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Thomas Zimmer

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America can accept this Supreme Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have true democracy and a functioning state. But not both.
 
Wrote this a year ago - and things have only gotten worse: The Rogue Court vs Modern Democracy

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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We need to see the Supreme Court’s disastrous rulings in the context of the Right’s larger project to uphold traditional hierarchies of race, wealth/class, gender, and religion - all part of the attempt to halt the drive towards egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy. 2/

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Jon from Rhode Island's avatar Jon from Rhode Island @jonfromrhodeisland.bsky.social
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What do we do. If there’s no action plan in the first 24 hours there will never be one. I can’t sit around and rage at the phone. I have to be more useful than this.

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