Two Cases Show How Racist and Evil the Roberts Court is

In 2006, the Court, in Purcell v. Gonzales, held that election changes should not be made just before a vote, to avoid confusing voters. But in the aftermath of the Callais case, the majority of Roberts' Calvinball Court has been tripping over themselves to allow the Confederate states to redo their congressional districts mere days before the primaries and, in the case of Louisiana, while voting had already begun.

The takeaway is this: Whatever the Fascist Six on the Court can do to promote white districts and eliminate majority-Black districts, they will do. The Klan Six may believe that the Voting Rights Act was obsolete, but every action taken by the states of the Old Confederacy since Callais have shown that the VRA is as necessary today as it was in 1965.

Oh. Monsieur Roth, You Have No Idea

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the city’s ultra-rich residents to help patch a $5.4 billion fiscal hole is getting pushback from the ultra-rich, at least one of whom believes “tax the rich” is akin to a racial slur.

Steven Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, used his company’s earnings call on Tuesday to complain about Mamdani’s rhetoric.

“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich,’ quote, tax the rich, when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs ― and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth told investors on the call.

He has no idea how much the ultra-rich are despised. He doesn't have a clue that we know that they've been getting richer and richer while the rest of us have been scraping by.

This graph goes to only 2015, but it shows the trend.

2017:

Housing costs keep going up:

Since 1980, median family income has risen by about 50%, the income of the rich have more than doubled. People who know the constant struggle of paying rent, buying food, health insurance and fuel know that things aren't getting any better for them. But it's getting better for the rich.

But to putzim like Roth, pointing this out is hate speech. Taxing the rich at a higher rate is hate speech.

Well, if he thinks that's hate speech, then here's a response for him:

Things Have Been Busy

And tomorrow I've got a stint of Charon duty for a friend's cat.

Gloving These Down, Here

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

The Skyraider, a/k/a the Spad:

The Spad, the E-1 and the S-2 were the last carrier-based reciprocating-engined aircraft. To say that the Navy was glad to get gasoline-fueled aircraft off its carriers is a severe understatement.

It's Like a Stupid Variant of Nixon Is President

An email from President Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles ordering staff to stop leaking to the press was leaked to the press on Friday.

In the directive, written in late March and obtained by Politico’s West Wing Playbook, Wiles warned that “no staff member within the Executive Office of the President is permitted to speak with members of the news media without the explicit approval of the White House Communications Office.”

J. Edgar Boozer's also trying to crack down on leaks.

Maybe if they were better at their jobs, nobody'd care.

Caturday

Chip, fresh from sharing eyeliner tips with JD Vance:

Alabama- Racist to the Core

Someone else pointed out that it took Alabama fourteen years to implement Brown v. Board of Ed., which was mandatory, and fourteen days after LA v. Callais to redistrict to eliminate majority Black districts, which was not mandatory.

Wherever the states of the Confederacy can bend towards racial discrimination, they will do so.

Because It's Friday

Brit steam.

The South Proves Why the Voting Rights Act Existed

The modern Confederacy is moving as fast as it can to erase majority Black congressional districts. They are doing exactly the same shit that caused Congress to enact the Voting Rights Act and reauthorize it time and time again.

The Worst Chief Justice in American History keeps saying his court only calls balls and strikes based on the Constitution. That is a bald-faced lie and even they know it. The Supreme Court is a malign political force and it needs to be counteracted like any other such entity.