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"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states." Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

This is US policing in general. Can't separate what's happening with ICE from REGULAR US policing. Some do not want to hear this but it's true.

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 6 days ago • 1648 comments

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

submitted 7 days ago • 506 comments

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

submitted 18 days ago • 73 comments

😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.” www.instagram.com/reel/DJ_0Sj0...

submitted 35 days ago • 62 comments

This story. Officers lied so casually, and Ms Mason had to fight for any info. “I want the world to know this is what goes on,” she said. “If I didn’t know my child and know that something wasn’t right from the beginning, they would have gotten away with it.” www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

"When I saw the images of prisoners in El Salvador, it triggered memories of my own life in U.S. prisons. I’ve been in since Ronald Reagan was president and I’ve always found it difficult to communicate certain aspects of the experience," writes Troy.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

It’s my birthday today, and all I ask is you give even a dollar to my favorite news outlet in the world.

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

Oral argument in Trump v. Casa and consolidated cases in which President Trump challenges the issuance of nationwide injunctions stopping his anti-birthright citizenship EO. A good day to re-up this, I thought.

submitted 43 days ago • 9 comments

"I was just maximizing shareholder value." -- The Nuremberg 𝐈𝐈 Defense

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge in Vermont orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be released from detention "immediately" and on her own recognizance with no travel restrictions. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

submitted 49 days ago • 121 comments

In case anyone thought the Griffin concession signaled any kind of pullback on trying to rig elections…

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to see the end of that lawsuit, but this is the right energy. So much damage done and he’s still on the Court of Appeals. Even signed his name to decisions this morning.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. The Madness of King George VI

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Trans women are women. Relatedly, if you are looking for a great story about a young witch or wizard, I would highly recommend Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wizard or Earthsea” (1968), which I loved as a kid, or “Akata Witch” (2011) by @nnedi.bsky.social, one of my son’s recent favorites.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

If these abductions do not push every single one of you to question the existence of immigrant "detention" centers and the conditions of ALL prisons and jails, then you are really doing life wrong. Conditions in detention, jails, and prisons in the U.S. ARE TERRIBLE. They are awful every single day.

submitted 65 days ago • 59 comments

Senate budget would eliminate office that helps minority firms seek NC contracts. Office of Historically Underutilized Businesses is among multiple programs and initiatives related to encouraging diversity that could be cut. (Via Avi Bajpal) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

NC innocence commission would be axed under Senate budget proposal. GOP lawmakers say 'other non-state entities provide similar opportunities for individuals to seek legal guidance and case review.' (Via @lucianaperezu.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Durham game stores brace themselves for impacts from the Trump tariff war: southpointaccess.news/2025/04/08/t... #durhamnc

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 76 days ago • 163 comments

The Republican members of the North Carolina courts continue to try to steal an election Telling overseas military members-and others-that their votes may not count is a breathtaking affront to our democracy and their service - it’s cheating We will continue the fight for voters and for justice.

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

This account of what happened in the Abrego Garcia case today is well worth reading.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Seems we may have found one of those “paid protestors” after all.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 81 days ago • 522 comments

The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments