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  1. I am baffled by the Washington Post's sanitized framing of this story. The Supreme Court is clearly going to "rule on the law" -- that is what courts do! The news is that SCOTUS signaled that it might gut the VRA entirely.

    Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?

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  2. 🚨TESTIMONY OF THE YEAR: A Texas voter just torched Donald Trump and Greg Abbott during a redistricting hearing - and it was BRUTAL:

    “He cheated on the golf course… He cheated on his taxes… He cheated on his wives… He cheated on democracy…”

    But then came the mic drop 👇

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  3. ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things

    The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users

    Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request livestream access to our home security devices.

    @eff.org

    Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

    Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

    Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

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