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WYM Mod<p>Louisiana's recent election results delivered a stunning blow to Republican Governor Jeff Landry, highlighting the overwhelming impact of Black voters. His proposed amendments faced fierce opposition, with nearly two-thirds rejecting them, signaling a shift in grassroots political power led by activists. This outcome serves as a potent reminder of community engagement in democratic processes, urging other states to learn from Louisiana’s triumph. Read more about this pivotal moment [here](<a href="https://www.joyannreid.com/p/that-louisiana-win-is-a-bfd-and-a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">joyannreid.com/p/that-louisian</span><span class="invisible">a-win-is-a-bfd-and-a</span></a>). <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/Grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grassroots</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Take The Near Impossible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> Used to Suppress the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a> (1964)</p><p>in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024 </p><p>"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ballots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ballots</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackVoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVoters</span></a> and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrowSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowSouth</span></a> relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.</p><p>"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'</p><p>"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> Movement describes a test administered in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.</p><p>"The test here from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices." <br> <br>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2024/10/take-t</span><span class="invisible">he-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Elections2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elections2024</span></a></p>
Noah<p>MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s despicable stunts getting exposed. - <a href="https://youtu.be/rKPY1dpC8H0?si=fLGC2mMM8bpteCFQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/rKPY1dpC8H0?si=fLGC2m</span><span class="invisible">MM8bpteCFQ</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/MeidasTouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeidasTouch</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/BenMeiselas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BenMeiselas</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/TrumpStunts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpStunts</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/BlackVoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVoters</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrow</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/JimCrowLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowLaws</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/JimCrowEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowEra</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/GOPClowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPClowns</span></a></p>
hyakinthos<p>PSA: US republicans have been caught generating fake images of black people around <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> or supporting Trump in some way. One pic showed Trump with missing fingers, which indicates the images are <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> generated.</p><p>They are obviously fixated on getting the <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/blackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackVote</span></a> (of course through artificial manipulation not by actually pushing policy that blacks would find favorable).</p><p><a href="https://layer8.space/tags/election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election2024</span></a></p>
The Progressive<p>For far too long, Lewis says, the concerns of Allendale residents have been neglected by a party that has taken rural Black voters for granted. <a href="https://federated.press/tags/blackvote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackvote</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/allendalecounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allendalecounty</span></a><br><a href="https://progressive.org/latest/in-south-carolina-democrats-aren%E2%80%99t-listening-decastro-20240202/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">progressive.org/latest/in-sout</span><span class="invisible">h-carolina-democrats-aren%E2%80%99t-listening-decastro-20240202/</span></a></p>
Mufasa<p>Proposed <a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> map rejects Supreme Court-mandated second Black-majority district</p><p><a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/ElectionMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionMap</span></a> <a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a><br><a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4102476-proposed-alabama-district-map-rejects-supreme-court-mandated-second-black-majority-district/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/regulation/court-b</span><span class="invisible">attles/4102476-proposed-alabama-district-map-rejects-supreme-court-mandated-second-black-majority-district/</span></a></p>
Mufasa<p><a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/ElectionMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionMap</span></a> diluted <a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a>, Supreme Court rules</p><p><a href="https://betweenthelions.link/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a><br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65848749" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6</span><span class="invisible">5848749</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChiefJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> wrote the majority opinion in the 5/4 ruling. He was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh &amp; the court’s 3 liberal members, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan &amp; Ketanji Brown Jackson.</p><p>The chief justice wrote that there were legitimate concerns that the law “may impermissibly elevate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a> in the allocation of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PoliticalPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPower</span></a> within the states.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gerrymandering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VRA</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Rejects <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voting</span></a> Map That Diluted <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackVoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVoters</span></a>’ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Power</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> advocates had feared the decision would undermine the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a>, which instead appeared to emerge unscathed.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> has made several rulings recently that have eroded the force of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VRA</span></a> &amp; the achievements of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> movement. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gerrymandering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackVote</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/supr</span><span class="invisible">eme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Poetry News<p>Questions swirl around<br>Voters, polls, and black turnout<br>Answers sought in bots</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/polling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/voterturnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voterturnout</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/blackvote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackvote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/upshot/polling-mailbag-bots-midterms.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/03/01/upshot/</span><span class="invisible">polling-mailbag-bots-midterms.html</span></a></p>
Kay Dub<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@marcelias" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>marcelias</span></a></span> A message to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> - check this video out in this thread above: if y’all ain’t out here following Marc Elias then I don’t know what y’all doing with your lives! This man has been out here fighting for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/votingrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>votingrights</span></a> , including the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/blackvote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackvote</span></a> , and winning every battle! This the one you wanna know and follow! Democracy and Voting Rights STAY on the docket! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽<span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@democracydocket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>democracydocket</span></a></span></p>
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