north central parts of the county and placing them in the 8th district to offset the