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Higher education
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
4 days agoRothman Firing Divides Wisconsin Lawmakers
Republicans in Wisconsin are retaliating against the firing of University President Jay Rothman, citing partisanship and demanding accountability from the Board of Regents.
fromSlate Magazine
3 days agoNorth Carolina Republicans Are Trying to Give One of the Country's Most Partisan Judges a Frightening New Power
The proposal is the North Carolina GOP's latest attack on the state bar, a government agency that regulates lawyers. If this proposal becomes law, the same Republicans who have targeted Democratic justices with bogus ethics charges will control the committee that decides when lawyers violate ethics rules.
SF politics
#trump
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 days agoUS Elections
Trump Takes Victory Lap Over Deranged' Marjorie Taylor Greene and Her Stench' After Special Election in Her District
Trump mocked Marjorie Taylor Greene after Clay Fuller won her former congressional seat, calling Fuller a significant improvement over Greene.
US Elections
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 days agoMark Halperin Insists There's Time for Trump to Fix the Problems by the Midterms' as Popularity Craters: He's Got a Great Sense of Instincts'
President Trump has time to regain support before the midterms, but faces significant challenges after the war against Iran.
US Elections
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 days agoTrump Takes Victory Lap Over Deranged' Marjorie Taylor Greene and Her Stench' After Special Election in Her District
Trump mocked Marjorie Taylor Greene after Clay Fuller won her former congressional seat, calling Fuller a significant improvement over Greene.
#voter-suppression
US politics
fromJezebel
3 weeks agoSounds Like the GOP Is Eager to Literally Fight Democrats in Order to Pass the Voter Suppression SAVE America Act
Republicans plan a prolonged Senate floor fight over the SAVE America Act to force Democrats to defend voting eligibility requirements despite lacking votes to pass the bill.
US politics
fromJezebel
3 weeks agoSounds Like the GOP Is Eager to Literally Fight Democrats in Order to Pass the Voter Suppression SAVE America Act
Republicans plan a prolonged Senate floor fight over the SAVE America Act to force Democrats to defend voting eligibility requirements despite lacking votes to pass the bill.
California
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month agoCommentary: With midterm vote starting, here's where things stand in national redistricting fight
Trump orchestrated partisan gerrymandering in Texas to preserve Republican House control, triggering a nationwide wave of retaliatory redistricting by Democrats across multiple states.
#congressional-redistricting
NYC politics
fromUSA TODAY
1 month agoIn win for GOP, Supreme Court blocks NY map change before midterms
The Supreme Court blocked a New York state court ruling that would have redrawn a congressional district to increase Democratic voting power, allowing Republicans to maintain control of the only GOP-held seat in New York City.
SF politics
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month agoCandidates scramble, one quits, after redistricting shakes up California's congressional races
California's mid-decade congressional redistricting has reshaped districts, potentially sending gay Democrat Robert Garcia to represent conservative Huntington Beach, a city that previously voted to ban Pride flags from public property.
Right-wing politics
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks agoRepublicans Have a New Plan to Trick People Into Voting Against Abortion Rights. This One Is Working.
Anti-abortion ballot initiatives have failed consistently since 2022, but opponents may now succeed by deliberately confusing voters about what they're voting for.
#redistricting
SF politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 month agoThe next redistricting battle might be who is counted in state legislative districts
Republican officials are pushing to redraw state legislative districts based on eligible voters only, excluding non-citizens and children, which would shift political power from diverse urban areas to older, whiter rural regions.
SF politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 month agoThe next redistricting battle might be who is counted in state legislative districts
Republican officials are pushing to redraw state legislative districts based on eligible voters only, excluding non-citizens and children, which would shift political power from diverse urban areas to older, whiter rural regions.
#midterm-elections
US Elections
fromPOLITICO
4 weeks ago'I'm glad I'm not on the ballot': Senate GOP worries about its midterm edge
Republican senators warn the party must emphasize cost-of-living measures to maintain Senate control, despite Trump's focus on other priorities and voter concerns about inflation and energy prices.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoFive ways Trump could try to tilt the midterm elections in his favor
They want to cheat, he said of Democrats. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that their only way to get elected is to cheat. And we're going to stop it. Trump has put action to his long-debunked claims this year, with FBI agents seizing 2020 election documentation in Fulton county, Georgia, and the Department of Justice pursuing voter data from state elections officials across the country.
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