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Jeff Roush Profile picture
@JeffRoushPoetry
Apr 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Tonight’s #FridayLimericks go to Samuel Alito, with all due respect—and no more. #LimerickRhyme
Judge Alito is claiming to know
The Dobbs leaker, the source of his woe.
This conspiracy game
Will work best with no name,
While he celebrates killing off Roe.
wapo.st/3HnkSg1
This guy never thought much of our rights;
We all knew well before Senate fights.
It was never that hard
To see Sam’s disregard
For the gains he’d soon put in his sights.
civilrights.org/resource/oppos…
“Please respect us,” we heard him beseech—
During a naked political speech,
Where the man bared his clause
For conservatives’ cause
At the Heritage folks spend and leech.

afj.org/article/justic…
We’ve seen Sam’s finger waggle before,
When he gutted campaign finance’ core.
He then said it’s “not true,”
Before Trump’s Russian crew
Bought the White House through wide-open door.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/…
While Alito comes on rather strong,
His analysis tends to be wrong.
When the facts and the law
Get too stuck in his craw,
He rewrites them for Heritage throng.

historynewsnetwork.org/article/183250
If judicious restraint cannot reign,
He just covers with dripping disdain.
He believes he is slick,
But he’s kind of a prick—
And Alito can’t seem to refrain.
law.upenn.edu/live/news/1474…
And it all came together in Dobbs—
The Court’s peak of political jobs.
It was not right or fair,
But this guy doesn’t care
About rights that this hijacking robs.

commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/dobb…
So I do miss respecting the Court—
But Sam’s why all our trust has run short.
A political hack
In traditional black
Brought the storm—and we all need a port.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/justi…

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Apr 30
There are good reasons Americans don’t trust our government institutions. We’ve moved from a “trust, but verify” model to a “just trust us and shut up” model. And this may feel pie-in-the-sky right now, but we could change that.(Thread)
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1. Congress. We need a new Voting Rights Act—in part because the Supreme Court gutted the one we have, but also in part because some of the threats have changed. The way districts are drawn has turned the ideas of democracy and representation into punchlines.
We should demand fair districts in every state. This doesn’t just mean balancing democratic and Republican districts against each other, but creating more competitive districts. Representatives aren’t accountable to their districts because they are designed to go to one party.
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Apr 29
There are many problems with conflating religion and politics, but one of the biggest is it covers up all matters of nuance and, at times, reality. (Thread)
#ResistanceUnited
#LiveBlue
I was raised in a Christian, Republican home. And at the time, I learned and bought into the idea that those two terms were virtually synonyms. Republicans were “good,” and Democrats must therefore be evil.
This covered all manner of sins, so to speak. The notion that a Jimmy Carter was somehow immoral or evil, and Reagan a beacon of goodness, seems almost laughable when you look into the lives, actions, and policies of the two.
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Apr 28
A bit of local democracy in action to share. Last night I attended a school board meeting—something I don’t do often enough. The topics included a series of proposed policy changes, two of which in particular seem troubling. (Thread)
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The proposals were put out to address changing federal and state definitions/interpretations of “sex” in Title VII and Title IX. Specifically, they were deleting the parenthetical that defines prohibited discrimination to include the bases of gender identity and sexuality.
The problem in a nutshell: Ohio is challenging the federal definition as applied to Title IX. But with the definition in flux, the board chose to eliminate the language in question—and leave LGBTQ students feeling unsupported, written off.
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Apr 21
The trend of silencing elected representatives seems to be spreading. The @TNGOP and @MTGOP have acted with callous disregard not only for the representatives they silence, but for all the citizens whose representation they are cutting off. (Thread)
#ResistanceUnited
#LiveBlue
The complaints about “decorum” are simply bogus. State Congress should not be using Pleasantville as the model for their operation, letting those with more power decide whether they want to hear unpleasant truths about their actions or biases.
Whether you call this nation a democracy or a republic, that is not how it is supposed to work. If you are a citizen of these or other states where a GOP majority is using these kinds of shenanigans to cut off voters from representation in government, this should wake you up.
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Apr 19
Like many, I’m disappointed that Dominion settled. But I don’t think it’s a terrible thing for America. Rather, we should treat this as a starting point for a new front in the war against disinformation. (Thread)
#ResistanceUnited
#LiveBlue
The Dominion lawsuit felt incredibly strong—but there is no guarantee they would have won. Actual malice is a high bar. I think they had enough evidence to clear it, but it wasn’t a slam dunk with a jury.
And if it had gone all the way through, this was a case specifically about lies about, and damage to, Dominion. Any required on-air statements would have related to Dominion voting systems, rather than Fox’s general attacks on information and democracy.
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Apr 16
Like many here, I got much more involved in politics in 2015-16. But while fear and frustration were certainly part of my motivation, what keeps me going isn’t what I’m against; it’s what I’m for. (Thread)
#ResistanceUnited
#LiveBlue
The two can look and even feel similar. At times they cross over. But I find if all I am doing is opposing the worst of what I see in politics, I lose sight of what really matters to me. I’m not aiming for the struggle; I’m aiming for something more.
The Constitution of the United States provides that it exists “in order to form a more perfect Union.” It’s aspirational, yes, but it is motivational too. It speaks to a nation that should aim to grow, to progress toward becoming a nation that works for everyone.
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