#council districts

[detroitography]

Map: Five Detroit City Council Redistricting Options

The City of Detroit has made a handy interactive tool to compare proposed options for City Council redistricting. I’m still confused why “Election Precincts 2023” are listed when the only known update was made in 2022 before the midterm election without any record of approval by the Detroit Election Commission (DEC). The last time I know the DEC met was in August 2022 and it lasted all of 20…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Elsie Carson-Holt at LGBTQ Nation:

A school district in Southern California has sued Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over a recent law that bans schools from forcibly outing students to their parents. On Tuesday, the Chino Valley Unified school and a few parents sued Newsom, saying that the law violates their constitutional rights as parents. The new law bans districts from requiring that parents be notified if their child asks to go by a new name or pronouns or use facilities not associated with their sex assigned at birth.

[...] Newsom’s spokesperson, Izzy Gardon, called the lawsuit “unserious.” Gardon said in an email to The Guardian that the law “preserves the child-parent relationship.” “California law ensures minors can’t legally change their name or gender without parental consent, and parents continue to have guaranteed and full access to their student’s educational records consistent with federal law,” she said. “We’re confident the state will swiftly prevail in this case.”

Newsom signed the law in question on Monday, and it is the first of its kind in the United States. Called the SAFETY Act, along with prohibiting parents from being notified if their child’s gender identity changes, it also protects teachers and administrators if they choose not to follow district directives to out queer kids to their parents.

Chino Valley USD in California is suing Gov. Gavin Newson (D) over his signing of forced outing ban bill AB1955. Chino Valley USD has been in the news in recent years over its right-wing majority on the school board enacting anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

[eretzyisrael]

By Deirdre Bardolf and Susan Edelman

A Brooklyn parent advisory board promoted and organized a student walkout for Palestinians this week — a clear violation of state regulations, outraged critics told The Post.

The Community Education Council for District 14, which covers ultra-liberal Williamsburg and Greenpoint, used its platform to encourage the 700-student protest involving 100 schools — and even shared resources including antisemitic signs proclaiming, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Recommended chants included, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied” and “Say it loud, say it clear, we don’t want Zionists here!”

Students protesting on Thursday near Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, were captured on video yelling, “F–k the Jews!”

Jewish students were horrified.

One Fort Hamilton High School mom said her daughter didn’t go to school Friday out of fear.

When the mom called the school, an administrator told her it’s “complicated.”

[wikipediapictures]

District Council of Robe

[normalbrothers]

the idea of getting a peaky blinders themed tattoo is so hilarious to me i would not do that, but i'm imagining a guy rn getting that silly undercut and then tattooing 'by order of the peaky blinders' on one of the shaved sides and how big of a beeline i'd make around him, etc

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent game related things .. hrmm...

[lacystar]

I missed amongus server drama? 🥲

Qwerty no amount of update accounts could describe what happened

[famosoentrescalles]

👍 i voted

[sw5w]

This Vote is Very Important

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:04:05

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider overturning a nearly 40-year precedent by taking up a challenge to a regulation affecting fishing vessels in a case that is the latest conservative-led attack on federal bureaucracy.

The court will weigh whether to overturn a much-cited 1984 ruling, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which said courts should defer to federal agencies in interpreting the law when the language of a statute is ambiguous.

Attempts to overturn the ruling, which the court has rarely invoked in recent years, is just one avenue of attack by conservative groups and business interests as part of what has been dubbed “the war on the administrative state.”

"The Supreme Court has an opportunity to correct one of the most consequential judicial errors in a generation," said Ryan Mulvey, a lawyer at the Cause of Action Institute, a conservative group that represents the challengers. The Chevron ruling "has proven corrosive to the American system of checks and balances and directly contributed to an unaccountable executive branch."

The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, is skeptical of broad assertions of federal agency power.

The case itself is a challenge to a government regulation that requires fishing vessels to help fund the collection of scientific data to assist with fishery conservation and management. The court could still rule in favor of the challengers by limiting the scope of the Chevron decision without overturning it entirely.

The court took up an appeal brought by Loper Bright Enterprises and several other operators of fishing vessels that are active in the herring fishery off the Atlantic coast, which challenged the 2020 rule applying to New England fisheries.

The challengers say the National Marine Fisheries Service, the federal body that oversees ocean resources, did not have authority to issue the regulation under the relevant law, the 1976 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

The rule implements a monitoring program that vessel operators are required to fund. As the challengers put it, operators have to pay up to $710 a day at certain times for independent observers to board their vessels and monitor their operations. The cost is a significant burden on small owner-operators, the challengers say.

The case, backed by conservative groups, is the latest attempt to undermine the power of federal agencies. Lawyers for the fishing vessel operators say a lower court that upheld the rule gave too much deference to the federal agency in interpreting the 1976 law.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the vessel operators' claims in a decision in August, upholding a similar ruling a federal district judge issued the previous year.

The brief Supreme Court order noted that liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is not participating in the case. She was originally part of the appeals court panel that decided the case before President Joe Biden appointed her to the high court. She heard oral arguments but was not involved in the ruling itself.

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans can keep expelling him all they like, but Justin Jones will always be back. ∞

Rep. Jones (D-TN-House-52) is back in the Tennessee House again after Tennessee Republicans under racist Speaker Cameron Sexton voted to expel him.

Nashville's Metro Council has unanimously voted to reinstate freshman Democrat Justin Jones to his seat in the Tennessee House. The GOP-led legislature expelled Jones last week for gun reform protests he led on the chamber floor after the Covenant School shooting.

The vote puts Jones into the seat on an interim basis until a special election can be held for the seat.

"Justin Jones has been elected to the vacancy of Tennessee House 52 pursuant to the state law and the rules governing the Metropolitan Council," Vice Mayor Jim Shulman announced at Monday's specially called meeting, as cheers erupted in the gallery.

It all happened with great speed.

Rep. Jones still has to run in a special election. But because GOP gerrymandering placed Jones in an overwhelmingly Democratic district, there’s little doubt about the outcome.

On Wednesday, all eyes in Tennessee will be on Memphis where a local council is expected to appoint Justin Pearson to his old seat.

EDIT: There are now allegations that far right Speaker Cameron Sexton of the Tennessee House does not live in the district he’s representing. That puts him in violation of Article II, Section 5a of the Tennessee Constitution.

Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live? 

[luulapants]

@mock-speed is so funny and smart and correct ❤️

Reminder that word 👏 policing 👏 is 👏 not 👏 activism 👏

Things that are not actual threats to people with mobility issues:

Words that used to be medical terms and are now insults used in ways completely divorced in meaning from their origins to the point that most people haven't even made the connection between the old meaning and the new one

Things that are threats to people with mobility issues:

Lack of ADA compliance in buildings

Rental scooters/bikes left on sidewalks

Inadequate snow clearing on sidewalks

Paternalism

The glue factory

Lack of public transit

Hills

A liberal virtue culture which prioritizes virtue signaling over practical activism

[divinekangaroo]

stuck by this river with the sky falling down - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Post S6-E6, a couple of days after Tommy's "farewell to Arrow House" party.

When Lizzie, Charles and Frances received the invite at their new house, Charlie didn't know what to expect. He should have guessed it'd go something like this.

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Charles Shelby, Lizzie Stark, (estranged Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark,) mentions of Karl, Ada, Arthur | Dysfunctional Relationships, Anger, Father-Son Relationship, Ruby Shelby Representation, Reference to Adultery, (Divorce Trauma? Maybe,) 760 Word Flash Fiction

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[eudico-my-beloved]

Apperantly my school somehow managed to fuck up free period even worse than last year by making it so that you can only stay in one(1) place and if you want to move or go to the bathroom you have to get a pass and everything like. Was forcing kids to check in at random intervals and marking them absent if they were unable to check in not enough

[gonzoduran]

COVID Regs Subside, Our Democracy Must Grow

By Gonzalo Duran, interim District Leader for the 79th Assembly District The coronavirus pandemic has changed many of the dynamics in our lives. A great deal of us isolated ourselves during the pandemic, this changed how we conduct a good deal of our outside activities. Everything from how we choose our employment, education, community events, and voting has been altered. The government…

[artificialllovers]

Finally checked the election results for my city and damn near everyone that I voted for lost 😐