🌍 Supreme Court Gone Wild! The Steady Coup

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Can I blame Mercury Retrograde? Tech glitches & summer travels abound. Apologies for missing the last week+ of newsletters. The best laid plans before my trip (more to come!) didn't pan out. So without further adieu, to continue the theme of living through a decaying democracy, we turn our focus to the Supreme Court, it's loose founding that led to an easy takeover by white supremacists. It was easy to replace their white robes for black. Read on for more...

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I'm having déjà vu. Anyone else? The black cat in The Matrix keeps crossing my path. We touched on the Texas flooding and now I want to get into our political structures. We assume our institutions are stable & sound, but many have very surprising beginnings.

So let's get into it. I've been re-airing some of my old writing this year because they are more important than ever! Our world keeps spiraling back to old wounds because we haven't solved them yet. The more we can explore with curiosity and discover how we break from the worlds trauma cycle, the better we will all be.

The Supreme Court: From Uneventful Founding to Right Wing Takeover

Tying Democracy Reform to the Climate Crisis
Published February 19, 2021

My friends who control the Supreme Court don't have the public's interest at heart! Each July we witness horrendous rulings that strip away our rights & liberties in the United States by a bunch of unelected robbed vigilantes. Some justices replaced white robes for black ones and have been much more successful!

So this week, we're digging back into the weird history of the U.S. Supreme Court and how authoritarians could use the court's ambiguity for their own destructive means.