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I've said this before and I'll say this again -- why FIFA and IOC think having the 26 World Cup and 28 Summer Olympics in the United States will be anything but a disaster for non-white athletes is beyond me. Below is a preview of what to expect. This is fascistic.

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To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

submitted 8 hours ago • 186 comments

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 2 days ago • 470 comments

manager: you make that allergy warning sign for the counter? employee: sure did boss, real fuckin ominous just like you asked manager: what

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

Manipulative neocons exploited Trump’s jealous hatred of Obama to convince him to rip up the JCPOA, precisely so we’d arrive at the crossroads we’ve reached today. He’s giving them what they used him for, because he’s exactly the mark they thought he was. www.offmessage.net/p/18-thought...

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Research at the Omaha immigration court, a court with one of the highest asylum denial rates in the country, found that immigration judges typically fail to advise immigrants of their rights. Report here: www.aclunebraska.org/sites/defaul...

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 348 comments

I assume Pam Bondi and the U.S. Attorney’s office are just charging him so Trump can pardon him.

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

submitted 3 days ago • 451 comments

🚨Stephen Miller gets his way. Just a few days after Ag. Sec. Rollins convinced Trump to briefly back down, quotas and indiscriminate raids are back. Farms, restaurants, and hotels are now subject to ICE raids again, with intense pressure on ICE to hit 3,000 arrests a day. Miller remains in charge.

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

These are all the countries in Africa that would be part of Trump's travel ban. Insane.

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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

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My fed agency helped build an IRS login system that didn't rely on face recognition, we felt it was invasive. For this were attacked by The Daily Wire as "a cabal of perpetually triggered leftists obsessed with politics and pronouns" Per Musk's tweets, this is part of the reason he fired us all.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Exactly

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

For the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Nazis let up the jackboot for visiting foreigners. We're here discussing how hard the Trump administration will hold the boot on peoples' necks, in case you were curious of the trajectory.

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I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

She rocks.

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Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation. How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Hell yeah.

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Very excited for this piece with @ianshapiro.bsky.social to be forthcoming at Political Behavior! In it, we show --- using Twitter data, panel-survey data, and a survey experiment --- that the real beating heart of election denialism in 2020 was white racism papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Border Patrol has joined other federal security forces in covering agents' faces while they operate. I work on security in Latin America and have seen the face-covering trend spread for years. But I never thought I'd see it in the US, where violent crime rates are a fraction.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

No words.

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the curfew is just an excuse for LAPD to shoot people maybe the mayor should have instructed them to play security guard in front of downtown businesses instead of giving them the green light to criminalize constitutional rights

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome to the World Cup in Donald Trump’s America!

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Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

Makes you wonder what he thinks he’s signaling with his flag… and if you support Israel, whether that’s what you want your flag to be shorthand for.

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Dear @washingtonpost.com : Why will any academic talk to you now? That parenthetical is an insult to his academic integrity: “Is he saying this bc of his years of hard work and research, or just bc he is a partisan hack? 🤷🏻‍♂️” If he’s wrong, show he’s wrong. Don’t attack via snide insinuation.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

the word "constitution" does not appear in this article nor does any indication that the Trump regime's actions might be illegal it does however note "White House officials maintain that the president is ... standing up for 'law and order' as Democrats go soft on violent agitators."

submitted 8 days ago • 131 comments

“We urge the Administration to stop these unjust raids. We also call on all elected leaders and the broader public to reject fear-based policies, which include rejecting a military response to peaceful protest, and uphold the dignity and rights of all people.”‬

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Journalistic malpractice/incompetence to not point out clearly and up front that this directly violates a federal statute

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

I saw on the news this morning that Les Mis is returning to the stage in France, inspired to import over here what I think was my greatest thread Over There. Les Mis debuted in 1980, just as mass incarceration was taking off. It warned us, we didn't listen. Its lyrics are a syllabus on CJ reform:

submitted 189 days ago • 9 comments

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

submitted 9 days ago • 737 comments

This is primo content

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Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 8 days ago • 597 comments

Exactly this. There are so many alternate options.

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