#shelby — Public Fediverse posts

Hype for the Future 194A: City of Elk Horn, Iowa

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/hype-for-the-future-194a-city-of-elk-horn-iowa/

Hype for the Future 193P: City of Harlan, Iowa

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/hype-for-the-future-193p-city-of-harlan-iowa/

Hype for the Future 193P: City of Harlan, Iowa

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/hype-for-the-future-193p-city-of-harlan-iowa/

Hype for the Future 188I: Christian and Shelby County, Illinois

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/hype-for-the-future-188i-christian-and-shelby-county-illinois/

Hype for the Future 185L: Shelby, Hancock, and Madison Counties, Indiana

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/hype-for-the-future-185l-shelby-hancock-and-madison-counties-indiana/

Hype for the Future 185L: Shelby, Hancock, and Madison Counties, Indiana

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/hype-for-the-future-185l-shelby-hancock-and-madison-counties-indiana/

Hype for the Future 185L: Shelby, Hancock, and Madison Counties, Indiana

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/hype-for-the-future-185l-shelby-hancock-and-madison-counties-indiana/

Hype for the Future 185L: Shelby, Hancock, and Madison Counties, Indiana

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/hype-for-the-future-185l-shelby-hancock-and-madison-counties-indiana/

Hype for the Future 185L: Shelby, Hancock, and Madison Counties, Indiana

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/hype-for-the-future-185l-shelby-hancock-and-madison-counties-indiana/

Hype for the Future 171H: Shelby County, Alabama

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/hype-for-the-future-171h-shelby-county-alabama/

https://www.europesays.com/cz/38595/ Tenhle sporťák je vzácnější než Ferrari F50. Má málo najeto a nebude drahý #Aukce #Business #Byznys #MotorV8 #OjetéVozy #RedakčníVideo #Roadster #Shelby #ShelbySeries1 #USA #Veterán #VIDEO #Youngtimer

Cleveland Browns news (3/15): Time to bargain shop in NFL free agency https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/813656/ #AndrewBerry #Bengals #BrianRobinson #California #ChristianKirk #Cincinnati #ClevelandBrowns #DanielFaalele #ElgtonJenkins #Football #FreeAgency #FreeAgent #HollywoodBrown #JackStoll #JacksonvilleJaguars #JauanJennings #JeromeFord #JoelBitonio #JonahWilliams #JoshJohnson #KaliaDavis #MatthewWilson #MekhiBecton #NFL #SanFrancisco49ers #SantaClara #shelby #TheBrowns #ThomasMoore #TytusHoward #ZionJohnson

Cleveland Browns news (3/15): Time to bargain shop in NFL free agency https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/813656/ #AndrewBerry #Bengals #BrianRobinson #California #ChristianKirk #Cincinnati #ClevelandBrowns #DanielFaalele #ElgtonJenkins #Football #FreeAgency #FreeAgent #HollywoodBrown #JackStoll #JacksonvilleJaguars #JauanJennings #JeromeFord #JoelBitonio #JonahWilliams #JoshJohnson #KaliaDavis #MatthewWilson #MekhiBecton #NFL #SanFrancisco49ers #SantaClara #shelby #TheBrowns #ThomasMoore #TytusHoward #ZionJohnson

Hype for the Future 115H: Central Ohio

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/hype-for-the-future-115h-central-ohio/

E' arrivato!! 🤩 🤩 🤩

#librogame #shelby #shelby5 #francescomattioli #gamebook #libriperragazzi #isoladeltesoro #autoriindipendenti

https://www.amazon.it/Shelby-5-caccia-al-tesoro/dp/B0GBVJNJKD

my friend struggling in Asheville I am trying to get him to #shelby #NC where it is warmer.

There are a handful of food pantries, but the problem is he has nowhere to cook.

I'm trying to figure out how far out of Asheville he can get. #Charlotte might be a better option.

I'm not sure why he won't go to a shelter. Maybe pride? Maybe he is worried his car will get towed?

I haven't lived in NC for 17.5 years, so I am a little out of the loop on what local resources might be.

#homeless plzboost

Boldly Pod 74 | TNG | Season 04 | Episode 01
Best Of Both Worlds Part 2 | Angriffsziel Erde
https://linktr.ee/boldlypod
#StarTrekTNG #BestOfBothWorlds #Locutus #Picard #Riker #EnterpriseD #Borg #Wolf359 #Data #Worf #GeordiLaForge #Shelby #SciFiPodcast #BoldlyPod #TNGRewatch #Starfleet #Cliffhanger #TVClassics #90sSciFi #NerdCulture #PodcastEmpfehlung

Brewers acquire RHP Shelby Miller, LHP Jordan Montgomery from Diamondbacks https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/218092/ #acquire #Arizona #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ball #Baseball #brew #Brewers #crew #Diamondbacks #from #FrontPage #Jordan #lhp #Miller #MilwaukeeBrewersNews #MilwaukeeBrewersRoster #MilwaukeeBrewersRumors #MLB #MlbJulyUpdates #Montgomery #rhp #Shelby #transactions

Brewers acquire RHP Shelby Miller, LHP Jordan Montgomery from Diamondbacks https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/218092/ #acquire #Arizona #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ball #Baseball #brew #Brewers #crew #Diamondbacks #from #FrontPage #Jordan #lhp #Miller #MilwaukeeBrewersNews #MilwaukeeBrewersRoster #MilwaukeeBrewersRumors #MLB #MlbJulyUpdates #Montgomery #rhp #Shelby #transactions

On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.

Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.

We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. 

Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.

The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.

Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.

Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”

A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.

“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.

But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.

Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.

In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/

On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.

Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.

We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. 

Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.

The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.

Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.

Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”

A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.

“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.

But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.

Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.

In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/

On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.

Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.

We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. 

Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.

The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.

Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.

Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”

A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.

“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.

But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.

Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.

In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/

On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.

Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.

We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. 

Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.

The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.

Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.

Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”

A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.

“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.

But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.

Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.

In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/

On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.

Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.

We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. 

Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.

The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.

Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.

Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”

A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.

“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.

But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.

Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.

In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/

https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/history---11jul2024
#montana #reservation #fortbelknap #lakesheloole #shelby #campground #wahkpachugn #buffalojump #food #visionquest #aaninin #nakota #assiniboine #nativepeoples #travel #adventure #journey #rv #rvlife #vanlife #winnebago #winnebagoera

John Roberts is well aware of the Supreme Court's credibility problems, but he doesn't want to fix it by a code of conduct -- he wants to fix it by cosy interviews with journalists

#voting #rights #election #John #Roberts #Shelby #County #antidemocratic #voting #laws #David #Daley #Federalist #Society #bankrolling #fringe #theories

Three of our Supreme Court Justices had worked on Bush v Gore in 2000 -- and those are the "moderates" on this court

- David Daley

#voting #rights #election #John #Roberts #Shelby #County #antidemocratic #voting #laws #David #Daley #Federalist #Society #bankrolling #fringe #theories

Equal parts "Dark Money" and "Democracy in Chains",
Minority Rule is a riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year Republican plot to
💥hijack #voting #rights in America,
💥its profound implications for the 2024 #presidential #election,
💥and the crucial role that Chief Justice #John #Roberts has played in determining how we vote.

In 1981, a young lawyer, fresh out of Harvard law school, joined the Reagan administration's Department of Justice,
taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point.
From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ,
this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislation
— the Voting Rights Act.
His name was John Roberts.
Over thirty years later in 2013, these efforts by John Roberts and the conservative legal establishment culminated when Roberts,
now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
wrote #Shelby #County vs. Holder,
one of the most consequential decisions of modern jurisprudence.
A dramatic move that gutted the Voting Rights Act,
Roberts's decision
— dangerously premised on the flawed notion that racism was a thing of the past
— emboldened right-wing, #antidemocratic #voting #laws around the country immediately.
No modern court decision has done more to hand elections to Republicans than Shelby.

Now lauded investigative reporter #David #Daley reveals the urgent story of this 🆘fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their party's favor.
From the bowels of Reagan's DOJ to the walls of the conservative #Federalist #Society to the moneyed Republican resources #bankrolling restrictive voting laws today,
Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling.
Through careful research and exhaustive reporting, he connects Shelby to 🔥a well-funded, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot box
— an effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle.
In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled #fringe conservative #theories about our elections with the potential to shape the 2024 election and topple the foundations of our democracy.
Timely and alarming, Daley offers a powerful message that, while Shelby was the misguided end of the Voting Rights Act, it was also the beginning of something far darker.

https://www.powells.com/book/-9780063321090/1-0?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_gE3ND8cGzt8kj2t9rC7OytFg28&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlvW2BhDyARIsADnIe-KgQUFDIvpF383rfzJJyLKqiQuHTU7fzCum3YJJarH1NoCET9_Gh6YaAnYOEALw_wcB

***OUT NOW***
The Green Kingdom LP on TSMM is a warm, daydreamy delight and perfect listening for lazy Sunday mornings, sunset witnessed from orbiting space stations and all sorts of summer inactivity. I hope you enjoy it.
https://the-green-kingdom-horizons.sbmt.to/

#slow #music #ambient #downtempo #chill #chillout #Balearic #Shelby #Township #Michigan #independent #artist

Went to a memorial/remembrance for my recently passed neighbor. It was held at a place where people store their cars. Their higher end cars.

Just a few photos. There were some cars that we were not allowed to photograph.

This was like a museum … of privately owned vehicles.

#cars #ACCobra #Ford #Shelby #GT350 #Boss429 #AstonMartin

Warum hat die #Polizei in Litauen #Shelby abgewiesen und wie geht es jetzt weiter? Christian #Solmecke zeigt was passiert ist und wie es weitergehen könnte!
https://youtu.be/HP4Bj_pKCrM

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: HBO's 'Bama Rush' Will Break Your Heart https://jezebel.com/hbos-bama-rush-will-break-your-heart-1850465876 #Jezebel #fraternitiesandsororities #americantelevisionseries #sororityrecruitment #johnarchibald #rachelfleit #recruitment #selmablair #sororities #bamarush #holliday #isabelle #lessons #google #shelby #blair #greek #biden #hbo

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: HBO's 'Bama Rush' Will Break Your Heart https://jezebel.com/hbos-bama-rush-will-break-your-heart-1850465876 #Jezebel #fraternitiesandsororities #americantelevisionseries #sororityrecruitment #johnarchibald #rachelfleit #recruitment #selmablair #sororities #bamarush #holliday #isabelle #lessons #google #shelby #blair #greek #biden #hbo

Tennessee is seriously lax on guns -- And Why is That?

Nearly 1,400 people #die each year in Tennessee by #guns, making it the 10th highest rate in the nation.

There are few requirements for gun purchases, including **no** #background #checks or #training for handgun buyers.

The state **allows** #permitless #carry, even for #concealed #weapons, for anyone over 21, and there are **no** #red #flag #laws to keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous individuals.

Last year, Republicans moved in the **opposite direction** from gun safety, with proposed bills #lowering the handgun purchase and carry age to 18 and #allowing the most dangerous guns, including #AR-15s, to be carried in public.

This was the environment in which the #mass #school #shooting occurred, and which has driven Tennessee students to take to the streets and to #protest at the Capitol.

**Gerrymandered** to the hilt

The Tennessee state House has 99 seats, with the state broken up by maps drawn by the Republican legislative supermajority.

The maps are designed to dilute Democratic representation, both in the state and in its Congressional delegation, something that the #Voting #Rights #Act and the U.S. #Constitution **used to protect against**, before the #Supreme #Court began #gutting voting rights, beginning with its #Shelby #County decision knocking out federal preauthorization for new maps.

The House district maps in Tennessee are a blatant and unapologetic #gerrymander.

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/showdown-in-nashville

Lynchkommentar eines Abgeordneten aus #Tennessee sorgt für Empörung

Während einer Debatte am Dienstag über einen #Gesetzentwurf, der die Möglichkeiten des Staates, Menschen zum Tode zu verurteilen, erweitern würde, äußerte ein #Abgeordneter des Staates Tennessee seine #Unterstützung für den #Gesetzentwurf und schlug vor, das #Erhängen an einem Baum als #Hinrichtungsmethode hinzuzufügen.

Die Abgeordneten diskutierten über den Gesetzentwurf HB1245, der die Hinrichtung durch #Stromschlag als #Alternative zur #Giftspritze vorsieht, und einen #Änderungsantrag, der die Hinrichtung durch ein #Erschießungskommando vorsieht, als der Abgeordnete Paul Sherrell (R-Sparta) sagte: "Ich habe mich gefragt, ob ich einen #Änderungsantrag einbringen könnte, der auch das Erhängen an einem Baum vorsieht."

Rassistisch motivierte #Lynchmorde in Tennessee

EJI hat 236 rassistisch motivierte Lynchmorde an Schwarzen in Tennessee zwischen 1877 und 1950 dokumentiert, darunter auch Hinrichtungen von schwarzen #Journalisten, #Geschäftsleute|n und #Lehrer|n.

Der Bericht von EJI über #Terror-Lynchings in den 12 aktivsten Lynchstaaten Amerikas ergab, dass die Bezirke #Lake und #Moore in Tennessee die sechst- bzw. siebthöchste #Lynchrate aufwiesen und #Shelby County die 18. höchste Zahl an #Lynchopfern hatte.

#Schwarze wurden in Tennessee wegen kleinerer sozialer Vergehen oder wegen der Forderung nach #Grundrechte|n und fairer Behandlung gelyncht. Richard #Wilkerson zum Beispiel wurde 1934 in #Manchester, Tennessee, gelyncht, weil er angeblich einen Weißen geschlagen hatte, der eine schwarze Frau bei einem afroamerikanischen Tanz angegriffen hatte.

#Lynchjustiz in Amerika

Der Lynchmord an #Afroamerikaner|n war #Terrorismus, eine weithin unterstützte Kampagne zur Durchsetzung von #Rassenunterordnung und #Rassentrennung.

Die Geschäftsleute Thomas #Moss, Calvin #McDowell und Henry #Stewart wurden 1892 in #Memphis brutal gelyncht, weil sie ihren #Lebensmittelladen gegen weiße Angreifer verteidigt hatten. Die Männer waren Freunde der Anti-Lynch-Kreuzritterin Ida B. #Wells, die als Reaktion auf ihre Ermordung einen Leitartikel schrieb, in dem sie die schwarzen Einwohner von Memphis aufforderte, "eine Stadt zu verlassen, die weder unser Leben und unseren Besitz schützt noch uns einen fairen Prozess vor Gericht macht, sondern uns aus dem Weg räumt und uns kaltblütig ermordet, wenn wir von Weißen beschuldigt werden". Daraufhin griff ein weißer Mob ihr Zeitungsbüro an, zerstörte es und drohte ihr, nicht nach Memphis zurückzukehren.

Der #Lynchmob in Tennessee setzte sich regelmäßig über das #Rechtssystem hinweg. Im Jahr 1906 wurde Edward #Johnson, ein Schwarzer, der Vergewaltigung einer weißen Frau überführt und von einer ausschließlich weißen Jury in #Chattanooga zum Tode verurteilt. Seine Anwälte legten Berufung ein und erhielten vom Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten einen seltenen Aufschub der Hinrichtung.

Daraufhin holte ein weißer Mob Herrn Johnson aus dem Gefängnis, schleifte ihn durch die Straßen, hängte ihn an der zweiten Brücke der Walnut Street Bridge auf und schoss Hunderte Male auf ihn. Der Mob hinterließ einen Zettel an der Leiche, auf dem stand: "Für Richter Harlan. Komm und hol dir dein N-R jetzt." Mr. Johnson, der mit seinen letzten Worten seine Unschuld beteuerte, wurde fast ein Jahrhundert später von der Vergewaltigung freigesprochen.

Das Erbe des Rassenterrors

Gemeinden in ganz Tennessee haben sich mit EJI zusammengetan, um die Geschichte des rassistischen Lynchmords wahrheitsgemäß aufzuarbeiten. Ed Johnson war eines von vier Lynchopfern, denen in Chattanooga ein Denkmal gesetzt wurde, und Gemeindemitglieder haben zwei historische Markierungen in der Innenstadt von #Nashville aufgestellt, um an vier Männer zu erinnern, die dort während der Ära des Rassenterrors gelyncht wurden.

Im Jahr 2020 wurde vor dem Gerichtsgebäude von #Madison County eine Gedenktafel für John #Brown aufgestellt, der auf dem Rasen des Gerichts von einem Mob von 500 Männern gelyncht wurde, und für Eliza #Woods, die von einem Mob zum Gerichtsgebäude geschleppt wurde, nachdem sie beschuldigt worden war, ihren weißen Arbeitgeber vergiftet zu haben. Frau Woods beteuerte ihre Unschuld, aber der Mob riss ihr die Kleider vom Leib, hängte sie an einem Baum auf und schoss auf ihren Körper.

Am Dienstag jedoch reagierten andere Abgeordnete nicht einmal auf #Sherrells Bemerkung. Er entschuldigte sich erst, nachdem die Bemerkung breite Aufmerksamkeit und Kritik auf sich gezogen hatte, und bekräftigte dabei seine Unterstützung für das #Todesstrafengesetz.

"Ein Gesetzentwurf, der eine Ausweitung der Todesstrafe durch Erschießungskommandos und sogar Lynchjustiz vorsieht, ist bedauerlich, unmoralisch und führt uns zurück in die dunklen Tage von Jim Crow", sagte der Pastor der Franklin Community Church, Kevin Riggs, gegenüber The Tennessean. "Ich bin entsetzt über die Worte von #Repräsentant Sherrell. Er schlägt Erschießungskommandos und Lynchmorde vor, das ist unverschämt. Tennessee sollte sich in die Richtung bewegen, staatlich sanktionierte Tötungen zu ächten, anstatt noch mehr Tötungen auf noch unmenschlichere Weise vorzuschlagen, als es sie bereits gibt. Es gibt keinen moralischen Weg, einen anderen Menschen zu ermorden.

Der Rückgang der Lynchmorde zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts beruhte in hohem Maße auf der zunehmenden Anwendung der Todesstrafe, und öffentliche Hinrichtungen waren oft rassistisch motivierte Darstellungen, die potenzielle Lynchmobs beruhigen sollten.

Die #Nordstaaten hatten öffentliche Hinrichtungen bis 1850 abgeschafft, aber einige Südstaaten erlaubten öffentliche Hinrichtungen bis 1938. Und selbst nachdem sie gesetzlich verboten waren, gelang es dem Mob in den Südstaaten oft, öffentliche Hinrichtungen zu erzwingen.

Die Abgeordneten haben am Dienstag HB1245 in den nächsten Ausschuss verwiesen.

Quelle: https://eji.org/news/tennessee-lawmakers-lynching-comment-sparks-outrage
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