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Jacob S. Rugh
Профиль VivelyRaised on Chicago's South Side. My research has appeared in The Atlantic, 538, The Guardian, KSL, NYT, NPR, Split Ticket, Salt Lake Tribune & Supreme Court cases.
Spot on here by @marceliusb.bsky.social SCOTUS majority commits following racial fallacies 1) Individualistic fallacy (racism is not a system) 2) Fixed (racism never evolves/not a continuum) 3) Legalistic (need 'smoking gun'/prove illegal racism) 4) Ahistorical (past doesn't matter, only present)
Marcelius BraxtonTheir model: 1) Racism is largely individual not systemic. 2) Racism only exists if it’s egregious. 3) Racism is only egregious if it’s outlandish/one explicitly states their intent to be racist. 4) Even then, it’s probably just words that won’t extend to action, and they didn’t *really* mean it.
⚠️UTAH VOTER REGISTRATION UPDATE Dems cross big +10K new active voters threshold 🔵+10,003 Democratic (+4.2% YTD) 🟣+5,302 Unaffiliated (+1.1%) 🔴-4,192 Republican (-0.5%) Again, this is in UTAH! 2026 trends like no other year this past decade 👀🌊
Jacob S. RughUtah Change in Active Voters by Party 2026 YTD 🔵DEM +9,582 🟣UNA +5,665 🔴REP -2,207 Beyond new voters, local Democratic caucuses in March likely spurred Unaffiliated and Republican voters to switch their registration. Something is definitely happening here in Utah. This is unlike any other year.
"Tuesday’s ruling [upholding a lower court decision against Florida’s so-called Stop WOKE Act] makes it even clearer that legislators who try to ban the discussion of ideas that make them uncomfortable aren’t just embarrassing themselves, they are also inviting lawsuits." @victorerikray.bsky.social
Greg SargentAmazing how DeSantis' Stop WOKE Act was the center of our political universe for a time (and we were told the right had won the argument) yet now that it's suffered a crushing defeat, everybody has moved on. Good writeup of DeSantis' loss from @victorerikray.bsky.social: www.ms.now/opinion/flor...