Post · bonfire.cafe

#Via Chris Hayes / chrislhayes
12:22 PM · May 6, 2026

"We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge:"

"Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District
The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone Democratic district."

https://archive.ph/FnJOt

Tennessee legislators are seen on the House floor in Nashville on Wednesday morning, where they were expected to unveil a new House map that affects the city of Memphis.

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Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 5 hours ago

#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
12:29 PM · May 6, 2026

"Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime."

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 4 hours ago

Senstor Warnock: [video clip from Weds]

"The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians."