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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Tell Joe Manchin: Stop supporting Texas Republican voter suppression. BOOT TEXAS REPUBLICANS.

 

David,

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is out with a new op-ed in his state's local newspaper explaining his opposition to his own party’s voting rights bill: the pro-democracy For the People Act.

Without his support, Democrats in Congress are powerless to block attacks on voting rights in Texas and other states with Republican governments.

His opposition is directly empowering Texas Republicans who are pushing voter suppression bills in the legislature.

This isn’t the first time the filibuster has been used to defend Jim Crow in Texas and other Southern states. Opponents of civil rights have long wielded it as a weapon to protect white supremacy.

Now Joe Manchin is joining this shameful tradition.

We need to send a message to Joe Manchin that it’s time to fight back: Will you add your name to tell him that there’s nothing bipartisan or unifying about allowing the Texas GOP to take away voting rights from Black and Brown people?

ADD MY NAME »

Manchin claims that he’s opposing voting rights in the name of bipartisanship. But the truth is that the Republican Party wants to roll back voting rights.

Manchin’s obsession with “bipartisanship” with the Republican party is tantamount to supporting their assault on democracy in Texas and across the country.

We cannot and must not compromise when it comes to our right to vote.

Boot Texas Republicans is fighting back -- but we need you with us. Will you add your name to our petition now?

Thanks,

--Boot Texas Republicans


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Saturday, June 5, 2021

Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy under FBI investigation. U.S. REP. ADAM SCHIFF.

 David —

Louis DeJoy, the Republican megadonor and Trump’s hand-picked Postmaster General, is reportedly under FBI investigation. Color me shocked.

Look, we’ve known since last year about DeJoy’s Postal Service sabotage. We’ve known about his multimillion-dollar investment in a competing contractor. We’ve known that he personally gave $1.1 million to Trump and the GOP. We called it out then. And we need to call it out now.

Thanks to new reporting from the Washington Post, we can see how deep DeJoy’s campaign finance corruption reportedly ran.

Here’s how the alleged donor scheme worked:

DeJoy or one of his aides would urge employees at his North Carolina company New Breed Logistics to “write checks and attend fundraisers at his mansion” for Republican candidates in exchange for salary bonuses.

The Washington Post found that “between 2000 and 2014, 124 individuals who worked for the company together gave more than $1 million to federal and state GOP candidates. Many had not previously made political donations.”

DeJoy’s employees and family members, including his college-aged children, made contributions totaling over $150,000 to Republican candidates and committees, including over $50,000 to Trump Victory.

If these allegations are true, Louis DeJoy must be held legally accountable for denying them and lying under oath to Congress. But one thing should be clear to all of us right now: DeJoy’s time running the USPS is up.

REMOVE DEJOY NOW

DeJoy spent the election year banning overtime for Postal Service employees, decommissioning mail-sorting machines, and removing drop boxes.

t didn’t matter to Louis DeJoy that we were in a deadly pandemic that had millions of Americans relying on the mail for their medications, businesses, and safely voting by mail. In fact that was the point. What mattered was undercutting the agency he was sworn to lead to pursue his own financial self-interest.

DeJoy just announced a new “10-year plan” that would represent the largest rollback of consumer mail services in a generation, and unless the USPS Board of Governors fires him, we’ll continue to see the Postal Service degraded and sabotaged by Trump’s partisan political appointee.

It’s long past time we remove Louis DeJoy from his post, and protect the Postal Service from his self-dealing and disastrous plans.

SIGN THE PETITION

The Post Office and postal workers deserve better than Louis DeJoy. And we need a postal service that works. Let’s take action.

— Adam


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Friday, June 4, 2021

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM, DECEIVE THEM. GOP "GOD-KING" TRUMPS LATEST ATTEMPT TO DUMB DOWN THE ELECTORATE.



PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER THIS TRUMP ADVERTISEMENT, FROM EARLY 2020, THAT WAS USED TO 'MEASURE" THE POPULARITY OF THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP.

PRESIDENTIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW SURVEY.



Optional) Please explain why you selected your response.


Enter Your Information.

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APPARENTLY, THE GOP WAS SO CONFIDENT in the degree of "Admiration" that Donald Trump was held by the American People, that there was no need to include a negative category.

...FAST FORWARD TO NOW... 

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HERE IS THE MOST RECENT GOP SPONSORED AD, SUPPOSEDLY REACHING OUT TO THOSE TRUMPIANS WHO DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FASCISM IN THEIR LIFE.


TRUMP IS BACK!

Can he count on you? After weeks of silence, we need ALL PATRIOTS to stand with Trump NOW!

Chip in ASAP to show your support for Trump and House Republicans!

    $35
    $50
    $100
    $250
    $500
    $1,000
    $2,900
    Your contribution will benefit NRCC - Building.
    Have you noticed a slight difference between this ad, and those that you generally run across when a politician wants
    YOUR CASH/APPROVAL OR BOTH?

    If you were to ignore this ad, and do nothing, which is what
    most people do when they get these types of messages, what would that indicate?

    YOU ARE A TRUMP SUPPORTER!!! BY DOING NOTHING, YOU HAVE APPROVED OF THE CONTENT CONTAINED IN BOTH QUESTIONS.


    Question 1- "...IF YOU UNCHECK THIS BOX, WE WILL KNOW YOU HAVE SIDED WITH THE DEMOCRATS."

    Question 2- " ...If you want Trump to run for President this is your LAST chance to FLIP the House. Leave this box checked to update Status NOW." 

    IS THIS JUST:
    - JUVENILE?
    - UNDERHANDED?
    - SNEAKY?

    ...OR AN INDICATION OF THE LEVEL OF INTELLECT, AND DEGREE OF MORAL CHARACTER, THAT THE GOP BELIEVES THE AVERAGE AMERICAN POSSESSES?

    YOU TELL ME...

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    Thursday, June 3, 2021

    NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY: VIRTUAL NAKS 2021-2022.


    Illustration by NAKS Member Tamara Fakhoury   


    2021-2022


    Each V-NAKS Meeting is part of one or more series

                                                    (descriptions and zoom link below)


    May 19th, 2021

    "Kant and Race: (How) Should We Teach Kant's Views on this topic?"

    V-NAKS "Kant and____" Series

    Speaker: Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou (College of the Holy Cross): "Must I Teach Race?"

    Speaker: Elvira Basevich (U-Mass, Lowell): "Teaching Kant: How to Welcome a Racist into the Philosophy Classroom"

    Speaker: Patrick Frierson (Whitman College): "Teaching Race in the Groundwork"

    Chair: Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)


    June 2nd, 2021

    "Spontaneity and Teleology in Kant's Theory of the Understanding" 

    V-NAKS "Choose Your Ideal Commentators" Series

    Speaker: Claudi Brink Herz Prize 2020 Winner (UC-San Diego)

    Ideal Panel: Hannah Ginsborg (UC-Berkeley) and Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU)

    Chair: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)



    June 16th, 2021

    "Kant and the Primacy of Epistemic Normativity"

    V-NAKS "Choose Your Ideal Commentators" Series

    Speaker: Reza Hadisi (University of Arizona)

    Ideal Panel: Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University) and Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh)

    Chair: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)



    June 30th, 2021

    "The Unity and Uses of Reason"

    V-NAKS Classic Format Series

    Speaker: Thomas Sturm (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

    Commentator: Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent University)

    Chair: Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University)


    July 14th, 2021

    "One precise way in which Schelling or Hegel improves on Kant's Theoretical philosophy"

    V-NAKS Incubator Series

    Incubatees: Naomi Fisher (Loyola-Chicago), Anton Kabeshkin (Potsdam), Jake McNulty (NYU)

    Chair: James Kreines (Claremont-McKenna)




    July 28th, 2021

    V-NAKS Women Scholars Network Series

    Details TBA



    August 11th, 2021

    "Kant and the Current IberoAmerican Scene" (15-min presentation)

    "Kant On the Mathematical Schematism"

    V-NAKS "Kant and____" Series & V-NAKS Classic Format Series

    Speaker: Efraín Lazos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

    Commentator: Katherine Dunlop (University of Texas at Austin)

    Chair: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (Princeton/UC-Davis)



    August 25th, 2021

    V-NAKS Women Scholars Network Series

    Details TBA





    For Zoom link and registration click here



    Series descriptions

    V-NAKS "Choose your Ideal Commentators" series

    Here we ask an up-and-coming scholar to name a “dream team” of commentators for one of their works-in-progress.  The commentators don’t prepare anything in advance, but they are allowed to interrupt occasionally and ask clarifying questions during the talk, and then add a couple of questions at the end. Sort of like “Shark Tank” for Kantians. This is followed by the usual sort of Q&A.


    V-NAKS "Kant and _____" Series

    Here we fill in the blank in ways that are not typical for anthologies and conference discussions.


    V-NAKS Classic Format Series

    This is the typical talk/commentary format. No pre-reading is required.


    V-NAKS Women Scholars Network Series

    This series features members of the NAKS Women Scholars Network, which was founded in 2021. For more information on the Network, please contact us.


    V-NAKS Incubator Series

    Here speakers give a short, 10-15 minute "poster-style" presentation of a new or in-progress idea, followed by a Q&A/brainstorming session of 15-20 mins. 





    Virtual NAKS is organized by Andrew Chignell, Huaping Lu-Adler and Elizabeth Li.

    For questions or queries contact us here.

    To join Naks, Scroll down.




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