Slay the Dragon Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Amazon Prime Video The film follows the grassroots movements and campaigns led by Katie Fahey and other citizen groups to combat gerrymandering, a practice considered as a threat to democracy. It originally premiered on ... 05/15/2024 - 6:01 pm | View Link
Fifth Circuit should uphold gerrymandering decision The running debate over Galveston County’s gerrymandered commissioners court districts took a step toward resolution last week. 05/15/2024 - 1:59 pm | View Link
Federal courts declines to dismiss challenge to Florida Senate map A federal court has declined to dismiss a racial gerrymandering lawsuit challenging Florida’s Senate map. 05/15/2024 - 6:59 am | View Link
Citing 'concerns,' city council pushes back redistricting vote Redistricting, public hearings and gerrymandering were the main topics Monday at City Hall — and through much of the community. 05/15/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
Volunteers gather signatures for gerrymandering amendment LIMA — Citizens Not Politicians met Tuesday to gather signatures to end gerrymandering at the IBEW Local 32 in Lima. Twenty-five members of the organization that advocates for fair elections in Ohio ... 05/14/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Gerrymandering In representative electoral systems, gerrymandering (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ r i ˌ m æ n d ər ɪ ŋ /, originally / ˈ ɡ ɛr i ˌ m æ n d ər ɪ ŋ /) is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency. 05/10/2024 - 9:03 pm | View Link
Gerrymandering Explained | Brennan Center for Justice The latest redistricting cycle was the first since the Supreme Court’s 2019 ruling that gerrymandering for party advantage cannot be challenged in federal court. Here are six things to know about partisan gerrymandering and how it impacts our democracy. Gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic. 05/10/2024 - 11:37 am | View Link
This is what gerrymandering looks like | US voting rights | The Guardian This is what gerrymandering looks like. We zoomed in on four districts that provide some of the clearest examples of how US politicians are locking in election results for the next decade. Sam... 05/9/2024 - 10:16 pm | View Link
How Gerrymandering Began in the US | HISTORY How Gerrymandering Began in the US. Long before it got its name, Gerrymandering was already happening in the United States. By: Becky Little. Updated: August 7, 2023 | Original: April 20, 2021. 05/9/2024 - 8:21 pm | View Link
Where Did the Term “Gerrymander” Come From? | Smithsonian Gerrymandering, the politicians’ practice of drawing district lines to favor their party and expand their power, is nearly as old as the republic itself. Today, we see it in Ohio’s “ Lake Erie... 05/9/2024 - 7:31 pm | View Link
Huey P. Newton would have been skeptical of The Big Cigar, a miniseries that dramatizes his flight from the U. S. to Cuba in 1974—and the show is the first to admit it. “The story I’m about to tell you is true,” says the Black Panther Party co-founder (played by Moonlight and The Knick star André Holland) in a voiceover that prefaces the electrifying, six-part series, which premieres May 17 on Apple TV+.
You have probably already seen the work of Bùi Tường Phong. A Vietnamese computer scientist working in the United States in 1973, Bùi developed the Phong shading and reflection algorithms, which have been ubiquitous in computer-generated movies and 3D video games for the last 50 years. Bùi’s algorithms excelled at depicting plastics, and are one reason that the film Toy Story (1995), the first entirely computer-animated feature film, was about toys.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month offers a chance to reflect on outstanding contributions by individuals like Bùi Tường Phong.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur that’s at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers on Thursday.
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It comes as the the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Judiciary Committee are each expected to hold a hearing to recommend that the full House refer Garland to the Justice Department for the contempt charges over the department’s refusal to hand over the audio.
Garland advised Biden in a letter on Thursday that the audio falls within the scope of executive privilege.
VENTURA, Calif. — A judge decided Wednesday that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year.
Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright judge declared after a two-day preliminary hearing that there’s enough evidence to try Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.
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Alnaji, 51, is accused of striking Paul Kessler with a megaphone in November during a confrontation at an event that started as a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Thousand Oaks, a suburb northwest of Los Angeles.
Kessler, 69, fell backward and struck his head on the pavement.
Donald Trump reportedly acknowledged South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s recent controversies at a private fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday night. Noem, a Republican, received widespread backlash when an excerpt of her now-released book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward made headlines due to a passage whereby she admitted to shooting and killing her 14-month old dog, Cricket, years ago.
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“I’m really curious… about the dog,” Trump reportedly said according to three sources who were at the fundraiser, per NBC News.
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s wealthiest person, is less than thrilled about a recent painting of her being exhibited at one of Australia’s largest art museums. But her reported attempts to get the unflattering portrait taken down is backfiring: the piece, part of a collection of portraits by an acclaimed indigenous artist, has been defended by the museum, the arts industry, and—perhaps worst for her—social media users, who have given it more attention than ever.
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The portrait features Rinehart, who is 70 years old, with a misshapen head, downturned lips, and a double chin.