New cover story @motherjones: GOP enacting greatest assault on voting rights since end of Reconstruction and if Congress doesn’t pass federal legislation to stop new wave of Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws Second Reconstruction will end like the first https://t.co/CseFsgAmBT
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 2, 2021
A very important piece. The roots in conservatism of the voter suppression, racism and anti-democratic impulses that now completely grip the Republican Party are deep and historic. https://t.co/cyvU6LqegD
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 2, 2021
Opinion | Scott Lemieux: "It used to be unconstitutional to target Black and brown communities with voter suppression efforts. Then the court ruled against the Voting Rights Act." https://t.co/0vqpjw2n8o – @NBCNewsTHINK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 1, 2021
"In the last week of the June work period, the Senate will vote on S1, the For the People Act, legislation that is essential to defending our democracy…& stopping the wave of Republican voter suppression happening in the states across the country in service of Trump’s Big Lie." pic.twitter.com/WHJ9qZgLCD
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) June 1, 2021
“The new Texas voter suppression bill violates both the constitutional rights of Texans and the Voting Rights Act. It places unnecessary burdens on people’s right to vote, without any reason other than adherence to the ‘big lie.’"https://t.co/BDq2tXFKTy
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) May 30, 2021
Manchin to meet with NAACP next week to discuss voting rights legislation https://t.co/gwJmfF9DxP pic.twitter.com/2gHWePxsXX
— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2021
I broke down 20 key provisions of Texas Republicans’ elections bill.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 2, 2021
Reading the text was educational for me, so perhaps you will find the article informative. https://t.co/hXyLJPjXKN
“A resounding win at the ballot box for Democrats yesterday calling into question the GOP bet on sacrificing democracy in service of a disgraced ex-president who incited an insurrection. The landslide win… also provides clear evidence of a Biden effect” – @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/2fnucwkATW
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 2, 2021
.@HayesBrown: This kind of smug "it could never happen here" thinking helped fuel Trump's rise in the first place. And as isolated as he is right now, there's no reason to catapult him back into the limelight. https://t.co/hKTK41W5Oy
— MSNBC Daily (@MSNBCDaily) June 2, 2021
No Joke: @DemocracyDocket had higher readership and engagement. https://t.co/VujlvzAXQ1
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) June 2, 2021
Mainstream conservatives are treating Mike Flynn's coup ravings as distinct from their party's vote suppression drive, but the two clearly relate to each other https://t.co/K1yYPa5czj
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) June 1, 2021
Opinion: Trump’s blog just shut down. Without the mainstream media, he’s starving. https://t.co/ls5bmw7Bjr
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 2, 2021
Ex-President closed down his blog because it "was being mocked and had so few readers,” reports Washington Post.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 2, 2021
Sad!
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BREXIT CONTINUES TO BLIND ITS SUPPORTERS
Frost negotiated this deal and said it was a great deal. https://t.co/CFvoWJBBgY
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) June 2, 2021
Amazing. We said Brexit would drive up food prices. They said it would reduce them. Food prices look set to rise. They blame “EU red tape.” Shameless. Utterly, utterly shameless. https://t.co/R8P56mdlSL
— Seb Dance 🌹🇪🇺 (@SebDance) June 2, 2021
NEW: British Beef Farmers Facing Ruin Thanks to Brexit Trade Agreements https://t.co/bDpf86E5j3
— Byline TV (@BylineTV) June 2, 2021
"Fourteen countries opted for systems that automatically confer new post-Brexit residence status on legally resident Britons, with no risk of losing rights if an administrative deadline is missed."
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) June 2, 2021
This is what EU27 citizens in the UK were promised. ~AAhttps://t.co/a6J2cRdGHv
Sinn Féin will bring a motion to the Assembly on the need to extend the EU Settlement Scheme beyond 30 June.
— Martina Anderson MLA (@M_AndersonSF) June 2, 2021
EU citizens have a right to stay here. #Brexit was wrong and is having a damaging impact on people's lives.
We will continue to support them. https://t.co/hz0PsmsjIE
"Actually we have 40% of the whole population with two [vaccine] doses – that's the figure we should be concentrating on"
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) June 2, 2021
Christina Pagel, Independent SAGE, adds "I don't know what data [Boris Johnson's] looking at" but it's too early to know about 21 Junehttps://t.co/8zBPasXmSC pic.twitter.com/RQFKzwZ1mu
One of the most unforgiveable aspects of the Govt's handling of Covid has been its failure to learn from previous mistakes
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) June 2, 2021
It risks yet another by hurtling towards June 21 when so many warning signs say we need to pause lockdown lifting
Me for @MetroUKhttps://t.co/FVTqH6blw5
New coronavirus cases hit a 2-month high.
— Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 (@uk_domain_names) June 2, 2021
Boris Johnson still claims there's no reason to delay lick-every-doorknob day on 21 June. pic.twitter.com/nWX79bZlaB
🔴 Boris Johnson has warned that the Government "will not hesitate" to axe countries from the green list for travel amid growing concern that Portugal could be removedhttps://t.co/QPKtDxx8BE
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 2, 2021
The Overnight Note 