BBT #15 | The Voting Rights Act, Spirit Airlines, and History Erasure

Black Box Theory Podcast · May 3, 2026 · 1h 7m · transcript

This episode lands in the middle of a week where three things happened that didn't get the coverage they deserved. The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling that gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act — and within one hour, Florida had already approved a new gerrymandered congressional map. Spirit Airlines finished shutting down, and the routes they abandoned are already getting more expensive in ways that hit hardest the people who could least afford the price increase. And there's a growing conversation happening in homes and schools across the country about whether raising children to…