Maine court upheld the wording of a ballot question on voter ID and absentee voting restrictions, rejecting a challenge from anti-voting plaintiffs who wanted the language to downplay the suppressive aspects of the measure. #maine #democracy #election #votingrights
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/maine-voter-id-initiative-language-challenge/
#politics #trump #juneteenth #equality #history #holiday #video #slavery #votingrights #civilwar #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 6/18/2025
History of Junteenth
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-18-2025-wednesday?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
On June 19, 1865, enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their #freedom—two years after the #EmancipationProclamation. #Juneteenth is a reminder that #justice delayed is justice denied.
Today, we honor the resilience of all who have fought for freedom. But we also recognize that the struggle is ongoing for #truefreedom: #economicjustice, #votingrights, #healthcare, #livingwages, and #dignityforall.
Finland approves reform of long-contested Sámi Parliament Act
The legislative amendment centres around the right of the Sámi people to determine who is entitled to vote in elections for the Sámi Parliament.
#legislativeamendment #Sámipeople #votingrights #SámiParliament #determination
Maine Voter ID Initiative Language Challenge
Titcomb v. Bellows
An anti-voting lawsuit challenging the wording of a ballot question on voter ID requirements and absentee voting restrictions.
www.democracydocket.com/cases/maine-...
#Maine
#VotingRights
Titcomb v. Bellows
History may not repeat, but it does rhyme, and this fits the same old beats of American-style intellectual dishonesty, moral hypocrisy, authoritarians' weapons of mass perception, and anti-democratic state violence.
“The object of the [14] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms of unsatisfactory to either.”
― Justice Henry Billings Brown, author of the majority opinion Plessy v. Ferguson, SCOTUS 1896
#US #Politics #Economics #BlackMastodon #VotingRights #ReproductiveRights #Trans #TransRights #Trump #TrumpRegime #whiteNationalism #Christofascism #Patriachy #ForcedPregnamcy #CompulsoryHetronormativity #LGB
How do we make sense of the world? How do we make our ways through it? Rejecting "blind builder" and "helpless witness" narratives: "Not Just a Camera, Not Just an Engine" @vgr.bsky.social (Plus- Susan B. Anthony)
Fumble with forces: https://roughlydaily.com/2025/06/18/i-am-a-camera-with-its-shutter-open-quite-passive-recording-not-thinking-some-day-all-this-will-have-to-be-developed-carefully-printed-fixed/ (or at the link in the Profile/Bio)
#change #civilrights #culture #elizabethcadystanton #equalrights #equalrightamendment #frames #history #narrative #narratives #politics #society #susanbanthony #voting #votingrights
Around 5 million people participated in last week's "No Kings" protests, according to the organizers. Next month, they're going to do it all again. The Transformative Justice Coalition has announced that the next protests will happen on July 17 in honor of the fifth anniversary of John Lewis's death. Spokesperson Barbara Arnwine said that they will focus on racial justice, voting rights, and "our continued and united fight for a just, inclusive and strong democracy that is our goal, that is our obligation in these times." Here's more from @AxiosNews.
#NoKings #RacialJustice #JohnLewis #Protest #VotingRights #Democracy #July
The very ordinary, often poor people in Selma, Alabama wanted liberty and justice for all. So, they walked, in the Selma to Montgomery march, now a National Historic Trail:
https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2024/06/20/selma-to-montgomery-march-national-trail/
#TravelTuesday #travel #CivilRights #VotingRights #history #AmericanHistory #Alabama #RoadTrip #ScenicByway
🚨BOOM: Another federal judge just TORCHED Trump’s voter suppression scam.
❌ BLOCKED:
– His plan to toss LEGAL mail ballots
– His demand to ID-check overseas Americans
That’s two judges saying the same thing:
Trump has ZERO power to rig the vote
#Election2025 #VotingRights www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
A 2nd judge halts more of Trum...
A 2nd judge halts more of Trump's voting executive order
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #VotingRights
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5429744/trump-elections-executive-order-judge
GEORGIA VOTER DECISION
Mastodon
Eightysix47
: #democrats #eightysix47 #georgia #georgiasupremecourt #uspol #uspolitics #votingrights :
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#politics #uspol #ice #Police #mentalhealth #housing #lgbtq #votingrights #addiction
Resources by city - Don't Call...
BIG TROUBLE
Mastodon Post
Examples:
<> prices are rising
<> US economy is slowing
<> Tariffgate has put many on edge and it keeps not going away
<> United States is the laughing stock of the world because our president is a laughing stock
<> ICE is disappearing people and acting as Trump's vigilante force
<> individual legal rights are being chipped away
<> voting rights are being stolen
<> US dollar is in danger of losing its world currency status
<> Trump and his underlings, which amounts to nearly all Republicans, are trying to strip millions and millions of Americans of their health insurance SO THEY CAN GIVE MONEY TO THE WEALTHIEST PEOPLE AND CORPORATIONS BY WAY OF TOTALLY UNNEEDED TAX BREAKS
And with all of these things and more seriously hurting the country, according to today's news reports Trump's approval rating is going UP.
This says in the loudest terms that politicians and public figures, center to left, are not doing their jobs of talking to the American people, explaining issues, and acting as an actual opposition.
: #democrats #donaldtrump #economy #eightysix47 #ice #icegestapo #icevigilantes #inflation #legalrights #medicaid #medicare #risingprices #tariffgate #tariffs #useconomy #uspol #uspolitics #votingrights :
Hey everyone,
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It’s an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to contacting law enforcement if you need help with DV, mental health, housing, LGBTQ+ support, protecting your vote, crisis management, addiction, etc.
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South Koreans Vote for New President Amid Political Turmoil Today
#electionresults #inaugurationceremony #presidentialelection #SouthKorea #votingrights
https://blazetrends.com/south-koreans-vote-for-new-president-amid-political-turmoil-today/?fsp_sid=43914
💡 Can voting be fair if most people only hear from the wealthiest candidates?
I just opened a discussion on Reddit about campaign visibility and structural reform.
Would love your thoughts → https://www.reddit.com/r/electionreform/comments/1l2a83w/can_voting_be_fair_if_only_wealthy_candidates_can/
