It’s been almost six months since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade and the Court’s conservatives have accelerated the Christian nationalists’ project to reimagine the boundaries of our civil society, reflects @Hegemommy.

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For years, Republicans have shown they are willing to sacrifice democracy when it gets in their way, and the Supreme Court is an essential component of this project of maintaining minority control at all costs, explains @KA_OConnor.

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How much worse can it get? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is “a lot,” says @AngryBlackLady.

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And it’s not limited to the courts. In the last few years, conservatives have accelerated their attacks on our core shared public information sources: schools and libraries, reports Lisa Needham.

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Meanwhile, in our healthcare system, religion and capitalism mix with fatal consequences, details @tsmendola.
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The groundwork of Christian nationalism runs through the history of the United States. Its seeds have been growing within the evangelical movement for decades, as @smartstatistic knows all too well.

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@AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting #303Creative in which an evangelical Christian wants an advisory opinion about whether making a hypothetical wedding website for a hypothetical gay couple in the future violates her 1st Amendment rights.
Thomas: Is this case ripe?

Waggonner, who is arguing for Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Lorie Smith/#303Creative tries to answer and fumbles around.

She's claiming Colorado is chilling her speech.

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Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor are making the point that the wedding website is the invitation of the customer, not the invitation of the wedding website designer. So why is the website the speech of the website designer?

So why is it 303 Creative's message?

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He is arguing that Congress has full authority to regulate the affairs of Indians. Plenary means plenary. Why are we here.
Bottom line: Congress's actions must be rationally related to furthering the interests of Indians.

Regulating placement of children is rationally related to furthering the interests of Indians.

Let's wrap it up and go home.
Alito asks whether or not Congress could prioritize providing Native Americans with covid vaccines and why that's different.

As @Hegemommy just noted to me, the takeaway is that conservatives see Native children as a commodity. This is about a domestic supply of infants.
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*taps mic*

Good morning!

@AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting the arguments in #BrackeenVHaaland, the case that demonstrates there's nothing white folks won't complain about when they don't get their way. They want native children and by George, they'll have them, ICWA be damned!
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It's also about ending tribal sovereignty. "Native American" is a political designation that means something.
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Oh hello. It's @AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting the beginning of the end of affirmative action.

What am I looking for?

Clarence Thomas, a beneficiary of affirmative action himself, talking about a color blind Constitution.

Alito being a small angry man.
At least Scalia won't be on the bench talking about how maybe Black people should be satisfied with "lesser schools."

That's what he said in the Fisher case. Remember Becky with the Bad Grades?
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This case is one of the cases this term that promotes white dominance and supremacy.

Winnowing down the number of Black and brown kids in private and public institutions is the point.

Making it so Black and brown people have no upward mobility is the point.
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