SusanRBurgess

SusanRBurgess

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Early morning bike ride by Lake Michigan. These birds don’t care who the nominee is. They always vote Dem, because they know that that’s the ticket if we’re to have even a chance at addressing global warming. Vote for the party not a person this Fall. Do it for the birds.

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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

Seen in Chicago’s #UnabridgedBooks today. Politics of polyamory, BDSM, furries, nudists,bisexuality and more. So excited to have it in the book series Heath Fogg Davis and I edit at NYU Press on LGBTQ Politics. Cooking up a project that might fit in our series? Let’s talk!

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I've written about this before. Hearings matter. Regardless of their outcome, they draw a line in the sand regarding what is NOT acceptable, and demonstrate that to the public. A hearing regarding Justice Alito would also show the Democrats pushing back.

There you have it…

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Just subpoena him. Force him to testify. Of course everyone will lose their minds. Who cares? It's good politics and good for the rule of law.

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Democrats should do this every time the GOP holds one of these hearings. Every single session, multiple times a session if possible.

"Let the record show that no one spoke up." (From today's K-12 antisemitism hearing in Congress) www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/u...

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Let's hear it for #Maine #transrights www.erininthemorning.com/p/maine-sign...

Maine Signs Trans And Abortion Sanctuary Bill Into Law, Despite Violent Threatswww.erininthemorning.com Despite a series of bomb threats against legislators in the state, Maine's Governor Janet Mills has signed a transgender and abortion sanctuary bill into law.

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You might think that even in today’s highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment. If you thought so, you would be wrong. My latest. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/repu...

Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workerswww.democracydocket.com From Marc | In recent weeks, there have been a series of lawsuits aimed at undoing protections for election workers.

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“On the issue of democracy, today’s Republican Party is more irresponsible and more dangerous than it was in 2020,” said Marc Elias, in a statement that blasted the GOP’s effort to “court and nurture a network of right-wing election vigilantes.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/repu...

Republican National Committee courts election conspiracy theorists to help watch pollswww.newsfromthestates.com As the Republican National Committee ramps up plans to monitor the polls for illegal voting this fall, the national party is increasingly working with a loose network of anti-fraud extremists who have been found to routinely spread election lies. The extremists also have close ties to the prominent far-right conspiracy theorists who tried to overturn the 2020 results of the presidential election.

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Don't sleep on this: *2* state justices who just voted to make all abortion illegal in Arizona are on the ballot this year. They're each up for retention, as I had detailed here last week: boltsmag.org/your-state-b...

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Arizona Supreme Court sends women back to 1865 www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/ariz...

Call for Nominations: Bailey Award for Best Paper on LGBTQ Issues The LGBTQ Caucus is currently soliciting nominations for the Bailey Award for the best paper on LGBTQ issues presented at the 2023 American Political Science Association meeting. 1/

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The short and long-term goals of anti-LGBTQ+ book banning campaigns www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/12/the-...

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BREAKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just signed landmark voting rights legislation: It's the first law in the nation that will automatically register people as they're released from prison! Learn more: boltsmag.org/michigan-aut...

Michigan Law Would Be First to Automatically Register People to Vote As They Leave Prisonboltsmag.org The legislature passed a bill that’d also expand automatic voter registration in other ways, including applying it at Medicaid offices, and likely add many new Michiganders to voter rolls.

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Excellent! Not the odds, but the stakes, folks. That’s the campaign coverage that we need. That democracy needs.

"Not the odds, but the stakes..." is my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in campaign coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. I have been floating this phrase since March. This week it took off a bit, after CNN wrote about it.

Journalism professor’s six-word mantra is a blueprint for how news outlets should cover the 2024 r...www.cnn.com NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen implores newsrooms to organize 2024 campaign coverage around the stakes of the presidential contest — not the horse race.

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Marijuana legalization is under threat in Ohio as the GOP plans to roll back the ballot initiative that succeeded last week. Check out their plans to redirect weed tax money — meant to fight the harms of the war on drugs — to fund more jails and police.

After Ohioans Legalize Weed, GOP Leaders Already Want to Roll Back Key Reforms - Boltsboltsmag.org Issue 2 has provisions to help people harmed by the war on drugs, but Republicans have called for reversing those and even redirecting new tax money to fund more jails and police.

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Sen. Thom Tillis links the aggro day on Capitol Hill to Trump’s “vermin” talk www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

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Republicans: We're a working-class party now. Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin: Challenges Teamsters' President to a fight at a Senate hearing. twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/...

Hey PoliSky! Emmer is out. “Is the fragmentation, stupid” not the candidates. How long before the Rs learn this: What’s the over and under?

Hey PoliSky

My take on House: A move toward power sharing is starting. But it’s going to be ugly for a while.The Rs are used to getting things their way. But their longstanding coalition is clearly fragmented, includes a lot of rigidity. that will fall apart when some of the pragmatists accept new reality.

My take on House: A move toward power sharing is starting. But it’s going to be ugly for a while.The Rs are used to getting things their way. But their longstanding coalition is clearly fragmented, includes a lot of rigidity. that will fall apart when some of the pragmatists accept new reality.

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Thanks to the Quebec Writers’ Federation for short-listing The Long Road Home for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. I’m grateful for good news in these dark times.

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A big lead for abortion rights in a new poll of Ohio! 58% to 34%. The election, in 3 weeks, could enshrine abortion rights in state constitution. And the ballot measure to legalize weed leads too, 57 to 35. https://www.bw.edu/assets/community-research-institute/october_ohio_issues_poll-final.pdf

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The thing about Just Voting Harder is sometimes it works

🚨 BREAKING: Poland’s opposition parties have won the general election, according to an exit poll released immediately after voting ended tonight.

Opposition wins Polish election, according to exit pollwww.politico.eu If vote counting confirms the result, it would mark a dramatic change of direction after a very hard-fought election campaign.

Hey PoliSky! Please welcome and follow my good friend Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social she does really interesting APD and law and courts, race, gender, sexuality.

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🚨 Ohioans only have until TOMORROW to register to vote in November's election, which include referendums to enshrine abortion rights and legalize marijuana. Ohio allows people to register online: https://olvr.ohiosos.gov/

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We’re very happy to be here in these bluer and more inclusive skies!

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I'm pretty much giving up on the app formerly known as Twitter. It has really been degraded as a way to keep up with informed discourse, and I don't want to be an unpaid content provide for Musk. Will start posting wonkery here, maybe also on Threads

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GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

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Only one public official has ever been impeached throughout Wisconsin’s history: it was back in 1853. Now, heading into 2024, the GOP is considering impeaching a new justice AND the state elections chief! https://boltsmag.org/wisconsin-impeachment-protasiewicz/

With Impeachment Push, Wisconsin GOP Tests Bounds of Political Power - Boltsboltsmag.org Margaret Workman is watching Wisconsin Republicans threaten Justice Janet Protasiewicz with impeachment from several states away. But she can relate to Protasiewicz like very few can. Workman sat on West... Read More