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Ohio’s racist voting laws upheld by U.S. Supreme Court

 

The United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, allowed Ohio’s notoriously racist voting laws to remain in place during the 2014 election. Ohio Secretary of State (SoS) Jon Husted has embraced the new Jim Crow policy of limiting access to the polls by poor, elderly and black voters.

Husted, under a twisted version of “equality” has limited Ohio’s nine major urban areas to having only one early voting site each, guaranteed to create long lines as it did in the 2004 and 2012 elections. In 2008, then-SoS Jennifer Brunner allowed the Franklin County Board of Elections to establish five early voting centers in the greater Columbus area.

Last week, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld federal Judge Peter Economus’ historic ruling protecting African American voting rights in Ohio. In a September 4, 2014 opinion, Economus held that the actions of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted violated both the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by erecting illegal barriers to keep minorities and the poor from voting in the Buckeye State.

The Real Issues Reynoldsburg Teachers Strike

 

Striking Reynoldsburg teachers want the public to know one thing: they’re on the picket line because they care about students first.

The strike is more about what the Reynoldsburg school district is forcing on the students and teachers than winning a compensation package that’s on par with neighboring districts, said the Reynoldsburg Education Association (REA), the teachers’ union.

The Reynoldsburg school district, led by Superintendent Tina Thomas-Manning, called an “education ally” of Gov. John Kasich by the REA, has been pushing hard for teachers to accept a merit-based pay system.

Conservatives and Capitalists have long been among supporters of merit-based pay claiming it will help to close “the achievement gap.”

Critics of merit-based pay say it is a veiled effort to privatize education by replacing teachers with technology, increasing class sizes, increasing the number of standardized tests and growing the number of for-profit charter schools.

Coulson Returns With His Agents of SHIELD

 

 

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has returned to ABC for a second season, following Agent Phil Coulson and his team as they try to salvage something of their mostly-benevolent government organization from the mess left by the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Coup Leader's Propaganda Crumbles in Thailand

 

 

Date Hygiene Part 1 Keep Your Naked Selfies Safe

 

 

 

With the recent iCloud account hacks that put private celebrity photos in the hands of Reddit jerks, it’s a good time for us to all take a moment to look over what our phones and online accounts are doing. For most of us there’s no danger of someone running a coordinated attack to access our dick pics, but some of the same steps can also keep you safe in the event of larger cloud storage hacks and security breaches like the Heartbleed bug. They’re also useful if you’re going to be participating in political activism. While our smartphones do a lot of super convenient things, some of them aren’t worth the security risks.

(As a note, I don’t mean to victim-blame here. What happened to Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, etc. was WRONG and no one’s fault but the hackers’. But it’s still a reminder to practice good data hygiene.)

Historic Victory for Voting Rights in Ohio

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The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld federal Judge Peter Economus’ historic ruling protecting African American voting rights in Ohio. In a September 4, 2014 opinion, Economus held that the actions of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted violated both the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by erecting illegal barriers to keep minorities and the poor from voting in the Buckeye State.

Husted’s attack on voting right proceeded under the guise of fighting “voter fraud.”
 

Economus noted, “The state’s argument about reducing fraud did not withstand logical scrutiny.”


As the New York Times stated, “There has been no in-person voter fraud documented in the country.”


Republican Secretary of State Husted is up for re-election this year, and in order to increase his chances he came up with a variety of measures that directly suppress minority and poor voters. His opponent, State Senator Nina Turner (D-25), is a black female and an outspoken voting rights activist.

Special Prosecutor and Grand Jury Affirm Open Carry for Whites Only


John Crawford III went shopping at WalMart. John Crawford III was going to buy a pellet gun. He picked one out. He called his girlfriend on the phone and was chatting casually. He was shot dead by a policeman before he reached the checkout line. He was black. The officer who killed him with two rounds from an AR-15 was white. According to both a grand jury and a special prosecutor appointed by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, no crime was committed other than a man shopping while black.

 

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