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Good News, per Democracy Docket! "SCOTUS declined to take a case from Michigan GOP lawmakers who used the radical independent state legislature theory to challenge two voter-approved pro-voting amendments to the Michigan Constitution. The amendments will remain in effect." www.democracydocket.com

Israel is committing Genocide to steal land

This article is remarkable in that 5 journalists, some very good, some outright hacks, seem not to have tested the claims of their reporting against provable facts. Like even the timeline.

Pivotal video that shows, clearly, how Mayor Baraka is standing outside the jail's fence when a congressman informs him ICE agents plan to arrest him.

Fantastic news! BREAKING: Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk Released From ICE Detention by Judge zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

This UCLA psychiatrist's expert evaluation of ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva is ... really something. (The county hired Cohen to do this eval to determine whether Villanueva had really suffered emotional distress as a result of being put on a "Do Not Rehire" list, as he alleged in his lawsuit.)

🚨BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS election challenge to Proposition A, the minimum wage and sick leave bill approved by voters in November. A victory for the Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund and the voters of Missouri.

Mr. Art of the Deal Struggles to Spin Three Failed Negotiations www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/29/m...

I saw a documentary over the weekend about white backlash to the reconstruction era and it’s literally the same pattern all over again.

WE MOVE!!

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Texas christian preschool teacher & youth minister, Mark Eichorn, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing & distributing images of children being sexually abused. ktxs.com/news/local/f...

guess im too cynical. this kind of thing does nothing for me. the anchors didn't challenge their corporate bosses or point out how trump is trampling the first amendment. it comes across as empty virtue signaling.

Hiring a Fox host to lead the Pentagon was a bad idea www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

#ResistanceRallies are getting bigger Our Unity is Our Strength Whether organizing voters, working the polls, or running for office, everyone has a role to play in your community” Bravo civilrights.org/resource/the... We are always #StrongerTogether www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/more-great...

A must read: Rolling Stone's real story about Kilmar Abrego Garcia that debunks every Trump administration lie. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Pennsylvania pastor, Brad Swink, has been arrested for possessing videos of children being raped. www.northcentralpa.com/news/pastor-...

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so. thegriffinlist.com

Deliberately targeting an ambulance is a war crime - there is no room for debate here - Free Palestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"‘Point-Blank Range’: How Israel Executed 15 Medics and Rescue Workers in Gaza" Writing for Zeteo, Diana Buttu says she had a difficult time writing this essay because she could not stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.

“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”

There were 13 church leaders & christian school employees who were arrested, pled guilty and/or were sentenced to prison for child sex crimes this week.

these are people who look at those haunting Lewis Hine photographs of children in factories in the early 20th century as aspirational, and wish they could have it all back

Masked ICE agents are now snatching dissidents off the streets like a scene from Stalin’s Russia. This isn’t speculative fiction. It’s happening right now, in America… hartmannreport.com/p/she-steppe...

Results of the Signal group chat Yemen op: 32 killed, including women and children, 101 injured www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

We had a huge victory in PA last night: Dems showed up and flipped a 46-year Republican held seat that Trump won by over 20 points in 2024! We can do the same in FLORIDA! Please get involved! 👇🏽 And VOTE 🗳️ #FightForEverySeat

Do you know who this is? A civil rights protester? No. It’s C.B. King, a civil rights LAWYER who was clubbed over the head by a local sheriff when King arrived at jail to check on his client - a white civil rights protester.He continued his work & influenced a generation. Lawyers under pressure?

"That's not our role." A US embassy official called Dr Feroze Sidhwa in Gaza to check he was ok after Israel almost killed him, but said she couldn't stop Israel from bombing him or the hospital he was in. My full interview with Dr Sidhwa & Dr Mark Perlmutter: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...

It’s ok if you’re having a hard time keeping up with every single shitty thing that’s happening bc there’s a lot of it One way to avoid overwhelm is to choose an issue you’re going to track Be mindful as you track an issue that you don’t reinforce the idea that US lives matter more than others