Category Archives: Sedition Watch

The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order

[NOTE: i’m somewhat slow on the uptake, but numerous shocks of 2022 have pounded home the sense that the principal architect of our increasingly dominant regime of minority rule is the Supreme Court. To get more up to speed on this process, I’m reading Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s fine new book, The Scheme. Whitehouse has been … Continue reading The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order →

Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina

In the recent midterm elections, the North Carolina vote suppression party fell only one seat short of reclaiming the veto-proof majority, which they had deployed like a sledgehammer on human rights until governor Roy Cooper’s political skills broke through it. Now, as he explains here, they are looking to the rightwing bloc on the U. … Continue reading Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina →

Quotes of The Day: A Double Serving of Irony

[NOTE: The Wall St. Journal is paywalled to the eyelids, so this first clip is a quote of a quote from a week ago without a link, but I’m confident it’s accurate. It was written as speculation about the fragility of the narrow incoming Republican majority (about half a dozen) that will occupy the House of … Continue reading Quotes of The Day: A Double Serving of Irony →

Minority Rule Watch: Vote suppression is burgeoning at the state level, especially in Red states

Minorities make up a majority or near majority in fewer new state legislative districts despite accounting for nearly all of the population growth over the past decade.

William Penn Is Making a comeback — And Quakers Aren’t Going to Like It

[Note: the headline above needs some clarification: actually it’s liberal Quakers who aren’t likely to welcome Penn’s comeback; many others may cheer. More on that below.] May I have your attention, liberal Quakers? The effort among some of you to expunge William Penn from our Friendly pantheon because he owned slaves has in many ways … Continue reading William Penn Is Making a comeback — And Quakers Aren’t Going to Like It →