Beyoncé really ate when she said, "a lot of who I am is reserved for the people I love and trust" because, yeah. Not everyone deserves the open, vulnerable, free part of you. Not everyone deserves your commentary, your mind, your ideas, your personality.
Keep parts of you to yourself and those who earn it and deserve it.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was one of the last remaining federal protections for Black and brown voters against maps deliberately drawn to dilute their political power. That protection has been stripped away.
It is an outrage. But it is not a surprise.
It is part of an agenda that conservatives set in place decades ago to steal power from everyday people and then cling to that power for generations.
The court’s decision is motivated by politics and designed to give an upper hand to Donald Trump’s Republican Party, which faces the threat of losing the upcoming midterm elections.
We must pay attention to what happens next.
The fight now returns to the states. Legislatures — particularly those in the South — will rush to redraw districts before voting for the midterms begins in just a few months. Already, Louisiana and Florida are planning to redraw their maps, and we should not be surprised if others rapidly follow suit ahead of the midterms and 2028. Their politically-motivated power grab is meant to protect elected Republicans from any consequences for their failure to make groceries, gas, health care, or housing more affordable for you and your family. They want to cheat and choose their voters, instead of the voters deciding who they choose.
The mission before us is to restore the power of the people. There is no question our fight became harder today, but I know we are up for the battle.
This would be such a good movie too. Imagine saying “I can’t believe women fought to have jobs”, and then waking up the next day a house wife with no real freedom, a man who cheats on you endlessly because you can’t leave him, and on top of that he’s racist and physically abusive. Then every night you have dreams of a life where you’re free and working a good paying job, and it shows a future where you’re tweeting “I can’t believe women fought to have jobs”, and then it loops again and you wake up back in the fucked up reality you were just romanticizing in your dream.