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"It’s still unclear why a teenager, who as another one of his attorneys noted has "no criminal history anywhere in the world", remains caged. The rich and powerful, on the other hand, are well aware that their freedom can be bought" Reports @marisakabas.bsky.social

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If you buy her products, this is what you fund. An actual hate movement based on misinformation and right wing substacks. A movement that any even slightly non-conforming woman is now literally in danger from. Actual lives are more important than your Hogwarts House.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

this is excellent work & contains call/email templates at the end with callouts for the specific legislative mechanisms democratic senators could use to kill this part of the bill. read the piece. make the calls. there’s no earthly reason any senator’s phone should stop ringing in the near future.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

It is impossible to overstate how dangerous it is to give any admin the power to unilaterally revoke nonprofit status for organizations engaged in disfavored activism.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

submitted 19 days ago • 290 comments

This week Inquest covered efforts led by formerly incarcerated people to produce genuinely helpful reentry guides, and the power prison administrators have to obstruct prison education, despite Pell Grants being restored. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

We don’t want the government shutting down nonprofits just because they don’t agree with them. Today, Congress is considering a bill that would effectively allow them to do just that. Tell your rep to say NO to this politically motivated power grab.

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NEW: Noname's Juneteenth show at SummerStage in Central Park has been cancelled. The cancellation comes one week after New York City officials pressured the nonprofit that runs SummerStage into cancelling a Kehlani show for dubious "security concerns. hellgatenyc.com/nonames-summ...

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Excellent, well-reported piece about members of a small upstate town that showed more courage and clarity under pressure than law firms and universities

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

submitted 26 days ago • 66 comments

"It was disgusting to watch." Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., who was with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at the time of his arrest at an ICE detention facility, joins "The Weeknight" to discuss what she witnessed.

submitted 27 days ago • 96 comments

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

submitted 27 days ago • 1061 comments

"(I will tell you this again if you get older)" 💔

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Broken Record: You cannot sustain a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

submitted 31 days ago • 120 comments

Little do my friends know I'm bout to force them into a book club lmao. I know it's probably some dense material in this syllabus so it would be better to read it together. #sinners www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

submitted 38 days ago • 32 comments

“It’s time to fight, everywhere, all at once,” @govpritzker.illinois.gov said. “Let’s start with something that should be easy to say: It’s wrong to snatch a person off the street and ship them to a foreign gulag with no chance to defend themselves in a court of law.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate Pressley, Markey, and McGovern explicitly drawing a connection to another authoritarian state. I think it's important for Americans to stop thinking we are exceptional or that our institutions mean that sort of state terror can't happen here. Because it already is.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 45 days ago • 251 comments

If it's possible for you and a few others in your communities to band together now and to start planning back to school free stores, children's clothing swaps, school supply giveaways etc... definitely do it. There's going to be a lot of need.

submitted 45 days ago • 33 comments

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

submitted 50 days ago • 349 comments

Nobody involved in social movements / direct action / social work / legal aid ever uses the word “felon” as a pejorative. This is a fundamental disconnect between moderates who love to dunk on Trump and those who work and organize every day on the front lines of injustice.

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Freelance comrades! Scarleteen is looking for writers to cover a range of topics: If you're a person versed in sexuality and relationships and advocating with young people, I'd be interested in working with you: sesmith at scarleteen dot com. More info below, and on our Write for us page.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

"Yesterday, we received notice from the federal government that our grant had been terminated and part of the reasoning was that we no longer align with the White House policies.” African-American history museum in Boston worried about future as its federal grant is cut

submitted 52 days ago • 26 comments

Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 53 days ago • 47 comments

Deep-red town pushes back against ICE seizing children—and wins. This is why doomerism is so toxic. It demotivates, at a time when action is both needed and (at least sometimes) effective.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

submitted 57 days ago • 10 comments

Yesterday I shared w/ my students their rights should ICE come on campus. "Of course," I said, "that's just the law." Here's a woman who knew her rights. They protected her twice, because she knew they needed a warrant. The third time ICE came, the agent said, "“I don’t need to show you the order."

submitted 57 days ago • 32 comments

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) will be out September 2nd and is now available for pre-order. Can’t wait for you all to read it. Shout out to teachers. This is for y’all. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...

submitted 60 days ago • 23 comments

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

submitted 59 days ago • 422 comments

In case you missed it, the Trump White House issued a proclamation saying trans care is child abuse Noteworthy sentence: “We affirm that every perpetrator who inflicts violence on our children will be punished to the fullest extent of the law” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

submitted 64 days ago • 27 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 73 days ago • 329 comments

After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

submitted 73 days ago • 65 comments

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

submitted 73 days ago • 100 comments