nostr:npub1eznehj29kh9ec58v65ehf9n06m3pm07t2j23gqza2j2u8apns4zqns5el5 They are the bottom-up approach of the far-right movements - train new activist; indoctrinating hatred; spread disinformation; recruiting allies, voters ...
Exemplars: Mothers For Liberty; Mike Flynn (w. Proud Boys: Sarasota County, FL school board elections) ...
Top-down approach is by political operatives like Leonard Leo/Federalist Society, ALEC, Heritage Foundation, Council for National Policy, Alliance Defending Freedom, ... coopting federal judiciaries, courts, legislators
nostr:npub1eznehj29kh9ec58v65ehf9n06m3pm07t2j23gqza2j2u8apns4zqns5el5
Intermediate (state level) campaigns target federal jurisdiction over states, state legislatures:
ISLT (independent state legislature theory)
state preemption
Article V convention
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And more recently (e.g. Greg Abbott, TX) states asserting legislative control over large urban centers, even if held by Democrats ... (state preemption, again)
nostr:npub1eznehj29kh9ec58v65ehf9n06m3pm07t2j23gqza2j2u8apns4zqns5el5 They are the bottom-up approach of the far-right movements - train new activist; indoctrinating hatred; spread disinformation; recruiting allies, voters ...
Exemplars: Mothers For Liberty; Mike Flynn (w. Proud Boys: Sarasota County, FL school board elections) ...
Top-down approach is by political operatives like Leonard Leo/Federalist Society, ALEC, Heritage Foundation, Council for National Policy, Alliance Defending Freedom, ... coopting federal judiciaries, courts, legislators
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* Alliance Defending Freedom, which seeks to recriminalize “homosexuality” and forcibly sterilize trans people
The CKF Facebook page notes that posts “do not reflect the views of active board members.”
Comment: search for any of those, quoted e.g. "alliance defending freedom" on https://persagen.com
E.g. search: "Parents Defending Education" AND trans*
... On Facebook CKF reposted
* Parents Defending Education, which, according to Media Matters, was “founded to promote the ongoing scare campaign against the supposed teaching of ‘critical race theory’ in schools”
* Pacific Justice Institute, which compared same-sex marriage to Nazi fascism and promoted anti-gay conversion therapy
* Moms for Liberty, whose members have approvingly quoted Hitler (and then defended it) and made threatening remarks about gunning down librarians
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In the 2022 election the New Jersey Project claims to have backed 151 winning candidates in 85 school districts across N.J.
They endorsed a joint ticket under the label “Colts Kids First” (CKF) which doubles as the name of their far-right advocacy group.
On its Facebook page, CKF members routinely promote anti-trans organizations that the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as hate and/or extremist groups.
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At Manalapan and Marlboro, people who said they were members of Gays Against Groomers read nearly identical statements on the “sexualization” of children by trans people.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed GAG an “extremist group” whose leadership equates transness with pedophilia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gays_Against_Groomers
GAG’s anti-trans advocacy has influenced school board members across New Jersey.
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#GAG #GaysAgainstGroomers #ConspiracyTheories #transphobia #homophobia
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Kristen Sinclair, a member of the Medford Board of Education, is a regular contributor to Chaos and Control—a hate-filled, conspiracy theory-laden Substack published by the New Jersey Project, a far-right activist group that she co-runs.
The newsletter doxes teachers, students, and parents to their 8,000 subscribers and spreads disinformation about the “social contagion” of transness.
Chaos and Control has been repeatedly cited on Tucker Carlson and other Fox News shows.
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Anti-Trans Crusade Comes to New Jersey. School board supports a dangerous anti-trans policy
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/anti-trans-school-board-new-jersey
N.J. law gives trans students robust protections including the guarantee that trans students have the right to access to the bathroom of their choice & be referred to by their chosen name & pronouns.
School officials are also barred from outing students to a parent or guardian.
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#NewJersey #education #lgbt #transphobia #TransLivesMatter #CultureWars #GaysAgainstGroomers
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At Manalapan and Marlboro, people who said they were members of Gays Against Groomers read nearly identical statements on the “sexualization” of children by trans people.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed GAG an “extremist group” whose leadership equates transness with pedophilia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gays_Against_Groomers
GAG’s anti-trans advocacy has influenced school board members across New Jersey.
...
#GAG #GaysAgainstGroomers #ConspiracyTheories #transphobia #homophobia
Anti-Trans Crusade Comes to New Jersey. School board supports a dangerous anti-trans policy
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/anti-trans-school-board-new-jersey
N.J. law gives trans students robust protections including the guarantee that trans students have the right to access to the bathroom of their choice & be referred to by their chosen name & pronouns.
School officials are also barred from outing students to a parent or guardian.
...
#NewJersey #education #lgbt #transphobia #TransLivesMatter #CultureWars #GaysAgainstGroomers
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All these opinions reach their result through flawed historical investigations.
They cherry-pick evidence, give their subject incomplete consideration, are out of touch with the findings of recent historical scholarship, & reach conclusions that coincide with the writers’ preestablished political & social views.
Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion in the Harvard and UNC affirmative action case well illustrate the shortcomings of originalist jurisprudence.
Addendae
Clarence Thomas’s Cherry-Picked Originalism on Affirmative Action
https://newrepublic.com/article/174469/clarence-thomas-cherry-picked-originalism-affirmative-action
Originalist justices now hold a majority of seats on the Supreme Court.
As originalists, these justices believe that when the Constitution was written, the informed public understood the meaning of its vague clauses; & they believe that that meaning, as a kind of fundamentalist Scripture, must be binding for all time unless changed through the extremely arduous Article V amendment process.
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Originalism began in the 1970s as a conservative response to constitutional reforms of the Warren court, to restrain liberal judicial activism. Today originalism supports turbocharged right-wing judicial activism.
On major legal issues - religious liberty, gun control, presidential power, sovereign immunit - SCOTUS' conservative originalist justices are transforming constitutional law through opinions that claim to bring the Constitution back to what it meant when adopted.
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Addendae
Clarence Thomas’s Cherry-Picked Originalism on Affirmative Action
https://newrepublic.com/article/174469/clarence-thomas-cherry-picked-originalism-affirmative-action
Originalist justices now hold a majority of seats on the Supreme Court.
As originalists, these justices believe that when the Constitution was written, the informed public understood the meaning of its vague clauses; & they believe that that meaning, as a kind of fundamentalist Scripture, must be binding for all time unless changed through the extremely arduous Article V amendment process.
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But at least one conservative Texas A&M alumni group - the Rudder Association - said it had filed a complaint about Dr. McElroy’s appointment.
Matthew Poling, the president of the group, said that members did not approve of Dr. McElroy’s work promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Her advocacy was the focus of an article in a conservative publication, Texas Scorecard, shortly after her appointment.
https://texasscorecard.com/state/aggies-hire-ny-times-diversity-advocate-to-head-journalism-program
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At about the time of Dr. McElroy’s hiring, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed a law banning diversity, equity and inclusion offices at the state’s public universities.
Texas A&M President Resigns Amid Fallout Over Journalism Program
The university said M. Katherine Banks would retire “immediately” after political pushback over the appointment of Kathleen McElroy to lead its journalism program
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/texas-a-m-president-resigns.html
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism
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But at least one conservative Texas A&M alumni group - the Rudder Association - said it had filed a complaint about Dr. McElroy’s appointment.
Matthew Poling, the president of the group, said that members did not approve of Dr. McElroy’s work promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Her advocacy was the focus of an article in a conservative publication, Texas Scorecard, shortly after her appointment.
https://texasscorecard.com/state/aggies-hire-ny-times-diversity-advocate-to-head-journalism-program
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... Addendae
Texas A&M Celebrated a New Journalism Director. Then Came the Complaints
Kathleen McElroy was appointed head of a journalism program at the university. But then her work in D.E.I. seemed to come into question
The controversy is an example of how politics has increasingly influenced university decisions about faculty hiring, once the exclusive purview of academics.
In Dr. McElroy’s case, the exact source of the pressure was unclear, & Dr. Bermúdez declined to be interviewed.
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... Addendae
Amid a record heat wave Texas construction workers lose right to rest breaks
A week after construction workers in Austin learned they were to lose their right to rest breaks Austin reached a record-high heat index of 118 degrees
July 9-19 saw an unprecedented 11-day streak of 105+ degrees
The Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Service responded to 410 heat-related incidents just since June 1
#Texas #GregAbbott #WorkersRights #neofascism #HeatStress
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Understanding Bill C-18: Canada's Online News Act explained
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/understanding-bill-c-18-canada-s-online-news-act-explained-1.6488532
Bill C-18 (Online News Act) lays out a framework that would require digital giants such as Google & Meta to develop deals with Canadian news sites for previewing & sharing their online news content.
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act
Canadian federal statute that requires internet search engines to pay Canadian online news companies to link to their websites.
Retired RCMP officer charged with foreign interference
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-officer-foreign-interference-1.6913872
William Majcher "used his knowledge & his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People's Republic of China."
Majcher "contributed to the Chinese government's efforts to identify & intimidate an individual outside the scope of Canadian law."
https://persagen.com > search: canada AND china AND "foreign interference"
#RCMP #Canada #China #ForeignInterference
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Former RCMP officer charged with foreign interference
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/former-rcmp-officer-charged-with-foreign-interference-1.6489046
Retired RCMP officer charged with foreign interference
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-officer-foreign-interference-1.6913872
William Majcher "used his knowledge & his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People's Republic of China."
Majcher "contributed to the Chinese government's efforts to identify & intimidate an individual outside the scope of Canadian law."
https://persagen.com > search: canada AND china AND "foreign interference"
#RCMP #Canada #China #ForeignInterference
... Not surprisingly, the Waters Advocacy Coalition wasted little time in, by its own words, "applauding" the Sackett ruling (Sackett v. EPA II, 2023) the day it was announced for halting "decades of attempts to expand the federal government's power over private land."
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... an alliance of various corporate trade groups dedicated to weakening the WOTUS definition, whose members span industries ranging from fossil fuels and mining to farming and real estate.
Since 2019 alone, the WAC has spent a total of $260,000 lobbying on one thing and one thing only: "waters of U.S. rulemaking," or, as it put it in one filing, "federal legislative and administrative developments concerning the scope of federal regulatory authority over water bodies."
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