This Week in Tyranny: Black Voting Districts Eliminated, Iran War Costs Trillions, 180 Polluters Get a Pass

Always Free! If you like what you see, considering becoming a subscriber. The revolution starts with us. ✊Following last week’s Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, Republicans rushed to redraw maps across the South to eliminate Black political representation before November’s midterms.In Tennessee, state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the Capitol rotunda as Republicans cracked Memphis into three pieces, eliminating the state’s only majority-Black congressional district, one that has existed since the 1920s.In Virginia, the state Supreme Court struck down on a 4-3 partisan split a redistricting referendum voters had just approved. In Mississippi, Republicans called a special session at the Jim Crow era Old Capitol.In Alabama, the governor called for new maps despite a federal court injunction forbidding it. The NAACP has filed suit in Tennessee.Economist Justin Wolfers published an analysis showing the Iran war will cost hundreds of billions to trillions, the $25 billion Pentagon figure only counts missiles and equipment, not lost lives, oil market disruption, or Iran’s new ability to charge Strait of Hormuz tolls. Trump is reportedly bored with the war. China is openly questioning whether the US can defend Taiwan.Tennessee Governor Bill Lee also signed a law vastly expanding the state’s power to collect private medical data on transgender patients and their healthcare providers.Trump granted two-year clean air compliance pauses to 180+ facilities including coal plants using a presidential exemption never invoked before.FEMA is systematically denying disaster aid to Democratic-led states while speeding it to Republican ones.Rapid fire: Kash Patel distributing personalized bourbon on DOJ aircraft while the FBI investigates the journalist who exposed it. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy filmed a road trip TV show while on the job. Trump gave a no-bid $6.9 million Reflecting Pool contract to a company that worked at his golf club. A gold 22-foot Trump statue was installed at his Miami golf course, paid for by crypto investors promoting their memecoin. And the Department of War released UFO files. For fun.Welcome to the golden age. Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe