Love yourself —
Let go of what
Obstructs your happiness.
April 18th, 2025
#vsspoem prompt: #Obstruct
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#obstruct
For decades, the right has targeted the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
most visibly via court decisions,
as well as spurious voter roll #purges and #gerrymandering efforts,
which warp territorial districting law to divide opponents and consolidate supporters.
One of the most reliable methods of suppression, though,
is to tighten #voter #identification rules.
Requiring #citizenship #paperwork, which many (fully eligible) citizens do not possess,
leads to the emergence of a racially inflected pattern of #vote #suppression.
If you make voting as inconvenient and costly as possible,
by default, some percentage of those who are short on money and time
— people of color, students, low-income workers and others who juggle lots of obligations with few resources
— will decide that getting to the polls just isn’t worth it.
Maximizing this effect is the primary motive driving the rampant right-wing infringements on democratic participation,
Trump’s latest order included.
To justify these measures, the executive order
👉purports to combat large-scale voter fraud:
⚠️the familiar right-wing myth that millions of illicit votes are cast in the U.S., in numbers that could throw a presidential election.
(The real nationwide illegal vote count is a few hundred, at most
-- of those, quite a few were Trump voters.)
The type of voter fraud claimed by the right is so vanishingly rare as to be an utterly negligible force in U.S. politics.
If anything can be said to constitute actual substantive electoral fraud,
it is the right’s systematic and wildly successful campaign to #obstruct voting rights.
Trump’s order,
while perhaps the most aggressive foray into voter suppression of late,
is far from the only effort to impair democracy.
🔥Right now the SAVE Act is making its way through Congress;
the Republican-sponsored legislation would alter registration procedures
and demand proof of citizenship documents like
a passport, birth certificate or naturalization certification.
(As NPR reported, researchers have found that
👉 1 in 10 voting-eligible Americans don’t possess these documents.)❗️
There’s notable overlap between the two efforts
— the administration seems to be hedging its bets.
“A lot of [the executive order] tracks pretty closely with what’s in the SAVE Act,”
said Diaz.
Should the SAVE Act fail, the executive order may
allow “the White House to get around the congressional lawmaking process
-- and do whatever they want.”
Do NOT donate to fascist enablers. Not a dime. #NoDo
#Obstruct #impeach #MaximumResistance #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #KirstenGillibrand #Gillibrand #Jeffries #Schumer #Durbin #Pelosi #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #MakeThemFight #Hardball #impeachment #DoSomething #NoKings #Appeasement #FascistEnablers #VichyDems
Leeja Miller on how elected officials can grind down the implementation of Trump's agenda. #Block #Delay #Obstruct
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uXBDXJvMVDw
#resistance #Trump #Project2025 #congress #democrats #ResistObstructAndSabotage #proceduralhardball #leejamiller
#resist #oppose #obstruct #buildtheresistance #50501
50 protests, 50 states, one day.
Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US
"A movement to oppose the early actions of President Donald Trump’s administration is taking off online. Protests are planned across the U.S. on Wednesday."
https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab
the #coup #hack #heist #illegal takeover by a billionaire private "citizen" and coup crew/enablers... Elected representatives in the house and congress, the time is now... either you're enabling/complicit/ obeying in advance...or your #ProDemocracy for all of US...#DoSomething #PushBack #PersistForward #Block #Delay #Oppose #Obstruct...#NoExcuses
What the GOP does to voters is:
Gerrymander,
Obstruct, &
Purge.
#election #elections #electiondenial #gerrymander #obstruct #purge #gerrymanderobstructpurge #gop #northcarolina #NC #ncsupremecourt #riggs #allisonriggs #stealingthevote #unamerican #unpatriotic #unconstitutional
#Maine Law Firm Tells #PublicSchools to #ResistICE Enforcement by Destroying #Immigration Records
By Steve Robinson January 26, 2025
"A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration enforcement actions that may involve the families of minors who attend government-run schools, including by destroying evidence of potential immigration crimes.
"The advice may place school officials in the legal crosshairs of the Trump Administration under a new policy advisory distributed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which warns state and local officials not to interfere with federal law enforcement activities.
"'[S]chool officials should generate a plan for what to do if immigration officials seek to conduct activities at school, and provide appropriate training to those who may come in contact with officials,' law firm Drummond Woodsum warned in an 'Immigration Client Alert' distributed on Jan. 21.
"A copy of that advisory email was obtained by the Maine Wire and is published [at the link] in full.
"The memo advises clients who may have evidence that a student and that student’s parents or guardians are not U.S. citizens or are present in the U.S. without authorization.
"According to Drummond Woodsum, school officials should destroy those records or stop collecting them so as to #obstruct or prevent federal immigration officials from enforcing American immigration law.
"Schools may have collected data on students’ #USCitizenship, #nationality, #CountryOfBirth, #USEntryDate, the date a student first attended school, or the #ImmigrationStatus of the student or their parents or guardians, the memo states.
“'[T]his information should not be stored as part of a students education record and should be destroyed as soon as it is no longer needed,' the memo states."
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/01/maine-law-firm-tells-public-schools-to-resist-ice-enforcement-by-destroying-immigration-records/
#ImmigrantRights #HumanRights #AbolishICE #ICERaids #USPol #MaineSchools
#DOJ releases #Trump special counsel report on #Jan6 case
If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department …had ample evidence to #convict him at trial of trying to #obstruct the #2020election results, special counsel #JackSmith said in a report released early Tuesday morning.
#law
https://wapo.st/42dJP95
“…the defendant also poses a significant risk of #ObstructingJustice. …the defendant has attempted to #bribe security staff & threatened & interfered w/ #witnesses to his #criminal conduct. He has already tried to #obstruct the Govt’s investigation…,repeatedly contacting victims & #witnesses & feeding them false narratives of events….There are simply no conditions that would ensure that the defendant’s efforts to obstruct & tamper w/witnesses will stop.“
#SeanCombs #law #SexTrafficking #Violence
#11thCircuit ‘Will #Reverse’ #Judge #AileenCannon’s #MarALago #Dismissal: #Attorney.
Cannon ruled in July that the 40 federal charges against Trump over his alleged #mishandling of #classified #materials, and attempts to #obstruct the #government from retrieving them from his #MaraLago #resort, should be thrown out.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Courts #Corruption #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article291856910.html#storylink=cpy
#Student #Dem Who Went #Viral at #Harris #CampaignRally #Confronts #Farright #Extremist #CharlieKirk at #DNC
“You’re an anti-#patriotic, anti-#constitutional #person #crashing our #party because you tried to #obstruct #democracy” Kirk turned to #transphobia for his #lame #excuse for a #rebuttal.
Nearly 70 #swingstate #officials poised to #obstruct #election #certification in 2024: Report
Glawe, creator of the #AmericanDoom #newsletter, penned his #findings in a recent #RollingStone #exclusive titled: “These #SwingState #ElectionOfficials Are #ProTrump #Election #Deniers.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/swing-state-election-officials-trump/
There are still 9 cases left this term that #SCOTUS has yet to decide:
1. #Trump v. #UnitedStates — Whether Trump is immune from prosecution for his efforts to stay in #power by overturning Joe #Biden’s election victory.
2.#Fischer v. United States — Whether prosecutors properly charged hundreds of #Jan6 defendants & Trump using a #law that makes it a #crime to #obstruct or impede an official proceeding —in this case, the disruption of Congress’s certification of Biden’s #2020election victory.
The episode about the map, while indicative of #Trump’s lax handling of #classified materials, was not central to the formal allegations in the case. Those focus on his removal from the White House of nearly three dozen documents containing sensitive #NationalSecurity secrets & his repeated efforts to #obstruct the government from retrieving them from Mar-a-Lago, his private club & residence in Florida.
Fmr dpy #ChristianLeeDedmon will be sentenced later Wed.
Both men, along w/4 other #law *enforcement* officers, pleaded #guilty last year to #felony charges that included #CivilRights #conspiracy, deprivation of rights under color of #law, discharge of a #firearm during a #crime of #violence, conspiracy to #obstruct #justice & #ObstructionOfJustice.
#SayTheirNames #MichaelCoreyJenkins #EddieParker #Mississippi #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #racism #WhiteSupremacy #torture #Terrorism #HumanRights #FTP
#GymJordan, in a letter…that accompanied the #subpoena, said #FaniWillis’ office had failed to voluntarily comply w/2 previous requests for info. But Willis, in a letter to Jordan last year, accused him “abusing your authority as Chairman of the Cmte on the #Judiciary to attempt to #obstruct & interfere w/a #Georgia #criminal prosecution.”
Despite 2023 being the most #ineffective Congressional session of the past few decades, #HouseGOP is officially verbalizing intent to finally get things done and govern in 2024. Virulent #MAGA hardliner factions amongst narrow #GOP majority that seeks to #disrupt, #obstruct, and threaten to shut down US #government operations within next ten days shows little hope the party will really rise above the fray , show unity, and avoid a repeat of last year's partisan #politics dysfunction.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/08/house-republicans-agenda-fragile-majority/
#SCOTUS will review an appellate ruling that revived a charge against 3 defendants accused of #obstruction of an official proceeding. The charge refers to the disruption of Congress’ certification of Joe #Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory over #Trump.
That’s among 4 counts brought against Trump in #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s case that accuses TFG of conspiring to overturn the results of his election loss. Trump is also charged w/ #conspiracy to #obstruct an official proceeding.
Trump filed notice on Thurs saying he will appeal a DC judge’s ruling that he was not #immune from being charged w/ #federal #crimes for his efforts to undo the outcome of the #2020election, either by his fmr role as president or the #Constitution’s rules for #impeachment. (Both frivolous arguments)
Trump’s legal team says the charges that he conspired to #obstruct Joe #Biden’s 2020 victory should be thrown out for 2 reasons:
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