Tag: gerrymandering

When I was a small boy, my mother would take me food shopping with her, and I recall very well my first encounters with tabloids like the one shown here.  I couldn’t understand for the life of me how anyone …

The Penalties of Stupidity Were Once Confined to the Stupid–Tales from Our Past Read More »

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The content of the meme here seems obvious, but apparently, only to Democrats, and, I suppose, rich Republicans too, who like things this way. Working class Republicans are told that Democrats are opening our borders, flooding the country with immigrants …

Democrats Believe That Democrats Are Fighting for Working People Read More »

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This fabulous and ferociously powerful two-minute-long video on gerrymandering is at once educational, inspiring, entertaining, and evocative of our passions as believers in democracy. Hope you’ll check it out.

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What a charming human being, exuding all the traditional values of justice, fairness, tolerance, amiability, and mutual respect. I wonder which of the Seven Sisters she calls her alma mater.  Smith?  Wellesley? On a serious note, it appears that this …

November’s Election Will Be “One for the Books” Read More »

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Ari Berman is an extremely senior journalist and author, best known for his reporting on challenges to voting rights in the U.S. From his bio: (Berman) is a former senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a Fellow at The …

“This Is How Change Happens” Read More »

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