complex patterns

Spring Poetry…

Joy-Ann Reid at Joy's House:

Jeff Landry didn’t even win in his own parish. The Louisiana governor had heavily backed four constitutional amendments, which would have rewritten the rules in the far right wing state on everything from taxation to child incarceration. And in a Saturday election, likely intended to be low turnout, particularly among the state’s 32 percent Black population, it was a rout. [...] Ultimately, the Black-white coalition that soundly defeated Landry is the same one that once made Democrat John Bel Edwards a two-term governor of that state; finally allowing Louisianans to enjoy access to Obamacare, and for a time, to a decline in incarceration, dropping the state out of an ignominious first place in locking its own citizens up. Under Landry, Louisiana is not only back in the mass imprisonment business, two of the amendments would have ratcheted up the carceral state, while also harming the ability of voters to choose the judges presiding over them. [...] And of course under Landry, Louisiana has become THE Trump regime go-to for disappearing the college students snatched on the streets by the ICE secret police.