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‘Thrown under the bus’: Jones unleashes

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Indie Rock Survivors DIIV Bring Shoegaze for the Revolution
27 May
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Indie Rock Survivors DIIV Bring Shoegaze for the Revolution

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Politics tamfitronics Only a day after Cardi B made headlines for declaring she would not be voting in this year’s presidential election because she doesn’t support U.S. involvement in foreign wars and doesn’t “fuck with” Joe Biden or Donald TrumpI am on a Zoom call with four activist-minded musicians who, it turns out, don’t disagree with the rapper. The gentlemen of DIIV know their politics and are, one and all, hard progressives. Leftists with not much use for squishy moderates. “None of us are neoliberals,” guitarist Andrew Bailey firmly asserts, before signing on to the idea that mainstream Democrats and Republicans are equally bad. “At the moment, yeah,” he says. “Because there’s only one economic philosophy on the ballot! And the fact that the people who actually have power right now are the people putting...
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Abcarian: Why are Republicans making it harder for some people to vote? It’s not just partisanship
27 May
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Abcarian: Why are Republicans making it harder for some people to vote? It’s not just partisanship

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Politics tamfitronics Of all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is near the top, second only to its catastrophic decision to rip away half a century of reproductive rights from American women.Until the court’s shocking 2013 Shelby County vs. Holder decision, states and counties with histories of racial discrimination were required to get approval from the Justice Department — known as “preclearance” — for redistricting or changes to voting laws. The conservative members of the Supreme Court changed all that with a 5-4 decision.“There is no denying,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.”That’s because these measures were working, sir.As the director of the Brennan Center...
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