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From The Reporter’s Notebook
TPM’s Tierney Sneed examined the likelihood that a case the Supreme Court is hearing next week about “one person, one vote” could lead to the further crippling of the Voting Rights Act. Coincidentally, the court is hearing another voting-related case—Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission—about the redistricting scheme in Arizona. Stanford Law Professor Nate Persily told Sneed that that case could also give the justices an opportunity to opine on the Voting Rights Act.
Say What?!
“Blacks have all but formally declared war on whites, ideological types are fighting with Planned Parenthood, there’s violence over immigration, Muslim extremism, and our own Government at war with its citizens.”
– An Ohio mayor posted this on Facebook in response to the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The first dot com bubble hit in the late 90’s, and don’t you remember how crazy stuff got for IT people back then? It was easy to make a ton of money in IT, and as I heard at that time “you have to give me a body count for this project”. That meant, how many people will I be able to lay off once you’re done so I can justify this huge expense. Those laid-off people were welcomed to the world of economic insecurity and they never left. We automated the kinds of office-worker jobs they could do so why would anyone hire them? That is stressful. Those cuts weakened their families, certainly, but it went further than the directly laid off people. The internet companies people like us started and worked for meant that people could buy shoes online, stream videos, buy music from iTunes, and that put shoe stores, Blockbuster, and local record stores out of business even as it made us pretty comfortable. Sure, I lost my job after the dot com bubble burst, after 9/11, after the housing collapse in 2008, but my skills are in demand. I recovered because my career in a hot field meant I could find work. And my money keeps my local economy running. But what about the people in all the people who live in the square states?”
Related: Disease and death rates for middle-aged white people have been rising since 1998.
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What We’re Reading
How Conde Nast, one of the most significant publishing houses in the history of magazines, is staying relevant. (Business of Fashion)
Why the world needs to take MERS seriously. (STAT)
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