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Thanks to all the monthly sustainers who joined the virtual discussion Sunday. We'll be sharing some of the ideas generated, and questions posed, in future Refuse Fascism episodes. There's no new episode this week but we'll be back Sunday June 30.

This week, we've got reading suggestions from our editors Coco Das and Paul Street:

Coco focuses on recent Supreme Court decisions:

The White Media Has Missed a Key Part of the Affirmative Action Ruling The upshot isn’t just that colleges must end affirmative action but that they’ll have to cut Black enrollment to avoid lawsuits questioning their compliance with the decision. Elie Mystal The Nation July 12.

"...the real upshot of the affirmative action ruling is this: Colleges and universities must now punish Black applicants by decreasing the enrollment of Black students, by any means necessary. That’s because the only way universities can show compliance with Roberts’s new rules is to show that they’ve decreased the number of Black kids they let into school. Anything less than that will likely trigger litigation from the white supremacists who have already promised to hunt down schools that admit too many Black people, as determined by their own white-makes-right accounting system..."

SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
Bob Avakian Revcom.us July 24

"...Not only is this Supreme Court decision horrific in itself, but think about its larger implications: If, according to the Supreme Court, it is “legal” to discriminate on the basis of “religious freedom”—or the right of “free speech” to express “religious opinions” makes it legal to discriminate against whole groups of people—this could apply to a whole range of people against whom it is now “okay” to discriminate. Once again, as for generations before the civil rights movement, owners of public places (such as hotels, restaurants, stores, swimming pools, and so on) and people selling or renting their homes could “legally” refuse to serve or sell or rent to Black people—if this refusal were done in the name of their religion (or the “right” of “free speech” to express their religion by refusing to serve people)! Clerks in the relevant government offices could refuse to issue marriage licenses to inter-racial couples..."

Paul posted this on Counterpunch:

No Time to Celebrate: Trump Can Survive the Indictments by Paul Street July 21

"...This is no time for relief and celebration, trust me. Promising literal revenge, Trump has an Enemies List that would make Richard Nixon green with envy. A recent New York Times report shows that the Trump campaign is 'planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government,' working up detailed plans to 're-shap[e] the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands' should he take back the White House in 2025. The imperial presidency is nowhere near imperial enough for Trump and his big team of far-right policy wonks, an army of experts in authoritarian strategy and procedure far beyond anything at his disposal in 2016 and 2017..."

We'll be back next week. Take some time this week to listen to previous Refuse Fascism episodes you may have missed here. And remember to rate and review on Apple Podcasts or your listening platform of choice.

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