Elaine Maisner

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Cedar Falls Precinct chair @orangedemsnc | Politics Buddhism IyengarYoga Food Art Writing | Exec Editor @UNC_Press ‘94-‘22 & love my authors

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#NorthCarolina's #Medicaid Expansion has enrolled 500,000 in 7 months. “‘We never, ever, ever gave up. And that’s why we’re standing here today,’ @GovCooper said.” A hard lesson there. ~2m Rx filled for new enrollees, lots for >chronic< conditions! chapelboro.com/news/state-g...

North Carolina's Medicaid Expansion Program has Enrolled 500,000 People in Just 7 Months - Chapelboro.comchapelboro.com North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper held a news conference on Friday to tout the enrollment number as a significant milestone for the program.

Opinion: J.D. Vance’s book ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ was a con job. Don’t let it slide

#KaraWaker 😍 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/hel...

Silhouettist Kara Walker on early fame and symbols of Black servitude | Helga | WNYC Studioswww.wnycstudios.org Kara Walker, silhouettist and former MacArthur genius, discusses navigating her own inner conflicts and achieving great acclaim through making use of symbols of Black servitude. 

Should redesign ballots so that the most local races are at the top, then range downward to national at the bottom. Vote local!

#ChristianNationalism alert: www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Countrywww.propublica.org The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...

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A photograph of a Japanese American family at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Heart Mountain and the barracks can be seen in the background. The photograph was taken on 1944. 🗃 #skystorians

Register To Vote From Abroadusvotersabroad.org Most U.S. citizens 18 years and older are eligible to vote absentee from abroad.

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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/

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Extending 14th Amendment rights to fetuses is not "softening" one's stance on abortion. It would criminalize abortion nationwide in the United States. This is a change in rhetoric, not a change of heart.

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF19thnews.org Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

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This is also a nice reminder that when conservatives say, "Judeo-Christian" they mean "Christian," because you know nobody at Project 2025, including the person who wrote "Judeo-Christian" below, means anything but Sunday when they talk about deciding what people can & should do on the Sabbath.

Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.

The Case for Expanding the #SupremeCourt Has Never Been Stronger, by Holly Brewer in ⁦‪@newrepublic‬⁩ #SCOTUS

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The Dazzling Artistry of Hiroshige’s ‘100 Famous Views of Edo’www.nytimes.com It’s actually 118 at the Brooklyn Museum, and the more the better. These vivid color woodblocks have much to teach Instagram, and even Murakami.

good read from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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THEY DID IT!!

A slew of laws took effect July 1 in North Carolina. Here are details on what they do: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Rolling & long strategized Federalist Society coup + Christian Nationalism + inappropriately organized profit-motive + electoral college system.

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“Legal experts say the ruling cd have a chilling effect on ambitious federal rulemaking, which will now be subject to a federal judiciary filled w Trump appointees”—[This] underscores the importance of states having their own laws on the books.”—@latimes www.latimes.com/environment/...

Supreme Court ruling could jeopardize California's environmental ruleswww.latimes.com A Supreme Court ruling overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine is likely to pave the way for legal challenges to California's clean air rules.

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throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one

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"Yet private schools face almost none of the accountability that public schools do regarding how the money is spent and what outcomes it achieves."

Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up some of the strongest resistance.

Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Voucherswww.propublica.org School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up som...

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board #PhiladelphiaInquirer www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

People are often more cogent than I’m conditioned to think they’ll be: bbc.com/news/videos/...

US voters' verdicts on debate performancesbbc.com Americans voice strong opinions on the sparring between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Had hoped that President & team would have made their #1 prep exercise that of defanging the opponent’s customary & fully expected appeal to brain stems & cerebellums (hindbrains). But they didn’t. Also body coach needed simply to train one to keep mouth firmly closed when not speaking. @whitehouse

Here, I fixed your last para. for you @smervosh & ⁦‪⁦‪@elizabethjdias‬⁩: “The country appears to AGREE that religious instruction in public schools should NOT increase. Among those polled, only 37% said there was too little religion.” @nytimes‬⁩ www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/u...

Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Biblewww.nytimes.com The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document.” The mandate comes as part of a conservative movement to infuse Christian values in public schools.

“A wrong choice could lead to a felony conviction [of a physician]. She had hoped the Supreme Court would issue a clear & resounding message that doctors are always able to provide stabilizing care in emergencies. Instead, she said, they have to wait.”