#gerrymander — Public Fediverse posts
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Gerrymandering
With all the recent uproar about Congressional redistricting, I suspected there was a decent chance that a lot of it was fake news, so I did a little digging and experimenting with my state of SC . . .https://morrowmichael.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/gerrymandering/
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The Supreme Court’s new decision tilting the midterms toward Republicans, explained
https://www.vox.com/politics/490841/supreme-court-gerrymandering-allen-milligan-alabama-republicans> "The Court’s new gerrymandering decision is tough to explain, unless you think the justices are GOP partisans."
Ya think?
#SCOTUS #corruption #Project2026 #TrumpVirus #gerrymander #Epstein
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Ruling handed down by Supreme Court says Alabama can use gerrymandered map
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Enter Danielle Smith. A middling Alberta premier who has continued the glorious multi-generational march of draining provincial coffers to keep the province from building itself into something decent. American companies and investors have deeply integrated themselves into the Alberta Oil and Gas sector - many of whom are in/directly responsible for dumping unwanted oil wells while taking the profits.
What makes Smith exceptional, would be her near titanic capacity for corruption. From the Corrupt Care scandals, the disarming of the Office of the Ethics Commissioner and Elections Alberta, to an open ended effort to gerrymander electoral boundaries to a province already skewed in favour for arguably 20-25% minority rural voters, Smith continues to push forward shamelessly.
What amazing destination does Smith have left to sell for her best customers? A referendum about referendum, and a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government. She is literally selling Bridges for griefers in Alberta who still somehow imagine that the National Energy Program was some kind of foul play, and are haunted by the images of Trudeau and Carney chasing them through Terabithia.
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https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/488684/danielle-smith-s-bridges-to-terabithia
#comment
#CorruptCare #Corruption #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #davos #DanielleSmith #MitchSylvestre #markcarney #EthicsCommissioner #Separatism #Gerrymander
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Danielle Smith's Bridges to Terabithia
Enter Danielle Smith. A middling Alberta premier who has continued the glorious multi-generational march of draining provincial coffers to keep the province from building itself into something decent. American companies and investors have deeply integrated themselves into the Alberta Oil and Gas sector - many of whom are in/directly responsible for dumping unwanted oil wells while taking the profits.
What makes Smith exceptional, would be her near titanic capacity for corruption. From the Corrupt Care scandals, the disarming of the Office of the Ethics Commissioner and Elections Alberta, to an open ended effort to gerrymander electoral boundaries to a province already skewed in favour for arguably 20-25% minority rural voters, Smith continues to push forward shamelessly.
What amazing destination does Smith have left to sell for her best customers? A referendum about referendum, and a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government. She is literally selling Bridges for griefers in Alberta who still somehow imagine that the National Energy Program was some kind of foul play, and are haunted by the images of Trudeau and Carney chasing them through Terabithia.
In order to understand how we got to this con, we have to appreciate the challenges confronting Canada and the world. PM Carney’s Davos speech, the end of the old order speech, was an explicit expression of the understanding that the strategy for doing business in the world had changed. Countries once relied on a global set of rules for trade. There’s less need to diversify an economy broadly for self-reliance when the global system via the US and US currency can open up products and services.
We the world were happy to fall into this symbiotic arrangement because the US market was expected to remain open, and individual countries could pursue competitive advantages by focusing on certain sectors.
What no one expected in Trump, was the US destroying the very symbiotic arrangement that pulled in the world’s best products, services, and minds. The US imposed tariffs against countries around the world, became antagonistic towards international institutions like the UN and the ICC, and basically destroyed energy and chemical production out of the Strait of Hormuz.
The US has successfully broken the very system that supports its own superpower capabilities and capacity. In the face of such a suicidal, and probably now fascist neighbour, Canada must literally rebuild itself with a war like posture for reliable supply chains. We are talking about re-establishing ties around the US, and repositioning Canada to fill a production void left by the US-Israel-Iran conflict.
We are now in a race. Every deke, and every tactic is to climb at each other to fill this void. Our primary competitors are Russia and the Middle East, and our ball and chain - as it always has been - is the US.
Danielle Smith’s been selling Canadians Bridges to Terabithia, and we’re seeing all of its madness into no where. Depending on who has done the polling, there may be up to 27% of Albertans who claim support for separation. But there’s also a portion of this group that wishes to move towards some kind of fascist monolithic state, tacitly and expressly stated by one of its leaders, Mitch Sylvestre. Even if we give some of the separatist movement the benefit of the doubt, and we remove the racist and fascist portion, we’re still left with a dangerous group that is responsible for the Electoral List Data Leak - one of the worst data leaks in the history of Canada. So whether Alberta remains or leaves Canada, the separatists have done real harm to Albertans. We cannot tell the extent of this harm for probably years to come.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separatism-janet-brown-mitch-sylvestre-9.7178496
At what point will the rural Albertan voter realize that their power is probably at its maximum in Canada - that this minority group of 20-25% of Albertans are literally holding the other 75% and the Alberta and Canadian economy hostage. This vocal, overpowered Albertan minority is carrying out a violence to the majority of Albertans who don’t want anything to do with separation. When will these rural voters realize that everyone’s been watching them speak to a fence post for the last 6 months.
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Speaker #CosplayColbert tells black #Democrats furious over Red States rushing to #gerrymander their districts in the wake of the #SCotUS decision to functionally obliterate the 1965 #VotingRightsAct:
"You don't just blow up the system when you lose."
Seriously? How ANY #Republican can say that with a straight face shows a mindboggling lack of self-awareness! 🤬
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Remember, people. You can't #gerrymander #State #Senate races, #Federal Senate races, or the #Presidential election.
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I gotta black belt in the American South. 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_in_the_American_South
Jim Crow is a fucking zombie.
https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/delegitimizing-the-juristocracy/#JimCrow #USA #Southern #history #BlackBelt #Gerrymander #gerrymandering #USPol
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This is the only way the crooked, scheming, cheating GOP will hold on to their numbers. It is time to relegate the GOP to the dustbin of history.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/09/nx-s1-5816246/redistricting-trump-republicans-midterms
#elections #redistricting #gerrymander #corrupt #cheat #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #defeatGOP #GOP #midterm #house #senate #USPOlitics #USPol
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#Republicans, cheered on by #Trump, have rejected those claims. Instead, they have said, they are responding to the #SCOTUS ruling, which raised the bar for what constitutes a #racial #gerrymander under the #VotingRights Act of 1965.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #TNpol #USpol
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#congress #usa #resist #activism #protest #election #vote #politics #america #law #votingrights #justice #scotus #constitution #racism #votersuppression #RepublicansSuck #AmericanTaliban #gop #gerrymander #Trumponomics #affordability #fascist #war #gas #prices #fdt #ballroom #Epstein #EpsteinWar #pedophile #felon #traitor #nokings #dictator
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>The Supreme Court *PERMITS the race-conscious* travel ban.
_The Supreme Court *BANS race-conscious* university admissions, to remedy inequality.
>The Supreme Court *PERMITS race-conscious* ICE policing, deportation.
_The Supreme Court *BANS race-conscious* mapmaking, to prevent voter dilution.
...that sounds about white.
#fascist #USA #ExpandTheCourt #captured #kangaroo #SCotUS #GOP #KKK #RobertsCourt #JohnRoberts #UncleThomas #SupremeCourt #crowned #king #OurPutin #AnotherOrban #gerrymander -
"We should've spent more on cheating," say Republicans unironically. #gerrymandering #usa #virginia #texas #va #tx #uspoli #gerrymander #elections #election #us
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@simon_brooke There are really only 3 purposes for micro-constituencies:
1/ reduce travel in sparsely-populated areas
2/ #gerrymander
3/ system malfunctionIreland has no type 1. Type 2 (#gerrymandered) have been common. But there are a lot of micros created by the intersection of the 5-seat upper limits, and don't-cross county boundaries princile. E.g. in 1997, 5-seat Kildare should have become a 6-seater, but instead was split into two 3-seaters
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We all know it's Calvinball over at #SCOTUS based on which parties scare the cowardly fascist majority more. We all knew it was possible they'd allow the #Texas #gerrymander but not the #California one because reasons (the originalist case for fascism).
Clearly they are getting more scared of the people than they are of their billionaire paymasters. California can go ahead with their gerrymander.
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#Virginia is moving towards a defensive #gerrymander as they should
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrats-advance-virginia-redistricting-measure/
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Indiana's GOP-controlled Senate has voted against the new gerrymandered map drawn up by the state House , despite immense pressure from the Trump administration. Here's more from @AssociatedPress
#TrumpAdministration #Indiana #Redistricting #Indiana #Gerrymander #USPolitics
