#fair representation

[tomorrowusa]

A circuit judge in Leon County, which includes the capital of Florida, has struck down Ron DeSantis's gerrymandered US House map for Florida.

A judge in Florida has ruled in favor of voting rights groups that filed a lawsuit against a congressional redistricting map approved by Ron DeSantis in 2022. Voting rights groups had criticized the map for diluting political power in Black communities. In the ruling, Leon county circuit judge J Lee Marsh sent the map back to the Florida legislature to be redrawn in a way that complies with the state’s constitution. “Under the stipulated facts (in the lawsuit), plaintiffs have shown that the enacted plan results in the diminishment of Black voters’ ability to elect their candidate of choice in violation of the Florida constitution,” Marsh wrote in the ruling. The ruling is expected to be appealed by the state, likely putting the case before the Florida supreme court.

DeSantis had rejected a somewhat gerrymandered map his rubber stamp legislature had drawn and insisted that it pass his super-gerrymandered alternative instead. That's the map Judge Marsh threw out.

I don't know how independent the Florida Supreme Court is these days, but that looks like the next stop for this case.

The lawsuit focused on a north Florida congressional district previously represented by the Democrat Al Lawson, who is Black. Lawson’s district was carved up into districts represented by white Republicans. DeSantis vetoed a map that initially preserved Lawson’s district in 2022, submitting his own map and calling a special legislative session demanding state legislators accept it. Judge Marsh rejected claims from Florida Republicans that the state’s provision against weakening or eliminating minority-dominant districts violated the US constitution. “This is a significant victory in the fight for fair representation for Black Floridians,” said Olivia Mendoza, director of litigation and policy for the National Redistricting Foundation, an affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, in a statement. “As a result, the current discriminatory map should be replaced with a map that restores the fifth congressional district in a manner that gives Black voters the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.” In 2022, the Florida Legislative Black Caucus labeled the DeSantis-approved congressional map as voter suppression. The map resulted in Florida Republicans picking up four congressional seats in the state, increasing Republican representatives from 16 to 20 out of 28 seats and helping Republicans seal a slim majority in the House in 2022.

Of course DeSantis will complain that permitting fair representation is "woke" and may try to get Judge Marsh fired in retaliation for the ruling.

For fair representation nationally, consider supporting the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

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#florida #gerrymandering #ron desantis #us house of representatives #florida legislature #leon county #j lee marsh #florida supreme court #unconstitutional desantis map #al lawson #african americans #national democratic redistricting committee #fair representation #election 2024

[mydarkestreveries]

'Oppenheimer' movie mostly ignores female scientists - The Washington Post

"The male scientists featured in the film are sharply defined as characters, but Lilli Hornig, the one female scientist given some prominence in the movie, is a blur, popping up here and there to say they didn’t teach typing in her graduate chemistry program at Harvard, when asked whether she could be a typist, or to rib a colleague, telling him that her reproductive system was better protected from radiation than his."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/08/10/oppenheimer-manhattan-project-women-scientists-bomb/

#Still in 2023 #The more things change the more they stay the same #But white men are triggered by the new Barbie movie #women in history #women in movies #fair representation

[poupeebotfan97]

I usually don't advertise a petition for a project, but this one is different for me.

This past year, I have been exposed to a wonderful person, Marilyn Monroe. To her films, her impact on the industry, and the effect she had on many lives. But recently, with some films about her life, and failing to represent her right! Whereas with this project by Jbunzie (Jessica Vill), she aims to give Marilyn Monroe the proper film she deserves! With, Jbunzie only uses authentic sources in her script. Such as Marilyn Monroe's audio tapes/diary to recall her life. 

If anyone can do this Marilyn Monroe biopic, it's definitely Jbunzie! 

If you want to see the REAL life of Marilyn Monroe on film, please go to the link down below to sign the petition.

Link to the Fair Representation of Marilyn Monroe petition and more details about the project: 

https://rallystarter.com/r/1422/fair-representation-of-marilyn-monroe?fbclid=IwAR22opWXT74VrSDqHQ2ev914_Mxv1BhWTDKfk6wYFdqXocMigoVk-YNOZhU 

Also links to Jbunzie’s Facebook and TikTok accounts to learn more about the biopic and to receive updates: 

https://www.facebook.com/theofficialjbunzie 

https://www.tiktok.com/@jbunzie?_t=8WczmZvR4L7&_r=1 

#marilyn monroe #jbunzie #biopic #petition #fair representation

[hellofaviewblog]

Injustice within Judicial System

What’s up everyone? In order to bring about meaningful change within our judicial system, it is crucial for society to acknowledge and confront the numerous atrocities and injustices that plague it. Dismissing these issues as irrelevant only hampers our collective progress. We possess the power to be heard and must pay attention to the voices of prisoners and those trapped in this flawed system…

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#fight for justice #death row #deathrow #doing life #Fair Representation #hell of a view #inmates #justice reform #prison #prison life #restorative justice #stand for equality

[ivygorgon]

Hey everyone,

Quick favor – I stumbled upon this cool thing to support voting rights. JESSCRAVEN101 just posted about "Pass the Freedom to Vote / John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act." It's super easy to sign – just text "Sign PDDVHM" to 50409

And you can read it first;

Let's make our voices heard together!

Cheers!

#petition #open letter #write your representatives #voting #voting rights #voting access #Us congress #freedom to vote #John lewis act #democracy #political activism #community #USA #state legislature #election integrity #big money #protect your vote #fair representation #democracy for all #equality #black voters #bipoc voters #women voters #lgbtq voters #ivy speaks #intersectional social justice #us politics #politics #intersectional feminism #petitions

[gudguy1a]

C’mon Americans – Mid-term Elections ARE as Important as Presidential Elections -- VOTE…!

C’mon Americans – Mid-term Elections ARE as Important as Presidential Elections — VOTE…!

TL;DR / BLUF (because this is a L-O-N-G paper, last few pages is content from another paper) VOTE!  Get out and VOTE! You CAN; You SHOULD; You MUST; get out and vote if you truly value America and the continuation of ‘better’ values. We cannot just vote in Presidential elections and THINK that is all it takes. It is NOT!!!  The mid-term races are the arenas where the least or worse…

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#ALEC #American Legislative Exchange Council #Asian hate crimes #Blue states #clean air #clean water #Conservative #covert racism #democracy #Democrat #elections #Electoral College #eli pariser #EPA #fair representation #gop #hanging blacks #implicit racism #Jim Jordan #Joe Manchin #Louie Gohmert #lynched #lynching #lynchings #Marjorie taylor Greene #Matt Gaetz #Michael Flynn #mid-terms #mulatto #Newt Gingrich

[sacchiri]

Blu-ray box set for OVA 1~5 and 6~10 illustrated by Kouta Hirano.

#hellsing #alucard #integra hellsing #seras victoria #pip bernadotte #walter c. dornez #there aren't any decent quality stitched pics out there so i made these by cobbling together the best product photos i could find #i like these because i feel like they're a fair representation of the show's tone #and bc girlycard is there #and also because you can tell hirano got bored drawing the glove sigil and just wrote random crap like 'evangelion' and 'csi miami'

[constructwork]

Fun fact: in the popularity poll color spread, Buggy was drawn with the other Emperors instead of the Warlords, foreshadowing his status as Emperor.

In the Stampede color spread, Buggy had two wieners shoved into his mouth, foreshadowing his relationship with Cross Guild :)

#one piece #buggy #buggy the clown #two hot dogs forcibly shoved into his mouth is a fair representation of cross guild #cross guild #op buggy

[vulpesarctica]

A late-entry 2022 update for Sith Obi-Wan! Recklessly provoked by @silmairon who sent me kind words about my art progress on the 2020 version. 💕

#my art #obi-wan kenobi #sith obi-wan #sith obi-wan kenobi #wicked thing #draw it again #art progress #star wars #prequel trilogy #to be fair i feel like the 2016 version isn't the greatest representation of my ability at the time #i'd just almost exclusively drawn women til that point so i had no fucking clue what i was doing lolol #also his new outfit is heavily inspired by a 2019 givenchy couture jacket #because as we all know sith obi is extremely fashionable and extremely EXTRA #one more thing: i believe in freckled obi-wan supremacy #ok im hitting post now

[alwaysbewoke]

#redistricting #voting rights #political manipulation #racial discrimination #civil rights law #voting power #partisan politics #electoral fairness #voter representation #legal challenges #minority rights #judicial decisions #racism #white racial hatred #white supremacy

[nevesmose]

I think the Replikas are in control of the gestalts in Signalis. Hear me out.

Sierpinski is a space gulag with replika guards. Fair enough. But then we get to the apartment building on Rotfront where, first of all, the blockwart is a Kolibri. A heavily armed Kolibri on the lookout for spies, who we can see from her computer has access to everyone's medical records and the right to enter someone's property whenever she feels like it:

So in that block at least, everyone lives under constant physical and bioresonant surveillance from the gremlin downstairs. Let's look at the report Ariane's teacher wrote about her:

So communal living with a Kolibri warden is the expected norm for everyone since the Revolution, and Ariane is considered suspect for not growing up this way.

Speaking of Ariane's teacher, there's a comment in the school memory about her:

Eule wipes it clean before she can note it down so I have to copy from Erika

Further supporting this is one of Ariane's notes:

So we can see that Eules are the ones who educate gestalts. Let's imagine that you, a gestalt kid, wake up in your apartment block and head out past the psychic replika who has awareness of everyone and everything in the building. Currently she's slowly pushing her steppy over to reach up to a bookshelf, but still.

Out the door with your gas mask on, remember not to look too hard at the great red eye and off via the metro to school where you can do a little light bullying of the kid with weird hair and then sit down to lessons from a pleasant, friendly Eule who regularly reports to her superiors about your political reliability.

That's not even taking into account the constant possibility of an Ara being inside your walls at any given moment, or the Storch/Star police brutality tag teams roaming around.

So on Rotfront at least, gestalts seem to live in a crushingly regimented culture of constant replika surveillance every bit as sterile and suffocating as the DDR the game draws inspiration from.

No wonder Ariane wanted to escape it any way she could.

By the way, I know Ariane is called the "gestalt officer" on the Penrose but she doesn't seem to have much actual seniority or control of anything beyond her radio communications work. Elster is the one who maintains the ship, and we know that she's dedicated enough to do that to the absolute limits of her endurance anyway no matter what state Ariane is in (😢) so it'd just be a case of ordering someone to fulfil the task they were literally created to do. Almost as if the officer title is a meaningless bauble designed to make the Penrose Progamme more appealing to gestalts.

#signalis #words words words #assuming that the locations and texts shown in Ariane's Wild Ride are accurate representations of things that really existed #ariane yeong #elster #lstr 512 #rotfront #kolibri #eule #kolibri steppy #“Police Brutality” would be a great name for a storch & star pro wrestling team to be fair #feels like that's already how they view the world anyway tbh #bah gawd it's Storch breaking into the Eule dorm with a steel chair #The Time Is Now (1000 Eyes and Cicada Sirens Remix) #ongoing feud with Steppy Up who are just 5 identical kolibris

[petrichormore]

(Partial explanation/partial rant in regards to q!BBH’s famous Dodging of the Question)

Um okay here we go

q!Bad is not being manipulative, or playing with Forever’s feelings like q!Baghera says - or at least he’s not doing it intentionally.

CC!Bad confirmed that his character is extremely oblivious. He even said that he was taking an “aromantic approach” to his character. Granted, q!BBH is not canonically aromantic, but he is definitely aro-coded. I really relate to him because his confusion surrounding romance mirrors mine as an aromantic person. And I’ve had people call me manipulative, for this exact reason.

This isn’t me going after q!Baghera or anything - she has never done anything wrong ever! But she is, however accidentally, very much representing how society and alloromantics don’t really understand the aro experience. At least from my perspective.

… I don’t know, it’s disheartening to see people on twitter claiming that q!Bad is being malicious when he clearly isn’t purposefully trying to hurt anyone. CC!Bad is doing a pretty good job of representing my experience of being aromantic even if he’s not trying to, and it sucks to see people holding this against his character even though I did kinda expect it.

And I kinda understand to an extent, because CC!Bad does know what Baghera means so I can see how it comes across as him toying with the idea of 4halo because he is, but the character isn’t.

#idk maybe I’m just being too personal with it #but as an aromantic person #q!bad and 4halo in general is so important to me because of how it feels like representation of my experiences #but idk tell me if I’m crazy #qsmp #4halo #q!badboyhalo #qsmp badboyhalo #q!bbh breakdown #q!baghera #again q!baghera has never once done anything wrong #she just doesn’t understand #and to be fair q!bad isn’t really explaining it but like #ahhhHHHHHHHHH #qsmp liveblog #(a little late)

[katasstrophy]

the most unrealistic thing about blue lock isn’t the secret ultra high tech facility or that they ripped away 300 kids from finishing their high school education or that earphones that can translate different languages accurately and in real time exist and no one is losing their minds over it (hello?????) it’s none of that because hands down the most unrealistic thing about blue lock is that arjyu jyubei has the most luscious, longest hair known to mankind and yet he never fucking ties it up when he plays??? like my man do you even SEE what’s going on PROBABLY NOT insane i’m going mad over this someone give this man a hair tie immediately how does he function with all that rapunzelean hair in his face at all times impossible.

#i mean maybe arjyu’s seen enough and that’s. so fair go off king #BUT LIKE—- REO AND GAGAMURA TIE THEIR HAIR UP AND ITS NOWHERE NEAR AS LONG AS ARYU’S #where is the representation #i mean if he’s actually that good while seeing absolutely nothing at all times i’ve been sleeping on his skills #—bllk! #aryu jyubei #blue lock #bllk

[abalidoth]

Reading a fantasy book where someone is wearing a pronoun pin. Hot take? I think that's great, especially coming from a cis author. Fuck it, why not, I'm already accepting magic and griffons, I'm not gonna roll my eyes and cringe at a teenager wearing a they/them pin.

#i feel like this detail would put some people off and that's fair #but dammit ill take my escapist representation where i can get it #tesserants

[ink-the-artist]

what are your thoughts on brutalism

GOOD SHIT!!!

#I think a lot of ppl think of those sad Soviet concrete block buildings when they think of brutalism #but I don’t think that’s a fair representation of it #u absolutely can make concrete look beautiful #I love how buildings can be complex and have all these different shapes while still all being geometric

[mylimoji]

sorry, we should talk more about kim dokja's grey hairs. we must. we should. i don't even care if it is just sooyoung making it all up. we NEED that pathetic little man greying out. i want to see it with my own two eyes

#he's 28 ofc he's greying out. i need more hashtag representation of having grey hairs while not reaching your thirties #orv #ofc we have our sexy sexy yjh but it's not fair because he's always sexy so what's the POINT.