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Subscribing to independent media

I broadly support economic boycotts when companies do things we don't like, and participate in plenty of them myself. And I've seen enough people cancelling their subscriptions to The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times after their billionaires owners interferred at the papers. But in media specifically, cancelling your…

SCOTUS and the facts

Last week The New Republic published an article by Melissa Gira Grant titled, "The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court" about how the request for a gay wedding website underpinning the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case was supposedly fake.…

14th Amendment

After taking a constitutional law class for a week, I feel that every class I've taken before this one has severely underplayed the importance of the 14th amendment.For example, in Gitlow v. US, the court relied on the due process clause of the 14th amendment to expand freedom of speech…

Working the polls: reflection

As I said earlier, I worked the polls from 6 a.m. to roughly 9:20 p.m. We had one voter come in at the nick of time at 7:59 p.m. I was glad to see that we had a lot of first time voters, as well as some who just filled…

Working the polls

After being generally frustrated by this election cycle and wanting to contribute to make it less so, I decided to sign up to work at the polls this year, and help facilitate the election. Yesterday, we had election officer training by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voter's office. It…